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First lines: "[…] thanks for your gift and for your good news at Easter. Glad to hear Anne and Tay are doing well"...

First lines: "Caro e estimado Poeta: muchas, muchísimas gracias por su carta del 30 de Octubre el libro que leí"...

First lines: "I will try to reply to your letter before the matter ceases to be fresh in my mind. If I let it go,"...

First lines: "I will try to reply to your letter before the matter ceases to be fresh in my mind. If I let it go,"... Contents index: [duplicate carbon copy].

First lines: "Meu grande e caríssimo Thomas Merton: foi exatamente «na hora» (ontem pela tarde, às três…) de"...

First lines: "In June 1937, W. H. Auden, Louis Aragon, Stephen Spender and Nancy Cunard circulated a questionnaire"... Contents index: asking Merton to give his opinion on the war for a book entitled «Authors Take Sides on Vietnam», edited by Cecil Woolf and John Bagguley, London, England.

First lines: "Your revised carbon of the article on Spiritual Direction reached my hands only this morning. I"...

First lines: "Fine. I'll keep Feb. 28th for you. Let me know when you will arrive, and whether you will want"... Contents index: sending "Hot Summer of Sixty Seven?" to appear in small magazine Katallagete.

First lines: "Thanks for the return of the various items. Actually, the mimeographed ones did not need to be"... Contents index: pamphlet on Camus' «Plague» / support of conscientious objector angers conservative Catholics in Louisville / burning Merton's books / review on Altizer's book on Blake / Shaker material in Bowling Green [KY].

First lines: "In the past couple of weeks I have hardly had time to answer any mail at all. Things have been more"... Contents index: praise for dissertation with a few minor corrections / first dissertation, and most balanced perspective on his works, from a Baptist / Catholics have "either total adulation or total rejection" of his works.

First lines: "Thanks very much for the two new little books you sent. Your Rechenschaft looks particularly"...

First lines: "Comment vous remercie d'avoir le temps de"...

First lines: "Grand merci de votre bonne lettre que date déjà de trois mois! Je pense que le Fr. Alberic,"...

First lines: "About a year ago, the Superior of the Maryknoll Cloistered Sisters sent me a copy of your notes on"... Contents index: Merton's notes on Monastic Orientation / «Transformation in Christ» by von Hildebrand / Mystical Body and role of contemplative / establishing a Ritiro in the Order.

First lines: "Please forgive the intrusion and unusual request. There is a small group of religious from"... Contents index: asking Merton to conduct retreat on contemplative renewal.

First lines: "I am taking advantage of your offer to be of service to us. Uniquely, you can be of great service."... Contents index: Norms enclosed by Mother Angelica and Fr. Paul Boyle.

First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter of the 17th. I will ask someone to send on some more copies of Identity"... Contents index: the Association's break-up / offers to make audio tapes and recommends a tape library for her Retiro / Sr. Mary Luke Tobin of Loretto (Nerinx, KY) / hermitage / current events - violence and civil war in the cities.

First lines: "Thank you for your wonderful letter. It meant a lot, and the promise of a remembrance in your"... Contents index: renewal in contemplative communities / on Merton not being allowed to do retreat / tape library and weekly newsletter / how to turn inward and find true self in God / Divine Office / «Bread in the Wilderness».

First lines: "Once more, about the date. Let me try to get down to something more definite. Today I discussed"... Contents index: dates for retreat in December.

First lines: "Thanks for the letter and the points for discussion. Some of them are really first rate. All are"... Contents index: for retreat: "basic question of ends and means" / what would one do if not a religious and why / literary rights for taped materials - establishment of Merton Legacy Trust.

First lines: "May you have a truly blessed Christmas. The tape came yesterday but I have only heard a little of"... Contents index: [dated Gaudete Sunday] reactions to tape of the retreat/conference / circulating tape to others at conference and questions of whether it should go to others.

First lines: "I will start off by asking your overlooking the errors, and hastily typed letter. I came over to"...

First lines: "In the March Art Supplement of the «Magnificat», Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo weekly"... Contents index: articles on St. Bonaventure University / Rev. Irenaeus Herscher, O.F.M. / asks for Merton's recollections of St. Bonaventure University and faculty/staff.

First lines: "Thanks for the letter and photograph. I had no idea you were so husky looking. Thanks above all"... Contents index: list changes, "experimentation", that is going on in community of which she and others disapprove - fewer Mass times, confession; no organized mental prayer, Rosary, Stations; Vatican II outdated; corporal works stressed, contemplation passé.

First lines: "I am sorry I left your letter so long without an answer. It is almost impossible for me to deal"... Contents index: response to the changes mentioned in previous letter / need for pluralism but not being dominated by things that go against conscience / need for sacraments in religious life and mental prayer for some.

First lines: "In view of the many changes taking place within the structured framework of religious life today, we"... Contents index: asking Merton to speak at convocation at St. Francis College about student involvement in contemporary Christian life.

First lines: "Apparently word is getting around that I am now permitted to go out and speak on various college"... Contents index: relates impossibility of getting permission for such an event / suggests Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. or his brother Philip, although they are more radical than he is.

First lines: "Thanks for your good letter. I am glad you found the two books interesting enough to review, and"... Contents index: use of Eichmann piece / what Merton feels he could offer / offers his abstract drawings for publication.

First lines: "It was good to hear from you again. I am glad you have done so well in school, and especially glad"... Contents index: thinking of religious life again / recommendation for Franciscans / current winds of change in religious life, also confusion / new foundation in Norway.

First lines: "Thanks for your long and interesting letter of June 24, with its enclosures. I regret that I am so"... Contents index: issues concerning institutions, evil, and the metaphysical questions these issues bring forth in modern philosophy of Kant, Hegel, and Marx / Merton claims not well enough versed in modern philosophy and "suspicion of institutions is based on Biblical and eschatological ground, not metaphysics.".

First lines: "Thank you for your kind letter. I am so happy the censors approved your excellent ABA paper (I'm"... Contents index: Teilhard de Chardin paper and censors / interview of Br. Antoninus, O.P. / sources on Dom Calmet - sent interlibrary loan list to Fr. Oliver of St. Vincent Archabbey / attached are lists of books about Calmet with Merton's annotations of what he wants.

First lines: "I got your good letter this morning and I think it is a good idea to get started on the typing, so I"... Contents index: Merton sending partial Serge Bolshakoff manuscript.

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: "Thank you so much for sending me your article, as well as the off-print from «Pax». I had not"... Contents index: possibility of publishing a collection of Merton's prior essays / difficulty through agreement with Farrar Straus in doing a book for Macmillan / peace demonstrations in New York and other cities and the contribution of Merton's writing to the cause.

First lines: "Our manufacturing department has now returned to me the manuscript"... Contents index: [original in Section C.2, the Setting Copy of the unpublished manuscript, "Prayer as Worship and Experience" / photocopy in correspondence file] regret over dispute concerning book and that it would not be published.

First lines: "I am sending you a copy of a book that we are publishing in October by John L'Heureux, S. J. which I"... Contents index: John L'Heureux's book «Picnic in Babylon» - 3 years at Woodstock / Merton's letter in «National Catholic Reporter» in answer to Martin Marty / Merton, Dorothy Day, and Dan Berrigan - "white hope of the Christian radicals" / non-violence and civil rights / send-off for Ed Rice / demise of «Jubilee».

First lines: "I am sending you herewith a copy of the Catholic Worker Reader, «A Penny a Copy» as you are"...

First lines: "Para el Padre Merton con mi amistad y mis poemas."... Contents index: [see the "Family Room - Marginalia" section of the Merton Center collection for the original signed copy of the book «El ojo del can»].

First lines: "My hope is that you might explain your poem, "Fall '66" which appeared in the «New York Review»"... Contents index: asking source of Latin quote from "Fall '66" article "Arturumque…" / "Why '«green»' bearded Arthur" / using Merton's view of Arthur in dissertation on "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and comparisons to Augustine, Gregory, Bonaventura, Richard Rolle / Barton's bio / how he was introduced to Merton's work.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. Yes, I think there are probably unconscious resonances of the whole kind of"... Contents index: "Gawain" - one of Merton's favorite poems - "deflation of Feudal pomposity" / source of Latin quote - "Arturumque etiam…" from Milton / Milton and Arthuriad - Arthur and Satan / U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam as "cheap mythology" / "green beard" and "Green man" images.

First lines: "Thank you very much for your prompt reply. It was quite encouraging. There has been a hiatus of"... Contents index: Arthur's Camelot and Washington [D.C.] / Milton poem "Mansus" and "Jerusalem Conquered" / Arthur and Satan / meaning of Merton's use of "spook collections" / acedia, the noonday demon and Washington.

First lines: "One thing I have been meaning to say: if you don't know the poetic work of David Jones, you must"... Contents index: David Jones and Welsh Catholicism / Catholics who are "falling over themselves to push every last relic of the middle ages out the sacristy window" / "spook collections" and "quieting the ancestors" / Calvinism / acedia, the demonium meridianum, and the Pentagon.

First lines: "Je m'excuse de venir vous déranger. J'ai"... Contents index: Merton's book «Life of Holiness» / Louis Massignon / Egypt / Islam / the book «Mohammed et St. François» (Mohammed and St. Francis).

First lines: "I am very greatfull [sic] for your kindness sending your article: «The Cross Fighters»"- Notes"... Contents index: "The Cross Fighters: Notes on a Race War" / good wishes for the meeting of cloistered nuns next week (see "Bane, Elaine Michael" file for details on this referenced conference) / need for saints and contemplatives in Church / Merton's article for «The Cord» / Jean-François Six (see his correspondence file).

First lines: "I am writing to you as manager of our quarterly journal "Theoria to Theory", though I am on a brief"... Contents index: "reemergence of the basic metaphysical categories… through the 'Death of God' literature" / starting philosophy society - "Theoria Inc." or "Epiphany Philosophers Inc." / Michael Hare / "T to T" / asking Merton to be a director, more as a "subscriber" than administrator / Bishop Pike / meeting Merton.

First lines: "Thank you very much for sending your article back. I took notice of the mistakes you pointed out"... Contents index: "still trying to find a suitable word for «cool»".

First lines: "Thank you for your letter of June 18th informing me of the project to publish Four Freedom Songs"... Contents index: grant of permission to use materials / royalties arrangements to be made with owner of the rights, Robert L. Williams.

First lines: "Thanks for inviting me to the convocation on Pot, Pills and LSD next spring. I am sure it will be"... Contents index: although interested, Merton's Superior will not give permission for such conferences.

First lines: "I beg your permission to […] from "The Strange Islands" into some Little Worship Services. They"... Contents index: worship services to include works by - Merton, St. John of the Cross, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Lax, Beaumont's son Christopher, St. Francis, Holy Scripture, etc.; and songs by Beaumont / two prayers or reflections by her son Christopher - one written at age 6 and one at age 9.

First lines: "L'idée m'est venue d'entrer très simplement en rapport avec vous. L'on nous a lu au Monastère, au"... Contents index: «La nuit privée d'étoiles» (French edition of «The Seven Storey Mountain») / French and American monks feeling the same devotion for common fathers, St. Bernard and St. Benedict / remember Mary and fidelity to the Pope during the coming month of August / Pope Pius XII.

First lines: "En rentrant de notre pèlerinage de Rome j'ai trouvé votre lettre si fraternelle qui m'a rempli de"... Contents index: Les Croisés de Notre Dame (the Crusaders of Our Lady) / acknowledgement of Merton's interest / opposition to Marxism and a call from Pope Pius XII to wage a spiritual war on their world of separation from God and restore the faith of the first Christians / «La nuit privée d'étoiles».

First lines: ""But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, mildness,"... Contents index: [Verso: color picture of the outside and inside of Santa Cecilia Church "on Christmas Day in the High Sierras of Perú" by Gordon K. McCoun] Quote from St. Paul and a wish of a Merry Christmas.

First lines: "Yesterday Father Abbot asked me to get in touch with you and ask your advice about our centennial"... Contents index: New Melleray centennial history / executives from the Thomas More Bookshop in Chicago advised having a "name" author write the history / many authors who refused - asking Merton to accept or suggest another / Abbot wants it patterned on Fr. Ailbe J. Luddy's «Story of Mount Melleray».

First lines: "Your letter came to me as a complete surprise, and one that was in its own way bouleversant. I had"... Contents index: Iris' move to California / Jean Hering / letter of 1957 and regrets expressed by Merton / news of Tom Bennett's death - came late and via New Zealand / «Life» quote refers to Merton's generation as "older", not Merton's elders (like Iris) / monastic life - new eremitical life / debt owed Tom and Iris / writings not intended to injure.

First lines: "It occurs to me that I probably did not fulfill a promise-- or a threat-- to send you an article of"... Contents index: didn't send Camus article, sending now / SNCC in New York / asks for any new books by Lerone Bennett / Merton gets "the psychological fallout" from others on the situation, but would also like the facts.

First lines: "It occurs to me that I probably did not fulfill a promise-- or a threat-- to send you an article of"... Contents index: didn't send Camus article, sending now / SNCC in New York / asks for any new books by Lerone Bennett / Merton gets "the psychological fallout" from others on the situation, but would also like the facts.

First lines: "(His first Mass) "Friday I said that Mass I had promised to Our Lady of Cobre… It was at St. Anne's"... Contents index: photocopy of a handwritten quote from «The Sign of Jonas», p. 194, copyright 1953 / describes Merton's first Mass in 1949 and the amice, corporal, purificator, and finger towel which came from Gloria Bennett's Catholic High School class of black students in Mobile, Alabama.

First lines: "It was indeed very good of you to come to see me. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you and having a"... Contents index: doesn't think Merton will stay a priest much longer / Bentley had left priesthood 12 years ago / Merton helped him see Jean Paul Sartre in a new way / "help[ing] Bishop Sheen all I can" / "deep in Trethowan's 'Basis of Belief'" / Fr. Danielou's "Encounter and Religious Experience".

First lines: "Thank you very much for your nice letter and corrections which I sended [sic] immediately to my"... Contents index: Michael de St. Picne, director of a Catholic collection and advice about her book / closed herself in a Dominican convent for 5 weeks / writes as night because "lovers always meet at night" / translating her book into English with the help of an American / suggestions of editors.

First lines: "Thank you so much for your nice book. I've read"... Contents index: beginning a new book / asking if Merton would write a brief introduction to her «Trois ans à al trappe».

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: "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»"...

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.

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.

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.

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 -"...

First lines: "Thanks so much for your kind letter of March 1 with the Preface to DISPUTED QUESTIONS. They can go"... Contents index: "Disputed Questions," "Carmelite Sanctity," "The Christian Life of Prayer," and "Art and Worship".

First lines: "Two more "little articles" received and will be cared for. Notice from Rome that Fr. Louis recent"... Contents index: [verso: reproduction of "Our Lady of Sorrows" by Luis Morales / originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Somehow, somewhere, I've mislaid the copy of Fr. Louis article on nuclear warfare. Would you be kind"... Contents index: [originally filed by Dom James Fox in a file about censors (see "Censors Reports" and likely regarding "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / dated "Conversion of St. Paul" (January 25) and Fox marks replying to his letter by late January 1962] two rejected articles / Fr. Charles [English?].

First lines: "Here we come again knocking at your door just as Lent approches, with a little penance for our"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: ""... Contents index: [photographs of Merton's art from his exhibit - many, if not all, images were inverted in photo development].

First lines: "Always a pleasure to have a word from you. How I wish I had a valid eremitical call, but for me it"...