1962-08-08, TL[c] from Merton, 'Recently I have gone over a manuscript that has been waiting for revision, and I'

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1962-08-08, TL[c] from Merton, 'Recently I have gone over a manuscript that has been waiting for revision, and I'

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  • 1962 August 8 (Creation)

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1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

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(1915-1968)

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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: "Recently I have gone over a manuscript that has been waiting for revision, and I have completed the"... Contents index: «Principles of Prayer» - "draws… on patristic sources and Church documents" - more formal than «Seeds of Contemplation» / timetable for publishing with Macmillan.

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