1967-09-02, TL[c] Brilliant from Merton, 'Must answer you together as I can hardly keep up with mail in any case. I have'

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1967-09-02, TL[c] Brilliant from Merton, 'Must answer you together as I can hardly keep up with mail in any case. I have'

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  • 1967 September 2 (Creation)

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1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

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(1915-1968)

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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: "Must answer you together as I can hardly keep up with mail in any case. I have Teo's letter"... Contents index: [to Teo Savory and Brilliant - see "Savory, Teo" file for hard copy] Merton's tape played by Ping Ferry with "Big Zulu piece" and the "Unending Description" / Albert Camus piece for Unicorn Journal could be on «The Stranger» (already wrote on «The Plague» / Victor Hammer's press / Merton translating Rene Char.

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  • English

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    from Thomas Merton to: Brilliant, Alan

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