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NewmanL/A/A1/22/1
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GB 275 NewmanL/A/A1/22/1
Title
ALS to Lyn Newman
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- 20 Apr. 1960 (Creation)
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2 p paper
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Thanks Lyn for the letter. Discusses her poem "Was He Married?". Admits to being a humanist and expresses shock at Lyn's comments that Margaret Knight had "made it too hackneyed". Asserts that Truth is not Fashion. Anticipates Lyn's book on Christianity. Refers to a talk for the Cambridge Humanists on "The Necessity of Not Believing", later published in Gemini No. 5. Mentions reading "The Brook Kerith" and Grave's "King Jesus". Describes a trip to Cambridge to see "Passage to India" and dine with Joan.