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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-156-#08
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1966-08-22, HLS to Merton, 'Your feast day will soon be here and I want to wish you a happy one. A little'
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- 1966 August 22 (Creation)
Extent
2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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Biographical history
Ethel Burns was writing from New York and seemed to be familiar with some of Merton's Columbia University acquaintances, including Mark Van Doren, whom she mentions seeing on a TV interview in which he spoke of Merton.
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First lines: "Your feast day will soon be here and I want to wish you a happy one. A little offering is enclosed,"...
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- English
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from Thomas Merton to: Burns, Ethel M.