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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
O'Brien, Thomas J. [1]

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

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Biography

Thomas O'Brien was a religion teacher at Brother Rice High School in Chicago, Illinois. He was working on a graduate degree in education at this time. He asks Merton's advice for a paper he was writing for a course. O'Brien entitled his paper: "Catholic Church Non-Involvement in Ghetto Areas, and Consequent Adverse Effect on Negro Acculturation". (Source: The Road to Joy, pp. 364.)

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Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Thomas Merton to O'Brien in The Road to Joy, pp. 364-365.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/03/15 TLSto MertonI am preparing a research paper for an education course. The topic has been left to the students,   
 1968/04/09 TL[c]from MertonWell, since your letter, we haveseen [sic] some tragic new developments in the area of raceYes  
        

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