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First lines: "I will need to get to town next Monday the 7th to see Dr Mitchell, as usual in the morning. Can you"...

First lines: "I found this interesting message dating from the past."... Contents index: [see also #195a on the same note]

First lines: "Could I catch you for a minute in infirmary after dinner? [-] Thanks in Jesu [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [verso: Bamberger notes that Merton "got bug spray in his eye - no damage"]

First lines: "When Thomas Merton died some sixteen years ago the New York Times referred to him as being the best"... Contents index: [draft of review for Cistercian Studies Quarterly by Dom John Eudes Bamberger of «Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton» by Michael Mott]

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: "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.

In this group of letters, Merton and Bane discuss the training of novices for the cloistered life, monastic renewal, and proposed reform to community life in light of Vatican II; the foundation of an audio tape library for Merton recordings; and a retreat for contemplative orders conducted by Merton. In his journals, Merton has many glowing words about the retreat and the quality of the participants (see also references in "Related Information"). Herein are many original typed and signed letters from Bane and carbon copies of letters from Merton.

First lines: "It is Christmas Eve and the afternoon is free, so I have taken time to get a few letters in the mail"... Contents index: hermitage / rumors / "The Climate of Monastic Prayer" / contemplative vocation.

First lines: "God bless you, Father, for your genuine Christianity! I'm sure you couldn't possibly realize the"... Contents index: Mother Angelica, P.C. / Fr. Paul Boyle, C.P. from St. Meinrad / Archbishop Flahiff's letter to Mother Angelica / Archbishop Philippe / permission for retreat / "Climate of Monastic Prayer".

First lines: "GENERAL NORMS FOR THE ASSOCIATION OF CONTEMPLATIVE COMMUNITIES"... Contents index: [attached to the 1966/07/23 letter].

First lines: "I have been meaning to answer your letter, and I am sorry to discover that today, August 9, is the"... Contents index: critique of the Norms from previous letter / Merton's bursitis / hermitage / a second Gethsemani hermit / article on Franciscan hermits.

First lines: "May the Lord give you his peace! Thank you for the most recent materials you sent. All of us"... Contents index: September meeting cancelled and complaint sent about the Association [of contemplatives] / Fr. Boyle called to Washington by Apostolic Delegation.

First lines: "Thank you for the last envelope of literature which you sent. It is always deeply appreciated and"... Contents index: [attachment: Horarium for St. Elizabeth's Motherhouse] "Identity Crisis" article by Merton / Sacred Science course at St. Bonaventure University / Association ended / Retiro.

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"].

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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "Thanks for the list of the people who are getting the tapes. In a while I hope to send you a rather"... Contents index: tape on "Cargo Movements" / small meeting for May / brief resume of the tapes from December / Louisville Carmel.

First lines: "Thank you for your letter and invitation to the meeting on May 27th to 30th. I would be delighted"... Contents index: plans for May meeting / question about whether to circulate retreat tapes.

First lines: "Thank you for your recent response to our request for Merton correspondence that you might have. I"...

First lines: "Thank you for your very cordial letter of December 4th regarding my correspondence with Thomas"...

Bannon solicits from Merton his remembrances of St. Bonaventure University and its faculty and staff. Merton's lengthy response, naming many of his dearest priestly and lay professors, is included in the article "Thomas Merton: A Growing Legend at St. Bonaventure," «Magnificat» 11 (March 1966), pp. 3-4 (Source: «The Road to Joy», p. 297.)

First lines: "First of all if you want material about me, there was an article in the Louisville Courier Journal"... Contents index: memories of St. Bonaventure's / life with the friars / discussion of priests and lay professors whom he fondly remembers / St. Francis.

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

First lines: "Excuse me writing to you unannounced, out of the blue, like this. I have been a great admirer of"... Contents index: asks for original articles for «Peace News» / reviews of «Raids» and «Conjectures» / permission to reprint "A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann" for "Madness: Sanity/Insanity" feature.

First lines: "Thank you very much for your kind and generous letter and its contents. We read thru all the"... Contents index: running 2 of Merton's articles "Target" and "A Christian Approach" / censors / Dr. Sylvester Theisen - reader's comment on Merton's article / suggests a spiritual title rather than on nuclear war for «Benedictine Studies» / Merton's notes to novices / would like an American, rather than European, commentary on monastic life.

First lines: "Sorry, bad news. My higher superiors have judged that it is not quite fitting for a Cistercian monk"... Contents index: nuclear war censorship of Merton's writings - obligation for obedience despite book already at Macmillan [«Peace in a Post-Christian Era»] / Merton must take back article sent to Barry on nuclear war / Cassian / article on Adam of Perseigne would not sit well with the "Black Benedictines" / Dutch mystic Hadewijch.

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: "We want you to know of our gratitude for the generous contribution sent by you in the amount of"... Contents index: thanking Merton for a contribution made to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in support of civil rights work.

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: "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: "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: "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: "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: "It gave me much pleasure to hear that something in «The House» may be of use to you in your"... Contents index: contemplation linked to earthly objects as "stepping stones".

First lines: "vous [sic] saurez m'excuser si j'ai attendu presque une année pour vous écris encore, après votre"... Contents index: «Life and Holiness» / Hebert Mason / «Mohammed et St. François» / "Les érémites du Moyen Age et l'esprit du pèlérinage vers Jérusalem" / Pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Islamic pilgrimages / finished 3 volumes on works of Louis Massignon / Christian interpretations of the Koran.

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

First lines: "Here is the Spanish translation of your article. Will you please tell me if you find it all right?"... Contents index: plans to publish article in May or June issue of «Sur» / Victoria Ocampo is spending the summer (southern hemisphere) in Mar del Plata.

First lines: "Many thanks for sending the translation. I am returning it as fast as possible. There are no"... Contents index: minor changes to be made / difference in American slang for "cool" and the word «fría» in Spanish / letters of Ortega in the last issue of «Sur» / Merton going to hospital next week.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bates, Harvey H., Rev.".

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: "Yesterday I had the very great pleasure of speaking at some length with Rabbi Abraham Heschel who"... Contents index: [2nd draft] Jewish Chapter of the Second Vatican Council / need for healing between Christians and Jews to serve both faiths / the fear of alienation with Moslems countered with reinforcement of the status of all "people of the Book" in the «Koran» / promises to Abraham / Protestant ecumenism.

First lines: "Thanks for the book, first of all. I had heard about it, and I am sure I will profit by reading it."... Contents index: clergy's view of women - seminary formation in shaping this view / conscientious objection / «Pacem in Terris» and Pope Paul VI's speech to the UN / Vietnam War / reasons to object from involvement in fighting war and alternatives - Peace Corps / harmfulness of irresponsible protest / Gordon Zahn's «In Silent Witness».

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: "You know that for a long time I have been cooking up a printing project for your press. I am still"... Contents index: working on Chuang Tzu / "J" [Laughlin] / "Message to Poets" and "Art and Freedom" for a pamphlet - can't be a book and upset Farrar Straus / John Beecher's book of poems / "beautifully printed little thing" from the Benedictine Nuns of Stanbrook in England.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Belden, Albert David, Rev. Dr.".

First lines: "Thank you for your very kind letter of October 19th. I am sorry to have delayed in answering, but I"... Contents index: agrees to sign Belden's Pax Christi Plan / unreasonable nature of war and need for abolishment / Catholics and ecclesiastical authority / friendship with Archbishop Roberts and Norman Cousins / Merton can't promise activism because of his monastic life and some of his works censored / international arms agreement.

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter of the 20th. I think I would really enjoy doing a commentary on Camus's"... Contents index: Merton to write commentary on Camus' «The Plague» / probably will not start until late summer / publishing clearance / which translation or edition to use.

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter of the 20th. I think I would really enjoy doing a commentary on"... Contents index: Merton to write commentary on Camus' «The Plague» / probably will not start until late summer / publishing clearance / which translation or edition to use.

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: "Thank you so much for sending us the letters which you received from Thomas Merton. We are doing"... Contents index: 1968/03/27 letter's commentary on Vietnam and the "eschatological fulfillment of the hopes of mankind" in the writings of Merton.

First lines: "Yours is the second letter I have received in a few days, about the reference to Julian of Norwich"... Contents index: reference to Julian of Norwich in «Seeds of Destruction» / Julian of Norwich's «Revelations of Divine Love» / Bob Giroux.

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

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Benedict, Fr., O.C.S.O.".

First lines: "Please accept this book written by my husband"... Contents index: husband Lerone Bennett - «Confrontation: Black and White» / Sister Marialein, O.P., from Mobile, Alabama introduced her to Merton's writings in high school / «Seeds of Destruction» / «Life» magazine article / asks prayers for those in the Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee in Alabama.

First lines: "Thanks for your warm good letter, and for Lerone's Boston talk. Starting with that, I'd say it is"... Contents index: Lerone's speech - "what has to be seen and admitted" and "what apparently cannot be" / dialogue with Lerone on Camus / invitation to visit Merton / discrimination against Gloria's children and Merton's own limited experiences of discrimination in France and England / "Red-neck ghettoes" / Black Power.

First lines: "Merci de votre bonne lettre reçue bien."... Contents index: Mother Berchmans / Merton's article on St. Bernard and St. John of the Cross / Fr. Anthony / patience, humility, charity and obedience / the interior life / Fr. Odilon as Prior / Fr. Placid and Fr. Gerard.

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

First lines: "In my college freshman English class, I'm working on a term paper, comparing you with"... Contents index: comparing Merton and Dag Hammarskjold on contemplation and peace / using «Seven Storey Mountain» / request more information / «No Man Is an Island».

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Berg, Marina de".

First lines: "I am awfully sorry but you made a mistake and sended [sic] me a certain letter addressed Sr. U"... Contents index: states that she didn't read mistakenly sent letter… but sorry to know that Merton is dealing with censorship [implies de Berg read the letter?] / again is living in a Cistercian monastery in the Pyrenees, then going to Marseille / description of Marseille - no one goes to Mass but "old hags in black".

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.

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

First lines: "FRIARY ON MEDWAY BANKS: Saint's Relics Brought From France To England - One of the most"... Contents index: newspaper clipping describing the transfer of relics of St. Simon Stock from the Bordeaux region of France to Aylesford Carmelite Abbey in the Kent village of Aylesford, England..

First lines: "We are planning to issue an anthology of Catholic poetry, edited by Thomas Merton, and he has asked"...

First lines: "I am very glad to hear that the Pax movement is getting started in this country and that you are"... Contents index: need for action on the peace from / [lack of peace] an apostasy from Christ / New Directions anthology on peace - asking Berrigan for contributions - proposed contributors: Jerome Frank, Erich Fromm, Lewis Mumford, Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani, Gordon Zahn, Bede Griffiths / proposed meeting on peace.

First lines: "Thanks for your very fine letter and all the other things. I have not yet had a quiet moment in"... Contents index: Charles de Foucauld / Tony Walsh, Gordon Zahn, Lewis Mumford, Erich Fromm / young English Catholics and their book on nuclear weapons and Christian conscience / not yet written to Karl Meyer / proposed talks by Berrigan at Gethsemani, Bellarmine College, Loretto Motherhouse / nuclear war and the Church.

First lines: "My correspondence is a kind of Sisyphus act: rolling the boulder up the hill and then having it"... Contents index: Berrigan's review of «The New Man» / Berrigan's poems / censors and peace articles / "Vocation" poems by Merton and by Berrigan / John Heidbrink / Douglas Steere / visits by people from Catholic Worker who now are in jail / Benedictine approach to prayer - Oriental approach / poem about the spaceman / Tom Maher.

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: "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: "I am here for a day of retreat to the Maddames [sic] of the S.H. It brings back memories since it"... Contents index: [dated "The Feast of the Sacred Heart" (the feast falling on June 21 in 1963)] writing from Albany, New York, where Phillip and Daniel began abortive freedom ride 3 years before / thinks about packing up everything and going to Birmingham against the wishes of his superiors - civil disobedience and Church disobedience? / Tony Walsh / Charles de Foucault / "Pacem in Terris" / the FOR.

First lines: "This will come to you as a conscience matter letter, so that I can deal with your question freely."... Contents index: [draft of TLS[x] from 1963/06/25].

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: "Seems like an age since I had word of you. I am wonderinf [sic] whether any of the (in)famous tapes"... Contents index: "(in)famous tapes" - Catholicism in Poland under Communism - Fr. Felix McGovern / lacks hope of being sent by the Church as a representative at the Prague peace conference - the good work being done by "a very few Catholics, many more Protestants and Orthodox" - asking Merton to write Pope Paul or Cardinal Bea.

First lines: "I am sending on some junk mail another another [sic] heading. I though[t] it might be of"... Contents index: Latin America - non-violence "too little and too late"? / censorship of his materials / trip to South Africa / [Rolf?] Hochhuth play / Moscow-Prague trip for the summer / Berrigan's piece on Notre Dame / Merton's piece on poets - Henry Miller - "why isn't this guy a Catholic"? / Aleriaand Marocco / John Heidbrink.

First lines: "Whitmonday. Time for abrief [sic] letter, perhaps uninspired. I am worn out (not really) from"... Contents index: book on Gandhi and piece on "Mercy" / Georgetown Strategy Center wants Merton's input but he can't / visit of Hibakusha of Hiroshima bombing / Polish tape arrived but not South African / Jan Milic Lochman from Prague / Ivan Illich inviting Merton to Latin American conference / why Merton can't travel.

First lines: "We can send one car and will send same to Albert Pick Motel nine am Wednesday 18th. Good idea for"... Contents index: arranging talk on Loretto / Berrigan to lead discussion on "spiritual roots of protest" and Merton to give talk on "monastic desert viewpoint".

First lines: "A short note to assure you that I am safely back in the arms of Jesuit Missions, deeply grateful for"... Contents index: "no prospect of an early let-up in the war frenzy" - need for change but agreement with Merton that extremism could undermine good effects / not convinced of Bill DuBay's solution.

First lines: "Sounds as though this is it, doesn't it? I find it hard to organize clear thoughts but you will"... Contents index: Berrigan's conflicts with the Jesuits over permission to go with Fellowship of Reconciliation to Hanoi to bring medical supplies / institutional Church - obeying God vs. man / Fr. Perrin's departure from Jesuits / advises Berrigan to follow his conscience and not worry about the consequences if he truly believes in this.

First lines: "Sounds as though this is it, doesn't it? I find it hard to organize clear thoughts but you will"... Contents index: Berrigan's conflicts with the Jesuits over permission to go with Fellowship of Reconciliation to Hanoi to bring medical supplies / institutional Church - obeying God vs. man / Fr. Perrin's departure from Jesuits / advises Berrigan to follow his conscience and not worry about the consequences if he truly believes in this.

First lines: "You will probably hear of this through the FOR but since people in France have been writing to me"... Contents index: international, ecumenical seven day fast - Protestant and Catholic clergy and Lanza del Vasto's group / asking Berrigan if he is interested though Merton cannot go / Merton may fast privately at hermitage / Pasteur Jean Lasserre / pamphlet on Camus' «Plague» dedicated to Berrigan / Teilhard de Chardin.

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: "Letters by Thomas Merton to Daniel and Philip Berrigan in the Department of Rare Books, Cornell"... Contents index: list of Merton's letters to Daniel Berrigan in Cornell Library's Rare Books Department.

First lines: "Contemporary Authors, Volumes 33-36, First Revision"... Contents index: biographical information collected by William Shannon.

First lines: "You will recall the hopes that Dan and I had that you would write the foreword of our joint"... Contents index: asking Merton to write a foreword to his book «No Longer Strangers» / at meeting at Gethsemani next month, Philip would like to discuss institutionalism - wrote about it in «Perspectives».

First lines: "The foreword arrived, so an immediate word of my gratitude- tremendously pleased with it."... Contents index: correction of one error in Merton's foreword.

First lines: "I was glad to get your good letter of the 4th. It reached me when I got home from the hospital."... Contents index: Catholic Peace Fellowship / conflicts with superiors.

First lines: "Apologies for not having kept you better informed. Since getting out of jail, there has been much"... Contents index: mentions members of his group, not including Philip, who will be handcuffing themselves together to block entry into draft room at the Customs House / trial in February - charges by federal government of conspiracy to destruction of government property with up to 23 years in jail / Daniel's work at Cornell.

First lines: "Recently when talking with Dr. John Wu he spoke of your interest in the spiritual traditions of the"... Contents index: asking for Merton's input in the Christian evaluation of Asian spirituality / meetings of Catholic scholars in New York / the loss of John Wu's wife and effect on his writing.

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: "What keeps me from writing more is that I never know if Port Royal Kentucky is enough of an address."... Contents index: question about Berry's address / plans to use monastic press to publish a magazine of poetry and short prose - «Monks Pond» - "I don't think a monastic press should be confined to cheese and liturgy." / Asian, Indian, and African texts - Zen texts / proposed visit by Harry Caudill.

First lines: "These have all been written since the first of the year. The little poems can be called haiku only"... Contents index: response to copy of Merton's "Comment: re FORUM" - likes Merton's idea of living as an experiment of a "non-organization man" / observations of a woodpecker / Conference on the War at the University of Kentucky - conference had an early Christian feeling.

First lines: "We're trying to get ready to leave here for the West Coast on the 20th of this month. We hoped to"... Contents index: sending some winter haiku from before / poem from book on farming.

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Berval, René de, Fr.".