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US US-kylobm TMC-1b-A-072-#2
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1965-09-05, TL[c] from Merton, 'It was a pleasure to receive your warm and encouraging letter from Africa and to'
Date(s)
- 1965 September 5 (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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Scope and content
First lines: "It was a pleasure to receive your warm and encouraging letter from Africa and to learn that you had"... Contents index: «Seeds of Destruction» / Trappists and contact with the world / role of Christians / role of white race in race relations / Christianity in Africa.
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Languages of the material
- English