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First lines: "Thanks for your note and for the book and for the reprint. And above all thanks for thinking of"... Contents index: Vietnam War / peace efforts and Christian unity - eschatology / what goes on at Berkeley "«sounds» real".

First lines: "Thanks for your note and for the book and for the reprint. And above all thanks for thinking of"... Contents index: Vietnam War / peace efforts and Christian unity - eschatology / what goes on at Berkeley "«sounds» real".

First lines: "I don't know if your letter was a disaster: but anyway, if it was, it was a nice disaster."... Contents index: Merton's enjoyment of underground movements and publications - sending poem/prose "mosaic" for her newspaper (to later come out in one of his books) - thinks poems sounds like Bob Dylan (likes "Obviously Five Believers") / Merton owns Beatles "Revolver" (likes "Taxman") / the Grateful Dead / LSD / Merton as "hippy monk".

First lines: "I don't know if your letter was a disaster: but anyway, if it was, it was a nice disaster."... Contents index: Merton's enjoyment of underground movements and publications - sending poem/prose "mosaic" for her newspaper (to later come out in one of his books) - thinks poems sounds like Bob Dylan (likes "Obviously Five Believers") / Merton owns Beatles "Revolver" (likes "Taxman") / the Grateful Dead / LSD / Merton as "hippy monk".

First lines: "I have been wanting to thank you for the book you sent, «Salt and Light» by Eberhard Arnold."... Contents index: review of «Salt and Light» / Plough Publishing's booklet on community and talks given to monks.

First lines: "Merci de votre aimable lettre. Je suis content d'avoir de vos nouvelles. Les rédacteurs des"... Contents index: declines offer to do the proposed article on the history of the Order because of current books in the works.

First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter. I am happy to have received your news. The editors of the Annales"... Contents index: [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3] declines offer to do the proposed article on the history of the Order because of current books in the works.

First lines: "May I disturb you for a moment about a very small point? Sheed and Ward are going to publish a book"... Contents index: asking for source of Merton quote and permission to use - "Make ready for the Christ, whose smile, like lightning, sets free the song of everlasting glory that now sleeps, in your paper flesh, like dynamite." / Dom James Wisemen.

First lines: "Here is the ms of a book of poems-- or rather a mosaic of poetry and poetic prose, which New"...

First lines: "Hello there; sorry I've been so long in writing to you. Did you get the copies of the Madness issue"... Contents index: publishing "Ishi: A Meditation" / "Albert Camus and the Christian Church" for issue on Christian radicalism / Faulkner / Jacques Ellul's «Propaganda» / Auschwitz.

First lines: "Thank you for your form letter on Father Davis and authoritarianism in the Church; also for your"... Contents index: philosophical argument in Barr's book «The Paradoxical Church» / argues "the institutional Church is itself a form of idolatry; and this makes institutionalized religion «a living paradox»… the agent of Christ [and of] the anti-Christ" / all institutions are bad, including families / sacraments / upaya / Zen.

First lines: "At the time you passed through the gate of the Trappist monastery, and turned your back on the"... Contents index: Vietnam / asks for Merton's prayers.

First lines: "Many thanks for your double-letter. I will try to answer it speedily while its contents are still"... Contents index: book of Michel Foucault / poem on the segregation of lepers / Eichmann / Cardinal Heenan / pieces on Shoshoneans, Zen and art, "Original Child Bomb" / Christian radicalism and Karl Barth / Vietnam.

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

First lines: "First of all thank you so much for your kind letter of June 22. We are indeed gratful [sic] for"... Contents index: permission to share comments on «Salt and Light».

First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter. I do hope we can reach some kind of real openness on the Order as"...

First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter. I do hope we can reach some kind of real openness on the Order as"...

First lines: "I am sorry not to have written to you long before this. I have been dreadfully busy for the past"... Contents index: Abe's paper "Zen and Western Thought" / Merton's "A New Christian Consciousness?", "Seven Words", and «Mystics and Zen Masters» / Catholicism, Protestantism and ontological aspects of Christianity.

First lines: "Have to go to Dr tomorrow - just checked and found there was no underwear - could you please"...

First lines: "I am through with the clothes for a while now- Don't know where to return them?? Serum will come"...

First lines: "Paz e Bem! Acabo de terminar a leitura de "Sementes de Destruição", versão brasileira, ed. 1966, da"...

First lines: "Guess what! You got a new name you didn't need!!!! HELLO!! This is the Disaster Kid from the"... Contents index: "letter to a hippy hermit" / Monterey Pop Festival with grandma / D. T. Suzuki / Butorovich recommends Kahlil Gibran, O. Henry, J.R.R. Tolkien and John Lennon to Merton / asks what he would add or leave out of «Seven Storey Mountain» / Pablo Picasso / types lyrics - Beatles songs from "Sgt. Pepper" / Ravi Shankar.

First lines: "Thanks for your long and interesting letter of June 24, with its enclosures. I regret that I am so"... Contents index: issues concerning institutions, evil, and the metaphysical questions these issues bring forth in modern philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Marx / Merton claims not well enough versed in modern philosophy and "suspicion of institutions is based on Biblical and eschatological ground, not metaphysics.".

First lines: "I want to write a few words to thank you for your letter and to encourage you to stick to the good"... Contents index: Vietnam / words of encouragement for soldier and comrades.

First lines: "I want to express my appreciation of your paper. A NEW CHRISTIAN CONSCIOUSNESS, as excerpted in THE"... Contents index: practicing vs. theoretical mystics / Prof. Asrani of India - the "Inner Kingdom" and Sahaj State / response to Merton's statement that drugs could be a substitute for self-transcendence or love / Aiken sees LSD as useful.

First lines: "After 26 years in the practice of medicine, we retired in February 1964 to travel, lecture and share"... Contents index: enclosure to 1967/07/12 letter / lists titles of lectures given, such as: "Exploring Inner Space", "Reincarnation and Karma", "Psychedelics and Self-Realization", etc..

First lines: "We were both born in Pennsylvania, 1n [sic] 1902, and have both graduated from Penn State University"... Contents index: Biographical statement of John W. Aiken, B.A., D.O. and Louisa V. Aiken, B.A., D.O. / enclosure to 1967/07/12 letter.

First lines: "You will probably hear of this through the FOR but since people in France have been writing to me"... Contents index: international, ecumenical seven day fast - Protestant and Catholic clergy and Lanza del Vasto's group / asking Berrigan if he is interested though Merton cannot go / Merton may fast privately at hermitage / Pasteur Jean Lasserre / pamphlet on Camus' «Plague» dedicated to Berrigan / Teilhard de Chardin.

First lines: "You will probably hear of this through the FOR but since people in France have been writing to me"... Contents index: international, ecumenical seven day fast - Protestant and Catholic clergy and Lanza del Vasto's group / asking Berrigan if he is interested though Merton cannot go / Merton may fast privately at hermitage / Pasteur Jean Lasserre / pamphlet on Camus' «Plague» dedicated to Berrigan / Teilhard de Chardin.

First lines: "It usually takes time to get things typed up and ready here, so I have been delayed in sending the"... Contents index: «Plague» commentary delayed / sending early copy for Belford's reaction / Merton asking for the first four commentaries - trying to get young monks interested in literature and has given a course on Faulkner.

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: "Thank you for the last envelope of literature which you sent. It is always deeply appreciated and"... Contents index: [attachment: Horarium for St. Elizabeth's Motherhouse] "Identity Crisis" article by Merton / Sacred Science course at St. Bonaventure University / Association ended / Retiro.

First lines: "I refuse to call anybody Susie. (I met a girl in a bar in London who was called Boosie Susie thirty"... Contents index: Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" / Merton is familiar with the authors she suggested / recommends some Zen books by Suzuki / from «Seven Storey Mountain» he'd "cut out a lot of the sermons" and "the sales pitch for Catholic schools" / paradox of organizing the underground press / Ravi Shankar and Indian music.

First lines: "I refuse to call anybody Susie. (I met a girl in a bar in London who was called Boosie Susie thirty"... Contents index: Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" / Merton is familiar with the authors she suggested / recommends some Zen books by Suzuki / from «Seven Storey Mountain» he'd "cut out a lot of the sermons" and "the sales pitch for Catholic schools" / paradox of organizing the underground press / Ravi Shankar and Indian music.

First lines: "Father John McNeil at LeMoyne College here gave me your name as someone to write, inviting you to"... Contents index: asking Merton's participation on a "Consultation on Pot, Pills and LSD" from March 1-3, 1968 at Syracuse / asking Merton to respond to papers given by experts in different fields, say Mass at Crouse College with Fr. Borgognoni there, and participate in dialog with students and clergy.

First lines: "Will you please send a copy of Seeds of Destruction AIRMAIL (paperback ok) to Miss Janina Kolendo"...

First lines: "Thank you so much for your letter, and for all the fascinating things that have arrived. I have"...

First lines: "Yesterday we received from Lee Belford the manuscript of your excellent commentary on Camus:"... Contents index: offer to publish Merton's commentary on Camus' «The Plague».

First lines: "We are sending you, under separate cover, an advance copy of Jules Supervielle's Selected Writings"... Contents index: asking for Merton to write a comment for book advertisement for Jules Supervielle's «Selected Writings».

First lines: "Thanks for inviting me to the convocation on Pot, Pills and LSD next spring. I am sure it will be"... Contents index: although interested, Merton's Superior will not give permission for such conferences.

First lines: "I had set aside the May issue of «Fellowship» in order to read Thomas Merton's article,"... Contents index: [sent by Best to Merton with Best's 1967/07/29 or 1967/07/31 letter] objects to Merton's use of "international Jewry" between the words "traitors" and "racists" in a sentence in the article "Blessed are the Meek" - does not think his criticism of "pharisaism" in the peace movement is appropriate for the audience of «Fellowship».

First lines: "I expect you too will want to answer Lillian Marks. I hope I did not apologize unduly but I feel we"... Contents index: feels that he and Merton made a mistake by Merton's remark appearing in «Fellowship» to which Lillian Marks objects.

First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter of the 17th. I will ask someone to send on some more copies of Identity"... Contents index: the Association's break-up / offers to make audio tapes and recommends a tape library for her Retiro / Sr. Mary Luke Tobin of Loretto (Nerinx, KY) / hermitage / current events - violence and civil war in the cities.

First lines: "I am sending your letter, with considerable distress, on to Thomas Merton. The distress I feel is"... Contents index: apology by Best to Marks concerning the decision to include Merton's remarks / clarifies that Merton was using terms "conjured up in the minds of those who fail and look for scapegoats" and not an expression of his own sentiments / feels Merton's words were insensitive and likely to be misconstrued, even given the context.

First lines: "Thanks for your note and the letter of Lillian Marcks [sic]. I am sending a carbon of my reply to"... Contents index: apology for inclusion of his remark - written for a different audience than «Fellowship» and realizes that some would not know when he is speaking ironically / Merton's pain in getting this kind of reaction.

First lines: "«I». I have read thus far the following books written by you: 1) «The Seven Storey»"... Contents index: discussed books read and opinions on them, asks advice on further reading, and sends Merton two stories and a book for review.

First lines: "My hope is that you might explain your poem, "Fall '66" which appeared in the «New York Review»"... Contents index: asking source of Latin quote from "Fall '66" article "Arturumque…" / "Why '«green»' bearded Arthur" / using Merton's view of Arthur in dissertation on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and comparisons to Augustine, Gregory, Bonaventura, Richard Rolle / Barton's bio / how he was introduced to Merton's work.

First lines: "Your letter was a very pleasant surprise, Father. Thank you. We read and discussed your article:"... Contents index: Merton's article "Openness and Cloister" / the Association / taped conferences on prayer and the missionary vocation / Fr. George Flannagan, O.F.M., a clinical psychologist / value of "Matins at midnight".

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. Yes, I think there are probably unconscious resonances of the whole kind of"... Contents index: "Gawain" - one of Merton's favorite poems - "deflation of Feudal pomposity" / source of Latin quote - "Arturumque etiam…" from Milton / Milton and Arthuriad - Arthur and Satan / U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam as "cheap mythology" / "green beard" and "Green man" images.

First lines: "Thanks for your interesting letter of July 12. As you may imagine, I am having a hard time keeping"... Contents index: correspondence with Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard about drugs / "you are right in saying that 'careful and occasional use' of psychedelics can be quite helpful." / Peyote as a way to "sacramentally" connect with Indians / latter day messianic cults.

First lines: "Thanks for your recent letter. I have contacted Sister Luke at Loretto in the hope that they can"... Contents index: [from one folder from the "New Directions Publishing" papers at Harvard, entitled "Letters (carbons) to various people, 1967"].

First lines: "I have been meaning to write for the last two or three weeks. Many things to say, most of which can"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. Sounds interesting. I gladly contribute what ideas I can, and here they"... Contents index: hope for monasticism - African, Indian ashram of Dom Bede Griffith, Taize, the Little Brothers, and the Brothers of the Virgin of the Poor / less hope for traditional orders / "milieu Catholicism" / progressivism a monastic charism or secular apostolic witness? / contemplative life / Merton's current areas of interest.

First lines: "We have taken the liberty of translating your article which you had sent us for the late Dr."... Contents index: Dr. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki memorial / translating Merton's articles sent to Suzuki for the «Chugai Nippo» Japanese religious newspaper and a forthcoming book about Suzuki.

First lines: "Enclosed is a «proof» of your poem, «The Originators» which we intend to place in Folio"... Contents index: sending proof of "The Originators" / woodcut of Merton's name / Ping Ferry mentions that Merton a Basil Bunting fan.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very"...

First lines: "Thank you for your wonderful letter. It meant a lot, and the promise of a remembrance in your"... Contents index: renewal in contemplative communities / on Merton not being allowed to do retreat / tape library and weekly newsletter / how to turn inward and find true self in God / Divine Office / «Bread in the Wilderness».

First lines: "I am returning the proof immediately. Very beautiful. I like the woodcuts immensely. One word I"... Contents index: Teo Savory.

First lines: "You have been good enough to send me several of your books - but now I dare ask you for something"... Contents index: asking for prayers for her mother after an accident.

First lines: "Please excuse my unconscionable delay in writing you about your superb commentary on the"... Contents index: although longer than others, publishers have found a way to publish in entirety / article on Second Vatican Council in the summer 1967 «Katallagete» / Bernard Häring gave similar lectures at NYU / Arthur Buckley from Seabury Press.

First lines: "I am very glad that you thought it worth while to present a Japanese version of my tribute to Dr"... Contents index: Merton's Dr. Suzuki tribute / subscription information for «Eastern Buddhist» / Zen scholars are welcome at Gethsemani.

First lines: "You must tell me the appropriate way to address you. I am reading WATERS OF SILOE and am almost"... Contents index: Brilliant in contact with James Hartz from Louisville, Kentucky - objects with Vietnam War and does not want to flee, but questions whether "Conscientious Objector" status is "shirking of responsibility".

First lines: "A blessed and joyful feast! All of us here are remembering you specially today, and your name will"... Contents index: [writing from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico].

First lines: "Thank you very much for your prompt reply. It was quite encouraging. There has been a hiatus of"... Contents index: Arthur's Camelot and Washington [D.C.] / Milton poem "Mansus" and "Jerusalem Conquered" / Arthur and Satan / meaning of Merton's use of "spook collections" / acedia, the noonday demon and Washington.

First lines: "I send this quick. I know you would probably not hear so I am writing. I have a feeling that"... Contents index: [attaches newspaper article about the death of Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles] worries that the Beatles will either "break up or tighten up" - distressed about Ringo Starr naming his baby Jason / asks for a Mass for Brian Epstein / seeing Ravi Shankar in Los Angeles.

First lines: "This is just to ask one thing. I had planned to come to Gethsemani after Easter next year. But it"...

First lines: "The certified letter came today and by the time you get this you will have got back the little pink"... Contents index: Brian Epstein / hippie culture in California.

First lines: "The certified letter came today and by the time you get this you will have got back the little pink"... Contents index: Brian Epstein / hippie culture in California.

First lines: "Thanks so much for the Auschwitz review-- I think it is terrific, absolutely, and hope to use it"... Contents index: medical problems / "Original Child Bomb" for Hiroshima anniversary / Cardinal Heenan / Margaret Gardiner / Barth / Kierkegaard / "The Death of God and the End of History" and "Blessed Are the Meek" articles.

First lines: "I have never met you Father, but after reading many of your books I have learned to respect and"... Contents index: ask Merton for advice about what her Benedictine sisters could do as an apostolate besides their current role in teaching.

First lines: "We have decided to make #3 and #4 a DOUBLE ISSUE for many reasons: 1) to balance political material"...

First lines: "Must answer you together as I can hardly keep up with mail in any case. I have Teo's letter"... Contents index: [to Teo Savory and Brilliant - see "Savory, Teo" file for hard copy] Merton's tape played by Ping Ferry with "Big Zulu piece" and the "Unending Description" / Albert Camus piece for Unicorn Journal could be on «The Stranger» (already wrote on «The Plague» / Victor Hammer's press / Merton translating Rene Char.

First lines: "I am returning the manuscript you sent me. As I get an unusual number of books and manuscripts sent"...

First lines: "Hullo!! Well, here I am finally home and back in (YIK!!!) school But never fear!!! [sic]"... Contents index: attempts to obtain Ravi Shankar's address / Notre Dame High School - suggestions to play recordings of Merton in a class and descriptions of the nuns there / thoughts about where to go to college / asks if Merton will write a script for a Beatles movie / "Peanuts" comic strip / detailed description of the workings of a tape recorder.

First lines: "Perfectly ok to use the quote from "Letter to Innocent Bystander". And of course to put off "Monk""...

First lines: "I wrote to Harcourt, Brace and World concerning our request to reprint "In the Face of Death""... Contents index: asking where "In the Face of Death" appears in «The Seven Storey Mountain».

First lines: "Glenn Hinson, who was my teacher and spiritual adviser at the Baptist seminary in Louisville,"... Contents index: mentions dissertation proposal and asks if he can meet with Merton to ask him some questions.

First lines: "I am sending you a copy of a book that we are publishing in October by John L'Heureux, S. J. which I"... Contents index: John L'Heureux's book «Picnic in Babylon» - 3 years at Woodstock / Merton's letter in «National Catholic Reporter» in answer to Martin Marty / Merton, Dorothy Day, and Dan Berrigan - "white hope of the Christian radicals" / non-violence and civil rights / send-off for Ed Rice / demise of «Jubilee».

First lines: "I have two letters of yours to answer, and the first one is the second. There is no problem at all"...

First lines: "Here is some stuff I dug out of the pile. Not much, if any, about nonviolence but some on Zen and"... Contents index: background on Zen for Berrigan's seminar on non-violent and violent religious traditions - Zen and Samurai fighting - swordsmanship without violence - non-aggressive posture - "Turning violence back on itself" - D. T. Suzuki / death of Ad Reinhardt - first of "immediate gang" to go - "I guess my whole bunch won't outlast sixty.".

First lines: "Here is some stuff I dug out of the pile. Not much, if any, about nonviolence but some on Zen and"... Contents index: background on Zen for Berrigan's seminar on non-violent and violent religious traditions - Zen and Samurai fighting - swordsmanship without violence - non-aggressive posture - "Turning violence back on itself" - D. T. Suzuki / death of Ad Reinhardt - first of "immediate gang" to go - "I guess my whole bunch won't outlast sixty.".

First lines: "May the Lord give you His peace! Thank you for the enclosed typescripts which we enjoyed and"... Contents index: [dated the Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis] plans for retreat with Merton / distinctions between active and contemplative life - misuse of designations / definition of monasticism / tape on prayer.

First lines: "Have chosen from CABLES what could stand as individual poems. (see carbons from copies of these"...

First lines: "The tape is on its way to you, but a roundabout way as I am having someone transcribe it for me. I"... Contents index: plans for retreat / tape center / choral obligation / Archbishop of Louisville supportive of contemplatives / Sr. Mary Luke Tobin.

First lines: "Your outline looks very good to me, and there is not much that I would add to it. Perhaps just"... Contents index: critiques - God has not spoken his will in the past, but is constantly speaking it - question of quietism, and passivity versus action - "Apostles not preparing their own defense in advance" and letting the Spirit provide - the prophets - Christ as "master listener", but also Mary, "Or don't they mention her these days? Just kidding.".

First lines: "1) I have finished reading "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander", and it is certainly the one that"... Contents index: apologizes for asking too much before / asks for articles back and suggestions of where to publish them.

First lines: "I am enclosing a tentative plan for my introduction to the opening volume of the Time Life Bible."...

First lines: "it may be, for all I know, discourteous to write to a member of your/Abbey [sic] without first"... Contents index: asking to pass attached letter to Merton.

First lines: "Thank you very much for your kind reply permitting us to include the Japanese translation of your"...

First lines: "this is an extremely hard letter to write, so I ask you to overlook its faults and see through to the"... Contents index: career background as a scientist turned poet - published in the «New York Times» and «Negro Digest» / writing a book called «Teknosis» "a disease resulting from life in technological society" / Fr. Stanley Jaki / value of contemplation / question of a non-Catholic monasticism for people like Biram.

First lines: "One thing I have been meaning to say: if you don't know the poetic work of David Jones, you must"... Contents index: David Jones and Welsh Catholicism / Catholics who are "falling over themselves to push every last relic of the middle ages out the sacristy window" / "spook collections" and "quieting the ancestors" / Calvinism / acedia, the demonium meridianum, and the Pentagon.

First lines: "Appeared New York Times 4 Sept. 67 (editorial page) «A COCKTAIL PARTY» Penned in this"... Contents index: [poem attached to 1967/09/25 letter].

First lines: "One thing I have been meaning to say: if you don't know the poetic work of David Jones, you must"... Contents index: David Jones and Welsh Catholicism / Catholics who are "falling over themselves to push every last relic of the middle ages out the sacristy window" / "spook collections" and "quieting the ancestors" / Calvinism / acedia, the demonium meridianum, and the Pentagon.

First lines: "I am very sorry for not answering you more promptly. By now you can probably guess why: almost"... Contents index: offers advice and encouragement about publishing and a name of a publisher.

First lines: "Thank you very much for your letter which was extremely encouraging from more points of view than"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter and the returned ms. I am chacking [sic] immediately with New"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your outline which has just arrived. It looks interesting and full and attractive,"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. As I have not made any firm commitments as far ahead as next March, I leave"... Contents index: suggestions of what to read / sending mimeographs of articles on different subjects.

First lines: "Thank you very much for the tape which came a few days ago. We have heard the first side - Message"... Contents index: tape center and Friar's "Tape-of-the-Month Club" as model / transcribing tapes / retreat plans and choice of representatives of different houses and orders.