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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Biram, John, 1922-

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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 3 item(s); 5 pg(s)

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Biography

John Biram was originally from England and moved to the United States around 1960. A couple of years later, he would quit his job as a scientist and focus on writing. He wrote poems and includes one called "A Cocktail Party" with this letter to Merton. He also writes about the negative effects of technology in a book called Teknosis, which would be published until 11 years after this correspondence (1978).

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/09/24 TLSto Fox, Jamesit may be, for all I know, discourteous to write to a member of your/Abbey [sic] without first  asking to pass attached letter to Merton
 1967/09/25 (#01)TALSto Mertonthis is an extremely hard letter to write, so I ask you to overlook its faults & see through to the  career background as a scientist turned poet - published in the <u>New York Times</u> and <u>Negro Digest</u> / writing a book called <i>Teknosis</i> "a disease resulting from life in technological society" / Fr. Stanley Jaki / value of contemplation / question of a non-Catholic monasticism for people like Biram
 1967/09/25 (#02)otherto MertonAppeared New York Times 4 Sept. 67 (editorial page) <u>A COCKTAIL PARTY</u> Penned in this  [poem attached to 1967/09/25 letter]
        

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