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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
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The Seven Storey Mountain Editions and Translations: English language (1948) Harcourt Brace, First Edition Black Cloth
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1965-03-09: Letter from Thomas Merton to Robert D. Crane (with handwritten annotations by Crane)
Robert D. Crane was a Research Associate with the Center for Strategic Studies and was later with the Hudson Institute for National Security and International Order in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. He was involved in Republican Party functions and conservative-leaning think-tanks on national and international security and outer space security. He was a chief advisor to Richard Nixon from 1962-1967. In 1980, he converted to Islam and took the name Farooq Abdul Haq. -
The Rosary and Its Mysteries (October): a section from "The Liturgical Year" by Thomas Merton, conference notes for novices at Gethsemani Abbey
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Blessed Beatrice, Prioress of Nazareth [Abbey], Lierre, Belgium (pages 239-243, from Modern biographical sketches of Cistercian Blessed and Saints, Book IV, by a Monk of Gethsemani Abbey [Thomas Merton])
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1962-08-09: Letter from Thomas Merton to Shinzo Hamai, Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan
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1967-04-05 #2: Book flap for The Virtue of Sex by José de Vinck (second printing) with a blurb by Thomas Merton on the back cover. Sent by de Vinck to Merton with a letter of 4 May 1967.
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Solemn vows as a monk of Gethsemani Abbey sworn in writing on parchment by Thomas Merton (Br. M. Louis, O.C.S.O.), on March 19, 1947.
Translation from Latin to English: "I, brother Mary Louis Merton, an acolyte, professed in temporary vows, vow my stability, conversion of morals, and obedience according to the Rule of Saint Benedict and the Abbot, before God and all His saints whose relics are here, in this place, which is called Blessed Mary of Gethsemani, of the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance, built in honor of the Most Blessed Mother of God and Ever Virgin Mary, in the presence of the Reverend Mary Frederick Dunne, Abbot of this monastery. Brother Mary Louis Merton, O.C.S.O. March 19, 1947+" -
Finding Aid for Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Shipps, Howard Fenimore"
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1967-04-29: Letter from Thomas Merton to Dorothy Dohen
Merton sends an "anti-poem about the bomb" (likely "Original Child Bomb") and a copy of his book Mystics and Zen Masters, especially thinking Dohen would appreciate his essay "From Pilgrimage to Crusade." -
1967-04-08: Letter from Thomas Merton to Dorothy Dohen
Merton mentions that Archbishop Helder Câmara stated Dohen's book to be "prophetic."