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Date [Source / Page]
Author Quoted
Title Quoted
Quotation by Merton
[link to full quote]
1964/01/00
[
Ltrs: CforT p. 281
]
Walker Percy
Moviegoer
There is no easy way to thank you for your book. Not only are the good words about books all used up and ruine..
1967/07/20
[
Ltrs: CforT p. 282-83
]
Janheinz Jahn
Muntu: African Culture and Western World
It is good news to hear you can perhaps use Bantu philosophy in your new book, which sounds like a very good i..
1967/07/20
[
Ltrs: CforT p. 282-83
]
Placide Tempels
philosophie bantou
It is good news to hear you can perhaps use Bantu philosophy in your new book, which sounds like a very good i..
1967/08/24
[
Ltrs: CforT p. 283
]
Bengt Sundkler
Bantu Prophets in South Africa
You are much in my thoughts as I continue my explorations of Bantu ideas. I have on interlibrary loan an essen..
Abbreviations ▲
Source of Merton's Quotation and Citation
Ltrs: CforT
The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.
Ltrs: Giroux
Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton.
Ltrs: Hammer
The Letters of Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.
Ltrs: HGL
The Hidden Ground of Love.
Ltrs: Laughlin
Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.
Ltrs: Leclercq
Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Merton and Jean Leclercq.
Ltrs: RtoJ
The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.
Ltrs: Ruether
Letters of Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Ltrs: SofC
The School of Charity. Letters on Religious Renewal.
Ltrs: WtoF
Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Merton in Times of Crisis.