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Stephen James was founder and President of the Peace Hostage Exchange Foundation, headquartered in New York. The idea was to send delegations from the United States to strategic targets in the Soviet Union and vice versa. The hope was to get some prominent individuals, like Merton or Robert Kennedy, to go over and to get Premier Krushchev's family and others to come here in exchange.
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See published letters from Merton to James in Witness to Freedom, pp. 86-87. See also a response regarding the Peace Hostage Exchange Foundation in the "Gendler, Everett, Rabbi" file.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1962/11/18 |
TLS to Merton |
By a nightly vigil at our typewriters and telephone for ten months following our decisions that |
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1962/11/30 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Your letter was no surprise to me and I am already familiar with the Peace Hostage Foundation. |
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1962/11/30 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
So as far as I am concerned, within these limitations you have my wholehearted support, |
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[same letter as previous record - copy of signed second page only]
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1962/12/09 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I am deeply grateful for your quick response of November 30th to my letter of November 18th... |
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1963/02/12 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Forgive me for not answering your two letters sooner. I feel guilty in alleging that I am |
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1963/02/12 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Forgive me for not answering your two letters sooner. I feel guilty in alleging that I am |
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1971/03/09 |
TLS[x] to Center from James, Stephen |
Here is the correspondence we discussed (enclosed). Let me thank you again for your kindness |
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1971/06/16 |
TL[x] from Center to James, Stephen |
Naomi Burton Stone has sent me the copies of Thomas Merton's letters to you that you had sent her. |
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