1962-02-14, TLS Black to Merton, 'I want to thank you for your fascinating and helpful letter concerning the Shaker'

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Reference code

US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-075-#03

Name and location of repository

Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

Level of description

Item

Title

1962-02-14, TLS Black to Merton, 'I want to thank you for your fascinating and helpful letter concerning the Shaker'

Date(s)

  • 1962 February 14 (Creation)

Extent

1 page(s); Typed signed letter.

Name of creator

Black, Mary Childs
(1922-1994)

Biographical history

Mary Childs Black was, at time of writing, Director of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection in Williamsburg, Virginia. (See also the Finding Aid to the Mary Black Papers at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library [http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/col538.html]).

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Scope and content

First lines: "I want to thank you for your fascinating and helpful letter concerning the Shaker spiritual drawings"... Contents index: hoping Merton will publish Shaker photo essay / fractur painters of Ephrata - Edward Hicks / conference mostly focused on the Shakers.

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Languages of the material

  • English

Generated finding aid

tmc.pdf

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Senders and recipients—

to Thomas Merton from: Black, Mary Childs