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Scope and Content Several letters Waldemar Gurian wrote to Newman after the latter entered Berlin as part of the American occupation forces in July 1945 requesting that Newman send him certain German books and look up old friends; and two letters in which Newman reminisces about his explorations in the ruins of Berlin and about classes with Frank O'Malley, professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Also six letters mentioning O'Malley, received by Newman between 1945 and 1947; and...

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Xerox copies of letters that Maritain, a French Thomist philosopher and professor at Princeton, wrote to Gurian, a professor of political science at Notre Dame, concerning world events, politics, and personal matters.