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

Item set

Title

Creator

Forest, James H., 1941-2022 See all item sets with this value

Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 See all item sets with this value

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 See all item sets with this value

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. See all item sets with this value

Source

Thomas Merton Correspondence

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Language

English See all item sets with this value

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Letter to Thomas Merton from James H. Forest. 1962 June 14

Correspondence with James H. Forest who was involved in the Catholic Worker movement and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Letter to Merton discussing PAX. Enclosure - a quotation from E.I. Watkin.
Letter to Thomas Merton from James H. Forest. 1961 July 31

Correspondence with James H. Forest who was involved in the Catholic Worker movement and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Letter to Merton regarding an article in the Catholic Worker
Letter to Thomas Merton from James H. Forest. 1961 August 11

Correspondence with James H. Forest who was involved in the Catholic Worker movement and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Letter to Merton regarding an article in the Catholic Worker.