|
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "King, Winston Lee".
Winston L. King was a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He and Merton discuss Zen and the visit of Shibayama Roshi to Nashville.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
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.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
| | y/m/d | Merton | | Scan ✉ | |
| 1. |
1967/03/16 |
TLS to Merton |
Please accept my regrets for being unable to accompany Professor Armstrong and some of the Divinity |
|
«detailed view» |
| 2. |
1967/03/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Perhaps this note is unnecessary in view of the one I have written to Brother Benedict. My friend |
|
«detailed view» |
| 3. |
1967/11/02 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
I presume that it is an invariable rule with you that you never leave Gethsemani except for urgent |
|
«detailed view» |
| 4. |
1967/11/02 (#02) |
other |
FIRST DRAFT - Schedule of Shibayama Roshi and Sumiko Kudo [-] Jan. Sa 20 |
|
«detailed view» |
| 5. |
1967/11/16 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for letting me know about Shibayama Roshi's presence in Nashville next February. |
|
«detailed view» |
| 6. |
1968/01/25 |
TALS to Merton |
Thanks for your letter of November 16. Whether I qualify as a "Zen visitor" may be open to question |
|
«detailed view» |
|
|