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First lines: "Many thanks for your kind letter. I am glad to grant permission for "The Moslems' Angel of Death""...

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

This is a large and important cache of letters that sparked Merton's interest in Sufism. Included are original signed letters by Aziz, and carbon copies or photocopies of letters by Merton. Only Merton's side of the correspondence has yet been fully published and can be found in «The Hidden Ground of Love». Selection from Aziz's side of the correspondence can be found in «Merton and Sufism». Also in this group of records can be found correspondence between the Merton Center and Nicholas Heer in regards to obtaining some correspondence between Heer and Aziz. This correspondence dating from 1959 through 1962 is included in this collection.

First lines: "I am in receipt of your letter dated the 18th November and I am extremely grateful to you for"... Contents index: Ithbat al-'Ilal / suggestions of what Heer should include in forthcoming book / Shah Waliullah of Delhi / manuscripts of Tirmizi's work / Ismail Sahib / obtaining Sufi works from various collections / Aziz's plans for book on Sufism.

First lines: "I am in correspondence with a Prof. Louis Massignon of Paris, the common bond of correspondence"... Contents index: Islamic mysticism, Sufism / Christian mysticism - «The Ascent to Truth», St. John of the Cross / Hindu Yoga / Fr. Paul Nwyia / Ibn Abbad / how to obtain Merton's books and other books on mysticism.

First lines: "Finally I must answer your letters, at least briefly. A brief answer will be better than none at"... Contents index: article on English mystics / letter about "the Giants" / Gog and Magog in the Quran / Sufi religious psychology / notes on mystical theology / Eckhart / St. Basil's influence on St. Benedict / formalism / Al Hujswiri / biographical notes from Merton / book against nuclear war.

First lines: "SONG FOR THE DEATH OF AVERROËS (from Ibn Al Arabi, after the Spanish version of Asin Palacios.)"... Contents index: [Merton's poem "Song for the Death of Averroës," signed with a note to Aziz enclosed with 1962/April/04 letter].

First lines: "I acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your letter enclosing an offprint of your review-article on"... Contents index: English Mystics - "Song for the Death of Averroes" / books on Sufi shrines and saints / John of the Cross and Tirmizi / St. Basil's ascetical works / translation of Hakim at-Tirmizi on mortification of desires.

First lines: "It is certainly true that I deserve your mild and kind reproach for being a poor correspondent."... Contents index: Iqbar Ali Shah / Louis Massignon's death / Christian-Moslem dialogue / book on Nuclear war not published - sending mimeograph / Mary in the Koran / John of the Cross / detachment depending on self-knowledge / purifying effect of aridity.

First lines: "It is certainly true that I deserve your mild and kind reproach for being a poor correspondent."... Contents index: [darker copy of 1962/12/26 letter / some parts easier to read on this one and some on the other].

First lines: "I am grateful to you for your detailed reply but as you had kindly mentioned therein that you would"... Contents index: Merton's hospitalization / Martin Ling / 8 Sufi conditions for Khalwa / Khalwa's traditional duration of 40 days / Orientalist contact for English translations of Sufis / Dr. Nicholas Heer of Yale - translator / requests Butler's «Lives of the Saints».

First lines: "I have your two kind letters of Dec. 1 and Dec. 20th and once again I will try within my capacity to"... Contents index: idea of writing another book on prayer / Ibn Abbad suggestions for book / Syes Idrees Shah and al-Junayd / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin / suicide of Dr. Molé / Malaval - quietists / Zaehner / daily routine as hermit / Merton's method of meditation.

First lines: "My very dear good friend, I received your kind letter dt 23/3/66, while I was lying indisposed in my"... Contents index: de Caussade / Ibn Abbad.

First lines: "Your good letter reached me in this season of holy days and I have not failed to keep you in my"... Contents index: operation and slow recovery / Al Junayd / Zaehner and the western academic mind's scientific outlook, not attuned to the mind of the ancient / life as a hermit / visit from Algerian Sufi master Sidi Abdesalam / Sheikh Ahmad al Alawi / Bernard Phillips / R.M. Bucke Society of Montreal.

First lines: "I was happy to receive your letter of December 18th. Also especially thank you for your greetings"... Contents index: Carthusian Dom Pollien / Caussade and similarity to ascetics of Sufism / blockage of Suez Canal / conferences for monks on Sufism / remarks about reading in solitude / sending the «Cloud of Unknowing».

First lines: "I had acknowledged with thanks the receipt on 30th August, 1990 of your kind letter dt. 25th Jan,"...

First lines: "I acknowedge with gratitude your last letter dt. 31/12/93"...

First lines: "On 18th March, 1995, I sent you a detailed air mail lette acknowledging gratefully the receipt"...

First lines: "Thank you for your letter of 11 September 1999. I'm glad to know that the Abdul Aziz letters"... Contents index: sending one more original Aziz letter.

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

First lines: "que grande pena que Ud. não poderá escrever o Prefácio para meus poemas de Hawaii. Comprendo, porém"...

First lines: "sua carta (verdadeiro documento) foi um enorme prazer para mim, e por este prazer vão meus mais"...

First lines: "grato por sua boa carta, por tudo que nele me diz, e por suas plavras por meu modesto trabalho,"...

First lines: "hoje acabo de receber as provas do ensaio que escrevi sôbre Ud., a ser publicado, em inglês, pela"... Contents index: 2nd page is an mimeographed attachment with addresses for Baciu while traveling in Germany and France.

First lines: "Thank you for your letter of December 16. Father Merton's death is a terrible loss to all of us,"... Contents index: instructions on obtaining permissions to use previously published poems for «Mele».

John Bagguley and Cecil Woolf write to Merton to ask his views on the Vietnam War. He provides a brief statement in response, which was later reprinted as "Taking Sides on Vietnam" in Merton's «Faith and Violence».

First lines: "I have been very much impressed with the article you wrote for the September issue of"... Contents index: Merton's article for «Worldview» / Robert William Miller / request for article.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. As I have not made any firm commitments as far ahead as next March, I leave"... Contents index: suggestions of what to read / sending mimeographs of articles on different subjects.

First lines: "We are safely settled in Bowling Green and are enjoying the "cool" Kentucky summer. I am working in"... Contents index: planning to visit Merton / discuss Shaker material from Western's library and museum.

First lines: "In your letter you mention the cool summer: it has got hot enough now! I have thought often of you"... Contents index: trip to Asia / Buddhist and other forms of monasticism / themes of "unity and reconciliation of opposites" in Merton's work and brought out in dissertation - true meaning of "Catholic".

First lines: "James Thomas Baker [-] 335 Sumpter Avenue, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101"... Contents index: [Vita of James Thomas Baker].

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

First lines: "Je dois vous"...

This series contains correspondence kept by Merton with John Eudes Bamberger and transferred to the Merton Center after Merton's death.

First lines: "Our talk yesterday has been fruitful in this: it has suggested some helpful perspectives anyway."...

First lines: "Thanks for your reassuring note. It did clear things up a bit and I would not be surprised if I"... Contents index: plans to outsource typing / Br. Martin and the Alberti poem / continuing his Gethsemani Sunday conferences / comments said about Bamberger

First lines: "Through the devious workings of Providence I have now fallen into the hands of a new doctor who"... Contents index: new doctor for allergies / new diet / book on Foucault on madness - doctors as creative artists and sees himself as "masterpiece of medical camp" / requests literature on allergies

First lines: "Thanks for letting me see your essay on Basil. I think you are on to something important. First"... Contents index: diathesis / P. Charles Dumont - want translation into French of Evagrius / sending an article / issues of "the mag" [Monks Pond?] well received by poets

This series contains miscellaneous memorabilia related to Merton and John Eudes Bamberger. It was filed with the original correspondence between Merton and Bamberger.

First lines: "God bless you. VERY REV. THOMAS PLASSMANN, O.F.M. [-] RECTOR [-] CHRIST THE KING"...

First lines: "A Christmas Poem. For Jane, Kate and Ann and Lee, and Dorothy. (that is, a poem only for girls.)"... Contents index: [poem by Bamberger]

First lines: "Mr. Wicklum, who is Dom Fulgence's friend-- called me. He expects to arrive Sunday, April 4th,"...

First lines: "Direction in St John of the +. Faulty directions [-] 1 Moral deficiency - jealousy"... Contents index: [handwritten notes by Merton on St. John of the Cross]

First lines: "The Law in the Teaching of Saint Paul. [-] The topic of our first conference this morning is"... Contents index: [term paper by Bamberger while a scholastic at Gethsemani - Merton was Master of Scholastic and has handwritten corrections and a grade on the paper]

First lines: "Gethsemani Life of Praise [-] 3 books to Fr Louis [-] 10/1/66"...

First lines: "Ammon Hennacy [-] Box 655 [-] Salt Lake City, Utah [-] Gandhi on Non Violence [-] Please forward"...

First lines: "Thanks for your note about Harpers. I am glad everything is all right - now. May I please have"...

First lines: "I'll drop by Monday AM for a"...

First lines: "Have to go to Dr tomorrow - just checked and found there was no underwear - could you please"...

First lines: "May I please have 4 Chuang Tzu to send out and 4 Gandhi also? Many thanx in Jesu [-] fr m Louis"...

First lines: "May I please have copies of Ascent to Truth and No Man is an Island to send out? (1 of each)"...

First lines: "The doctor sent me a shot as I can't get there this week (Decoration Day) [-] I'll come up for it"...

First lines: "I will have an informal conference and discussion on church architecture today, for those who wish"...

First lines: "Just a few words to relate to you as Master of Novices that for some time a few of the Brothers that"...

First lines: "Can someone use these? Dan Walsh gave them - they gather dust in my place. [-] In the Lord"...

First lines: "Gifts to Miss Naal. [-] 1 - Conjectures [-] 1 - New Man PB. [-] 1 - Gandhi [-] 1lb Trappist cheese"... Contents index: [note by Merton]

First lines: "The Br. Antoninus record was passed on to fr Linus and"... Contents index: [contains another handwritten note in pencil from Br. Charles to Bamberger]

This series contains correspondence kept by John Eudes Bamberger.

First lines: "I don't know if you saw the note on the door opposite yours, but about eleven thirty last night as"...

First lines: "Dr Mitchell ex-rayed the back and said the operation had been a complete success and the back"...

First lines: "Dr Mitchell recommended these - can you please provide? [-] Thanks in Jesu [-] fr m Louis"...

First lines: "I have an appointment with Dr Mitchell Saturday - could you please make the necessary arrangements?"... Contents index: [see also #95a on the same page]

First lines: "Doing better - moved from Infirmary to hermitage. Buddhist monk, prof. at Cambridge, came from Viet"... Contents index: [see also #95a on the same page]

First lines: "I will try out sleeping in hermitage for a few nights - to see if dampness effects the bursitis."... Contents index: [Bamberger adds notes about Merton's condition on verso of card]

First lines: "I had a long session with Br Alphonse yesterday. He is one novice about whom"...

First lines: "Are you free for two minutes after dinner today? [-] In Jesu [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [verso: Bamberger makes some knows about some of Merton's health problems and some quotes from Merton on his desire for solitude and attempt of the eremitical life]

First lines: "Thought you would like to glance at this - thou [sic] you can throw it away. [-] In Jesu"... Contents index: [verso: "an article on psychology"]

First lines: "Second thoughts on the study schedule we spoke of today. Instead of getting Fr Tarcisius in on it,"...

First lines: "As this skin thing seems to be getting worse and the poison ivy seems to be in my system, I think"...

First lines: "I could see you and Fr Prior about [indecipherable word..] either Thursday at 10.45 a.m. or Saturday"...

First lines: "Fr Eudes [-] many thanks! [-] fr m Louis"...

First lines: "As to the Alberti piece: please believe that I had no idea you would take it that way."... Contents index: [only a segment of a message (top and bottom cut off) - verso: Bamberger notes that this was a message from Merton to one of his secretaries]

First lines: "I hope these articles will be of some use to you - some of them are deteriorating and when I"...

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burns, Flavian, Dom, O.C.S.O.".

First lines: "To start with I want to send you my best wishes for God's blessing for your new and responsible task"... Contents index: [no date - attached to 1968/03/30 letter] letter to Dom Flavian urging him to allow Merton to go to Bangkok conference and an invitation to go to Rawaseneng monastery in Indonesia / Dom Willibrord van Dijk.

First lines: "In regard to the letter of Dom John Morson about foreign censorship and in particular the Italian"... Contents index: problems in publishing in France, Spain and Italy - problems with censors for the Italian translation of «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander».

First lines: "In regard to the letter of Dom John Morson about foreign censorship and in particular the Italian"... Contents index: problems in publishing in France, Spain and Italy - problems with censors for the Italian translation of «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander».

First lines: "Many thanks for yours of the 11th and 13th March. I am afraid we shall just have to let the Chapman"... Contents index: suggests that Naomi Burton Stone act as Merton's literary agent / relations with Farrar, Straus - statement from Roger Straus / book published by Macmillan / «The Merton Reader».

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter. I am not sure I agree with your idea of leaving out the article on"... Contents index: small book made in England out of "The Christian in World Crisis" and "Christian in Diaspora" / Bob Giroux has a proof of Merton's liturgy book «Seasons of Celebration» / New Directions - Gandhi and Chuang Tzu.

First lines: "Many thanks for your kind letter. I realize that I promised further reactions to your book, which"... Contents index: Burtt's thought on the logical positivists - Merton would like to know more about Wittgenstein and others - had course on Nagel at Columbia / liked last chapters with what Burtt said about "love, communication, and the implications of all this for our contemporary crisis".

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

First lines: "We are planning to publish in book form approximately 100 of the best articles which have appeared"... Contents index: asking Merton's consent to publish "I Begin to Meditate" (appearing in the November, 1948 edition of the « Catholic Digest Reader») in the « Catholic Digest Reader».

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: "Hullo!! Well, here I am finally home and back in (YIK!!!) school But never fear!!! [sic]"... Contents index: attempts to obtain Ravi Shankar's address / Notre Dame High School - suggestions to play recordings of Merton in a class and descriptions of the nuns there / thoughts about where to go to college / asks if Merton will write a script for a Beatles movie / "Peanuts" comic strip / detailed description of the workings of a tape recorder.

First lines: "What did you think? That I thought the Crimble box was a bomb and jumped in the lake with it?"... Contents index: Butorovich's give makes Merton "the largest collector of Beatle relics in Kentucky" / the Beatles on TV maybe "the ultimate triumph of Zen" / sending mimeo of «Journal of My Escape from the Nazis» / Merton gives directions for cooking kasha.

First lines: "Here are duplicated copies of six letters, apparently from Father Louis (Thomas) Merton, that have"... Contents index: copies of Butorovich's letters given to a graduate of Maur Hill Prep in Atchison Kansas by a woman at Merton's funeral [Butorovich?].

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

First lines: "I am very much appreciating 'Gandhi and the One-Eyed Giant', and shall try and get the local"... Contents index: «Gandhi and Non-Violence» / Arthur Osbourne / Byles' book on Tenko San and Ittoen - whether Tenko San's idea of "doing what people ask you (not in the sense of being a doormat") versus Catholic holy obedience.

First lines: "Your kind letter of October 20th took a good long time to reach me via India, and I only got it"... Contents index: Catholic idea of holy obedience - ancient idea of holy obedience from the Gospels and taken up by religious orders - difference between obedience and the legalism of blind obedience / problems in Catholicism of impersonal power systems versus the things it should be liberating us from.

First lines: "I am simply appalled to hear of your misfortune. Unfortunately it seems that more and more people"...

First lines: "We have just heard from our South American representative that Sudamericana are pleased to agree"... Contents index: Monsignor Larraona writing Spanish edition preface to a book published by Sudamericana - [possibly «Las aguas de Siloé» / «The Waters of Siloe»].

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

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

This records subgroup contains Thomas Merton's correspondence with Barbara Marx Hubbard.

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

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

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