Cold War letters
Thomas Merton (Author), Christine M. Bochen (Editor), William H. Shannon (Editor)
"Published for the first time in book form, this collection of 111 letters from Thomas Merton to friends, activists, artists, and intellectuals was written between October 1961 and October 1962. As the world seemed to tumble toward a nuclear apocalypse, Merton sought to create a community of concern that might raise a moral counterweight to the forces of fear and destruction."--Jacket
Correspondence
xxxiv, 206 pages ; 21 cm
9781570756627, 1570756627
71210109
Foreword / James W. Douglass
Preface / William H. Shannon
Introduction / Christine M. Bochen
Cold War letters
Preface / Thomas Merton
The letters. To Etta Gullick, Oxford, October 25, 1961
To John C. Heidbrink, Nyack, N.Y., October 30, 1961
To Paulo Alceu Amoroso Lima, Rio de Janeiro, November 1961
To Maynard Shelby, Newton, Kans., December 1961
To Erich Fromm, Mexico City, December 1961
T. Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, Washington, D.C., December 7, 1961
To Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco, Calif., December 1961
To Bruno Schlesinger, Notre Dame, Ind., December 13, 1961
To Archb. Thomas Roberts, S.J., London, December 1961
To Ethel Kennedy, Washington, D.C., December 1961
To Dorothy Day, New York, December 20, 1961
To Edward Deming Andrews, Pittsfield, Mass., December 21, 1961
To Josiah G. Chatham, Jackson, Miss., December 1961
To Etta Gullick, Oxford, December 22, 1961
To Jeanne Burdick, Topeka, Kans., December 26, 1961
To Robert Lax, New York, December 1961
To Clare Boothe Luce, New York, December 1961 or January 1962
To Walter Stein, Leeds, England, December 1961 or January 1962
To Jean Goss-Mayr, Vienna, January 1, 1962
To Sister Therese Lentfoehr, S.D.S. Wisconsin, January 11, 1962
To Gordon Zahn, Chicago, Ill., January 11, 1962
To Sister Emmanuel de Souza y Silva, O.S.B., Petrópolis, Brazil, January 16, 1962
To John Cuthbert Ford, S.J., Washington, D.C., January 1962
To Mary Childs Black, Williamsburg, Va., c. January 24, 1962
To Victor Hammer, Lexington, Ky., c. January 25, 1962
To James H. Forest, New York, January 29, 1962
To Wilbur H. Ferry, Santa Barbara, Calif., January 30, 1962
To Evora Arca de Sardinia, Miami, Fla., January 31, 1962
To Elsa Englander, Linz, Austria, February 4, 1962
To Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, Washington, D.C., February 4, 1962
To James H. Forest, New York, February 6, 1962
To Frank J. Sheed, New York, February 1962
To Edward Rice, New York, February 10, 1962
To Bruno P. Schlesinger, Notre Dame, Ind., February 10, 1962
To Karl Stern, Montreal, February 1962
To James Roy Newman, Washington, February 1962
To Rabbi Zalman Schachter, Winnipeg, February 15, 1962
To John C. Heidbrink, Nyack, N.Y., February 15, 1962
To Wilbur H. Ferry, Mexico, February 17, 1962
To Robert Lax, New York, February 1962
To Rabbi Steven Schwarzschild, Boston, Mass., February 24, 1962
To Mother Angela Collins, O.C.D., Louisville, Ky., February 1962
To Tashi Tshering, Seattle, Wash., February-March 1962
To Ad Reinhardt, New York, February-March 1962
To Steve Eisner, Detroit, Mich., February-March 1962
To Justus George Lawler, Chicago, Ill., February-March 1962
To W.H. Ferry, Santa Barbara, Calif., March 6, 1962
To the editors of The Commonweal, March 1962
To W.D. (unidentified), Oyster Bay, N.Y
To Sr. Mary Madeleva, Notre Dame, Ind., March 1962
To Herbert Mason, Gorham, Maine, March 9, 1962
To Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, Washington, D.C., March 1962
To Gerald Landry, Glen Garden, N.J., March 1962
To Msgr. John Tracy Ellis, Washington, D.C., March 1962
To Czeslaw Milosz, Berkeley, Calif., March 1962
To Thomas J. Liang, Oakland, Calif., March 1962
To Frank J. Sheed, New York, March 1962
To Kilian McDonnell, Trier, Germany, March 1962
To Justus George Lawler, Chicago, Ill., March 1962
To James H. Forest, Hart's Island (prison), N.Y., March 28, 1962
To Thomas McDonnell, Boston, Mass., c. March 28, 1962
To Etta Gullick, Oxford, March 30, 1962
To Thomas McDonnell, Boston, Mass. April 1962
To Allan Forbes, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., April 1962
To Roger de Ganck, O.C.S.O., Belgium, April 1962
To Abdul Aziz, Pakistan, April 4, 1962
To Leo Szilard, Washington, D.C., April 12, 1962
To James H. Forest, New York, April 29, 1962
To Justus George Lawler, Chicago, Ill, April or May 1962
To Victor Hammer, Lexington, Ky., May 1962
To Allan Forbes, Jr., Cambridge, Mass., May 1962
To Roger Caillos, Buenos Aires, May 1962
To Valerie Delacorte, New York, May 1962
To Robert McGregor, New York, May 1962
To Nuns, Sisters of Loretto (making final vows), Kentucky, May 29, 1962
To W.H. Ferry, Santa Barbara, Calif., June 4, 1962
To Robert Lax, New York, June 4, 1962
To Catherine de Hueck (Doherty), Ontario, June 4, 1962
To Ray Livingston, Minneapolis, Minn. June 1962
To William Robert Miller, Baltimore, . Md., June 1962
To John C.H. Wu, Newark, N.J. June 7, 1962
To John Harris, England, June 8, 1962
To Father J. Whitney Evans, Duluth, Minn., June 13, 1962
To Will Watkins, San Francisco, Calif., June 15, 1962
To Dorothy Day, New York, June 16, 1962
To Carl Kline, Wisconsin, June 1962
To Gwen Myers, Watertown, Maine, June 1962
To John Whitman Sears, San Mateo, Calif., June 23, 1962
To D. Brendan Nagle, Malibu, Calif., June or July 1962
To Sister Elaine Michael Bane, O.S.F., Allegany, N.Y., July 4, 1962
To Henry Miller, Paris, July 9, 1963
To Evora Arca de Sardinia, Miami, Fla., August 2, 1962
To Elbert R. Sisson, Maryland, August 2, 1962
To Henry Miller, Pacific Palisades, Calif., August 7, 1962
To Joost A.M. Meerlo, New York, August 1962
To Allan Forbes, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., August 1962
To the Hon. Shinzo Hamai, Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan, August 9, 1962
To Mark Van Doren, Connecticut, August 9, 1962
To Robert J. McCracken, Iowa, August 1962
To James H. Forest, New York, August 27, 1962
To Lou Silberman, Nashville, Tenn., September 19, 1962
To Leslie Dewart, Toronto, September 1962
To Dan Shay, Detroit, Mich., September 1962
To Charles Thompson, London, September 27, 1962
To Elsa Englander, Linz, Austria, September 30, 1962
To Dallas Smythe, Urbana, Ill., October 22, 1962
To Etta Gullick, Oxford, October 29 1962
To Evora Arca de Sardinia, Miami, Fla., October 29, 1962
To George Dunne, Washington, D.C., October 30, 1962
To Rabbi Everett Gendler, Princeton, N.J., October 1962