Identitetselement
Referenskod
Namn och placering på arkivinstitutionen
Beskrivningsnivå
Titel
Datum
- 1961-1966 (Skapande)
Omfång
3 folder(s), 31 item(s), 56 page(s)
Arkivbildare
Biografiska anmärkningar
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».)
Innehåll och strukturelement
Omfattning och innehåll
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.
Uppordningssystem
Records are arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
Element för villkor för tillgång och användning
Villkor för åtkomst
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Teknisk åtkomst
Villkor för reproduktion
Materialets språk
Materialskript
Språk och skriptananmärkningar
Sökhjälpsmedel
Förvärvs- och bevarande- och gallringselement
Förvaringshistorik
Källa för förvärv
Information rörande bevarande- och gallringsvärdering samt schemaläggning
Periodiseringar
Relaterade materialelement
Existens och placering av original
Existensen och placering av kopior
Relaterat arkivmaterial
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.