1967-06-30, HLS to Merton, 'I am sorry not to have written to you long before this. I have been dreadfully busy'

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US US-kylobm 1-A-004-#4

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Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

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1967-06-30, HLS to Merton, 'I am sorry not to have written to you long before this. I have been dreadfully busy'

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  • 1967 June 3 (Creation)

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2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.

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Abe, Masao
(1915-2006)

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Masao Abe was a Zen Buddhist scholar from Kyoto, Japan.

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First lines: "I am sorry not to have written to you long before this. I have been dreadfully busy for the past"... Contents index: Abe's paper "Zen and Western Thought" / Merton's "A New Christian Consciousness?", "Seven Words", and «Mystics and Zen Masters» / Catholicism, Protestantism and ontological aspects of Christianity.

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  • English

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