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- 5 July 1940 (Creation)
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Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, near Bath.—Hopes he is doing well despite the air-raids, which they too have experienced. Is pleased that Christopher Dawson has become editor of the Dublin Review, and hopes that Smith will complete his article on Shakespeare in time for the October number, for the instruction of Doms Illtyd [Trethowan] and Bernard [Orchard]. The former is waiting for a letter from Smith on Aristotle. Is delighted that Bewley got a first and hopes he will find his vocation soon. Asks whether the ‘Mays’ [the Easter term examinations] were held; Downs has not been sending him the papers. Would like to discuss Nostromo with him. Is studying Eliot’s Elizabethan Essays and asks for a list of Smith’s articles on the subject. Is glad that his last letter was helpful.
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- Steuert, Augustine Hilary (1911-1991), Benedictine monk and literary scholar (Subject)
- Dawson, Henry Christopher (1889-1970), cultural historian (Subject)
- Trethowan, Illtyd (1907-1993), Benedictine monk, philosopher, and schoolteacher (Subject)
- Orchard, Bernard (1910–2006), Benedictine monk and headmaster (Subject)
- Bewley, Eugene Augustine Marius (1916–1973), American literary critic (Subject)
- Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888–1965), poet, critic, and publisher (Subject)
- Downs, Brian Westerdale (1893–1984), literary scholar and translator (Subject)