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First lines: "Thank you for the material, which I find lucid and reasonable, in the best Merton manner. I am"... Contents index: [no year listed - previously dated 1963/01/24, but contextual evidence makes 1962 more likely] 6 day retreat for 50 college students - their insulation from the real world / reviewing «New Seeds of Contemplation» for «America» / International Student Center has 450 students / attaching censors reports for new poems / John Heidbrink.

First lines: "Censor «A» ALL ARE GENUINE POEMS; MANY ARE SUPERB [-] Censor«B» [sic] These are"... Contents index: [attached to 1963/01/24 letter] Censors approvals of Berrigan's latest poems.

First lines: "A long overdue note to say hello, and to acknlwedge [sic] yours of a month or more ago. I will not"... Contents index: John Heidbrink - retreat for Presbyterian ministers - Rev. Mr. Muste / Dick Walsh / Merton's peace writings in «Commonweal» and «Jubilee» and book, «Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience» / closer to Protestants than Catholics on peace and racial equality / Phillip Berrigan also visiting in August.

First lines: "A short one to say hello, and to hope all is well there. Just back last night from N.Y. and a two"... Contents index: workshop with Mother Seton's Sisters of Charity - work with Puerto Ricans and blacks in poorest parishes of New York / John Heidbrink / a layman said that nuns "poor and prayerful and non violent" but priest not ready for leadership / founding Latin American house / asking Merton for introduction to book on liturgy and conscience.

First lines: "FUND RAISING DRIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL CENTER [-] 1. Name of organization:"... Contents index: fund raising for William J. Kerby Foundation and the International Student Center.

First lines: "I am here for a day of retreat to the Maddames [sic] of the S.H. It brings back memories since it"... Contents index: [dated "The Feast of the Sacred Heart" (the feast falling on June 21 in 1963)] writing from Albany, New York, where Phillip and Daniel began abortive freedom ride 3 years before / thinks about packing up everything and going to Birmingham against the wishes of his superiors - civil disobedience and Church disobedience? / Tony Walsh / Charles de Foucault / "Pacem in Terris" / the FOR.

First lines: "Hope you havent [sic] given me up for advent or something. After many wanderings and searchings,"... Contents index: [verso: "Kreuzigung Mit Lukas-Symbol" - "Verlag Ars liturgica Maria Laach (Germany)"] chaplain to University students / Goss-Mayrs and John Heidbrink / Tony Walsh.

First lines: "I have to get off a short note to say hello, and to assure you that yr. letter was much appreciated"... Contents index: meetings in Prague and Budapest with Protestants interested in the peace movement / Christian Peace Union's international meeting in Prague / Pope John XXIII and "Pacem in Terris" - surprised both Protestants and Marxists / John Heidbrink / the F.O.R. [Fellowship of Reconciliation].

First lines: "Thank you for your kind letter. I will look for the Ramparts and everything else of interest you"... Contents index: President Kennedy's death / the Goss-Mayrs.

First lines: "Seems like an age since I had word of you. I am wonderinf [sic] whether any of the (in)famous tapes"... Contents index: "(in)famous tapes" - Catholicism in Poland under Communism - Fr. Felix McGovern / lacks hope of being sent by the Church as a representative at the Prague peace conference - the good work being done by "a very few Catholics, many more Protestants and Orthodox" - asking Merton to write Pope Paul or Cardinal Bea.

First lines: "I am sending on some junk mail another another [sic] heading. I though[t] it might be of"... Contents index: Latin America - non-violence "too little and too late"? / censorship of his materials / trip to South Africa / [Rolf?] Hochhuth play / Moscow-Prague trip for the summer / Berrigan's piece on Notre Dame / Merton's piece on poets - Henry Miller - "why isn't this guy a Catholic"? / Aleriaand Marocco / John Heidbrink.

First lines: ""... Contents index: [see 1968/05/18 - misdated in published version].

First lines: "What a wonderful letter you wrote me, and how deeply I appreciate it… I was desolate to hear that"... Contents index: South African tape likely confiscated in mail out of the country / new assignment in New York City with Jesuit Missions / John Heidbrink - retreats for clergy have expanded to Protestant retreat houses / ideas for new Gethsemani retreat - small and unstructured / Ivan Illich / Claire Booth Luce / Catholics and Marxists.

First lines: "This is a poor excuse for a letter after all the months. But they have been harried ones; I am"... Contents index: [verso: Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, post card signed from Glasgow, and post marked from Morocco] touring northwest Africa with Fr. Lewis Cox / Barry Goldwater and the race issue / Prague week (conference on peace) - East-West dialogue / Bill Congdon in Rome / Philip Berrigan in Mississippi.

First lines: "How grateful Tom for your marvelous welcome. Your wisdom, yourself! We went away as though after"... Contents index: thanks for Gethsemani get together and Merton's drawings / Berrigan sends a leaflet with "3 poems to fit our times [-] 1965 [-] Mary's Day [-] Immaculate Heart College" - poems by Dan Berrigan ("To the Woman of Immaculate Heart, a Poem and No Persuasion"), Gerald Huckaby, and Pat Amato.

First lines: "I feel very neglectful, especially after the bum steer I gave you in an address from N.Orleans when"... Contents index: [writing from exile in Argentina] travel to South America via Cuernavaca, Mexico / death of Roger LaPorte "in light of the 'great consensus'" / Latin America a "real laboratory of change" for the future in the U.S. / good exchanges with Ivan Illich in Cuernavaca and Archbishop Helder Camara in Brazil.

First lines: "Here I am by the ocean at Santa Barbara, stuck without writing papers but determined to get a line"... Contents index: Ping Ferry / loneliness and love - Merton and "M." / "free church" worship / "free wheeling" Jesuits from L.A. - drinking bourbon and discussing "freedom, love, change, hope, you, us, them, all of it" / Joan Baez.

First lines: "Things have been happening quite fast here; they sentenced David Miller to 2 and 1 half years last"... Contents index: sentencing of David Miller [for burning draft card] / using every legal means to protest war / proposal to send Berrigan to North Vietnam to bring medical supplies - conflict with Jesuit religious superiors / asks Merton if he should disobey at the risk of Jesuits expelling him.

First lines: "It seems like ages, know I've been remiss. Jim Forest sent on one of yrs. to him and got me to get"... Contents index: [writing from Pueblo, Colorado] work with Mexican-American youth with Upward Bound program / Loretto sisters who knew Merton from Kentucky / "open parish setup" like Oklahoma City project - problem that most are upper-middle class and do not want to mix with poor / Cornell University offer / description of Pueblo area.

First lines: "A short note and a loud cry like the Beatles, HELP. My books such as they are still unpacked"... Contents index: seminar on violence, non-violence, and religious traditions - asking Merton's input on Hindu and Zen ideals / little hope for Hanoi trip / [writing from Cornell University] "Extraordinary student ferment here, practically all leadership Jewish. The Catholics are year round hibernaters [sic] in fraternity woodwork".

First lines: "Thanks for all the good material. I had a few of these made up for the brethren when I was saying"... Contents index: [stationary says: "US Forest Service… Leave a Clean Camp and a Dead Fire"] Peace movement is turning more violent - ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr. out of fashion / Philip Berrigan and others involved in civil disobedience in Baltimore planning violence against military property / youth influenced by "Che" Guevara.

First lines: "I don't know even if I had the gumption to write a think [sic] you to you for the marvelous letter"... Contents index: recounts events surrounding Philip Berrigan's decision, with 3 others, to pour blood on draft records / Phil looking forward to jail / demonstrations in Washington, D.C. / cable to the Pope distributed to clergy / clergy appeal to turn in draft cards as a "paraliturg[ical]" offering / CPF - protest against Catholic Relief Services.

First lines: "A short hectic one as usual; Just in from Chi toward dawn; we had several good things there"... Contents index: draft card turn-in by seminarians in Chicago / apathy by Jesuit theologians in Aurora, Illinois / cursing lawyers in Philip Berrigan case / possibility of Merton's rules loosening regarding travel with a new abbot / seminar on Zen prayer / Ivan Illich conference on Che Guevara / Marxist students and "black power kids".

First lines: "This is a very brief note to say hello. You will by now have heard of the trial and our sentencing."... Contents index: trial and sentencing of Daniel and Philip Berrigan for "Catonsville Nine" incident of breaking into draft office and burning draft cards with home-made napalm in Catonsville, Maryland / asking if Merton would be interviewed by Francine Grey of the «New Yorker» about peace movement [Merton (in Asia) later declines].

First lines: "I would like to reflect with you rather than talk to you about this extraordinary spirit, Thomas"... Contents index: ["Typescript made from tape of a talk on Thomas Merton given by Daniel Berrigan for the formal opening of the Thomas Merton Center for Creative Exchange, September 17, 1979, in Denver, Colorado" - copied from the Nancy Wilson Ross Paper at the Ransom Center].

First lines: "Rejoice with us! On September 8, eight of us entered a General Electric Nuclear Weapons factory in"... Contents index: circular letter sent to friends of Daniel and Philip Berrigan (and six others) announcing their act of disobedience in breaking into the General Electric plant and ruining 3 nuclear re-entry cones with household hammers / including a personal message sent to Pat [?] / permission to use Merton correspondence.

First lines: "The Merton-Berrigan Letters"... Contents index: [copies of Merton/Berrigan correspondence compiled by William Shannon for publication purposes - photocopies of letters included].

First lines: "Letters by Thomas Merton to Daniel and Philip Berrigan in the Department of Rare Books, Cornell"... Contents index: list of Merton's letters to Daniel Berrigan in Cornell Library's Rare Books Department.

First lines: "Contemporary Literary Criticism - subject Daniel Berrigan"... Contents index: biographical information collected by William Shannon.

First lines: "Contemporary Authors, Volumes 33-36, First Revision"... Contents index: biographical information collected by William Shannon.