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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Jenkins, Harold Brewster, 1889-1972

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967, 1970

Volume: 5 item(s); 8 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Harold Brewster Jenkins was Merton's uncle on his mother's side. He married Elsie Hauck Holahan in 1938. (See "Jenkins, Elsie" for a more complete description).

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Harold Jenkins in The Road to Joy, pp. 82-83.

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
 1967/12/20 HCSto MertonFirst, I hope this finds you healthy and content. Elsie and I are reasonably well for people of our  [Christmas card]
 1967/12/31 TL[c]from MertonThanks for the card: I was glad to get a little news from Harold. Sorry I haven't been writingYes [to Harold and Elsie Jenkins]
 1968/12/13 HLS[x]to Burns, FlavianThank you for your telegram informing us of Father Thomas Merton's death. I assume he will be buried  [letter to Dom Flavian Burns, the Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey in 1968 - see also the "Burns, Flavian" file in Section A]
 1970/12/09 HLS[x]to Griffin, John HowardThis is in answer to your letter of Oct 29, enclosing one from Miss Merton to you, which I return   
 1970/12/13 TL[x]from Griffin, John HowardI really do not know how to thank you for the care you have taken to reply to my questions -   
        

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