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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Daniélou, Jean Guénolé Louis Marie Cardinal, S.J., 1905-1974

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1950-1966

Volume: 22 item(s); 57 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Fr. Jean Daniélou was a Jesuit scholar of early Christianity who was editor of Études in Paris, a Catholic general interest magazine. In 1969, he was made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI and was a member of the Académie Française.

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Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Daniélou in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 134-135; and two letters in Witness to Freedom, pp. 209-211 and 219-221.

Other Finding Aids

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

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1950/08/01 HLSto MertonJe pense que cela est très important pour les USA, pour  [labeled "Conscience Matter"]
 1950/10/06? HLSto MertonMerci de  [year estimated from context]
 1954/01/30 HLSto MertonJe vous remercie de [...] Bread in the Wilderness, dont la dédicace m'a beaucoup triché.   
 1959/04/23 transcriptfrom MertonMay I appeal to your charity in a matter that is for my good and I think for that of the Church?   
 1959/06/03? HLSto MertonJ'ai été profoudement touché a la confiance que me  [year estimated from context]
 1959/07/no? (#01)TL[x] from Fox, James / to Gabriel SortaisThis enclosure shows that idea has been given up, but the hermitage idea is now Fr. Louis' favorite.  [see "Fox, James" Series 29 for source file - extant copy only contains pages 2-8 - see also enclosure, one page of letter from Fox to "Fr. Jean" (Danielou?), 1959/07/00#2]
 1959/07/no? (#02)TL[x]from Fox, JamesThis enclosure shows that idea has been given up, but the hermitage idea is now Fr. Louis' favorite.  [see "Fox, James" Series 29 for source file - extant copy only contains page 7 - see also letter to Sortais with which this copy was enclosed, 1959/07/00#1]
 1959/12/05 TL[c]from MertonI have been hoping that by this time I would have written a letter from Mexico saying thatYes  
 1960/01/02 TL[c]from MertonThank you for your very fine and heartwarming letter of December 26th. I was glad to get itYes  
 1960/04/04 HLSto MertonVoici bien longtemps que je voulais répondre à votre lettre a Janvier.   
 1960/04/21 TL[c]from MertonYour letter from Sweden was very welcome and came at an appropriate time as I have a lot of thingsYes  
 1960/12/26 HLSto MertonJe vous envoie   
 1961/04/02? HLSto Merton... J'ai été très heureux de ce que vous me dites sur votre "ermitage oecumenique".  [year estimated from context]
 1962/04/20 HLSto MertonVoici longtemps que je [...] répondre à votre dernière lettre. Mais j'ai eu   
 1962/12/31 HLSto MertonJe suis humblement en retard pour répondre à vos lettres   
 1966/07/11 TL[c]from MertonFor all I know you may be in the U.S. at the moment, but I will send this to France in the hope   
 1966/07/25 HLSto MertonJ'ai été heureux d'avoir   
 undated/08/01 HLSto MertonVoici enfin un peu [...] après des semaines chaque d'obligations  [seems to be missing page or pages]
 undated/09/11 HLSto MertonJe vous remercié de votre lettre qu'est  [likely between the dates of 1948 and 1955 according to the context]
 undated/no/no other Danielou, Jean 1905-  [biographical information from Contemporary Authors (pgs. 105-107)]
 undated/no/no other Danielou, Jean 1905-1974; French theologian, historian, and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.  [biographical info. / found in Contemporary Authors]
 undated/no/no other Jean Danielou (1905-1974) Born in Paris, France, May 14, 1905, Jean Danielou has had a remarkable  [biographical info. / listing of his literary works that Merton found most helpful]
        

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