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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-090-#09
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1968-06-03, HLS to Merton, 'The first think we have to thank you for is your good visit - a real joy and source'
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- 1968 June 3 (Creation)
Extent
2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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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: "The first think we have to thank you for is your good visit - a real joy and source of encouragement"... Contents index: [writing from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico / stationery states "Monastery of Christ of the Desert"].
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- English
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Senders and recipients—
to Thomas Merton from: Borgstin, Gregory, Fr., O.S.B.