This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Lasserre, Jean".
Pasteur Jean Lasserre was a traveling secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) and worked with Jean Goss (see the "Goss-Mayr, Hildegard" file). He writes from Lyon, France. In France, IFOR was called the Mouvement International de la RĂ©conciliation (MIR). He was the author of a number of books on a Christian responsibility for peace and non-violence.
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See also the "Goss-Mayr, Hildegard" file.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1967/06/25 |
HLS to Merton |
I am a friend an [sic] colleague of Jean Goss. We are both traveling secretaries for the IFOR. |
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1967/08/31 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Forgive me for not answering your letter sooner. I had already answered a letter on the same |
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1967/09/07 |
HLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your kind letter and your comprehensiveness. We are happy you are interested |
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1967/09/19 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I have recently heard from Dorothy Day, of the Catholic Worker. She participated in a fast for |
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