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SMIJ/1/35
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Letter from Bernard Dickinson to James Smith
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- 1 Nov. 1941 (Creation)
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3 single sheets
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(1904-1972)
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Convent of Our Lady of Lourdes, Boarbank Hall, Grange-over-Sands.—Has been ordered to rest for two or three months, on account of ill health. His J[esuit] brother [Paul] has escaped from France. Sympathises with Smith’s difficulties in Venezuela, and thanks him for ‘hints, mainly philosophical, … on 18th century questions’, some of which he has used in teaching. Has seen the Leavises this summer, and the Franciscans, but not Smith’s aunt or Father Stewart [Hilary Steuert?]. Refers to the experience of a missionary nun in Africa, and to books by Archbishop Goodier and Cecily Hallack. Gives some details of a ‘simple tale’ about Switzerland he is about to write.
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- Dickinson, Bernard (fl 1938–1947) Roman Catholic priest (Subject)
- Leavis, Frank Raymond (1895-1978), literary critic (Subject)
- Leavis, Queenie Dorothy (1906-1981), literary scholar (Subject)
- Smith, Hannah Elizabeth (1887–1971), aunt of James Smith (Subject)
- Steuert, Augustine Hilary (1911-1991), Benedictine monk and literary scholar (Subject)
- Dickinson, Paul (fl. 1940-56), Jesuit (Subject)
- Goodier, Alban (1869–1939), Jesuit and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bombay (Subject)
- Hallack, Cecily Rosemary (1898-1938), writer of Catholic fiction (Subject)
- Boarbank Hall (Subject)