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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Kennedy, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, 1929-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963, 1967

Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Jacqueline Kennedy was married to President John F. Kennedy. Merton writes to Jacqueline Kennedy after the President's assassination.

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Related Information and Links

See also published letters from Merton to Jacqueline Kennedy in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 449-450.

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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/11/27 TAL[c]from MertonThinking that one more letter might be a burden to you I refrained from writing, though instinctYes [4 copies - seemingly same text but typed differently]
 1966/12/08 TL[x]from Ferry, W. H.Father Richard McSorley encourages me to write to you directly with the following suggestion, which  [from Wilbur H. Ferry to Jacqueline Kennedy - carbon copies sent to Fr. Richard McSorley, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Ira Sandperl, and Fr. Daniel Berrigan - see "Ferry, Wilbur Hugh" file for hard copy of the letter]
        

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