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US US-kylobm TMC-1b-B-084-#34
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Title
1965-12-13, HLS to Merton, 'Many thanks for your letter and for your cheque, which I much appreciate. It helps'
Date(s)
- 1965 December 13 (Creation)
Extent
2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
Name of creator
(1901-1990)
Biographical history
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Serge Bolshakoff received a doctorate in philosophy from Christ Church, Oxford. In his travels to churches and monasteries in promotion of Christian unity, he became acquainted with such notables as Pope John XXIII, Patriarch Athenagoras, Archbishop Temple of Canterbury, as well as the Abbot General of the Cistercians, Dom Gabriel Sortais (see "Sortais, Gabriel" and "Fox, James" files).
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First lines: "Many thanks for your letter and for your cheque, which I much appreciate. It helps me a good deal"...
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Languages of the material
- English