1968-12-20, TL[x] Baciu from Laughlin, James, 'Thank you for your letter of December 16. Father Merton's death is a terrible loss'

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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-003-#19

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1968-12-20, TL[x] Baciu from Laughlin, James, 'Thank you for your letter of December 16. Father Merton's death is a terrible loss'

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  • 1968 December 2 (Creation)

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1 page(s); Xerox copy of a typed letter (not signed).

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(1914-1997)

Biographical history

James Laughlin and Merton first came to known each other through Merton's former professor at Columbia University, poet Mark Van Doren. Van Doren recommended some of Merton's poems to Laughlin for his publishing house, New Directions. These poems becameRead more

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First lines: "Thank you for your letter of December 16. Father Merton's death is a terrible loss to all of us,"... Contents index: instructions on obtaining permissions to use previously published poems for «Mele».

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  • English

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Copy from Harvard University, Houghton Library.

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to Thomas Merton from: Baciu, Stefan