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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Burke, Herbert Caryl, 1917-1994

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962

Volume: 4 item(s); 6 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burke, Herbert Caryl".

Biography

Professor Herbert Burke was teaching English at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

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Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Burke in Witness to Freedom, p. 96. Christopher Burke (see "Burke, Christopher" file) was his son, and Merton writes a letter to a draft board to justify his conscientious objector status and the pacifistic views of the Burke family.

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Series List

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

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/11/02 TL[x]to The Editors, AVE MARIAFor the past month I have been searching for time and a timely word to thank you for giving us  "The Guilt of Hiroshima" by James Douglass and criticism for the Kirby letter of October 27 which criticizes Douglass / lack of moral grounds for using threat of another nuclear attack like Hiroshima as grounds to threaten Communism - mentions great writers opposed to nuclear war, including Merton / situation in Cuba
 1962/11/15 TALSto MertonIt is quite impossible for me to tell you how much your letter of November 8th meant to me, and  Meditation on Father Delp / permission to reprint "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion" in student quarterly - Ixion / <i>Peace in the Post Christian Era</i> / Jim Douglass and Dorothy Day / the Cuban crisis
 1962/11/30 TLSto MertonIn lieu of thanks for sending <u>Peace in the Post Christian Era</u>, may I send you a poem.  poem on peace and war on the campus / on copy of <i>Peace in the Post Christian Era</i> sent by Merton
 1962/12/11 TAL[c]from MertonCold, windy, snowy days, bright ones, are perhaps good for writing letters. At least I amYes suggests sending poems to J. Laughlin at New Directions or <u>Ramparts</u> / Lapp book <i>Kill and Overkill</i> / new aspect of war that operates without principles, like Zen, but "Zen is sane. But not the Pentagon." / Ixion poem
        

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