Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

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

Single Item Record 067 for the Date:
1959/July/09 

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:  transcript - Transcript copy of a letter, i.e., re-typed or re-written after orignal and often by another person. Often typed version of a holograph orignal.

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

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  ""The reason I mention the Hopis is that (this is in confidence) I think more and more that the only"

Contents:  ["+ From a letter of Father Louis Merton to Dorothy Day, New York social worker and Editor of THE CATHOLIC WORKER" - see also Dorothy Day file for original letter] Merton's desire to get permission to live "among Indians or some such group, as a kind of hermit-missionary"

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: 067   1959/July/09