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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-010-S5-#095b
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1967-03-12 (#01), TL[c] Bamberger from Merton, 'Thanks for your reassuring note. It did clear things up a bit and I would not be'
Date(s)
- 1966 May 28 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) note (not signed). 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: "Doing better - moved from Infirmary to hermitage. Buddhist monk, prof. at Cambridge, came from Viet"... Contents index: [see also #95a on the same page].
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- English
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The donor or source was: Bamberger, John.