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- 1973 December 4 (Création/Production)
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1 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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Notice biographique
Fr. Paul Bourne was the head censor (now called "reader") of the Cistercian Order and needed to approve of Merton's writings before he received the «Imprimi Potest», or permission to publish, from his Order and the Church. He was more considerably more friendly with Merton and more lenient of his works than other censors. Fr. Paul was at Our Lady of the Holy Ghost Abbey (now called the Monastery of the Holy Spirit) in Conyers, Georgia. (Source: «The School of Charity», p. 168.)
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First lines: "As a Trappist monk of ancient vintage with no place to store things I never saved any correspondence"... Contents index: did not retain any of Merton's correspondence but offers to donate Merton's autographed and annotated copy of the 1929 edition of «The Confessions of St. Augustine».
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- anglais