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First lines: "The copy of «The Way of Chuang Tzu» which you kindly sent me has been forwarded to me here"... Contents index: praise for Merton's introduction to «The Way of Chuang Tzu» and Merton's simple and poetic skill in rendering Chuang Tzu / «Tao Teh Ching» / Merton's life as a hermit.

First lines: "Father Merton's letter of January 4. I think "leads about Sufism, Moslem culture and stuff about"... Contents index: responding to Merton's request for leads about Sufism, Muslim or Islamic culture, Afghanistan, and Persia / recommends Americans at Princeton, Minnesota, and Chicago (Nykl) / in England, recommends A. J. Arberry at Cambridge / provides other related sources.

First lines: "We are sending you, under separate cover, an advance copy of Jules Supervielle's Selected Writings"... Contents index: asking for Merton to write a comment for book advertisement for Jules Supervielle's «Selected Writings».

First lines: "I don't know if your letter was a disaster: but anyway, if it was, it was a nice disaster."... Contents index: Merton's enjoyment of underground movements and publications - sending poem/prose "mosaic" for her newspaper (to later come out in one of his books) - thinks poems sounds like Bob Dylan (likes "Obviously Five Believers") / Merton owns Beatles "Revolver" (likes "Taxman") / the Grateful Dead / LSD / Merton as "hippy monk".

First lines: "I refuse to call anybody Susie. (I met a girl in a bar in London who was called Boosie Susie thirty"... Contents index: Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" / Merton is familiar with the authors she suggested / recommends some Zen books by Suzuki / from «Seven Storey Mountain» he'd "cut out a lot of the sermons" and "the sales pitch for Catholic schools" / paradox of organizing the underground press / Ravi Shankar and Indian music.

First lines: "I send this quick. I know you would probably not hear so I am writing. I have a feeling that"... Contents index: [attaches newspaper article about the death of Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles] worries that the Beatles will either "break up or tighten up" - distressed about Ringo Starr naming his baby Jason / asks for a Mass for Brian Epstein / seeing Ravi Shankar in Los Angeles.

First lines: "The certified letter came today and by the time you get this you will have got back the little pink"... Contents index: Brian Epstein / hippie culture in California.

First lines: "Sorry for the long delay. I've been very busy. Just had a wonderful time with fifteen cloistered"... Contents index: meeting with fifteen cloistered nuns at Gethsemani / encourages Butorovich to go to school in England, but mentions the tough matriculation / Merton does not know whether he can "put Zen on tape" for her and the nuns.

First lines: "Do you know I was in Cal. and tried to call you from the S.F. airport? But I guess I got the wrong"... Contents index: [photocopy of postcard (from Butorovich?) with typed "translation" of Merton's script].

First lines: "India has turned out to be very groovy indeed. The meeting in Calcutta was not very good but as"... Contents index: [photocopy of postcard (from Butorovich?) with typed "translation" of Merton's script, she adds that the others mentioned in the letter were Cris Cadena, Butorovich's school friend who joined Merton and Butorovich's family for dinner when Merton was in California, and Mary Lou Berryessa, another school friend of Butorovich].

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Butterfield, Victor Lloyd".

First lines: "I am delighted to hear that Prof. John H. Ford of Bellarmine College has been nominated for the"... Contents index: Merton sends his support of Ford as a Catholic and as a teacher of philosophy.

First lines: "Many thanks for "Chuang Tzu". I have already recommended it for the library of an acquaintance"... Contents index: asks whether «Way of Chuang Tzu» was reviewed for «The Middle Way» / morality of Zen and the absence of the "Golden Rule".

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Byrne, Grace M.".

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Byrne, Michael, Fr.".

First lines: "Your outline looks very good to me, and there is not much that I would add to it. Perhaps just"... Contents index: critiques - God has not spoken his will in the past, but is constantly speaking it - question of quietism, and passivity versus action - "Apostles not preparing their own defense in advance" and letting the Spirit provide - the prophets - Christ as "master listener", but also Mary, "Or don't they mention her these days? Just kidding.".

This records subgroup contains Thomas Merton's correspondence with Rabbi Abraham Heschel.

The files contain correspondence between Thomas Merton and people filed under "P" (typically those with a surname beginning with the letter).

The files contain correspondence between Thomas Merton and people filed under "T" (typically those with a surname beginning with the letter).

The files contain correspondence between Thomas Merton and people filed under "X" (typically those with a surname beginning with the letter).

This Records Subgroup includes Merton's handwritten personal diaries and journals.

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Reviews of 30 Days with Thomas Merton – Words of Contemplation and Hope.

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Review (by: Reiss, Jana) in Publishers Weekly 249.38 (23 September 2002): 41.

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Reviews of The Ascent to Truth.

Review in Publishers' Weekly (30 June 1951).

Review (by: Taylor, Pamela) in Book of the Month (September 1951).

Review (by: Marchand, LaFayette L.) in Globe Boston Mass (7 October 1951).

Review in New Yorker (29 September 1951).

Review (by: Leach, Joseph) in Herald-Post El Paso Texas (13 October 1951).

Review in Colonist Victoria BC. J.R.A.

Review in Reporter Berlin NH (1 November 1951).

Review in Times Moncton, NB Canada (November 1951).

Review in Traveler Boston, Mass. (31 October 1951). F.J.L.

Review (by: Dunlap, Katherine) in Inquirer Philadelphia Pa (21 October 1951).

Review (by: Theall, D. Bernard, O.S.B.) in Best Sellers 11.156 [Scranton Pa] (15 November 1951): 156.

Review in Catholic Booklist St. Catherine KY (1952).

Review in News Newark NJ (26 July 1951).

Review in News Cleveland Ohio (21 September 1951).

Review in Retail Bookseller NY City (September 1951).

Review in Beacon-Journal Akron Ohio (11 November 1951).

Review in Mirror Los Angeles California (10 November 1951).

Review (by: Shaw, James) in Integrity 6.3 (December 1951):45-46.

Review (by: Walker, Bruno, O.C.R.) in Life of the Spirit 7.80 (February 1953): 370-371.

Review in Times Literary Supplement [London] 2619 (Apr. 11 1952): 256.

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Review in Vajra Bodhi Sea Cold Mountain Monastery Sino-American Buddhist Association San Francisco 42 (October 1973).

Review (by: Gurdak, Thaddeus J.) in Journal of the American Oriental Society 97.1 (January-March 1977): 87-88.

Review (by: Glimm, James York) in Sewanee Review 81.4 (Autumn 1973): 845-847.

Review (by: Richardson, Jane Marie, Sr., S.L.) in Worship 48 (April 1974): 251-254.

Review (by: Gallagher, Joseph) in Beacon (27 September 1973): 3.

Review (by: Corcoran, Donald, Sr., O.S.B. Cam.) in Catholic Worker 39 (October-November 1973): 5.

Review (by: Allchin, A. M. (Arthur Macdonald)) in Church Times [London] (24 May 1974): 5.

Review (by: Zeik, Michael) in Commonweal 99 (12 October 1973): 34-37.

Review (by: Molnar, Enrico S., O.A.R.) in Living Church 192 (28 October 1973): 18.

Review (by: Hallett, Paul H.) in National Catholic Register 48 (26 August 1973): 4-5.

Review (by: Griffin, John Howard) in National Catholic Reporter 9 (28 September 1973): 7, 17.

Review (by: Kelly, Frederic J., S.J.) in Sisters Today 45 (December 1973): 235-236.

Review in Publishers Weekly 203 (April 9 1973): 62-63.

Review (by: Dahl, M. E.) in Theology 79.669 (May 1976): 176-178.

Review (by: Quindlen, Carol) in Catholic Observer [Springfield, MA] (July 27, 1973): 1.

Review in Catholic World.

Review (by: Flynn, William) in San Francisco Examiner (July 20, 1973).

Review in Theology Digest (Autumn 1973): 275.

Review in Sunday Oregonian (September 9, 1973).

Review (by: Scott, Paul) in Country Life (June 20, 1974).

Review (by: Bailey, Raymond) in Review & Expositor [Louisville]: 269-271.

Review in Kirkus Reviews (March 15, 1973).

Review (by: Crews, Clyde F.) in Catholic Historical Review 83.1 (January 1997): 171-173.

Review in Christian Century 112.29 (18 October 1995): 970-971.

Review in Jacket blurb from New Seeds of Contemplation.

Review (by: Lentfoehr, Therese, S.D.S.) in Renascence 14 (Summer 1962): 218-222.

Review (by: Prinz, Julia D. E.) in Theological Studies 84.2 (June 2023): 380-382.

Review (by: Thurston, Bonnie Bowman) in The Merton Seasonal 46.2 (Summer 2021): 36-37. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/46/46-2ThurstonRevMerton.pdf

Reviews of A Book of Hours.

Review (by: Vinck, Christopher) in National Catholic Reporter 43.31 (6 July 2007): 19.

Review (by: Coughlin, Daniel) in Merton Seasonal 32:3 (Fall 2007): 28-30. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/32/32-3CoughlinRevDeignan.pdf

Review in Louisville Times (29 December 1953).

Review (by: Stuhlmueller, Carroll C.P.) in Bible Today 59 (March 19720: 718-719, 728-729.

Review (by: James, Bruno S.) in Tablet [London] (7 August 1954): 15s.

Review (by: Squire, Aelred, O.P.) in Life of the Spirit 9.105 (March 1955): 432.

Review (by: Kiely, Jerome) in The Furrow, 5.12 (Dec. 1954): 803-804.

Review (by: Lawler, Justus George) in Continuum 1 (Spring 1963): 104-105.

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Review (by: Sullivan, Maureen) in Jubilee 15 (April 1968): 45. Maureen Sullivan.

Review in Publishers Weekly 193 (19 February 1968): 88.

Review (by: Landess, Thomas) in Sewanee Review 77 (July-September 1969): 530-534.

Review (by: Timko, Phillip, O.S.B.) in American Benedictine Review 58.3 (September 2007):352-353.

Review (by: Vivian, Tim) in Sobornost 27.2 (2005): 85-88.

Review (by: Kramer, Victor A.) in Cistercian Studies Quarterly 41.1 (2006): 98-102.

Review in Publishers Weekly 214 (9 October 1978): 71.

Review (by: Hoover, Conrad C.) in Sojourners 9.5 (May 1980): 28-30.

Review (by: McDonnell, Thomas P.) in The Pilot Boston Mass (16 February 1979): 8.

Review (by: Fink, Rita) in Pacific Sun (January 12-18, 1979).

Review in Spiritual Book News (Jan-Feb., 1979).

Review (by: Boyer, Ernest) in Library Journal (December 1, 1978).

Review (by: Maher, Mary C.) in NC News Service (December 15, 1978).