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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Cameron, Charles, 1944-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964

Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Cameron, Charles".

Biography

Charles Cameron was a 20-year-old student from Christ Church College in Oxford England. (Source: The Road to Joy, p. 333.)

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See published letter from Merton to Cameron in The Road to Joy, pp. 333-334.

Other Finding Aids

If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1964/11/29 TL[c]from MertonIt is good to get letters like yours but bad because I can't answer them most of the time but thanksYes "contact with the human race" - good or bad / poets Merton likes - Stevie Smith and Peter Levi, SJ / on being a "dervish" / <u>Milesford Review</u> / Merton's picture of Br. Antoninus "touching water" / politics - A. J. Muste and people from Liberatio / "I promise you a difficult time with all popery" / no opinion on Second Vatican Council
 1964/11/no? TLSto Mertoni read your letter to el corno emplumado (why isnt it cuerno ?) of april 64 and am a dervish [sic]  Cameron is a "dervish full of ruah" after reading Merton's "Message to Poets" / "how many zany monks are there at large in the church now ?" - Brother Antoninus, Silvester Houedard of Prinknash Abbey / Martin Luther King, Jr. / Gerard Manley Hopkins
        

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