Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Censors Reports" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1967/June/27 

Series:  53  Edifying Cables or Familiar Liturgies of Misunderstanding [book, published as "Cables to the Ace or Familiar Liturgies of Misunderstanding"]

Type:  transcript - Transcript copy of a letter, i.e., re-typed or re-written after orignal and often by another person. Often typed version of a holograph orignal.

To/From:  by Censor (anonymous) 

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  "Our hermit, Fr. Louis, has a new book ready, poetry this time, entitled: Edifying Cables or"

Contents:  "Edifying Cables or Familiar Liturgies of Misunderstanding" [book - published as Cables to the Ace or Familiar Liturgies of Misunderstanding] - censor could not understand the poems and "assume[s] it to be innocuous" - grants Nihil Obstat [also contains similar message (another censor?) from 1967/06/27]

Language:  English

Source or donor:  Gethsemani Abbey Archives

Date received:  2013/12/01

Date added:  

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Censors Reports:" Series 53:    1967/June/27