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US US-kylobm TMC-1b-A-045-#2
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1968-03-15, TL[c] from Merton, 'Unfortunately I cannot come to your workshop. I realize that something of the sort'
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- 1968 March 15 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
Name of creator
(1915-1968)
Biographical history
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. His writings include such classics as The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, and Zen and the Birds of Appetite. Merton is the author of more than seventy books that include poetry, personal journals, collections of letters, social criticism, and writings on peace, justice, and ecumenism.
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First lines: "Unfortunately I cannot come to your workshop. I realize that something of the sort ought to be"... Contents index: offers notes on contemplative life recently written for college group.
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Languages of the material
- English