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First lines: "1) Eglise de Ste. Marie du Désert.." Contents: Four photographs of the Abbey of Sainte-Marie-du-Désert in France (three interior and one interior shots), three images of Cassant (one holy card, one postcard, and one photo), and a card about retreats at the abbey..

First lines: "It is very cold in the novitiate. The unheated room is bare, forbidding. A few novices sit.." Contents: Dated "Feast of the Assumption, 1963.".

First lines: "1- Ne peux rien faire sans grace de Jesus 2- Ne desirer que Jesus pour obtenir devotion volonte.."

First lines: "Casseneuil- rivers - poplar trees - tile roofs - cypress trees.." Contents: Text mostly in English with some French. Verso contains early poems and typescript pages from «The Seven Storey Mountain». All poems and manuscripts on verso pages copied and separately added to the database..

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First lines: "About the time when the obscure hero of this biography was living out his short life as a Trappist,.."

First lines: "It is very cold in the novitiate. The room is bare, forbidding. A few novices sit at their desks,.." Contents: The later mimeograph copy dates that text as "Feast of the Assumption, 1963.".

First lines: "1- Ne peux rien faire sans grace de Jesus 2- Ne desirer que Jesus pour obtenir devotion volonte.."

Background information sent to Merton for his preface for the book «Attente dans le silence, L' : le père Marie-Joseph Cassant, O. Cist. S. O.». At head of title: Archidiocèse de Toulouse. Ordre des Cistercians de la Stricte Observance. Report signed by F.M. Bernardus Barbaroux, Postulator Generalis Ord. Cist. Ref.

Both copies of the preface are in English, but one was intended for translation and inclusion in the French edition and one was to remain in English for an American edition. The prefaces differ greatly. The American edition was published in Volume 28, No. 4 of «The Merton Seasonal».

Both copies of the preface are in English, but one was intended for translation and inclusion in the French edition and one was to remain in English for an American edition. The prefaces differ greatly. The American edition was published in Volume 28, No. 4 of «The Merton Seasonal».