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Fr. Benedict Tighe was a Benedictine monk of Mount Saviour Monastery in Pine City, New York, at the time of writing to Merton. Born Francis James Tighe, he took Benedict in religion. In 1966, he took a sabbatical and served as chaplain on military bases in Europe. He decided not to return to the Benedictines and served the rest of his years as a parish priest in Connecticut. He was honored as a monsignor in 1991 by Pope John Paul II. (Source: "Msgr. Benedict Tighe, served at St. Mary’s". «The Ridgefield Press». Obituaries. Online from Hersam Acorn Newspapers. 17 Oct 2004. Bellarmine University Library. 11 July 2006. ‹http://acorn-online.net/acornonline/obits/tighe.htm›.)

Frances Tiller had been writing to Thomas Merton before making a visit to Gethsemani Abbey with her husband, the Rev. Thomas Tiller and their children around September of 1964. They were living in Jackson, Mississippi, and were friends of another of Merton's acquaintances there, Msgr. Josiah G. Chatham.

Paul Tillich was German-born Protestant theologian whose books on systematic theology were among the most influential in theological circles of the 20th Century. He was ordained a Lutheran minister and served as a chaplain in the German army during World War I. He was against this war and he came to realize that the Christian principles underpinning society were under attack. A fierce critic of the Nazi regime, he was one of the first non-Jewish professors to be expelled from a German university. He went to the United States and spent the rest of his career with professorships at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and University of Chicago. (Source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», pp. 575-576.)

David Tillson writes from Brockport, New York.

Amedeo Tintori writes from Livorno, Italy, concerning Merton's article "Monastic Peace".

Winifred Tjaden writes from London, England.

Joseph Tjo Tchel-Oung was from Holy Ghost College in Seoul, Korea.

Sr. Mary Luke Tobin was former Superior General of the Sisters of Loretto. She writes from the Loretto Motherhouse in Nerinx, Kentucky. Sr. Mary Luke was the only American woman who served as an observer to the Second Vatican Council.

Richard Tobin was Managing Editor of the «Saturday Review» at the time of writing to Merton. He writes from New York.

John M. Todd was publisher from Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd. in London, England. His secretary, Virginia Johnstone, sends Merton a reply.

Lucille Tomei was from New York. She writes postcards to Merton while traveling in Germany and Austria.

João Camilo de Oliveira Torres writes from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Paolo Toufenti writes from Rome, Italy.

Vincent Tovell writes on behalf of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Thomas Merton's letter to this recipient addresses her as "Miss Tower." She had sent Merton a copy of a new book by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gwynedd Fanny Merton Trier (Aunt Gwyn) was the oldest sister of Thomas Merton's father, Owen Merton. She married Erwin Julian Trier in 1915 and moved to England. At the time of writing to Merton in the 1960's, she was living in Fairlawn, West Horsley. Merton used to see her during his breaks from school while attending the nearby Ripley Court. (Source: «The Road to Joy», p. 78.)

Ricardo Trigueros de León was Director General of Publications for the Ministry of Education in San Salvador, El Salvador.

Tashi Tshering was a student from University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He was a Tibetan and sent Merton the book «Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa», edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz. Tashi Tshering worked at University of Washington's Tibetan Research Project. He met Merton through a visit to Gethsemani in 1961 and later wrote a letter.

Martin Tucker writes from Brooklyn, New York.

Percyval Tudor-Hart was the art teacher and mentor of Thomas Merton's father, the painter Owen Merton.

Sr. Jane Tully was a Maryknoll Missionary from Mwanza, Tanzania.

Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim was Rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua in Leon, Nicaragua. He is a lawyer, educator and literary critic.

Sr. Lucille was a Religious Sister of Mercy writing from Clymer, New York, at the time of writing to Merton. She later left the religious life and resumed her birth name, Mary Turner.

Fr. Tamás Tüz writes from St. Edward Church in San Diego, California. He was a poet born in Hungary. He spent time in a Russian concentration camp during the Second World War. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he came first to Canada and then to the United States. At the time of writing to Merton, he had published four books of poetry.

Raymond Tyner was editor of the «Green River Review» (originally to be entitled the «Kentucky Review» until duplicate title discovered). He writes from Owensboro, Kentucky.

M. R. Uminski was master of a British ship in the Hudson Steamship Company. He was of Polish decent and offers to translate Merton's book «New Seeds of Contemplation» into Polish, and for this book he writes to thank Merton.

Dom Wilfred Upson (born John Henry Neil Upson) was, at the time of writing to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Prinknash Abbey (Our Lady and St. Peter at Prinknash), a Benedictine monastery in Gloucestershire, England. Upson first entered monastic life as an Anglican with the community of monks led by Aelred Carlyle on Caldey Island. After a conflict with the Church of England, the community converted en masse to Catholicism. Caldey Island was later sold to Cistercian monks in 1928, and the community moved to Gloucestershire. Upson was elected first abbot in 1937 and served in that position until 1961. Merton would be in contact with another Anglican-convert who would become Catholic at Prinknash, Bede Griffiths (Merton and Griffiths having been in contact during Griffith's later years at his monastery in India). (Source: "A Monk and His Movies." 23 October 2013. Accessed 5 August 2020. ‹https://darklanecreative.com/a-monk-and-his-movies-2/›.)

Julián Urgoiti was head of Editorial Sudamericana publishers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In late 1958, Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi was appointed Apostolic Delegate to the United States, replacing Amleto Cicognani. Vagnozzi was elevated to Cardinal in 1967.

Gabriel Vahanian was one of the foremost theologians of the Death of God Movement that flourished in the 1960's. Later, he would write about technology and its effects on society and theology, including reflections on the thoughts of Jacques Ellul. Gabriel Vahanian writes to Merton while at his summer residence in Allauch, France. At that time, he was a professor at Syracuse University in New York.

Mariann Vail writes from Richmond, Indiana.

Valerio Cardinal Valeri was Prefect of the Roman Curia's Congregation of the Affairs of Religious, currently known as the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. He writes from the Vatican.

Francisco Valle was a surrealist poet born in Nicaragua. He sends Merton an inscribed copy of one of his books.

Georgette de Vallejo was born Georgette Marie Philippart in Paris in 1908. She married poet and author César Vallejo in 1934. Widowed by César's death in 1938, she would later write some biographical works and compile some anthologies of her late husband and his works in the 1960's and 1970's.

José Maria Valverde was a poet born in Valencia de Alcántara, Spain. At the time of writing to Merton, he was a professor at University of Barcelona. He was the administrator of the publisher Eler.