MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1958-1959, 1973
Volume: 6 item(s); 8 pg(s)
Scope and Content
In his one extant letter to Huxley, Merton responds to an article Huxley wrote entitled, "Drugs That Shape Men's Minds" (The Saturday Evening Post. 231, October 18, 1958). (Source: The Hidden Ground of Love, p. 436.)
Biography
Philosopher, social critic, and author of books such as his most famous, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley was born and educated in England and moved to the California in the 1930's. Becoming ever more critical of Western civilization and the dehumanizing character of technology, Huxley became drawn to Eastern philosophy and religion and to mysticism. Merton was influenced early on by Huxley though his book, Ends and Means. Similar views on technology, Eastern philosophy, and mysticism appear in Merton's thinking, as well. (Source: The Hidden Ground of Love, p. 436.)
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Contains one letter from Mrs. Huxley to Tommie O'Callaghan; see also "O'Callaghan, (Tommie) Thomasine (Cadden)" file. One letter from Merton to Huxley can be found in The Hidden Ground of Love, pp. 436-439. Huxley's reply to Merton appears in the Letters of Aldous Huxley, edited by Grover Smith (Harper & Row, 1969), pp. 862-864. In the same volume, Merton is mentioned in his St. Bonaventure days in a 1942 letter from Huxley to Christopher Isherwood, pp. 474-475.
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