1968-02-12, HLS to Merton, 'If this note seems rather messy and hurried, it's because I'm sitting in the Retreat'

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US US-kylobm TMC-1b-B-120-#4

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Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

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1968-02-12, HLS to Merton, 'If this note seems rather messy and hurried, it's because I'm sitting in the Retreat'

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  • 1968 February 12 (Creation)

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5 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.

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Bredenberg, Nancy Fly
(1947-)

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Nancy Fly Bredenberg was a student attending Vassar College in New York. She asked Merton for some advice on a class paper she was writing.

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First lines: "If this note seems rather messy and hurried, it's because I'm sitting in the Retreat (Vassar's own"... Contents index: Merton's "Edifying Cables" and Bob Dylan / sending two Vassar student publications Bredenberg edited - «Review» and «Coccatrice» / submissions to «Monks Pond».

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  • English

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