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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Mwoleka, Christopher, Bishop, 1927-2002

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968, 1972, 1984

Volume: 13 item(s); 20 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Merton and Mwoleka discuss a number of topics, including a Christian's place in the modern world, racial problems, the eremitical life, and the religious traditions of Asia. Merton asks for some books of African poetry and thought.

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Related Information and Links

See also published letters from Merton to Mwoleka published in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 461-463.

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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
 1967/08/31 (#01)TL[c]to MertonOn the feast of St. John of the Cross 1952, 24th November, passing by a book-stall in Dar es Salaam,   
 1967/08/31 (#02)TLS[x]to MertonOn the feast of St. John of the Cross 1952, 24th November, passing by a book-stall in Dar es Salaam,  [from one folder from the "New Directions Publishing" papers at Harvard, entitled "Letters (carbons) to various people, 1967"]
 1967/09/13 TLSfrom MertonI was so happy and touched by your warm and kind letter. In this world where there is so muchYes  
 1967/12/27 TAL[c]to MertonLet me console myself by saying "better late than never" for sending you my Christmas greetings now.   
 1968/02/10 TLSto MertonWhen I wrote to you last time, if the letter hadn't been too long I should have said a word about   
 1968/02/24 (#01)TLSfrom MertonThanks for your two very good letters. I am most happy and interested to hear about your reactionYes  
 1968/02/24 (#02)TL[c]from MertonThanks for your two very good letters. I am most happy and interested to hear about your reactionYes  
 1972/09/22 TLSto Center from Mwoleka, ChristopherYour kind letter which I received two years ago is now here before me and find, to my shame, that it   
 1972/10/05 TL[x]from Center to Mwoleka, ChristopherThank you for your kind letter of September 22 regarding our request for correspondence   
 1972/10/25 (#01)TLS[x]to Center from Mwoleka, ChristopherWith reference to your letter of October 5, I am enclosing herewith originals of two letters   
 1972/10/25 (#02)TLS[x]to Center from Mwoleka, ChristopherMay I ask for a favour from your Centre. At that Meeting in the Far East after which he died,   
 1972/11/09 TL[x]from Center to Mwoleka, ChristopherPlease accept our sincere graditude [sic] for the contribution of your correspondence with Thomas   
 1984/01/18 TLS[x] from Shannon, William / to Christopher MwolekaI am a priest of the diocese of Rochester, New York and have taught for some years in one of our  seeking biographical information, other letters, and recollections of Merton
        

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