xt759z90cn6z https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt759z90cn6z/data/mets.xml  Thomas Merton 1955-09-26 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 Dr. Lawrence Thompson, September 26, 1955 text Letter from Thomas Merton to Dr. Lawrence Thompson, September 26, 1955 1955 1955-09-26 2023 true xt759z90cn6z section xt759z90cn6z jhs

OUR‘LADY OF GETHSEMANI
TRAPPIST, KENTUCKY

Sept 26.1955

Dear Dr Thompson-

For a long tire I have been trying to clean out the
files here, and dispose of the accumulated letters.
This file on New Directions is too good to burn, and
I have been hunting around for James Laughlin to get
his permission to send them to you. He has been all
over the place-w India, Persia and so forth, and having
finally returned has allowed me to send you the letters.
I hope you will be interested in them. They are all that
I have, the earlier New Directions file was lost or dos-
troyed or something, I can't remember. This batch
covers mostly the period in which Bread in the Wilderness
was going through the most incredible hazards.

Even better, though, are a few letters from nv friend
Bob Lax who is a wonderful person azxi wiose letters are
historic though incomprehensible to most peOple who do
not know him. Also a fewpictures of his friends in
Marseilles. I think they are all too good to lie
around here and get lost. The Lax file, alas too few, is
in an envelope.

With all best wishes-- God bless you

f M L 0W

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