MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart), 1916-1999
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1962-1963, 1967
Volume: 6 item(s); 6 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Hughes, H. Stuart (Henry Stuart)".
Biography
H. Stuart Hughes was a scholar of the intellectual history of Europe, author, and professor at Harvard University at the time of writing to Merton. His first letter to Merton is written shortly after a failed bid for United States Senator of Massachusetts on an Independent ticket, losing to Ted Kennedy in 1962. Previously, Merton had been contacted by the group Artists and Writers for Hughes, to whom he sent a reply with some contributions of his writing. Hughes was involved in the Massachusetts Political Action for Peace, which awarded Merton their Pax Peace Prize in 1963. His 1967 telegram is written while Chair of the SANE, "A Citizens’ Organization for a Sane World", which called for worldwide nuclear disarmament. (Sources: "H. Stuart Hughes: In Memoriam." Perspectives: March 2000. American Historical Association website. ‹http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2000/0003/0003mem2.cfm›, Accessed: 2005/04/28.)
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See also, "Thomas Merton and the PAX Peace Prize" by John P. Collins, The Merton Seasonal (Spring 2008) 33:1, pp. 3-14 [https://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/33/33-1Collins.pdf].
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