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- 1966 February 2 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.
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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: "First of all I want to say quite candidly that I think that a non-Catholic publisher is a much"... Contents index: non-Catholic publishers, secular or Anglican, more likely to publish Raissa's mystical works than Catholic ones / suggests Pusey House in Oxford and Helen Wolff at Harcourt Brace and World / importance of Jacques and Raissa Maritain's work.
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Languages of the material
- engleză