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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-063-#06
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1967-07-31, TL[c] Best to Marks, Lillian, 'I am sending your letter, with considerable distress, on to Thomas Merton. The'
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- 1967 July 31 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Carbon copy of a typed letter (not signed).
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Jim Best was Director of Publications for the Fellowship of Reconciliation in New York and their magazine «Fellowship».
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First lines: "I am sending your letter, with considerable distress, on to Thomas Merton. The distress I feel is"... Contents index: apology by Best to Marks concerning the decision to include Merton's remarks / clarifies that Merton was using terms "conjured up in the minds of those who fail and look for scapegoats" and not an expression of his own sentiments / feels Merton's words were insensitive and likely to be misconstrued, even given the context.
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- English
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Senders and recipients—
to Lillian Marks to: Best, James S.