Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987 (Series 29, numbered entries)" file

Single Item Record 001 for the Date:
1950/April/no-day 

Series:  29  Dom James Fox files from Gethsemani Abbey, files on Merton's vocation crisis and reaction to Monica Furlong's biography, transferred to Merton Center 2018.

Type:  HNS[x] - Xerox copy of a holograph (handwritten) signed note. Note used for very brief mailed correspondence or intramural message.

To/From:  from Merton to "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987 (Series 29, numbered entries)"-->

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  "in appreciation and thanks for 'Reproachfully Yours' which is now being read in our refectory -"

Contents:  [beginning of Folder 1 of 6 in series- see also Section A, "Hasley, Lucile" and see also letter from Merton to his abbot general, Dom Gabriel Sortais, of October 19, 1953 referring to scandal caused when Merton's endorsement of Reproachfully Yours read by the Abbess of Staplehill] copy of inscription inside an unknown book given by Merton to Hasley and written before her April 23, 1950 to which it refers / Merton's use of Trappist sign language to indicate he knew Hasley, the author of the book being read in the monastic refectory

Language:  English

Source or donor:  Gethsemani Abbey Archives

Date received:  2018/02/19

Date added:  2018

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987 (Series 29, numbered entries):" Series 29: 001   1950/April/no-day?