The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Pickett, Barbara, d. 2010

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1959

Volume: 3 item(s); 5 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Barbara Pickett was a reference librarian at the Louisville Free Public Library in Kentucky. Merton contributes a piece to their staff newsletter, Staff Log, entitled, "My Visits to the Secular Bookhouse".

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Other Finding Aids

If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

Date	Type	To/From	First Lines	Notes
1959/11/21	TLS[x]	from Merton	Here is a little piece for your Staff Log. It is prose and I hope it is not too informal
1959/11/25	TLS[x]	from Merton	I have had two afterthoughts about the piece for the Staff Log: First- I would like to make
undated/no/no	other[x]		ME AND THE SECULAR BOOKHOUSE [-] The universe, say the ancient philosophers of the east,	[later appearing as "My Visits to the Secular Bookhouse"]

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