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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-163-#15
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1967-12-09 (#02), TALS[x] Butorovich from Merton, 'Sorry for the long delay. I've been very busy. Just had a wonderful time with'
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- 1967 December 9 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Xerox copy of a typed signed letter with holograph annotations.
Name of creator
(1915-1968)
Biographical history
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: "Sorry for the long delay. I've been very busy. Just had a wonderful time with fifteen cloistered"... Contents index: meeting with fifteen cloistered nuns at Gethsemani / encourages Butorovich to go to school in England, but mentions the tough matriculation (handwritten unpublished note states that his information "is probably completely «obsolete»") / Merton does not know whether he can "put Zen on tape" for her and the nuns.
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- English
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Copy from Hickey, Regis F., O.S.B..
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Road to Joy
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to Thomas Merton from: Butorovich, Suzanne