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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Viens, Joachim, Fr., O.C.S.O.

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964-1965

Volume: 4 item(s); 5 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Merton and Viens discuss changes occurring in the Trappist Order and discussions about the nature of the contemplative vocation. They also discuss starting a dialogue within the order concerning the establishment of an eremitical observance. Viens asks about rumors of Merton living as a hermit.

Biography

Fr. Joachim Viens was a Trappist monk of St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado.

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Series List

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

Container List

Date	Type	To/From	First Lines
1964/09/11	TL[c]	from Merton	How are things at Snowmass, and how is the pamphlet coming? Have you got it past the censors yet,
1964/09/21	TLS	to Merton	I am very sorry to have delayed so long in answering your kind letter of the 11th. The Postulants'
1964/09/23	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter and for the two copies of the ms, which returned. I am glad the book is
1965/07/21	TLS	to Merton	By now you should have received several copies of "Come to The Mountain". I hope you like it,

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