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US US-kylobm TMC-1b-B-012-#8
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1966-05-02, TL[c] from Merton, 'Many thanks for your letter of April 20 and for your invitation to preach a retreat,'
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- 1966 May 2 (Creation)
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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: "Many thanks for your letter of April 20 and for your invitation to preach a retreat, in exceptional"... Contents index: contemplative renewal retreat / Archbishop Paul Philippe, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Religious.
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Languages of the material
- anglų