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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Peachey, Paul, 1918-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963-1967

Volume: 7 item(s); 9 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Peachey, Paul".

Biography

Paul Peachey is a Mennonite scholar and Executive Secretary of the Church Peace Mission. He began this work shortly after the retirement of A. J. Muste and took over much of the group's coordination until it disbanded in 1967. Peachey was the author and editor of a number of books about Christianity and social justice. The Church Peace Mission was headquartered in Washington, D.C.

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Heidbrink, John" and "Berrigan, Daniel" files for a note about a retreat at Merton's hermitage he was trying to arrange to include Paul Peachey.

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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.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/03/13 TLSto MertonThanks very much for your letter of March 6, though I am much embarrassed that you obtained   
 1963/04/09 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter and for the reply to my question. I have left the quote as it stands   
 1963/06/25 TLSto MertonThis is a tardy follow-up of your letter of April 9 as well as your two papers on Zen and "The Name   
 1963/07/28 TL[c]from MertonI am sorry to see how much time has gone by since your letter of June 25th. The dates you mention   
 1964/11/05 TLS[x]to MertonApparently there will not be too much coordination on the arrangements for the Gethsemani Retreat.   
 1965/02/23 TLS[x]to MertonIn reply to yours of February 16, we wanted something other than merely a theological statement   
 1967/06/30 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your two communications, one on the Free Cities' Plan and the other about the prisoners.   
        

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