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Entry: All Soul's Day Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/all_souls_day#8574 Post contents: Dear Woody Jones, Again, I thank you for your message, so full of interesting bits of information. Yes, I was at the University of Navarra, 1972-1975, on a Richard Weaver Fellowship (after having spent a years as Russell Kirk's assistant in Mecosta, Michigan). I first met the Wilhelmsens via the Dr. Kirk, Triumph magazine, and the Christian Commonwealth Institute (at El Escorial in 1971). I had the great privilege of studying with Fr. Suarez who was without a doubt the world's foremost expert on Juan Donoso Cortes and Catholic counter-revolutionary thought generally. D'Ors, Rafael Gambra, and Francisco Elias de Tejada I came to know---Gambra especially well because of his interest in my doctoral topic and his devotion to the traditional Latin mass. Fortunately, I was in Spain before the generation of the 1936-39 "Cruzada" had passed away, and thus was able to interview and get to know any number of individuals who played a large role in that critical period of Spanish history, including Eugenio Vegas Latapie, the poet/writer Jose Maria Peman, and others. It was a fascinating and enlightening time. I do remember the D'Ors piece in THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REVIEW; I'll look it up again. Thanks for the reminder. As well, the Political Science Reviewer item. Ediciones RIALP published all of the works we've been discussing, Lopex Amo, D'Ors, a goodly selection (in one volume) of Vazquez de Mella, etc. I don't know if those items remain in print or not. Along with the Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos (Pontifical Univ. of Salamanca), they made available a wealth of material.... Sent at: 2008 11 21