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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Glover, Thomas (also, Tommy or Br. Joshua, O.C.S.O.)

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964

Volume: 4 item(s); 9 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Merton asks Tommy Glover for some advice in finding a composer for his "Freedom Songs" written for Robert Williams.

Biography

Tommy Glover was a former monk of Gethsemani Abbey, known as Br. Joshua, and one of the few African Americans at the monastery.

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Williams, Robert" and the "Schachter, Zalman" files (Glover mentioned in a letter to Schachter of 1961/December/15).

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Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1960/10/no other[x] THE JAZZ MUSICIAN WHO BECAME A MONK by Marc Crawford [-] Forty-year-old Trappist Monk, Brother Josue  [<u>Ebony</u> magazine (Vol. 15, Issue 12, p. 35-42) article on Glover with 6 black and white photographs]
 1964/08/16 TAL[c]from MertonIt has been good to get news from you indirectly here and there. But direct communication is better   
 1964/08/27 (#01)TALSto MertonGreetings b'shem Yeshua! Both the letter and package arrived, and you can bet I am glad to have   
 1964/08/27 (#02)other <u>LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING</u> [-] Lift ev'ry voice and sing [-] Till earth and heaven ring  [enclosed with 1964/08/27 letter]
        

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