ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI

TRAPPI ST. KENTUCKY

July 18, l96h

Dear Don Gold:

Since I last wrote to you I have been in touch with our Father
Abbot, who has still not returned here. He wrote quite a long letter
stating his objections to the idea of an article about the monastery.

They are not absolutely final but they are final enough for me to stop
insisting. I think the article is now out of the question. His main

reason is that he has refused a dozen other magazines and will he in a bad
position if he says "yes" to Holiday. Also, T think, he is not too

hapey about any presentation of the monastery that will not be fully
official and therefore dull enough to be totally useless.

Perhaps in a couple of years the question mipht he reonened in the
fonn of an article about the various monasteries of the Trannists in
the United States. There are places in several states, from Masa-
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general View of the Order would probably be more interesting and new.
I would be glee to consiéer the job, if you contact me say in 1966.
But again, I promise nothing too definite.

I am sorry that this project did not get off the ground. I would
have enjoyed it.

Cordial good wishes,

’incerely yours,