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First lines: "I am delighted that you can use the photograph on the jacket of the new book. Already told"...

First lines: "I am delighted that you can use the photograph on the jacket of the new book. Already told"...

First lines: "At Jacques' request, I am returning to you the ms of Raissa's «Journal». He has come up with"... Contents index: Bruce Publishing Co..

First lines: "J'aurais voulu vous annonce moi-même,"...

First lines: "One more thing before I sign off. On New Year's Day I received a great grace---totally unlooked for"... Contents index: [seemingly missing all but last page of letter] typing for Merton.

First lines: "I would not want you to misinterpret my letter which I have written to good Father Bernard"... Contents index: complaint to Dom Colomban Bissey that one of the monks of Melleray, Fr. Bernard, was trying to "induce Father Louis to make a trip across the Atlantic" for Bissey's induction into the French Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor).

First lines: "I presume that you can read english, I hope. I know you have acted in all innocence-- good will--"...

First lines: "I am simply appalled to hear of your misfortune. Unfortunately it seems that more and more people"...

First lines: "I am so very happy that you are willing to do a commentary on Camus' «The Plague» for the"... Contents index: series for Seabury Press / enclosing Frederick Dillistone's piece on Patrick White's «Riders in the Chariot» / Modern Library edition of Camus' «The Plague» / Merton's enclosure of a mimeographed letter about the actions of Fr. Charles Davis and about Merton's life as a hermit.

First lines: "I have no qualms in saying I like your ms, but selling it is another thing again. The poems are"... Contents index: makes suggestions about where to publish or not publish poems - difficulty he will face.

First lines: "Sidi Abdeslam […] oublié votre rencontre, les moments pour le Colliue, et tout ce que vous"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letterof [sic] Jan.27 and above all for the splendid book on «Siena» by Titus"...

First lines: "Voici que je viens un peu en retard pour vous féliciter, mais vous savez bien combien je suis"...

First lines: "Here I come a little bit late to congratulate you, but you know well how happy I am regarding"... Contents index: [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3].

First lines: "Thanks for your note. I was very pleased to hear that you see no big obstacle looming and that you"...

First lines: "Thanks for the laurel note and the clipping on AJ. He certainly was one of the notable people,"... Contents index: Jim Holloway visited with Will Campbell / Vietnam / working on articles about Albert Camus and William Faulkner.

First lines: "Many thanks for yours of February 17th and the enclosed document. Perhaps I didn't make it clear"... Contents index: [see "Stone, Naomi Burton" file for letter].

First lines: "I left it in the novitiate - it should be there - or in the library. Sorry I don't have the book."... Contents index: [see also #84a on the same page]

First lines: "Would you have the new edition (in French) of St Basil's letters? Seems I saw it once in novitiate"... Contents index: [see also #84b on the same page]

First lines: "Just got your new book yesterday. It looks great. Will report soon as I can type again. I just"... Contents index: dialogue between "extreme people" about the future relevance of monasticism - against monasticism as a "tolerable Christian concept" - Rosemary Ruether and Vahanian; for quasi-monastic, middle ground - Dorothy Day and Dave Kirk; traditional monasticism - Dom Jean Leclercq and Merton / Jim Forest / Joan Baez.

First lines: "This is not anything urgent, but I am just beginning to wonder. Br Martin has been doing some"... Contents index: Spanish poet [Alberti] translation of a work about Rome / question about continuing Sunday conferences - "I feel that […] these kids do not really understand what I am talking about"

First lines: "This is not anything urgent, but I am just beginning to wonder. Br Martin has been doing some"... Contents index: Spanish poet [Alberti] translation of a work about Rome / question about continuing Sunday conferences - "I feel that […] these kids do not really understand what I am talking about"

First lines: "Thanks for your reassuring note. It did clear things up a bit and I would not be surprised if I"... Contents index: plans to outsource typing / Br. Martin and the Alberti poem / continuing his Gethsemani Sunday conferences / comments said about Bamberger

First lines: "Thanks for your reassuring note. It did clear things up a bit and I would not be surprised if I"... Contents index: plans to outsource typing / Br. Martin and the Alberti poem / continuing his Gethsemani Sunday conferences / comments said about Bamberger

First lines: "I enclose my Eastertide "Letter", which is, possibly, more interesting than the previous ones."...

First lines: "In my college freshman English class, I'm working on a term paper, comparing you with"... Contents index: comparing Merton and Dag Hammarskjold on contemplation and peace / using «Seven Storey Mountain» / request more information / «No Man Is an Island».

First lines: "Just a note to say that I hope to be at Gethsemani on Tuesday after Easter, probably in the"...

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: "Thanks for your nice letter. I will give you what help I can. First of all, I have read"... Contents index: read Hammarskjold's «Markings» "with great interest and sympathy" / "common interest in Meister Eckhart" / Johannes Tauler and John of the Cross / recommends «Conjectures, Seeds, New Seeds» / Merton's «Gandhi» - Hammarskjöld and Oriental thought / hasn't read recent biography on Hammarskjöld.

First lines: "You are the first person who ever picked me out as an authority on music. I cannot even play a"... Contents index: Merton says he can play the bongo drums and likes country music and Johnny Cash / contributes some facts and history about the monastery for Boyd's report on Kentucky.

First lines: "I do not know if you remember me from my letters written two years ago, when you kindly sent me two"... Contents index: asking for translation rights for "The Primitive Carmelite Ideal" article to be published in Polish periodical «Znak» in Kraków.

First lines: "We have acquired the publishing rights to «The Roots of Faith» Religion Series produced by the"... Contents index: Rev. Leo Henry from Pittsburgh / permission to use section of "Albert Camus and the Church" for the teacher's manual for «The Roots of Faith: Book 4».

First lines: "human culture, going in the direction of the increased unification of the human race. If we"... Contents index: draft for the section of the teacher's manual for «The Roots of Faith: Book 4» which includes Merton's piece on Camus.

First lines: "I deeply regret the fact that due to your ill health you had to return early to Japan, and were"... Contents index: Abe's notes on "Living Dying Life" / the «Eastern Buddhist» publication / Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki / Richard De Martino / Winston King.

First lines: "P. Patrick wants these bulletins for Collectanea. Can you red this copy? I am taking the ones"...

First lines: "I'm interested in Ky. History and in the 7th grade we are keeping a scrapbook of Kentucky facts."... Contents index: asks Merton to "send all the information about Kentucky music and Ky. facts that you can".

First lines: "I am planning to see Dr Mitchell this Thursday A.M. Can you please arrange (I had to change"... Contents index: [verso: drawing and the words "FIRE", "40 ARCES" [sic], and "TOP MT. HERMON"]

First lines: "As to the Alberti piece: please believe that I had no idea you would take it that way."... Contents index: [only a segment of a message (top and bottom cut off) - verso: Bamberger notes that this was a message from Merton to one of his secretaries]

First lines: "No problem about the quote to be used in THE ROOTS OF FAITH. The credit line is all right as given."...

First lines: "Many thanks for Palm Sunday epistle. Here it is Low Sunday already. Why not drive over with Jim"... Contents index: arranging another get together.

First lines: "I was taught at home (and also at […] perhaps?) that one ought always to write Thank You Letters"...

First lines: "I write to inquire whether your schedule of commitments might permit you to do the Seabury Lenten"... Contents index: asking whether Merton would like to do the Seabury Lenten Book for 1969 / Alan Paton working on 1968.

First lines: "Certainly go ahead with a translation of the "Primitive Carmelite Ideal". When it is published I"...

First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter of April 4th. I do not think it would be possible for me to undertake"... Contents index: refuses offer for Lenten Book 1969.

First lines: "I intended to send the above some books but probably never put in the list. If you to [sic] not"... Contents index: [see verso for Amps' reply - Merton sending books to Mario Falsina, a student at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, who was living in Bergamo - see the "Falsina, Mario" file].

First lines: "According to our record (of this year} we have not sent anything to the reverse side address, thus"...

First lines: "In August the Thomas More Association will publish the «1968 Catholic Book Annual», an"... Contents index: asking if Merton would write for the «Annual» on "What five books published during the past year do you consider most important within your own experience?".

First lines: "I am a monk, poet, priest, and have written s [sic] few books on the contemplative life in which I"... Contents index: response to Bieberman's article "On Getting the Message" in «Innerspace» - advice from Merton - has no experience with psychedelics, but much experience with youth going through crises as novice master / "experience and communication, solitude and community" / Indians and peyote / Ibn al'Arabi / Sufis.

First lines: "Sounds as though this is it, doesn't it? I find it hard to organize clear thoughts but you will"... Contents index: Berrigan's conflicts with the Jesuits over permission to go with Fellowship of Reconciliation to Hanoi to bring medical supplies / institutional Church - obeying God vs. man / Fr. Perrin's departure from Jesuits / advises Berrigan to follow his conscience and not worry about the consequences if he truly believes in this.

First lines: "Sounds as though this is it, doesn't it? I find it hard to organize clear thoughts but you will"... Contents index: Berrigan's conflicts with the Jesuits over permission to go with Fellowship of Reconciliation to Hanoi to bring medical supplies / institutional Church - obeying God vs. man / Fr. Perrin's departure from Jesuits / advises Berrigan to follow his conscience and not worry about the consequences if he truly believes in this.

First lines: "I am a monk, poet, priest, and have written s [sic] few books on the contemplative life in which I"... Contents index: response to Bieberman's article "On Getting the Message" in «Innerspace» - advice from Merton - has no experience with psychedelics, but much experience with youth going through crises as novice master / "experience and communication, solitude and community" / Indians and peyote / Ibn al'Arabi / Sufis.

First lines: "Excuse me writing to you unannounced, out of the blue, like this. I have been a great admirer of"... Contents index: asks for original articles for «Peace News» / reviews of «Raids» and «Conjectures» / permission to reprint "A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann" for "Madness: Sanity/Insanity" feature.

First lines: "Since I sent you on March 12th my letter from Florence with the latest "Letter to Sobesedniks""...

First lines: "The enclosed is a 'religious entertainment'--not exactly a play--on some of the changes, confusing"... Contents index: enclosing a play by Helen De Sola, entitled "Pandora's Box", on life in the post-conciliar Church - liberal and conservative perspectives delivered by Pope John XXIII and Pius XII looking down from heaven.

First lines: "I realize any sort of letters are unwelcome but after reading "Can We Survive Nihilism" in the"... Contents index: "Can We Survive Nihilism" from the «Saturday Review» / Boyd is relieved that Merton did not fully withdraw from the world and stop writing.

First lines: "Thanks for your good letter. I am glad you found the two books interesting enough to review, and"... Contents index: use of Eichmann piece / what Merton feels he could offer / offers his abstract drawings for publication.

First lines: "Thanks very much for your letter. I appreciate what you say about not being too anxious to be"... Contents index: Indian peyotists - adding ritual to experience of psychedelics / agrees that silence would be useful but asserts that she is foremost an activist - going underground with movement, like many "hippies", leads to "raids and embarrassment" / wants to hold psychedelic sessions "above-ground" by 1970.

First lines: "I am leaving shirt[?] here as I have to go back next week - will set things up and let you know when"...

First lines: "«Psychedelic Information Center» BULLETIN [-] A New York City group, the «Jade Companions»"... Contents index: John Aiken, leader of the «Church of the Awakening» (see "Aiken, John" file) / Symposium on the Religious Significance of Psychedelic Drugs / morning glory seeds / Underground Press Syndicate / legality under federal law of making LSD for personal research.

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: "I write this letter from Florence in the end of my three-months-long stay in Italy, first at Monte"... Contents index: ["Letter to Sobesedniks" - see 1966/08/00 and 1966/12/00 letters].

First lines: "I'd appreciate if these prescriptions could be filled as soon as convenient. I did not have time"...

First lines: "Votre très aimable et très"...

First lines: "Many thanks for "Chuang Tzu". I have already recommended it for the library of an acquaintance"... Contents index: asks whether «Way of Chuang Tzu» was reviewed for «The Middle Way» / morality of Zen and the absence of the "Golden Rule".

First lines: "Through the devious workings of Providence I have now fallen into the hands of a new doctor who"... Contents index: new doctor for allergies / new diet / book on Foucault on madness - doctors as creative artists and sees himself as "masterpiece of medical camp" / requests literature on allergies

First lines: "Through the devious workings of Providence I have now fallen into the hands of a new doctor who"... Contents index: new doctor for allergies / new diet / book on Foucault on madness - doctors as creative artists and sees himself as "masterpiece of medical camp" / requests literature on allergies

First lines: "Your book on the Buddha is a joy to read and full of wisdom, so that once again I want to tell you"... Contents index: Byles' book on Buddha, «Footprints of Gautama the Buddha» (see "Marginalia" collection in the Merton Center for Merton's notes on this book) / «Way of Chuang Tzu» has not been reviewed in English to Merton's knowledge and permits Byles to review it in «The Middle Way» / Merton sends piece on Marcel and Buddha.

First lines: "Just after I had sent you my last letter, the copies of "Japanese Religi [page cuts off] arrived"... Contents index: [Karl] Barth / Christian mystical experience / Christian ontology / atomic physicists - Bohr and Heisenberg / Islamic mysticism - Sufis / «Mystics and Zen Masters» / "'popular' Zen craze".

First lines: "I have been meaning to write and thank you for the first issue of Latitudes. I liked it, especially"...

First lines: "I am sorry I have not responded sooner. «Pandora's Box» is wonderful. Just perfect for"... Contents index: praise for the play / suggests sending it to Sister Mary Luke Tobin of the Sisters of Loretto since she was the American woman observer at the Second Vatican Council.

First lines: "Under separate cover I am sending you a book which is a kind of thankyou for your current work."... Contents index: Episcopal Peace Fellowship.

First lines: "C'est un véritable ami qui me parle, comme vous l'avez fait, de ce qui"...

First lines: "It is not easy to advise you today when everything is changing and consequently when one does not"... Contents index: advice about changing orders / Regina Laudis, Bethlehem, CT / Lorettine sisters / Dan Walsh's ordination.

First lines: "I do not mean to start a correspondence with you, for nothing can be more depressing than an"... Contents index: desire to publish an article by Merton in Gannon College magazine and plans for publishing his own work.

First lines: "First rule of publishing: a Monk should never allow an editor to edit out what might be considered"...

First lines: "My name is David Aud. My father (Jim) speaks highly of you, having been an English student of yours"... Contents index: asking Merton to persuade Mark Van Doren to lecture at St. Bonaventure's for free.

First lines: "Last week at a small conference of our Bible consultants I was able to grab the elbow of Dr. Heschel"...

First lines: "I have been working here at Boystown since the first of the year, spend part of the day attending"... Contents index: asking for articles by Merton concerning the subject of married clergy.

First lines: "Je viens de recevoir votre lettre, à laquelle je donne réponse. Tout ce que vous me dites c'est"...

First lines: "The x rays showed slight trouble in the lower back but nothing special: the leg pain seems to be"...

First lines: "May I please have [-] 1 - Seven Storey Mtn (Hard cover) [-] 1 Reader [-] To send out? [-] Thanx"...

First lines: "Sure, I remember Jim Aud, and of course have always the fondest memories of St Bona's. It would give"... Contents index: responds to request for favor.

First lines: "We [sic] like to share with you our latest publication: "Salt and Light; Talks and Writings on The"... Contents index: The Sermon on the Mount / book by Eberhard Arnold.

First lines: "Thank you for the poem, Originators, which we will put, with your permission, in Unicorn Folio"... Contents index: publishing poem "Originators" in Unicorn Folio Series One Number Three / Teo Savory [see also her correspondence file] - enclosing volume of her poems / Franciscan Brothers in peace march for the Santa Barbara Community Council to End the War in Vietnam.

First lines: "hoje acabo de receber as provas do ensaio que escrevi sôbre Ud., a ser publicado, em inglês, pela"... Contents index: 2nd page is an mimeographed attachment with addresses for Baciu while traveling in Germany and France.

First lines: "The doctor sent me a shot as I can't get there this week (Decoration Day) [-] I'll come up for it"...

First lines: "It seems to me that if you can go as far as Hawaii you might as well go to Japan. On the other hand"... Contents index: Zen monasteries in Japan / suggests visiting Jesuits at Sophia University and talking to Fr. H. Dumoulin, S.J. - Jesuits mainly study Soto Zen.

First lines: "In view of the many changes taking place within the structured framework of religious life today, we"... Contents index: asking Merton to speak at convocation at St. Francis College about student involvement in contemporary Christian life.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. About publication of the article in the "Laureate"-- you understand that it"... Contents index: response to publishing questions.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter of May 22nd. I am still certainly hoping to see you and Dr Heschel sometime"...

First lines: "I thought you would be interested in these reports. [-] In Jesu [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [Bamberger notes that Merton was referring to a report of the Committee of Responsibility on Vietnam]

First lines: "I enclose the "Letter to Sobesedniks" for June, when we observe our feast of June 24th. The next"...

First lines: "Apparently word is getting around that I am now permitted to go out and speak on various college"... Contents index: relates impossibility of getting permission for such an event / suggests Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. or his brother Philip, although they are more radical than he is.

First lines: "AT request of Dom Leclercq will you please send without charge the following books: Praying"...

First lines: "N'ayant pas "l'opportunité" d'aller vous voir cette année, je bien vous faire me"...

First lines: "Demande à Père Louis de Gethsemani (Th. Merton) un article comprenant de six à dix pages"... Contents index: [attached to 1967/06/12 letter - memo passed on to Merton] asking Merton to write a short article on the Cistercian tradition from the middle ages to the present / Dom Vital Lehodey - article on the spirituality of St. Theresa of Lisieux / Bissey adds "Comment faites-vous pour la Censure de l'Ordre? J'espère qu'on vous en fait grâce!".

First lines: "Sorry for the first mistake but I'm a pretty rotten typist but my penmanship is worst so good luck!"... Contents index: quotes Benjamin Franklin on politics and religion / asks Merton about his thoughts on drugs and the hippy movement / Bob Dylan / asks Merton for submissions to her underground newspaper, «Clique Courier» / her backstage passes to the Monterey International Pop Music Festival / Paul McCartney and the Beatles.

First lines: "So many things to thank your for. It seems a long time since your visit, when the weather was fine,"...

First lines: "So many things to thank your for. It seems a long time since your visit, when the weather was fine,"...

First lines: "It was thoughtless of me for not giving to you my home address. Colleges have vacations, days of"... Contents index: plans to do a second printing of article in the "Laureate".