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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-A-016-#07
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1964-09-29, HPCS Akers to Merton, 'We visited today this magnificent Abbaye, daughter of Fontfroide, destroyed in 1835'
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- 1964 September 29 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed postcard.
Name of creator
(1905-2005)
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: "We visited today this magnificent Abbaye, daughter of Fontfroide, destroyed in 1835 and partially"... Contents index: [Real Monasterio de Poblet] Cistercians living 12th century austerity since rebuilding ruined abbey in 1940.
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Akers, Sibylle von Kaskel