MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
James, Stephen D.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1962-1963, 1971
Volume: 8 item(s); 13 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "James, Stephen D.".
Biography
Stephen James was founder and President of the Peace Hostage Exchange Foundation, headquartered in New York. The idea was to send delegations from the United States to strategic targets in the Soviet Union and vice versa. The hope was to get some prominent individuals, like Merton or Robert Kennedy, to go over and to get Premier Krushchev's family and others to come here in exchange.
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Related Information and Links
See published letters from Merton to James in Witness to Freedom, pp. 86-87. See also a response regarding the Peace Hostage Exchange Foundation in the "Gendler, Everett, Rabbi" file.
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