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Fr. George A. Maloney is a Jesuit priest of the Russian Byzantine Rite and the founder of the John XXIII Center for Eastern Christian Studies at Fordham University in New York, where he taught patristics and Eastern theology. He writes on behalf of «Diakonia», a quarterly journal that promoted dialogue between Catholic and Orthodox Christians, asking that Merton submit something for publication.

Josefina Manresa writes on behalf of Aguilar publishers in Madrid, Spain.

Abbess Marie of the Assumption Marie of the Assumption was of the Portiuncula Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Poor Clares-Colettines, in Mwanza, Tanzania. She writes to the Mother Abbess of the Monastery of Saint Clare in Lowell, Massachusetts (who likely forwarded her letter to Merton).

Sr. Marie-Aurelie is writing from the Monastery of the Precious Blood in Hamilton, Ontario. According to Sr. Marie-Aurelie's first letter, the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood were the first contemplative order in Canada, founded in 1861 in St. Hyacinth, Quebec.

Sr. Marie-Pascal was a Daughter of Mary serving at the Ecole Notre Dame du Perpetuel Secours in Port au Prince, Haiti.

Fr. Martin Oliver was a Dominican priest from France writing about Fr. Etienne Vayssière and the worker-priest movement.

Frederick R. Martin was Managing Editor of the publishing house New Directions. He writes from New York.

Fr. Angel Martinez was a Jesuit priest and poet from Nicaragua. He has published a number of books of poetry. Merton heard of Martinez through José Coronel Urtecho. (Source: «The Courage for Truth», pp. 206.)

Louis Massignon was a French scholar who wrote some of the most influential works on Islamic studies of the 20th century. Massignon had an especially keen interest in the Sufi mystic of ninth century Baghdad, Hallaj (Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj). Based on his idea of "substitution mystique", accepting the sufferings of others, and the similar idea of «badal» by Hallaj, he received approval from Rome to form the sodality of the Badaliya in 1947. (The movement had its roots from a vow taken in 1934 with his friend, Mary Kahil.) He was later granted permission by Pope Pius XII in 1950 to become a married priest of the Melkite rite. Merton was introduced to him by Herbert Mason. Massignon later introduced a Pakistani friend and Sufi scholar, Abdul Aziz, to Merton's work, and Aziz and Merton thenceforth correspondence. Massignon wrote to Merton of his concerns about the racial tensions in France concerning the immigration of north African Muslims and about the after-effects of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the consequences for peace between Israeli's and Palestinians. Massignon's combination of a love of mysticism with an outspoken nature about the world's problems might have influenced Merton. (Source: «Witness to Freedom», pp. 275-276.)

James F. Mathias writes as Secretary for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York. He writes on behalf of a request by Clayton Eshleman for a Guggenheim grant award.

Olga Elena Mattei is a poet living in Medellin, Colombia. She was born in Puerto Rico and often wrote concerning social justice. Merton was a fan of her work.

Lilian May from Brazil sends Merton some books by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Rollo May was the author of a number of books on existential psychology. Before earning he doctoral degree from Columbia University in 1949, he tried different disciplines, including studying at Union Theological Seminary with Paul Tillich. He was influenced both by existentialist writers and philosophers like Sören Kierkegaard and psychologists like Erich Fromm. May writes from New York. (Source: "May, Rollo." World Authors 1985-1990 (1995). Online. H.W. Wilson. Bellarmine University Library, Louisville, KY. 12 Dec. 2005. ‹http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com›.)

Lisa M. Mayer was secretary to Helen Wolff of Harcourt, Brace and World in New York.

Pawel Mayewski was Editor of the quarterly on culture, «Tematy». He writes from New York.

John H. McCallum worked for Harcourt Brace publishers in New York.

Colman McCarthy was a former monk of Holy Spirit Abbey in Conyers, Georgia. He left and became a columnist, writing for «The Washington Post» and others. He writes to Merton from the federal government's Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. A pacifist and animal rights activist, he has now devoted his life to peace education and writing books on this subject.

Fr. Barry McDermott was with the Newman Foundation at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois.

Donald McDonald writes of behalf of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California.

Mrs. Yin-dzung Djuh McIntyre writes from West Collingswood, New Jersey. Following up on Merton's interpretation of «The Way of Chuang Tzu», she asks Merton to address parallels between the Chinese mind and Christian thought.

Dom Hugh McKiernan was a Trappist abbot of Our Lady of the Holy Cross Abbey, in Berryville, Virginia. He was appointed superior of Holy Cross in 1956 and was elected the first abbot of the monastery when it became an independent abbey, serving as abbot from 1958 to 1964. He later transferred his stability to Mount Saviour, a Benedictine monastery near Elmira, New York. Merton met McKiernan in October of 1968 at La Casa de Maria retreat center in Santa Barbara.

John F. McTarsney was Chairman of the Promotion Committee of Bearings for Re-Establishment (BSR), a group that helped former priests, ministers, seminarians and religious re-integrate into the workforce. Merton agreed to serve on Bearing's Board of Advisors in 1967.

Fr. James J. Megivern was Vincentian priest from St. John's University in New York.

In 1952, Don Sergio Méndez Arceo became Bishop of Cuernavaca, México. He was know for his progressive views that sometimes got him into trouble with Rome. He fostered liturgical reform and the beginnings of what would emerge as liberation theology. He was supportive of the work of Ivan Illich at the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC).

Gertrude Merton was Thomas Merton's grandmother. Born Gertrude Hannah Grierson in 1855, she immigrated at age nine with her parents to New Zealand. She married Alfred Merton in 1882. They had six children, including Owen Heathcote Merton (Thomas' father), John Llewellyn Charles Merton (Uncle Lyn), and Beatrice Katharine (Aunt Ka), Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer (Aunt Kit), and Gwynnedd Fanny Merton Trier (Aunt Gwynn). (Source: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, pp. 293-294).

John Merton was Thomas Merton's cousin, the son of John Llewellyn Charles Merton (Uncle Lyn). At the time of writing, he was an Anglican priest and Vicar of the Parochial District of New Brighton in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Source: «The Road to Joy», pp. 86.)

John Paul Merton was Thomas Merton's younger, and only, sibling. The boys spent much time apart, Thomas traveling with his father Owen, the painter, in France and England, where he was schooled. John Paul lived with his maternal grandparents, the Jenkins, and went to schools in New York and later military academy, graduating in the last class in 1935 from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania's academy. He attended Cornell and was there first interested in Catholicism, taking up flying with the Catholic chaplain, Fr. Donald Cleary. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1941, intending to get involved in the Second World War and the United States was not yet committed. He went by the nickname "Mert". One of the correspondents in these letters, Thomas O'Brien, gave his flight training. John Paul visited Thomas Merton at Gethsemani during a leave in July of 1942. He expressed interest in becoming baptized Catholic and received expedited instructions from Thomas and Dom James Fox because he had only a week's leave. He was baptized July 26, 1942. In August 1942, John Paul was sent into action in England. While on leave in England, he met Margaret May Evans and married her in February of 1943. On April 16, 1943, he embarked in a Wellington bomber over the English Channel. For unknown reasons, the plane lost altitude and crashed. John Paul's back was broken, but he was taken aboard a dinghy with some survivors. He died the 17th, which was the Saturday of Passion Week. The others were rescued Holy Thursday, and Thomas Merton learned of his brother's death on Easter Tuesday. Thomas Merton responded with the poem, "For My Brother Reported Missing in Action, 1943", which concludes the «The Seven Storey Mountain». (Source: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, pp. 294-295.)

John L. Strong writes from Landover Hills, Maryland.

The Sisters of Loretto are a Catholic community of religious sisters based in Nerinx, Kentucky, near to the Abbey of Gethsemani. Thomas Merton had many close contacts among the sisters including Sr. Mary Luke Tobin.

Fr. August Thompson was an African-American priest who was serving at St. Charles Church in Ferriday, Louisiana, at the time of writing to Merton. He was interviewed by John Howard Griffin for an article for «Ramparts» magazine about the experience of being a black Catholic priest and the effects of racism on the Catholic Church. He ran into some trouble with his bishop, Charles Pasquale Greco, of Alexandria, Louisiana. The bishop disputed many claims of institutional racism by Thompson, and was even angrier that the Church was given a bad image publicly on this issue. Thompson met Merton in 1963 and corresponded with him for a number of years.

Karen Apple wrote was a 16-year-old student at a Catholic high school. She writes from Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Fr. Vitus Bucher, O.S.B. (Edmund Bucher) was a Benedictine monk of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota.

Adrian Cunningham died at age 69 in March 2012. He spent the greatest part of his professional career at the University of Lancaster, helping to found the Department of Religious Studies in 1967. Merton writes to him in London. At the time, he was a student at Cambridge. He was involved in Catholic attempts to promote non-violence and to resist nuclear arms proliferation. He later was a co-founder the controversial publication «Slant», which attempted to reconcile Marxism and Catholic thought. (Sources: «Subtext» [Lancaster, UK]: #88, 22 March 2012 ‹www.lancaster.ac.uk/subtext/archive/issue088.htm›, accessed 14 March 2014; and " Once again, farewell," «The Tablet»: 24 March 2012, p. 19 ‹archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/24th-march-2012/19/once-again-farewell, accessed 14 March 2014›.)

Cecil B. DeMille was a filmmaker best known for his biblical epic, «The Ten Commandments».

Terrell Dickey was a commercial artist from Louisville, Kentucky. The Abbey of Gethsemani hired Dickey to assist with the layout of books and pamphlets produced by the monastery on Gethsemani and the Trappist life. Merton first records in his journal a meeting with Dickey about a postulant's pamphlet on September 10, 1957. He also consults with Dickey about Merton's proposed book on art, Art and Worship, which was not published.

Anne Diekan writes to Merton from Manassas, Virginia.

Roger Hubank was a student at Cambridge University, where Merton spent his first year of college. He is a Catholic who asks about the relationship of Catholic authority and censorship in relation to authors, especially Catholic authors. He also questions some of Merton's criticism of D.H. Lawrence in «Elected Silence» and «The Sign of Jonas».

Daryl or Daryll Keene seems to be a woman from California that Merton references in some journal entries in early March of 1968. She came visiting the monastery, had a discussion with Merton, and wanted to relocate to the area and involve him in a project. Merton refused this offer and notes that she had moved on to Louisville or Dayton.

Alasdair Alpin MacGregor was a writer, photographer and poet, born in Scotland. At the time of correspondence with Merton, he was writing a biography of the artist Percyval Tudor-Hart.

Br. Simeon Malone was a lay brother at Gethsemani Abbey. He was originally from Wichita, Kansas, and entered Gethsemani in 1957. Br. Simeon was a secretary to Dom James Fox at Gethsemani Abbey in the 1960's.

Merton writes to Adrienne Mariani of Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

Sr. Rita Maury, who seems to have formerly used the name in religion of Sr. Frances Therese, was a Sister of St. Joseph writing from Milford, Massachusetts.

Fr. William McInnes was a Jesuit priest and, at the time of writing, president of Fairfield University, Connecticut.

Sandy Meyer was a student at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri at the time of writing. Following Merton's correspondence with Barbara Ann Braveman, another member of the staff of the student publication «Free Lance» (also "Freelance"), Meyer came to Gethsemani to interview Merton on March 30, 1968 with Susan Smith, and students named Sally and Mike (possibly Michael Castro?).

Claude Michel writes on behalf of the Action Civique Non-Violente in St. Didier au Mont d'Or, France.

Jim Milord wrote for the «Catholic Worker» and praised Merton for his review of the «Shoshoneans» in the June 1967 issue. He writes from Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Later, after transferring to a new teaching post in 1968, he writes from Vegreville, Alberta.

Czeslaw Milosz was a Polish poet who among his many accolades won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980. Milosz was part of the Polish socialist resistance to the Nazis during World War II. After the war, he sought political asylum in France, opposing the repressive regime that came to power. His work, «The Captive Mind» was the first that caught Merton's attention and motivated him to write to Milosz. In 1960, Milosz accepted a professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, and lived in the United States for the rest of his life. Merton and Milosz first met at Gethsemani in September of 1964. Later, Merton would visit Milosz in California in October of 1968. Christine Bochen notes a number of diverse themes in their correspondence: "candid critiques of each other's work; suggestions for reading; and reflections on nature and history, religion and the Church, mass media and American society." (Source: «The Courage for Truth», pp. 53-54.)

Stephano Minelli writes on behalf of Edizioni Mocelliana in Brescia, Italy.

Sr. Miriam Benedict was a Benedictine sister of Regina Laudis Monastery in Bethlehem, Connecticut. At the time of writing, she was Postulant Mistress.

Dan Tyler Moore and Drew Pearson write on behalf of the International Platform Association from Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Lee Moore worked in the subsidiary rights department of Farrar, Straus and Giroux publishers in New York.

Dr. José L. Morales from St. John’s University, in New York was a professor of mystical theology and literature.

Frederick Morgan was editor-in-chief of «The Hudson Review» and writes from New York.

Charles Moritz was the longest serving editor of «Current Biography», serving from 1958-1992.

Rev. C. F. D. Moule was an Anglican priest and professor at Clare College at Cambridge University in England. Merton submits a piece for the «Clare Association Annual».

Merton writes to the Library Club of Mount St. Paul College in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Anne Brooks Murray writes on behalf of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy publishers in New York.

André Muzac writes on behalf of La Haute-Auvergne Societe des Lettres, Sciences et Art from Aurillac, France.

Susan Neer was a high school student from Saint Ann, Missouri. Her father tells her that statements about racism in the South by John Howard Griffin are exaggerated, and she asks Merton's opinion.

J. Robert Nelson was dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School from 1957-1960. He was later dean at Boston University School of Theology from 1965-1985.

Mary E. Newman writes from West Palm Beach, Florida, to report a miracle purported to have occurred after reading «Exile Ends in Glory» and praying to Mother Berchmans and Maria Goretti.

Thich Nhât Hanh was a Buddhist monk, originally from Vietnam. During the Vietnam war, he struggled to negotiate peace and end the conflict between the North and South in a non-partisan fashion. In so doing, he was condemned by both sides and had to flee the country. After leaving Vietnam, he lectured in the United States. In 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. nominated Nhât Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize. In later years, he lived in France at a monastic community called Plum Village. (Sources: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, pp. 325-326; and the Plum Village website, ‹plumvillage.org›.)

Bishop Matthew A. Niedhammer (Matteo Aloisio Niedhammer y Yaeckle) was the Apostolic Vicariate in Bluefields, Nicaragua. Merton is inquiring about moving to Nicaragua to set up a hermitage on Corn Island.

Ilse F. Niswonger was an Oblate of St. Benedict at Regina Laudis Abbey in Bethlehem, Connecticut. She was an artist and offered her services for a statue of the Virgin Mary. This is likely the job that Merton eventually commissioned Jaime Andrade to sculpt.

Archbishop Adolph Alexander Noser was born in Belleville, Illinois. He became a priest of the Society of the Divine Word (Divine Word Missionaries). He was ordained bishop and was sent to Accra, Ghana, in 1950. Merton and Noser began contact in 1968, after Noser was appointed Archbishop of Madang, Papua New Guinea.

Barbara O'Connell was an eighth grade student from Arlington, Massachusetts. She was to write a class paper about a famous writer and chose Merton. She asks for some information about himself and his writing.

Fr. Gabriel O'Connell was a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Valley in Valley Falls, Rhode Island.

Barbara O'Grady of Framingham, Massachusetts, writes to express her joy at reading the galleys of «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander» sent by John Delaney at Doubleday.

Jack O'Neill was an ex-novice of Gethsemani Abbey.

Valerio Ochetto writes from Radiotelevisione Italiana on behalf of Giorgio La Pira. He invites Merton to appear on an interview concerning the atomic bomb.

Griselda Ohannessian was on the editorial staff of New Directions publishers in New York. She later became president of New Directions.

John Palcewski was Editor of «Don Quixote». He wanted his friend Allen Schaaf to interview Merton for his magazine.

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

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

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