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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-024-#03
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1967-08-26, TALS Barton to Merton, 'Thank you very much for your prompt reply. It was quite encouraging. There has'
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- 1967 August 26 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.
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(1935-)
Biographical history
At the time of writing, Robert Barton was working on a dissertation about "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and had begun as an instructor at Rutgers University.
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First lines: "Thank you very much for your prompt reply. It was quite encouraging. There has been a hiatus of"... Contents index: Arthur's Camelot and Washington [D.C.] / Milton poem "Mansus" and "Jerusalem Conquered" / Arthur and Satan / meaning of Merton's use of "spook collections" / acedia, the noonday demon and Washington.
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Barton, Robert Joyce