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- 1962 December 11 (Creation)
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2 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed) with holograph annotations.
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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: "Cold, windy, snowy days, bright ones, are perhaps good for writing letters. At least I am"... Contents index: suggests sending poems to J. Laughlin at New Directions or «Ramparts» / Lapp book «Kill and Overkill» / new aspect of war that operates without principles, like Zen, but "Zen is sane. But not the Pentagon." / Ixion poem.
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- English
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Witness to Freedom