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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-A-036-#32
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1964-08-21, TLS Andrade to Merton, 'Discúlpeme usted que de tarde en tarde le escriba unas letras. Mis actividades no'
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- 1964 August 21 (Creation)
Extent
2 page(s); Typed signed letter.
Name of creator
(1913-1990)
Biographical history
Jaime Andrade was an Ecuadorian sculptor and engraver from Quito. Merton commissioned him to do a statue of the Virgin Mary and child Jesus in dark wood for the novitiate library.
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First lines: "Discúlpeme usted que de tarde en tarde le escriba unas letras. Mis actividades no me dejan mucho"... Contents index: [includes color slide of mosaics] «Emblems in a Season of Fury» / good translations of poems / explanation of new artistic style that Andrade is developing of mosaics in relief employed in modern architecture.
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- Spanish
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from Thomas Merton to: Andrade, Jaime