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Merton's Correspondence with:

Lawrence S. Thompson, Lawrence Thompson

Thompson, Lawrence S.  printer

 
 

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1951-1963
Volume: 9 item(s); 10 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Thompson, Lawrence S.".

Biography

Lawrence S. Thompson was Director of the University of Kentucky Libraries at the time of correspondence with Thomas Merton. Merton sent gifts of his manuscripts and other papers for the university's Special Collections and Archives.

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#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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1. 1951/02/24 TLS[x] from Merton Forgive this long delay in answering your kind letter. If you know anything about Gethsemani you «detailed view»
2. 1951/03/06 TLS[x] from Merton Many thanks for your kind loan of the books. I am hugely enjoying Mayor Garner, also Bluegrass «detailed view»
3. 1956/07/no? HLS[x] from Merton +Many thanks for your last letter - I hope you will indeed come down here to the Abbey for a weekend «detailed view»
4. 1961/10/11 TLS[x] from Merton There is really no serious objection to a discrete use of the material in exhibition «detailed view»
5. 1963/04/12 HLS[x] from Merton When I discovered that I had been awarded an honorary LLD by the university, I decided it was «detailed view»
6. 1963/05/09 HLS[x] from Merton I am very sorry to have missed you the other day. I was taking a day of retreat in the woods «detailed view»
7. undated/no/no (#01) TLS[x] from Merton Forgive the three messy packages of worksheets and letters and what not I have sent you. «detailed view»
8. undated/no/no (#02) TLS[x]  from Pound, Dorothy / to Almoner of Gethsemani Can you inform me of the conditions on which your excellent cheeses are deliverable? weight, price [from the wife of Ezra Pound, postmarked Washington, D.C., possibly during Pound's institutionalization at St. Elizabeths hospital, 1945-1958] «detailed view»
9. undated/no/no (#03) TNS[x]  from Br. Brendan to Merton We were stationed near Carthage a long time and Saint Louis became very much more real. [contains a note from Br. Brendan to Gethsemani's Prior recommending that the Pound letter be forwarded to Merton and a note from Br. Brendan to Merton wishing him a happy Feast of St. Louis] «detailed view»

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