MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Derivaux, Don, Fr. (also Fr. Francis Derivaux, O.C.S.O.)
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1965, 1968
Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)
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Biography
Fr. Don Derivaux, known in his 18 years at Gethsemani as Francis, had later left the Trappists to become a priest in Mississippi. In 1965, while still with Gethsemani and studying in Rome, Merton writes and tells him of events at the abbey and of racial tensions in the south. Though he considers becoming laicized in his letter of 1968 to Merton, he remained a priest and has recently retired as a hermit.
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See published letters from Merton to Derivaux in The School of Charity, pp. 278-279 and 370-371 (published as "Father D.").
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