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.
제목없음First lines: "Here is the completed draft of «Tower of Babel». I am sending it as a straight poem."...
제목없음First 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].
제목없음First lines: "Have just mailed the censorship report on the two brief pieces you refer to in your recent note"... Contents index: "Disputed Questions" [book].
제목없음First 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")].
제목없음First lines: "We received your gracious note January 18 with the two manuscripts. Here we go again! I wish they"... 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")].
제목없음First 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")].
제목없음First lines: "As you know periodically my affairs get in an awful tangle, and they are in one now: about writing,"...
제목없음First lines: "First of all, I trust you to refrain from any official reference to what I might say in this letter."...
제목없음First lines: "Before Dom James took off for the Chapter I had a talk with him about the censorship of that section"...
제목없음First lines: "Will take care of your Notes on Art etc at once. For the records shall"...
제목없음First lines: "This little item here had better be sent to you I think. It has been offered by a friend to the"...
제목없음First lines: "I am sending two copies of a preface which I wrote thinking that probably it would not have to be"...
제목없음First lines: "Mille pardons. Really I'm all confused. Just came across most of this on my desk and can't"...
제목없음First lines: "After getting your poem out of the file an hour ago I've now utterly lost it. No one else does such"...
제목없음First lines: "Next Spring New Directions is bringing out a paperback selection of various prose pieces of mine."...
제목없음First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter. I do hope we can reach some kind of real openness on the Order as"...
제목없음First lines: "Mr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at your"...
제목없음First 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».
제목없음First lines: "P. 17 of #7 (Eng. Mystics) is missing - we did not lose it! […] The report from Rome should come"...
제목없음First lines: "Do you think they require censoring?? In Jesu f m Louis [-] By no means! fmp"... Contents index: [signed mimeograph of "Is the World a Problem?" inscribed by Merton with a note from Paul Bourne].
제목없음First lines: "Your kind letter arrived just in time for me to share it with the project's consultants at our"...
제목없음First lines: "Thanks for your letter of the 5th which reached me this morning. I still have not progressed very"...
제목없음First lines: "I am enclosing a tentative plan for my introduction to the opening volume of the Time Life Bible."...
제목없음First lines: "You're right that the best place for your piece would be in the position between the Old and New"... Contents index: Merton's piece to appear between Old and New Testaments / «Monks Pond» / sending one of his concrete poems.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First 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".
제목없음First lines: "Having done the Library of Congress reply to the McGill U. query on this topic for you, I am"...
제목없음First lines: "Hawthorn is a familiar name to you I know. And I hope you remember the Daniel-Rops book on Bernard"... Contents index: plans to use Merton's forward from Bruno Scott James' book in an Henri Daniel-Rops book on Bernard of Clairvaux.
제목없음First lines: "Enclosed is a letter which we have just written to Father Louis concerning "Exile Ends in Glory.""... Contents index: [Merton uses verso of letter for notes for a manuscript of "The Cloud and the Fire," an early draft of «The Ascent to Truth», see manuscripts of "The Cloud and the Fire" for original] recommendation to reduce length of «Exile Ends in Glory» to reduce cost and appeal to a wider audience.
제목없음First lines: "Thanks very much for your thoughtfulness in sending us the list of your friends to whom author's"... Contents index: «Exile Ends in Glory» / «The Seven Storey Mountain» - advantage of using Harcourt Brace, a secular publisher, rather than a Catholic publisher like Bruce to reach bigger market / likely release «What Are These Wounds?» in 1949 because of the other two books in 1948 / Fr. Raymond Flanagan's «The Man Who Got Even with God».
제목없음First lines: "The thing I forgot was this. It is really no special problem but I thought for once I might spell"... Contents index: Merton Collection at Bellarmine College / Dom James Fox and his disapproval of the idea.
제목없음First lines: "Thank you for your letter. I was very happy to have the opportunity of meeting you in Switzerland"...
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First lines: "We have received in The Special Collections Department of Margaret I. King Library the following:"... Contents index: list of writings Merton had sent UK Special Collections Department.
제목없음First lines: "I am enclosing the proofs of your introduction to God is My Life. I would have liked to send you"...
제목없음First lines: "Thanks so much for your note together with the enclosure concerning the exhibit. Glad you liked"...
제목없음First lines: "For several weeks I have wanted to find an opportunity to answer your letter with its one very"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #15 - from mimeographed collection of letters] responds to Burdick's question about "disinterested love" - charity, agape rather than eros - mysticism, the Zen tradition, Hassidim, Jewish tzaddiks of Central Europe and Poland (Buber) / Sigmund Freud - "a great puritan" / D. T. Suzuki.
제목없음First lines: "As a response to your letter of October 5th concerning correspondence between Thomas Merton"...
제목없음First lines: "Recently I polled our community for suggestions as to a Retreat Master for our next retreat"... Contents index: invites Merton to lead retreat at Genesee.
제목없음First lines: "Thanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have always thought"... Contents index: Merton refuses offer to preach retreat - has turned down many others - true vocation is meditation and writing / suggests subprior Fr. Matthew [Kelty?].
제목없음First lines: "A note of thanks from Father Louis for your letter and also for your Mass offering. If this answer"... Contents index: [from Fr. Matthew Kelty, sent on behalf of Merton to Ethel Burns].
제목없음First lines: "Thank you for your letter. Thank you also for your kind donation, which of course Father"...
제목없음First lines: "Thanks for your kind remembrance, and I hope you will «keep well». The weather is getting"... Contents index: [verso: Front Guest Garden at Gethsemani Abbey].
제목없음First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very"...
제목없음First lines: "I hope these articles will be of some use to you - some of them are deteriorating and when I"...
제목없음First lines: "To start with I want to send you my best wishes for God's blessing for your new and responsible task"... Contents index: [no date - attached to 1968/03/30 letter] letter to Dom Flavian urging him to allow Merton to go to Bangkok conference and an invitation to go to Rawaseneng monastery in Indonesia / Dom Willibrord van Dijk.
제목없음First lines: "In regard to the letter of Dom John Morson about foreign censorship and in particular the Italian"... Contents index: problems in publishing in France, Spain and Italy - problems with censors for the Italian translation of «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander».
제목없음First lines: "In regard to the letter of Dom John Morson about foreign censorship and in particular the Italian"... Contents index: problems in publishing in France, Spain and Italy - problems with censors for the Italian translation of «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander».
제목없음First lines: "Many thanks for yours of the 11th and 13th March. I am afraid we shall just have to let the Chapman"... Contents index: suggests that Naomi Burton Stone act as Merton's literary agent / relations with Farrar, Straus - statement from Roger Straus / book published by Macmillan / «The Merton Reader».
제목없음First lines: "Many thanks for your letter. I am not sure I agree with your idea of leaving out the article on"... Contents index: small book made in England out of "The Christian in World Crisis" and "Christian in Diaspora" / Bob Giroux has a proof of Merton's liturgy book «Seasons of Celebration» / New Directions - Gandhi and Chuang Tzu.
제목없음First lines: "Many thanks for your kind letter. I realize that I promised further reactions to your book, which"... Contents index: Burtt's thought on the logical positivists - Merton would like to know more about Wittgenstein and others - had course on Nagel at Columbia / liked last chapters with what Burtt said about "love, communication, and the implications of all this for our contemporary crisis".
제목없음First lines: "We are planning to publish in book form approximately 100 of the best articles which have appeared"... Contents index: asking Merton's consent to publish "I Begin to Meditate" (appearing in the November, 1948 edition of the « Catholic Digest Reader») in the « Catholic Digest Reader».
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First lines: "What did you think? That I thought the Crimble box was a bomb and jumped in the lake with it?"... Contents index: Butorovich's give makes Merton "the largest collector of Beatle relics in Kentucky" / the Beatles on TV maybe "the ultimate triumph of Zen" / sending mimeo of «Journal of My Escape from the Nazis» / Merton gives directions for cooking kasha.
제목없음First lines: "Here are duplicated copies of six letters, apparently from Father Louis (Thomas) Merton, that have"... Contents index: copies of Butorovich's letters given to a graduate of Maur Hill Prep in Atchison Kansas by a woman at Merton's funeral [Butorovich?].
제목없음First lines: "I am very much appreciating 'Gandhi and the One-Eyed Giant', and shall try and get the local"... Contents index: «Gandhi and Non-Violence» / Arthur Osbourne / Byles' book on Tenko San and Ittoen - whether Tenko San's idea of "doing what people ask you (not in the sense of being a doormat") versus Catholic holy obedience.
제목없음First lines: "Your kind letter of October 20th took a good long time to reach me via India, and I only got it"... Contents index: Catholic idea of holy obedience - ancient idea of holy obedience from the Gospels and taken up by religious orders - difference between obedience and the legalism of blind obedience / problems in Catholicism of impersonal power systems versus the things it should be liberating us from.
제목없음First lines: "I am simply appalled to hear of your misfortune. Unfortunately it seems that more and more people"...
제목없음First lines: "We have just heard from our South American representative that Sudamericana are pleased to agree"... Contents index: Monsignor Larraona writing Spanish edition preface to a book published by Sudamericana - [possibly «Las aguas de Siloé» / «The Waters of Siloe»].
제목없음John Bagguley and Cecil Woolf write to Merton to ask his views on the Vietnam War. He provides a brief statement in response, which was later reprinted as "Taking Sides on Vietnam" in Merton's <i>Faith and Violence</i>.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Baptist, Mary, Sr.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bartelme, Elizabeth".
제목없음Fr. Giulio Basetti-Sani writes to Merton about Muslim-Christian dialogue, race relations, and about the contemplative life.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bass, Richard".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Beck, Dorothy".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Belli, German".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bennett, (Ruth) Iris Weiss".
제목없음This set of correspondence contains nine letters between two like-minded poets and authors. In his correspondence with Berry, one can see seeds of Merton's interest in the environment. One can only guess at the directions in this vein that his friendship with Berry might have led him. Among the letters are original typed and handwritten letters by Berry, and carbon copies of Merton's letters.
제목없음This file contains no letter to or from Merton. The letters to and from the Merton Center regard obtaining correspondence between Merton and the University of Notre Dame Press concerning the publication of <i>Faith and Violence</i>. Copies of the letters were sent but are present in this file.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Beyer, Anna Helga".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bissey, Colomban, Dom, O.C.S.O.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Black, Bernard, Fr., C.S.B.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Blanchard, Judy".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Boardman, Fon Wyman, Jr.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Boekel, C.W. van, Dr., M.S.C.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bogatynska, Genowefa".
제목없음This large collection of letters contains an important discussion between Merton and a Russian Orthodox scholar. Though the discussion of Orthodox religion and its mystical traditions is an important part of the conversation, many other subjects are explored. Bolshakoff traveled to many monasteries, both Catholic and Orthodox, and enters into ecumenical dialogue with Merton. Merton also speaks of the Vietnam War and his opposition to it; however, he must explain to Bolshakoff how he justifies a life of contemplation instead of active resistance.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bond, Fred F.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bonner, Paul Hyde".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Boodoosingh, A., Mrs.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Boswell, Jack".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Boultwood, Alban, Abbot, O.S.B.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bousquet, Fr.".
제목없음Fr. Charles Bowers writes on behalf of a committee organizing a conference to discuss "rational foreign policies towards Asia in the context of revolution, military and political conflict", etc. to be held in Sydney, Australia. Attendees were to be from diverse professions. Merton must decline because of his travels to the American west coast and to Asia. He also doubts whether his superiors would allow him to attend something of such a political nature.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Boyd, Alda Lee".
제목없음Merton published the poem "Newscast" in <u>Freelance</u>. He discusses with Bravemen his poems and a visit to Bravemen by Howard Nemerov and his reactions to Merton's poems. They also discuss setting up a meeting with a couple of students interested in Merton's work from Washington University in St. Louis. This meeting is discussed in Merton's journals on April 6, 1968.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Breitenbeck, Joseph Matthew, Bishop".
제목없음Sr. Bridget is asking whether Merton can attend a meeting with Sybil Harton. At that meeting they discussed problems in determining who has a vocation, active versus contemplative leanings in the order, and an "identity crisis" that exists in many orders.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Brown, John B.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Brown, John Pairman (Jock)".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bruce, Frank Milton".
제목없음These letters, mostly originals from Burden to Merton, primarily concern the publication of Burden's books of photographs of Gethsemani, entitled <a onClick="return popup(this, 'link')" href="http://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=ti:God+Is+My+Life"><i>God Is My Life</i></a>. However, they also discuss the Shakers, and Burden may have helped Merton come into contact with Edward Deming Andrews. Merton sends Burden photographs of his drawings in hopes of having them displayed in Santa Barbara with proceeds going to a Negro scholarship and a scholarship at Bellarmine College in Louisville.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burke, Herbert Caryl".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burns, Dan (Br. Ralph)".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burns, Ethel M.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burns, Flavian, Dom, O.C.S.O.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bush, Cynthia".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Byles, Marie Beuzeville".
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