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ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI

TRAPHST.KENTUCKY

Monday May 15, 1960

Dear Victor:

Here is the poem. It is perhaps not long enough, but rather than add

.nes I think it would be better to divide some of the lines in tzo,
' I an marking several places where this is possible. I think
dea for a cover. I think that short lines on the cover, zith that
initial, will be more effective than long ones. But I am perhaps
udgc. I am very taken with that initial. I hope you can run off a few extra
_copies of the cover, say fifteen or twenty ( is that too much§) I mean just the
poem wi h the initial, pezaape~£eldeé-over, or just a plain sheet, whatever is
most convenient for you. I would like to send a few around. It would be nice
to frame one and hang it on the wall. I nan send it to some Carmelita nuns who
would.appreciate it, I an sure.

The picnic of the other day was superb. It is wonderful to be blessed Mi
with such fine days. I am so happy with the book: it is in many'ways more
hxxiimiix beautiful even than the other: being slightly thinner, for one thing.
I have lent it to one of the Fathers who will understand it, but otherwise I
would.probably have spent the whole weekend just sitting and admiring it.

I faggot to speak about the little prayer card, where Christ says He for
getteth utterly. But I know you have been keeping it in mind and will do smmxiy
something with it at your own convenience. I am a little busy at the moment and
Isaac of Niniveh, who has waited for over a thousand years, can wait a little
more. And I enjoyed meeting George headley: the only regret was that Carolyn
could not engoy such a marvelous picnic.

Now here are those to whom the book may be sent. The others you can bring
me some day when you come.

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,;e 1. Mr Ernesto Caroenal - Monasterio de la desurreccxion, Guernavaca,Mm
Mor. Mexico.
3: Rev Pare Jean Danielou S.J., 13, Rue Mansieur, Paris vii, France

/)( 3 Col. Laurens Van der Post, 13 Cadogan St. London S.W.3. England.
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3: Mark Van Doren Falls Village, Connecticut

,Rf 5 Mr Robert Lax, 3739 Warren Street, Jackson Heights, N.Y.
6 M. Czeslaw Milosz, 10 Ave. de la Grange, Montgeron, ( S. at 0.)
France.
7 M. Louis Massignon, 21 Rue Monsieur, Paris VII, France.

.3? 8 Mrs S. Spender, 15, Loudoun Road, St Johnhs Wood, London NW8
England.

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leave three others, then.
With all bl i

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ss_rr and good_wishes, until wemeet again: Cordially in ,1°ist

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