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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Nobel Institute

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1966

Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Thomas Merton writes to the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Norway, to nominate the Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhât Hanh, for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Biography

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Nhât Hanh, Thich" file; see also one published letter from Merton to the Nobel Institute in Witness to Freedom, p. 115.

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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.
   

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1966/06/27 (#01)TL[d]from MertonI am sending you this letter and the accompanying statement in order to support the proposals   
 1966/06/27 (#02)TL[c]from MertonI am sending you this letter and the accompanying statement in order to support the proposals   
 1966/06/27 (#03)other[c]from MertonNHAT NANH [sic] IS MY BROTHER [-] A Statement by Thomas Merton [-] This is not a political statement  [copy of Merton's essay "Nhat Hanh Is My Brother"]
        

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