First lines: "Many thanks for your letter of February 27th. I have of course been thinking seriously about your"... Contents index: creating list of peace articles for book / arrangements with Farrar Straus and Cudahy / «Blackfriars» article "Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" / peace book may not get imprimatur / "first strike attitude" in some Catholics - Communism will take the Church without more H-bombs.
제목없음First lines: "Father Philip Berrigan asked me to get the address of Chris McNair for you, and it is: 61 Sixth"... Contents index: Merton's article in the «New York Review».
제목없음This group of letters contains two original letters from Barton to Merton and two carbon copies from Merton to Barton. It is partly a scholarly discussion about "Sir Gawain", Arthurian legend, and Milton; in addition, the two men discuss the current political climate of Vietnam through the lens of literature and mythology.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Barzun, Jacques".
제목없음First lines: "I have looked in likely places for any letters I may have received from my friend and one-time"... Contents index: none of Merton's letters to Barzun are extant / mostly talked with Merton "viva voce conversation".
제목없음First lines: "Je vous remercie, avec un peu de retard, pour l'envoi de votre article, très intéressant d'ailleurs,"...
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bastos, María Luisa".
제목없음First lines: "Our firm has chosen to publish a set of Four Freedom Songs composed by C. Alexander Peloquin to the"... Contents index: attempting to establish a royalty agreement with Merton for "Four Freedom Songs".
제목없음First 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».
제목없음First lines: "Yesterday I had the very great pleasure of speaking at some length with Rabbi Abraham Heschel who"... Contents index: [Letter as sent] Jewish Chapter of the Second Vatican Council / need for healing between Christians and Jews to serve both faiths / the fear of alienation with Moslems countered with reinforcement of the status of all "people of the Book" in the «Koran» / promises to Abraham / Protestant ecumenism.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bebianno, Elza".
제목없음First lines: "I want to answer your good letter as quickly as possible because if I leave it in the drawer my mind"... Contents index: «Pax Christi» / suggests Archbishop Roberts, S.J., who is involved in such issues for the Second Vatican Council; Fr. Bernard Häring, C.SS.R.; James Laughlin at New Directions for support; John Heidbrink at FOR for publication / in writing about war, not in touch with Rome - discouraged by institutional aspect.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First lines: "It took a little time for the copies of the «Plague» pamphlet to arrive, but about a week after"... Contents index: generous opinion on Merton's work and appreciation for not shortening the Camus piece / "brickbats from the local Catholics mostly because of Vietnam war" and a person burning his books / Vietnam / Pres. Johnson / peace candidate - Eugene McCarthy / race issue / eschatological outlook / «Monks Pond».
제목없음First lines: "I am so very grateful to have received Thomas Merton's INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY on THE PLAGUE by"... Contents index: Koshland is writing from the Office of the President at Alfred A. Knoff publishers to John Goodbody of Seabury Press expressing praise for Merton's commentary on «The Plague».
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Benedict, Br., O.C.S.O.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Benedictus, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
제목없음First lines: "Two years ago I send you my last letter. Meanwhile I studied with much spiritual fruit your"... Contents index: "Introduction on Cistercian Theology", "Monastic Orientation", and "Action and Contemplation in St. Bernard" / requesting prior offer of a copy of «Bread in the Wilderness» / vocation shortage and monetary problems at monastery at Aelenberg.
제목없음First lines: "Kind thanks for your hearty letter of Dec. '54! It took a long time before we succeeded, too by the"... Contents index: sending samples of Dutch devotional art / mere 100 years of freedom for Dutch Catholics / asks Merton's reaction to charcoal pieces by Flemish expressionists / requesting drawings by Merton and photos of Gethsemani community / translating into Dutch «Bread in the Wilderness», «Sign of Jonas».
제목없음First lines: "Thank you so much for your wonderful letter and the essays enclosed. I have not yet had a chance to"... Contents index: Lerone Bennett wants to have a dialogue with Merton on Camus / sending Lerone's December speech from Boston / «Negro Digest» / Black Power evolution - getting "Negroes to learn to love themselves… most beautifully creative act of our century" / children face discrimination in Catholic school.
제목없음First lines: "Thanks for your warm good letter, and for Lerone's Boston talk. Starting with that, I'd say it is"... Contents index: Lerone's speech - "what has to be seen and admitted" and "what apparently cannot be" / dialogue with Lerone on Camus / invitation to visit Merton / discrimination against Gloria's children and Merton's own limited experiences of discrimination in France and England / "Red-neck ghettoes" / Black Power.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Benoit, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
제목없음First lines: "Thanks for your nice letter. I wrote immediately to Dom Gabriel and sended [sic] him one copy of"... Contents index: asking Merton for addresses of editors / the "crazy city" (Marseille?) is "terribly warm" / finishing «Sign of Jonas» and reading Sören Kierkegaard's «Christian Discourses» and Merton's «Thoughts in Solitude».
제목없음First lines: "I had a long letter of Dom Sortais… Well!!! Of course it's no…. The letter, well. He doesn't"... Contents index: Sortais feels used - that de Berg used him to get Merton to write an introduction / de Berg is finishing a psychological story and beginning a play / reading «Thoughts in Solitude».
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bernadette, Sr.".
제목없음First lines: "I am happy to hear that you have a chance to live as a hermit in Texas and am interested in your"... Contents index: hermit colony in Texas / hopes administrative concerns of colony do not interfere with solitude / Dom Winandy / don't be activists / a brother as superior / importance of spiritual direction / hermit colonies can "raise eyebrows" / Trappists "stand-offish towards hermits" but Dom James may contribute money.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bernard, Fr., O.C.D.".
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bernet, Kenneth, Fr., S.F.M.".
제목없음First lines: "FUND RAISING DRIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL CENTER [-] 1. Name of organization:"... Contents index: fund raising for William J. Kerby Foundation and the International Student Center.
제목없음First lines: "Your letter from Budapest was wonderful. Got to me long after Christmas however and I did not write"... Contents index: response to Berrigan's doubts that the Church would send him as a delegate to Prague peace conference and Merton's struggles with censorship on peace / Hildegard and Jean Goss Mayr / John Heidbrink / conflict in Latin America - Vietnam / «Black Revolution» and essays on peace / Karl Rahner / Henry Miller in Mexico.
제목없음First lines: "This is a poor excuse for a letter after all the months. But they have been harried ones; I am"... Contents index: [verso: Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo, post card signed from Glasgow, and post marked from Morocco] touring northwest Africa with Fr. Lewis Cox / Barry Goldwater and the race issue / Prague week (conference on peace) - East-West dialogue / Bill Congdon in Rome / Philip Berrigan in Mississippi.
제목없음First lines: "Got a good letter from John Heidbrink today and he said you were bac[k] also told me where to find"... Contents index: arranged talk with Loretto community / Merton's showing of abstract drawings in Louisville / aggiornamento of Trappist life and monastic formation - vocation problem / article on Flannery O'Connor / more of Merton's writing on peace getting through censors, though nothing "technical about the morality of the bomb".
제목없음First lines: "AID newsletter came in this morning all full of good pictures of you, and reminded me I owe you a"... Contents index: after finishing as Novice Master, Merton to live full hermit life / life in solitude doesn't cause misanthropy, but an appreciation of humanity / Merton now on same electric grid as Rural Electric Cooperative and the poor farmers - wants to move farther out / Vietnam "sickening".
제목없음First lines: "Many thanks for the letter and the fine poem. I am sorry Fr McGowan couldn't get out here. But"... Contents index: [1965/05/18 date in published letters a misprint] no more visits to Merton at hermitage, except one commitment to Hildegard Goss Mayr / Schema for the «Commonweal» - hermitage / Jim Douglass / Merton's new "novitiate" of life in the hermitage.
제목없음First lines: "I feel very neglectful, especially after the bum steer I gave you in an address from N.Orleans when"... Contents index: [writing from exile in Argentina] travel to South America via Cuernavaca, Mexico / death of Roger LaPorte "in light of the 'great consensus'" / Latin America a "real laboratory of change" for the future in the U.S. / good exchanges with Ivan Illich in Cuernavaca and Archbishop Helder Camara in Brazil.
제목없음First lines: "Some event, hearing from you. Letter came today, dated Feb 6th in Argentina, and I don't know how"... Contents index: Ernesto Cardenal in Nicaragua and his brother in Ecuador / doesn't feel sorry for Berrigan going to Latin America - would like to go there himself / Berrigan's current popularity in print, success of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, partnership with Sr. Corita / peace protests / conflicts with authority and obedience / Bill DuBay.
제목없음First lines: "Very happy to hear your back! Glad things have cleared. I thought they might. Go to it, man!"... Contents index: "Maybe with this dirty war the nation will learn a few things about itself and grow up.".
제목없음First lines: "Thanks for great bare arsed letter and sign of the times from Jesuit Missions. Congratulations"... Contents index: peace prize from Catholic organization given to Berrigan / trying to set up another get together / Merton reminiscence on secret trip back to New York - how he loved it, but how he wouldn't survive long - even Louisville too much excitement to handle / peace movement / writings on Camus / relationship with "M.".
제목없음First lines: "Here is the preface to Nhat Hanh. I would like it mimeographed, please. As soon as copies are"... Contents index: sending works in need of mimeographing.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First 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".
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First lines: "I would like to reflect with you rather than talk to you about this extraordinary spirit, Thomas"... Contents index: ["Typescript made from tape of a talk on Thomas Merton given by Daniel Berrigan for the formal opening of the Thomas Merton Center for Creative Exchange, September 17, 1979, in Denver, Colorado" - copied from the Nancy Wilson Ross Paper at the Ransom Center].
제목없음First lines: "The Merton-Berrigan Letters"... Contents index: [copies of Merton/Berrigan correspondence compiled by William Shannon for publication purposes - photocopies of letters included].
제목없음First lines: "I am sorry I am so late in getting back to you to thank you for your kindness to me in helping"... Contents index: from William Shannon editor of the published letters to James Tyler Rare Books Assistant at Olin Library, Cornell.
제목없음First lines: "I am not sure you will remember me, I have been teaching at Nazareth College-for centuries it seems"... Contents index: writing for permission to publish Berrigan's correspondence with Merton.
제목없음First lines: "Here is the preface. I can send some more copies if you like, but this is the one for printing, as"... Contents index: sending preface to «No Longer Strangers» - may have to send preface to censors / Merton likes content of the book but has some criticisms on style - too much ambiguity that will be understood by friends and misused by enemies.
제목없음First 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?].
제목없음First lines: "The home address is Port Royal, Ky. 40058. And that's usually the best one to use."... Contents index: Berry speaking at Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft / «Monks Pond» / talking with Harry Caudill about scandal of strip mining.
제목없음First lines: "I enclose a check, a blank for transfer of copyright on the poem "Envoy" that you accepted for"... Contents index: check for "Envoy" poem for «Monks Pond» / hopes to visit Gethsemani in the spring.
제목없음First lines: "The second issue is in the works with envoy etc and I will in due course send the form along to"... Contents index: copyright / Robert Lax at a college in South Dakota - will not be free until June - proposes meeting then.
제목없음In these letters, Merton makes arrangements for the publication of his article "Blessed are the Meek". Best forwards a letter to him from Lillian Marks, who had read his article in «Fellowship» and complains about a comment about Jews that she considers inappropriate.
제목없음First lines: "About the paper "Blessed are the Meek". I am under the impression it was printed in amagazine [sic]"... Contents index: possible publication of "Blessed are the Meek" in «Cowley» by the Cowley Fathers - possibility of Jim Forest putting out article as a pamphlet.
제목없음First lines: "In going through some old correspondence of the Center, I found a letter from you to Fr. Pooler, my"... Contents index: requesting original letters or copies of letters between Merton and Notre Dame Press.
제목없음First lines: "Thank you very much for sending us xerox copies of Thomas Merton's correspondence regarding the"... Contents index: acknowledgement of receipt of letters.
제목없음First lines: "We have received through D. Timóteo Amoroso Anastácio O.S.B. translator of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, your"... Contents index: «Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality», «Monastic Peace», «What Is Contemplation» and «A Balanced Life of Prayer» - question of publishing them in one volume in Portuguese / sending books on José Paulo Moreira da Fonseca and Dante Milano.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First 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.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Biram, John".
제목없음First 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.
제목없음First lines: "Merci de votre charmante lettre du 7 et de votre livre "Emblems of a Season of Fury.""...
제목없음First lines: "You were very kind this morning and I am very sorry to have caused you some annoyance by being"... Contents index: [copied from annotated typescript in Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2, Box 3].
제목없음First lines: "C'est de Cîteaux, où je viens d'arriver pour le Ch. G'al presque eu même temps que Dom James,"...
제목없음First lines: "Vous savez déjà par une indiscrétion de mon Père Prieur (mon frère de sang) la nomination de notre"... Contents index: [see also item number three of the same date, a note from Merton to Dom James Fox, which was typed onto the same page] invitation for Merton to travel to France for Dom Colomban Bissey's induction into the Legion of Honor.
제목없음First lines: "J'aurais voulu vous annonce moi-même,"...
제목없음First lines: "Voici que je viens un peu en retard pour vous féliciter, mais vous savez bien combien je suis"...
제목없음First 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].
제목없음First lines: "We were very pleased to have your order for one of our books a few months ago. Quite a number of us"... Contents index: «The Seven Storey Mountain» - Merton's journey to Catholicism and similar journeys of others to the Bruderhof Community / sending two of the Society's books.
제목없음First lines: "I want to thank you for your fascinating and helpful letter concerning the Shaker spiritual drawings"... Contents index: hoping Merton will publish Shaker photo essay / fractur painters of Ephrata - Edward Hicks / conference mostly focused on the Shakers.
제목없음First lines: "«Mount Lebanon» Two hundred years ago, Anne Lee, a Quaker of Manchester, England, went to New"... Contents index: from E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster's book Two Cheers for Democracy.
제목없음First lines: "Thank you for your letter of October 30. Dover Publications, who have put out three of our books"... Contents index: Religion in Wood / Indiana University / communitarianism / New Harmony / The Angel and the Serpent.
제목없음First lines: "It was good to talk with you on the telephone. As I told you then I have been appointed as the"... Contents index: Request for missing letters of Merton from W. H. Shannon.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Angela Marie, Sr.".
제목없음First lines: "Here I sit behind a very large pile of letters, trying to figure out which ones I will have to throw"... Contents index: spiritual advice and consolation / unauthorized picture on the cover of the «Sign».
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Angela, Rev. Mother, O.C.S.O.".
제목없음First lines: "I returned from a long sojourn in the Northwest trying to imbibe something of that mystical"...
제목없음First lines: "Fine. We will look for you early in November. Have the people in Louisville written to you yet?"... Contents index: [copied on same paper as 1964/08/26 letter].
제목없음First lines: "Congratulations and blessings. I was praying for you Saturday, your profession day. It really make"...
제목없음First lines: "I am delighted that you can use the photograph on the jacket of the new book. Already told"...
제목없음First lines: "I would be so happy to have something of yours for […] venture-- a poem, a bit of journal, a"...
제목없음First lines: "I am one of the Merton Trustees and currently involved with Father Merton's correspondence"... Contents index: permissions request.
제목없음First lines: "Bibliographical problems come over horizon perhaps we need to hit Cornell again high above Cayugas"... Contents index: requests articles by J. Ryan; E. C. Bowen; J. Kenney; Kuno Meyer; E. S. Duckett; and Dom Merin.
제목없음This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Apple, Karen".
제목없음First lines: "Your publishers have informed us that you control first serial rights to MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS."... Contents index: asking permission to publish in the Saturday Evening Post.
제목없음First 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».
제목없음First lines: "Thank you for your kind letter and the newsletter too. If weather does not prevent us, we will"... Contents index: visiting Gethsemani on Feb. 23 / article on Sufism / "Psychocultural analysis and three concepts of mental health" «Confinia Psychiatrica».
제목없음First lines: "Many thanks for your letter. April 12 is a difficult day in some respects as it is Good Friday, and"... Contents index: [annotated by Merton and Arasteh] times and dates to reschedule visit / «Final Integration».
제목없음First lines: "During my studies at the University of Ottawa in view of obtaining a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, I"...
제목없음First lines: "You may be surprised to hear from a Cistercian monk out here in the lovely Shenandoah Valley."...
제목없음First lines: "I am glad to say we received this morning three complimentary copies of the Spanish edition of RUMI,"...
제목없음First lines: "Last week I was delighted when the mail brought a copy of your book, GROWTH TO SELFHOOD. I have"...
제목없음First lines: "It was a great pleasure to speak with you on the phone today. I have been wanting to get in touch"...
제목없음First lines: "Thank you for your letter. I have located some information which will help you to learn my relation"...
제목없음First lines: "Te escribo para informarle que mi esposo y el novio de […] amiga Marta Elena Rodriquez a quien"...
제목없음First lines: "Cuando escribe de cosas espirituales […] escribirle en español […] es más fácil para mi."...
제목없음First lines: "When I write about spiritual things I would prefer to write you in Spanish as it is easier for me."... Contents index: translation of letter in file.
제목없음First lines: "This time I want to try to answer you immediately. I think you are quite right, and that the ideas"...
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