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US US-kylobm 1-B-020-#10
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Title
1964-05-22 (#01), TLS from Merton, 'Here is the Bolshakoff ms and the preface with it. I understand that the whole'
Date(s)
- 1964 May 22 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Typed signed letter.
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: "Here is the Bolshakoff ms and the preface with it. I understand that the whole thing is to be"... Contents index: suggestions about the revisions needed to publish the Bolshakoff manuscript / rumor that Herder is coming out with a book on Cassian.
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Languages of the material
- English