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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-153-#01
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1962-11-02, TL[x] to The Editors, AVE MARIA, 'For the past month I have been searching for time and a timely word to thank you for'
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- 1962 November 2 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Xerox copy of a typed letter (not signed).
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(1917-1994)
Biographical history
Professor Herbert Burke was teaching English at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.
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First lines: "For the past month I have been searching for time and a timely word to thank you for giving us"... Contents index: "The Guilt of Hiroshima" by James Douglass and criticism for the Kirby letter of October 27 which criticizes Douglass / lack of moral grounds for using threat of another nuclear attack like Hiroshima as grounds to threaten Communism - mentions great writers opposed to nuclear war, including Merton / situation in Cuba.
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- English
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to The Editors, AVE MARIA