Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Chatterji, N." file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1965/October/29 

Series:    

Type:  TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

To/From:  from Merton to "Chatterji, N."-->

# of pages:  2

Published in:  Witness to Freedom

First Lines:  "Thanks for your kind letter in which you ask for my personal reaction to Rabindranath Tagore."

Contents:  appreciation of Tagore by Merton's father and mother (Owen Merton and Ruth Merton) / Merton mostly knows from plays by Shaw and Ibsen - has book of his translations of Kabir - "admire[s] his ideas" but thinks he "is dated in some ways" / admires two other Indians more - Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy

Language:  English

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Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Chatterji, N.:"    1965/October/29