 Available here as.pdfs are a few of Walter Ong's letters which provide some insight into his relationship with Marshall McLuhan and the development of his work into orality-literacy studies.
Letter to Ronald A. Sarno, 1 June 1978 (.pdf, 64.7 kb)
Description: Four pages. In this letter, Ong explains his intellectual relationship to Marshall McLuhan and the insight Ong had into the noetic effects of print which lead to his work in orality-literacy studies.
Letter to Walker Gibson, April 14, 1969 (.pdf, 251 kb)
Description: Three pages. In this letter to Walker Gibson, Ong describes his intellectual realationship to Marshall McLuhan and the development of Ong's work on the oral to visual shift which lead to his work in orality-literacy studies.
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