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

First lines: "Thank you very much for your letter of the 16th. Indeed I was surprised! In fact I am rather"... Contents index: changing orders and international confusion with Abbeys on both sides of the Atlantic / "contemplation and action" - ideals of Cistercian pure contemplation vs. Carmelite mixture of contemplation and action / convert background / mixture is not for him - wants to be Cistercian / asking help in finding an abbey.

First lines: "A TRIDUUM OF PRAYERS IN HONOR OF ST JOHN OF THE CROSS."... Contents index: a prayer service with parts for a priest to pray and for the congregation to respond with a Benediction to follow.

First lines: "Sincere thanks to you for your thoughtfulness and kindness! I appreciate very much the gift of your"... Contents index: [written on Gethsemani Abbey stationary] Merton's gift of a book and copies of lectures given via Dan Walsh.

First lines: "Thanks for your very fine letters and clipping. I am going to write you when I have a little time."... Contents index: [Xerox of note written at the top of the first page of an article - "The Machine Gun in the Fallout Shelter" by Merton].

First lines: "Thank you for the material, which I find lucid and reasonable, in the best Merton manner. I am"... Contents index: [no year listed - previously dated 1963/01/24, but contextual evidence makes 1962 more likely] 6 day retreat for 50 college students - their insulation from the real world / reviewing «New Seeds of Contemplation» for «America» / International Student Center has 450 students / attaching censors reports for new poems / John Heidbrink.

First lines: "Censor «A» ALL ARE GENUINE POEMS; MANY ARE SUPERB [-] Censor«B» [sic] These are"... Contents index: [attached to 1963/01/24 letter] Censors approvals of Berrigan's latest poems.

First lines: "A long overdue note to say hello, and to acknlwedge [sic] yours of a month or more ago. I will not"... Contents index: John Heidbrink - retreat for Presbyterian ministers - Rev. Mr. Muste / Dick Walsh / Merton's peace writings in «Commonweal» and «Jubilee» and book, «Nuclear Weapons and Christian Conscience» / closer to Protestants than Catholics on peace and racial equality / Phillip Berrigan also visiting in August.

First lines: "I have not yet thanked you for the clipping from the college paper with your exorbitant statements"... Contents index: Berrigan's description of Merton - a Spanish look - "I look like a Barcelona hotel keeper" / Berrigan going to France / the Guggenheim / Robert Lax / the magazine «Ramparts».

First lines: "This will come to you as a conscience matter letter, so that I can deal with your question freely."... Contents index: going to Birmingham (against superiors) had occurred to Merton, but suggests that it may be counterproductive to Berrigan's mission to lose support and be labeled a renegade / gather other Catholics believing in racial equality and non-violence / "Pacem in Terris", bishops and theologians / monastic role and obedience.

First lines: "Hope you havent [sic] given me up for advent or something. After many wanderings and searchings,"... Contents index: [verso: "Kreuzigung Mit Lukas-Symbol" - "Verlag Ars liturgica Maria Laach (Germany)"] chaplain to University students / Goss-Mayrs and John Heidbrink / Tony Walsh.

First lines: "I am glad to have your letter, card, from Paris. I was not sure where you were going to be and so"... Contents index: tape about Washington / Merton's «Ramparts» article about race / suggests looking up Camille Drevet in Paris - active in non-violence and friend of Gandhi / Fr. Danielou / Bede Griffiths / José María Gironella / death of Abbot General Gabriel Sortais - thought Merton a "Red" / the Goss-Mayrs / Fr. Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B..

First lines: "I have to get off a short note to say hello, and to assure you that yr. letter was much appreciated"... Contents index: meetings in Prague and Budapest with Protestants interested in the peace movement / Christian Peace Union's international meeting in Prague / Pope John XXIII and "Pacem in Terris" - surprised both Protestants and Marxists / John Heidbrink / the F.O.R. [Fellowship of Reconciliation].

First lines: ""... Contents index: [see 1968/05/18 - misdated in published version].

First lines: "What a wonderful letter you wrote me, and how deeply I appreciate it… I was desolate to hear that"... Contents index: South African tape likely confiscated in mail out of the country / new assignment in New York City with Jesuit Missions / John Heidbrink - retreats for clergy have expanded to Protestant retreat houses / ideas for new Gethsemani retreat - small and unstructured / Ivan Illich / Claire Booth Luce / Catholics and Marxists.

First lines: "Many thanks for your card from Oslo Morocco. We have played your tapes after much aggiornamento"... Contents index: Jerry Berrigan of Syracuse - sending transcript of the African tape / reforming religious life - proposes talk at Loretto / proposed meeting with Berrigan and John Heidbrink in October / frustrated attempts to write on important matters - leaving cycle of "burn out" / Merton's physical resemblance to Henry Miller, Picasso or "ex con".

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: "Glad to get your note. I would be delighted to see you and Jim ifyou [sic] can get out on the 29th,"... Contents index: Philip Berrigan / the [U.S.] "administration is just plain nuts" and "doing more to strengthen communism in Asia and Latin America than anyone else on earth".

First lines: "How grateful Tom for your marvelous welcome. Your wisdom, yourself! We went away as though after"... Contents index: thanks for Gethsemani get together and Merton's drawings / Berrigan sends a leaflet with "3 poems to fit our times [-] 1965 [-] Mary's Day [-] Immaculate Heart College" - poems by Dan Berrigan ("To the Woman of Immaculate Heart, a Poem and No Persuasion"), Gerald Huckaby, and Pat Amato.

First lines: "It was good to get your letter. The operation worked out fine but it was a little rough for a week."... Contents index: think Dom James is using hermitage to impose a total silence on him / fears Vietnam may lead to a much larger war.

First lines: "Here I am by the ocean at Santa Barbara, stuck without writing papers but determined to get a line"... Contents index: Ping Ferry / loneliness and love - Merton and "M." / "free church" worship / "free wheeling" Jesuits from L.A. - drinking bourbon and discussing "freedom, love, change, hope, you, us, them, all of it" / Joan Baez.

First lines: "Many thanks for Palm Sunday epistle. Here it is Low Sunday already. Why not drive over with Jim"... Contents index: arranging another get together.

First lines: "It seems like ages, know I've been remiss. Jim Forest sent on one of yrs. to him and got me to get"... Contents index: [writing from Pueblo, Colorado] work with Mexican-American youth with Upward Bound program / Loretto sisters who knew Merton from Kentucky / "open parish setup" like Oklahoma City project - problem that most are upper-middle class and do not want to mix with poor / Cornell University offer / description of Pueblo area.

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: "Seems I get less and less time to answer letters. Or anyway, whatever the reason, I just don't get"... Contents index: thoughts on new abbot [Dom Flavian Burns] - will allow Merton to travel as much as other Trappist can - Trappists generally against public conferences and Merton doesn't want big public appearances - feels role is in staying out of the fray but writing and advising those in active involvement in the peace movement.

First lines: "Seems I get less and less time to answer letters. Or anyway, whatever the reason, I just don't get"... Contents index: thoughts on new abbot [Dom Flavian Burns] - will allow Merton to travel as much as other Trappist can - Trappists generally against public conferences and Merton doesn't want big public appearances - feels role is in staying out of the fray but writing and advising those in active involvement in the peace movement.

First lines: "This is a very brief note to say hello. You will by now have heard of the trial and our sentencing."... Contents index: trial and sentencing of Daniel and Philip Berrigan for "Catonsville Nine" incident of breaking into draft office and burning draft cards with home-made napalm in Catonsville, Maryland / asking if Merton would be interviewed by Francine Grey of the «New Yorker» about peace movement [Merton (in Asia) later declines].

First lines: "Note on the letters of Daniel Berrigan: When I put this correspondence together, I did not have"... Contents index: [transcript of Merton-Berrigan correspondence, with full letters from Merton and excerpts of Berrigan's letters, prepared for the published letters by their editor, William H. Shannon, and sent to Robert Giroux of Farrar, Straus and Giroux publishers - 39 pages (transcripts only, no photocopies)].

First lines: "Contemporary Literary Criticism - subject Daniel Berrigan"... Contents index: biographical information collected by William Shannon.

First lines: "Sure, by all means have them send the proofs and I will try to writ[e] at least something, if I"... Contents index: five day conference of novice masters "kicking around seven main types of misunderstanding" / some peace writings approved for publishing after a rewrite - thinks writings are now stronger / Carole Denise McNair killed in the September 1963 bombing in Birmingham, Alabama - "Picture of a Black Child with a White Doll".

First lines: "Your note arrived today and I immediately informed Macmillan to go ahead on the preface."... Contents index: Merton did not have to send preface to the censors / reviews of «Seeds of Destruction» did not give it the credit it deserved - few Christians who have perspective on the road ahead.

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: "Your letter finally caught up with me in Alaska but I am moving on. Impossible to get to trial"... Contents index: post card from Mt. McKinley, Alaska / Merton responds to an invitation to attend the trial of the Catonsville Nine, Philip Berrigan, Daniel Berrigan and seven others who broke into a Selective Service office in Catonsville, MD, and burned draft records / Merton will be in India and cannon make the October trial, but is raising money.

This file contains one original letter from Berry to Merton. It is not evident whether Merton responds to this letter (it is before he started keeping carbon copies). The letter deals with Merton's correspondence with John Wu, and his interest in eastern spirituality.

First lines: "I expect you too will want to answer Lillian Marks. I hope I did not apologize unduly but I feel we"... Contents index: feels that he and Merton made a mistake by Merton's remark appearing in «Fellowship» to which Lillian Marks objects.

First lines: "We received your letter concerning our correspondence with the late Thomas Merton, and we are"... Contents index: asking if Merton Center would like letters between Merton and Notre Dame Press regarding publication of «Faith and Violence».

First lines: "We received your letter of June 9th concerning our correspondence with Thomas Merton with regard to"... Contents index: Notre Dame Press files contain Xeroxes only of Merton's letters / sending copies to Center with this letter [not enclosed herewith].

First lines: "The first Portuguese edition of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND was a great success - out of stock in two months"... Contents index: publication of Merton's books in Brazil / Alceu Amoroso Lima / «Bread in the Wilderness» / Fr. Leonel Franca, S.J..

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

First lines: "I wrote to Harcourt, Brace and World concerning our request to reprint "In the Face of Death""... Contents index: asking where "In the Face of Death" appears in «The Seven Storey Mountain».

First lines: "I'm sorry to be just getting around to answering your request for copies of correspondence from"... Contents index: sending original of Merton's letter / permission to publish.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Biegansho, H., Miss".

First lines: "You have been good enough to send me several of your books - but now I dare ask you for something"... Contents index: asking for prayers for her mother after an accident.

First lines: "Appeared New York Times 4 Sept. 67 (editorial page) «A COCKTAIL PARTY» Penned in this"... Contents index: [poem attached to 1967/09/25 letter].

First lines: "Merci de tant coeur pour les deux exemplaires de votre beau livre sur sainte Lutgarde. Je le lirai"...

First lines: "Voici un petit mot pour vous souhaiter d'abord une bonne année. Et puis quelques réflexions, que"...

First lines: "Voici une réponse que j'écris a votre P. Raymond qui m'a écrit, comme vous le savez Je lui dis ma"...

First lines: "Votre lettre du 8 Nov. m'a causé me immense joie,"...

First lines: "What about it? How about a nice birthday present? --You yourself often say it is good for monks"... Contents index: [see also item number two of the same date] invitation for Merton to travel to France for Dom Colomban Bissey's induction into the Legion of Honor.

First lines: "I would not want you to misinterpret my letter which I have written to good Father Bernard"... Contents index: complaint to Dom Colomban Bissey that one of the monks of Melleray, Fr. Bernard, was trying to "induce Father Louis to make a trip across the Atlantic" for Bissey's induction into the French Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor).

First lines: "N'ayant pas "l'opportunité" d'aller vous voir cette année, je bien vous faire me"...

First lines: "I was glad to hear from you because Les Dewart said you had been ill, and now I see you must be"... Contents index: assistance in studying the "men of Chartres" / Ulric of Strasbourg - commentary on Dionysius, Divine Names / "link between the Chartrains and Eckhart" / School of Chartres and Mircea Eliade and the Jungian psychologists.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. I do not know of any community of women in which there would be"...

First lines: "I have finished reading the galleys of BLACK POWER AND WHITE PROTESTANTS which I am returning"... Contents index: Merton's comments on «Black Power and White Protestants» / asking Boardman to take a look at June Yungblut's dissertation on Samuel Beckett for possible publication.

Merton had a close relationship with Nancy Hauck Boettcher's grandmother, who helped raise Merton and his brother. Nancy begins writing Merton when her grandmother, Freida "Nanny" Hauck, was living with Nancy's parents and causing strain on them. Nanny's condition worsens and she dies. Though Nancy was, as was Merton, close with Nanny, she sees Nanny's death as something of a blessing given Nanny's suffering and the hardship endured by her parents in caring for her.

First lines: "Thanks for telling me about Nanny. I did not know about her, but in the middle of Mass this morning"... Contents index: responds to news from Nancy that Nanny is seriously ill.

First lines: "Thanks very much for sending the telegram to let me know of Nanny's death. It was very thoughtful"...

First lines: "Thanks very much for sending the telegram to let me know of Nanny's death. It was very thoughtful"...

First lines: "I wanted to answer your first letter about the new baby, but let it slip until too late. But I was"...

First lines: "Thank you so much for your letter - for your goodness. I enjoyed it very much. It was the nicest"... Contents index: Merton sent picture of the president - she put with book by Fulton Sheen / questionnaire in a Catholic magazine about prayer - many responded that Merton's books taught them to pray / American magazine with "Ora et Labora" article about Trappists with photos of monks.

First lines: "I am a sophomore at Niskayuna High School, Niskayuna, New York, and we are doing a poetry unit in my"... Contents index: asking for help on an English assignment - asking Merton's definition of a poem.

First lines: "How can I ever thank you for your wonderful, gracious letter? When my teacher heard that I had"... Contents index: written to many poets - compiled around 200 definitions of poetry - Merton's one of the most meaningful / Merton's care in helping her despite the many adults who ignore a teenager.

First lines: "I enclose the letter of the Abbot General which allows you to write a preface to the English"... Contents index: [1961/06/02 letter from Abbot General Gabriel Sortais to Bolshakoff attached - gives permission for Merton to do a preface for English version of «Russian Mystics»].

First lines: "Many thanks for your kind letter. I am glad that you liked the manuscript. Of course, please"...

First lines: "You will be glad to hear that I have finished all the work on the revision of your manuscript and it"...

First lines: "For a long time I have been owing you a reply to your several very interesting letters, and Fr"...

First lines: "Before Lent begins and I leave Oxford on Feb 13th for London and abroad I send you this letter. I"...

First lines: "It is always so good to receive your extremely informative and lively letters, but I especially"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your two letters of June 9th and August 10th, which were forwarded me here from"...

First lines: "Since I wrote to you on October 2nd I received your two articles, which I am reading. Three more"...

First lines: "Since I wrote my last letter in the end of July there were many developments for the Sobesedniks."... Contents index: ["Letter to Sobesedniks" - see 1966/08/00 and 1967/04/00 letters].

First lines: "I am afraid I owe you a deep apology: I have not been able to get your Easter letter to the"...

First lines: "Thank you so much for the ok on the poem. I will of course makesome [sic] reference to the personal"...

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

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

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

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

First lines: "I'm sorry everyone is bugging you about Latitudes 5. As a matter of fact I hadn't read the Ranieri"... Contents index: «Latitudes» magazine 5 / manuscript of Harry Taylor / Merton discussing the relative appropriateness of his work being featured in Playboy magazine and the American attitude toward sex.

First lines: "In the years that have passed since your group came here, I have often thought of you and wondered"... Contents index: sending part of a longer poem to use.

First lines: "«MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS» We have at last received the reading copy of the above"...

First lines: "Jacques Maritain has asked me to write to you about the problem of finding a publisher for the"... Contents index: Jacques Maritain / finding publisher for Raissa Maritain's «Raissa's Journal» - released by P. J. Kenedy / Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen.

First lines: "At Jacques' request, I am returning to you the ms of Raissa's «Journal». He has come up with"... Contents index: Bruce Publishing Co..

First lines: "Thank you for donating the letter of Thomas Merton to our collection. It will be a valuable"...

First lines: "Tonight I have read 'The Monk in the Diaspora'. It is splendid; and it touches on so many of the"...

First lines: "Could we have three or four more copies of the revised edition of «The Climate of Monastic»"...

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Borton, Cameron, Rev.".

First lines: "Thank you so much for sending us the xeroxed copy of your letter from Thomas Merton. Needless to"...

First lines: "Thank you for your quick reply to me. I have decided that I want very much for you to have the"... Contents index: sending original of Merton's letter.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the gift. Actually the most personal as well as the most universal"... Contents index: submitting a Mass to be said for Jack Boswell for a special intention.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Botte, Gregorio, Fr., O.F.M.".

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.

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

First lines: "May I disturb you for a moment about a very small point? Sheed and Ward are going to publish a book"... Contents index: asking for source of Merton quote and permission to use - "Make ready for the Christ, whose smile, like lightning, sets free the song of everlasting glory that now sleeps, in your paper flesh, like dynamite." / Dom James Wisemen.

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

First lines: "I have received the ms of BED AND BOARD and, largely because of your very persuasive letter,"... Contents index: responds that it is unlikely he would do a recommendation for Fr. Capon's book «Bed and Board» because of other obligations.

First lines: "Your pamphlet on prayer is very good. If I may offer one minor suggestion it is that you break up"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Balanced Life of Prayer" [book/pamphlet].

First lines: "I like St John very much but if the lady is St Teresa I think you've missed her character, a round"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Saints for Now" by Clare Boothe Luce with an essay by Merton regarding St. John of the Cross [essay in book] - censor Fr. Paul Bourne reacts to Merton's two black ink brush drawings of St. John of the Cross and of St. Thérèse of Lisieux for inclusion in the book, written on the bottom of Merton's letter (see Item #1 of the same date).

First lines: "In the absence of your dear Rev. Father I take the responsibility of addressing this criticism"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for physical copy] "Bread in the Wilderness" [book - here under original title of "Contemplation in the Liturgy"].

First lines: "You will be glad to here that Harcourt Brace is bringing out the Encyclical, with one commentary -"...