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[Also a copy of a letter from Father Lamfamboise and an offprint of the original French text. . Besides translating his own fiction from the French, Griffin spoke both of his novels,The Devil Rides OutsideandNuni, into a wire-recorder, in French, and then transcribed the novels into English. He translated various other French texts. Few were published but he made these translations as much to keep himself bilingual and for the intrinsic value of what he translated. During this period he was also receiving tapes, in both English and French, from Jacques Maritain, Father Stanley Murphy, and Gerald Vann, the British Dominican scholar. He considered it all part of his continuing classical education in language, in philosophy, and in theology. He speaks also of translating some of Albert Camus' novelThe Strangerinto English, but none of those pages have been found. In his Journals there are various letters and short texts translated into English for his own purposes.