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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-A-036-#33
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1964-10-28 (#01), TL[c] Andrade from Merton, 'It was good to get your letter and to hear of your new work. The mosaics in relief'
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- 1964 October 28 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
Name of creator
(1915-1968)
Biographical history
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: "It was good to get your letter and to hear of your new work. The mosaics in relief seem to me to be"... Contents index: [Merton writes "Jaime Andrade" in pen above "Dear Jaime"] books on Ecuadorian folk lore / Merton's abstract drawings.
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- anglų
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from Merton to Julio Endara