Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

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

Single Item Record 068 for the Date:
1959/June/16 

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 H.J.J.M. Van Straelen  "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987 (Series 29, numbered entries)"-->

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  ""My interest in Japan continues from day to day. In fact in last writing to our Reverendissime"

Contents:  ["+ From a letter of Father Louis Merton to Father Van Straelen, missionary in the Orient (Japan)"] Merton's desire to get permission to serve in Japan as a confessor of nun and would like to learn the Japanese language

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: 068   1959/June/16