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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Borgstin, Gregory, Fr., O.S.B.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964-1967

Volume: 9 item(s); 21 pg(s)

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Biography

Fr. Gregory was a Benedictine at Mount Saviour Monastery near Elmira, New York. He went with Dom Aelred Wall to Abiquiu, New Mexico, to found the Monastery of Christ in the Desert.

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Series List

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

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1964/02/05 HNSto MertonTonight I have read 'The Monk in the Diaspora'. It is splendid; and it touches on so many of the   
 1964/05/08 TALSto MertonPlease excuse my long silence. Actually, it would have been a great consolation to e to have been   
 1965/04/05 HLSto MertonMany thanks for the copies of your articles which dome to me from time to time. I am   
 1966/07/20 TALSto MertonCould we have three or four more copies of the revised edition of <u>The Climate of Monastic</u>   
 1966/07/23 HLSto MertonA packet from Gethsemani with Pre-Benedictine Monachism, Series 2, and the poems and articles   
 1966/07/25 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your kind and detailed letter of July 20 which tells me the final issue of Br   
 1967/08/25 HLSto MertonA blessed and joyful feast! All of us here are remembering you specially today, and your name will  [writing from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico]
 1967/10/14 TL[c]from MertonThis letter will serve as a joint reply to you and to Dom Aelred who appended a kind note to your   
 1968/06/03 HLSto MertonThe first think we have to thank you for is your good visit - a real joy and source of encouragement  [writing from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico / stationery states "Monastery of Christ of the Desert"]
        

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