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- 1965 August 1 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Typed note (not signed) with holograph (handwritten) annotations. Note used for very brief mailed correspondence or intramural message.
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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: "you may wish to see this sometime in the next year..."... Contents index: [see also #195b on the same note - Bamberger notes that the earlier message was on the occasion of returning Gregory Zilboorg's «History of Medical Psychology» and the later note (from 1965) was when Merton was moving to the woods (his hermitage)].
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- English
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The donor or source was: Bamberger, John.