1962-02-20, HLS to Merton, 'Thank you very much for your kind and generous letter and its contents. We read'

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1962-02-20, HLS to Merton, 'Thank you very much for your kind and generous letter and its contents. We read'

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  • 1962 February 2 (Creation)

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2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.

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(1921-1994)

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Fr. Colman Barry is writing as Editor of the «American Benedictine Review» (American Benedictine Academy) and involved with the Liturgical Press at Collegeville, Minnesota. He was later to be president of St. John's University.

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First lines: "Thank you very much for your kind and generous letter and its contents. We read thru all the"... Contents index: running 2 of Merton's articles "Target" and "A Christian Approach" / censors / Dr. Sylvester Theisen - reader's comment on Merton's article / suggests a spiritual title rather than on nuclear war for «Benedictine Studies» / Merton's notes to novices / would like an American, rather than European, commentary on monastic life.

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