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First lines: "Denise Levertov was here yesterday and in our good visit together I was reminded of Vassar and"... Contents index: Spanish and Latin American poets / Zukofsky favorite of North American poets / importance of Merton's writing, but out of mainstream writing world - "not a regular 'Catholic poet'".

First lines: "I appreciate your kind note, and I want to say that I wish I were free to be of more service in what"... Contents index: Merton offers to send notes to share with bishops on contemplative life.

Merton and Mother Benedicta Brennan discuss a meeting to discuss a reform of women's religious orders, including the founding of "Prayer Houses" among more active orders, the future of contemplatives, and contemplatives involved in action. Proposals are discussed for a meeting in Monroe, Michigan with the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and in California with the Trappist nuns of Redwoods Monastery.

First lines: "I am writing you on behalf of a group of poets and artists who are at present engaged in preparing a"... Contents index: [includes a card with the word "good" in calligraphy] a project involving poets engraving handwritten poems on copper plates and working with an artist in a style reminiscent of William Blake / includes name of poets working on this project (including Dylan Thomas) / Brenson a friend of Jacques Maritain.

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

First lines: "Happy Feast. I pray this finds you filled with the love, joy and peace of this season. Do you know"...

First lines: "Thanks for your most generous letter, stock of poems, offer of addresses, everything. First the"...

First lines: "Such a long time I have your Tiger and letters, and finally I want to answer. How much to respond"...

First lines: "Thank you for the poem, Originators, which we will put, with your permission, in Unicorn Folio"... Contents index: publishing poem "Originators" in Unicorn Folio Series One Number Three / Teo Savory [see also her correspondence file] - enclosing volume of her poems / Franciscan Brothers in peace march for the Santa Barbara Community Council to End the War in Vietnam.

First lines: "Enclosed is a «proof» of your poem, «The Originators» which we intend to place in Folio"... Contents index: sending proof of "The Originators" / woodcut of Merton's name / Ping Ferry mentions that Merton a Basil Bunting fan.

First lines: "You must tell me the appropriate way to address you. I am reading WATERS OF SILOE and am almost"... Contents index: Brilliant in contact with James Hartz from Louisville, Kentucky - objects with Vietnam War and does not want to flee, but questions whether "Conscientious Objector" status is "shirking of responsibility".

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

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: "Under separate cover I am sending you a book which is a kind of thankyou for your current work."... Contents index: Episcopal Peace Fellowship.

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

First lines: "Having done the Library of Congress reply to the McGill U. query on this topic for you, I am"...

First lines: "I am writing on behalf of the Arts Festival Committee of McMaster University inviting you to deliver"... Contents index: invitation to lecture and read poetry at McMaster University.

First lines: "Hawthorn is a familiar name to you I know. And I hope you remember the Daniel-Rops book on Bernard"... Contents index: plans to use Merton's forward from Bruno Scott James' book in an Henri Daniel-Rops book on Bernard of Clairvaux.

First lines: "It was good to hear from you and receive the proofs of Daniel-Rops' book. I am glad to see that it"... Contents index: suggested corrections to book on some names and places mentioned in monastic history - suggests having Fr. Louis Lekai of Dallas University check it.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bruce, Frank Milton".

First lines: "Enclosed is a letter which we have just written to Father Louis concerning "Exile Ends in Glory.""... Contents index: [Merton uses verso of letter for notes for a manuscript of "The Cloud and the Fire," an early draft of «The Ascent to Truth», see manuscripts of "The Cloud and the Fire" for original] recommendation to reduce length of «Exile Ends in Glory» to reduce cost and appeal to a wider audience.

First lines: "Some years ago a Jesuit telephoned me to say that a very dear friend of ours, a Jesuit missionary in"... Contents index: death of Dom Frederic Dunne / suggestion of advertising «The Seven Storey Mountain» with "Another Man Who Got Even with God" (after title of Fr. Raymond's book) / Al Croft's trip to Gethsemani / possiblity of publishing biography of the life of St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

First lines: "Since Jacques Maritain told me of your project, I have been expecting your letter. Actually I think"...

First lines: "I am writing by return, because you are anxious about Jacques Maritain, and so hasten to tell you"...

First lines: "Thank you very much for all those mimeographed things - I simply cannot tell you how grateful I am"...

First lines: "Raissa's anniversary, and the 8th will be my father's, when I hope you will say a prayer for him -"...

First lines: "[..] way. The hunters around here are wild shots. Lightning strikes trees all around the hermitage."... Contents index: [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files].

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

First lines: "The thing I forgot was this. It is really no special problem but I thought for once I might spell"... Contents index: Merton Collection at Bellarmine College / Dom James Fox and his disapproval of the idea.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. I was glad to hear from you, though I well understand that in Rome one does"... Contents index: connection between Vladimir Soloviev and Teilhard de Chardin (and St. Bernard) - Gregory of Nyssa / Dom Samson Wicksteed (of Caldey Abbey).

There are no letters to or from Merton in this file, but a mention of Merton in a letter from the Dalai Lama to James George.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Buckley, Arthur R.".

First lines: "I write to inquire whether your schedule of commitments might permit you to do the Seabury Lenten"... Contents index: asking whether Merton would like to do the Seabury Lenten Book for 1969 / Alan Paton working on 1968.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bùi-bàng-Hiên, R., Fr.".

First lines: "We have received in The Special Collections Department of Margaret I. King Library the following:"... Contents index: list of writings Merton had sent UK Special Collections Department.

First lines: "I flew back to New York the other day to watch the birth of "God is My Life". The Meriden Gravure"...

First lines: "Thanks for your good and prompt letter. I am sending three rather poor photographs of the drawings"...

First lines: "For several weeks I have wanted to find an opportunity to answer your letter with its one very"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #15] responds to Burdick's question about "disinterested love" - charity, agape rather than eros - mysticism, the Zen tradition, Hassidim, Jewish tzaddiks of Central Europe and Poland (Buber) / Sigmund Freud - "a great puritan" / sending some writings of D. T. Suzuki.

First lines: "As a response to your letter of October 5th concerning correspondence between Thomas Merton"...

First lines: "I have read your long letter carefully, and sympathize with you. I wonder if you are aware that"... Contents index: more in the Church and at the Second Vatican Council are seeing the value of Teilhard de Chardin, and that "He needs no saving, he is about as 'in' as one can be with the avant garde... the others will come round." / there is still suffering ahead and Chardin indicates the proper spirit to face this in «Divine Milieu».

First lines: "Recently I polled our community for suggestions as to a Retreat Master for our next retreat"... Contents index: invites Merton to lead retreat at Genesee.

First lines: "Thanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have always thought"... Contents index: Merton refuses offer to preach retreat - has turned down many others - true vocation is meditation and writing / suggests subprior Fr. Matthew [Kelty?].

First lines: "I have been working here at Boystown since the first of the year, spend part of the day attending"... Contents index: asking for articles by Merton concerning the subject of married clergy.

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

First lines: "This is a very late "Christmas" card to thank you for your kind letter and the Mass stipend which"... Contents index: ["Christmas Card 1958" - verso: "From a woodcut by Gerhard Marcks for the hand-press edition of Thomas Merton's 'The Tower of Babel,' printed for New Directions by R. von Sichowsky in Hamburg, Germany."].

First lines: "Your feast day will soon be here and I want to wish you a happy one. A little offering is enclosed,"...

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: "My own opinion is still, that you should not go to this meeting. I think they over-rate your"... Contents index: still does not think Merton should go to meeting [Bangkok?].

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: "Thank you so much for your letter authorizing that any charges on Father Louis's American Express"...

First lines: "Thank you for letting me read this book by Victor Kramer. To quote Naomi: "«This» is the Merton"... Contents index: praise for Victor Kramer's book («Thomas Merton» and later revised as «Thomas Merton, Monk and Artist») / comparison to Michael Mott's «Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton» and George Woodcock's «Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet».

First lines: "The immediate purpose of this letter is to let you know that the Nuns of Stanbrook are printing"... Contents index: Nuns of Stanbrook printing a translation of a letter of Guido the Carthusian / dropping book published by Macmillan - «Prayer as Worship and Experience» - foolishness of fighting with Farrar, Straus over book on prayer / J. Laughlin publishing «Emblems of a Season of Fury».

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: "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.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burtt, Edwin Arthur, Dr.".

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

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: "Guess what! You got a new name you didn't need!!!! HELLO!! This is the Disaster Kid from the"... Contents index: "letter to a hippy hermit" / Monterey Pop Festival with grandma / D. T. Suzuki / Butorovich recommends Kahlil Gibran, O. Henry, J.R.R. Tolkien and John Lennon to Merton / asks what he would add or leave out of «Seven Storey Mountain» / Pablo Picasso / types lyrics - Beatles songs from "Sgt. Pepper" / Ravi Shankar.

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: "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.

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

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

First lines: "Thank you very much for your nice letter, and I am excited about my poems appearing in MONKS POND."... Contents index: Byrd spent time with Keith Wilson in the summer / submits contributor's notes / «Tolar Creek Syndicate».

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.".

First lines: "NEW DIMENSIONS IN THEOLOGY [-] A new Eight-Week Series of Tuesday Night Lectures at CATHERINE"... Contents index: program for series of eight weekly lectures.

Correspondence between Thomas Merton and people filed under "H" (typically those with a surname beginning with the letter "H").

This Sub-Section includes Merton's handwritten personal diaries and journals, as well as his reading notebooks or working notebooks. His journals have been published in their entirety. Small sections of the notebooks have been quoted in various works, but the notebooks have not on the whole been published. The notebooks range in date from 1946-1968.

Reviews of Advent and Christmas with Thomas Merton.

Content described at the Subseries level.

First lines: "Thomas Merton whose two great books - The Seven Storey Mountain and the Waters of Siloe - have sold"... Citation: Publishers' Weekly (30 June 1951).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book, which he recently finished on the anniversary of his ninth year in the"...

First lines: "This new book by Thomas Merton is three things in one. It is a general introduction to Christian"... Citation: NY Herald Tribune (23 September 1951). Thomas Sugrue.

First lines: "In one of Hemingway's' magnificently symbolic short stories, a Spanish waiter, who fears the"... Citation: Evening News Buffalo NY (22 September 1951). Charles A. Brady.

First lines: "'Mystic' is for the secularist a convenient word of opprobrium, for the religious an accolade. Few"... Citation: New York Times (23 September 1951): 3,34. James A. Pike. 2 copies.

First lines: "Not so long ago, Thomas Merton wrote in "The Seven Storey Mountain" the account of his quest for"... Citation: Sunday Courant Hartford Conn. (30 September 1951). James F. Looby.

First lines: "The Cistercian monk who wrote the immensely popular "Seven Storey Mountain," now with his persuasive"... Citation: Globe Boston Mass (7 October 1951). LaFayette L. Marchand.

First lines: "It was Miss Evelyn Underhill who said, "The greatest mystics have not been heretics but Catholic"... Citation: Commonweal 55 (26 October 1951): 72-73. John C.H. Wu.

First lines: "Interested reader of Thomas Merton will be avid about this book "The Ascent to Truth" and will find"... Citation: The Pilot Boston Mass (20 October 1951). Mary Paula Williamson.

First lines: "The author of this book and The Seven Storey Mountain is Father Louis of the Trappist Order and this"... Citation: Times Moncton, NB Canada (November 1951). Copy of 10a.

First lines: "The author of this book and The Seven Storey Mountain is Father Louis of the Trappist Order and this"... Citation: Times Moncton, NB Canada (November 1951). Copy of 09c.

First lines: "Father Louis Merton, OCSO, known to the reading public as Thomas Merton, the author of the former"... Citation: Star [?] Pasadena California.

First lines: "Nature of the contemplative experience and something of the necessary self-denial which leads up to"... Citation: Book Bulletin Chicago Library (January 1952).

First lines: "Saint Paul tells us we are all called to be saints. For the prayer life of the saint a full"... Citation: Monitor San Francisco Calif (22 February 1952).

First lines: "Taking up where his Seven Storey Mountain left off, Father Merton tries to guide the reader on a"... Citation: Guidepost, Cincinnati Ohio (December).

First lines: "Thomas Merton completed his newest book, The Ascent to Truth on the anniversary of his ninth year in"... Citation: Herald News Fall River Mass (11 October 1951).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's newest, "The Ascent to Truth" (Harcourt Brace) attempts to balance the difficult"... Citation: Beacon-Journal Akron Ohio (11 November 1951).

First lines: "Thomas Merton explains the teaching of St John of the Cross on mystical prayer and union with God as"... Citation: Clergy Review 62 (august 1977): 336-337. S.G.A. Luff.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's new book, which he recently finished on the anniversary of his ninth year in the"... Citation: Chicago Sunday Tribune (7 October 1957). John A. O'Brien.

First lines: "The author of the Imitation bids us, "Ask not who said this, but attend to what is said." It is"... Citation: Integrity 6.3 (December 1951):45-46. James Shaw.

First lines: "The purpose of the world, the nature of man, the meaning of truth-"... Citation: Catholic World (November 1951) [:156-157.

First lines: "Before any reviewer opens the fire of his criticism on Thomas Merton's"... Citation: Blackfriars 33 (March 1952) 144-146.

First lines: "The popular Trappist author's latest book summarizes the mystical"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 2 (December 1951) 440-441.

First lines: "The name of Thomas Merton is already"... Citation: The Furrow, 3.4 (Apr. 1952): 223-224.

First lines: "One senses that Thomas Merton drank deeply from the ancient sources of vision and experience during"... Citation: R. Scott Kennedy.

First lines: "Transferring to this work the artistic concept of a triptych is one way to help readers to"... Citation: Boston Sunday Globe (26 August 1973). Sister Anne Delaney. Copy of #2a.

First lines: "The Asian Journal is not so much the final testament to the work and thought of Thomas Merton as it"... Citation: Journal of the American Oriental Society 97.1 (January-March 1977): 87-88. Thaddeus J. Gurdak.

First lines: "He left San Francisco with an exhilaration that approached ecstasy -- "with Christian mantras and a"... Citation: Time Magazine 102 (6 August 1973): 54.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, died in a tragic accident in Bangkok on Dec. 10, 1968. Merton was on"... Citation: New York Times Book Review (8 July 1973): 13. Edward Rice.