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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-102-#37
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1964-01-02, HALS Bourne to Merton, 'Judged best not to submit this to formal censorship-- as I don’t know how long it'
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- 1964 January 2 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter with annotations. The original message on letter was handwritten and either the message author or another has made further annotations.
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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 friendly with Merton and more lenient of his works than other censors. Fr. Paul was at Our Lady of the Holy Ghost Abbey (now called the Monastery of the Holy Spirit) in Conyers, Georgia. (Source: «The School of Charity», p. 168.)
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First lines: "Judged best not to submit this to formal censorship-- as I don’t know how long it would take in this"... Contents index: [Merton's annotation: "Re - «Cold War Letters in» «BlRv and Cold War»" -, i.e. «Black Revolution and Cold War»].
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- English
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to James Fox from: Bourne, Paul, Fr., O.C.S.O.