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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Thompson, Lawrence S.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1951-1963

Volume: 9 item(s); 10 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Lawrence S. Thompson was Director of the University of Kentucky Libraries at the time of correspondence with Thomas Merton. Merton sent gifts of his manuscripts and other papers for the university's Special Collections and Archives.

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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1951/02/24 TLS[x]from MertonForgive this long delay in answering your kind letter. If you know anything about Gethsemani you   
 1951/03/06 TLS[x]from MertonMany thanks for your kind loan of the books. I am hugely enjoying Mayor Garner, also Bluegrass   
 1956/07/no? HLS[x]from Merton+Many thanks for your last letter - I hope you will indeed come down here to the Abbey for a weekend   
 1961/10/11 TLS[x]from MertonThere is really no serious objection to a <u>discrete</u> use of the material in exhibition   
 1963/04/12 HLS[x]from MertonWhen I discovered that I had been awarded an honorary LLD by the university, I decided it was   
 1963/05/09 HLS[x]from MertonI am very sorry to have missed you the other day. I was taking a day of retreat in the woods   
 undated/no/no (#01)TLS[x]from MertonForgive the three messy packages of worksheets and letters and what not I have sent you.   
 undated/no/no (#02)TLS[x] from Pound, Dorothy / to Almoner of GethsemaniCan you inform me of the conditions on which your excellent cheeses are deliverable? weight, price  [from the wife of Ezra Pound, postmarked Washington, D.C., possibly during Pound's institutionalization at St. Elizabeths hospital, 1945-1958]
 undated/no/no (#03)TNS[x] from Br. Brendan to MertonWe were stationed near Carthage a long time and Saint Louis became very much more real.  [contains a note from Br. Brendan to Gethsemani's Prior recommending that the Pound letter be forwarded to Merton and a note from Br. Brendan to Merton wishing him a happy Feast of St. Louis]
        

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