Elemente 'Identifikation'
Signatur
Name und Standort des Archivs
Erschließungsstufe
Titel
Datum/Laufzeit
- 1962 May 28 (Anlage)
Umfang
1 page(s); Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.
Name des Bestandsbildners
Biographische Angaben
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 more than seventy books that include poetry, personal journals, collections of letters, social criticism, and writings on peace, justice, and ecumenism.
Elemente Inhalt und innere Ordnung
Eingrenzung und Inhalt
First lines: "Sorry, bad news. My higher superiors have judged that it is not quite fitting for a Cistercian monk"... Contents index: nuclear war censorship of Merton's writings - obligation for obedience despite book already at Macmillan [«Peace in a Post-Christian Era»] / Merton must take back article sent to Barry on nuclear war / Cassian / article on Adam of Perseigne would not sit well with the "Black Benedictines" / Dutch mystic Hadewijch.
Ordnung und Klassifikation
Elemente Zugangs- und Benutzungsbedingungen
Benutzungsbedingungen
Technischer Zugang
Reproduktionsbedingungen
In der Verzeichnungseinheit enthaltene Sprachen
- Englisch
Schriften in den Unterlagen
Anmerkungen zu Sprache und Schrift
Findmittel
Übernahme- und Bewertungselemente
Bestandsgeschichte
Abgebende Stelle
The donor or source was: Gethsemani Abbey Archives.