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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Anderson, Olof, Dr.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964-1965

Volume: 5 item(s); 5 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Anderson, Olof, Dr.".

Biography

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Related Information and Links

See published letters from Merton to Dr. Anderson in Witness to Freedom, pp. 105-106.

Other Finding Aids

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
 1964/04/18 TL[c]from MertonIt was good to get your letter. I rather suspected that you were implicated in the arrangements forYes the Hibakusha in Louisville / hibachi and Japanese tea / enclosing mimeograph on Gandhi / satyagraha
 1964/05/12 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter and for the details about your visit with the Hibakusha group next Saturday.Yes proposed schedule for Hibakusha
 1964/05/18 TLSto MertonThank you for your gracious welcome to us on Saturday. I am particularly grateful to you for the  Christian efforts for peace / Hibakusha
 1965/05/31 TL[c]from MertonI am glad to hear that the Peace Caravan of the AFSC will be in Louisville in July, and I think the  retreat at Gethsemani for Peace Caravan / Johnson government and conflict in Asia / fears of war against China / atomic weapons / policing methods in Vietnam "those of Selma and Birmingham" / computers
 1965/06/03 TLSto MertonThank you for writing me as you have. I am sorry that the young people will not have the privilege  Johnson government in southeast Asia / blame placed on Eisenhower
        

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