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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.

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.

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.

First lines: "Thank you very much for the tape which came a few days ago. We have heard the first side - Message"... Contents index: tape center and Friar's "Tape-of-the-Month Club" as model / transcribing tapes / retreat plans and choice of representatives of different houses and orders.

First lines: "Thank you very much for the tape which came a few days ago. We have heard the first side - Message"... Contents index: tape center and Friar's "Tape-of-the-Month Club" as model / transcribing tapes / retreat plans and choice of representatives of different houses and orders.

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: "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: "Many thanks for your outline which has just arrived. It looks interesting and full and attractive,"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your outline which has just arrived. It looks interesting and full and attractive,"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter and the returned ms. I am chacking [sic] immediately with New"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter and the returned ms. I am chacking [sic] immediately with New"...

First lines: "Thank you very much for your letter which was extremely encouraging from more points of view than"...

First lines: "Thank you very much for your letter which was extremely encouraging from more points of view than"...

First lines: "I am very sorry for not answering you more promptly. By now you can probably guess why: almost"... Contents index: offers advice and encouragement about publishing and a name of a publisher.

First lines: "I am very sorry for not answering you more promptly. By now you can probably guess why: almost"... Contents index: offers advice and encouragement about publishing and a name of a publisher.

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: "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: "Appeared New York Times 4 Sept. 67 (editorial page) «A COCKTAIL PARTY» Penned in this"... Contents index: [poem attached to 1967/09/25 letter].

First lines: "Appeared New York Times 4 Sept. 67 (editorial page) «A COCKTAIL PARTY» Penned in this"... Contents index: [poem attached to 1967/09/25 letter].

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: "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: "this is an extremely hard letter to write, so I ask you to overlook its faults and see through to the"... Contents index: career background as a scientist turned poet - published in the «New York Times» and «Negro Digest» / writing a book called «Teknosis» "a disease resulting from life in technological society" / Fr. Stanley Jaki / value of contemplation / question of a non-Catholic monasticism for people like Biram.

First lines: "this is an extremely hard letter to write, so I ask you to overlook its faults and see through to the"... Contents index: career background as a scientist turned poet - published in the «New York Times» and «Negro Digest» / writing a book called «Teknosis» "a disease resulting from life in technological society" / Fr. Stanley Jaki / value of contemplation / question of a non-Catholic monasticism for people like Biram.

First lines: "Thank you very much for your kind reply permitting us to include the Japanese translation of your"...

First lines: "Thank you very much for your kind reply permitting us to include the Japanese translation of your"...

First lines: "it may be, for all I know, discourteous to write to a member of your/Abbey [sic] without first"... Contents index: asking to pass attached letter to Merton.

First lines: "it may be, for all I know, discourteous to write to a member of your/Abbey [sic] without first"... Contents index: asking to pass attached letter to Merton.

First lines: "I am enclosing a tentative plan for my introduction to the opening volume of the Time Life Bible."...

First lines: "I am enclosing a tentative plan for my introduction to the opening volume of the Time Life Bible."...

First lines: "1) I have finished reading "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander", and it is certainly the one that"... Contents index: apologizes for asking too much before / asks for articles back and suggestions of where to publish them.

First lines: "1) I have finished reading "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander", and it is certainly the one that"... Contents index: apologizes for asking too much before / asks for articles back and suggestions of where to publish them.

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: "The tape is on its way to you, but a roundabout way as I am having someone transcribe it for me. I"... Contents index: plans for retreat / tape center / choral obligation / Archbishop of Louisville supportive of contemplatives / Sr. Mary Luke Tobin.

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: "The tape is on its way to you, but a roundabout way as I am having someone transcribe it for me. I"... Contents index: plans for retreat / tape center / choral obligation / Archbishop of Louisville supportive of contemplatives / Sr. Mary Luke Tobin.

First lines: "May the Lord give you His peace! Thank you for the enclosed typescripts which we enjoyed and"... Contents index: [dated the Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis] plans for retreat with Merton / distinctions between active and contemplative life - misuse of designations / definition of monasticism / tape on prayer.

First lines: "Have chosen from CABLES what could stand as individual poems. (see carbons from copies of these"...

First lines: "Have chosen from CABLES what could stand as individual poems. (see carbons from copies of these"...

First lines: "May the Lord give you His peace! Thank you for the enclosed typescripts which we enjoyed and"... Contents index: [dated the Feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis] plans for retreat with Merton / distinctions between active and contemplative life - misuse of designations / definition of monasticism / tape on prayer.

First lines: "Here is some stuff I dug out of the pile. Not much, if any, about nonviolence but some on Zen and"... Contents index: background on Zen for Berrigan's seminar on non-violent and violent religious traditions - Zen and Samurai fighting - swordsmanship without violence - non-aggressive posture - "Turning violence back on itself" - D. T. Suzuki / death of Ad Reinhardt - first of "immediate gang" to go - "I guess my whole bunch won't outlast sixty.".

First lines: "Here is some stuff I dug out of the pile. Not much, if any, about nonviolence but some on Zen and"... Contents index: background on Zen for Berrigan's seminar on non-violent and violent religious traditions - Zen and Samurai fighting - swordsmanship without violence - non-aggressive posture - "Turning violence back on itself" - D. T. Suzuki / death of Ad Reinhardt - first of "immediate gang" to go - "I guess my whole bunch won't outlast sixty.".

First lines: "I have two letters of yours to answer, and the first one is the second. There is no problem at all"...

First lines: "I have two letters of yours to answer, and the first one is the second. There is no problem at all"...

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: "Glenn Hinson, who was my teacher and spiritual adviser at the Baptist seminary in Louisville,"... Contents index: mentions dissertation proposal and asks if he can meet with Merton to ask him some questions.

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: "Glenn Hinson, who was my teacher and spiritual adviser at the Baptist seminary in Louisville,"... Contents index: mentions dissertation proposal and asks if he can meet with Merton to ask him some questions.

First lines: "I wrote to Harcourt, Brace and World concerning our request to reprint "In the Face of Death""... Contents index: asking where "In the Face of Death" appears in «The Seven Storey Mountain».

First lines: "I wrote to Harcourt, Brace and World concerning our request to reprint "In the Face of Death""... Contents index: asking where "In the Face of Death" appears in «The Seven Storey Mountain».

First lines: "Perfectly ok to use the quote from "Letter to Innocent Bystander". And of course to put off "Monk""...

First lines: "Perfectly ok to use the quote from "Letter to Innocent Bystander". And of course to put off "Monk""...

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: "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: "I am returning the manuscript you sent me. As I get an unusual number of books and manuscripts sent"...

First lines: "I am returning the manuscript you sent me. As I get an unusual number of books and manuscripts sent"...

First lines: "Must answer you together as I can hardly keep up with mail in any case. I have Teo's letter"... Contents index: [to Teo Savory and Brilliant - see "Savory, Teo" file for hard copy] Merton's tape played by Ping Ferry with "Big Zulu piece" and the "Unending Description" / Albert Camus piece for Unicorn Journal could be on «The Stranger» (already wrote on «The Plague» / Victor Hammer's press / Merton translating Rene Char.

First lines: "Must answer you together as I can hardly keep up with mail in any case. I have Teo's letter"... Contents index: [to Teo Savory and Brilliant - see "Savory, Teo" file for hard copy] Merton's tape played by Ping Ferry with "Big Zulu piece" and the "Unending Description" / Albert Camus piece for Unicorn Journal could be on «The Stranger» (already wrote on «The Plague» / Victor Hammer's press / Merton translating Rene Char.

First lines: "We have decided to make #3 and #4 a DOUBLE ISSUE for many reasons: 1) to balance political material"...

First lines: "We have decided to make #3 and #4 a DOUBLE ISSUE for many reasons: 1) to balance political material"...

First lines: "I have never met you Father, but after reading many of your books I have learned to respect and"... Contents index: ask Merton for advice about what her Benedictine sisters could do as an apostolate besides their current role in teaching.

First lines: "I have never met you Father, but after reading many of your books I have learned to respect and"... Contents index: ask Merton for advice about what her Benedictine sisters could do as an apostolate besides their current role in teaching.

First lines: "Thanks so much for the Auschwitz review-- I think it is terrific, absolutely, and hope to use it"... Contents index: medical problems / "Original Child Bomb" for Hiroshima anniversary / Cardinal Heenan / Margaret Gardiner / Barth / Kierkegaard / "The Death of God and the End of History" and "Blessed Are the Meek" articles.

First lines: "Thanks so much for the Auschwitz review-- I think it is terrific, absolutely, and hope to use it"... Contents index: medical problems / "Original Child Bomb" for Hiroshima anniversary / Cardinal Heenan / Margaret Gardiner / Barth / Kierkegaard / "The Death of God and the End of History" and "Blessed Are the Meek" articles.

First lines: "The certified letter came today and by the time you get this you will have got back the little pink"... Contents index: Brian Epstein / hippie culture in California.

First lines: "The certified letter came today and by the time you get this you will have got back the little pink"... Contents index: Brian Epstein / hippie culture in California.

First lines: "The certified letter came today and by the time you get this you will have got back the little pink"... Contents index: Brian Epstein / hippie culture in California.

First lines: "The certified letter came today and by the time you get this you will have got back the little pink"... Contents index: Brian Epstein / hippie culture in California.

First lines: "This is just to ask one thing. I had planned to come to Gethsemani after Easter next year. But it"...

First lines: "This is just to ask one thing. I had planned to come to Gethsemani after Easter next year. But it"...

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: "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: "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: "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: "A blessed and joyful feast! All of us here are remembering you specially today, and your name will"... Contents index: [writing from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico].

First lines: "A blessed and joyful feast! All of us here are remembering you specially today, and your name will"... Contents index: [writing from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico].

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".

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".

First lines: "I am very glad that you thought it worth while to present a Japanese version of my tribute to Dr"... Contents index: Merton's Dr. Suzuki tribute / subscription information for «Eastern Buddhist» / Zen scholars are welcome at Gethsemani.

First lines: "I am very glad that you thought it worth while to present a Japanese version of my tribute to Dr"... Contents index: Merton's Dr. Suzuki tribute / subscription information for «Eastern Buddhist» / Zen scholars are welcome at Gethsemani.

First lines: "Please excuse my unconscionable delay in writing you about your superb commentary on the"... Contents index: although longer than others, publishers have found a way to publish in entirety / article on Second Vatican Council in the summer 1967 «Katallagete» / Bernard Häring gave similar lectures at NYU / Arthur Buckley from Seabury Press.

First lines: "Please excuse my unconscionable delay in writing you about your superb commentary on the"... Contents index: although longer than others, publishers have found a way to publish in entirety / article on Second Vatican Council in the summer 1967 «Katallagete» / Bernard Häring gave similar lectures at NYU / Arthur Buckley from Seabury Press.

First lines: "You have been good enough to send me several of your books - but now I dare ask you for something"... Contents index: asking for prayers for her mother after an accident.

First lines: "You have been good enough to send me several of your books - but now I dare ask you for something"... Contents index: asking for prayers for her mother after an accident.

First lines: "I am returning the proof immediately. Very beautiful. I like the woodcuts immensely. One word I"... Contents index: Teo Savory.

First lines: "I am returning the proof immediately. Very beautiful. I like the woodcuts immensely. One word I"... Contents index: Teo Savory.

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: "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: "Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very"...

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very"...

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: "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: "We have taken the liberty of translating your article which you had sent us for the late Dr."... Contents index: Dr. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki memorial / translating Merton's articles sent to Suzuki for the «Chugai Nippo» Japanese religious newspaper and a forthcoming book about Suzuki.

First lines: "We have taken the liberty of translating your article which you had sent us for the late Dr."... Contents index: Dr. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki memorial / translating Merton's articles sent to Suzuki for the «Chugai Nippo» Japanese religious newspaper and a forthcoming book about Suzuki.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. Sounds interesting. I gladly contribute what ideas I can, and here they"... Contents index: hope for monasticism - African, Indian ashram of Dom Bede Griffith, Taize, the Little Brothers, and the Brothers of the Virgin of the Poor / less hope for traditional orders / "milieu Catholicism" / progressivism a monastic charism or secular apostolic witness? / contemplative life / Merton's current areas of interest.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. Sounds interesting. I gladly contribute what ideas I can, and here they"... Contents index: hope for monasticism - African, Indian ashram of Dom Bede Griffith, Taize, the Little Brothers, and the Brothers of the Virgin of the Poor / less hope for traditional orders / "milieu Catholicism" / progressivism a monastic charism or secular apostolic witness? / contemplative life / Merton's current areas of interest.

First lines: "I have been meaning to write for the last two or three weeks. Many things to say, most of which can"...

First lines: "I have been meaning to write for the last two or three weeks. Many things to say, most of which can"...

First lines: "Thanks for your recent letter. I have contacted Sister Luke at Loretto in the hope that they can"... Contents index: [from one folder from the "New Directions Publishing" papers at Harvard, entitled "Letters (carbons) to various people, 1967"].