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- 1964 February 16 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Xerox copy of a holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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Biographical history
Evora Arca de Sardiña was born in Cuba, attended high school in New York, and returned to Cuba in 1950. In Cuba, she was involved in social work the poor. When Castro came to power in 1959, she fled to the United States with her husband and her five sons and settled in Miami. Her husband, Eugenio, was part of the CIA-trained anti-Castro assault force captured at the Bay of Pigs. (Source: «Witness to Freedom».)
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First lines: "Here are the letters from Merton that I promised to mail you. Father Shannon called me a few days"... Contents index: [letter to Patrick Hart from Evora Arca de Sardiña regarding her correspondence and detailing which letters to restrict or publish].
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- English
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The donor or source was: Hart, Patrick, Br., O.C.S.O..