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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Coltman, Edward J.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1966-1967

Volume: 5 item(s); 5 pg(s)

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Biography

Ted Coltman was writing Merton from Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of The Current.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1966/12/13 TLSto MertonI wrote you at the end of October concerning the questions of your writing for THE CURRENT  asks Merton for article on "philosophy of solitude"
 1966/12/22 TLSto MertonI was most pleased to receive your note yesterday saying that you would write something on solitude.  <i>Disputed Questions</i> - section on solitude / Christian perspective on solitude to accompany section on the problem of loneliness in modern life
 1967/06/18 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThanks for your very interesting letter. I'm replying while I can, because my ability to get  Merton may work on the subject of cowardice with an analyst friend - "a lot of the pacifism around is utterly worthless" - world needs a new "creative breakthrough" and a "really revolutionary humility" in dealing with problem of violence / celibacy issue "too symbolic and too complex" to comment upon
 1967/06/18 (#02)TL[x]from MertonThanks for your very interesting letter. I'm replying while I can, because my ability to get  [same as previous record but better xerox with Shannon's notes and full final sentence]
 1967/06/no? TALSto MertonYesterday I read a piece in Commentary that was clearly written with a good deal of feeling and  Coltman's reaction to an article from <u>Commentary</u> entitled, "On Cowardice" - confronting violence and anger / Coltman analyzing his own pacifism - is it cowardice? - starting to distrust non-violence / Coltman does not understand vow of celibacy - his thinking on a concept he calls "anti-entropy"
        

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