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- 1964 October (date approximate) (Creation)
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1 page(s); Typed signed letter.
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Philip Berrigan was a social activist and writer whose acts of civil disobedience during the Vietnam War made him a household name in the peace movement. Younger brother of Daniel Berrigan, he became a priest like his brother, but with the Josephites instead of the Jesuits. He would later marry and would be excommunicated. Throughout his life, he continued to protest nuclear proliferation in the United States and was often imprisoned for his actions.
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First lines: "You will recall the hopes that Dan and I had that you would write the foreword of our joint"... Contents index: asking Merton to write a foreword to his book «No Longer Strangers» / at meeting at Gethsemani next month, Philip would like to discuss institutionalism - wrote about it in «Perspectives».
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- English