Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Forest, James H., 1941-2022"

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Title
Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Forest, James H., 1941-2022"
Creator
Forest, James H., 1941-2022
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
Biographical Text
A life-long activist for peace, Forest first cames into contact with Merton through Dorothy Day while Forest was at the Catholic Worker in New York. He was active in the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF), an affiliate program of FOR, to assist those trying to obtain Conscientious Objector status in 1964. In 1977, Forest assumed the duty of General Secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) based in the Netherlands.
Date
1961-1968
Item
230 item(s)
Folder
11 folder(s)
Relation
See also the "Gagner, Gary A." (conscientious objector) and the "FBI Materials and CIA Materials" files; and see also Cold War Letters #25, #31, #61, #69, and #101, and other letters from Merton to Forest published in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp.254-308; and see also an unabridged version of the 29 December 1965 letter published in Signs of Hope, pp. 87-90.
Publisher
https://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A1246675112
https://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A26316014
Level
Record Group: Section A, Correspondence; Sub-Group/sub-section by person in correspondence with Merton. Records arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
Identifier
Section A (Correspondence), File folder: "Forest, James H., 1941-2022"
Other Finding Aids
http://www.merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=668
Page
370 page(s)
Subject
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968--Correspondence.
Source
Thomas Merton Correspondence
Rights
Copyright The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. All rights reserved. Photographs copyright of the Merton Legacy Trust. Not to be used without written permission.
Format
Text
Language
English

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