xt779c6s2042 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt779c6s2042/data/mets.xml  Thomas Merton 1960-12-07 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 Victor Hammer, December 7, 1960 text Letter from Thomas Merton to Victor Hammer, December 7, 1960 1960 1960-12-07 2023 true xt779c6s2042 section xt779c6s2042 _+_.
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ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI

TRAPPI ST, KENTUCKY

Dec. 7, 1960

Dear Victor:

Your good letter just arrived. I think the chests are a good idea. I
shall certainly need two. But as the problem of chairs is solving itself, I
think we do not need the chests to go exactly with the table. Hence we can
make them less long, and deeper. I like your design very much. But I think
we need chests about three quarters the length shown, at most, and wider and
deeper. Two such chests. I am thinking of places where they could be against
the wall. xx Redwood, of course. I definitely want these and hope David
Rowland will be able and willing to go ahead with them when he has finished
the table and he could bring them all over together, that would be fine.
We can check on measurements meanwhile. I will take whatever suggestions you
offer in the matter of measurements and will look at the house and see how
they fit the places I have in mind, then send any modifications.

Does David want to try his hand or not at some of the things Ix suggested
in the Pine Furniture book? There he will find the stools that seem to me to
be ideal, I really want several like the stool I mentioned in the letter.

And the little Shaker desk would be simple and nice.
One thing I will also need is a cupboard. I forget if I picked oneout of the
book. But that will not be urgent.

Chairs: I have already managed to get one or two nice simple chairs which
obviously come from some farms back in the hills. And there is a novice at Loretto
who is quite good at revamping pieces of furniture and she has promised to
fix up eight more chairs for me. So I think I need not worry any longer about
chairs. One of those I picked up is a rocking chair so that my grandfatherly days
of retirement can begin at once. I do not feel there should be any further delay.

Could I ask you to send just one more hnx broadside to Frank dell Isola?

His new address is th East 20th st. New York 9. I think I ought really to send him
this because I am going to have to write him a letter explaining why I cannot and do
not send him the Sol. Life. The broadside ought to waif help satisfy him to some
extent though Really there is no season why I should be satisfyinghis needs

either. Though he has been a very careful bibliographer, but that does not mean
that I am obligated to furnish him forever with an inexhaustible supply of rare
books.

May I put down two or three more titles which I would be very happy to have
from the library? They are on a separate sheet which you can give to Carolyn.
That will be more convenient.

Let us soon think of a time when we can get together in January. Planning
for that month means skirting around the annual retreat ( 18th to 25th) and
a possible visit of the Abbot General who, however, may not come until February.

With every best wish and blessing to you both,

Cordially in Christ

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