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Dom Roger Gazeau was a Benedictine monk of the Abbey of Saint-Martin de Ligugé in France.

Henry Geiger was Editor of «Manas» and writes from Los Angeles, California.

Fr. Afonso Gessinger was a Jesuit priest from Curitiba, Brazil.

Robert Ghelardi writes from South Bend, Indiana.

Robert Ginsberg is a Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He included Merton's essay "War and the Crisis of Language" in a book he edited, entitled «The Critique of War: Contemporary Philosophical Explorations».

Robert Giroux was one of Merton's friends from his Columbia University days. While Giroux was with Harcourt, Brace publishers, he reviewed and rejected some of Merton's early novels. After seeing «The Seven Storey Mountain», he decided to take a chance on this book which turned out to be a surprise best seller and launched Merton's career as a writer. In 1955, he joined Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, which became Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1964. He later took the role as a trustee for Merton's literary estate.

Alberto Girri was a poet, prose writer, and literary translator from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Like Jorge Luis Borges, he used metaphysics and mysticism in his writings, but uses these as a tool of contemporary criticism. He published many volumes of poetry and was a regular contributor to Victoria Ocampo's magazine, «Sur».

At the time of writing, Rochelle Girson was Book Review Editor for the «Saturday Review». She writes from New York.

Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr have long been advocates of non-violence and pillars of the peace movement. Hildegard was born in Vienna, and Jean was originally from France. They worked with Cardinal Ottaviani to craft documents of the Second Vatican Council in opposition to modern war. They shared with Merton an interest in Latin America and worked to bring non-violence change. In the 1980's, they promoted a peaceful end to the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines. Members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Hildegard was named honorary president of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR). Jean and Hildegard visited Merton at Gethsemani in 1965. (Source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», pp. 324-325.)

Sr. Grace was with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse in Monroe, Michigan.

Sr. Grace was a Sister of St. Helena writing from a convent in Versailles, Kentucky.

Linda Gramatky was writing from New York on behalf of the publishers Doubleday and Company while Naomi Burton Stone was away from the office.

Bede Griffiths, born Alan Richard Griffiths, was born in England in 1906. He converted to Catholicism in the early 1930's and soon after joined a Benedictine monastery, Prinknash Abbey, and took the name Bede. Having later served as a Prior of Farnborough and then Pluscardin, during which time he gained an interest in Indian thought. He first asked to go to India to set up a monastic foundation, but was denied. Later, he was sent to India by the same abbot, but he was to be under the local bishop. From 1955-1958, he joined Fr. Francis Mahieu Acharya at Kurisumala Ashram (Mountain of the Cross), where they developed a Syriac rite monastic liturgy. Griffiths took the Sanskrit name Dhayananda, meaning "bliss of prayer". In 1963, he conducted a trip to the United States in which he engaged in an East-West dialog. (Source: Coff, Pascaline, O.S.B. "Man, Monk, Mystic." website of the Bede Griffiths Trust, accessed 2004/02/17. ‹http://www.bedegriffiths.com/bio.htm›)

Richard Grossinger was a poet and was editor and publisher of «Io» magazine. He and his wife, Lindy Hough, were contributors to «Monks Pond». He put Merton in contact with another «Monks Pond» contributor, Nelson Richardson or Providence, Rhode Island. Grossinger writes from Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Francesca Guli sends Merton the manuscript for a children's book of hers that was later published, «The Boy and the Stars: A Lyrical Tale of Dante Alighieri, the Boy».

Brijen K. Gupta was a visiting professor from India at the University of Cincinnati's NDEA World History Institute.

Fr. Columba Halsey was a Benedictine monk of St. Maur's Priory in South Union, Kentucky. The monastery was unique in the United States as having been established as a racially integrated community when it was founded in 1947 on the grounds of a Shaker village.

Victor Hammer was an artist and typographer originally from Vienna. He moved to the United States as Hitler rose to power and took a position at Wells College in New York. In 1948, he retired from Wells College and became artist-in-residence at Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky. He brought a hand press he had used in Italy to Lexington and printed under his Italian imprint of Stamperia del Santuccio. The letters do not tell when the two first met, but by the first letter from Hammer in 1955, he states that he had been to Gethsemani and exchanged ideas with Merton already and was friends with Br. Giles. Merton also received permission to visit Victor and Carolyn Hammer in Lexington. On one trip in 1959, Merton saw a triptych painted by Victor. Hammer had intended to paint a Madonna and child but it did not turn out right. In the center panel, a woman crowns a child. Merton declared her to be "Hagia Sophia", the Holy Wisdom of God, which prompted Merton to write his poem "Hagia Sophia". (Source: «Witness to Freedom», p. 3.)

Jim Hampton writes from the Bluegrass Bureau in Lexington, Kentucky, of the Louisville newspaper «The Courier-Journal».

Fr. Deryck Hanshell was a Jesuit priest and sub-editor of «The Month», a magazine published by the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) in London. The editor was Fr. Philip George Caraman, another correspondent of Merton's.

Born in London, John Harris was best known as an Francophile author and later for his broadcast about life in France for the BBC. He began his working life as schoolteacher in language, first in Devonshire and later in Cornwall. He spent much time in France and wrote about French culture. (Source: "John P. Harris." Times Online Obituary: The Times [of London]. 26 Nov. 2003. Accessed 5 Oct. 2010. Bellarmine University Library. ‹http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1026218.ece›.))

John Heidbrink was a Presbyterian minister and activist for civil rights and peace. He writes to Merton after having been in touch with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. It was shortly after he came to Nyack, New York, in 1960 to work as Secretary for Church Relations for the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). He was a friend of Jim Forest and Daniel and Philip Berrigan, all of whom worked to found the Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF). With Daniel Berrigan he discussed Protestant expectations for the Second Vatican Council and attended the International Peace Conference in Prague in 1964 and other Christian/Marxist seminars in Europe. Heidbrink arranged for the landmark meeting of Merton and Thich Nhât Hanh at Gethsemani in 1966. (Source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», p. 401.)

Sr. Helene was a Carmelite nun.

Mother Mary Henry was of the Monastery of the Infant Jesus, cloistered Dominican nuns from Lufkin, Texas.

Br. Alban Herberger was a monk of Gethsemani Abbey.

Professor Jean Hering was Merton's tutor in French and German during a 1930 holiday to Strasbourg. Tom Izod Bennett, Merton's guardian in England after the death of his father, arranged this for Merton. (Source: «The Road to Joy», pp. 60-61.)

Pfc. José Herrera was with the United States military and on assignment in Tehran, Iran. His postcard seems to indicate he was a former novice at Gethsemani.

Fr. Hilarion was a Trappist monk of Spencer Abbey in Massachusetts.

George Hitchcock was Editor of «Kayak», which Merton referred to as "one of the best poetry magazines in the country." Hitchcock contributed a few poems that were published in the third issue of «Monks Pond». He was referred to Merton by another correspondent of Merton's, Teo Savory. Hitchcock writes from San Francisco.

Sr. Gabriel Mary Hoare is a Sister of Loretto, artist, and was a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Webster College in St. Louis, Missouri at the time of correspondence with Merton. She now is on faculty at Nerinx Hall High School in Webster Groves, Missouri. She arranged to bring an exhibit of Merton's drawings, "Forty-Three Signatures", to Webster College in April of 1965.

Fr. Marie-Joseph Hoat was a monk in Vietnam. His novices were reading «Seeds of Contemplation». He mentions the "dreadful war" in Vietnam.

Michael Hodder writes from Newark, New Jersey. He hitchhiked to Gethsemani to visit Merton, but had not cleared it before coming, so he was not allowed to visit him. Hodder was claiming conscientious objector (C.O.) status but was drafted for Vietnam. Merton wrote a letter on his behalf to his draft board. He seems to have been in contact with Tom Cornell from the Catholic Peace Fellowship. He was a member of Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.) in Newark.

Fr. William Hubbell writes from Lexington, Kentucky.

Cornelius Hubbuch made a substantial gift to Bellarmine College to pay for a library renovation necessary for the creation of the Merton Room. As a token of thanks, Merton sends Mr. and Mrs. Hubbuch one of his abstract drawings.

Sr. Inez of the Blessed Trinity was a Carmelite nun of Bramshott in England.

Fr. Innocent seems to have been a Trappist monk of Gethsemani. He writes the first letter on a trip to the Benedictine monastery of St-Benoît-du-Lac in Quebec, Canada, which he describes as possessing the idea of "hermits in community".

Marianne Jahn writes from New York.

Dom Claude Jean-Nesmy was a Benedictine monk of La Pierre-Qui-Vire Abbey in Yonne, France. He inquires about publishing some selections from Merton's writings in translation in French in the monastery's journal, «Temoignages». He is also interested in translating more of Merton's work into French.

Jorgensen compares Merton to C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.

Sr. Maria José de Jesus was a Carmelite nun of the Convent of St. Teresa in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sr. Marie Josèphe was a Benedictine nun of Saint Louis du Temple Abbey in France.

Alfonso Junco was a Mexican poet who sends Merton a biography and list of published poetry. He knew Merton's friend Ernesto Cardenal, who was in Mexico at that time, and who gave Junco some of Merton's poetry translated into Spanish.

Sr. M. Justina writes Merton's abbot, Dom James Fox, from Joliet, Illinois. The letter concerned Mother Berchmans, of whom Merton wrote in «Exile Ends in Glory», so Dom James likely passed the letter on to him.

On later letters to Merton, Frank Kacmarcik's letterhead stated he was an "artist, designer, consultant in the sacred arts". After a few years of corresponding with Merton, Kacmarcik and his friend Bob Rambusch visit Gethsemani in October of 1960. Merton notes in his personal journal of being "a little suspicious of the intense activation and restlessness of some of these liturgical enthusiasts", although noting he has "[n]othing against liturgy" (personal journals, 1960/10/16). Kacmarcik became a Benedictine novice at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, in 1940, but left the order and became an assistant chaplain in World War II. After the war, he stayed in Paris and studied at the Académie de la Grand Chaumière and the Centre d'Art Sacré. In 1950, he came back to the United States teaching art for a few years at St. John's University in Collegeville. He did book design and was the longtime artistic director for «Worship» magazine and was a graphic artist for Liturgical Press. He collaborated with Hungarian Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. St. John's welcomed him back to their community in 1988 as a claustral oblate, where he remained until his death in 2004.

Rev. J. N. Kelly was pastor of Harrodsburg Christian Church in Harrodsburg, Kentucky.

Fr. Timothy Kelly was eighth abbot of Gethsemani Abbey, serving in this role from 1973-2000. During the time of this correspondence, he was in his theological studies in Rome.

Fr. Matthew Kelty was a Trappist monk of Gethsemani Abbey. He was a former missionary priest in Papua New Guinea before joining Gethsemani. He was later able to return to New Guinea as a monk. Merton chose Kelty as his confessor. Among Kelty's published books include collections of talks and sermons he delivered to Gethsemani guests after the monks prayed compline.

Gerald E. Kemner is professor emeritus in the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. He composed musical arrangements for two of Merton's poems, "A Picture of Lee Ying" and "The Winter's Night".

Jacqueline Kennedy was married to President John F. Kennedy. Merton writes to Jacqueline Kennedy after the President's assassination.

Diosdado Macapagal was President of the Philippines at the time of correspondence.

Robert MacGregor was writing on behalf of New Directions Publishing. He was Vice President of New Directions during much of this time. He died in 1974 at the age of 63.

Sr. Mary Maddaleva was a Poor Clare sister from Evansville, Indiana.

T. K. Mahadevan was an editor from «Gandhi Marg», a quarterly journal of Gandhian thought in New Delhi, India. He asks Merton to contribute to the journal.

Fr. Henry Mahaney was a Franciscan priest from St. Pius X Church of the Capuchin Fathers in Middletown, Connecticut.

Halina Majchrzakówna writes from Poland.

Fr. Eugene H. Maly writes for the periodical «The Bible Today», a publication of Mt. St. Mary's Seminary in Norwood, Ohio.

Manuel Mantero was a poet writing from Madrid, Spain.

Adria Marconi was a student from Milan, Italy, studying foreign language and graduating with a degree in English and American literature.

Sr. Margaret Mary was a Benedictine nun of St. John's McNamara School of Nursing in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Sr. Maria de los Angeles was a nun of the Carmelite Monastery of Cristo Rey in San Francisco, California.

Fr. Francis Marino was a Marianist priest from Immaculate Conception Church in Westerly, Rhode Island. He suggests that Merton write to Sr. Immaculate Heart of White Plains, New York, considering their plans for a new contemplative order with a goal of liturgical renewal, called the "Handmaids of the Blessed Trinity".

Sr. Patricia Marks writes to ask Merton's contribution to her congregation's newsletter, «The Light».

Peter Marron writes on behalf of «Cithara», "essays in the Judeo-Christian tradition".

Michael Marsch was a German Christian who went to Israel to study Hebrew.

Sr. Mary Charlotte was President of Catherine Spalding College in Louisville (now known as Spalding University) and was a Sister of Charity of Nazareth.

Sr. Mary Gabriel was a Sister of Mercy from Jamestown, New York.

Mother Mary Philomena was Abbess of the Monastery of the Poor Clares in Chicago, Illinois.

Christiana Maslin writes from Saint-Chaffrey, Hautes-Alpes, France.

Fr. Thiband M. Maze was a Benedictine monk from the Abbaye Notre-Dame Du Bec in France.

Fr. Alfred McBride writes to member of the National Association for Pastoral Renewal (NAPR) advisory board, which included Merton.

John L. McClenahan was a physician writing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dom Edward McCorkell was abbot of the Trappist monks at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Virginia.

Fr. Kilian McDonnell is a Benedictine monk of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. He is founder and president of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. He had the rare distinction for a Catholic monk in the early 1960's to do advanced studies in a Protestant faculty in Germany. He also studied under Catholic theologian Hans Küng. He was editor of «Sponsa Regis», (later known as «Sisters Today») to which Merton contributed. (Source: "Father Kilian McDonnell, OSB". Website of the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. Accessed 9 November 2005. ‹http://www.iecr.org/kilianosb.htm›.)

Born in Philadelphia in 1911, Thomas McDonough served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Louisville, Kentucky, from 1967 to 1981, taking over from Archbishop John Floersh. Prior to this, McDonough had been bishop in the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia.

Cindy McElhose was an 11-year-old from Grand Blanc, Michigan. Her class project was to write a letter to a famous person and ask how to be a better teenager and American.

Frank E. McElroy was Executive Director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Northeastern Region, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Dom Gerard McGinley was Abbot of Our Lady of the Genesee in Piffard, New York at the time of this correspondence with Merton.

Dennis Q. McInerny was a doctoral student in the American Studies program at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He was writing his dissertation on Merton, which was published in 1969 as "Thomas Merton and Society: A Study of the Man and His Thought against the Background of Contemporary American Culture". In 1974, his book «Thomas Merton: The Man and His Work» was published.

John F. McKinney was Recording Director of the Catholic Poetry Society of America in New York. They were the publishers of «Spirit». A recording was made of some of Merton's poetry. The poems were read by Richard Gray.

Mother Mary Francis Clare McLaughlin was the Prioress of the Poor Clares of New Orleans, Louisiana. She gave Merton the "Shalom" sign for the door of his hermitage.

Fr. Arthur McNally was a Passionist priest and Associate Editor of «The Sign», a national Catholic magazine.

Geraldine McNamara was a high-school student who writes to ask Merton about Trappist life.