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First lines: "I'm sorry to be just getting around to answering your request for copies of correspondence from"... Contents index: sending original of Merton's letter / permission to publish.

First lines: "I received with gratitude the exchange of letters between yourself and the late Thomas Merton."...

First lines: "en réponse à votre lettre"... Contents index: Alexeieff sends letters in response to Merton Center request.

First lines: "As a response to your letter of October 5th concerning correspondence between Thomas Merton"...

First lines: "I hope these articles will be of some use to you - some of them are deteriorating and when I"...

First lines: "Thank you for your letter of October 23. More and more people are replying to the form letter we"...

First lines: "Thank you for donating the letter of Thomas Merton to our collection. It will be a valuable"...

First lines: "Thank you for the information you sent about your correspondence with Father Thomas Merton, and for"...

First lines: "I take pleasure in donating to the Thomas Merton Studies Center the attached original of a letter I"...

First lines: "We have two additional replies to our form letter to the correspondents of Thomas Merton. 1."... Contents index: permissions for Sr. Alice / letter from Ethel Burns and Columbia medal of excellence, Christmas letters, and autographed books.

First lines: "Thank you for sending me information concerning the Thomas Merton Collection at Bellarmine."... Contents index: sending copies of her letters from Merton.

First lines: "We were delighted to receive your packet of letters concerning your Nanny, Thomas Merton and Tom's"... Contents index: question about some of the letters' dates.

First lines: "I received your letter requesting to use letter I wrote to Father Louis Merton in the Merton Study"... Contents index: permissions request.

First lines: "Enclosed are the letters I have from Tom Merton. Please Xerox them for me. I have pictures and"... Contents index: message accompanying original letters from Merton sent to Nancy, letters she inherited from Merton to Nanny, and letters from Walter Hauck to John Paul Merton / explanation of family connections with Merton.

First lines: "Thank you for your letter regarding Fr Merton. Father, his correspondence with me was brief, some"...

First lines: "I will be glad to contribute my correspondence with Thomas Merton to your Studies Center--and to"...

First lines: "In reply to your letter of October 1st, I am pleased to hear of the Thomas Merton Studies Center."... Contents index: 15th annual volume of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards "Best Poems of 1962" - out of print.

First lines: "In answer to your recent letter regarding any letters, etc. I might have from Thomas Merton,"...

First lines: "We are writing to you regarding your correspondence with the late Thomas Merton. Almost all of Fr."... Contents index: permission request letter / returned undelivered to Merton Center.

First lines: "Je suis toute confuse et aussi très heureuse de ce que vous avez bien voulu me répondre."... Contents index: [see also the "Marie-Pascal, Sr." file]

First lines: "En ce moment, je termine la lecture de votre article su Th. Merton Traduit par P. Remner"... Contents index: [see also the "Marie-Pascal, Sr." file]

First lines: "Alan Watts has asked me to thank you very much for your letter of January 13th. Dr. Watts would be"... Contents index: inclusion of "The Ways of Liberation" chapter from «Psychotherapy East and West» in memorial book to Thomas Merton / Saijo was secretary to Alan Watts of the Society for Comparative Philosophy, Inc. (Sausalito, CA).

First lines: "Thank you for your letter of December 16. Father Merton's death is a terrible loss to all of us,"... Contents index: instructions on obtaining permissions to use previously published poems for «Mele».

First lines: "I take the liberty to write you as a friend of Thomas Merton, since you were his publisher"... Contents index: Merton had, before his death, promised a contribution to «Mele» and Baciu asks if Laughlin can send a poem.

First lines: "Thank you for your telegram informing us of Father Thomas Merton's death. I assume he will be buried"... Contents index: [Harold Brewster Jenkins was Merton's uncle on his mother's side - see also the "Jenkins, Harold" file in Section A].

First lines: "I am shattered by this unbelievable event. I know it is God's will, and I know that our dear friend"... Contents index: Laughlin's response to the news of Merton's death.

First lines: "This is a very brief note to say hello. You will by now have heard of the trial and our sentencing."... Contents index: trial and sentencing of Daniel and Philip Berrigan for "Catonsville Nine" incident of breaking into draft office and burning draft cards with home-made napalm in Catonsville, Maryland / asking if Merton would be interviewed by Francine Grey of the «New Yorker» about peace movement [Merton (in Asia) later declines].

First lines: "By all means use the article with better title."... Contents index: [typed message for handwritten postcard] Dalai Lama / return from Asia in May via England a trip to Wales with Allchin.

First lines: "By all means use the article - with better title. The Indian journey has been fine so far, fine"... Contents index: Dalai Lama / return from Asia in May via England a trip to Wales with Allchin.

First lines: "I owe you a progress report. Not having got any mail for a couple of weeks I don't know if there"... Contents index: [writing from the Hotel Imperial in New Delhi, India] meeting with the Dalai Lama in the Himalayas - Tibetan samadhi / Madhyamika philosophy / Dalai Lama called Merton a "Geyshe" - someone with Dalai Lama told Merton he had never said this of a westerner before / Alaska hermitage / popularization of Tibetan spirituality.

First lines: "India has turned out to be very groovy indeed. The meeting in Calcutta was not very good but as"... Contents index: [photocopy of postcard (from Butorovich?) with typed "translation" of Merton's script, she adds that the others mentioned in the letter were Cris Cadena, Butorovich's school friend who joined Merton and Butorovich's family for dinner when Merton was in California, and Mary Lou Berryessa, another school friend of Butorovich].

First lines: "Just a word to say I am in Calcutta and the meeting is about to begin. It will be held here because"... Contents index: [writing from the Oberoi Grand Hotel in Calcutta, India] experience of Buddhism in Thailand / poverty of Calcutta / "The idea of ghetto monasticism in Calcutta is just impossible!".

First lines: "I borrowed Mother Myriam's Olivetti to write out my paper for Darjeeling (they wanted it written out"... Contents index: [writing from Redwoods Monastery in Whitethorn, California] advantages of the solitude of Alaska over the development on the California coast / will return to Gethsemani but does not see future there / Asian trip agenda / on Dom James Fox finally thinking Merton "mature" - "Maybe that was the result of the episode in 1966".

First lines: "I thought you'd like to see some photos of one of the best places I have found. These are pictures"... Contents index: [writing from Anchorage, Alaska] sending pictures of good places for hermitage in Alaska - Cordova, Alaska / offers of land to Merton for hermitage.

First lines: "Your letter finally caught up with me in Alaska but I am moving on. Impossible to get to trial"... Contents index: post card from Mt. McKinley, Alaska / Merton responds to an invitation to attend the trial of the Catonsville Nine, Philip Berrigan, Daniel Berrigan and seven others who broke into a Selective Service office in Catonsville, MD, and burned draft records / Merton will be in India and cannon make the October trial, but is raising money.

First lines: "Yesterday I wrote in a big hurry on a most unfamiliar typewriter. This is still not the kind of"... Contents index: [writing from Anchorage, Alaska] plans of going to Juneau area - later visit the Yakutat people / hermits - Russian Orthodox monk who has lived for years off of Kodiak island - the Staretz living there before him was venerated a saint.

First lines: "Your letter(s) followed me to Alaska and got here just in time. I have not run out on the monastery"... Contents index: [written from Anchorage, Alaska].

First lines: "I am writing this in the Chancery Office while waiting to get my flight to California confirmed."... Contents index: [writing from Anchorage, Alaska] flying in bush planes and getting a feel for Alaska / good prospects for a hermitage / climbed a 2000 foot mountain.

First lines: "For your confidential information I wish to assure you that I have received the unanimous support of"... Contents index: Merton's annotation on letter "suggest Mother Myriam (Redwoods) / Breitenbeck asks for suggestions of contemplative nuns for conference.

First lines: "tell father louis that ron seitz called and said that he would be here on Tuesday at 10:00. he also"... Contents index: poems by Ron Seitz in «Monks Pond».

First lines: "No, Mpond 3 hasn't arrived yet; sure it will in a day or two--. Book is with Doubleday, yes;"...

First lines: "Thank you so much for your letter authorizing that any charges on Father Louis's American Express"...

First lines: "Will you please do whatever is necessary to process this new book of verse? [-] Many thanks in Xto"...

First lines: "I8m [sic] returning what's left of your beautiful book. Have used and pilfered for MPOND iii and iv"...

First lines: "Dr Mitchell recommended these - can you please provide? [-] Thanks in Jesu [-] fr m Louis"...

First lines: "I am so pleased that you are going to print the two Zen stories and some poems. Biographically, I"... Contents index: biographical information / working on a book of poems entitled «Coat of Flesh».

First lines: "September has nearly come around and alas, no Wales. First of all the General Chapter is not until"...

First lines: "I have never thanked you for the two issues of «Monks Pond». I haven't had time to read them"... Contents index: commentary on Camus' «Plague».

First lines: "Thank you very much for your nice letter, and I am excited about my poems appearing in MONKS POND."... Contents index: Byrd spent time with Keith Wilson in the summer / submits contributor's notes / «Tolar Creek Syndicate».

First lines: "How have you been? We have thought of you often and the influence you have had on our lives. Last"... Contents index: trip to Norton's farm / Sr. Regina Catherine elected new superior general / trip to Brazil / how to start a "spirituality program".

First lines: "That flight is Eastern 504y - arriving in Washington DC. National Airport 8:17 p.m. Friday Aug 23rd."... Contents index: [verso: note by Bamberger concerning the flight and arrangements in Washington, D.C., including meeting the ambassador of Indonesia]

First lines: "In the years that have passed since your group came here, I have often thought of you and wondered"... Contents index: sending part of a longer poem to use.

First lines: "In regard to the letter of Dom John Morson about foreign censorship and in particular the Italian"... Contents index: problems in publishing in France, Spain and Italy - problems with censors for the Italian translation of «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander».

First lines: "In regard to the letter of Dom John Morson about foreign censorship and in particular the Italian"... Contents index: problems in publishing in France, Spain and Italy - problems with censors for the Italian translation of «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander».

First lines: "In regard to the letter of Dom John Morson of Aug. 12th. This problem arose rather frequently in"... Contents index: problems in publishing in France, Spain and Italy - problems with censors for the Italian translation of «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander».

First lines: "We would deeply appreciate your reading the enclosed manuscript. Please be aware that the lay-out,"... Contents index: asking Merton to review prospectus [not enclosed herein] for an Art Workshop, including the art and its lay-out / asking for criticism and/or an article on the workshop theme / asking for a professional endorsement of the project.

First lines: "This is just a note to greet you from Boston. Last week's conference surpassed «all»"...

First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter. I am certainly happy to think that so sound a judge as C.S.Lewis found"... Contents index: possibility of racial violence and apartheid police state - suggests writing to John Howard Griffin on this subject.

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.

First lines: "Your invitation is an attractive one indeed. I wish I could accept it. Unfortunately I am tied up"... Contents index: cannot attend conference / would like to go in order to visit Australian and New Zealand relatives.

First lines: "This is hurried because I am home only a few hours. I was sorry to hear you can't come. In the"... Contents index: regrets that Merton will not be at the conference - 250 superiors and not another voice like Merton's.

First lines: "In the latest issue of «Liturgical Arts» magazine I noticed that you are preparing to print"... Contents index: requests a copy of «Monks Pond».

First lines: "We write to canvass your availability to contribute a paper to a conference being convened in Sydney"...

First lines: "I am reading your book, «Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander», which I find both informative and"... Contents index: C. S. Lewis and Merton / thesis topic - race relations - possibility of racial war or apartheid / could race war be carried out in the name of Christianity by white racists?.

First lines: "In your letter you mention the cool summer: it has got hot enough now! I have thought often of you"... Contents index: trip to Asia / Buddhist and other forms of monasticism / themes of "unity and reconciliation of opposites" in Merton's work and brought out in dissertation - true meaning of "Catholic".

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.

First lines: "Please send a copy of «Monks Pond», Spring 1968 as described in the May issue of"... Contents index: «Monks Pond» and «Liturgical Arts» magazine.

First lines: "Thanks for your kind letter. I think we are working our way towards a solution. I have mentioned"...

First lines: "Many thanks for your cheque, which you sent to Mont-des-Cats Abbey, as I am informed. I expect to"...

First lines: "At least this begging pen of mine will be still for a while and I will not write any more"...

First lines: "Thanks so much for the kindly support, the generous clarification of expenses in our (much needed"... Contents index: plans for Robert Bonazzi and Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi to be at the June 1997 general meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) held at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL / discussion of Fr. August Thompson, also to be a guest speaker at the ITMS conference.

First lines: "I appreciate your kind note, and I want to say that I wish I were free to be of more service in what"... Contents index: Merton offers to send notes to share with bishops on contemplative life.

First lines: "We are safely settled in Bowling Green and are enjoying the "cool" Kentucky summer. I am working in"... Contents index: planning to visit Merton / discuss Shaker material from Western's library and museum.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter and for your draft for a contract for FOUR FREEDOM SONGS. As regards Clause"...

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

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

First lines: "Thanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have always thought"... Contents index: Merton refuses offer to preach retreat - has turned down many others - true vocation is meditation and writing / suggests subprior Fr. Matthew [Kelty?].

First lines: "Thanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have always thought"... Contents index: Merton refuses offer to preach retreat - has turned down many others - true vocation is meditation and writing / suggests subprior Fr. Matthew [Kelty?].

First lines: "Enclosed herewith is copy of Royalty Agreement prepared by me between GIA MUSIC CORPORATION and C."... Contents index: [copy of agreement is not extant].

First lines: "Recently I polled our community for suggestions as to a Retreat Master for our next retreat"... Contents index: invites Merton to lead retreat at Genesee.

First lines: "I appreciate your kind letter of the 18th and I'm glad to hear at least a temporary solution for the"... Contents index: would like to attend Monroe [Michigan] workshop on contemplative life, but doubts he can make it / would like to arrange meeting with the Trappist nuns at Redwoods Monastery.

First lines: "My own opinion is still, that you should not go to this meeting. I think they over-rate your"... Contents index: still does not think Merton should go to meeting [Bangkok?].

First lines: "It looks like I spend most of my time on the road - but not in behalf of myself. I had just"... Contents index: thanks to Merton for his support for contemplative nuns and the letter he sent to the Pope.

First lines: "Our firm has chosen to publish a set of Four Freedom Songs composed by C. Alexander Peloquin to the"... Contents index: attempting to establish a royalty agreement with Merton for "Four Freedom Songs".

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

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

First lines: "Many thanks for your letter of June 4 and for the Yamaguchi manuscript on Zen and Bergson, which has"... Contents index: Fr. Joseph Yamaguchi / introduction to Dr. Chi's book.

First lines: "Don't mind the letterhead, this is just the secret headquarters of my drug pushing outfit. (aspirins"... Contents index: [letterhead: "Community Council of San Mateo County" "Action Study on Community Health Services"] sending second issue of «Monks Pond» / asks Butorovich for material from her underground paper.

First lines: "Father Thomas Merton has asked me to send a set of uncorrected galleys for his collection of essays,"... Contents index: [see also the "Martin, Frederick R." file, Martin was Managing Editor of New Directions Publishing at the time of writing] sending galleys of «Zen and the Birds of Appetite» for censor's approval.

First lines: "The first think we have to thank you for is your good visit - a real joy and source of encouragement"... Contents index: [writing from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico / stationery states "Monastery of Christ of the Desert"].

First lines: "I am happy to tell you that my committee accepted the dissertation this week and that I have now"... Contents index: completed PhD / moving to Bowling Green [to teach at Western Kentucky University] / sending dissertation / sending dialogue with Baptist church students.

First lines: "I read your long letter--with insertions from Cris, etc., etc.-in Dallas airport. Now I'm at Memphis"... Contents index: [photocopy of postcard (from Butorovich?) with typed "translation" of Merton's script, she adds that the others mentioned in the letter were Cris Cadena, Butorovich's school friend who joined Merton and Butorovich's family for dinner when Merton was in California, and Mary Lou Berryessa, another school friend of Butorovich].

First lines: "Thanks so much for «Penny a Copy». Tom and Jim did a fine job of editing and I think it is a"... Contents index: Church in the twentieth century and the Catholic Worker / sentencing of Dan and Phil [Berrigan] for burning of draft records.

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

First lines: "Sincere thanks to you for your thoughtfulness and kindness! I appreciate very much the gift of your"... Contents index: [written on Gethsemani Abbey stationary] Merton's gift of a book and copies of lectures given via Dan Walsh.

First lines: "Thanks for the confidence you show in me, in presenting your questions about John of the Cross."... Contents index: sending mimeographed article Merton wrote / John of the Cross "speaks from the fullness of fulfillment" - he seems extreme because we do not see what he has gained through was he has given up - not fanatical and did not want extreme exterior asceticism, rather "total interior detachment".

First lines: "Thanks for the confidence you show in me, in presenting your questions about John of the Cross."... Contents index: [underlining by Borton] sending mimeographed article Merton wrote / John of the Cross "speaks from the fullness of fulfillment" - he seems extreme because we do not see what he has gained through was he has given up - not fanatical and did not want extreme exterior asceticism, rather "total interior detachment".

First lines: "Here is the reworked piece on "Rebirth in Christianity". I have been somewhat delayed in sending it"... Contents index: City Lights Books and Lawrence Ferlinghetti / «Final Integration».

First lines: "Here is the reworked piece on "Rebirth in Christianity". I have been somewhat delayed in sending it"... Contents index: City Lights Books and Lawrence Ferlinghetti / «Final Integration».

First lines: "I am writing you for two reasons. I hope I don't waste your valuable time. A friend of mine - his"... Contents index: asking Merton to give Brett's friend, Dick Ganci, some criticism on his poems.