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Date(s)
- 1961-1966 (Création/Production)
Importance matérielle
3 folder(s), 31 item(s), 56 page(s)
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Evora Arca de Sardiña was born in Cuba, attended high school in New York, and returned to Cuba in 1950. In Cuba, she was involved in social work the poor. When Castro came to power in 1959, she fled to the United States with her husband and her five sons and settled in Miami. Her husband, Eugenio, was part of the CIA-trained anti-Castro assault force captured at the Bay of Pigs. (Source: «Witness to Freedom».)
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
In this group of letters, Merton provides spiritual direction to a Cuban expatriate who fled after Fidel Castro came to power. Subjects of the letters include the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Merton "Warn[s] her against those who would turn to violence but also against those who would embrace a comfortable and wealthy Catholicism" (Shannon, p. 77). (Source: <a onClick="return popup(this, 'link')" href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti:Witness+to+Freedom"><i>Witness to Freedom</i></a>.) Many letters from Merton are photocopies from the published letters. However, a few carbons of his letters and original handwritten letters from Evora Arca de Sardiña are present.
Mode de classement
Records are arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Regulations governing use of the collection can be found here: (‹https://bellarmine.libraryhost.com/index.php/rules›).
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Conditions de reproduction
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Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Sources complémentaires
See also Cold War Letters #27, #93, #109 and other letters from Merton to Arca de Sardiña published in «Witness to Freedom» (‹https://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A32625479›), 76-85; and see also the "Rodríguez, Marta Elena" file.