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First lines: "NEW DIMENSIONS IN THEOLOGY [-] A new Eight-Week Series of Tuesday Night Lectures at CATHERINE"... Contents index: program for series of eight weekly lectures.

First lines: "During the days of my retreat I'm giving some thoughts to my lecture described in the included"... Contents index: asks for Merton's critiques on his outlined points for a conference entitled, "The Theology of Listening", to be delivered on September 26, 1967, at Catherine Spalding College.

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: "It is almost impossible for me to give you in a few words the reasons for race prejudice. I refer"... Contents index: recommends «Seeds of Destruction» and sends article / psychological factors in racism / Gospel's teaching to see same amount of good and evil in ourselves as others.

First lines: "Gregory and I are in a dudgeon over these Merton photos. After we mocked up a first cover."... Contents index: [carbon copy sent to Merton - see 1967/10/03[2] for note to Merton typed on the same page].

First lines: "You will probably have the prints from EandF when you receive this. I enclose a marvelous can"... Contents index: [note to Merton typed on the same page as 1967/10/03[1] letter to Robert Bonazzi].

First lines: "What a very moving collection of signatures. We are mulling over them now but definitely want to"...

First lines: "About the "Message of Contemplatives" tape: it would probably be wiser and more discrete not to"... Contents index: "Message of Contemplatives" tape not to circulate one side / abbatial election / date for retreat - which communities should be invited.

First lines: "Thanks so much for your cheering letter of last month, and for John L'Heureux's book. Thanks too"... Contents index: Ed Rice and "troubles in Asia" / John L'Heureux's book «Picnic in Babylon» and words about his diary being prudent / Merton's statement, "My diaries aren't prudent." / book by Fr. Ciszek / Michele Murrays criticism of Merton and Ciszek.

First lines: "Once more, about the date. Let me try to get down to something more definite. Today I discussed"... Contents index: dates for retreat in December.

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 am thinking about you: are your ears burning? My house in the woods all full of San Francisco"... Contents index: life in the hermitage / Merton likes Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, 13th Floor Elevators and Grateful Dead, but not Moby Grape / Japanese Zen people and Merton / Merton fixing up for publication his book «Journal of My Escape from the Nazi's» / «Cables to the Ace» / LSD and Timothy Leary's jail sentence.

First lines: "I am thinking about you: are your ears burning? My house in the woods all full of San Francisco"... Contents index: life in the hermitage / Merton likes Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, 13th Floor Elevators and Grateful Dead, but not Moby Grape / Japanese Zen people and Merton / Merton fixing up for publication his book «Journal of My Escape from the Nazi's» / «Cables to the Ace» / LSD and Timothy Leary's jail sentence.

First lines: "Since last writing you we have decided to do a little 20-page quarto to commemorate the 4th"... Contents index: [no date - annotated "Oct. 8"].

First lines: "Just returned from Griffin's. The photographs are fantastic! We will just flip them with the"...

First lines: "Thanks for your permission to send the releases about your fields of interest to Publishers' Weekly"... Contents index: poems of David Jones / sending comments of poet Chad Walsh to Merton with his comments on the Religious Dimensions in Literature Series - asks Merton for suggested Latin American and Welsh poets for this college course series.

First lines: "Reaction to the airmail special about Phil and the group that wants to get violent. This will help"... Contents index: reaction to Philip Berrigan's proposal to use violent means - Che Guevara, Regis Debray - violence against people is definitely off-limits - violence against property gets away from Gandhi's ideals, starts to get fuzzy morally, but Merton does not rule it out; however, will it undermine the real message behind peace movement.

First lines: "Reaction to your airmail special about Phil and the group that wants to get violent. This will help"... Contents index: [same as TL[c] from 1967/10/10, except Archivist's note from Cornell states that certain words (containing Philip Berrigan's name) have been covered up and signature masked (Merton's name still listed), presumably for mimeographing and distribution to others, while protecting Merton and Philip Berrigan].

First lines: "Thanks for your letter: glad everything is working out. I am happy that you can use the signature"...

First lines: "I am grateful for your interest in my dissertation and for your concern that I get materials which"... Contents index: a time for visit / "Sacred and Profane Art" from «Jubilee» and "Religion and Race in the United States" from «Blackfriars».

First lines: "Just a note to thank you for your recent letters and let you know that I am working on the project."... Contents index: December 5th for retreat / tapes of conference / "external signs of a... solid edifice" in communities, but "crumbling foundation".

First lines: "I enjoyed your piece in the last PN (or the last one here) about the Writers take sides book. I"... Contents index: «Writers Take Sides on Vietnam» / a companion piece to Ishi / the magazine «Motive».

First lines: "Thank you most sincerely for allowing «freelance» to print "Newscast," one of the poems in a"...

First lines: "How can I ever thank you enough for taking time out from your busy schedule in order to answer my"... Contents index: comment on "Northern hospitality" expressed by the "lone Negro student at St. Norbert College".

First lines: "This letter will serve as a joint reply to you and to Dom Aelred who appended a kind note to your"...

First lines: "Acknowledging your letter which clarified CABLES TO THE [sic] ACE and all news of signatures and"...

First lines: "I am in the middle of the semi-hopeless task of trying to get through the piled up mail of the last"... Contents index: carbon copy of 1967/10/16 letter.

First lines: "I am in the middle of the semi-hopeless task of trying to get through the piled up mail of the last"... Contents index: Suggests apostolate of hosting ecumenical meetings and offering retreats and days of recollection.

First lines: "Fine. I'll keep Feb. 28th for you. Let me know when you will arrive, and whether you will want"... Contents index: sending "Hot Summer of Sixty Seven?" to appear in small magazine Katallagete.

First lines: "The Visitation nuns of a convent in France have asked for a copy of "The Less Traveled Road.""... Contents index: [see Amps' response on the same page].

First lines: "Fr. Raymond had none, so we received one from Fr. Innocent- a used copy from the Lib."... Contents index: [on same page as note by Merton, recorded here as the same date].

First lines: "Thanks for «Freelance»: a pleasant surprise and a good alive magazine. I have read most of"...

First lines: "Denise Levertov thinks it would be great to see you at Gethsemani when she's here on Sunday, Dec. 10"... Contents index: possible meeting at Gethsemani with Denise Levertov, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Madelyn Meatyard, Guy and Bonnie [Davenport?].

First lines: "The tape came last Saturday and it is excellent. Thank you very much, Father, I know this is taking"... Contents index: 15 contemplative communities to receive tapes / details of who can and cannot attend retreat.

First lines: "I have looked over your manuscript and it has many good things in it. But unfortunately it seems"...

First lines: "If this turns out to be the unorganized mess I fear it will be, "Forgive me Father, for I know not"...

First lines: "Thanks for your note about Denise Levertov and the possibility of her visit here on Sunday December"... Contents index: plans for meeting at Gethsemani.

First lines: "If you have not done so I strongly recommend you take a look at the American Heritage for Oct. 1966"...

First lines: "I know that you must be inundated with letters seeking your advice on all sorts of matters, but I'm"... Contents index: working on new edition of Thomas Aquinas' «Summa Theologica» / Dom Lemercier and Mexican experiment with psychiatry and monasticism / article in «Blackfriars» by Rosemary Haughton / Sigmund Freud / P. Albert Plé's book, «Chastity and Affectivity».

First lines: "About two years ago I sent you 30 or 40 pages of poetry and received a newsletter in reply."...

First lines: "I'll take the clothes down tomorrow AM. [-] Thanks [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [note from Merton]

First lines: "I have to go to Louisville Thursday about 8 a.m. Could you please fix it up? Thanx"...

First lines: "PRESS STATEMENT (IMMEDIATE RELEASE) [-] On Friday, October 27, 1967, we are entering the"... Contents index: statement to the press of group's plan to enter a draft records office in Baltimore, Maryland, and pour their blood on draft records - reasons for actions - biographies of those committing this act: Rev. James Mengel, David Eberhardt, Thomas Lewis, Father Philip Berrigan.

First lines: "[…] A HERMIT'S PREFERENCES Seabury Press recently sent Thomas Merton an author questionnaire"... Contents index: relates Merton's interests given in an author's questionnaire - "Zen. Indians. Wood. Birds. Beer. Anglican friends. Calligraphic abstract art. Ad Reinhardt. Subversive tape recordings for nuns. Tea. Bob Dylan. Nicaraguan folk art. Quakerism. Shakerism. Novels of Walker Percy. Myth in William Faulkner.", etc..

First lines: "I have checked about the guesthouse facilities and it will be all right if some or all of the"... Contents index: retreat details / taping the retreat / Sr. Mary Luke Tobin at Loretto - an American observer at Vatican II and close to Cardinal Suenens.

First lines: "I have not yet seen Rosemary Haughton's article that you refer to but perhaps the point about my"... Contents index: qualifies Batten's statement that Merton approves of Dom Lemercier / praised them as "small progressive Benedictine foundation before the matter of the group analysis" / group may have gone overboard but excommunication extreme / group analysis with qualified psychiatrist can be valid in Post-Conciliar years.

First lines: "Thanks for the extra copies, for the feedback on the poem and all. For many reasons I am happy that"...

First lines: "This is going to be a fast letter. Hello! I am getting very bored with life and, well"... Contents index: class retreat to San Juan Bautista / asking Merton's opinion about going her going to England for college and the requirements / Ravi Shankar spending the semester at Columbia University / asking Merton for a tape on Zen Buddhism / The Beatles / purchased Suzuki book / picture of Merton with hat on «Mystics and Zen Masters».

First lines: "I thought you would like to see the attached tear sheet from Publisher's Weekly. They did, indeed,"... Contents index: [attaches 1967/11/06 article from «Publisher's Weekly»].

First lines: "It was good to hear from you. I think everything is pretty well underway now. Enclosed are the"... Contents index: agenda for retreat / meetings with Sr. Mary Luke Tobin and visiting Loretto / "cloister mystique" / lists sisters who can attend.

First lines: "Thanks for the letter and the points for discussion. Some of them are really first rate. All are"... Contents index: for retreat: "basic question of ends and means" / what would one do if not a religious and why / literary rights for taped materials - establishment of Merton Legacy Trust.

First lines: "I am delighted to enclose a check in the amount of $150. for your extraordinary piece to MANSIONS OF"... Contents index: thanks for Merton's article "'Baptism in the Forest': Wisdom and Initiation in William Faulkner", in the book, «Mansions of the Spirit: Essays in Literature and Religion», edited by George A. Panichas.

First lines: "You'll be relieved when all this correspondence lets up a bit. A few complications have set in!"... Contents index: lists sisters and orders than can attend retreat or that had to cancel / asks about guest house arrangements.

First lines: "When Seabury Press decided to do Camus' "The Plague" for its Religious Dimensions in Literature"... Contents index: news clipping sent by Allman from the New York Post from "The Week in Books" by Martha MacGregor describing Merton's many interests.

First lines: "Jim Holloway sent me a clipping about Phil: that and his piece in CW about prison (which was v."... Contents index: question of whether signing on to petition being given to the Pope should get mixed up in state policy (Church-state separation) but agrees with cause / does not want to be too controversial by accepting draft cards now with the new Abbatial election / contemplatives forming lay communities / Dom James as hermit.

First lines: "Jim Holloway sent me a clipping about Phil: that and his piece in CW about prison (which was v."... Contents index: question of whether signing on to petition being given to the Pope should get mixed up in state policy (Church-state separation) but agrees with cause / does not want to be too controversial by accepting draft cards now with the new Abbatial election / contemplatives forming lay communities / Dom James as hermit.

First lines: "I first read your name a little less than a year ago when I noticed an article you had written for"... Contents index: asking for help on writing a paper on Merton's poetry.

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: "I am very greatfull [sic] for your kindness sending your article: «The Cross Fighters»"- Notes"... Contents index: "The Cross Fighters: Notes on a Race War" / good wishes for the meeting of cloistered nuns next week (see "Bane, Elaine Michael" file for details on this referenced conference) / need for saints and contemplatives in Church / Merton's article for «The Cord» / Jean-François Six (see his correspondence file).

First lines: "The grace of Christ be with you in abundance this Christmas. You know how much I truly desire this"... Contents index: "unfortunate situation" at Duns Scotus and former Friar Ross Greenwell, now Robert Greenwell / asking for a lecture at St. Louis University on self-deception or Vietnam / life after the Franciscans / action vs. contemplation.

First lines: "John is genuinely frantic about your special issue of Latitudes, concerning copyright. Well I wrote"...

First lines: "Thank you very much for your letter of November 31st asking about the possibility of publishing"... Contents index: permission to publish «Raid on the Unspeakable» in Holland.

First lines: "Sorry for the long delay. I've been very busy. Just had a wonderful time with fifteen cloistered"... Contents index: meeting with fifteen cloistered nuns at Gethsemani / encourages Butorovich to go to school in England, but mentions the tough matriculation / Merton does not know whether he can "put Zen on tape" for her and the nuns.

First lines: "Sorry for the long delay. I've been very busy. Just had a wonderful time with fifteen cloistered"... Contents index: meeting with fifteen cloistered nuns at Gethsemani / encourages Butorovich to go to school in England, but mentions the tough matriculation (handwritten unpublished note states that his information "is probably completely «obsolete»") / Merton does not know whether he can "put Zen on tape" for her and the nuns.

First lines: "Just a brief and most sincere thank-you right now. It was a great week. Right now the whole"... Contents index: apologizing for wording on check / sending Merton a "plexiglass pall" / Sr. Mary Luke sent tapes for Fr. Dan Walsh's lectures.

First lines: "I don't see any problems whatever about the copyrights. It seems to me everything is in apple pie"...

First lines: "I am writing to you as manager of our quarterly journal "Theoria to Theory", though I am on a brief"... Contents index: "reemergence of the basic metaphysical categories… through the 'Death of God' literature" / starting philosophy society - "Theoria Inc." or "Epiphany Philosophers Inc." / Michael Hare / "T to T" / asking Merton to be a director, more as a "subscriber" than administrator / Bishop Pike / meeting Merton.

First lines: "Denise Levertov was here yesterday and in our good visit together I was reminded of Vassar and"... Contents index: Spanish and Latin American poets / Zukofsky favorite of North American poets / importance of Merton's writing, but out of mainstream writing world - "not a regular 'Catholic poet'".

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. It shows that you are finding your way confidently and I am sure you will"... Contents index: refusal of this lecture and necessity of refusing many others.

First lines: "I am replying briefly to your letter so as to catch you there before you leave. There is no reason"... Contents index: Merton accepts role on Board of Epiphany Philosophers in the U.S. as long as no administration required / suggests W. H. Ferry - introduced Merton to "T to T" and with Bishop Pike in Santa Barbara / Cambridge / welcomes Bastin to come for a visit.

First lines: "Having some idea of what your mail may be like I thank you if you are even beginning to read this"... Contents index: N.C.R. article "Crisis in Monasticism Hits American Trappists" / asks how Merton reacts to claim that contemplative orders have failed.

First lines: "May you have a truly blessed Christmas. The tape came yesterday but I have only heard a little of"... Contents index: [dated Gaudete Sunday] reactions to tape of the retreat/conference / circulating tape to others at conference and questions of whether it should go to others.

First lines: "I have not heard from you since long time. I hope you would be keeping fit. I know you are very"... Contents index: Dom François de Sales Pollien's books «The Interior Life» and «Self-Abandonment to Divine Providence» by J.P. de Caussade / Syed Hossein Nasr / Hakim Tirmizi and reading in solitude.

First lines: "How pleased I was to receive your very warm letter! The answers to my questions will be very"... Contents index: Denise Levertov leaving Vassar - connection with the Peace Movement.

First lines: "Thanks so much for the two letters. I have just a moment to answer quickly. Snowed under with mail"... Contents index: whether to circulate tape of retreat / Dom James sees retreat as annual affair / Leo Gannon / article in NCR - Colman McCarthy / active-contemplative division.

First lines: "Just a quick response. Colman McCarthy's article was extremely slanted, I thought, and I got"... Contents index: thought his words got slanted / states some problems with Trappist life but thinks some true contemplatives are produced and McCarthy was off base.

First lines: "I am moved to write to you because of yr. article in Peace News of De. 22nd. «The Time of the»"...

First lines: "This is a surprise "Crimble" box!! This is sent with love from me and my "little sister" Linda"... Contents index: [verso: Butorovich's drawing of a crimble tree] sends a "Crimble box" (also, Chrimble - word coined by John Lennon for Christmas) of presents from her and Linda Macmillan.

First lines: "Heard the long almighty and beautiful tape at John Griffin's last weekend and he made me a copy,"...

First lines: "Thanks for your very charming card: certainly the most beautiful and most "spiritual" I have seen"... Contents index: Shaker Tree of Life (see Edward Andrews) / requests not yet translated Sufi literature for «Monks Pond» or pieces by Arasteh.

First lines: "New Year's eve. The day is darkening and it has been snowing since midnight last night. Snow is"... Contents index: support for Philip's act of civil disobedience and the governments charge of conspiracy / John and June Yungblut / Merton's book «Faith and Violence» dedicated to Philip and Daniel / abbatial election / new foundation in Chile - asking Merton to go down / "Maybe the only honest place is jail-- or the Amazon jungle".

First lines: "New Year's eve. The day is darkening and it has been snowing since midnight last night. Snow is"... Contents index: support for Philip's act of civil disobedience and the governments charge of conspiracy / John and June Yungblut / Merton's book «Faith and Violence» dedicated to Philip and Daniel / abbatial election / new foundation in Chile - asking Merton to go down / "Maybe the only honest place is jail-- or the Amazon jungle".

First lines: "Apologies for not having kept you better informed. Since getting out of jail, there has been much"... Contents index: mentions members of his group, not including Philip, who will be handcuffing themselves together to block entry into draft room at the Customs House / trial in February - charges by federal government of conspiracy to destruction of government property with up to 23 years in jail / Daniel's work at Cornell.

First lines: "We wish you the blessing of this holy season and pray that all of us may grow in the vital activity"... Contents index: [circular letter to sisters with a handwritten note to Merton on verso of the last page].

First lines: "Could you get the secular clothes again for me to go to town Tuesday Jan 9? Bro Christopher"...

First lines: "Christmas mail was an avalanche this year: it always is, but more so in 1967. News from friends"... Contents index: [Signature xeroxed or mimeographed, but there is an original handwritten note by Merton to Burns: "Ethel- I'll be saying Mass for priest and will remember you in it. Joy and peace in the Lord TM." Transferred from Sub-Section D.2 (Mimeographs) on 2009/July/28].

First lines: "I have to give a set of talks to a group of contemplative nuns in Boston during the first week of"... Contents index: requesting Merton's article "Openness and Cloister" and other materials on aggiornamento, or reform, of the contemplative religious orders.

First lines: "I was happy to receive your letter of December 18th. Also especially thank you for your greetings"... Contents index: Carthusian Dom Pollien / Caussade and similarity to ascetics of Sufism / blockage of Suez Canal / conferences for monks on Sufism / remarks about reading in solitude / sending the «Cloud of Unknowing».

First lines: "Passed on to me through Keith Wilson an 'invitation' to submit to Monks Pond. Are you planning to"...

First lines: "Besmilr Brigham--- drag sheet [-] Biography-- Choctaw (French, Irish and English) from my"... Contents index: [curriculum vitae for Brigham].

First lines: "Your book is very fine and I am giving it a slow and fruitful reading. I find it very interesting"... Contents index: permissions to use article on psycho-cultural analysis and Arasteh's poem in «Monks Pond» / Sufi texts / «Mystics and Zen Masters».

First lines: "Your book is very fine and I am giving it a slow and fruitful reading. I find it very interesting"... Contents index: permissions to use article on psychocultural analysis and Arasteh's poem in «Monks Pond» / Sufi texts / «Mystics and Zen Masters».

First lines: "The article you refer to has not yet appeared in Spiritual Life. I have a mimeographed copy which I"... Contents index: sending a couple of his articles on aggiornamento of religious life / recommends other articles and books that are good and some that are bad on the subject / Fr. Walgrave's book on Dominican reform.

First lines: "Just a note to announce my arrival on this side of the Atlantic. It looks as though I might be"...

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: "Please forgive this type of writing paper, I tried to write on the other kind but I'm"... Contents index: [conscience matter].

First lines: "I'm just curious to see whether letters get through to you now. In 1966 I wrote you asking for a"... Contents index: peace protests / what monks should do instead of "sitting" around.

First lines: "What keeps me from writing more is that I never know if Port Royal Kentucky is enough of an address."... Contents index: question about Berry's address / plans to use monastic press to publish a magazine of poetry and short prose - «Monks Pond» - "I don't think a monastic press should be confined to cheese and liturgy." / Asian, Indian, and African texts - Zen texts / proposed visit by Harry Caudill.