MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Evans, Illtud, Fr., O.P.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1961-1967
Volume: 42 item(s); 60 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Biography
Fr. Illtud Evans was a Dominican priest and popular retreat master from Cambridge, England. He did editorial work for Blackfriars (after 1964, New Blackfriars), a publication of the English Dominicans. Many of Evans' letters speak of his travels for the retreats he was giving, including a trip to the Holy Land. In 1966, he moved to St. Albert's College in Oakland, California. (Source: The School of Charity, p. 196.)
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Related Information and Links
See also published letters from Merton to Evans in The School of Charity, pp. 196 [not listed in Index], 231, 252-253, 263-264 and 348; and see also the "Weatherhead, Benet" file.
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Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1961/08/08 | HLS | to Merton | I should explain that I am a Dominican of the English Province and editor of our monthly review, | |
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| | 1961/09/02 | HLS | to Merton | I arrived at the Bishop's with no more than the usual share of | |
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| | 1961/10/02 | HLS | to Merton | Here I am, at best on my way home - at least, on my way to Boston, from which I take a slow boat | |
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| | 1961/11/26 | TLS | to Merton | I'm delighted, touched, flattered, grateful at your offerings and hope I can use them, some of them | |
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| | 1962/01/23 | TALS | to Merton | Thanks for yours, and for Christian Action in Crisis. I should like to use this and will send it | |
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| | 1962/03/19 | HLS | to Merton | I write this in a convent at Harrow-on-the-hill: the Harrow boys, with their elastic-supported flat | |
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| | 1963/02/23 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for your letter and the poem (which I'llsend [sic] on to Fr Benet Weatherhead, now the editor | |
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| | 1964/01/13 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I have no idea where this letter will find you, but I hope you are at Cambridge. So first to | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/16 | TALS | to Merton | It was a great joy to hear from you, on - believe it or not - a brilliant, clear morning, and I, | |
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| | 1964/02/04 | TALS | to Merton | I think I did answer your letter? In any case I wrote a formal note to the Abbot saying I'd be | |
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| | 1964/02/20 | TAL[c] | from Merton | We are all happy that you will be here to preach the retreat next year. But I do worry about your | |
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| | 1964/03/20 | HPCS | to Merton | I've been having a rest in Provence and with a Cambridge architect and a Yale friend, have visited | |
| [verso: black and white photo of the cloister area of the Cistercian Abbey of Sénanque] |
| | 1964/04/15 | TALS | to Merton | I was glad to find your letter - and its fascinating extras awaiting me when I got back from | |
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| | 1964/06/11 | TALS | to Merton | I had lunch with Tom Burns in London yesterday (his brother, Dr Charles Burns, a pioneer of Child | |
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| | 1964/06/24 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Perhaps I will be able to send you something later on for the new Blackfriars. At the moment, | |
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| | 1964/07/02 | TLS | to Merton | I was very glad to hear from you and to get the poem, which I greatly like. I am sending you this | |
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| | 1964/08/03 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Tomorrow is the Feast of St Dominic and I promise to remember you especially at Mass. I am sorry | |
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| | 1964/08/30 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I am not sure if you still need lecture engagements in this area before our retreat. Some of the | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/04 | TLS | to Merton | thanks for yours. I've written to Bellarmine and St Meinrad's, suggesting dates after Jan. 26. | |
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| | 1964/09/22 | TALS | to Merton | Who said old Cunard is out-of-date? I wanted some thin paper, and found a relic. Thanks very much | |
| [on stationary of the "Cunard Line R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth"] |
| | 1964/09/25 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Gorilla with Gun is not going to appear anywhere here in the form in which you have it or in a way | |
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| | 1964/11/30 | TLS | to Merton | I turned on the radio a moment ago to discover the time and they were doing a programme called | |
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| | 1964/12/07 | TL[c] | from Merton | Well, I always wanted to write a novel, and I know it is a truism that what you want in youth you | Yes |
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| | 1965/01/30 | HLS | to Merton | Only a word to say how glad I was to see you and to have been at Gethsemani. I'll write at length | |
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| | 1965/02/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter from Pittsburgh. I am glad everything went well there. I will keep your | Yes |
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| | 1965/02/24 | TLS | to Merton | I've had such a muddle of things since I got back that I'm not sure if I answered you [sic] note | |
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| | 1965/04/14 | TL[c] | from Merton | A happy and glorious Easter. To share the joy of the feast, I am sending along a good big chunk | |
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| | 1965/06/19 | HLS | to Merton | I'm sorry I haven't written, but ever since I got back from Palestine I've been terribly tied up - | |
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| | 1965/09/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Did I answer your last letter? I am terribly sorry to hear that you are ill and getting over it only | |
| [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Accession 2, Hart Working Files] |
| | 1966/02/10 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for your letter and the pictures, which make me look like an unsuccessful novelist | |
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| | 1966/03/03 | HLS | to Merton | I've often meant to write, but you know how it is: with <u>la dolce vita</u>, for in the 4 months | |
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| | 1966/04/22 | TLS | to Merton | I arrived from Barbados last week and am very glad to be here. It looks as though I'm going to be | |
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| | 1966/06/06 | TL[c] | from Merton | It is late to thank you for a letter which I see is dated April 22. I am very glad that you like it | |
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| | 1966/09/25 | TLS | to Merton | Do I owe you a letter? In any case there isn't much sense in trying to establish a debit/credit | |
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| | 1966/09/30 | TL[c] | from Merton | I got your letter this morning and am answering it not out of guilt but because I want to answer it | |
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| | 1967/08/09 | TLS | to Merton | Patrick Quinn, (Irish) professor of architecture at the university of California at Berkeley | |
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| | 1967/09/11 | TLS | to Merton | I'm just back from an exhausting series of congresses which I had to attend for THE TABLET, | |
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| | 1967/09/19 | TALS[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 11th. Glad to hear of you as always. I was invited | Yes |
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| | 1967/10/13 | HLS | to Merton | Of course I understand, and I wonder that you've been patient for so long with the importunate, me | |
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| | 1967/11/09 | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry for the time lag in replying about "Redeeming the Time". It has not in fact appeared anywhere | |
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| | 1967/11/17 | HLS | to Merton | I don't know whether <u>The Tablet</u> sent you a copy of this week's issue. | |
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| | undated/no/no | HPCS | to Merton | Not going to Petra this time, put it's so lovely that I thought I'd send this | |
| [verso: color photo of the Treasury at Petra in Jordan] |
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