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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-A-013-#08
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1952-08-19, TLS to Merton, 'No, your ms. is not lost. It arrived here yesterday, forwarded from Glockner.'
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- 1952 August 19 (Creation)
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2 page(s); Typed signed letter.
Name of creator
(1915-1995)
Biographical history
Fr. Barnabas Ahern was a Passionist priest involved in a new Catholic Bible translation effort. He offered Merton advice on biblical instruction, instruction of novices, and reviewed Merton's early manuscripts and books. See the following link for more information on Fr. Ahern: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92274263.
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First lines: "No, your ms. is not lost. It arrived here yesterday, forwarded from Glockner. I have already begun"... Contents index: review of manuscript / Merton's Journal / proposes question: "What must one do practically when he has come to distrust his human concepts of the realities of the Faith?".
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- English
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to Merton Center from: Ahern, Barnabas Mary, Fr., C.P.