| Author Quoted | James Legge |
| Title Quoted | Chinese classics |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1962/06/07 |
| Imprint | [Hong Kong] : Hong Kong University Press. 1960 |
| Quotation | Paul Sih has obtained for me a wonderful reprint of the Legge translation of the Chinese Classics, and has also sent the Wang Yang Ming. I am awed and delighted with the great volumes of the Classics. I do not intend to read them lightly however, they are waiting until other things can be cleared away. But I must admit I have done absolutely no work at all on Chinese, because I find that I simply waste too much time fumbling around in the dictionary and so little is done that it does not make sense to continue until sometime in the future when I can get some instruction. So it will all have to wait a bit. |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 622 |
| Letter to | John C.H. Wu |
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| Link to Merton's Copy |
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