Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1968/January/10 

Series:  19  Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday, Inc. (earlier correspondence with Fox can be found in the "Curtis Brown, Ltd." file and in Series 1 of this file)

Type:  TALS[x] - Xerox copy of a typed signed letter with holograph annotations.

To/From:  to Stone, Naomi Burton from "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987"-->

# of pages:  2

Published in:  

First Lines:  "I received your gracious letter of December 26. The letter to our Paris lawyer has gone already"

Contents:  Fox on his retirement and move to hermitage and what other monks are saying / Merton's "gripe" in the National Catholic Reporter about Fox and about [a trip to?] Japan / Merton's controversial message to community about not being abbot, "My campaign platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse" / Dan Walsh's reaction to Merton portraying Gethsemani in NCR as a "prison"

Language:  English

Source or donor:  Gethsemani Abbey Archives

Date received:  2013/12/01

Date added:  2015

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987:" Series 19:    1968/January/10