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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Ricardi, Kenneth James".
Kenneth James Ricardi was a senior at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He asks about books that had influenced Merton. Besides ones that had influenced Merton in his youth that are listed in The Seven Storey Mountain, he mentions that he has more recently been influenced by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Stride Toward Freedom.
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1968/02/29 |
HLS to Merton |
I am a senior in a small, Catholic liberal arts college in Massachusetts. I have had enough contact |
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1968/04/10 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Sorry for the delay in answering your letter. I get so many requests, questions etc that half |
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