| Author Quoted | James Kavanaugh |
| Title Quoted | Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/07/03 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1967 |
| Quotation | I hope you have not written to Anne Ford about sending me the galleys of your reader. I am very glad that she did so, and I would not have wanted it to be otherwise. I certainly don't feel obligated to get out a blurb at any cost. I am sufficiently used to this routine to take or leave the things that are sent in and to write something if I happen to have time, can give it some thought, and feel like it. If I can't I don't and I don't push myself to oblige anyon"”except in a rare case like the recent Fr. [James Joseph] Kavanagh book [A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church] which has become rather a "caus" and is perhaps more of a "caus" than a book "¦ |
| Quotation Source | The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / [S.l.] : Flame. 1990, p. 136 |
| Letter to | John Howard Griffin |
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