MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bagguley, John
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1966
Volume: 2 item(s); 2 pg(s)
Scope and Content
John Bagguley and Cecil Woolf write to Merton to ask his views on the Vietnam War. He provides a brief statement in response, which was later reprinted as "Taking Sides on Vietnam" in Merton's Faith and Violence.
Biography
John Bagguley and Cecil Woolf were editors of the book Authors Take Sides on Vietnam. The book asked a range of authors to address the following questions: "Are you for, or against, the intervention of the United States in Vietnam?"; and "How, in your opinion, should the conflict in Vietnam be resolved?". Other authors in the volume included: W. H. Auden; William F. Buckley, Jr.; William S. Burroughs; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; and Allen Ginsberg. The book was modeled after Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, published in 1937, and compiled by Nancy Cunard. Woolf and Bagguley write to Merton from London.
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See also the "Woolf, Cecil" file for the original letters and additional responses by Merton.
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