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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
James, Stephen D.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1963, 1971

Volume: 8 item(s); 13 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

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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Related Information and Links

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.

Other Finding Aids

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.
   

Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/11/18 TLSto MertonBy a nightly vigil at our typewriters and telephone for ten months following our decisions that   
 1962/11/30 (#01)TL[c]from MertonYour letter was no surprise to me and I am already familiar with the Peace Hostage Foundation.Yes  
 1962/11/30 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonSo as far as I am concerned, within these limitations you have my wholehearted support,Yes [same letter as previous record - copy of signed second page only]
 1962/12/09 TL[x]to MertonI am deeply grateful for your quick response of November 30th to my letter of November 18th...   
 1963/02/12 (#01)TL[c]from MertonForgive me for not answering your two letters sooner. I feel guilty in alleging that I amYes  
 1963/02/12 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonForgive me for not answering your two letters sooner. I feel guilty in alleging that I amYes  
 1971/03/09 TLS[x]to Center from James, StephenHere is the correspondence we discussed (enclosed). Let me thank you again for your kindness   
 1971/06/16 TL[x]from Center to James, StephenNaomi Burton Stone has sent me the copies of Thomas Merton's letters to you that you had sent her.   
        

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