xt7d251fnf06 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7d251fnf06/data/mets.xml  Thomas Merton 1965-03-24 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, March 24, 1965 text Letter from Thomas Merton to Victor Hammer, March 24, 1965 1965 1965-03-24 2023 true xt7d251fnf06 section xt7d251fnf06 Mar ch 9.1;, 10691

Dear Victor:

Thanks for your letter. I was glad to get it because I had been thinking
about you and wondering how you were. I am hannv to hear that things are going
better.

The note of Maritain is solendid and I am delighted that he sent it. vour
translation, as far as I can see, leaves nothing to be desired. Vou are
correct in your rendering of "roman" and you need have no misgivings about it.
I am returning Lexi's letter and the copy of the Maritain note.

I have been pretty busy, and have had the usual series of slight mishans,
trouble with an eye which was accidentally injured and so on. There is a fair

amount of 'flu about in the monastery and I seem to be getting a bit of it. Put
that is all quite usual at this time of year. Later, after i“aster, I am honing
that J. will be down.

Did I send you the notes on the eremitical life I nut out recentlv° I think
you might be interested. In any case, I enclose a cony3 as T have nlentv of them.
Naturally this is the kind of thing I am most interested in at present.

Carolyn sent the books and they arrived safely this morning: T am grateful

to her. And as for you, keep well and I hope you will progress quietly-with
your work. I keep you both in my prayers.

With my most cordial good wishes as always, in Christ,