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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Brown, John B.".
John B. Brown was a student at Union Theological Seminary in New York at the time of his writing to Merton (Source: The Road to Joy, p. 369).
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See published letter from Merton to John B. Brown in The Road to Joy, p. 369.
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.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1968/07/25 |
TLS to Merton |
I am reading your book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, which I find both informative and |
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C. S. Lewis and Merton / thesis topic - race relations - possibility of racial war or apartheid / could race war be carried out in the name of Christianity by white racists?
«detailed view» |
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1968/08/07 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your kind letter. I am certainly happy to think that so sound a judge as C.S.Lewis found |
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possibility of racial violence and apartheid police state - suggests writing to John Howard Griffin on this subject
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