File 14003 - Materials about Thomas Merton

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CA ON00389 F4-12-1-14003

Title

Materials about Thomas Merton

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  • 1967 - [after 1968] (Creation)

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0.5 cm of textual records

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(1932-1996)

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File consists of materials collected by Nouwen about Merton, including copies of various homilies given in Merton's honour and two reminiscences of Merton by Fr. Matthew Kelty from the Abbey of Gethsemani (unpublished) and by Sr. Marie of the Cross Korakurei, attached to Fr. Matthew Kelty's reminiscence is a summary in Dutch and annotations in Dutch in Nouwen's hand. File also contains a newspaper article called “To: Thomas Merton. Re: Your prophecy” dated August 30, 1967 and published in The National Catholic Reporter by Martin E. Marty and copy of a book review published in The National Catholic Reporter by Michele Murray dated December 21, 1966, called “Life Viewed Too Facilely”.

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  • Dutch

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    Title based on contents of the file.

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    Handwritten annotations in Nouwen's hand.
    File contains materials in Dutch

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    2000 01

    Location

    Box 332

    Previous Item Number

    38-241, 38-242

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    Added by L Joson, 5 July 2018

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