title: The Unnamed Manuscript
author: Duane L. Wooters
description: Mr. Wooters has written as a hobby for the past forty years. He has written non-fiction, fiction and poetry. This present work of fiction is from that writing. He received his Bachelor?s Degree from California State University in San Bernardino, California. He is the father of four and grandfather of eleven and currently resides in California.
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  ![](https://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/jmicon.gif) [Jacques Maritain
  Center](https://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/ndjmc.htm) :
  [Readings](https://maritain.nd.edu/jmc/aristotl.htm)
  
  
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  # Jacques Maritain's _Notebooks_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Chapter Seven: Love and Friendship
  
  
  ### (A Marginal Note to _Raissa's Journal_ )
  
  
  [Friends whom I specially trust advised me to replace one of my footnotes, in
  the private edition of the _Journal de Raissa_ printed in 1962, by a much
  longer and much more detailed note which they wished to see placed as an
  Appendix to this Journal, in the trade edition of the latter. I allowed myself
  to be persuaded, but I did not wish to place my new note as an Appendix to the
  _Journal de Raissa,_ \-- it is quite out of the question to weigh down with my
  explanations, my commentaries and my ideas such a pure text, whose value as
  direct and living testimony must be respected above all. The long note in
  question has perhaps some interest in itself I publish it t