1964-10-12: Letter from Thomas Merton to Chris McNair

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' ...