Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

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

Single Item Record for the Date:
1966/August/07 (#01)

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:  from Merton to "Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987"-->

# of pages:  1

Published in:  Witness to Freedom

First Lines:  "I think this ought to take care of the essentials, and I presume we agree on the essential"

Contents:  Merton promises not to smuggle out letters, make illicit phone calls, or leave monastery (even to Loretto) without permission / asking Fox to believe in him and not make it a relationship of distrust with fears of "constraint and (veiled) punitive measures" / [attached document in Series 5, "Dom James Binder"]

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:    1966/August/07 (#01)