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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
King, Winston Lee, 1907-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968

Volume: 6 item(s); 6 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

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.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/03/16 TLSto MertonPlease accept my regrets for being unable to accompany Professor Armstrong and some of the Divinity   
 1967/03/23 TLSto MertonPerhaps this note is unnecessary in view of the one I have written to Brother Benedict. My friend   
 1967/11/02 (#01)TALSto MertonI presume that it is an invariable rule with you that you never leave Gethsemani except for urgent   
 1967/11/02 (#02)other <u>FIRST DRAFT - Schedule of Shibayama Roshi and Sumiko Kudo</u> [-] <u>Jan.</u> Sa 20   
 1967/11/16 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for letting me know about Shibayama Roshi's presence in Nashville next February.   
 1968/01/25 TALSto MertonThanks for your letter of November 16. Whether I qualify as a "Zen visitor" may be open to question   
        

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