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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-163-#01
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1967-06-15, TALS Butorovich to Merton, 'Sorry for the first mistake but I'm a pretty rotten typist but my penmanship is'
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- 1967 June 15 (Creation)
Extent
4 page(s); Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.
Name of creator
(1950-)
Biographical history
Suzanne Butorovich was a high school student from Campbell, California. This is one of the longest know series of correspondence he had with a young person. Merton had dinner with her and her family while visiting California on October 3, 1968.
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First lines: "Sorry for the first mistake but I'm a pretty rotten typist but my penmanship is worst so good luck!"... Contents index: quotes Benjamin Franklin on politics and religion / asks Merton about his thoughts on drugs and the hippy movement / Bob Dylan / asks Merton for submissions to her underground newspaper, «Clique Courier» / her backstage passes to the Monterey International Pop Music Festival / Paul McCartney and the Beatles.
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Butorovich, Suzanne