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- 1964 September 24 (Creation)
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2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed postcard.
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Biographical history
Sibylle Akers was born in Dresden, Germany. She left Germany after the Second World War and moved to Texas. She was a well-known photographer. In September of 1959, she visited Gethsemani and took 26 photographs of Merton that are now part of the Merton Center collection. Akers sends letters and postcards from a visit to Europe in the mid-sixties. In 1965, she moved to Washington, D.C., because her husband was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as Director of the U.S. Information Agency.
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First lines: "After the Chateaux de la Loire and the pre-historic caves in Dordogne, we have now seen the remains"... Contents index: [two postcards of the Abbaye de Fontfroide] ruins of Cistercian abbeys / sister-in-law, a Carmelite in Tours living without electricity.
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- English