Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

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

Single Item Record 064 for the Date:
1959/no-month/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:  other - Includes a non-correspondence item enclosed with correspondence or such an item filed with correspondence.

To/From:  by Fox, James 

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  "Father Louis to Father Prior: "This life no longer offers me any challenge." In regard to the"

Contents:  [2 copies, "RE: Father Louis Merton"] Fox responds to Merton, "the great challenge of all is not some project of one's own manufacturing, but to persevere, day after day until death, in the silence, solitude and seclusion of a Trappist monastery."

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: 064   1959/no-month/no-day?