Robert Speaight writes concerning Merton's translations of poems by Raïssa Maritain and about Dame Marcella Van Bruyn and the Benedictine nuns of Stanbrook Abbey.
Robert Speaight was a British actor and biographer of Eric Gill and Hilaire Belloc.
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Copies of Speaight's letters concerning a recording project of Merton's early poetry (1949) can be found in Series 2 of the "Laughlin, James" file; and see also the "van Bruyn, Marcella" and the "Maritain, Raïssa" files.
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1966/04/03 |
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I don't quite know how Cistercian your pen is nowadays, but the point is this. The Benedictine Nuns |
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