MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Gibney, Robert
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1941
Volume: 12 item(s); 33 pg(s)
Scope and Content
It is unsure whether these letters are all to Robert Gibney, though most or all likely are. The folder at Columbia University, which contains letters not included here and certainly to Robert Lax, is labeled “Merton letters (carbon copies) to Lax, Gibney and other close friends, ca. 1941”. In many of these letters, Lax and Bob Gerdy are mentioned in the third person, which makes the letters more likely to be to Gibney.
Biography
Robert Gibney was one of Merton's closest friends from Columbia University. He filed as a conscientious objector for World War II, but was drafted. He married another of Merton's friends after the war, Nancy Flagg, who was a graduate of Smith College in Boston. (Source: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, pp. 178-179.)
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Usage permission for letters to Merton from Columbia University must be obtained from the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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