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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1934-1985
Volume: 26 item(s); 34 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This file contains documents and a small amount of related correspondence regarding Merton's citizenship or legal residency in the United States, England and France; and forms related to permission to leave and re-enter the United States. Most of the documents are photocopies and were obtained by journalist Robert G. Grip, who performed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information.

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#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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1. 1934/11/05 other[x]   Extrait du Registre des Actes de Naissance [-] pour l'Année 1915 [-] Commune de Prades, Canton et [copy of Merton's birth certificate from France] «detailed view»
2. 1937/10/28 other[x]   U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR [-] Immigration and Naturalization Service [-] No. 2 542072 [states Merton was lawfully admitted for permanent residency in the United States on 1934/12/11 / mentions the ship he arrived on, "SS Ansonia" (elsewhere "Ausonia")] «detailed view»
3. 1938/no/no? other[x]   STATEMENT OF FACTS TO BE USED IN MAKING MY DECLARATION OF INTENTION [-] My name is Mr. «detailed view»
4. 1940/03/30 other[x]   APPLICATION FOR REENTRY PERMIT [-] To the Honorable Commissioner of Immigration and [application for Merton, not a citizen of the United States and residing there as alien, to re-enter the United States from his vacation to Cuba and Mexico] «detailed view»
5. 1940/04/01 other[x]   Permit to Reenter the United States [-] PURSUANT to provision of section 10 of the Immigration Act «detailed view»
6. 1942/03/12 TL[x]  from Kahl, Arthur J. / to Merton Enclosed herewith are forms Nat. 101 and AR-16 for your information. It is requested that you [Arthur J. Kahl was Assistant District Director of the Buffalo District of the Immigration and Naturalization Service] «detailed view»
7. 1942/03/21 other[x]   ADDRESS REPORT CARD -- ALIEN REGISTRATION [-] (This card may be used for both types of reports [copies of two "change of address" forms: one from Douglaston, New York, to Olean, New York from 1941/06/24 - another from Olean, New York to Gethsemani of 1942/03/21] «detailed view»
8. 1948/01/05 (#01) other[x]   UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [-] DECLARATION OF INTENTION [-] (Invalid for all purposes seven «detailed view»
9. 1948/01/05 (#02) other[x]   UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [-] PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION [-] [Under General Provisions «detailed view»
10. 1948/11/08 TLS[x] from Merton In enclose my application for certificate of arrival etc, together with the required photographs. «detailed view»
11. 1948/11/30 (#01) TLS[x]  from Throckmorton, L. W. / to Officer in Charge Records of this office disclose that complete file relating to the above named person was forwarded [from L. W. Throckmorton to the Officer in Charge in Cincinnati, Ohio] «detailed view»
12. 1948/11/30 (#02) HLS[x]  from Merton to U.S. Naturalization Service Since I have changed my residence to Trappist, Kentucky, in the Louisville district, it will be [letter originally dated 1942/02/17 and copied with 1948/11/30 letter - to the United States Naturalization Service office in Erie, Pennsylvania] «detailed view»
13. 1948/12/08 other[x]   REQUEST FOR CERTIFICATE OF ARRIVAL AND PRELIMINARY FORM FOR DECLARATION «detailed view»
14. 1948/12/16 other[x]   Application for a Certificate of Arrival and Preliminary Form for a Declaration of Intention «detailed view»
15. 1951/01/27 other[x]   Application for a Certificate of Arrival and Preliminary Form for Petition for Naturalization «detailed view»
16. 1951/04/11 other[x]   Attention: Identification Division [-] Please furnish a copy of any criminal record shown «detailed view»
17. 1951/05/03 other[x]   I am not and have never been an anarchist; nor a believer in the unlawful damage, injury [oath from the U.S. Immigration Service, signed by Merton, that he has never been an anarchist or a Communist] «detailed view»
18. 1951/05/17 other[x]   ALIEN REGISTRATION FORM [-] 1. (a) My name is Thomas James Merton [-] (b) I entered the United [Merton's Alien Registration Form from ca. 1939 - copies and stamped from 1951] «detailed view»
19. 1951/06/25 TL[x]  from Boutton, H. J. / to Sue Connaughton In accordance with provisions of Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Sec. 377.3, [from H. J. Boutton, Officer in Charge in Cincinnati, Ohio, of the Immigration Service, to Sue Connaughton, Deputy Clerk of the U.S. District Court in Louisville, Kentucky] «detailed view»
20. 1951/06/26 other[x]   CERTIFICATE OF NATURALIZATION Petition No. 5033 [-] Personal description of holder «detailed view»
21. 1958/01/27 TLS  from Cundiff, Bernice / to Merton Am sorry of the delay in answering your letter with reference to correction of your Certificate [from Bernice Cundiff of the United States District Court in Louisville, Kentucky] «detailed view»
22. 1958/02/07 TLS  from Cundiff, Bernice / to Merton You will please find your certificate of Naturalization number 6747854, enclosed. This certificate [from Bernice Cundiff of the United States District Court in Louisville, Kentucky] «detailed view»
23. 1961/02/10 other[x]   Le trente un janvier mil neuf cent quinze à neuf heures est né à PRADES Tom MERTON sexe masculin [birth record for Merton sent in 1961] «detailed view»
24. 1968/08/01 TNS  from Lawrence, Br. / to Van Rijn Could you please send us back the number of Thomas Merton's Passport, in case we need it «detailed view»
25. 1985/01/30 TL[x]  from Grip, Robert / to Robert Amerine Under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552, I am requesting access to, and copies of any [from Robert G. Grip of WALA TV of Mobile, Alabama to the FOIA/PA Reviewing Officer for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, D.C.] «detailed view»
26. undated/no/no TLS[x]  from Amerine, Robert / to Robert Grip As you requested, we have enclosed the records relevant to Mr. Merton's naturalization for you [from Robert P. Amerine, FOIA/PA Reviewing Officer for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, D.C. to Robert G. Grip of WALA TV of Mobile, Alabama] «detailed view»

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