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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Sears, John Whitman, Rev., 1906-2000

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962

Volume: 3 item(s); 6 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Sears, John Whitman, Rev.".

Biography

The Rev. John Whitman Sears was a psychologist and Universalist minister. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas, but moved with his family to California. He returned to the University of Kansas for college and was afterward ordained a minister. His ministry led him to North Carolina and back to Kansas where he left the ministry for social work. During the Great Depression, he moved with his family to San Carlos, California, studying psychology. He later moved to San Mateo where he joined his brother in a business of counseling and psychology, and from there he writes to Merton. (Source: "In Memoriam: Unitarian Universalist Ministers 2000-2001." Website of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Accessed 21 April 2006. ‹http://www.uua.org/programs/ministry/news/obituaries2001.html›.)

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letters #89 and other published letters from Merton to Sears in Witness to Freedom, pp. 303-306.

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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.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/06/23 transcriptfrom MertonThanks for your paper on the Arms Race as a Chain Reaction. I think it has a lot of very goodYes [Cold War Letters #89 - transcript from bound set]
 1962/09/05 TALSto MertonThere has been a long lapse of time since I received your friendly note of June 23rd.   
 1962/11/12 TL[c]from MertonI hope you haven't given up waiting for an answer. The fact that I waited so lon[g] is a sign thatYes  
        

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