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- 1963 November 13 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed) with holograph annotations.
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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: "Forgive my long delay, perhaps no longer than usual, but I have been in the hospital, so I have some"... Contents index: Merton's praise of the Ida Görres Diaries sent by Burns - Görres' response to «Sign of Jonas» / Görres' book on St. Thérèse of Lisieux / Görres' statement on the "ultra ultra Catholic mind, that tight, closed, prim, infallible, authoritarian, and highly aggressive mind" - death of Diem and Nhu.
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- English