MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Chaigne, Hervé, Fr., O.F.M.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1964-1966
Volume: 13 item(s); 14 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Biography
Hervé Chaigne was writing on behalf of the bi-monthly publication Fréres du Monde from Bordeaux, France.
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Related Information and Links
See four published letters from Merton to Chaigne in Witness to Freedom, pp. 109-111.
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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1964/07/12 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Mon ami et votre traducteur Martin Corbin m'a dit que vous vouliez quelque pages de moi sur la crise | |
| Chaigne's interest in having some of Merton's writings on the race crisis / Camille Drevet / Merton's introduction for sayings of Gandhi on non-violence / no need to send this short work - covered by anthology by Peter Jack |
| | 1964/07/19 | TLS | to Merton | Un très grand merci pour votre si amicale acceptation. Nous sommes très heureux que vous puissiez | |
| "Black Revolution" - asking to send Chaigne more articles on the subject of racial strife in the U.S. / plans to do a small book on Gandhi and non-violence - asking to translate some of Merton's articles |
| | 1964/08/17 | TLS | to Merton | De retour de quelques jours de vacance passés en famille, je me fais une joie de vous remercier | |
| thanks for Merton's articles on blacks in America and "The Monk in the Diaspora" - suggests article on aggiornamento of religious life |
| | 1964/09/09 | TL[c] | from Merton | Voici le petit livre des sélections de Gandhi, avec mon introduction. J'espère qu'il vous plaira | |
| Robert MacGregor from New Directions to handle arrangements for Gandhi book / "The Monk in the Diaspora" - looking for other essays to couple with this for a book / thanks for copies of <u>Frères du Monde</u> / Mounier / Thich Nhat Hanh |
| | 1964/10/05 | TLS | to Merton | Je commence par m'excuser du retard que j'ai pris à répondre à votre lettre et à l'envoi de votre | |
| large end-of-the-year issue of <u>Frères du Monde</u> to feature the topic of evangelization in question / Gandhian non-violence and Christian non-violence for a chapter in the upcoming book / translation of "Eight Freedom Songs" |
| | 1964/10/24 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Je viens de recevoir votre lettre et "Le Moine au diaspora." Et c'est demain qu'on célèbre la fête | |
| on combining "The Monk in the Diaspora" and Gandhi articles for a book / sending other monastic essays, including one prepared for the preface for <i>The Meditations of Fr. Delp</i> / Vietnamese monks and Buddhist renewal / upcoming election - Goldwater versus Johnson / Marie Tadié / German protestant pastors |
| | 1964/12/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am finally getting around to thanking you for the issues of Frères du Monde and especially | Yes |
| "Monk in the Diaspora" was used in another book - sending replacement for small book / working with New Directions for Gandhi book - avoiding dealings with foreign agent [Marie Tadié] / retreat and discussion at Gethsemani past November with peace workers A. J. Muste and Jim Forest / Jacques Ellul and technology |
| | 1965/01/16 | TLS | to Merton | Merci de votre lettre si encourageante. Je crois que notre numéro sur les "Noirs américains" a fait | |
| Jacques Amalric's favorable review of Merton's article on black Americans / Italian publication <u>Edizioni Morcelliana</u> wants to translate Christianity and the Racial Question in the U.S.A." / Fr. Charles Dumont of <u>Collectanea</u> wants "The Monk in the Diaspora / asking if Merton would like him to send some Ellul books |
| | 1965/04/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | Easter has brought us some nice days here, and I am once again trying to catch up with mail, | Yes |
| "The Monk in the Diaspora" / Marie Tadié / "Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought" / censors do not like writings on nuclear war and monastic reform / Ellul's pessimism - connection between mechanical efficiency and the war machine in Vietnam / Christian non-violent revolution in South America / Simone Weil |
| | 1965/06/27 | TL[c] | from Merton | The two books of Ellui reached me yesterday. I am deeply grateful to you for your kindness. | Yes |
| Marie Tadié and having to send monastic essays to Albin Michel, who have first rights to them in France - will send replacement articles to Chaigne / the Freedom Songs set to music to [Alexander Peloquin] be sung by a black soloist / peace movement in the U.S. - active only sporadically / Vietnam a "war of machines" |
| | 1965/10/05 | TL[c] | from Merton | Please forgive my long silence and my delay about the book I promised you. The manuscript | Yes |
| Italian book of essays, <i>Fe e Violenza</i> [<i>Faith and Violence</i>] / Marie Tadié - "sometimes difficult" and an "aggressive agent" / sending Gandhi book and piece on "schema 13" from the Second Vatican Council / Merton happy about Pope Paul's speech at the UN against Vietnam War / India and Kashmir war |
| | 1966/02/24 | TALS | to Merton | Je dois commencer par m'excuser bien vivement de mon trop long silence, alors pourtant que vous avez | |
| "Open Letter to the American Hierarchy" / Congress of Peace in Helsinki / contents of book <i>Foi et Violence</i> [<i>Faith and Violence</i>] to be translated into French by Marie Tadié - additions to book - "Schema Thirteen", "St. Maximus the Confessor", and "The Answer of Minerva" (pacifism in Simone Weil) |
| | 1966/06/05 | TLS | to Merton | J'ai laissé passer bien du temps depuis la lettre si amicale où vous me faisiez part de votre | |
| visit to Taizé - attractive life of Protestant religious - Franciscans there who say the office with the Protestant brothers, have an English Mass and accept Catholics and Protestants in the sacrament of Reconciliation / "Blessed Are the Meek" for publication / Marie Tadié and <i>Foi et Violence</i> |
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