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Review (by: Eastman, Patrick) in Patrick Monos 15.3 (May/June 2002): 6.

Review (by: Fairaday, Brenda F.) in Merton Seasonal 27:2 (Summer 2002): 31-32. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/27/27-2FairadayRevWaldron.pdf

This subseries contains book reviews about the given Merton-related title. In a small number of cases, there are other materials such as manuscripts and proofs.

Review (by: Bochen, Christine M.) in The Merton Annual 26 (2013): 236-241. http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/26/BochenRevWaldron236-241.pdf

This subseries contains book reviews about the given Merton-related title. In a small number of cases, there are other materials such as manuscripts and proofs.

Review (by: Lewis, Philip) in Theology 109 (2006): 374-375.

Review (by: Atkinson, Morgan) in Merton Seasonal 30:3 (Fall 2005): 31-32. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/30/30-3AtkinsonRevHinkle.pdf

This subseries contains book reviews about the given Merton-related title. In a small number of cases, there are other materials such as manuscripts and proofs.

Review (by: Thurston, Bonnie Bowman) in Merton Annual 24: 285-289. http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/24/ThurstonRevWeis285-289.pdf

Review (by: Weis, Monica, S.S.J.) in Merton Annual 24: 313-323. http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/24/WeisRevWeis313-323.pdf

Review (by: Hart, Patrick, Br., O.C.S.O.) in Cistercian Studies Quarterly 47.1 (2012): 116-117.

Review (by: Pramuk, Christopher) in The Living Church (15 July 2012): 21, 24.

Review (by: Hoover, Conrad C.) in Sojourners 9 (May 1980): 28-30.

Review (by: Cooper, David D.) in Renascence 34.2 (Winter 1982): 113-128.

Review (by: Kramer, Victor A.) in Review [Charlottesville, VA] 4 (1982): 295-333 [see review author file].

This series contains works regarding Merton under the first-named author, creator, editor, etc., of a title. Subseries are arranged by dates and titles.

Review (by: Crutcher, Ellyn) in The Merton Seasonal 39.2 (Summer 2014): 37-38. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/39/39-2CrutcherRevWu.pdf

This series contains works regarding Merton under the first-named author, creator, editor, etc., of a title. Subseries are arranged by dates and titles.

This subseries contains book reviews about the given Merton-related title. In a small number of cases, there are other materials such as manuscripts and proofs.

Review (by: Sneck, William J.) in Spiritual Life 44.3 (Fall 1998): 181-183.

Review (by: Hart, Patrick, Br., O.C.S.O.) in Cistercian Studies 31.4 (1996): 523-524.

Review (by: Hart, Patrick, Br., O.C.S.O.) in Merton Journal [UK] 4.1 (Easter 1997): 65-66. http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/Journal/04/4-1HartRevZuercher.pdf

Review (by: Liddell, Rose A., S.L.) in Merton Seasonal 21:2 (Summer 1996): 27-28. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/21/21-2LiddellRevZuercher.pdf

Review (by: Horan, Daniel P.) in The Merton Seasonal 39.3 (Fall 2014): 32-34. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/39/39-3HoranRevZuercher.pdf

Collections in this record group are related to Thomas Merton, Merton studies, or the Merton Legacy Trust (his literary trust). Some were managed by Merton's friends, family, collectors of his works, biographers, or those in correspondence with Merton.

First lines: "About your class schedule, looks fine to me. All I need to know really is when you are having"...

First lines: "One of those antihistamines broke up in my pocket. As I don't know how to ask Bro Camillus or what"...

First lines: "It seems to me that the fact that milk is no longer given three times a week at supper constitutes"...

First lines: "This is a very awful translation of some texts of Isaac of Nineveh by the Dutchman,"... Contents index: [verso: notes by Bamberger about Merton's move to the hermitage]

First lines: "My request to B. Irenaeus for new sox has not led to anything. But I will need them if I am to go"...

First lines: "As far as I can see there is no way for the bro novices to get to your 10 20 Mass on Thursdays"...

First lines: "In case you don't know, the Medicare bill has been passed and [name note legible] and those eligible"...

First lines: "Isaac of Ninive [sic]"... Contents index: [handwritten scrap of paper]

First lines: "I have to see the Doctor again Friday (Dec. 30th) [-] Will you please make the necessary"...

First lines: "I got out of the clinic at 12:30 and the Doctor was not yet finished. So far everything"...

First lines: "P. Patrick wants these bulletins for Collectanea. Can you red this copy? I am taking the ones"...

First lines: "Do you think Bro Ca[ the rest of name is illegible] could find a small moment to translate this?"... Contents index: [verso: Bamberger notes that Merton refers to a Polish letter he needed to be translated]

First lines: "The tests were ok and there is nothing new. Same sensitive colon. Once again recommendation"...

First lines: "I enclose a copy of the review of Mott's book on Fr. Louis. It is typed (computerized, I should say!"...

First lines: "About a year ago, the Superior of the Maryknoll Cloistered Sisters sent me a copy of your notes on"... Contents index: Merton's notes on Monastic Orientation / «Transformation in Christ» by von Hildebrand / Mystical Body and role of contemplative / establishing a Ritiro in the Order.

First lines: "Please forgive the intrusion and unusual request. There is a small group of religious from"... Contents index: asking Merton to conduct retreat on contemplative renewal.

First lines: "I am taking advantage of your offer to be of service to us. Uniquely, you can be of great service."... Contents index: Norms enclosed by Mother Angelica and Fr. Paul Boyle.

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

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

First lines: "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 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: "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 will start off by asking your overlooking the errors, and hastily typed letter. I came over to"...

First lines: "In the March Art Supplement of the «Magnificat», Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo weekly"... Contents index: articles on St. Bonaventure University / Rev. Irenaeus Herscher, O.F.M. / asks for Merton's recollections of St. Bonaventure University and faculty/staff.

First lines: "Thanks for the letter and photograph. I had no idea you were so husky looking. Thanks above all"... Contents index: list changes, "experimentation", that is going on in community of which she and others disapprove - fewer Mass times, confession; no organized mental prayer, Rosary, Stations; Vatican II outdated; corporal works stressed, contemplation passé.

First lines: "I am sorry I left your letter so long without an answer. It is almost impossible for me to deal"... Contents index: response to the changes mentioned in previous letter / need for pluralism but not being dominated by things that go against conscience / need for sacraments in religious life and mental prayer for some.

First lines: "In view of the many changes taking place within the structured framework of religious life today, we"... Contents index: asking Merton to speak at convocation at St. Francis College about student involvement in contemporary Christian life.

First lines: "Apparently word is getting around that I am now permitted to go out and speak on various college"... Contents index: relates impossibility of getting permission for such an event / suggests Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. or his brother Philip, although they are more radical than he is.

First lines: "Thanks for your good letter. I am glad you found the two books interesting enough to review, and"... Contents index: use of Eichmann piece / what Merton feels he could offer / offers his abstract drawings for publication.

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

First lines: "It was good to hear from you again. I am glad you have done so well in school, and especially glad"... Contents index: thinking of religious life again / recommendation for Franciscans / current winds of change in religious life, also confusion / new foundation in Norway.

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

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

First lines: "Thank you for your kind letter. I am so happy the censors approved your excellent ABA paper (I'm"... Contents index: Teilhard de Chardin paper and censors / interview of Br. Antoninus, O.P. / sources on Dom Calmet - sent interlibrary loan list to Fr. Oliver of St. Vincent Archabbey / attached are lists of books about Calmet with Merton's annotations of what he wants.

First lines: "I got your good letter this morning and I think it is a good idea to get started on the typing, so I"... Contents index: Merton sending partial Serge Bolshakoff manuscript.

First lines: "Since I received your letter nearly a year ago I had no more news from you and do not know whether"... Contents index: mentions Thomas Merton.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Barry, Marion S., Jr.".

First lines: "Thank you so much for sending me your article, as well as the off-print from «Pax». I had not"... Contents index: possibility of publishing a collection of Merton's prior essays / difficulty through agreement with Farrar Straus in doing a book for Macmillan / peace demonstrations in New York and other cities and the contribution of Merton's writing to the cause.

First lines: "Our manufacturing department has now returned to me the manuscript"... Contents index: [original in Section C.2, the Setting Copy of the unpublished manuscript, "Prayer as Worship and Experience" / photocopy in correspondence file] regret over dispute concerning book and that it would not be published.

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

First lines: "I am sending you herewith a copy of the Catholic Worker Reader, «A Penny a Copy» as you are"...

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bartolomé, Leopoldo J. (Leopoldo José)".

First lines: "Para el Padre Merton con mi amistad y mis poemas."... Contents index: [see the "Family Room - Marginalia" section of the Merton Center collection for the original signed copy of the book «El ojo del can»].

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

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

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

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

First lines: "Je m'excuse de venir vous déranger. J'ai"... Contents index: Merton's book «Life of Holiness» / Louis Massignon / Egypt / Islam / the book «Mohammed et St. François» (Mohammed and St. Francis).

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).

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Baskin, June E.".

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: "Thank you very much for sending your article back. I took notice of the mistakes you pointed out"... Contents index: "still trying to find a suitable word for «cool»".

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Batastini, Robert J.".

First lines: "Thank you for your letter of June 18th informing me of the project to publish Four Freedom Songs"... Contents index: grant of permission to use materials / royalties arrangements to be made with owner of the rights, Robert L. Williams.

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

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Batten, R. J., Fr., O.P.".

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bea, Augustine, Cardinal".

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

First lines: "I beg your permission to […] from "The Strange Islands" into some Little Worship Services. They"... Contents index: worship services to include works by - Merton, St. John of the Cross, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Lax, Beaumont's son Christopher, St. Francis, Holy Scripture, etc.; and songs by Beaumont / two prayers or reflections by her son Christopher - one written at age 6 and one at age 9.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Beaurin, Jean Marie, Fr.".

First lines: "L'idée m'est venue d'entrer très simplement en rapport avec vous. L'on nous a lu au Monastère, au"... Contents index: «La nuit privée d'étoiles» (French edition of «The Seven Storey Mountain») / French and American monks feeling the same devotion for common fathers, St. Bernard and St. Benedict / remember Mary and fidelity to the Pope during the coming month of August / Pope Pius XII.

First lines: "En rentrant de notre pèlerinage de Rome j'ai trouvé votre lettre si fraternelle qui m'a rempli de"... Contents index: Les Croisés de Notre Dame (the Crusaders of Our Lady) / acknowledgement of Merton's interest / opposition to Marxism and a call from Pope Pius XII to wage a spiritual war on their world of separation from God and restore the faith of the first Christians / «La nuit privée d'étoiles».

This exchange of letters, two from Merton and two from John Beecher, gives an account of the opposition that authors on civil rights, non-violence, and social reforms faced in the 1960's from within the Church and in secular society. Beecher struggled with the Jesuit administration of Santa Clara University around the time Merton's work on nuclear war was banned, while both speak with a positive voice about the future of the Church.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Belford, Lee Archer, Rev.".

First lines: ""But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, mildness,"... Contents index: [Verso: color picture of the outside and inside of Santa Cecilia Church "on Christmas Day in the High Sierras of Perú" by Gordon K. McCoun] Quote from St. Paul and a wish of a Merry Christmas.

First lines: "Yesterday Father Abbot asked me to get in touch with you and ask your advice about our centennial"... Contents index: New Melleray centennial history / executives from the Thomas More Bookshop in Chicago advised having a "name" author write the history / many authors who refused - asking Merton to accept or suggest another / Abbot wants it patterned on Fr. Ailbe J. Luddy's «Story of Mount Melleray».

First lines: "Your letter came to me as a complete surprise, and one that was in its own way bouleversant. I had"... Contents index: Iris' move to California / Jean Hering / letter of 1957 and regrets expressed by Merton / news of Tom Bennett's death - came late and via New Zealand / «Life» quote refers to Merton's generation as "older", not Merton's elders (like Iris) / monastic life - new eremitical life / debt owed Tom and Iris / writings not intended to injure.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bennett, Gloria Cecelia Sylvester".

First lines: "It occurs to me that I probably did not fulfill a promise-- or a threat-- to send you an article of"... Contents index: didn't send Camus article, sending now / SNCC in New York / asks for any new books by Lerone Bennett / Merton gets "the psychological fallout" from others on the situation, but would also like the facts.

First lines: "It occurs to me that I probably did not fulfill a promise-- or a threat-- to send you an article of"... Contents index: didn't send Camus article, sending now / SNCC in New York / asks for any new books by Lerone Bennett / Merton gets "the psychological fallout" from others on the situation, but would also like the facts.

First lines: "(His first Mass) "Friday I said that Mass I had promised to Our Lady of Cobre… It was at St. Anne's"... Contents index: photocopy of a handwritten quote from «The Sign of Jonas», p. 194, copyright 1953 / describes Merton's first Mass in 1949 and the amice, corporal, purificator, and finger towel which came from Gloria Bennett's Catholic High School class of black students in Mobile, Alabama.

First lines: "It was indeed very good of you to come to see me. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you and having a"... Contents index: doesn't think Merton will stay a priest much longer / Bentley had left priesthood 12 years ago / Merton helped him see Jean Paul Sartre in a new way / "help[ing] Bishop Sheen all I can" / "deep in Trethowan's 'Basis of Belief'" / Fr. Danielou's "Encounter and Religious Experience".

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

First lines: "Thank you very much for your nice letter and corrections which I sended [sic] immediately to my"... Contents index: Michael de St. Picne, director of a Catholic collection and advice about her book / closed herself in a Dominican convent for 5 weeks / writes as night because "lovers always meet at night" / translating her book into English with the help of an American / suggestions of editors.

First lines: "Thank you so much for your nice book. I've read"... Contents index: beginning a new book / asking if Merton would write a brief introduction to her «Trois ans à al trappe».