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First lines: "Will take care of your Notes on Art etc at once. For the records shall"...

First lines: "We are very happy to know that you will do the preface to our new book. The illustrations - 80 to"...

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

First lines: "Seems like an age since I had word of you. I am wonderinf [sic] whether any of the (in)famous tapes"... Contents index: "(in)famous tapes" - Catholicism in Poland under Communism - Fr. Felix McGovern / lacks hope of being sent by the Church as a representative at the Prague peace conference - the good work being done by "a very few Catholics, many more Protestants and Orthodox" - asking Merton to write Pope Paul or Cardinal Bea.

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

First lines: "Here are the letters from Merton that I promised to mail you. Father Shannon called me a few days"... Contents index: [letter to Patrick Hart from Evora Arca de Sardiña regarding her correspondence and detailing which letters to restrict or publish].

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: "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 chiefly to wish you many blessings and graces on March 12th and to say how much I liked"...

First lines: "This is chiefly to wish you many blessings and graces on March 12th and to say how much I liked"... Contents index: [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - some pen/pencil marks].

First lines: "I received the message about the halter and did want to answer at once. Is it still in good"...

First lines: "I am in profound agreement with your talks on the hermit life etc. However there is one small point"... Contents index: mostly agrees with Flavian and Dom André on eremitical life - disagrees that monks be permitted free transitus to live this life and that communities should be more restrictive in allowing transfer but more accommodating in allowing the hermit lifestyle if someone is mature enough.

First lines: "When I observe that your letter was written on January 30th and when I see this date on which I"... Contents index: Merton explains that his "'formula for success' actually has no bearing on success itself" - his success was by accident and he has not been afraid to state view the public may not like.

First lines: "I am sending on some junk mail another another [sic] heading. I though[t] it might be of"... Contents index: Latin America - non-violence "too little and too late"? / censorship of his materials / trip to South Africa / [Rolf?] Hochhuth play / Moscow-Prague trip for the summer / Berrigan's piece on Notre Dame / Merton's piece on poets - Henry Miller - "why isn't this guy a Catholic"? / Aleriaand Marocco / John Heidbrink.

First lines: "grato por suas linhas, acompanhando o texto lido no México, que, nas atuais condições da criação"...

First lines: "Stefan Baciu / Cesar Vallejo, Poeta Comunista?"... Contents index: copy of Baciu's work on the poet Cesar Vallejo in a pamphlet-type binding with some cover art / attached to 1964/03/07 letter.

First lines: "This little item here had better be sent to you I think. It has been offered by a friend to the"...

First lines: "Taking all factors into account I can't see that this little piece requires censorship. Did Dom"...

First lines: "The Tree of Life has arrived, and indeed has been on the wall for some time. It really brightens up"...

First lines: "Unfortunately a rather heavy schedule makes it impossible for me to answer your letter adequately."... Contents index: contemplative mission - "not just wound up in little cocoons" - Merton has been active even though living as a contemplative / should not think that contemplation has no real value / recommends «English Spirituality» by Martin Thornton / monastic revival in Protestants / Merton will pray for Bozarth's vocation.

First lines: "Sorry, I forgot to insert the M. before your name! I know this is a poor time to write you, but I"...

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

First lines: "I send you my Easter greetings. I left Oxford on February 13th for Tolleshunt Knights, the little"...

First lines: "Your letters do us so much good. The one just received was a true Easter gift! We're pleased that"...

First lines: "Enclosed is a copy of the manuscript of "Religion in Wood". I can't tell you how much I appreciate"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the magazine. I have the magazine in the pile of things to get to"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the magazine. I have the magazine in the pile of things to get to"...

First lines: "Many thanks for yours of March 25th. I feel very ashamed of myself for not having written to you"... Contents index: Ida Görres Diaries / Farrar, Straus - Bob Giroux - «Seeds of Destruction» / sending copy of «Ancren Riwle».

First lines: "Bless you and thanks for remembering me. I am better now - pretty busy too. May our bond give you"...

First lines: "Probably you do not fit sufficiently well into the conventional academic categories. I do not quite"... Contents index: [dated "Low Sunday", i.e., the Sunday following Easter].

First lines: "The ms has reached me and I want to say it is safe and that I will get to it and to the preface"... Contents index: Merton's art book / illustrated section.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. I am glad to hear that things have been developing well, and am certainly"... Contents index: El Latroun / Mont des Cats / Dom André / hermit's life / Dom Winandy in diocese of San Angelo, TX / Fr. Seraphim of Ava in Wisconsin / Abbot of St. Procopius, Lisle, IL.

First lines: "Glad to hear from you again, and thanks for the clippings. No we don't get the Tablet. But"... Contents index: clippings from «Tablet» and «Ramparts» magazines / «Merton Reader» / visit in May to Gethsemani by the Hibakusha, survivors of Hiroshima.

First lines: "It was good to get your letter. I rather suspected that you were implicated in the arrangements for"... Contents index: the Hibakusha in Louisville / hibachi and Japanese tea / enclosing mimeograph on Gandhi / satyagraha.

First lines: "You know that for a long time I have been cooking up a printing project for your press. I am still"... Contents index: working on Chuang Tzu / "J" [Laughlin] / "Message to Poets" and "Art and Freedom" for a pamphlet - can't be a book and upset Farrar Straus / John Beecher's book of poems / "beautifully printed little thing" from the Benedictine Nuns of Stanbrook in England.

First lines: "Have I yet thanked you for the remarkable little book of essays on the Blessed Virgin. I"...

First lines: "Please excuse my long silence. Actually, it would have been a great consolation to e to have been"...

First 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.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the details about your visit with the Hibakusha group next Saturday."... Contents index: proposed schedule for Hibakusha.

First lines: "Whitmonday. Time for abrief [sic] letter, perhaps uninspired. I am worn out (not really) from"... Contents index: book on Gandhi and piece on "Mercy" / Georgetown Strategy Center wants Merton's input but he can't / visit of Hibakusha of Hiroshima bombing / Polish tape arrived but not South African / Jan Milic Lochman from Prague / Ivan Illich inviting Merton to Latin American conference / why Merton can't travel.

First lines: "Whitmonday. Time for abrief [sic] letter, perhaps uninspired. I am worn out (not really) from"... Contents index: book on Gandhi and piece on "Mercy" / Georgetown Strategy Center wants Merton's input but he can't / visit of Hibakusha of Hiroshima bombing / Polish tape arrived but not South African [Berrigan notes "Confiscated?"] / Jan Milic Lochman from Prague / Ivan Illich inviting Merton to Latin American conference / why Merton can't travel.

First lines: "Thank you for your gracious welcome to us on Saturday. I am particularly grateful to you for the"... Contents index: Christian efforts for peace / Hibakusha.

First lines: "Here is the Bolshakoff ms and the preface with it. I understand that the whole thing is to be"... Contents index: suggestions about the revisions needed to publish the Bolshakoff manuscript / rumor that Herder is coming out with a book on Cassian.

First lines: "Here is the Bolshakoff ms and the preface with it. I understand that the whole thing is to be"... Contents index: suggestions about the revisions needed to publish the Bolshakoff manuscript / rumor that Herder is coming out with a book on Cassian.

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: "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.

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.

First lines: "You should have your green light for the Diaspora very soon; but meanwhile I've run thru the piece"...

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.

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 to you and Fr Charles for your good work: the approval from Rome arrived yesterday for"...

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

First lines: "A copy of the Gorres journals arrived yesterday, and I want to thank you also for all the other"... Contents index: meeting with D. T. Suzuki on Zen and Christianity / «Seeds of Destruction» / Bob Giroux.

First lines: "Only now am I getting around to answering your fine letter of last November or December. I know you"... Contents index: Pope Pius XI and salvation for non-Christians / Titus Burkhardt's book on Fes in Morocco / Khalwa and time in the hermitage / silence at Gethsemani / Orientalists for translation / Malaval in translation / John of the Cross and St. Teresa / Jakob Boehme / Achmad al'Alawi.

First lines: "One of the things that you can do for Latin America is get in touch with the poet Pablo Antonio"... Contents index: "Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" - getting in touch with Cuadra in Nicaragua / Henry Miller - «Stand Still Like the Humming Bird» / Michael Serafian - «The Pilgrim» - Cardinal Bea / essay "Black Revolution" in «Negro Digest» / Pope John XXIII / being outside the Catholic mainstream.

First lines: "My friend Dom Jean Leclercq writes that he recently had the pleasure of visiting you in Basel"...

First lines: "Please forgive the long delay in replying to your very kind letter and acknowledging the two fine"... Contents index: book from Black on Eberhard Arnold and relation to Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker / other book from Black, «Children in Community».

First lines: "We want to thank you very much for your letter of July 4 in response to the books sent to you by"... Contents index: Hector Black / permission to quote from Merton's comments on books included in prior letter.

First lines: "Yesterday I had the very great pleasure of speaking at some length with Rabbi Abraham Heschel who"... Contents index: [1st draft] 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.

First lines: "Yesterday I had the very great pleasure of speaking at some length with Rabbi Abraham Heschel who"... Contents index: [2nd draft] 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.

First 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.

First lines: "Many thanks for returning the articles. I suppose there is a new system under way. Happily the"...

First lines: "Some time ago a rumor had reached me that Ted had suddenly been taken from you and from us. I was"... Contents index: death of Edward Deming (Ted) Andrews / preface for «Religion in Wood» / William Blake.

First lines: "Here is the copy of the preface that I promised you the other day. I hope you will find it"...

First lines: "Here is the text of a preface to a book on Shaker furniture. It will certainly reach only a"...

First lines: "I don't know what's going on, censorshipwise, at the Generalate. I get no response to my reports,"...

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: "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: "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: "Since Commonweal themselves have been recently bewailing their circulation one can surely talk them"...

First lines: "Je vous remercie de votre bonne lettre. Ce que vous me dites de votre théologie de "Kabod""...

First lines: "Thanks for your last letter and your green light on Honest to God for the Commonweal. I thought"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter of July 21st. I am slow in replying, and yet this is relatively fast too."... Contents index: Merton thinks Brasier's questions interesting, but does not think he can do book on apologetics - more the work of a Dominican or a Jesuit - not in fitting with the contemplative life.

First lines: "At the request of our Father Louis we are forwarding to you today our library copy of THE RIGHT"... Contents index: [from "Fr. M. Regis, O.C.S.O., Librarian" on Gethsemani Abbey letterhead, likely Appel, sent to Paul V. Moynihan, reference librarian at the Bapst Library of Boston College] sending the book «The Right Reverend Dom M. Edmund Obrecht, O.C.S.O.» by the late Fr. Amadeus Ginsbach of Gethsemani Abbey.

First lines: "Your most comforting letter-- followed by the beautiful preface to our book-- arrived almost a month"...

First lines: "Discúlpeme usted que de tarde en tarde le escriba unas letras. Mis actividades no me dejan mucho"... Contents index: [includes color slide of mosaics] «Emblems in a Season of Fury» / good translations of poems / explanation of new artistic style that Andrade is developing of mosaics in relief employed in modern architecture.

First lines: "Perhaps for your records - we sent today the book 'Disputed Questions' to; Mrs. Anne Freedgood,"...

First lines: "By all means go ahead with Few Questions: Fewer Answers. I read it without the slightest"...

First lines: "There is someone working on the Louisville date, and they will probably contact you directly. The"...

First lines: "As you had suggested in my interview with you recently, I spoke with Father Bernard Sylvanus de"... Contents index: [carbon copies to Merton, Fr. B. Sylvanus de Aguiar, and Fr. Vincent Daugintis].

First lines: "This letter is accompanied by the sincere hope that you will pardon my presumption in writing to you"...

First lines: "I forget if I wrote about the dates for Mrs Harton. In fact I don't remember getting your other"...

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: "I am sorry your letter has gone so long without an answer, especially when you feel so lost and"...

First lines: "I am sorry your letter has gone so long without an answer, especially when you feel so lost and"...

First lines: "We want you to know of our gratitude for the generous contribution sent by you in the amount of"... Contents index: thanking Merton for a contribution made to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in support of civil rights work.

First lines: "2. spilt into the cloister. The Abbot of Solesmes officiated and the next day for Rome. I spoke to"... Contents index: [two postcards of Chartres Cathedral] Dom Doyère / lack of religious vocations in France vs. too many young priests in America / Abbot of Wisques.

First lines: "I am half way through your book "A Thomas Merton Reader" and find it fascinating. However, that is"... Contents index: describes family connection with Merton / describes that Nanny, her grandmother (Freida Hauck), is in poor health and is now living with her parents and the tensions caused in caring for her / asks for Merton's prayers for Nanny / Nancy has married and has children so cannon help her parents care for Nanny.

First lines: "I thought this would interest you, if you do not already know the book, which is one of the most"... Contents index: [handwritten and signed note from van Bruyn - typed selections from «Venture to the Interior» by Laurens van der Post].

First lines: "Perhaps you will remember me. Back in Easter, '56, when Fr. Hilary was guestmaster, I spent about 8"... Contents index: advise on contemplative vocation / background of meeting Merton before entering, and when thinking about, Trappist vocation / life first with the Anglican Benedictines / desire to join Camaldolese - need for greater solitude in nature (Thoreau a childhood hero) / time with Fr. Minard in South Carolina / Dom Winandy / authenticity of Merton's vocation to the solitary life and recommendations to others - stay with Trappists or look elsewhere? / Merton's article on the eremitical life.

First lines: "About this skin condition, in resumé. 1) Poison ivy on the hands for over two months, at first it"...

First lines: "I hope that I have not transgressed your wishes in showing your letter at Wisques. Dom Doyère asked"... Contents index: [no date but seems to fall between 1964/09/11 and 1964/09/22 letters] "Monk in Diaspora".

First lines: "I am not quite sure I understand Dr Simon. He said something about fungus infection,"...

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: "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: "It has been good hearing from you. I am glad you were at Wisques and of course have no objection at"... Contents index: Abbot of Wisques and Dom Doyère / copies of "Monk in Diaspora" / Miguel de Sanmiguel, publisher at Guadarrama / Spanish poets / Abbot of Montserrat.

First lines: "For many reasons I have been delayed in replying to your letter. Naturally I have studied it with"...

First lines: "After the Chateaux de la Loire and the pre-historic caves in Dordogne, we have now seen the remains"... Contents index: [two postcards of the Abbaye de Fontfroide] ruins of Cistercian abbeys / sister-in-law, a Carmelite in Tours living without electricity.