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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.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See published letters from Merton to Dunne in Witness to Freedom, pp. 256-258.
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.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1968/07/18 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I am writing to you at the suggestion of our good friend and admired colleague, Professor Amiya |
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1968/07/18 (#02) |
TL[c] to Merton |
I am writing to you at the suggestion of our good friend and admired colleague, Professor Amiya |
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«detailed view» |
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1968/07/23 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
I was delighted to receive your letter of July 18th yesterday. The invitation was most acceptable |
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«detailed view» |
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1968/07/23 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
I was delighted to receive your letter of July 18th yesterday. The invitation was most acceptable |
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«detailed view» |
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1968/07/30 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
To say I was delighted by your letter would be putting it mildly. I look forward most eagerly |
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«detailed view» |
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1968/07/30 (#02) |
TL[c] to Merton |
To say I was delighted by your letter would be putting it mildly. I look forward most eagerly |
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1968/08/03 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Thanks for your fine letter. I certainly don't want to intrude on your program when others could |
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«detailed view» |
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1968/08/03 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your fine letter. I certainly don't want to intrude on your program when others could |
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«detailed view» |
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1968/08/12 |
TL[c] to Merton |
The reason it has taken me so long to answer your fine letter of August 3 is that my wife and I are |
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1968/08/21 |
TLS from Merton |
Please excuse the somewhat inappropriate stationery-- I've been running a little literary magazine. |
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1968/08/31 |
TL[c] to Merton |
Dear me, time has been leaking away at a frightening pace, as I try to do my W.C. Fields juggling |
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1968/09/06 |
TLS from Merton |
The simplest, most practical, most helpful would be to send a check for $200 if that is agreeable |
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1968/09/10 |
TL[c] to Merton |
I am enclosing our check for $200. Also enclosed are two forms that need to be filled out. |
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1968/10/03 |
TALS from Merton |
I just reached here from Alaska and got your letter, the forms etc. My Passport visa already has |
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1968/10/10 |
TALS from Merton |
There was a little delay in getting your letter as I was on the road. However I have now finished |
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1970/08/25 |
TLS to Center from Dunne, Finley |
During the summer and fall of 1968, I was privileged to have some correspondence with Thomas Merton, |
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