Merton and Mwoleka discuss a number of topics, including a Christian's place in the modern world, racial problems, the eremitical life, and the religious traditions of Asia. Merton asks for some books of African poetry and thought.
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See also published letters from Merton to Mwoleka published in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 461-463.
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1967/08/31 (#01) |
TL[c] to Merton |
On the feast of St. John of the Cross 1952, 24th November, passing by a book-stall in Dar es Salaam, |
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1967/08/31 (#02) |
TLS[x] to Merton |
On the feast of St. John of the Cross 1952, 24th November, passing by a book-stall in Dar es Salaam, |
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[from one folder from the "New Directions Publishing" papers at Harvard, entitled "Letters (carbons) to various people, 1967"]
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1967/09/13 |
TLS from Merton |
I was so happy and touched by your warm and kind letter. In this world where there is so much |
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1967/12/27 |
TAL[c] to Merton |
Let me console myself by saying "better late than never" for sending you my Christmas greetings now. |
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1968/02/10 |
TLS to Merton |
When I wrote to you last time, if the letter hadn't been too long I should have said a word about |
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1968/02/24 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Thanks for your two very good letters. I am most happy and interested to hear about your reaction |
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1968/02/24 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your two very good letters. I am most happy and interested to hear about your reaction |
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1972/09/22 |
TLS to Center from Mwoleka, Christopher |
Your kind letter which I received two years ago is now here before me and find, to my shame, that it |
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1972/10/05 |
TL[x] from Center to Mwoleka, Christopher |
Thank you for your kind letter of September 22 regarding our request for correspondence |
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1972/10/25 (#01) |
TLS[x] to Center from Mwoleka, Christopher |
With reference to your letter of October 5, I am enclosing herewith originals of two letters |
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1972/10/25 (#02) |
TLS[x] to Center from Mwoleka, Christopher |
May I ask for a favour from your Centre. At that Meeting in the Far East after which he died, |
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1972/11/09 |
TL[x] from Center to Mwoleka, Christopher |
Please accept our sincere graditude [sic] for the contribution of your correspondence with Thomas |
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1984/01/18 |
TLS[x] from Shannon, William / to Christopher Mwoleka |
I am a priest of the diocese of Rochester, New York and have taught for some years in one of our |
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