1962-11-15, TALS to Merton, 'It is quite impossible for me to tell you how much your letter of November 8th meant'

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1962-11-15, TALS to Merton, 'It is quite impossible for me to tell you how much your letter of November 8th meant'

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  • 1962 November 15 (Creation)

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2 page(s); Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.

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(1917-1994)

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Professor Herbert Burke was teaching English at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

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First lines: "It is quite impossible for me to tell you how much your letter of November 8th meant to me, and"... Contents index: Meditation on Father Delp / permission to reprint "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion" in student quarterly - Ixion / «Peace in the Post Christian Era» / Jim Douglass and Dorothy Day / the Cuban crisis.

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    to Thomas Merton from: Burke, Herbert Caryl

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