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- 1964 April 24 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed) with holograph annotations.
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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: "You know that for a long time I have been cooking up a printing project for your press. I am still"... Contents index: working on Chuang Tzu / "J" [Laughlin] / "Message to Poets" and "Art and Freedom" for a pamphlet - can't be a book and upset Farrar Straus / John Beecher's book of poems / "beautifully printed little thing" from the Benedictine Nuns of Stanbrook in England.
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- English