MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Cunningham, Adrian, d. 2012
Click here to exit print-formated view.
Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1961-1962
Volume: 3 item(s); 6 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Cunningham, Adrian".
Biography
Adrian Cunningham died at age 69 in March 2012. He spent the greatest part of his professional career at the University of Lancaster, helping to found the Department of Religious Studies in 1967. Merton writes to him in London. At the time, he was a student at Cambridge. He was involved in Catholic attempts to promote non-violence and to resist nuclear arms proliferation. He later was a co-founder the controversial publication Slant, which attempted to reconcile Marxism and Catholic thought. (Sources: Subtext [Lancaster, UK]: #88, 22 March 2012 ; and " Once again, farewell," The Tablet: 24 March 2012, p. 19 .)
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Related Information and Links
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
|