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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-010-S5-#084a
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1966-11-no-day, TN Bamberger from Merton, 'I will need to get to town next Monday the 7th to see Dr Mitchell, as usual in the'
Date(s)
- 1967 March 3 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed note. Note used for very brief mailed correspondence or intramural message.
Name of creator
(1926-2020)
Biographical history
Dom John Eudes Bamberger stepped down as abbot of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Genesee in 2001. He came to Gethsemani in 1951 after having read «The Seven Storey Mountain» in the navy. He was sent to Washington, D.C., for studies in the psychiatric field and later helped Merton and Fr. Matthew Kelty in screening new applicants to the novitiate. (Source: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, pp. 22-23).
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First lines: "Would you have the new edition (in French) of St Basil's letters? Seems I saw it once in novitiate"... Contents index: [see also #84b on the same page].
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- anglų
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The donor or source was: Bamberger, John.
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to Merton from John Eudes Bamberger