1964-10-12: Letter from Thomas Merton to Chris McNair
Item
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Title
1964-10-12: Letter from Thomas Merton to Chris McNair
Description
Thomas Merton writes his condolences and sends his poem "Picture of a Black Child with a White Doll" to the father of Carol Denise McNair, one of the girls killed in the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Merton references, in the letter and his poem, the photographs by Chris McNair of his daughter published in LOOK magazine, March 24, 1964, pages 23-25.
Creator
Thomas Merton See all items with this value
Date
1964 October 12 See all items with this value
Identifier
Thomas Merton Center Collection; Section A (Correspondence); McNair, Chris; 1964/10/12.
Language
English See all items with this value
Publisher
See also one published letter from Merton to McNair in The Road to Joy, pp. 332-333.
Rights
© The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. All rights reserved.
Subject
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968--Correspondence See all items with this value
First Lines
First line: 'This is not exactly an easy letter to write. There is so much to say, and there are no words' ...