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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Barnard, Roger

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 6 item(s); 7 pg(s)

Scope and Content

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

Biography

Roger Barnard is writing as Features Editor for the publication Peace News from London.

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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
 1967/04/20 TALSto MertonExcuse me writing to you unannounced, out of the blue, like this. I have been a great admirer of  asks for original articles for <u>Peace News</u> / reviews of <i>Raids</i> and <i>Conjectures</i> / permission to reprint "A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann" for "Madness: Sanity/Insanity" feature
 1967/04/24 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your good letter. I am glad you found the two books interesting enough to review, and  use of Eichmann piece / what Merton feels he could offer / offers his abstract drawings for publication
 1967/06/23 TLSto MertonHello there; sorry I've been so long in writing to you. Did you get the copies of the Madness issue  publishing "Ishi: A Meditation" / "Albert Camus and the Christian Church" for issue on Christian radicalism / Faulkner / Jacques Ellul's <i>Propaganda</i> / Auschwitz
 1967/06/27 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your double-letter. I will try to answer it speedily while its contents are still  book of Michel Foucault / poem on the segregation of lepers / Eichmann / Cardinal Heenan / pieces on Shoshoneans, Zen and art, "Original Child Bomb" / Christian radicalism and Karl Barth / Vietnam
 1967/08/31 TALSto MertonThanks so much for the Auschwitz review-- I think it is terrific, absolutely, and hope to use it  medical problems / "Original Child Bomb" for Hiroshima anniversary / Cardinal Heenan / Margaret Gardiner / Barth / Kierkegaard / "The Death of God and the End of History" and "Blessed Are the Meek" articles
 1967/10/11 TL[c]from MertonI enjoyed your piece in the last PN (or the last one here) about the Writers take sides book. I  <i>Writers Take Sides on Vietnam</i> / a companion piece to Ishi / the magazine <u>Motive</u>
        

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