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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Van Zeller, Hubert, Dom, O.S.B., 1905-1984

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1953-1979, bulk 1953-1955

Volume: 21 item(s); 30 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Dom Hubert Van Zeller first writes to say that he did not agree with the harsh criticism by Dom Aelred Graham's reviews of Merton's early works.

Biography

Dom Hubert Van Zeller was a Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey in England and scholar on the monastic life. He authored a number of books and articles on the contemplative life, the scriptures and monasticism.

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Related Information and Links

See also published letters from Merton to Van Zeller in The School of Charity, pp. 55-56, 64, 72-73, 79-80 and 82-83.

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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
 1953/02/07 transcriptto MertonHesitating about bothering you with an opinion which can obviously make no great difference,  [Dom James Fox made a copy of a letter from Van Zeller sent to Merton, original not extant / Fox filed it with materials regarding Dom Aelred Graham's article "A Modern Man in Reverse" / see also "Dom Aelred and Fr. Louis" file, Series Two of the "Graham, Aelred" correspondence file]
 1953/03/19 TLSto MertonYour most generous gift has just arrived, and I must write at once to thank you. The editor   
 1953/04/23 HLSto MertonForgive the delay -- caused just by my not having any copies of any books, and second by my being   
 1953/05/01 TLSfrom MertonI was very sorry to hear that you were ill, that you were being purified by tubes and generally   
 1953/05/27 TLSto MertonIn the past ten days I have covered nearly the whole of your notes. I have a feeling that they will   
 1953/07/01? TLSfrom MertonThank you for your letter which covered me with confusion. I did not mean to enlist youYes  
 1953/08/03 TALSfrom MertonYou have already forgiven me, I am sure, for my delay in thanking you for the books. I wantedYes  
 1953/08/06 TLSto MertonThis, for your consolation, does not need an answer: it is a statement and not an enquiry.   
 1953/08/15 TLSto MertonYour letter has cheered me; many thanks. If Fr Bruno Scott James has mentioned me in his  [dated "Feast of the Assumption"]
 1953/12/04 HCSfrom MertonFirst of all, please thank your aunt for the medal of La Soledad. I know all the Soledad's by heart  [verso: black and white print of a face with the scriptural quote: "'The goodness and kindness of God Our Savior has appeared' Titus 3.4"]
 1954/01/13 TLSto Mertonyour book arrived last week but I decided to read it before thanking for it. There is a lot which   
 1954/01/30 TLSfrom MertonI was very pleased with your letter about <u>Bread in the Wilderness</u>. It was, I am sure, justYes  
 1954/08/03 TLSto MertonDear Father, how can I possibly thank you for your latest present? If you can guess the pleasure   
 1954/09/26 HLSto MertonHaving at last finished taking notes on both "The Last of the Fathers" and "Contemplation and Action   
 1954/11/04 TLSfrom MertonFor a long time I have been getting notes and letters from you and have let them go by withoutYes  
 1955/02/03 TLSto MertonThis letter should have been written before now, but I have been waiting till Father Abbot decided   
 1955/02/08 HLSfrom MertonIt has been ages since I received your letter and the pages describing your project for a foundationYes  
 1979/07/24 HLSto Hart, PatrickI'm glad it was you who answered my letter to Fr. Abbot. You may remember we have a friend  [from Van Zeller to Br. Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O., of Gethsemani Abbey]
 undated/03/31 HLSto MertonYour new book with the most   
 undated/08/23 TLSto Mertonthis is too late I am afrid [sic] for your feast, but I shall try to get permission to say Mass   
 undated/no/no HLSto MertonI wrote to you a few days ago - just before your feast - but   
        

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