This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Pickett, Barbara".
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".
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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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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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 |
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«detailed view» |
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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 |
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«detailed view» |
3. |
undated/no/no |
other[x] |
ME AND THE SECULAR BOOKHOUSE [-] The universe, say the ancient philosophers of the east, |
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[later appearing as "My Visits to the Secular Bookhouse"]
«detailed view» |
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