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- 1967 January 19 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
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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: "Thanks for your warm good letter, and for Lerone's Boston talk. Starting with that, I'd say it is"... Contents index: Lerone's speech - "what has to be seen and admitted" and "what apparently cannot be" / dialogue with Lerone on Camus / invitation to visit Merton / discrimination against Gloria's children and Merton's own limited experiences of discrimination in France and England / "Red-neck ghettoes" / Black Power.
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- anglų