Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990"

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Title
Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990"
Creator
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
Scope and Content
In this group of letters spanning the 1960's, Merton and Lewis Mumford share a critical outlook of technology and the expansion of modern cities. They also express negative opinions of the U.S. Pentagon and its handling of Vietnam. The Merton Center collection contains carbon copies and Xerox copies of Merton's letters to Mumford, and signed originals of Mumford's letters to Merton.
Biographical Text
Lewis Mumford was a well known architectural critic, urban planner, and commentator of the effects of modern technology on human development. Merton mentions reading some of Mumford's articles and his books The Myth of the Machine and Technics and Civilization. Extant letters from Lewis Mumford are addressed from Amenia, New York, but Merton mentions a letter of his written from London.
Date
1961-1967, 1973
Item
9 item(s)
Folder
1 folder(s)
Relation
For more information on Lewis Mumford, visit the Web site of the Lewis Mumford Center. The official repository of Mumford papers can be found at the University of Pennsylvania.
http://www.albany.edu/mumford/
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/mumford/
Level
Record Group: Section A, Correspondence; Sub-Group/sub-section by person in correspondence with Merton. Records arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
Identifier
Section A (Correspondence), File folder: "Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990"
Other Finding Aids
http://www.merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=1456
Page
12 page(s)
Tag
Lewis Mumford
Subject
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968
Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990
Rights
© The Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University. All rights reserved.

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