Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Carson, Rachel Louise, 1907-1964" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1963/January/12 (#01)

Series:    

Type:  TL[c] - Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).

To/From:  from Merton to "Carson, Rachel Louise, 1907-1964"-->

# of pages:  2

Published in:  Witness to Freedom

First Lines:  "Ann Ford very kindly sent me your latest book, SILENT SPRING, which I am reading carefully"

Contents:  [handwritten note: "APPENDIX to COLD WAR LETTERS"] environmental destruction / "with my friends Erich Fromm and D.T. Suzuki, I have been absorbed in the idea of the mystical and poetic expression of the doctrine of the 'fall' of man and original sin" / atomic age / Merton's "own follies with DDT" that he's renounced

Language:  English

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Date received:  

Date added:  2004

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Carson, Rachel Louise, 1907-1964:"    1963/January/12 (#01)