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             This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Kline, Carl L.". 
            
		
            Carl L. Kline, M.D., was a doctor serving in Wausau, Wisconsin, when he wrote this letter to Merton. 
            
            Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence. 
		
            
		
            See also Cold War Letter #87, published in Witness to Freedom, p. 56. 
            
		
            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. 
		     
            
		
            
                    This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically. 
                
            
            
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                          1962/05/31  | 
                        TLS[x] to Merton | 
                        For a number of months I have been avidly reading your articles in Fellowship, | 
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				  articles in Fellowship, The Progressive and The Catholic Worker / tragedy of Christians tolerating war, and especially, the clergy not speaking out against war 
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                          1962/06/no?  | 
                        transcript from Merton | 
                        I want to thank you warmly for your appreciative letter.  It means a lot to receive such reactions | 
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				  [copied from published letter] problem of "secularization of religion" - on drawing spiritual meaning from life / sending mimeograph of unpublished book on war [Peace in a Post-Christian Era] 
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