xt73bk16q95g https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dipstest/xt73bk16q95g/data/mets.xml  Thomas Merton 1958-11-06 This letter is from collection 75m28 Thomas Merton papers. archival material 75m28 English  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Thomas Merton correspondence Letter from Thomas Merton to Dr Lawrence Thompson, November 6, 1958 text Letter from Thomas Merton to Dr Lawrence Thompson, November 6, 1958 1958 1958-11-06 2023 true xt73bk16q95g section xt73bk16q95g jhs

O U R IIA D Y O F G E T H S E M A N'I
T R A P P IS T, K.E N'T U C K Y

Dear Dr Thompson:

Thank you for your two recent letters,e
with which ymx are handling the monn_s oript material of mine U
you have there. I pprnciate your consulting me about cor ies.
no reason why the Notre Dame people shov.d not have copies if they
want them. lt sounds perfectly all right.

Ta king about ms material I am.sending yen rowgh drafts of a
letter I wrote to the head of the Union of SOViet Eriters about
the Pasternak aII air. 1 thowght I might H8 well register a good
1rotes t, bU.t as the draft shows ' L'.n, ‘* down in the hope of
getting it across more e ‘fect: hone that in some way
the Vonnger generation of writers :in t11e US 93 may he inflnenced
3v this, and I ‘m sore the affair has a great meaning to them.That
is why Pasternak had to refuse the Nobel Jriie.

iasternak‘s adc1ress is Pelflelkino, thronfh Bekovka, hoaeow.
But I have ceased to sommunicate Mith him for the time being
bee..us 1 I Ieel that too many letters from the west might cause
his situation to become more ewbarassin" Perhe s it trifle be a good
idea to wait a l ttle. 1y last letter to hi m was CC to b1nr 73rd and

expecting a reply. Z IJill let yon kno; if 1 thinr the

ole ar ng a little.

me me Hateriai Iron Ulon Daator sonnds LILLIIIcht It
be wonderful to know the langnage they were xmx written in and
to stu y the monastic books you have. I an a? aid that is too
far afield for me, but I hope some day I may Iav3 an opportunity to
see them somehow. “ Ihadiheard about the interesting new article
on the Bering sea that so sudlenly a_3earr" in the Great govie
Encycloiedia. Hon like Orwell, isn’t it? To the letter:
As ever, with very besttiishes—

Faithfully yours in Christ

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