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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bennett, Gloria Cecelia Sylvester, 1930-2009

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1953

Volume: 9 item(s); 10 pg(s)

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Biography

A student of Sr. Marialein Lorenz in Mobile, Alabama, Gloria Sylvester Bennett was part of the class who sent Merton some ordination gifts. She sends a book by her husband, Lerone Bennett, Confrontation: Black and White. (Source: The Road to Joy, p. 341.)

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See also one letter from Merton to Gloria Bennett and excerpts from Bennett's letter to Merton in The Road to Joy, p. 341; and see also the "Lorenz, Marialein" file.

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Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1966/07/31 HCSto MertonPlease accept this book written by my husband  husband Lerone Bennett - <i>Confrontation: Black and White</i> / Sister Marialein, O.P., from Mobile, Alabama introduced her to Merton's writings in high school / <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> / <u>Life</u> magazine article / asks prayers for those in the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee in Alabama
 1966/08/14 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThanks very much indeed for your note and for the Silver Jubilee Gift. You take me back to the daysYes mail received after <u>Life</u> / reading and enjoying her husband's book / SNCC (Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee - "snick") / direction of protests turning into violent revolution in places like France / Camus mentioned in husband's book / Merton sending his study of Camus on violence
 1966/08/14 (#02)TALS[x]from MertonThanks very much indeed for your note and for the Silver Jubilee Gift. You take me back to the daysYes mail received after <u>Life</u> / reading and enjoying her husband's book / SNCC (Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee - "snick") / direction of protests turning into violent revolution in places like France / Camus mentioned in husband's book / Merton sending his study of Camus on violence
 1966/11/10 (#01)TL[c]from MertonIt occurs to me that I probably did not fulfill a promise-- or a threat-- to send you an article of  didn't send Camus article, sending now / SNCC in New York / asks for any new books by Lerone Bennett / Merton gets "the psychological fallout" from others on the situation, but would also like the facts
 1966/11/10 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonIt occurs to me that I probably did not fulfill a promise-- or a threat-- to send you an article of  didn't send Camus article, sending now / SNCC in New York / asks for any new books by Lerone Bennett / Merton gets "the psychological fallout" from others on the situation, but would also like the facts
 1967/01/07 HLSto MertonThank you so much for your wonderful letter and the essays enclosed. I have not yet had a chance to  Lerone Bennett wants to have a dialogue with Merton on Camus / sending Lerone's December speech from Boston / <u>Negro Digest</u> / Black Power evolution - getting "Negroes to learn to love themselves… most beautifully creative act of our century" / children face discrimination in Catholic school
 1967/01/19 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThanks for your warm good letter, and for Lerone's Boston talk. Starting with that, I'd say it is  Lerone's speech - "what has to be seen and admitted" and "what apparently cannot be" / dialogue with Lerone on Camus / invitation to visit Merton / discrimination against Gloria's children and Merton's own limited experiences of discrimination in France and England / "Red-neck ghettoes" / Black Power
 1967/01/19 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonThanks for your warm good letter, and for Lerone's Boston talk. Starting with that, I'd say it is  Lerone's speech - "what has to be seen and admitted" and "what apparently cannot be" / dialogue with Lerone on Camus / invitation to visit Merton / discrimination against Gloria's children and Merton's own limited experiences of discrimination in France and England / "Red-neck ghettoes" / Black Power
 undated/no/no other[x] (His first Mass) "Friday I said that Mass I had promised to Our Lady of Cobre… It was at St. Anne's  photocopy of a handwritten quote from <i>The Sign of Jonas</i>, p. 194, copyright 1953 / describes Merton's first Mass in 1949 and the amice, corporal, purificator, and finger towel which came from Gloria Bennett's Catholic High School class of black students in Mobile, Alabama
        

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