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- 1967 August 15 (Creation)
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2 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
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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 more than seventy books that include poetry, personal journals, collections of letters, social criticism, and writings on peace, justice, and ecumenism.
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First lines: "Thanks for your letter. Sounds interesting. I gladly contribute what ideas I can, and here they"... Contents index: hope for monasticism - African, Indian ashram of Dom Bede Griffith, Taize, the Little Brothers, and the Brothers of the Virgin of the Poor / less hope for traditional orders / "milieu Catholicism" / progressivism a monastic charism or secular apostolic witness? / contemplative life / Merton's current areas of interest.
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- English