xt7zpc2t7x2g https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7zpc2t7x2g/data/mets.xml Thomas Merton 1959-08-14 This letter is from collection 66m28 Thomas Merton letters to Clifford Shaw, 1959-1964. archival material 66m28 English Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Thomas Merton correspondence Letter from Thomas Merton to Clifford Shaw, August 14, 1959 text Letter from Thomas Merton to Clifford Shaw, August 14, 1959 1959 1959-08-14 2023 true xt7zpc2t7x2g section xt7zpc2t7x2g regarding card of iugust 14th, 1959 - by way
of exolanation:

Father Louis, I am sure would have had to
obtain permission to see me through the
channels at Gethsemani —

His reason for being at the library, I believe
at the time, was for research on religious
illustrations.

In regard to seeing me and 3 ‘: Mary Frances

Duane sometime, again I am L s -e would h;ive
sought the correct channels : Geths emani for
oermission. I had hoped to set some of his

ooems to music and Miss Duane has alwsys been
the first singer to sing my songs with me as, .
soon as they were in manuscript formkggyyﬁ%bﬁ’g

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OUR LADY OF GETHSEMANIXTRAPPIST, KENTUCKY

DeargCliff: Aug. 1114,1959

ecidely we are nothaving very much luck in getting together
out here. Yesterday was the one day I was absent, after a month.
.Lnd I don't 40111115 I will be away again for some time. ~four letter
came too late for me to reply by mail, and I could not find you
in the phone book. I even tried to get 1er Johnson at the
library to find your number from her but she Was away. Hence
there was just no way to tell you I would not be available.
I hope yo u. were not too much put out" at any rate you. came out t
the monastery and that is the important things. It was a pretty
warm day but driving; wasn't so bad. I hOpe you are well and
happy and that-everything is {:33in f:$.t1f you. a? no: Sigmu-

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