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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-090-#02
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1964-05-08, TALS to Merton, 'Please excuse my long silence. Actually, it would have been a great consolation to'
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- 1964 May 8 (Creation)
Extent
5 page(s); Typed signed letter with holograph (handwritten) annotations.
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Biographical history
Fr. Gregory was a Benedictine at Mount Saviour Monastery near Elmira, New York. He went with Dom Aelred Wall to Abiquiu, New Mexico, to found the Monastery of Christ in the Desert.
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First lines: "Please excuse my long silence. Actually, it would have been a great consolation to e to have been"...
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- English
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Senders and recipients—
to Thomas Merton from: Borgstin, Gregory, Fr., O.S.B.