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US US-kylobm 1-B-102-#34
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1962-04-28, TL[c] from Merton, 'As you know periodically my affairs get in an awful tangle, and they are in one now:'
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- 1962 April 28 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
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: "As you know periodically my affairs get in an awful tangle, and they are in one now: about writing,"...
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Languages of the material
- English