Title: Cold War letters /
Authors: Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968; Bochen, Christine M.; Shannon, William H. 1917-2012.
Publisher: Orbis Books,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Merton, Thomas, Correspondence.; Peace Religious aspects Christianity
Abstract: "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.
Contents: 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 --^