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Fr. Jean-François Six was a priest from Paris, France.

Mary Ellen Slate was married to Merton's Columbia classmate, John Slate.

Nancy Smiler was an editorial assistant at Bantam Books in New York.

Carleton Smith was a close friend of Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop of Vienna and head of the Secretariat for Non-Believers. The cardinal made a delegation to the United States in 1967 for the secretariat, which occasioned Smith to visit Gethsemani twice to dialogue about this dialogue with non-believers and other issues. Merton became godfather to Smith's son, Raphael, and corresponded with his wife, Anne. An authority on art, he founded as served as chairman of both the National Arts Foundation of New York and the International Awards Foundation. In his varied career, he served as music editor for «Esquire» and recorded folk songs from around the world. (Source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», p. 556.)

Elwyn A. Smith was the Co-editor of the «Journal of Ecumenical Studies» at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Fr. R. F. Smith was a Jesuit priest and editor for «Review for Religious» in St. Mary's, Kansas.

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.

Fr. Andrew Cusak was the Guidance Director for the Stamford Catholic High School at the time of correspondence.

Doris Dana writes to Merton from New York and from her travels to France. Dana was the long-time companion of poet, educator, feminist, Nobel laureate and Chilean diplomat, Gabriela Mistral (pen name of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, 1889-1957). Dana translated and edited some of Mistral's poems. Dana seemed to be a mutual friend with Merton of both John Howard Griffin and Jacques Maritain. She visited Merton in early January of 1967, when she introduced Merton to the story of Ishi and sparked some of Merton's interest in Native Americans; and then visited him again in late October of 1967, when they traveled to Lexington together to visit Victor and Carolyn Hammer and John Jacob Niles.

Bradford Daniel was working with John Howard Griffin at the time of correspondence and writes on the letterhead of the American Society of Magazine Photographers in Mansfield, Texas.

Fr. Jean Daniélou was a Jesuit scholar of early Christianity who was editor of «Études» in Paris, a Catholic general interest magazine. In 1969, he was made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI and was a member of the Académie Française.

J. B. Das was writing a tribute to Dr. Mahanambrata Brahmachari, a friend of Merton's from Columbia and about whom he mentions in «The Seven Storey Mountain». He is asking for a contribution to this written piece by Merton.

Irvan Davis writes on behalf of Celebrities Art Exhibits in St. Louis, Missouri.

Archbishop James P. Davis was bishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the time of correspondence with Merton.

Peter Davison was director of «The Atlantic Monthly Press» from Boston, Massachusetts. He asks Merton for his thoughts on Bertrand Russell's autobiography for use as a promotional quote.

Social activist, author, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Dorothy Day was a profound influence and mentor for Merton. Merton especially respected her commitment to non-violence and to the poor. A complex and dynamic figure, she espoused politically leftist views, while maintaining a traditional faith in Catholicism. (Source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», pp. 135-136.)

Bernard de Aguiar was born in New Jersey in 1926. First a Benedictine, he transferred to Gethsemani and became a Trappist in 1951 where he took the name Sylvanus. After 11 years at the Abbey, he was ordained a priest. Soon after, in 1962, he obtained permission to live an eremitical life away from Gethsemani with Dom Jacques Winandy in Martinique. In 1969, he moved to Hornby Island (between the British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island) and started a pottery studio called Earthen Vessels. He was laicized in 1974.

Fr. Paul Marie de la Croix writes from Bernay en Champagne in France.

Ricardo I. de León was a former novice at Gethsemani who was living in the Philippines at the time of correspondence with Merton. He later became director of Caritas Manila, a Catholic social services agency.

John de Menil (husband of Dominique de Menil) writes from Houston, Texas. A prominent oil family, the de Menils collected one of the largest and most important American collections of art. They also devoted much of their later lives to ecumenism. The Menil Collection and the Rothko Chapel are testaments to their legacy in the arts and in ecumenism.

Jacques de Spoelberch was an editor for Houghton Mifflin in Boston, Massachusetts, and asks Merton to do an introduction for Michel Bernanos' «La Montagne Morte de la Vie».

Baron José M. G. A. de Vinck was a publisher, editor, translator, writer, and owner of Alleluia Press. He wrote and translated books on philosophy and theology. He writes from Allendale, New Jersey.

Dr. Arthur J. Deikman of Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Frank Dell'Isola compiled and updated bibliographies of Thomas Merton's writings, as well as writing books and articles on Scripture studies.

Canon Delteil was from Merton's childhood home of Saint-Antonin in France. He sends two letters of Owen Merton and some pictures. (The letters and pictures were not kept together in this file.)

Dom Albert Derzelle was Prior of Caldey, a Trappist monastery on Caldey Island off of Wales.

Nick D'Incecco writes as director of public relations for Prentice-Hall publishers from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Jim Donnelly was a Maryknoll seminarian at the time of writing.

Teresa Ann Doyle was a Benedictine sister and editor of the «American Benedictine Review», published in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Fr. James Dugan was a Jesuit priest from Weston College in Massachusetts.

Fr. Charles Dumont was a monk of the Trappist Abbey of Scourmont near Chimay, Belgium. He was editor of «Collectanea Cisterciensia» and helped establish the English counterpart called «Cistercian Studies». (Source: «The School of Charity», p. 66.)

Fr. Heinrich Dumoulin was a Jesuit priest, professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and a scholar of the history of Zen Buddhism. In the mid-seventies, he was the founder and first director of the Nanzen Institute for Religion and Culture.

Peter Dunne was executive director of The Temple of Understanding in Washington, D.C. The organization was founded to promote interreligious dialog and to build a center in Washington to facilitate interfaith education (later, programming of educational programs became the sole emphasis and the idea of building a center was abandoned). Merton was invited to speak at the first international conference of the organization in Calcutta and was able to make this a part of his journey to Asia.

Fr. Dureau, a Dominican priest, writes in 1959 from Stockholm on the letterhead of the publication «Dominikanerna». His 1966 letter is from Paris.

Juan García Elorrio was Secretary General of the Encuentro Latino-Americano Camilo Torres to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay on February 15, 1968, and invites Merton's contributions. He supported the Movimiento de Sacerdotes del Tercer Mundo (Priests in the Third World Movement) and was Editor of the magazine «Cristianismo y Revolución» in Argentina. He writes from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Rupert Enderle was owner of the Enderle Bookstore, a Herder Agency, that dealt in publications and the import and export of books. He writes from Tokyo.

Elsa Engländer was author of the 1958 book, «In sehr grosser Freude». She writes from Linz, Austria.

Knut Erichson writes from Bonn am Rein on behalf of the publisher Bonner Buchgemeinde. Having been impressed with Merton's drawings that were published in Clare Booth Luce's «Saints for Now» of St. Thérèse of Lisieux and of St. John of the Cross, Erichson asks Merton to send a drawing of St. Catherine of Siena for an edition of Sigrid Undset's book on the saint, «Katharina Benincasa». The book was published by Verlag Bonner Buchgemeinde in 1954 with Merton's drawing of St. Catherine on the front cover of the dust jacket.

Franz Erlach was a medical doctor who emigrated from Austria in 1938 with his wife, Dr. Helen P. Erlach, and two children. At the time of this letter, they had retired to Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Br. Fabian was a Trappist monk of Holy Spirit Abbey in Huntsville, Utah, one of the daughter houses of Gethsemani Abbey.

R. Fentener van Vlissingen was a psychiatrist writing from Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Joseph Ferraro was assistant professor of philosophy at University of the Americas in Mexico at the time of writing to Merton. He had written a dissertation on the theological virtues of St. John of the Cross and the relation to St. Thomas Aquinas, «Las virtudes teologales en la doctrina de San Juan de la Cruz».

Fran Fevrier took over the role as poetry editor for «The Florida Quarterly» from Martin Lee Curry who became general editor. 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.

Fr. James Justin Field was a Dominican and Bishop of St. Georges-in-Grenada.

Mother General of Figlie Della Chiesa writes from Rome.

Armando Rezende Filho writes from Brazil.

Jeremiah Stanton Finch was dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School at the time of correspondence and was trying to arrange a faculty retreat at Gethsemani.

Sr. Patricia Fitzpatrick was a Benedictine from Mount Saint Benedict Convent and Corbett College in Crookston, Minnesota.

Flanagan, usually publishing under Fr. M. Raymond, was another Gethsemani author whose writing career started in the early forties, slightly before Merton's, and ran contemporaneously with Merton's through the late sixties. Quite different in style and substance from Merton's work, Flanagan's books include «The Man Who Got Even with God», «God Goes to Murderers Row», and «Burnt-Out Incense». Merton and Flanagan often saw each other at opposing ends of disagreements about theology or the training of novices.

Archbishop John Floersh served as bishop of Louisville archdiocese from 1924-1967.

Msgr. Robert J. Fox was from the Archdiocese of New York in the office of Spanish Community Action. He died in 1984 at the age of 54.

Fr. Andre Frachebourd writes from the Abbey of Notre Dame de Tamié in France.

Mother M. Francis was abbess of the Poor Clare Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Roswell, New Mexico.

Howard Frankl met Ernesto Cardenal while in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Cardenal was Frankl's godfather and instructed him in catechism. Frankl spent over two months as a retreatant at the Benedictine community of Nuestra Senora de la Resurrecion. This was the community of another Merton correspondent, Dom Gregorio Lemercier. Under pressure from the Vatican, the community was disbanded and Lemercier laicized in the late 1960's. Ernesto Cardenal shared his Merton correspondence with Frankl. Cardenal liked Frankl's poems and translated some of them into Spanish. Frankl initiates correspondence with Merton by sending some of his poems.

Eldress Marguerite Frost was from the Shaker community at Canterbury, New Hampshire.

Hoyt W. Fuller was Managing Editor of «Negro Digest» and writes from Chicago, Illinois.

Fr. Joseph Fusco was Chairman of the Departments of Modern and Classical Languages at Camden Catholic High School in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

Paul Gabites was Consul General of the New Zealand Consulate in New York.

John Francis (Jack) Gaither was from Evansville, Indiana. He is the son of Marice (Mimi) Gaither and donated a large collection of Mimi's letters to the Thomas Merton Center in 2001.

Br. Lawrence Gannon was a Trappist from Gethsemani writing to Merton while at the Monastery of the Precious Blood in Eagle River, Alaska, where Merton visited in 1968 and spoke at a series of conferences for the contemplative nuns there.

Leone Gannon worked in Gethsemani Abbey's guesthouse.

Margaret Gardiner writes to Merton from England to ask his support in making some opposition statements to the Vietnam War and in supporting US draft resisters for «The Times» of London.

Garrison was a friend of a Sister Robert Vincent, who forwarded a letter by Garrison to Merton.

Bishop Caesar Gatimu was of the Diocese of Nyeri in Kenya.

Peter Geist writes from Matinicus Island, Maine and Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a professor of industrial design at Washington University in Saint Louis and designed books and corporate logos. Merton contacts him to design a books of pictures about Gethsemani Abbey, «Monastic Life at Gethsemani» (1965, softcover) and «Gethsemani: A Life of Praise» (1966, hardcover).

Michael M. George was Program Officer for the Council on Leaders and Specialists (CLS) and writes from Washington, D.C. He was trying to arrange for Dr. Alberto Caturelli, an Argentine philosopher, to meet Merton. Merton agreed but Dr. Caturelli later cancelled due to a heavy schedule.

Fr. Georges was a member of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Orval in Belgium.

Fr. Gerard was a Trappist monk of Genesee Abbey in Piffard, New York.

Dom Anselmo Giabbani was Prior General of the Camaldolese and writes from Italy. He served as Camaldolese Prior General from 1951-1963. He died in 2004 at the age of 96.

Jane Gibson was writing on behalf of «Jubilee» magazine.

Martha Gisi writes from Schaffhauserrheinweg, Switzerland.

Wilbur Glover writes as Director of Shaker Community, Inc. in Hancock, Massachusetts, informing Merton of the death of Edward Deming Andrews.

A. Goettman writes from Saint-Avold in France.

Fr. Thomas Aquinas Gondal writes from the Trappist Abbey of Tre Fontane in Rome.

Louise Gosho wrote to Dorothy Day and asked to pass her letter to Thomas Merton. She was from Renton, Washington.

Howard B. Gotlieb was Chief of Reference and Special Collections at Boston University. He became director of the collection in 1963, and in 2003, the repository was named after him.

Dom Aelred Graham was a Benedictine monk from Ampleforth Abbey in England. From 1951-1967, he served as superior of the Portsmouth Priory in Rhode Island. All letters by Graham are addressed from Portsmouth, Rhode Island, except the 1968 letters and others as noted. (Source: Obituary of Fr. Aelred Graham from the Ampleforth Abbey Library by Fr. Patrick Barry, O.S.B., ‹http://www.monlib.org.uk/obits/barry/graham_a.htm›.)

Marlon D. Green became the first African-American to be hired as a commercial pilot for a major airline. He was an experienced Air Force pilot, and though there was a need for pilots after World War II, minorities were not being hired for pilot positions in civilian life. He protested these discriminatory practices since the late 1950's, but was not hired until the Supreme Court ruled in his favor in 1963.

Fr. Bernard Grunewald (Br. Bernard at the time of writing) founded the first hermits colony of Roman Catholic monks in the United States in 1966. He writes from the hermitage of Our Lady of Solitude in Leander, Texas.

Leif Gustafson was a Radio Officer for UNEF (United Nations Emergency Force to secure the troop withdrawal from Egypt and keep peace with Israel). He was originally from Sweden and a convert to Catholicism. The UNEF headquarters was Beirut, Lebanon, but Gustafson traveled throughout Palestine and writes from Gaza.

Romuald Gustaw was a Franciscan from the Library of the Catholic University in Lublin, Poland.

Alfred B. Hailparn was a friend of Merton's while at Columbia University. Hailparn's father was a liquor distributor in Yonkers, to which Merton makes reference in the second letter. In 1936, Merton was the editor-in-chief of the Columbia yearbook, «Columbian», and Hailparn was managing editor. They were working on the yearbook for May of 1937. (Source: «Witness to Freedom», p. 156.)