xt7v416t234c https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dipstest/xt7v416t234c/data/mets.xml  Thomas Merton 1958-08-22 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 Boris Pasternak, August 22, 1958 text Letter from Thomas Merton to Boris Pasternak, August 22, 1958 1958 1958-08-22 2023 true xt7v416t234c section xt7v416t234c ..‘bbey ca;
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of him? .1101: of course I find. very interesting. shat 1511111111 tne i11e11171oets? ire there
.e :01’111 ones? ”111-7171 do you recon mm '1‘ ' 1:110" 0:1 1;1e 171.211?va fine posts there
ve been in Latin Emerica? 1'. am 11:2 rt1c11l'21717/ .'1'1‘0175'1 o1? o r11'e1l '10 poet of Brazil,
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1;; 1.10.11" esternslc, it is a joy to trite to you and to therl: you. for your fine
poetry :2r.:1' ; '.'1r rfre at prose. .1. voice like yours is of great importan‘c for all mankind
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' realize to the full 11131.1 i111 ort'mt and how "-'reat you are for 9115813. and

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hope 1111 "eli also may have the chance to enter upon a di'2lo;='o that will really
lead to peace $11111 to :2. frxiti‘ul are for 117111. and 111‘: world. 1310.11 ocace 'm-ci 1"r11itful-
n es are spiritual realities to '11'1'1iehyou 4-1. 'eady have access, t others do not.

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 {Chese are "the realities Unieh are i. tenant. In the presence of those

deeper things, and in Witness of them, ; clasp 'ymir hand in deep .Erlet1:_iship
and oflruration. You are in my prayers and I be; Cod "to bless vou.

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