John Cushman was with the Translation Rights Department with Curtis Brown.
Fr. Andrew Cusak was the Guidance Director for the Stamford Catholic High School at the time of correspondence.
Martin Lee Curry was poetry editor and later general editor for «The Florida Quarterly». This literary magazine began at University of Florida in Gainesville in 1967 and was the first of its kind at the university. Curry convinced Merton to send in a poem for the first issue. Merton also contributed the poem "Welcome" for the second issue, which was published in November of 1967.
Merton mentions that Eileen Curns was a papal volunteer in Brazil. After returning from the trip from Brazil, she attempts to publish an account of her trip, delivers speeches, and does typing for Merton. She writes from Waukegan, Illinois.
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 ‹www.lancaster.ac.uk/subtext/archive/issue088.htm›, accessed 14 March 2014; and " Once again, farewell," «The Tablet»: 24 March 2012, p. 19 ‹archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/24th-march-2012/19/once-again-farewell, accessed 14 March 2014›.)
Joseph E. Cunneen was Director of the Religious Department of Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishers at the time of correspondence with Merton. He and his wife, Sally Cunneen, were the founding editors of the quarterly review, «Cross Currents», which published a number of Merton's essays. He writes from New York.
Paul Cuneo was Book Editor for «America» magazine and writes from New York.
Dame Hildelith Cumming (born Barbara Theresa Cumming) was publisher and head printer at Stanbrook Abbey Press of the Benedictine nuns of Stanbrook Abbey in Callow End, Worcester, England. She was a convert to Catholicism. Besides her great success in raising the prestige of the press in her long tenure from 1956-1991, she was known as a fine musician and had published liturgical music.
Fr. Mihael Cukovečki was a Franciscan priest from Slavonski Brod Monastery in Yugoslavia (now in Croatia).
Michael Cuddihy was one of the translators of a book by Jacques Maritain (likely The Peasant of the Garonne). Cuddihy writes from Tucson, Arizona.
Sheila Cudahy was an editor and partner for Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Publishers at the time of writing to Merton.
Miss Cuccia seems to be from New York from a geographical reference Merton makes in the letter.
Pablo Antonio Cuadra was a Nicaraguan poet and author of over twenty books. He was editor of the literary reviews «Vanguardia» and «El Pez y La Serpiente», and co-edited the newspaper «La Prensa» with Pedro Joaquin Chamorro. He was in exile in Costa Rica for a period during his correspondence with Merton and later had to go into exile again when the Sandinistas came to powerx000D
(source: «The Courage for Truth», p. 178).
Josep M. Cruzet was writing on behalf of the publishers Editorial Selecta in Barcelona, Spain.
Paul A. Crow, Jr. was Associate Professor of Church History and Registrar of the College of the Bible in Lexington, Kentucky, at the time of this letter.
William Crotty was part of the Faculty Association of the Baldwinsville Academy and Central Schools in Baldwinsville, New York.
Fr. Bernard Cranor has been a Benedictine at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert since 1989. He began his monastic experience at Holy Trinity in Utah from 1951-1956, taking the name Stephen. He did not take solemn vows there, but decided to study for the Dominicans in California, where he would take the name Bernard and remain there as a priest until joining the Benedictines. It is during this time of his studies with the Dominicans that he has an exchange of letters with Merton. He was friends with another Merton correspondent, Br. Antoninus (William Everson), to whom Merton sends his greetings.
Dr. Robert Crane was a Research Associate with the Center for Strategic Studies and was later with the Hudson Institute for National Security and International Order in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. He was involved in Republican Party functions and conservative-leaning think-tanks on national and international security and outer space security.
Charles J. Crail was District Forester for the Commonwealth of Kentucky Division of Forestry in Elizabethtown.
The «C.P.S.A. Bulletin» seems to have been the magazine of the Catholic Poetry Society of America.
Norman Cousins was Editor of the «Saturday Review» and an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War.
Fr. Guerric Couilleau was a Cistercian monk of Bellefontaine Abbey in France.
Sr. Marion William Cotty writes from St. Teresa Convent in Providence, Rhode Island.
Antoinette M. Costa writes from Taunton, Massachusetts. She was writing a school research paper on Merton's poetry.
Maria Luisa Cortés was the sister of poet Alfonso Cortés. She writes from León, Nicaragua.
Known as "El Poeta Loco" of Nicaragua, Merton had a profound respect for his works and metaphysical insights. Christine Bochen states that "[i]n a brief essay introducing his translations of poems by Cortés, Merton recalls Ernesto Cardenal's account of seeing Cortés chained to a beam in Rubén Dario's house, where he is said to have gone insane on February 18, 1927 (source: «The Courage for Truth», p. 176).
Cecilia Corsanego was a student at Pro Civitate Christiana in Italy. She was writing a thesis on Merton's poetry and asks for his assistance.
Fr. John Correia-Afonso was a Jesuit writing to Merton from St. Xavier College in Bombay.
José Coronel Urtecho was a poet from Nicaragua who influenced many other Latin American poets after him, including his nephew and former novice of Merton, Ernesto Cardenal. Having spent much of his youth in California, he read and admired Ezra Pound and other North American writers. After returning to Nicaragua, he founded the Vanguard Movement in 1927. He writes to Merton from his hacienda in Los Chiles, Costa Rica. A fan of Merton (and Merton of him), Coronel Urtecho planned to publish a Spanish anthology of Merton's work, but it did not appear in print. (Source: «The Courage for Truth», p. 171.)