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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-084-#21
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1964-01-26, HLS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'Before Lent begins and I leave Oxford on Feb 13th for London and abroad I send you'
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- 1964 January 26 (Creation)
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2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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(1901-1990)
Biographical history
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Serge Bolshakoff received a doctorate in philosophy from Christ Church, Oxford. In his travels to churches and monasteries in promotion of Christian unity, he became acquainted with such notables as Pope John XXIII, Patriarch Athenagoras, Archbishop Temple of Canterbury, as well as the Abbot General of the Cistercians, Dom Gabriel Sortais (see "Sortais, Gabriel" and "Fox, James" files).
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First lines: "Before Lent begins and I leave Oxford on Feb 13th for London and abroad I send you this letter. I"...
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Bolshakoff, Serge (Sergius) Nikolaevich