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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Kline, Carl L.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962

Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Carl L. Kline, M.D., was a doctor serving in Wausau, Wisconsin, when he wrote this letter to Merton.

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Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letter #87, published in Witness to Freedom, p. 56.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/05/31 TLS[x]to MertonFor a number of months I have been avidly reading your articles in <u>Fellowship</u>,  articles in <u>Fellowship</u>, <u>The Progressive</u> and <u>The Catholic Worker</u> / tragedy of Christians tolerating war, and especially, the clergy not speaking out against war
 1962/06/no? transcriptfrom MertonI want to thank you warmly for your appreciative letter. It means a lot to receive such reactionsYes [copied from published letter] problem of "secularization of religion" - on drawing spiritual meaning from life / sending mimeograph of unpublished book on war [<i>Peace in a Post-Christian Era</i>]
        

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