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Charles Stanton writes from New York.

Br. Nivard Stanton is a monk of Gethsemani Abbey.

Fr. Philip Stark was a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, Missouri.

Fr. Joseph Starmann writes from St. Peter Cathedral in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was a diocesan priest who, with some clergy and lay people of other Christian denominations, founded an ecumenical community based loosely on the Rule of St. Benedict at a former Franciscan friary in Wien, Missouri. The community's goal was to seek Christian unity through a life of communal prayer.

Robert Steed was a novice at Gethsemani from 1951-1953, and was known at that time as Br. Corentine. He later joined the Catholic Worker Movement. He writes from New York.

Frank Steele was editor of «Tennessee Poetry Journal». Steele writes from Martin, Tennessee, asking for a contribution from Merton. Merton's "A Round and a Hope for Smithgirls" appeared in the second issue of «Tennessee Poetry Journal» in 1968:1 (winter).

Dorothy Steere was married to Douglas Steere, Merton's friend, who was a peace advocate and Quaker. Dorothy helped in arranging retreats at Pendle Hill. She had met Martin Luther King, Jr., and was active in the Civil Rights Movement and peace movement. She wrote from Union Theological Seminary in New York. She and Douglas were Quaker Observer-Delegates for the Second Vatican Council.

Douglas Steere was a prominent Quaker author and philosopher, serving a long tenure as professor at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He demonstrated leadership through organizing relief efforts in northern Europe through the American Friends Service Committee after World War II and in representing the Society of Friends at the Second Vatican Council in 1964. He first met Merton in 1962 at Gethsemani, traveling with John Heidbrink of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. (Source: Elliott, J. Michael. "Douglas Steere, 93, Author, Professor And Quaker Leader." «New York Times» obituary. 16 February 1995. Online. Bellarmine University Library, Louisville, KY. 2009/07/07. ‹http://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/16/obituaries/douglas-steere-93-author-professor-and-quaker-leader.html›.)

Fr. Benjamin J. Stein was a Benedictine priest and long-time head librarian for St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Walter Stein writes from Ilkley, England.

Br. David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine monk who has been a pioneer in Christian-Buddhist dialogue, renewal in of the monastic life and interest in spirituality. He was born and educated through the doctoral level in Austria and was born in Vienna. In 1952, he came with his family to the United States. Shortly afterward, he joined the new Benedictine monastery of Mount Saviour near Elmira, New York, founded by Merton's friend Dom Damasus Winzen. ("Br. David Steindl Rast". Website of Gratefulness.org. Accessed 25 May 2006. ‹http://www.gratefulness.org/brotherdavid/bio.htm›.)

Mother Mary Stephen was abbess of Christ the King Monastery in Delray Beach, Florida.

Karl Stern was a psychiatrist and author writing from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Fr. Clifford Stevens is a priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, and author of a number of books on religion, religious history and morality. In the 1950's, he spent some time in seminary at the Trappist monastery of New Melleray in Iowa, but was disillusioned by changes in the order. He continued as a diocesan priest at other seminaries. During the 1960's, he served as an Air Force chaplain, writing to Merton from assignments in San Francisco, California, and from Itazuke, Japan, until 1969. After some assignments in New York and New Mexico, he has spent most of his life in Nebraska. In the 1980's, Stevens pursued his dream of founding a monastery with a purer ideal than he had seen in contemporary orders. He founded Tintern Monastery, a contemplative house of prayer, on a farm near Oakdale, Nebraska. He began with a group of previously ordained priests. Although many inquired about his monastery, few stayed, and the experiment was ended. (Source: "Clifford Stevens." Contemporary Authors Online. 2001. Thomson Gale. Bellarmine University Library. 26 May 2006 ‹http://galenet.galegroup.com›.)

B. J. Stiles was editor of «Motive» magazine and writes from Nashville, Tennessee. «Motive» magazine was a progressive publication and the official voice of the Methodist Student Movement. It was noted for its cutting edge graphic design and emphasis on the arts.

Robert Stock was a San Francisco poet who sends Merton a contribution for the fourth volume of «Monks Pond».

Mark Stone was a teacher from Olney High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvanian.

Naomi Burton Stone was Merton's literary agent who became a close friend and confidant. She was born in England and came to the United States in 1939. She took an early interest in Merton's work and was trying, unsuccessfully, to publish his early novels before he entered the monastery. However, she at first thought his writing career had ended when he entered the monastery. Later, Merton would send her a manuscript of The Seven Storey Mountain. In late 1946, she met with success in submitting it to Robert Giroux, who published and edited the best-selling book. (Source: Witness to Freedom, p. 123.)

James Storrow was publisher of «The Nation» magazine and writes from New York.

Sr. Judith Stoughton was art editor of «The New Catholic Encyclopedia» and writes from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Rex Stout was chairman of the Authors Guild, Inc., and writes from New York.

Fr. Henri van Straelen, S.V.D. was a priest of the Society of the Divine Word and a professor of philosophy who spent much of his life as a missionary and scholar in Japan. He was a peritus to the Second Vatican Council.

Roger Straus was a publisher from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York.

Thelma Straw was headmistress of Saint Mary's Preparatory School for Girls at the Anglican convent of Saint Mary's-on-the-Mountain in Sewanee, Tennessee.

Hudson Strode was an author and professor of English at University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

John L. Strong writes from Landover Hills, Maryland.

Dieter Struß writes from Gütersloh, Germany, on behalf of the publisher Sigbert Mohn Verlag.

Dom Jean-Marie Struyven was a Trappist monk from Belgium and former superior of the Abbey of Our Lady of Consolation. The community was originally founded in the late 19th century in a remote area of China, north of the Great Wall. The community suffered persecution in 1947 and moved to Beijing. At this time, Struyven came to lead the community until he was expelled from China in 1953. He returned to the Abbey of Scourmont near Chimay, Belgium, and there he writes to Merton.

Jim Stuber writes from Brownsville, Texas for some spiritual advice. Later, he writes from Ford City, Pennsylvania, where he was spending time with his mother after his father's death.

Fr. Edmund J. Stumpf was a Jesuit priest writing from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens was Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium, and one of the principle architects of much of the work of the Second Vatican Council.

John C. Sullivan writes from Leaside, Ontario, Canada.

Oona Sullivan writes on behalf of «Jubilee» magazine from New York.

Warren Sullivan was Chairman of the Board of the Macmillan Company Publishers. He writes from New York.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger was Chairman of the Board of «The New York Times» and its former publisher.

Jean Sulzberger writes on behalf of Time-Life Books in New York and asks for a copy of Thomas Merton's literary magazine, Monks Pond.

Edmund Supro writes from Clarksburg, West Virginia. He spent some time at a Trappist monastery, most likely at Gethsemani Abbey as a novice under Merton, writing that he was "formerly Frater Florian O.C.S.O.").

Dom Angélico Surchamp was a Benedictine monk of La Pierre-qui-Vire Abbey and founder of the Romanesque art periodical «Zodiaque», "Atelier du Coeur Meurtry." He writes from Yonne, France.

Aleksei Surkov was a poet from the U.S.S.R. and the General Secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union.