This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Liang, Thomas J., Fr.".
Fr. Thomas J. Liang was a priest of St. Leo's Church in Oakland, California. He was a refugee priest from China who came to the United States in 1951. He wrote to Merton concerning the Christian Unity Corps, which hosted international students. (Source: The Road to Joy, p. 321.)
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See also Cold War Letters #20, published in The Road to Joy, pp. 321-322.
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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1962/02/21 |
TLS to Merton |
Even though I am a total stranger to you, yet having read many of your books, I feel I can come |
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1962/03/no? |
transcript from Merton |
Your friendly letter has waited about a month for an answer, and I have been taking it very |
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[Cold War Letter #57 - transcript from bound set of letters]
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