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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Chapulis, Susan

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Susan Chapulis was a sixth grader writing from Waterbury, Connecticut.

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also Merton's letter to Chapulis in The Road to Joy, pp. 350-351.

Other Finding Aids

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
 1967/03/28 HLSto MertonI am writing in behalf of the sixth grade of Saint Joseph School in Waterbury Connecticut.  studding monks and monasticism in their history class / asks Merton if he has any information he could send them
 1967/04/10 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your nice letter. You want "any information whatsoever" to help the sixth gradeYes sending a book about Gethsemani / monks seek God in the "lonely places" - "people think they are crazy going off by themselves" / not having to worry about paying taxes, maintaining a house and car, fighting with a spouse / creatures of the forest around the hermitage / God's presence in the silence of the hermitage
        

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