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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-A-023-#22
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1967-08-29, HLS Allchin to Merton, 'This is just to ask one thing. I had planned to come to Gethsemani after Easter'
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- 1967 August 29 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
Name of creator
(1930-2010)
Biographical history
Canon Arthur MacDonald (Donald) Allchin was an Anglican priest who came to know Merton through Dr. Dale Moody of the Baptist Seminary in Louisville. When he first met Merton, Allchin was at Oxford and served as librarian for Pusey House and as a student chaplain. He would later become Canon Residentiary at Canterbury Cathedral, England (source: «The Hidden Ground of Love»).
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First lines: "This is just to ask one thing. I had planned to come to Gethsemani after Easter next year. But it"...
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Allchin, Arthur MacDonald, Canon