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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-048-#06
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1967-01-07, HLS Bennett to Merton, 'Thank you so much for your wonderful letter and the essays enclosed. I have not yet'
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- 1967 January 7 (Creation)
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2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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(1930-2009)
Biographical history
A student of Sr. Marialein Lorenz in Mobile, Alabama, Gloria Sylvester Bennett was part of the class who sent Merton some ordination gifts. She sends a book by her husband, Lerone Bennett, «Confrontation: Black and White». (Source: «The Road to Joy», p. 341.)
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First lines: "Thank you so much for your wonderful letter and the essays enclosed. I have not yet had a chance to"... Contents index: Lerone Bennett wants to have a dialogue with Merton on Camus / sending Lerone's December speech from Boston / «Negro Digest» / Black Power evolution - getting "Negroes to learn to love themselves… most beautifully creative act of our century" / children face discrimination in Catholic school.
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- English
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Senders and recipients—
to Thomas Merton from: Bennett, Gloria Cecelia Sylvester