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Bill Dwyer was an attorney and one of the original members considered for the Merton Legacy Trust.

Diana Eck was a student of Amiya Chakravarty at Smith College and writes to express her praise for Merton's book «Gandhi on Non-Violence». Dr. Eck has gone on to earn degrees from the University of London and Harvard and to write books about the religious traditions of India, religious pluralism and Christianity's encounter with other religions.

Suzanne Edgell was a teacher with the United States Department of Defense and stationed in the Philippines.

Fr. Edmond was a Trappist monk from the Abbey of Achel in Belgium.

Sr. Karen Edmund was a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet from Binghamton, New York.

Russell Edson is a poet from Connecticut who appeared in Merton's second edition of «Monks Pond».

The Rev. George Edwards was a professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1965. He had been a consciencious objector during the Second World War, and, together with Jean Edwards, became leaders in the Louisville peace and justice community, organizing for the local chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Eileen Egan was a primary figure in the Catholic peace movement. She was a cofounder of the organization American PAX, which became Pax Christi-USA, a branch of the international movement. She worked with and wrote books about Dorothy Day and Mother Theresa of Calcutta. With Dorothy Day, Gordon Zahn, Jim Douglass and Richard Carbrey, she advocated for the strong language against war and in support of conscientious objection in teaching of the Second Vatican Council.

Sr. Mary Egan (known in Merton's correspondence as Sr. Lidwina) was of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Loretto Convent in Guelph, Ontario.

John Egerton was writing on behalf of the «Southern Education Report».

Sr. Mary Elizabeth of the Trinity was sub-prioress and novice mistress of the Monastery of Discalced Carmelites in Boston, Massachusetts.

Elisabeth G. Ellis was writing on behalf of Naomi Burton Stone with some editorial questions about «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander».

In Monsignor John Tracy Ellis' biographical note in «The Hidden Ground of Love», William H. Shannon states that "Ellis may well be called the dean of American Catholic historians (The Hidden Ground of Love, p. 174). He was professor at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., while in correspondence with Merton.

Dorothy Emmet was the author of a number of books on philosophy and helped found the department of philosophy at the University of Manchester, where she served as head of the department. After retiring from her professorship, she settled in Cambridge in 1966. There she became the first editor of the journal «Theoria to Theory», to which Merton was a contributor. She was interested in philosophy's application to political and social issues and "taught Plato to unemployed Welsh miners" (source: «Obituary: Dorothy Emmet». 25 September 2000. «The Guardian». Accessed 2 December 2004. ‹http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,373005,00.html›).

Dr. Julio Endara was President of Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in Quito, Ecuador. Merton inquires about commissioning Jaime Andrade for a sculpture of the Virgin Mary.

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.

Joseph Engelberg is professor emeritus of the School of Medicine at University of Kentucky in Lexington. While writing to Merton, he was an associate professor wrote on behalf of the Committee on Peace Education and Research.

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

Omer Englebert, originally from Belgium, was the author of biographies of Francis of Assisi, Damien of Molokai, Junípero Serra and others. He writes to Merton from Mexico.

"Father English was a native New Yorker who spent his younger years as a supporter and collaborator in the Catholic Worker Movement in New York with Dorothy Day. [In 1952,] he came to Georgia to serve the Lord and the Church as a Trappist monk in Conyers." (Source: Sanches, Joseph. "The Death Of A Monk" 21 Dec 1972. «The Georgia Bulletin Online Edition: The Newspaper of the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta». Accessed 3 Dec 2004. ‹http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/1972/12/21/c/›.)

Ted Enslin writes from the isolated area of Temple, Maine. He is a poet and hermit who has published a number of books of poems and whose work has appeared in literary magazines. Despite this, his lifestyle has allowed him to remain out of the spotlight. Merton published a poem of his in the third volume of «Monks Pond».

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.

Jack Ericson was special collections curator at the University of Syracuse in New York. He convinced Merton to send some of his papers to their collection of distinguished writers.

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.

Fr. Ermin writes from Germany.

Morris L. Ernst was of the well-known New York law firm of Greenbaum, Wolff and Ernst. He was putting together a book of reminiscences of favorite teachers by well-known figures.

Clayton Eshleman is a poet now living in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He was born in Indianapolis in 1935. In college he became interested in world poetry, and learned Spanish in order to read and translate the works of Cesar Vallejo and Pablo Neruda and to . He first wrote to Merton while in Kyoto where he was teaching English, responding to a letter of Merton's printed in «El Corno Emplumado». Later, he met Merton after having returned to Indiana as a professor at University of Indiana. He came for a visit with his wife on April 23, 1965. Eshleman was not very happy in Indiana and moved to Peru later in 1965. Some unfortunate events happened in Peru and he would only stay there a year; however, he became very socially involved after having witness the slums of Lima. He then moved to New York and founded the literary magazine «Caterpillar» in 1967. (Source: "A Brief Biography and Complete CV". Clayton Eshleman website. Accessed 2004/12/06. ‹http://www.claytoneshleman.com/bio.html›.)

Ricardo Espinoza writes from Lima, Peru.

Yara Esteves writes from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

James M. Ethridge was editor of «Contemporary Authors», which compiles reference volumes on biographical information about authors.

Sr. Eulogia was a Franciscan at St. Francis Convent in Joliet, Illinois.

Willy Eurlings is chairperson of the Mertonvrienden, the Dutch-speaking Merton Society from Flanders and the Netherlands.

Hermene Evans writes from Chicago on behalf of the Peace Study Union.

Fr. Illtud Evans was a Dominican priest and popular retreat master from Cambridge, England. He did editorial work for «Blackfriars» (after 1964, «New Blackfriars»), a publication of the English Dominicans. Many of Evans' letters speak of his travels for the retreats he was giving, including a trip to the Holy Land. In 1966, he moved to St. Albert's College in Oakland, California. (Source: «The School of Charity», p. 196.)

Merton writes to Fr. J. Whitney Evans in Duluth, Minnesota.

Br. George Every, a lay brother of the Society of the Sacred Mission, writes first while visiting Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut, and later from the Anglican College at Kelham, England, where he taught. He covered monastic topics for Dorothy Emmet's journal «Theoria to Theory», to which Merton was a contributor.

Eugene Exman was an editor for Harper and Brothers (by 1962, Harper and Row). He writes from New York.

Sr. Peter Eymard writes from St. John's Hospital in Fargo, North Dakota.

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

Francis Fabinski was a 10 year old boy who sends a bookmark with a quote from Duns Scotus and asks for a prayer for his confirmation and for his brother who is considering the priesthood.

Mario Falsina was a student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and was living in Bergamo. He was writing a thesis on Merton and asks him six questions to which Merton replies.

Fr. Hugh Farmer was a Benedictine monk of Quarr Abbey on the northern coast of the Isle of Wight.

Charles P. Farnsley served as Louisville mayor from 1948-1953. Merton asks his help in obtaining books about American democracy in preparation to obtain U.S. citizenship.

Edward Farrell was coordinator of a workshop arranged by the San Francisco Planning and Urban Renewal Association (SPUR).

Marie Faugeron writes on behalf of the «Action Civique Non-Violent» from St-Didier-au-Mt-d'Or in France.

Bishop John Michael Fearns was an auxiliary bishop who served the Archdiocese of New York from 1957 to 1972.

Richard Felciano was Ford Foundation composer-in-residence for the Detroit Public Schools at the time of correspondence. He wanted to use Merton's poem, "The Captives - A Psalm" for a setting for chorus and orchestra. He later became professor of music at the University of California at Berkeley.

Sr. Felicitas was an American Benedictine nun who had asked Merton about racial integration for monasteries (source: «The School of Charity», p. 218).

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

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was editor and publisher of City Lights Books in San Francisco that was one of the most prominent publications of the beat movement in San Francisco. He wrote poetry and plays as well as running a bookstore, City Lights, the same name as the publishing house. Merton and Ferlinghetti met in person in San Francisco on May 16, 1968. (Source: «The Courage for Truth», p. 267.)

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».

Thomas Hornsby Ferril was an acclaimed poet of the Rocky Mountains, born and living the rest of his years in Denver, Colorado.

W. H. Ferry, also known as Ping Ferry, was vice-president of the Center for Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara from 1954-1969. In 1961, Merton first wrote to W. H. Ferry, having been introduced to pamphlets produced by the Center for Democratic Institutions by James Laughlin. This began a dialog between the two that continued through the rest of Merton's life. Ferry first came to visit Gethsemani in November of 1964 for a meeting with the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and others on peace that was attended by Daniel and Philip Berrigan, A. J. Muste, John Howard Yoder, among others. Ferry drove Merton along the northern California coast as Merton scoped out areas for a possible new hermitage. He was also present to see Merton off when his flight left for Asia. (Source: «The Hidden Ground of Love», p. 201.)

Sidney Feshbach writes from the Department of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Fr. Anastasius Fettig was Prior at Gethsemani at the time of this correspondence. He was reacting to the negative response among some about Merton's pamphlet he distributed before the 1968 abbatial election, "My Campaign Platform for Non-Abbot and Permanent Keeper of Present Doghouse".

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.

George L. Fields was in medical school at the University of Kentucky in 1968 while writing to Merton.

Mother General of Figlie Della Chiesa writes from Rome.

Armando Rezende Filho writes from Brazil.

Art Fillmore, from St. Louis, Missouri, writes to Merton on stationery of the Hotel Tequendama in Bogotá, Colombia.

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.

James Finn was editor of «Worldview» "a journal of religion and international affairs".

Ed Finnigan writes from Chicago, Illinois.

Wesley First was director of the office of University Relations at Columbia University in New York.

Robert J. Fitzgibbon was editor of «Family Weekly» and writes from New York.

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

James Fitzsimmons was editor of «The Lugano Review» and writes from Switzerland.

Fr. Daniel L. Flaherty was a Jesuit priest and book editor for «America» magazine.

Archbishop George Bernard Flahiff, elevated to Cardinal in 1969, was bishop of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. At the Second Vatican Council, he was involved in what was known as Schema 13, which became «Gaudium et Spes», the Pontifical Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Merton was particularly interested in the sections on peace, war, and how it would address nuclear weapons.

James T. Flanagan was an attorney with the law offices of Driscoll, Flanagan and Ramos from New Orleans, Louisiana.

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.

Charles Fogarty was a high school student considering a vocation to the priesthood or religious life and asks Merton whether the vocation of a Trappist fulfills "Our Lord's Commandment to go and preach the Gospel to every living creature."

Allan Forbes, Jr. was "a documentary filmmaker, writer, and peace activist" who "helped found Council for a Livable World with Leo Szilard, the physicist who worked with the Manhattan Project, then tried to get the US government to promise not to use the atomic bomb against Japan." He writes to Merton from Philadelphia. (Source: Marquard, Bryan. "Allan Forbes; pacifist found direction in war." Obituary from «The Boston Globe», online edition. 24 February 2006. Bellarmine University Library, Louisville, KY. 4 April 2008. ‹http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/02/24/allan_forbes_pacifist_found_direction_in_war/›.)

Claude Forcellino writes from La Borie Noble, one of the Communautés de l'Arche of Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto in France.

Anne Ford was an author and publishing executive for Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston, Massachusetts.

David Ford was an editor at New Directions publishing in Norfolk, Connecticut.