Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1962 (Creation)
Extent
1 folder(s), 4 item(s), 6 page(s)
Name of creator
Biographical history
Professor Herbert Burke was teaching English at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burke, Herbert Caryl".
System of arrangement
Records are arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Regulations governing use of the collection can be found here: (‹https://bellarmine.libraryhost.com/index.php/rules›).
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Languages of the material
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
See also one published letter from Merton to Burke in «Witness to Freedom» (‹https://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A32625479›), p. 96. Christopher Burke (see "Burke, Christopher" file) was his son, and Merton writes a letter to a draft board to justify his conscientious objector status and the pacifistic views of the Burke family.