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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 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».

First 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».

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Benedict, Br., O.C.S.O.".

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Benedictus, Fr., O.C.S.O.".

First 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.

First 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».

First 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.

First 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.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Benoit, Fr., O.C.S.O.".

First 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».

First 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».

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bernadette, Sr.".

First 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.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bernard, Fr., O.C.D.".

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bernet, Kenneth, Fr., S.F.M.".

First 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.

First 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.

First 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.

First 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".

First 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".

First 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.

First 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.

First 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.

First 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.".

First 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.".

First 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.

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

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

First lines: "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: "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: "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 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].

First lines: "The Merton-Berrigan Letters"... Contents index: [copies of Merton/Berrigan correspondence compiled by William Shannon for publication purposes - photocopies of letters included].

First 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.

First 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.

First 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.

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 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.

First 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.

First 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.

In 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.

First 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.

First 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.

First lines: "Thank you very much for sending us xerox copies of Thomas Merton's correspondence regarding the"... Contents index: acknowledgement of receipt of letters.

First 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.

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

First lines: "«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.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Biram, John".

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: "Merci de votre charmante lettre du 7 et de votre livre "Emblems of a Season of Fury.""...

First 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].

First lines: "C'est de Cîteaux, où je viens d'arriver pour le Ch. G'al presque eu même temps que Dom James,"...

First 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.

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

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

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

First lines: "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.

First 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.

This file contains letters copied from the "Fromm, Erich" file. Fromm sent Merton poems by Carmen Blumenkren from Cuernavaca, Mexico. The file contains the copied letter from Fromm with the attached poems and biographical sketch and Merton's reply. The originals can all be found in the Fromm file.

First 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.

First 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.

First 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.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Angela Marie, Sr.".

First 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».

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Angela, Rev. Mother, O.C.S.O.".

First lines: "I returned from a long sojourn in the Northwest trying to imbibe something of that mystical"...

First 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].

First lines: "Congratulations and blessings. I was praying for you Saturday, your profession day. It really make"...

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

First lines: "I would be so happy to have something of yours for […] venture-- a poem, a bit of journal, a"...

First lines: "I am one of the Merton Trustees and currently involved with Father Merton's correspondence"... Contents index: permissions request.

First 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.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Apple, Karen".

First 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.

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: "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».

First 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».

First lines: "During my studies at the University of Ottawa in view of obtaining a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, I"...

First lines: "You may be surprised to hear from a Cistercian monk out here in the lovely Shenandoah Valley."...

First lines: "I am glad to say we received this morning three complimentary copies of the Spanish edition of RUMI,"...

First lines: "Last week I was delighted when the mail brought a copy of your book, GROWTH TO SELFHOOD. I have"...

First lines: "It was a great pleasure to speak with you on the phone today. I have been wanting to get in touch"...

First lines: "Thank you for your letter. I have located some information which will help you to learn my relation"...

First lines: "Te escribo para informarle que mi esposo y el novio de […] amiga Marta Elena Rodriquez a quien"...

First lines: "Cuando escribe de cosas espirituales […] escribirle en español […] es más fácil para mi."...

First 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.

First lines: "This time I want to try to answer you immediately. I think you are quite right, and that the ideas"...

First lines: "This is a troubled time, in which you are going to have to collect your forces and muster up even"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #109].

First lines: "It was good to hear from you, both before and after Easter, with the copy of the letter from your"...

First lines: "I have not forgotten your letter of June 6th, but summer is a very busy season. I have had a great"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter, I had been thinking about you and wondering about you for a long time."...

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».

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Arthon, Thomas, Br. (Br. Egbert), O.C.S.O.".

First lines: "Verdad que no importa el que no seamos católicos los dos, para que puede a llamarle hermano? Usted"...

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Atencio, Mr.".

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

First lines: "It is silly to bother you with this piece of absurd nonsense, but as I made you a sign about it,"... Contents index: [see also "Censors Reports" file, Series 36, "New Seeds of Contemplation" / carbon transferred from "Hart Working Files"] censors negative comments about Merton's interpretation of René Descartes - censor compares Merton's ideas on Christian contemplation to Hindu contemplation, but Merton thinks the censor's own notion of contemplation more closely compares to a negative stereotype of Hindu mysticism.

First lines: "Thanks for your good letter. It is encouraging to get a letter from a Cistercian brother who really"... Contents index: passive contemplation / passive states of prayer and effect on the body / sexuality / role of lay brothers vs. choir monks - active life vs. passive contemplation / Fr. Raymond.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Augustinius, Gervasius F., Fr., K.M.NTARA.".