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- 1958 December 25 (date approximate) (Creation)
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1 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed greeting card.
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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: "This is a very late "Christmas" card to thank you for your kind letter and the Mass stipend which"... Contents index: ["Christmas Card 1958" - verso: "From a woodcut by Gerhard Marcks for the hand-press edition of Thomas Merton's 'The Tower of Babel,' printed for New Directions by R. von Sichowsky in Hamburg, Germany."].
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- English