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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Keating, Edward Michael, 1925-2003

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963-1967

Volume: 20 item(s); 26 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Keating, Edward Michael".

Biography

Keating was the founder of Ramparts magazine in 1962 and published many articles about civil rights and the Vietnam War, as well as authoring books of these issues. (Source: Reed, Christopher. "Edward Keating" [obituary], The Guardian, May 3, 2003.)

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/10/30 TLSto MertonI have just received your letter of October 26th concerning use of your manuscript subsequent to its   
 1963/11/15 TLSto MertonI have just about recovered from an incredible week with John Griffin, who was in the Bay Area   
 1963/11/25 TL[c]from MertonI will get together some Journal material for you, but I gather there is no immediate rush.   
 1963/12/18 TLSto MertonBy a happy coincidence I met Father Kenneth Henriques up in San Francisco recently.   
 1963/12/29 TAL[c]from MertonThanks very much for your letter of December 18th. I have had to put it aside over the holidays,   
 1964/01/24 TLSto MertonI have held off replying to your letter of December 29th in order to have a clearer picture   
 1964/02/06 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter of January 24th. I have held off a little, because coming out of retreat   
 1964/03/03 TLSto MertonI do believe we are going to have a very fine symposium on non-violence. Just last week I met   
 1964/03/07 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter. I am very happy to learn you have Heschel, along with Zahn.   
 1964/04/07 TAL[c]from MertonDoes this piece on Gandhi strike you as something that would fit in with the non-violence issue?   
 1964/07/27 TLSto MertonIt has been quite some time since I last wrote you, and a great deal has happened in the interval,   
 1964/11/25 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for the copies of the last issue, which seems to me very well done. A couple of the other   
 1965/04/02 TL[c]from MertonYesterday I received your new book, SCANDAL OF SILENCE, and have already read about half of it.   
 1965/04/21 TLSto MertonI can't tell you how much I appreciate your kind letter of encouragement about my book.   
 1965/08/26 TLSto MertonAccompanying this letter is a rather large bundle of materials that I would like you to read, but  sending background material on a prisoner (Eldridge Cleaver) - acquainted through Beverly Axelrod, his attorney / asking Merton to speak on behalf of the prisoner's talent to help get him parole / comparison between prisoner and Merton - two men "behind walls"
 1966/09/02 TLSto MertonI hesitate to write you since I am not sure whether you are still incommunicado or not. I wrote you   
 1966/09/08 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter, which reached me the other day. And first of all, congratulations on the   
 1967/03/27 (#01)TLSto MertonHerb Magidson has what I feel is a very worth while project that should have your support   
 1967/03/27 (#02)other Individuals Against the Crime of Silence [-] A Declaration To Our Fellow Citizens Of The United  [xerox of a declaration against the Vietnam War, citing its illegality to international law and to the United States Constitution and asking petitioners to send their names to the Secretary General of the United Nations - see printed version in January 1968 Ramparts, copy in this file]
 1968/01/no other[x] Individuals Against the Crime of Silence [-] A Declaration To Our Fellow Citizens Of The United  [xerox of a published version of a declaration against the Vietnam War with Merton's name printed as a signatory (see Keatings request of 1967 March 27) - see also the "FBI Materials" file]
        

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