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US US-kylobm TMC-RG4-i-A-051-E1-#1
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Manuscript.
Date(s)
- 1961 (approximate) (Creation)
Extent
4 pages; 28 x 22 cm; Typescript with holograph corrections and additions
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: "About the time when the obscure hero of this biography was living out his short life as a Trappist,.."
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Languages of the material
- English