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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Donaldson, Ivanhoe".
Ivanhoe Donaldson was working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while corresponding with Merton. He worked alongside another Merton correspondent from this time, Marion Barry, who would later become mayor of Washington, D.C. He served as an advisor to Barry from the sixties to the eighties and was involved in Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also published letters from Merton to Donaldson in The Road to Joy, pp. 343-344.
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.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
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1966/11/13 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I was delighted and surprised to get your letter of the 7th. I am wondering who I could possibly |
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1966/12/04 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I managed by fair and political means to come by the enclosed check which I am sending along a bit |
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1966/12/no? |
TLS to Merton |
That's a great letter. Thank you. We will keep in touch. Do your best. Whatever it is, it will |
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