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Nancy Wilson Ross was a novelist and essayist writing for both adults and juveniles, and writing about relationships and spiritual journeys. She had a long interest in eastern religions and wrote some popular introductions to Buddhism and Zen. She was born in Olympia, Washington, but spent the later part of her life in New York. (Source: "Ross, Nancy Wilson." Biography from World Authors 1900-1950. 1996. Wilson Biographies Plus. Online. H.W. Wilson. Bellarmine University Library, Louisville, KY. 28 Feb. 2006. ‹http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com›.)
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1967/05/06 |
TL[x] to Brown, Francis |
Dear Brownie: If you've not yet assigned Thomas Merton's MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS could I have a go |
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1967/06/27 |
TLS[x] from Giroux, Robert |
The review in next Sunday's Times is magnificent, and I am so grateful to you for your |
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1967/08/27 |
TLS to Merton |
Lionel Landry of the Asia Society has been good enough to send on the reprints you kindly sent |
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1967/10/14 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Today, reading and enjoying your article in the "Authors' Guild Bulletin", I was reminded that |
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1967/11/29 |
TLS[x] from Landry, Lionel |
Tom Merton has jumped from the China of Hui Neng smack into Yucatan and Oaxaca, as the enclosed will |
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1967/12/18 |
HCS to Merton |
I owe you a letter and I shall write it early in the new year. I'm so interested in your piece |
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[verso: "Snowy Lanscape in Moonlight with Man on Bridge attributed to Kano Motonobu or Soami"] "Mystic Rites of the Oglalla Sioux"
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1984/02/10 |
TLS[x] from Keating, Thomas |
At our annual board meeting in early January we created a small committee to supervise |
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[letterhead of the "Thomas Merton Memorial Fund for East-West Dialog" - Fr. Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. was the chairman]
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undated/no/no (#01) |
HNS[x] from Merton |
best wishes [-] T Merton |
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[Merton's inscription on his essay "Day of a Stranger"]
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undated/no/no (#02) |
HNS[x] from Merton |
This is just the nucleus of a much larger (now) collection. |
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[Merton's note on a mimeograph of his "Edifying Cables" of September 1966]
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undated/no/no (#03) |
HNS[x] from Merton |
for Nancy Wilson Ross with warm regards and gratitude for your kind words - best wishes always T |
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[Merton's inscription on his foreword to the book Marcel and Buddha: A Metaphysics of Enlightenment by Sally Donnelly]
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undated/no/no (#04) |
TN[x] |
"Telephane" is correct. The poem is mostly about, I guess, the first airplane big trip he ever made, |
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[note on a section of The Geography of Lograire]
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