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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Biram, John".
John Biram was originally from England and moved to the United States around 1960. A couple of years later, he would quit his job as a scientist and focus on writing. He wrote poems and includes one called "A Cocktail Party" with this letter to Merton. He also writes about the negative effects of technology in a book called Teknosis, which would be published until 11 years after this correspondence (1978).
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This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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| 1. |
1967/09/24 |
TLS to Fox, James |
it may be, for all I know, discourteous to write to a member of your/Abbey [sic] without first |
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asking to pass attached letter to Merton
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1967/09/25 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
this is an extremely hard letter to write, so I ask you to overlook its faults & see through to the |
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career background as a scientist turned poet - published in the New York Times and Negro Digest / writing a book called Teknosis "a disease resulting from life in technological society" / Fr. Stanley Jaki / value of contemplation / question of a non-Catholic monasticism for people like Biram
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1967/09/25 (#02) |
other to Merton |
Appeared New York Times 4 Sept. 67 (editorial page) A COCKTAIL PARTY Penned in this |
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[poem attached to 1967/09/25 letter]
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