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First lines: "When Seabury Press decided to do Camus' "The Plague" for its Religious Dimensions in Literature"... Contents index: news clipping sent by Allman from the New York Post from "The Week in Books" by Martha MacGregor describing Merton's many interests.

First lines: "When Seabury Press decided to do Camus' "The Plague" for its Religious Dimensions in Literature"... Contents index: news clipping sent by Allman from the New York Post from "The Week in Books" by Martha MacGregor describing Merton's many interests.

First lines: "You'll be relieved when all this correspondence lets up a bit. A few complications have set in!"... Contents index: lists sisters and orders than can attend retreat or that had to cancel / asks about guest house arrangements.

First lines: "You'll be relieved when all this correspondence lets up a bit. A few complications have set in!"... Contents index: lists sisters and orders than can attend retreat or that had to cancel / asks about guest house arrangements.

First lines: "I am delighted to enclose a check in the amount of $150. for your extraordinary piece to MANSIONS OF"... Contents index: thanks for Merton's article "'Baptism in the Forest': Wisdom and Initiation in William Faulkner", in the book, «Mansions of the Spirit: Essays in Literature and Religion», edited by George A. Panichas.

First lines: "I am delighted to enclose a check in the amount of $150. for your extraordinary piece to MANSIONS OF"... Contents index: thanks for Merton's article "'Baptism in the Forest': Wisdom and Initiation in William Faulkner", in the book, «Mansions of the Spirit: Essays in Literature and Religion», edited by George A. Panichas.

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: "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: "It was good to hear from you. I think everything is pretty well underway now. Enclosed are the"... Contents index: agenda for retreat / meetings with Sr. Mary Luke Tobin and visiting Loretto / "cloister mystique" / lists sisters who can attend.

First lines: "It was good to hear from you. I think everything is pretty well underway now. Enclosed are the"... Contents index: agenda for retreat / meetings with Sr. Mary Luke Tobin and visiting Loretto / "cloister mystique" / lists sisters who can attend.

First lines: "I thought you would like to see the attached tear sheet from Publisher's Weekly. They did, indeed,"... Contents index: [attaches 1967/11/06 article from «Publisher's Weekly»].

First lines: "I thought you would like to see the attached tear sheet from Publisher's Weekly. They did, indeed,"... Contents index: [attaches 1967/11/06 article from «Publisher's Weekly»].

First lines: "This is going to be a fast letter. Hello! I am getting very bored with life and, well"... Contents index: class retreat to San Juan Bautista / asking Merton's opinion about going her going to England for college and the requirements / Ravi Shankar spending the semester at Columbia University / asking Merton for a tape on Zen Buddhism / The Beatles / purchased Suzuki book / picture of Merton with hat on «Mystics and Zen Masters».

First lines: "This is going to be a fast letter. Hello! I am getting very bored with life and, well"... Contents index: class retreat to San Juan Bautista / asking Merton's opinion about going her going to England for college and the requirements / Ravi Shankar spending the semester at Columbia University / asking Merton for a tape on Zen Buddhism / The Beatles / purchased Suzuki book / picture of Merton with hat on «Mystics and Zen Masters».

First lines: "Thanks for the extra copies, for the feedback on the poem and all. For many reasons I am happy that"...

First lines: "I have not yet seen Rosemary Haughton's article that you refer to but perhaps the point about my"... Contents index: qualifies Batten's statement that Merton approves of Dom Lemercier / praised them as "small progressive Benedictine foundation before the matter of the group analysis" / group may have gone overboard but excommunication extreme / group analysis with qualified psychiatrist can be valid in Post-Conciliar years.

First lines: "I have checked about the guesthouse facilities and it will be all right if some or all of the"... Contents index: retreat details / taping the retreat / Sr. Mary Luke Tobin at Loretto - an American observer at Vatican II and close to Cardinal Suenens.

First lines: "Thanks for the extra copies, for the feedback on the poem and all. For many reasons I am happy that"...

First lines: "I have not yet seen Rosemary Haughton's article that you refer to but perhaps the point about my"... Contents index: qualifies Batten's statement that Merton approves of Dom Lemercier / praised them as "small progressive Benedictine foundation before the matter of the group analysis" / group may have gone overboard but excommunication extreme / group analysis with qualified psychiatrist can be valid in Post-Conciliar years.

First lines: "I have checked about the guesthouse facilities and it will be all right if some or all of the"... Contents index: retreat details / taping the retreat / Sr. Mary Luke Tobin at Loretto - an American observer at Vatican II and close to Cardinal Suenens.

First lines: "[…] A HERMIT'S PREFERENCES Seabury Press recently sent Thomas Merton an author questionnaire"... Contents index: relates Merton's interests given in an author's questionnaire - "Zen. Indians. Wood. Birds. Beer. Anglican friends. Calligraphic abstract art. Ad Reinhardt. Subversive tape recordings for nuns. Tea. Bob Dylan. Nicaraguan folk art. Quakerism. Shakerism. Novels of Walker Percy. Myth in William Faulkner.", etc..

First lines: "[…] A HERMIT'S PREFERENCES Seabury Press recently sent Thomas Merton an author questionnaire"... Contents index: relates Merton's interests given in an author's questionnaire - "Zen. Indians. Wood. Birds. Beer. Anglican friends. Calligraphic abstract art. Ad Reinhardt. Subversive tape recordings for nuns. Tea. Bob Dylan. Nicaraguan folk art. Quakerism. Shakerism. Novels of Walker Percy. Myth in William Faulkner.", etc..

First lines: "PRESS STATEMENT (IMMEDIATE RELEASE) [-] On Friday, October 27, 1967, we are entering the"... Contents index: statement to the press of group's plan to enter a draft records office in Baltimore, Maryland, and pour their blood on draft records - reasons for actions - biographies of those committing this act: Rev. James Mengel, David Eberhardt, Thomas Lewis, Father Philip Berrigan.

First lines: "I'll take the clothes down tomorrow AM. [-] Thanks [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [note from Merton].

First lines: "I have to go to «Louisville» Thursday about 8 a.m. Could you please fix it up? Thanx"...

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: "The only hitch would be if Dr M. wanted me to see the neuro-surgeon who can't be reached until about"... Contents index: [see also #108a on the same note card].

First lines: "About two years ago I sent you 30 or 40 pages of poetry and received a newsletter in reply."...

First lines: "About two years ago I sent you 30 or 40 pages of poetry and received a newsletter in reply."...

First lines: "I know that you must be inundated with letters seeking your advice on all sorts of matters, but I'm"... Contents index: working on new edition of Thomas Aquinas' «Summa Theologica» / Dom Lemercier and Mexican experiment with psychiatry and monasticism / article in «Blackfriars» by Rosemary Haughton / Sigmund Freud / P. Albert Plé's book, «Chastity and Affectivity».

First lines: "I know that you must be inundated with letters seeking your advice on all sorts of matters, but I'm"... Contents index: working on new edition of Thomas Aquinas' «Summa Theologica» / Dom Lemercier and Mexican experiment with psychiatry and monasticism / article in «Blackfriars» by Rosemary Haughton / Sigmund Freud / P. Albert Plé's book, «Chastity and Affectivity».

First lines: "If you have not done so I strongly recommend you take a look at the American Heritage for Oct. 1966"...

First lines: "Bernard says OK for 8:30 am Monday, but he said he has to be back here by 4 pm. I do not think"... Contents index: [see also #108b on the same note card].

First lines: "Thanks for your note about Denise Levertov and the possibility of her visit here on Sunday December"... Contents index: plans for meeting at Gethsemani.

First lines: "Thanks for your note about Denise Levertov and the possibility of her visit here on Sunday December"... Contents index: plans for meeting at Gethsemani.

First lines: "If this turns out to be the unorganized mess I fear it will be, "Forgive me Father, for I know not"...

First lines: "If this turns out to be the unorganized mess I fear it will be, "Forgive me Father, for I know not"...

First lines: "I have looked over your manuscript and it has many good things in it. But unfortunately it seems"...

First lines: "I have looked over your manuscript and it has many good things in it. But unfortunately it seems"...

First lines: "The tape came last Saturday and it is excellent. Thank you very much, Father, I know this is taking"... Contents index: 15 contemplative communities to receive tapes / details of who can and cannot attend retreat.

First lines: "The tape came last Saturday and it is excellent. Thank you very much, Father, I know this is taking"... Contents index: 15 contemplative communities to receive tapes / details of who can and cannot attend retreat.

First lines: "Denise Levertov thinks it would be great to see you at Gethsemani when she's here on Sunday, Dec. 10"... Contents index: possible meeting at Gethsemani with Denise Levertov, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Madelyn Meatyard, Guy and Bonnie [Davenport?].

First lines: "Denise Levertov thinks it would be great to see you at Gethsemani when she's here on Sunday, Dec. 10"... Contents index: possible meeting at Gethsemani with Denise Levertov, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Madelyn Meatyard, Guy and Bonnie [Davenport?].

First lines: "Thanks for «Freelance»: a pleasant surprise and a good alive magazine. I have read most of"...

First lines: "Thanks for «Freelance»: a pleasant surprise and a good alive magazine. I have read most of"...

First lines: "Fr. Raymond had none, so we received one from Fr. Innocent- a used copy from the Lib."... Contents index: [on same page as note by Merton, recorded here as the same date].

First lines: "Fr. Raymond had none, so we received one from Fr. Innocent- a used copy from the Lib."... Contents index: [on same page as note by Merton, recorded here as the same date].

First lines: "The Visitation nuns of a convent in France have asked for a copy of "The Less Traveled Road.""... Contents index: [see Amps' response on the same page].

First lines: "The Visitation nuns of a convent in France have asked for a copy of "The Less Traveled Road.""... Contents index: [see Amps' response on the same page].

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: "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: "I am in the middle of the semi-hopeless task of trying to get through the piled up mail of the last"... Contents index: Suggests apostolate of hosting ecumenical meetings and offering retreats and days of recollection.

First lines: "I am in the middle of the semi-hopeless task of trying to get through the piled up mail of the last"... Contents index: Suggests apostolate of hosting ecumenical meetings and offering retreats and days of recollection.

First lines: "I am in the middle of the semi-hopeless task of trying to get through the piled up mail of the last"... Contents index: carbon copy of 1967/10/16 letter.

First lines: "I am in the middle of the semi-hopeless task of trying to get through the piled up mail of the last"... Contents index: carbon copy of 1967/10/16 letter.

First lines: "Acknowledging your letter which clarified CABLES TO THE [sic] ACE and all news of signatures and"...

First lines: "Acknowledging your letter which clarified CABLES TO THE [sic] ACE and all news of signatures and"...

First lines: "This letter will serve as a joint reply to you and to Dom Aelred who appended a kind note to your"...

First lines: "This letter will serve as a joint reply to you and to Dom Aelred who appended a kind note to your"...

First lines: "How can I ever thank you enough for taking time out from your busy schedule in order to answer my"... Contents index: comment on "Northern hospitality" expressed by the "lone Negro student at St. Norbert College".

First lines: "How can I ever thank you enough for taking time out from your busy schedule in order to answer my"... Contents index: comment on "Northern hospitality" expressed by the "lone Negro student at St. Norbert College".

First lines: "Thank you most sincerely for allowing «freelance» to print "Newscast," one of the poems in a"...

First lines: "Thank you most sincerely for allowing «freelance» to print "Newscast," one of the poems in a"...

First lines: "I enjoyed your piece in the last PN (or the last one here) about the Writers take sides book. I"... Contents index: «Writers Take Sides on Vietnam» / a companion piece to Ishi / the magazine «Motive».

First lines: "I enjoyed your piece in the last PN (or the last one here) about the Writers take sides book. I"... Contents index: «Writers Take Sides on Vietnam» / a companion piece to Ishi / the magazine «Motive».

First lines: "Just a note to thank you for your recent letters and let you know that I am working on the project."... Contents index: December 5th for retreat / tapes of conference / "external signs of a... solid edifice" in communities, but "crumbling foundation".

First lines: "I am grateful for your interest in my dissertation and for your concern that I get materials which"... Contents index: a time for visit / "Sacred and Profane Art" from «Jubilee» and "Religion and Race in the United States" from «Blackfriars».

First lines: "Just a note to thank you for your recent letters and let you know that I am working on the project."... Contents index: December 5th for retreat / tapes of conference / "external signs of a... solid edifice" in communities, but "crumbling foundation".

First lines: "I am grateful for your interest in my dissertation and for your concern that I get materials which"... Contents index: a time for visit / "Sacred and Profane Art" from «Jubilee» and "Religion and Race in the United States" from «Blackfriars».

First lines: "Thanks for your letter: glad everything is working out. I am happy that you can use the signature"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter: glad everything is working out. I am happy that you can use the signature"...

First lines: "Reaction to your airmail special about Phil and the group that wants to get violent. This will help"... Contents index: [same as TL[c] from 1967/10/10, except Archivist's note from Cornell states that certain words (containing Philip Berrigan's name) have been covered up and signature masked (Merton's name still listed), presumably for mimeographing and distribution to others, while protecting Merton and Philip Berrigan].

First lines: "Reaction to the airmail special about Phil and the group that wants to get violent. This will help"... Contents index: reaction to Philip Berrigan's proposal to use violent means - Che Guevara, Regis Debray - violence against people is definitely off-limits - violence against property gets away from Gandhi's ideals, starts to get fuzzy morally, but Merton does not rule it out; however, will it undermine the real message behind peace movement.

First lines: "Thanks for your permission to send the releases about your fields of interest to Publishers' Weekly"... Contents index: poems of David Jones / sending comments of poet Chad Walsh to Merton with his comments on the Religious Dimensions in Literature Series - asks Merton for suggested Latin American and Welsh poets for this college course series.

First lines: "Just returned from Griffin's. The photographs are fantastic! We will just flip them with the"...

First lines: "Thanks for your permission to send the releases about your fields of interest to Publishers' Weekly"... Contents index: poems of David Jones / sending comments of poet Chad Walsh to Merton with his comments on the Religious Dimensions in Literature Series - asks Merton for suggested Latin American and Welsh poets for this college course series.

First lines: "Just returned from Griffin's. The photographs are fantastic! We will just flip them with the"...

First lines: "Since last writing you we have decided to do a little 20-page quarto to commemorate the 4th"... Contents index: [no date - annotated "Oct. 8"].

First lines: "Since last writing you we have decided to do a little 20-page quarto to commemorate the 4th"... Contents index: [no date - annotated "Oct. 8"].

First lines: "I am thinking about you: are your ears burning? My house in the woods all full of San Francisco"... Contents index: life in the hermitage / Merton likes Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, 13th Floor Elevators and Grateful Dead, but not Moby Grape / Japanese Zen people and Merton / Merton fixing up for publication his book «Journal of My Escape from the Nazi's» / «Cables to the Ace» / LSD and Timothy Leary's jail sentence.

First lines: "I am thinking about you: are your ears burning? My house in the woods all full of San Francisco"... Contents index: life in the hermitage / Merton likes Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, 13th Floor Elevators and Grateful Dead, but not Moby Grape / Japanese Zen people and Merton / Merton fixing up for publication his book «Journal of My Escape from the Nazi's» / «Cables to the Ace» / LSD and Timothy Leary's jail sentence.

First lines: "I am thinking about you: are your ears burning? My house in the woods all full of San Francisco"... Contents index: life in the hermitage / Merton likes Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, 13th Floor Elevators and Grateful Dead, but not Moby Grape / Japanese Zen people and Merton / Merton fixing up for publication his book «Journal of My Escape from the Nazi's» / «Cables to the Ace» / LSD and Timothy Leary's jail sentence.

First lines: "I am thinking about you: are your ears burning? My house in the woods all full of San Francisco"... Contents index: life in the hermitage / Merton likes Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe, 13th Floor Elevators and Grateful Dead, but not Moby Grape / Japanese Zen people and Merton / Merton fixing up for publication his book «Journal of My Escape from the Nazi's» / «Cables to the Ace» / LSD and Timothy Leary's jail sentence.

First lines: "Thanks for all the good material. I had a few of these made up for the brethren when I was saying"... Contents index: [stationary says: "US Forest Service… Leave a Clean Camp and a Dead Fire"] Peace movement is turning more violent - ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr. out of fashion / Philip Berrigan and others involved in civil disobedience in Baltimore planning violence against military property / youth influenced by "Che" Guevara.

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: "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 so much for your cheering letter of last month, and for John L'Heureux's book. Thanks too"... Contents index: Ed Rice and "troubles in Asia" / John L'Heureux's book «Picnic in Babylon» and words about his diary being prudent / Merton's statement, "My diaries aren't prudent." / book by Fr. Ciszek / Michele Murrays criticism of Merton and Ciszek.

First lines: "About the "Message of Contemplatives" tape: it would probably be wiser and more discrete not to"... Contents index: "Message of Contemplatives" tape not to circulate one side / abbatial election / date for retreat - which communities should be invited.

First lines: "Thanks so much for your cheering letter of last month, and for John L'Heureux's book. Thanks too"... Contents index: Ed Rice and "troubles in Asia" / John L'Heureux's book «Picnic in Babylon» and words about his diary being prudent / Merton's statement, "My diaries aren't prudent." / book by Fr. Ciszek / Michele Murrays criticism of Merton and Ciszek.

First lines: "About the "Message of Contemplatives" tape: it would probably be wiser and more discrete not to"... Contents index: "Message of Contemplatives" tape not to circulate one side / abbatial election / date for retreat - which communities should be invited.

First lines: "What a very moving collection of signatures. We are mulling over them now but definitely want to"...

First lines: "What a very moving collection of signatures. We are mulling over them now but definitely want to"...

First lines: "You will probably have the prints from EandF when you receive this. I enclose a marvelous can"... Contents index: [note to Merton typed on the same page as 1967/10/03[1] letter to Robert Bonazzi].

First lines: "You will probably have the prints from EandF when you receive this. I enclose a marvelous can"... Contents index: [note to Merton typed on the same page as 1967/10/03[1] letter to Robert Bonazzi].

First lines: "Gregory and I are in a dudgeon over these Merton photos. After we mocked up a first cover."... Contents index: [carbon copy sent to Merton - see 1967/10/03[2] for note to Merton typed on the same page].

First lines: "Gregory and I are in a dudgeon over these Merton photos. After we mocked up a first cover."... Contents index: [carbon copy sent to Merton - see 1967/10/03[2] for note to Merton typed on the same page].

First lines: "It is almost impossible for me to give you in a few words the reasons for race prejudice. I refer"... Contents index: recommends «Seeds of Destruction» and sends article / psychological factors in racism / Gospel's teaching to see same amount of good and evil in ourselves as others.

First lines: "It is almost impossible for me to give you in a few words the reasons for race prejudice. I refer"... Contents index: recommends «Seeds of Destruction» and sends article / psychological factors in racism / Gospel's teaching to see same amount of good and evil in ourselves as others.

First lines: "A short note and a loud cry like the Beatles, HELP. My books such as they are still unpacked"... Contents index: seminar on violence, non-violence, and religious traditions - asking Merton's input on Hindu and Zen ideals / little hope for Hanoi trip / [writing from Cornell University] "Extraordinary student ferment here, practically all leadership Jewish. The Catholics are year round hibernaters [sic] in fraternity woodwork".

First lines: "During the days of my retreat I'm giving some thoughts to my lecture described in the included"... Contents index: asks for Merton's critiques on his outlined points for a conference entitled, "The Theology of Listening", to be delivered on September 26, 1967, at Catherine Spalding College.