This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Farnsley, Charles Rowland Peaslee".
Charles P. Farnsley served as Louisville mayor from 1948-1953. Merton asks his help in obtaining books about American democracy in preparation to obtain U.S. citizenship.
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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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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1951/04/16 |
TLS from Merton |
Last year when you visited us you generously offered to send or lend us books we might need. |
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