1950-05-23, TLS to Merton, 'Yesterday Father Abbot asked me to get in touch with you and ask your advice about'

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US US-kylobm 1-B-045-#1

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Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University

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1950-05-23, TLS to Merton, 'Yesterday Father Abbot asked me to get in touch with you and ask your advice about'

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  • 1950 May 23 (Creation)

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1 page(s); Typed signed letter.

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Benedict, Fr., O.C.S.O.

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Fr. Benedict is a Trappist monk from the Abbey of Our Lady of New Melleray in Dubuque, Iowa.

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First lines: "Yesterday Father Abbot asked me to get in touch with you and ask your advice about our centennial"... Contents index: New Melleray centennial history / executives from the Thomas More Bookshop in Chicago advised having a "name" author write the history / many authors who refused - asking Merton to accept or suggest another / Abbot wants it patterned on Fr. Ailbe J. Luddy's «Story of Mount Melleray».

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