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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Thompson, Charles Stanley

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1961-1964, 1984-1985

Volume: 17 item(s); 22 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Merton writes to subscribe to Pax Bulletin and begins corresponding with Thompson about the peace movement and opposition to nuclear proliferation.

Biography

Charles Stanley Thompson worked for the British National Heath Service. He converted to Catholicism in 1954. He became involved in a peace organization called the Pax Society, which later allied with the Pax Christi International movement. Thompson served as bulletin editor for the British society's Pax Bulletin from 1956-1963. He was also chairperson until 1971. (Source: The Hidden Ground of Love, p. 571.)

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Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letters #106 and other published letters from Merton to Thompson in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 571-575.

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Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1961/11/08 TLS[x]from MertonI am enclosing a check for five dollars, to cover the following: Two years' subscription to PaxYes  
 1961/11/18 TL[x]to MertonI should like you to know how glad we were to hear from you recently and to know of your support   
 1961/11/27 HLS[x]from MertonThanks for your good letter. I am glad you will reprint bits of the October CW. article.Yes  
 1962/01/21 TL[x]to MertonI was very glad to have your letter of 27th November and must apologize for not having replied   
 1962/03/17 TALS[x]from MertonThank you for your letter which has waited for a reply for some weeks. I should have written to youYes  
 1962/07/14 TALSto MertonThank you very much for sending me your book on "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" which arrived   
 1962/07/19 TALS[x]from MertonUnfortunately the Peace Book has been forbidden by my higher Superiors. Hence none of it canYes  
 1962/09/22 TLSto MertonI am very sorry not to have written earlier, especially as you were so kind to reply at once to my   
 1962/09/27 (#01)TAL[c]from MertonIt is true that PAX can certainly be considered a "small publication". At the same time I don'tYes [Cold War Letters #106]
 1962/09/27 (#02)transcriptfrom MertonI may think up a more expanded message later for the Spode House meeting, but if I do not getYes [Cold War Letters #106 - transcript from bound set]
 1964/01/03 TAL[x]to U.S. BishopsI have been asked to write to you on behalf of those present at the PAX autumn conference at Spode  [enclosed is a copy of resolution adopted at annual conference of PAX in October of 1963 - handwritten note on the letter - "(Sent to all Bishops in this country)"]
 1964/01/10 HLS[x]from MertonThanks for sending me the resolution that went out to the Bishops. I hope you have received a good   
 1984/06/14 TLS from Flessati, Valerie / to William ShannonI have been given your name by Mrs Magdalen Goffin because in the course of some recent study into  [enclosed: copies of letters between Merton and Charles Thompson]
 1984/08/31 TLS[x] from Shannon, William / to Valerie FlessatiI write this on the last day of August so as to ease my conscience by thinking that another month  thanks for letters
 1984/11/02 TLS from Flessati, Valerie / to William ShannonVery good to hear from you that you may be able to include Merton's letters to PAX in the  [enclosed: small biography, invitation to visit while in England / request for letter of 1962/09/27]
 1984/11/05 TLS[x] from Shannon, William / to Robert GirouxI enclose the letters of Charles Thompson who was editor of Pax Bulletin, the publication of the  sending letters to Farrar Straus and Co. / hoping they can be included
 1985/10/08 TLS from Thompson, Charles / to William ShannonThank you so much for your letter and for sending the Merton letters so quickly to my daughter. She  [enclosed a letter from Merton] spoke of PAX efforts
        

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