| Author Quoted | Jean Leclercq o.s.b. | 
		
			| Title Quoted | Otia Monastica: Etudes sur le vocabulaire de la contemplation au Moyen âge | 
		
			| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/10/22 | 
		
			| Imprint | Rom : Herder. 1963 | 
		
			| Quotation | Your Otia came yesterday and I began it immediately. It is just what I am looking for. A splendid book. | 
		
			| Quotation Source | The School of Charity: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Renewal and Spiritual Direction.; Selected and edited by Brother Patrick Hart. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1990, p. 247 | 
		
			| Letter to | Dom Jean Leclercq, o.s.b. | 
		
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