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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Dunne, Finley Peter, Jr.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968, 1970

Volume: 16 item(s); 20 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Peter Dunne was executive director of The Temple of Understanding in Washington, D.C. The organization was founded to promote interreligious dialog and to build a center in Washington to facilitate interfaith education (later, programming of educational programs became the sole emphasis and the idea of building a center was abandoned). Merton was invited to speak at the first international conference of the organization in Calcutta and was able to make this a part of his journey to Asia.

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Related Information and Links

See published letters from Merton to Dunne in Witness to Freedom, pp. 256-258.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/07/18 (#01)TLSto MertonI am writing to you at the suggestion of our good friend and admired colleague, Professor Amiya   
 1968/07/18 (#02)TL[c]to MertonI am writing to you at the suggestion of our good friend and admired colleague, Professor Amiya   
 1968/07/23 (#01)TLSfrom MertonI was delighted to receive your letter of July 18th yesterday. The invitation was most acceptableYes  
 1968/07/23 (#02)TL[c]from MertonI was delighted to receive your letter of July 18th yesterday. The invitation was most acceptableYes  
 1968/07/30 (#01)TLSto MertonTo say I was delighted by your letter would be putting it mildly. I look forward most eagerly   
 1968/07/30 (#02)TL[c]to MertonTo say I was delighted by your letter would be putting it mildly. I look forward most eagerly   
 1968/08/03 (#01)TLSfrom MertonThanks for your fine letter. I certainly don't want to intrude on your program when others couldYes  
 1968/08/03 (#02)TL[c]from MertonThanks for your fine letter. I certainly don't want to intrude on your program when others couldYes  
 1968/08/12 TL[c]to MertonThe reason it has taken me so long to answer your fine letter of August 3 is that my wife and I are   
 1968/08/21 TLSfrom MertonPlease excuse the somewhat inappropriate stationery-- I've been running a little literary magazine.Yes  
 1968/08/31 TL[c]to MertonDear me, time has been leaking away at a frightening pace, as I try to do my W.C. Fields juggling   
 1968/09/06 TLSfrom MertonThe simplest, most practical, most helpful would be to send a check for $200 if that is agreeable   
 1968/09/10 TL[c]to MertonI am enclosing our check for $200. Also enclosed are two forms that need to be filled out.   
 1968/10/03 TALSfrom MertonI just reached here from Alaska and got your letter, the forms etc. My Passport visa already hasYes  
 1968/10/10 TALSfrom MertonThere was a little delay in getting your letter as I was on the road. However I have now finishedYes  
 1970/08/25 TLSto Center from Dunne, FinleyDuring the summer and fall of 1968, I was privileged to have some correspondence with Thomas Merton,   
        

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