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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hines, Denis, Fr., O.C.S.O.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1965

Volume: 5 item(s); 11 pg(s)

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Biography

Fr. Denis Hines, a Trappist priest, writes first from a hermitage in Sedona, Arizona. He mentions previously being at St. Benedicts Abbey in Snowmass, Colorado. Later, his card to Merton is addressed from Christ in the Desert Monastery in New Mexico. His hermitage at Sedona was getting shut down and he was looking for a new site. Merton informs him that he will not be allowed to establish a hermitage at Gethsemani at that time.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1965/05/09 HLSto MertonThis letter is prompted by one I received yesterday from Dom Joachim of Snowmass from Citeaux.   
 1965/05/14 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThe best thing is to answer your letter immediately and frankly, while it is all fresh in my mind.   
 1965/05/14 (#02)TL[c]from MertonThe best thing is to answer your letter immediately and frankly, while it is all fresh in my mind.   
 1965/07/20 HLSto MertonThis is probably the last letter to go out of the hermitage here, which is to be closed next week,   
 undated/09/05 HCSto MertonThank you for the papers you sent; if my thanks are a little late, it's due to the great building  [card showing a drawing of "Proposed Chapel [-] Monastery of Christ of the Desert [-] Abiquiu, New Mexico"]
        

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