The road to joy
Subtitle: the letters of Thomas Merton to new and old friends
By: selected and edited by Robert E. Daggy.
Contributors: Daggy, Robert E.
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 -- Correspondence.; Trappists -- United States -- Correspondence.
Description: The second volume of Thomas Merton's letters is devoted to his correspondence with friends -- relatives and family friends, longtime friends, special friends, young people he regarded as new friends, and circular letters addressed to groups of friends. They range from 1931, ten years before he became a monk, to 1968, the year in which he died at a monastic conference in Thailand.