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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-102-#77
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undated (#03), HLS Bourne to Merton, 'There used to be an old woman around the parish at 59th St. who specialized in'
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- undated (Creation)
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2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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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 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: "There used to be an old woman around the parish at 59th St. who specialized in etiquette. "Never"...
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- English
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to Thomas Merton from: Bourne, Paul, Fr., O.C.S.O.