Thomas Merton Center

Merton Correspondence:

The "Censors Reports" file

Single Item Record for the Date:
1952/September/05 

Series:  131  Sign of Jonas

Type:  other - Includes a non-correspondence item enclosed with correspondence or such an item filed with correspondence.

To/From:  by Malloy, Maurice 

# of pages:  1

Published in:  

First Lines:  "The Manuscript of a projected book should be submitted to the censor before being given to any"

Contents:  "Sign of Jonas" [book] - censor's criticism from Fr. Maurice Malloy of Guadalupe Monastery in Pecos, New Mexico - thinks Merton's intimate "self-revelations" from journal to be "a matter of questional prudence—a sort of self-canonization ante mortem."

Language:  English

Source or donor:  

Date received:  2013/12/01

Date added:  2014

Unique identifier:  Section A- "Censors Reports:" Series 131:    1952/September/05