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Name and location of repository
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Title
Date(s)
- 1961-1962, 1970 (Creation)
Extent
1 folder, 6 items, 9 pages
Name of creator
Biographical history
Jeanne Burdick was working in physical medicine and rehabilitation at a veterans' hospital in Topeka, Kansas. Her agnosticism had left her feeling empty but had trouble accepting religious and mystical thought and asks Merton for help in explaining his religious experience.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burdick, Jeanne".
System of arrangement
Records are arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
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Conditions governing access
Regulations governing use of the collection can be found here: (‹https://bellarmine.libraryhost.com/index.php/rules›).
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Conditions governing reproduction
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Finding aids
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Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
See also Cold War Letters #15 (see also «Seeds of Destruction», "Letters in a Time of Crisis" #7) and another letter, published in «The Hidden Ground of Love» (‹https://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A26858207›), pp.108-110.