MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Sears, John Whitman, Rev., 1906-2000
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1962
Volume: 3 item(s); 6 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Sears, John Whitman, Rev.".
Biography
The Rev. John Whitman Sears was a psychologist and Universalist minister. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas, but moved with his family to California. He returned to the University of Kansas for college and was afterward ordained a minister. His ministry led him to North Carolina and back to Kansas where he left the ministry for social work. During the Great Depression, he moved with his family to San Carlos, California, studying psychology. He later moved to San Mateo where he joined his brother in a business of counseling and psychology, and from there he writes to Merton. (Source: "In Memoriam: Unitarian Universalist Ministers 2000-2001." Website of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Accessed 21 April 2006. ‹http://www.uua.org/programs/ministry/news/obituaries2001.html›.)
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See also Cold War Letters #89 and other published letters from Merton to Sears in Witness to Freedom, pp. 303-306.
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