xt77d795b69k https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt77d795b69k/data/mets.xml  Thomas Merton 1964-08-12 This letter is from collection 75m28 Thomas Merton papers. archival material 75m28 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Thomas Merton correspondence Letter from Thomas Merton to Victor Hammer, August 12, 1964 text Letter from Thomas Merton to Victor Hammer, August 12, 1964 1964 1964-08-12 2023 true xt77d795b69k section xt77d795b69k __l_
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ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI

TRAPPI ST. KENTUCKY

Purhaps your hernia opsration is all over by now. I hope so, anfi homo
that it has been succesful. May you have a good rest anfl rebounfl in nanny stronsth
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After that 1 will look forward to seeing you aufl Carolyn here some time soon.
T will be eager to hear when it may be nossible.

Your lettef_and tre letter from In exi reachefl me. ictual‘y, tho hook that
sent to Clyde nsnnarr- was a coov of your Earia fionbia, an' T Pnov kg qu
yery glad to have it. He mas then dying in a h ri pal in »Ticago, o? canccr.
53 ha: been ”framed” by tho Vississipni oolice or tryinp to rsnister at
miss. ntate "riversity, ano had bsnn nut onl a ct'_n :2 no an” verv tnfllv trra.od
tho gh he already ha? cancer. The storv as . huarfl itM ssimnly +Hat he hafi
b en very nlzaseo W1 the took anfl that it ham Fjvcn 1f: m some flow in 1”is
119 story is becoming a 1“it amo71t1rr n v. “ut still,

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brought something m aningful into a tragic life, .7‘1011 1o01-91721" was full
of meaning because of ois 01m doflication.

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1 hour that acques Maritain contlnuss in good Esalth, and T am dlafl 01
it. I have not heard From him for some ttno.

Please let me 1:noxrwnen you will be re ‘1. enouch to come over. T think
;'ou must he": rcceiv51.t1e letter in Mhich T sugrcstcn a tow rossi‘le Fates.

ill b;st wishcs to yo 1 anr ‘1rolyn BUC- many r‘lcs531711928.

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