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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Dewart, Leslie, 1922-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1968

Volume: 21 item(s); 40 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Dewart, Leslie".

Biography

Professor Leslie Dewart was born in Spain, raised in Cuba, and moved to Canada in 1942 to serve as pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He later spent a long career in the philosophy and religion departments of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto. His writings blended religion. law and language studies. At the time of correspondence with Merton, he was writing a book called Christianity and Revolution: The Lesson of Cuba, which studied the connection between the Catholic Church and the Cuban Revolution (source: Witness to Freedom, p. 282).

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Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letter #103 and other letters from Merton to Dewart published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 282-299; and see also Dewart's book Christianity and Revolution: The Lesson of Cuba.

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Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/08/31 TALSto MertonI have received your letter of August 27, and I must tell you in the very first place how grateful I   
 1962/09/17 TLSto MertonI have read your <u>Peace in the post-Christian era</u>. I intend to read it again, more leisurely,   
 1962/09/no? transcriptfrom MertonThanks for your letters and for the articles, which are excellent. First I read the oneYes [Cold War Letters #103 - copy from published letters]
 1963/03/29 TLSto MertonI am very grateful to you for the Cold War Letters. George Lawler referred vaguely in his last   
 1963/04/23 TLSto MertonIf I remember correctly, the last time I wrote you I was in rather a depressed mood. I hope I did  [includes "Table of Contents" from Dewart's book <i>Christianity and Revolution: The Lesson of Cuba</i> - asks for a title for Merton's contribution]
 1963/04/27 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for the new letter, and I have just reread the former one. I will answer both, and they areYes  
 1963/05/10 TAL[c]from MertonYour manuscript has arrived and I am about half way through it. The book is terrific. You are veryYes  
 1963/06/28 TAL[c]from MertonThis Appendix is great, and really packs a wallop. I think we really should do what we can to getYes  
 1963/06/no? transcriptfrom MertonYour manuscript on the Cuban revolution and on the ambivalence, hesitations, and withdrawalYes [copy from published letters - see also, "Letter to Leslie Dewart on the Church and revolution" in Sub-Section E.1]
 1963/08/11 TAL[c]from MertonThe decision of the publisher to keep the appendix out of the book may perhaps in the long run beYes  
 1964/02/20 TLSto MertonWhen I received your post card of a few days ago I had already had your name inscribed, from several   
 1964/04/09 TLSto MertonThere's a priest in California with whom I've been in touch recently and who, I believe, is likely  Fr. William DuBay
 1964/04/24 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your two letters. I note with my habitual and unreformed malaise that the long oneYes  
 1964/06/01 TLSto MertonThank you very much for your note of last Friday enquiring about Arevalo's book. I don't own a copy   
 1964/06/10 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter. I will be looking forward to the Arevalo book. I am sorry to hear aboutYes  
 1964/09/23 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for the letter. It was good to hear from you again, and I was interested in the Cuba trip.Yes  
 1965/02/04 TLSto MertonIt's been some time since I last wrote you. I've been in rather poor health all fall and winter   
 1965/02/16 TLSto MertonI just received a call from my CBC producer friend who is interested in interviewing you   
 1968/04/12 TAL[c]from MertonI have very much enjoyed your article in the Winter <u>Continuum</u> on "MetaphysicsYes  
 1968/05/02 TLSto MertonThank you very much for your long letter and your remarks. The <u>Continuum</u> article is actually   
 1968/05/06 TLSto MertonI meant to ask you in my letter of last week whether you would mind very much once you have finished   
        

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