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SMIJ/1/103
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Letter from Hilary Steuert to James Smith
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- 7 July 1946 (Creation)
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(1904-1972)
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Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, near Bath.—Expresses sympathy at the way he has been treated. Is glad he is in touch with Father Bonnar. Invites him to visit when he is free from examining. Defends aspects of [C. S.] Lewis’s Hamlet paper. Dom Sebastian [Moore?], who is reviewing Preston’s book [on the Four Quartets] for the [Downside] Review, remains convinced of Eliot’s greatness and would like to discuss him with Smith. Hay, he finds, is an amateur historian, ‘but generally considered sound by responsible Catholics’. Recommends, for the other side of the secular priests’ case, Leo Hicks’ review of Hughes’s book in The Month. Cannot find the ‘Persons-Raleigh’ reference, but can ask Hicks if it is urgent.
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- Steuert, Augustine Hilary (1911-1991), Benedictine monk and literary scholar (Subject)
- Bonnar, Alphonsus (1895–1968), Franciscan friar (Subject)
- Lewis, Clive Staples (1898–1963), writer and scholar (Subject)
- Moore, Sebastian (b 1917), Benedictine monk and theologian (Subject)
- Preston, Raymond (1919–1999), literary critic (Subject)
- Hicks, Leo John (1888-1968), Jesuit and historian (Subject)