MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Lima, Paulo Alceu Amoroso, 1893-1983
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1961
Volume: 3 item(s); 9 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This group of letters contains an original letter from Amoroso Lima to Merton, a manuscript for Amoroso Lima's preface to the Portuguese edition of Disputed Questions (Questoes Abertas), and a copy from the bound collection of Cold War Letters from Merton to Amoroso Lima.
Biography
Paulo Alceu Amoroso was a Brazilian scholar, teacher, and writer of over eighty books on a variety of subjects. Among his interests, he wrote about social justice and was an early Latin American influence on Merton. He wrote prefaces and introductions to some of Merton's earlier works in Portuguese, while translating some of his later works. (Source: The Courage for Truth, p. 164.)
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See also: Cold War Letters #3, published in The Courage for Truth, pp. 164-166; the preface to Questoes Abertas (Disputed Questions in Portuguese); and Seeds of Destruction. The letter (November 11, 1961, labeled "To a Brazilian Friend") was also included with two others in Motive magazine as "Three Letters" (the other two being letters to Eileen Curns ["Letter to a Papal Volunteer"] and to Dorothy Day).
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