Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1955/May/16 

Series:  1  Correspondence from original Merton papers (some later additions): Dom James Fox with Merton, Fr. Charles Dumont, Edward Glenn Hinson, Msgr. Alfred Frederick Horrigan, Fr. Giovanni Montini, James Morrissey, Naomi Burton Stone, etc.

Type:  TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

To/From:  to Montini, Giovanni from "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987"-->

# of pages:  3

Published in:  Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon

First Lines:  "Thisis [sic] the first letter I have ever written to you, Your Excellency, but we have received many"

Contents:  [attached to 1955/05/18 letter from Fox to Jean Leclercq - see also a copy in Series 14] Merton's vocational crisis - interest in Carthusians or Camaldolese - desire for solitary life / Merton's background, conversion history, entry into monastery, life as a writer, Master of Novices / Fr. Barnabas Mary, C.P. and Gabriel Sortais - negative effect of Merton leaving

Language:  English

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Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987:" Series 1:    1955/May/16