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OUR LADY OF GETHSEMANI
TRAPPIST,KENTUCKY

March 20,1958

Dear Dr Thompson:

Many thanks for your letter of the other day, and for the books which Mrs
Hammer has sent me. I can not tell you how grateful I am for the chance to borrow
such useful books from your library. I am sending three of them back today, and will
soon be applying for more: The new Arciniegas book on Latin America is particular-
ly good. I understand you have aparticular interest in that field. I am studying it
from various angles. Do you know that the complete poems of Neruda have been pub—
lished recently in Buenos Aires? I hope to get the volume from New Directions
as I will try, if time permits, to do a study af Neruda and perhaps translate some
of his verse. That is all very tentative. Another particular interest of mine is
Jorge de Lima, the Brazilian poet who, I think, is very fine.

I notice your volume Let us Praise Famous Men (in many ways remarkable ,) is
marked nBrowsing room" I flaking special effofis to finish it quickly and get
it back.

Younmay have had difficulty identifying the galley proofs I sent in the pile
of material with Mrs Hammer. They are proofs of my new book, Thoughts in Solitude.
I am completing the gift with the proofs of the front matter, which I enclose.

I am very happy about the printing job—- Prometheus. I look forward to seeing
how it o omcs out. Soon also I hope to be able to send you a limited hand-printed
edition of the Tower of Babel printed in Germany with woodcuts by Gerhardt Marcks.
I am assuming tmill send me anrextra copyt

Remember you are always welcome here. Just tell the Brother at the gate that
I am expecting you, if you drop by. Father Abbot has long since given his permission-
or perhaps sometime you would like to Come over withthe Hamers. I will be sending
along some other foreign editions soon.

With very best regards to all of you,

 

Sincerely yours in Christ

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