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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-150-#06
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1970-12-10, TLS Burdick to Center from Burdick, Jeanne, 'As a response to your letter of October 5th concerning correspondence between Thomas'
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- 1970 December 1 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Typed signed letter.
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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.
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First lines: "As a response to your letter of October 5th concerning correspondence between Thomas Merton"...
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- English
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to Merton Center from: Burdick, Jeanne