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Merton's Correspondence with:

Frances Cavanaugh; Sr. Frances Cavanaugh; Miss Frances Cavanaugh

Cavanaugh, Frances  printer

 
 

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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1968
Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

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Biography

Frances Cavanaugh writes from Hempstead, New York. She describes herself as "one of the nuns in modern garb teaching on university campuses."

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1. 1968/03/15 TLS to Merton I read with some absorption the recent interview article involving you and Thomas McDonnell Merton and Thomas McDonnell in U.S. Catholic / grant she received to study Robert of Holcot's influence on English Renaissance dramatists and poets - brief section on contemporary Franciscans / asks Merton for suggested works from the Middle Ages concerning the new aeon of the Spirit / Teilhard de Chardin «detailed view»
2. 1968/03/19 TL[c] from Merton I am afraid I don't have at hand any bibliography that would provide references for you. suggests his friend from St. Bonaventure University, Fr. Philotheus Boehner, O.F.M. (Occamist and interested in Holcot) / for "aeon of the Spirit", suggests "Spiritual Franciscans" bibliography or Fraticelli - write to Fr. Irenaeus, O.F.M. of the Franciscan Institute library at St. Bonaventure University «detailed view»

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