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Reference code
US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-003-#19
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Item
Title
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'
Date(s)
- 1968 December 2 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Xerox copy of a typed letter (not signed).
Name of creator
(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 became… Read more
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Scope and content
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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Languages of the material
- English
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Existence and location of copies
Copy from Harvard University, Houghton Library.
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Senders and recipients—
to Thomas Merton from: Baciu, Stefan