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First lines: "Your prelude to the chant afforded a sort of Laetare Sunday diversion in my Lenten reading."... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Laudate Dominum" [sound recording] - program notes by Merton on slipcase.

First lines: "Your pamphlet on prayer is very good. If I may offer one minor suggestion it is that you break up"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Balanced Life of Prayer" [book/pamphlet].

First lines: "Enclosed you will find the document you requested for the edification or something of your friend"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Ascent to Truth" [book] documents from Fr. Paul Bourne, O.C.S.O. - possibly sending "Reader's Report" also in this file, see "1951/no-month/no-day?" in "Ascent to Truth".

First lines: "An advance copy or your excellent new book, Ascent to Truth, reached us a few days ago and we are"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Ascent to Truth" [book] censor Fr. Paul Bourne, O.C.S.O. notes that indicated corrections were not made in the published copy of book.

First lines: "Your brief sketch of St. John of the Cross is very nice except for one aspect which I hope you will"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for signed copy - from a file kept by Dom James Fox on censorship] "Saints for Now" by Clare Boothe Luce with an essay by Merton regarding St. John of the Cross - censor's comments - concern about the Carmelite "prison incident, 'monastic incarceration'" and that, without fuller context, it would be confusing to readers and upsetting to the Carmelites - sent to Merton with note from Br. Alfred, O.C.S.O. of 1952/July/07.

First lines: "I like St John very much but if the lady is St Teresa I think you've missed her character, a round"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Saints for Now" by Clare Boothe Luce with an essay by Merton regarding St. John of the Cross [essay in book] - censor Fr. Paul Bourne reacts to Merton's two black ink brush drawings of St. John of the Cross and of St. Thérèse of Lisieux for inclusion in the book, written on the bottom of Merton's letter (see Item #1 of the same date).

First lines: "As we have been directed, I address to you this critique of Father Louis' latest book, The Sign"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Sign of Jonas" [book] - censor's comments from Fr. Paul Bourne, O.C.S.O., Holy Ghost Abbey, Conyers, Georgia.

First lines: "In the absence of your dear Rev. Father I take the responsibility of addressing this criticism"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Bread in the Wilderness" [book - here under original title of "Contemplation in the Liturgy"].

First lines: "This Intro. to Doctor Mellifluus seems to me quite the best thing of this sort you have done."... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Last of the Fathers" [book].

First lines: "I'm really distressed at being so in arrears with the censorship. Just after Christmas I came down"... Contents index: "Ash Wednesday" [poem] and "Easter: the New Life" [essay].

First lines: "Have just mailed a most enthusiastic endorsement of 'The Power and Meaning of Love' to Father"... Contents index: "A Tribute to Greatness: Comment on Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak".

First lines: "First- please tell Fr. Louis to go ahead with his preface to Disputed Questions - nihil obstat."... Contents index: "Disputed Questions" [book].

First lines: "Have just mailed the censorship report on the two brief pieces you refer to in your recent note"... Contents index: "Disputed Questions" [book].

First lines: "You are very thougthful to recall the matter of postage. Now I will be able to enter the office by"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "All under control, I trust. Did the best I could by "Peace," and now pray it will descend upon us."... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Here is a returned ms of Fr. Louis - «Nuclear War» and Frather Jn Eudes article for the Cath."... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Two more "little articles" received and will be cared for. Notice from Rome that Fr. Louis recent"... Contents index: [verso: reproduction of "Our Lady of Sorrows" by Luis Morales / originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Somehow, somewhere, I've mislaid the copy of Fr. Louis article on nuclear warfare. Would you be kind"... Contents index: [originally filed by Dom James Fox in a file about censors (see "Censors Reports" and likely regarding "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / dated "Conversion of St. Paul" (January 25) and Fox marks replying to his letter by late January 1962] two rejected articles / Fr. Charles [English?].

First lines: "Had word from Fr. Clement that «Nuclear War» has been cleared for publication. Still can't find"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "First of all, I trust you to refrain from any official reference to what I might say in this letter."...

First lines: "Judged best not to submit this to formal censorship-- as I don’t know how long it would take in this"... Contents index: [Merton's annotation: "Re - «Cold War Letters in» «BlRv and Cold War»" -, i.e. «Black Revolution and Cold War»].

First lines: "Will take care of your Notes on Art etc at once. For the records shall"...

First lines: "Taking all factors into account I can't see that this little piece requires censorship. Did Dom"...

First lines: "You should have your green light for the Diaspora very soon; but meanwhile I've run thru the piece"...

First lines: "I don't know what's going on, censorshipwise, at the Generalate. I get no response to my reports,"...

First lines: "Since Commonweal themselves have been recently bewailing their circulation one can surely talk them"...

First lines: "Thanks for your last letter and your green light on Honest to God for the Commonweal. I thought"...

First lines: "By all means go ahead with Few Questions: Fewer Answers. I read it without the slightest"...

First lines: "Your Berrigan preface strikes me as quite conservative - for 1965 - and I see no need of censoring"...

First lines: "Mille pardons! I just picked up your brochure on the drawings and realized for the first time that"...

First lines: "Turn about is fair play - the enclosed is an article by me for you to censor. Actually, this is a"...

First lines: "Forgive this delay re your rubbings, but we have not been idle. The Museum is booked solid for a"...

First lines: "Mille pardons. Really I'm all confused. Just came across most of this on my desk and can't"...

First lines: "After getting your poem out of the file an hour ago I've now utterly lost it. No one else does such"...

First lines: "Here is your article. Fr Chas is the other censor so I'm sure its quite all right to go ahead with"...

First lines: "Always a pleasure to have a word from you. How I wish I had a valid eremitical call, but for me it"...

First lines: "Don't worry about your ms. All is under control. Have you read Dewart's «Future of Belief?»?"...

First lines: "Don't fret about censorship. I've about reached the point where I consider it "inopportune", and"...

First lines: "As a Trappist monk of ancient vintage with no place to store things I never saved any correspondence"... Contents index: did not retain any of Merton's correspondence but offers to donate Merton's autographed and annotated copy of the 1929 edition of «The Confessions of St. Augustine».

Fr. Paul Bourne seemed to be in the difficult position of liking Merton and his works, and serving the official function as head censor for the Order, holding responsibility for objectionable works of Merton's going to publication. The two men struggle with what can and cannot be published by Merton on the topics of war, nuclear proliferation, Vietnam, and race relations. They also discuss other matters not related to Fr. Paul's work as a censor, including the monastic life, novitiate manuals, chapter meetings for the Order, changing worship to the vernacular, allowing conversation among monks, etc.

First lines: "Fret not about your novel - I'm not supposed to be reading novels so how could I possibly censor it?"... Contents index: [note on the back of a bookmark / verso: "Work is love made visible" - K. Gibran].

First lines: "There used to be an old woman around the parish at 59th St. who specialized in etiquette. "Never"...

First lines: "P. 17 of #7 (Eng. Mystics) is missing - we did not lose it! […] The report from Rome should come"...

First lines: "Thought you might like to see our new Guide. The text was not easy to write - just «where» to"...

First lines: "Of course you may keep your New Yorker section intact! It was really rather priggish of me"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy].