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- 1967 June 23 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Transcript copy of a letter, i.e., re-typed or re-written after original.
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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: "Thanks for your kind letter. I am happy to have received your news. The editors of the Annales"... Contents index: [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3] declines offer to do the proposed article on the history of the Order because of current books in the works.
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- anglų
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The donor or source was: Hart, Patrick, Br., O.C.S.O..