For For readers interested in Merton's friendship with Victor and Carolyn Hammer; a specialist's volume of letters, not a first book.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
1 of 5light
His letters with the printer and artist Victor Hammer and Carolyn Hammer of Lexington.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological2 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The correspondence of Merton with the Lexington artist and hand-printer Victor Hammer and his wife Carolyn, whose Stamperia del Santuccio printed several of his works, including Hagia Sophia. Published by the University Press of Kentucky in 2014, edited by F. Douglas Scutchfield and Paul Evans Holbrook.
