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First lines: "This is a quick one to confirm your arrangements. I will get a note into the guesthouse quick, and"... Contents index: Berrigan to arrive on August 13 and schedule of his proposed talks to novices / talks to novices can be more progressive than talks to the whole Gethsemani community / Merton [ironically] "sending some pro Jesuit propaganda" / books by Fr. Dunne and Fr. Adam Schall / Baptist from Louisville may come to hear Berrigan.

First lines: "This is not an adequate letter, but I do want to get some kind of reply into the mail for you, as"... Contents index: [Cold War Letter #19] the "retire" / von Hildebrand's «Transformation in Christ» and «Defense of Purity» / marriage and celibacy / books on monastic life and solitary life / Bouyer - «The Meaning of the Monastic Life» and «Introduction to Spirituality» / Jean Danielou / Gorres - «Hidden Face».

First lines: "This is not an adequate letter, but I do want to get some kind of reply into the mail for you, as"... Contents index: [Cold War Letter #19] the "retire" / von Hildebrand's «Transformation in Christ» and «Defense of Purity» / marriage and celibacy / books on monastic life and solitary life / Bouyer - «The Meaning of the Monastic Life» and «Introduction to Spirituality» / Jean Danielou / Gorres - «Hidden Face».

First lines: "This is not an adequate letter, but I do want to get some kind of reply into the mail for you, as"... Contents index: [Cold War Letter #19] the "retire" / von Hildebrand's «Transformation in Christ» and «Defense of Purity» / marriage and celibacy / books on monastic life and solitary life / Bouyer - «The Meaning of the Monastic Life» and «Introduction to Spirituality» / Jean Danielou / Gorres - «Hidden Face».

First lines: "This is not an adequate letter, but I do want to get some kind of reply into the mail for you, as"... Contents index: [Cold War Letter #19] the "retire" / von Hildebrand's «Transformation in Christ» and «Defense of Purity» / marriage and celibacy / books on monastic life and solitary life / Bouyer - «The Meaning of the Monastic Life» and «Introduction to Spirituality» / Jean Danielou / Gorres - «Hidden Face».

First lines: "Nearest airport Louisville. From there by bus to New Haven, Ky. From there by taxi. But maybe I"... Contents index: directions to Gethsemani / asks if Berrigan wants to give a talk to the sisters at Loretto.

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter of July 9th, which I have received here to-day from Rome. I left the"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter of July 9th, which I have received here to-day from Rome. I left the"...

First lines: "I deeply feel with you all the emotions that have shaken you, on meeting the prisoners returning"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #93].

First lines: "I deeply feel with you all the emotions that have shaken you, on meeting the prisoners returning"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #93].

First lines: "Please do not think that because I have not written that I have not had you often in mind. In a"...

First lines: "Please do not think that because I have not written that I have not had you often in mind. In a"...

First lines: "Recently I have gone over a manuscript that has been waiting for revision, and I have completed the"... Contents index: «Principles of Prayer» - "draws… on patristic sources and Church documents" - more formal than «Seeds of Contemplation» / timetable for publishing with Macmillan.

First lines: "Recently I have gone over a manuscript that has been waiting for revision, and I have completed the"... Contents index: «Principles of Prayer» - "draws… on patristic sources and Church documents" - more formal than «Seeds of Contemplation» / timetable for publishing with Macmillan.

First lines: "I will be over tomorrow after the High Mass, about 10.15. Could you give a first talk of about 1/2"... Contents index: speaking schedule for Daniel Berrigan at Gethsemani on August 13 / Tony Walsh from Labre House in Montreal giving a talk.

First lines: "I am sorry I have been busy and have not been able to write. This is just a note to say that I"...

First lines: "I am sorry I have been busy and have not been able to write. This is just a note to say that I"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your kind letter. I am glad that you liked the manuscript. Of course, please"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your kind letter. I am glad that you liked the manuscript. Of course, please"...

First lines: "I have your letter and Fr. Gerard showed me the one you sent him. I am writing this from the"... Contents index: Berrigan's comments in favor of "small groups and personal contacts" over large movements with "totalitarian compulsions" - likes small groups like the Little Brothers and Damascus Winzen's monastery / remarks on Fr. Gerard's project / censors object to Merton's "Jesuits in China" / Tony Walsh.

First lines: "P.S. I read your letter to the Mayor of Hiroshima with attention. I think it shall please, both"...

First lines: "P.S. I read your letter to the Mayor of Hiroshima with attention. I think it shall please, both"...

First lines: "I am so delighted to have your new manuscript, and I have read it very carefully and think it is a"... Contents index: terms of agreement for «Principles of Prayer» / division of chapters and timing in sending to the printer / Merton's hospital stay / Fr. Berrigan.

First lines: "I am so delighted to have your new manuscript, and I have read it very carefully and think it is a"... Contents index: terms of agreement for «Principles of Prayer» / division of chapters and timing in sending to the printer / Merton's hospital stay / Fr. Berrigan.

First lines: "As this tense situation gets worse and worse, we must all realize that no strain or effort of ours"...

First lines: "As this tense situation gets worse and worse, we must all realize that no strain or effort of ours"...

First lines: "Probably my silence is the result of a more or less frantic effort to preserve some simplicity in my"...

First lines: "Probably my silence is the result of a more or less frantic effort to preserve some simplicity in my"...

First lines: "Thanks for the good letter of the 14th. I see your point about making the additions before the book"... Contents index: chapter on "Liturgy and Social Concern" / visit from unexpected visitors like Jean Leclercq / foreign rights problems - Merton asking to handle foreign rights, except in Paris (Marie Tadié as translator and agent there) / Dagmar Henne - German agent.

First lines: "Thanks for the good letter of the 14th. I see your point about making the additions before the book"... Contents index: chapter on "Liturgy and Social Concern" / visit from unexpected visitors like Jean Leclercq / foreign rights problems - Merton asking to handle foreign rights, except in Paris (Marie Tadié as translator and agent there) / Dagmar Henne - German agent.

First lines: "This is a troubled time, in which you are going to have to collect your forces and muster up even"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #109].

First lines: "This is a troubled time, in which you are going to have to collect your forces and muster up even"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #109].

First lines: "This is a troubled time, in which you are going to have to collect your forces and muster up even"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #109].

First lines: "This is a troubled time, in which you are going to have to collect your forces and muster up even"... Contents index: [Cold War Letters #109].

First lines: "For the past month I have been searching for time and a timely word to thank you for giving us"... Contents index: "The Guilt of Hiroshima" by James Douglass and criticism for the Kirby letter of October 27 which criticizes Douglass / lack of moral grounds for using threat of another nuclear attack like Hiroshima as grounds to threaten Communism - mentions great writers opposed to nuclear war, including Merton / situation in Cuba.

First lines: "For the past month I have been searching for time and a timely word to thank you for giving us"... Contents index: "The Guilt of Hiroshima" by James Douglass and criticism for the Kirby letter of October 27 which criticizes Douglass / lack of moral grounds for using threat of another nuclear attack like Hiroshima as grounds to threaten Communism - mentions great writers opposed to nuclear war, including Merton / situation in Cuba.

First lines: "A short one to say hello, and to hope all is well there. Just back last night from N.Y. and a two"... Contents index: workshop with Mother Seton's Sisters of Charity - work with Puerto Ricans and blacks in poorest parishes of New York / John Heidbrink / a layman said that nuns "poor and prayerful and non violent" but priest not ready for leadership / founding Latin American house / asking Merton for introduction to book on liturgy and conscience.

First lines: "FUND RAISING DRIVE FOR INTERNATIONAL CENTER [-] 1. Name of organization:"... Contents index: fund raising for William J. Kerby Foundation and the International Student Center.

First lines: "I believe I did not yet answer your letter about the publication of my letter to Fr Ronald. But as"... Contents index: Merton's abbot not in favor of publishing letter to Fr. Ronald concerning monastic formation and the priesthood / Serge Bolshakoff manuscript / Merton offering a review article on Dom Adalbert de Voguë's French book on the Rule of St. Benedict and the Rule of the Master.

First lines: "I believe I did not yet answer your letter about the publication of my letter to Fr Ronald. But as"... Contents index: Merton's abbot not in favor of publishing letter to Fr. Ronald concerning monastic formation and the priesthood / Serge Bolshakoff manuscript / Merton offering a review article on Dom Adalbert de Voguë's French book on the Rule of St. Benedict and the Rule of the Master.

First lines: "It is quite impossible for me to tell you how much your letter of November 8th meant to me, and"... Contents index: Meditation on Father Delp / permission to reprint "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion" in student quarterly - Ixion / «Peace in the Post Christian Era» / Jim Douglass and Dorothy Day / the Cuban crisis.

First lines: "It is quite impossible for me to tell you how much your letter of November 8th meant to me, and"... Contents index: Meditation on Father Delp / permission to reprint "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion" in student quarterly - Ixion / «Peace in the Post Christian Era» / Jim Douglass and Dorothy Day / the Cuban crisis.

First lines: "Just got your blanks from the Goggenbuch Stipend House. I will write you up a litany of praises"... Contents index: Berrigan's recommendation of a grant for the Guggenheim / Vatican Council II - debate on sources of Revelation / Cuba - "just war" question and our own "fabricated illusion" of needing to "press the button" - John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev - blending of American and Soviet materialism / Dorothy Day / Bob Lax.

First lines: "Just got your blanks from the Goggenbuch Stipend House. I will write you up a litany of praises"... Contents index: [same as TLS[x] from 1962/11/27, but with parts scratched out in pen].

First lines: "In lieu of thanks for sending «Peace in the Post Christian Era», may I send you a poem."... Contents index: poem on peace and war on the campus / on copy of «Peace in the Post Christian Era» sent by Merton.

First lines: "In lieu of thanks for sending «Peace in the Post Christian Era», may I send you a poem."... Contents index: poem on peace and war on the campus / on copy of «Peace in the Post Christian Era» sent by Merton.

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: "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: "Cold, windy, snowy days, bright ones, are perhaps good for writing letters. At least I am"... Contents index: suggests sending poems to J. Laughlin at New Directions or «Ramparts» / Lapp book «Kill and Overkill» / new aspect of war that operates without principles, like Zen, but "Zen is sane. But not the Pentagon." / Ixion poem.

First lines: "Cold, windy, snowy days, bright ones, are perhaps good for writing letters. At least I am"... Contents index: suggests sending poems to J. Laughlin at New Directions or «Ramparts» / Lapp book «Kill and Overkill» / new aspect of war that operates without principles, like Zen, but "Zen is sane. But not the Pentagon." / Ixion poem.

First lines: "I was glad to hear from you because Les Dewart said you had been ill, and now I see you must be"... Contents index: assistance in studying the "men of Chartres" / Ulric of Strasbourg - commentary on Dionysius, Divine Names / "link between the Chartrains and Eckhart" / School of Chartres and Mircea Eliade and the Jungian psychologists.

First lines: "I was glad to hear from you because Les Dewart said you had been ill, and now I see you must be"... Contents index: assistance in studying the "men of Chartres" / Ulric of Strasbourg - commentary on Dionysius, Divine Names / "link between the Chartrains and Eckhart" / School of Chartres and Mircea Eliade and the Jungian psychologists.

First lines: "The song you particularly liked, «Decisive Work», did not have, in my book, the music to which"... Contents index: letter is in a Christmas card containing the song "The Humble Heart".

First lines: "The song you particularly liked, «Decisive Work», did not have, in my book, the music to which"... Contents index: letter is in a Christmas card containing the song "The Humble Heart".

First lines: "I had replied to your letter on 21st June, 1962 in which I raised a number of queries but I have not"... Contents index: thanks for «Breakthrough to Peace» book / John of the Cross / asks Merton what he means in «Ascent to Truth» by "'darkening' of all desire" and "analogical movement or attitude" / death of Louis Massignon.

First lines: "I had replied to your letter on 21st June, 1962 in which I raised a number of queries but I have not"... Contents index: thanks for «Breakthrough to Peace» book / John of the Cross / asks Merton what he means in «Ascent to Truth» by "'darkening' of all desire" and "analogical movement or attitude" / death of Louis Massignon.

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

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

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

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

First lines: "Thanks for your two kind letters. I was interested to hear of your visit to the monks at Tolleshunt"...

First lines: "Thanks for your two kind letters. I was interested to hear of your visit to the monks at Tolleshunt"...

First lines: "I was touched at your thoughtfulness in sending me the music for the song "Decisive Work". It is"...

First lines: "I was touched at your thoughtfulness in sending me the music for the song "Decisive Work". It is"...

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: "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: "Well, this is the first letter dated 1963 that I have written, and by a miracle I put the right date"...

First lines: "Well, this is the first letter dated 1963 that I have written, and by a miracle I put the right date"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter and cheque for $50 which I didn't expect and which cheered me up much."...

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter and cheque for $50 which I didn't expect and which cheered me up much."...

First lines: "I am sending you by the registered post my little Mss in French -- "Staretz Alexander of Gethsemani"...

First lines: "I am sending you by the registered post my little Mss in French -- "Staretz Alexander of Gethsemani"...

First lines: "You must think that I have been out of the country, as it has taken me so long to get to your letter"... Contents index: timetable for publication / proofs to Fr. Diekmann and two Cardinals / Farrar Straus / Ed Rice / Thomas McDonnell / possibility of publishing a different collection of essays / imprimi potest and imprimatur.

First lines: "You must think that I have been out of the country, as it has taken me so long to get to your letter"... Contents index: timetable for publication / proofs to Fr. Diekmann and two Cardinals / Farrar Straus / Ed Rice / Thomas McDonnell / possibility of publishing a different collection of essays / imprimi potest and imprimatur.

First lines: "You will be glad to hear that I have finished all the work on the revision of your manuscript and it"...

First lines: "You will be glad to hear that I have finished all the work on the revision of your manuscript and it"...

First lines: "Many thanks for the fine and beautifully printed poem about the Cistercian Breviary: done with your"... Contents index: «The Merton Reader» / printing project for Merton's translations of poems by Raissa Maritain and a "selection of 'versions' from Chuang Tzu" / "unpublishable book on war" and told to stop writing about nuclear war / «Breakthrough to Peace» / rights of the Indian / violation of treaty with the Senecas.

First lines: "Many thanks for the fine and beautifully printed poem about the Cistercian Breviary: done with your"... Contents index: «The Merton Reader» / printing project for Merton's translations of poems by Raissa Maritain and a "selection of 'versions' from Chuang Tzu" / "unpublishable book on war" and told to stop writing about nuclear war / «Breakthrough to Peace» / rights of the Indian / violation of treaty with the Senecas.

First lines: "Thank you for your translations of Raïssa Maritain's pieces that your good note included. I have"...

First lines: "Thank you for your translations of Raïssa Maritain's pieces that your good note included. I have"...

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: "Thank you for your letter. Thank you also for your kind donation, which of course Father"...

First lines: "Thank you for your letter. Thank you also for your kind donation, which of course Father"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter of Jan 29th, which I received here in Groningen, where I am since Jan"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter of Jan 29th, which I received here in Groningen, where I am since Jan"...

First lines: "M. Jacques Maritain has told me that you are translating his wife's poems, and that you know I have"...

First lines: "M. Jacques Maritain has told me that you are translating his wife's poems, and that you know I have"...

First lines: "Thanks for your two letters. The last one was particularly good, and I want to tell you at least"...

First lines: "I am afraid I am not able to be a very good correspondent. Sometimes I can answer letters,"... Contents index: [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files].

First lines: "I am afraid I am not able to be a very good correspondent. Sometimes I can answer letters,"... Contents index: [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files].

First lines: "Thanks for your two letters. The last one was particularly good, and I want to tell you at least"...

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

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

First lines: "I would have a hard time telling you exactly what books of ours are in print now, but I will make an"... Contents index: list of books and publishers by Merton.

First lines: "I would have a hard time telling you exactly what books of ours are in print now, but I will make an"... Contents index: list of books and publishers by Merton.

First lines: "Betty Bartelme, of Macmillan, tells me that they are bringing out a book of yours this Fall, PRAYER"... Contents index: forthcoming book by Merton - «Prayer as Worship and Experience» by Macmillan / Farrar, Straus - Bob Giroux.

First lines: "Betty Bartelme, of Macmillan, tells me that they are bringing out a book of yours this Fall, PRAYER"... Contents index: forthcoming book by Merton - «Prayer as Worship and Experience» by Macmillan / Farrar, Straus - Bob Giroux.

First lines: "Thanks for your note. I am afraid I don't have a complete typescript of PRAYER AS WORSHIP"... Contents index: complex relations with Farrar, Straus and Cudahy - Bob Giroux / dropping of Curtis Brown / «The Merton Reader».

First lines: "Thanks for your note. I am afraid I don't have a complete typescript of PRAYER AS WORSHIP"... Contents index: complex relations with Farrar, Straus and Cudahy - Bob Giroux / dropping of Curtis Brown / «The Merton Reader».

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