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Reference code
US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-008-#11
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Item
Title
1968-07-25, TL[c] Baker from Merton, 'In your letter you mention the cool summer: it has got hot enough now! I have'
Date(s)
- 1968 July 25 (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… Read more
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Scope and content
First lines: "In your letter you mention the cool summer: it has got hot enough now! I have thought often of you"... Contents index: trip to Asia / Buddhist and other forms of monasticism / themes of "unity and reconciliation of opposites" in Merton's… Read more
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Languages of the material
- English
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Publication notes
Hidden Ground of Love
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Senders and recipients—
to Thomas Merton from: Baker, James Thomas