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US US-kylobm TMC-1b-B-010-S5-#130
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Title
1967-03-no-day, TN from Merton, 'As to the Alberti piece: please believe that I had no idea you would take it that'
Date(s)
- 1967 March (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Typed signed note.
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: "As to the Alberti piece: please believe that I had no idea you would take it that way."... Contents index: [only a segment of a message (top and bottom cut off) - verso: Bamberger notes that this was a message from Merton to one of his secretaries].
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- English
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Immediate source of acquisition
The donor or source was: Bamberger, John.