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Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of correspondence between Jim Forest and Henri Nouwen. File includes correspondence with Nouwen's family; Nouwen's various administrative assistants over the years; and Nouwen's acquaintances. Correspondence is in the form of printed e-mails; original and copied letters both typed and handwritten including 2 form letters; postcards; notices; pamphlets regarding Nouwen; copies of Nouwen's response to Forest's book, "a Pilgrim to the Russian Church" (New York: Crossroad, 1988); and appended articles.

Printed emails are to and from Jim and Nancy Forest and Nouwen, Laurent Nouwen, Connie Ellis, Robert Ellsberg, Paul del Junco, and others (sent from January 25, 1988, to November 3, 2006; printed on April 25, 2007).

Letters are mainly original typed and signed. 22 of the letters were sent to Forest on Nouwen's behalf by his various administrative assistants, including Sylvia Thayer Zaeder, Jane Mansfield Bouvier, Carol Platinga, June E. Hagen, Michael Harank, Elizabeth (Betty) K. Mahan, Peter Weiskel, and Connie Ellis. 3 letters are to Forest from Nouwen's family, including Paul Nouwen (brother), Laurent Nouwen (brother), and Laurien van Campen (sister). 58 copies of letters are to Nouwen from Forest. 2 copies of letters are to Nouwen from Nancy Forest-Flier.

File is separated into the following four folders:

  • Folder 1: 1976-1980 (Includes an item list of articles by or regarding Nouwen; mostly clipped from magazines and newspapers)
  • Folder 2: 1981-1985
  • Folder 3: 1986-1990+
  • Folder 4: Emails

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of letters from Jim Forest and a forwarded letter by Matthew Kelty. Also includes a copy of Forest's The Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam: Fifteen Years for Reconciliation (1978).

Letter from Jim Forest

File consists of one letter from Jim Forest, including one long typed letter from Nouwen. Jim Forest was writing to inform Nouwen that his book "Praying With Icons" should be published in December [1996], and he thanks Nouwen for inspiring him to write the book. Forest and Nouwen also discuss Forest's conversion to Orthodoxy.

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of letters from Jim Forest, including a draft of an article by him entitled "Holy Foolishness" and an article by Nancy Forest-Flier entitled "Practicing Advent Until We Get it Right".

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of six letters from Jim Forest (two from Jim and Nancy, one of these on Orthodox Peace Fellowship letterhead), copies of two typed letters of response from Connie Ellis, Nouwen's administrative assistant, the February 1991 issue of a Dutch publication Kerk in Oost-Europa (De Heraut), a copy of a list of talks given by Forest, and the December 1991 issue of Occasional Paper (newsletter of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship).
File also includes a letter (both the original and a copy) from Fr. Conrad Hoover, C.O., inviting Nouwen to be a Cardinal Newman lecturer at The Oratory (Rock Hill, SC) in 1993 or 1994, a copy of a typed letter of response from Ellis, a copy of a typed letter from Nouwen declining the invitation, and a copy of a typed memo to Joe Vorstermans from Nouwen regarding the letter from Hoover.
File also includes a letter from Forest addressed to Connie and co-workers at Daybreak regarding Romanian refugees Jenica and Mihai Ioana hoping to resettle in Canada, a copy of a letter from Mihai to the pastor of the Russian Orthodox Church of Christ the Saviour in London, Ontario, a copy of the Ioana's curriculum vitaes, a copy of a typed letter of response from Ellis, and a copy of a typed memo [from Ellis] to Joe Vorstermans regarding the Ioanas.

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of three letters (one a form letter from the Orthodox Peace Fellowship, signed by Jim and Nancy Forest), and a note from Jim Forest. File also includes an Occasional Paper of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship with an article by Forest; three other articles by him and one by his wife, Nancy Forest-Flier; a form letter from Tamara Ovodova; a letter and pamphlet from David C. Atwood, General Secretary, International Fellowship of Reconciliation (Alkmaar, The Netherlands); a letter and two issues of the Peace Media Service (November 1990, December 1990) (of which Forest is editor).

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of four letters from Jim Forest. File also includes a copy of report by Forest entitled "For Better, For Worse in the USSR" about his travels there, and a letter from Gert Muis (an acquaintance of Forest) in Dutch inviting Nouwen to speak.

Letters from Nancy and Jim Forest

File consists of one Christmas form letter with a personal note, and six letters (plus two copies of letters) from Nancy and Jim Forest, including three articles written by Jim. File also includes four letters, a note, a newsletter and a drawing by their daughter, Anne, to Connie Ellis, Nouwen's administrative assistant, and two letters from Ellis.

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of letters and newsletters from Jim Forest, including letters from members of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, namely Nancy Forest-Flier (addressed to "Opzij" a Dutch magazine), and Joe Peacock (writing from Leningrad, USSR) and a short typed letter from Connie Ellis, Nouwen's assistant.

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of letters from Jim Forest, including a letter from Marie Goldstein, Darton Longman &Todd Ltd. publishers and Yvette Naal, on behalf of the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research and International Fellowship of Reconciliation. Most letters are written from Jerusalem or Holland.

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of letters from Jim Forest, including a long travel journal of Forest's ten-day stay in Moscow.

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of letters from Jim Forest, General Secretary of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation based in Holland, a very long typed letter from Nouwen, as well as typescript by Forest titled "On Christian Faith, Nonviolence and Holy Disobedience", letters to Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, archbishop of Chicago, Richard Deats, and Gene Hoffman.

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of letters from Jim Forest, including two long typed letters from Nouwen, two short typed letters from June E. Hagan, Nouwen's administrative assistant, and a copy of Forest's article "A Vocation in Peacemaking”.

Letters from Jim Forest

File consists of letters from Jim Forest, including a long typed letter from Nouwen and several copies of correspondence between Forest and others.

Letter from James H. Forest

File consists of work by James H. Forest titled "Good News in a Time of Despair: The Life of Jubilee in the Twentieth Century", which also contains a letter to Nouwen.