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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Miller, William Robert, 1927-1970

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1966

Volume: 9 item(s); 12 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Miller, William Robert".

Biography

William Robert Miller was Managing Editor of Fellowship of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and later took the same role at the United Church Herald of the United Church of Christ. It is in this capacity in 1962 in which he writes to Merton to commend him for an article in Jubilee. By 1964, he writes to Merton as Associate Editor of the Religious Department at Holt, Rinehart and Winston in New York. Miller wrote a number of books about peacemaking, Christian nonviolence, and other related themes.

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Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letters #81 and other letters from Merton to Robert Miller published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 248-252.

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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/05/25 TLSto MertonYou may recall that as managing editor of <u>Fellowship</u> I published a couple of article by you   
 1962/06/no? transcriptfrom MertonThank you for your kind letter and for the copy of the "United Church Herald" containing yourYes [Cold War Letters #81 - transcript from bound set]
 1964/05/25 TLSto MertonA number of things recently have cause my thoughts to turn to you. On Saturday I went out   
 1964/06/15 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter: I was wondering what had become of you, knew however you had the new job.Yes  
 1965/02/27 TL[c]from MertonNo need to explain about how it is writing these letters. I know very well how necessary it isYes  
 1965/04/10 TL[c]from MertonNext Wednesday, in the middle of Holy Week, in a Mass which will contain the long readingYes  
 1966/05/11 TLSto MertonAt last I'm in a position to survive -- work is coming to me from all directions.   
 1966/05/27 TAL[c]from MertonYour letter has many good andinteresting [sic] things in it, and your new book sounds very worthYes [published letter dated 1966/05/26]
 1966/09/13 TL[c]from MertonI know what you mean. The problem is that almost everything remains yet to be done.Yes  
        

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