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Diane,
    I can't tell you how happy I am to get this information.  It was my
brother-in-law that wanted to know.  Yesterday I went to the chapel at my
father-in-law's retirement residence and looked again at the Desiderata
plaque and it did say "dated 1692".  Someone else sent the information on
the real author but I had a a big disbelief about it.   Now I can see the
truth of it and quit thinking about it. (sigh)
Laurel
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From: Diane Hettrick <dhettrick@earthlink.net>
To: sinclair@jump.net <sinclair@jump.net>
Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: Does anyone have a really good dictionary?


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>"Desiderata"
>
>I started doing web searches on this one, because I remember a time when I
>couldn't go a half hour without running into a copy of Desiderata "Go
placidly
>amid the noise and haste..." someone even carved it in wood and gave it to
my church.
>
>Anyway, I found that the "Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore dated maybe
1690"
>which is widely reported to be the source, is bogus!  Desiderata is a poem,
>written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann.  The Desiderata of Happiness  ISBN
>0-517-59069-7. The copyright is owned by Crown Publishers, Inc. New York.
>http://www.dap.nl/Desiderata.html
>
>I'm on at least 3 mailing lists for Baltimore and Maryland.  I'm going to
see
>if anyone knows if anything is in Old St. Paul's Church.  email me if you
want
>to know.
>
>Diane Hettrick
>Seattle
>dhettrick@earthlink.net
>
>Spirit One Email wrote:
>
>> Desiderata=name of a creed found in Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore
dated
>> maybe 1690.  Have to check the date out but that doesn't matter.  I have
>> been looking for this word for over a year and ..there it was in the
Madman book
>> described above, but still couldn't tell what it meant.
>
>> Laurel
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