Identity elements
Reference code
US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-102-#05
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
1952-03-17, TL[c] Bourne to Merton, 'Your brief sketch of St. John of the Cross is very nice except for one aspect which'
Date(s)
- 1952 March 17 (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
Name of creator
Biographical history
Fr. Paul Bourne was the head censor (now called "reader") of the Cistercian Order and needed to approve of Merton's writings before he received the «Imprimi Potest», or permission to publish, from his Order and the Church. He was more considerably more… Read more
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
First lines: "Your brief sketch of St. John of the Cross is very nice except for one aspect which I hope you will"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for signed copy - from a file kept by Dom James Fox on censorship] "Saints… Read more
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Languages of the material
- English
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Acquisition and appraisal elements
Immediate source of acquisition
The donor or source was: Gethsemani Abbey Archives.
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Senders and recipients—
from Thomas Merton to: Bourne, Paul, Fr., O.C.S.O.