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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Donaldson, Ivanhoe

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1966

Volume: 3 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Donaldson, Ivanhoe".

Biography

Ivanhoe Donaldson was working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while corresponding with Merton. He worked alongside another Merton correspondent from this time, Marion Barry, who would later become mayor of Washington, D.C. He served as an advisor to Barry from the sixties to the eighties and was involved in Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign.

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Related Information and Links

See also published letters from Merton to Donaldson in The Road to Joy, pp. 343-344.

Other Finding Aids

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
 1966/11/13 TL[c]from MertonI was delighted and surprised to get your letter of the 7th. I am wondering who I could possibly   
 1966/12/04 TL[c]from MertonI managed by fair and political means to come by the enclosed check which I am sending along a bit   
 1966/12/no? TLSto MertonThat's a great letter. Thank you. We will keep in touch. Do your best. Whatever it is, it will   
        

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