This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Barnard, Roger".
Roger Barnard is writing as Features Editor for the publication Peace News from London.
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This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/04/20 |
TALS to Merton |
Excuse me writing to you unannounced, out of the blue, like this. I have been a great admirer of |
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asks for original articles for Peace News / reviews of Raids and Conjectures / permission to reprint "A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann" for "Madness: Sanity/Insanity" feature
«detailed view» |
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1967/04/24 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your good letter. I am glad you found the two books interesting enough to review, and |
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use of Eichmann piece / what Merton feels he could offer / offers his abstract drawings for publication
«detailed view» |
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1967/06/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Hello there; sorry I've been so long in writing to you. Did you get the copies of the Madness issue |
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publishing "Ishi: A Meditation" / "Albert Camus and the Christian Church" for issue on Christian radicalism / Faulkner / Jacques Ellul's Propaganda / Auschwitz
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1967/06/27 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for your double-letter. I will try to answer it speedily while its contents are still |
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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
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1967/08/31 |
TALS to Merton |
Thanks so much for the Auschwitz review-- I think it is terrific, absolutely, and hope to use it |
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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
«detailed view» |
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1967/10/11 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I enjoyed your piece in the last PN (or the last one here) about the Writers take sides book. I |
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Writers Take Sides on Vietnam / a companion piece to Ishi / the magazine Motive
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