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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».

First lines: "I am in receipt of your letter dated the 26th December, 1962 received by me in the first week of"... Contents index: Merton's distinction between "exterior renunciation" and "interior detachment" / Islamic beliefs / John of the Cross / «Way of the Pilgrim».

First lines: "I am in receipt of your letter dated the 26th December, 1962 received by me in the first week of"... Contents index: Merton's distinction between "exterior renunciation" and "interior detachment" / Islamic beliefs / John of the Cross / «Way of the Pilgrim».

First lines: "I will be saying the Masses for Mimi -- I hope she will take care of herself"... Contents index: [verso: photo of front guest garden at Gethsemani].

First lines: "I will be saying the Masses for Mimi -- I hope she will take care of herself"... Contents index: [verso: photo of front guest garden at Gethsemani].

First lines: "I am already in Rome since April 6th and hope to remain here till July. Since I wrote to you on Feb"...

First lines: "I am already in Rome since April 6th and hope to remain here till July. Since I wrote to you on Feb"...

First lines: "It was good to hear from you, both before and after Easter, with the copy of the letter from your"...

First lines: "It was good to hear from you, both before and after Easter, with the copy of the letter from your"...

First lines: "It was good to hear from you, both before and after Easter, with the copy of the letter from your"...

First lines: "It was good to hear from you, both before and after Easter, with the copy of the letter from your"...

First lines: "We have received in The Special Collections Department of Margaret I. King Library the following:"... Contents index: list of writings Merton had sent UK Special Collections Department.

First lines: "We have received in The Special Collections Department of Margaret I. King Library the following:"... Contents index: list of writings Merton had sent UK Special Collections Department.

First lines: "Here is a problem for you as Head Censor: I hope you can help me unravel it. The matter is quite"...

First lines: "Here is a problem for you as Head Censor: I hope you can help me unravel it. The matter is quite"...

First lines: "First of all, I trust you to refrain from any official reference to what I might say in this letter."...

First lines: "First of all, I trust you to refrain from any official reference to what I might say in this letter."...

First lines: "I was most distressed to receive your letter of May 16th, and I can only say that I am very sorry"... Contents index: Merton in bad situation with Farrar Straus because of Macmillan contract / Naomi Burton [Stone] to serve as agent.

First lines: "I was most distressed to receive your letter of May 16th, and I can only say that I am very sorry"... Contents index: Merton in bad situation with Farrar Straus because of Macmillan contract / Naomi Burton [Stone] to serve as agent.

First lines: "I received yesterday a letter from Archbishop Nikodim, dated by May 15th, where he says "I request"...

First lines: "I received yesterday a letter from Archbishop Nikodim, dated by May 15th, where he says "I request"...

First lines: "May we have your permission to reprint in our 15th annual volume of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards"... Contents index: Best Poems of 1962 / "The Moslems' Angel of Death" / contest and award money.

First lines: "May we have your permission to reprint in our 15th annual volume of Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards"... Contents index: Best Poems of 1962 / "The Moslems' Angel of Death" / contest and award money.

First lines: "Things do not seem to be too encouraging, in your life, do they? I am sorry to hear about"... Contents index: Brothers of the Virgin of the Poor in Chile / proposal to go to El Latroun / patience in the face of loneliness and frustration / possible transfer of Anderson to the Camaldolese or the Carthusians.

First lines: "Things do not seem to be too encouraging, in your life, do they? I am sorry to hear about"... Contents index: Brothers of the Virgin of the Poor in Chile / proposal to go to El Latroun / patience in the face of loneliness and frustration / possible transfer of Anderson to the Camaldolese or the Carthusians.

First lines: "Many thanks for your kind letter. I am glad to grant permission for "The Moslems' Angel of Death""...

First lines: "Many thanks for your kind letter. I am glad to grant permission for "The Moslems' Angel of Death""...

First lines: "Many thanks for your good letter of April 4th. I am sorry I have been so slow in replying, but I"... Contents index: Hakim at-Tirmizi translation / differences in soteriology / Islam and Christianity - different words talking about the same realities / Russian mystics and «The Way of the Pilgrim» / "Jesus prayer" and Sufi prayer parallels.

First lines: "Many thanks for your good letter of April 4th. I am sorry I have been so slow in replying, but I"... Contents index: Hakim at-Tirmizi translation / differences in soteriology / Islam and Christianity - different words talking about the same realities / Russian mystics and «The Way of the Pilgrim» / "Jesus prayer" and Sufi prayer parallels.

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: "This will come to you as a conscience matter letter, so that I can deal with your question freely."... Contents index: going to Birmingham (against superiors) had occurred to Merton, but suggests that it may be counterproductive to Berrigan's mission to lose support and be labeled a renegade / gather other Catholics believing in racial equality and non-violence / "Pacem in Terris", bishops and theologians / monastic role and obedience.

First lines: "Thank you for your good letter, which came an awful long time ago. But I think you understand."... Contents index: Fr. William, O.C.D., ed. of «Spiritual Life» and Spiritual Life Institute / Fr. Gabriel Diefenbach advise for spiritual director / Jamaica or the Keys for lay retreat.

First lines: "Thank you for your good letter, which came an awful long time ago. But I think you understand."... Contents index: Fr. William, O.C.D., ed. of «Spiritual Life» and Spiritual Life Institute / Fr. Gabriel Diefenbach advise for spiritual director / Jamaica or the Keys for lay retreat.

First lines: "It was a pleasure to receive your letter. Certainly you will be very welcome at the Abbey, and if"...

First lines: "It was a pleasure to receive your letter. Certainly you will be very welcome at the Abbey, and if"...

First lines: "The immediate purpose of this letter is to let you know that the Nuns of Stanbrook are printing"... Contents index: Nuns of Stanbrook printing a translation of a letter of Guido the Carthusian / dropping book published by Macmillan - «Prayer as Worship and Experience» - foolishness of fighting with Farrar, Straus over book on prayer / J. Laughlin publishing «Emblems of a Season of Fury».

First lines: "The immediate purpose of this letter is to let you know that the Nuns of Stanbrook are printing"... Contents index: Nuns of Stanbrook printing a translation of a letter of Guido the Carthusian / dropping book published by Macmillan - «Prayer as Worship and Experience» - foolishness of fighting with Farrar, Straus over book on prayer / J. Laughlin publishing «Emblems of a Season of Fury».

First lines: "I am writing by return, because you are anxious about Jacques Maritain, and so hasten to tell you"...

First lines: "I am writing by return, because you are anxious about Jacques Maritain, and so hasten to tell you"...

First lines: "I have not forgotten your letter of June 6th, but summer is a very busy season. I have had a great"...

First lines: "I have not forgotten your letter of June 6th, but summer is a very busy season. I have had a great"...

First lines: "Many thanks for you [sic] kind reply of June 2nd. I delayed my reply awaiting the receipt of the"... Contents index: asks about obtaining many other books / question of Muslims and "Salvation" / Aziz asks what are the tenants of the Christian faith / daily routine of solitary retreat / salvation of all faiths.

First lines: "Many thanks for you [sic] kind reply of June 2nd. I delayed my reply awaiting the receipt of the"... Contents index: asks about obtaining many other books / question of Muslims and "Salvation" / Aziz asks what are the tenants of the Christian faith / daily routine of solitary retreat / salvation of all faiths.

First lines: "Our manufacturing department has now returned to me the manuscript"... Contents index: [original in Section C.2, the Setting Copy of the unpublished manuscript, "Prayer as Worship and Experience" / photocopy in correspondence file] regret over dispute concerning book and that it would not be published.

First lines: "Our manufacturing department has now returned to me the manuscript"... Contents index: [original in Section C.2, the Setting Copy of the unpublished manuscript, "Prayer as Worship and Experience" / photocopy in correspondence file] regret over dispute concerning book and that it would not be published.

First lines: "Since I wrote to you on May 26th so much changed. John XXIII, whom I knew since 1927, died and Paul"...

First lines: "Since I wrote to you on May 26th so much changed. John XXIII, whom I knew since 1927, died and Paul"...

First lines: "Thank you very much for all those mimeographed things - I simply cannot tell you how grateful I am"...

First lines: "Thank you very much for all those mimeographed things - I simply cannot tell you how grateful I am"...

First lines: "Muchas gracias por su amable carta del 19 de Agosto, en la cual tiene la bondad de escribirme"...

First lines: "Muchas gracias por su amable carta del 19 de Agosto, en la cual tiene la bondad de escribirme"...

First lines: "Trinity Parish is going to publish a journal of poetry, prints, and essays, to appear twice each"... Contents index: asking permission to publish some of Merton's poetry.

First lines: "Trinity Parish is going to publish a journal of poetry, prints, and essays, to appear twice each"... Contents index: asking permission to publish some of Merton's poetry.

First lines: "I have often been on the point of writing, but other things have always interfered. I am sorry"... Contents index: asking if Merton will do an introduction for a work on Isaac de Stella by Sr. Penelope, C.S.M.V. from Wantage.

First lines: "I have often been on the point of writing, but other things have always interfered. I am sorry"... Contents index: asking if Merton will do an introduction for a work on Isaac de Stella by Sr. Penelope, C.S.M.V. from Wantage.

First lines: "The Feast of St Theresa is as good a day as any for a letter to Stanbrook, and I must confess"...

First lines: "The Feast of St Theresa is as good a day as any for a letter to Stanbrook, and I must confess"...

First lines: "The delay in replying to your letter is due to three things: first, my desire to read the books you"... Contents index: Ahmad al Alawi - "speak[ing] the same language", more than those in this country / Martin Lings / Schuon on Islam - "exegesis of the Bismallah" / explains the Trinity / salvation for the good in all religions / the Philokalia / Merton's Khalwa / Simeon the New Theologian.

First lines: "The delay in replying to your letter is due to three things: first, my desire to read the books you"... Contents index: Ahmad al Alawi - "speak[ing] the same language", more than those in this country / Martin Lings / Schuon on Islam - "exegesis of the Bismallah" / explains the Trinity / salvation for the good in all religions / the Philokalia / Merton's Khalwa / Simeon the New Theologian.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. I find the proposal to do an introduction on Isaac for Sister Penelope"... Contents index: introduction for a work on Isaac de Stella.

First lines: "Thanks for your letter. I find the proposal to do an introduction on Isaac for Sister Penelope"... Contents index: introduction for a work on Isaac de Stella.

First lines: "Please forgive the long delay. I have been wanting to send you something. All my poems are "out""... Contents index: Merton sends notes on Julien Green / asks if Anderson wants "abstract 'calligraphic' drawings".

First lines: "Please forgive the long delay. I have been wanting to send you something. All my poems are "out""... Contents index: Merton sends notes on Julien Green / asks if Anderson wants "abstract 'calligraphic' drawings".

First lines: "Je m'excuse de venir vous déranger. J'ai"... Contents index: Merton's book «Life of Holiness» / Louis Massignon / Egypt / Islam / the book «Mohammed et St. François» (Mohammed and St. Francis).

First lines: "Je m'excuse de venir vous déranger. J'ai"... Contents index: Merton's book «Life of Holiness» / Louis Massignon / Egypt / Islam / the book «Mohammed et St. François» (Mohammed and St. Francis).

First lines: "Mon Révérend Père et très cher Père, […] arrivé à Tahiti depuis le [..] octobre,"...

First lines: "Mon Révérend Père et très cher Père, […] arrivé à Tahiti depuis le [..] octobre,"...

First lines: "Thank you very much for the commentary on Julien Green for CHARLATAN. We did not expect to get"... Contents index: details of publication / requests calligraphies from Merton.

First lines: "Thank you very much for the commentary on Julien Green for CHARLATAN. We did not expect to get"... Contents index: details of publication / requests calligraphies from Merton.

First lines: "This is not anything urgent, but I am just beginning to wonder. Br Martin has been doing some"... Contents index: Spanish poet [Alberti] translation of a work about Rome / question about continuing Sunday conferences - "I feel that […] these kids do not really understand what I am talking about".

First lines: "Raissa's anniversary, and the 8th will be my father's, when I hope you will say a prayer for him -"...

First lines: "Just a few words to relate to you as Master of Novices that for some time a few of the Brothers that"...

First lines: "Raissa's anniversary, and the 8th will be my father's, when I hope you will say a prayer for him -"...

First lines: "Well, then: here are some calligraphies. They may turn out to be a little radical for you. The"... Contents index: group of calligraphies entitled "Flying Signatures" / other series "Animal Forces" and "Vegetal Forces" / Prof. Herbert Burke / Ernesto Cardenal / Latin American poetry.

First lines: "Well, then: here are some calligraphies. They may turn out to be a little radical for you. The"... Contents index: group of calligraphies entitled "Flying Signatures" / other series "Animal Forces" and "Vegetal Forces" / Prof. Herbert Burke / Ernesto Cardenal / Latin American poetry.

First lines: "Hope you havent [sic] given me up for advent or something. After many wanderings and searchings,"... Contents index: [verso: "Kreuzigung Mit Lukas-Symbol" - "Verlag Ars liturgica Maria Laach (Germany)"] chaplain to University students / Goss-Mayrs and John Heidbrink / Tony Walsh.

First lines: "I salute you from Caldey Abbey, this fascinating island monastery, which I did not visit since 1951."...

First lines: "I salute you from Caldey Abbey, this fascinating island monastery, which I did not visit since 1951."...

First lines: "Sorry I did not see you when you were here. I did not even know you were here, and it all depends"... Contents index: Sterling Rayburn / poems - "Landscape" / Dylan Thomas / other favorite poets / prosaic over poetic style - likes his «Strange Islands» better than «Figures for an Apocalypse».

First lines: "Sorry I did not see you when you were here. I did not even know you were here, and it all depends"... Contents index: Sterling Rayburn / poems - "Landscape" / Dylan Thomas / other favorite poets / prosaic over poetic style - likes his «Strange Islands» better than «Figures for an Apocalypse».

First lines: "Sorry I did not see you when you were here. I did not even know you were here, and it all depends"... Contents index: Sterling Rayburn / poems - "Landscape" / Dylan Thomas / other favorite poets / prosaic over poetic style - likes his «Strange Islands» better than «Figures for an Apocalypse».

First lines: "Sorry I did not see you when you were here. I did not even know you were here, and it all depends"... Contents index: Sterling Rayburn / poems - "Landscape" / Dylan Thomas / other favorite poets / prosaic over poetic style - likes his «Strange Islands» better than «Figures for an Apocalypse».

First lines: "For a long time I have been owing you a reply to your several very interesting letters, and Fr"...

First lines: "For a long time I have been owing you a reply to your several very interesting letters, and Fr"...

First lines: "This is not anything urgent, but I am just beginning to wonder. Br Martin has been doing some"... Contents index: Spanish poet [Alberti] translation of a work about Rome / question about continuing Sunday conferences - "I feel that […] these kids do not really understand what I am talking about".

First lines: "Per your request of 11-8-63, please note that we have been giving Father Merton Sparine, 25 mgm. to"...

First lines: "Comme chaque année, je vous envoie mon meilleur souvenir à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de votre"... Contents index: [verso: photo of the painting "Saint François Prêchant aux Oiseaux" - Giotto - Musée du Louvre].

First lines: "Comme chaque année, je vous envoie mon meilleur souvenir à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de votre"... Contents index: [verso: photo of the painting "Saint François Prêchant aux Oiseaux" - Giotto - Musée du Louvre].

First lines: "Forgive my long delay, perhaps no longer than usual, but I have been in the hospital, so I have some"... Contents index: Merton's praise of the Ida Görres Diaries sent by Burns - Görres' response to «Sign of Jonas» / Görres' book on St. Thérèse of Lisieux / Görres' statement on the "ultra ultra Catholic mind, that tight, closed, prim, infallible, authoritarian, and highly aggressive mind" - death of Diem and Nhu.

First lines: "Forgive my long delay, perhaps no longer than usual, but I have been in the hospital, so I have some"... Contents index: Merton's praise of the Ida Görres Diaries sent by Burns - Görres' response to «Sign of Jonas» / Görres' book on St. Thérèse of Lisieux / Görres' statement on the "ultra ultra Catholic mind, that tight, closed, prim, infallible, authoritarian, and highly aggressive mind" - death of Diem and Nhu.

First lines: "Recibo su carta con much [sic] interés, y trato de contsatarle [sic] al menos unas palabras. Le"...

First lines: "Recibo su carta con much [sic] interés, y trato de contsatarle [sic] al menos unas palabras. Le"...

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: "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: "Thanks for your reassuring note. It did clear things up a bit and I would not be surprised if I"... Contents index: plans to outsource typing / Br. Martin and the Alberti poem / continuing his Gethsemani Sunday conferences / comments said about Bamberger.

First lines: "As man is late again tomorrow (Sat.) and I would otherwise miss practically a full week"... Contents index: [verso: long note by Bamberger describing the lecture in Chapter of Fr. Charles English, O.C.S.O. of Holy Spirit Monastery in Conyers, Georgia, a monastic censor of Merton's works who also appreciated Merton's writings - English was a friend of Dorothy Day and known as Fr. Jack English at the Catholic Worker in New York].

First lines: "Though I have not written you of late, you have constantly been in my thoughts -- always near, and"...

First lines: "Though I have not written you of late, you have constantly been in my thoughts -- always near, and"...

First lines: "Caro e estimado Poeta: muchas, muchísimas gracias por su carta del 30 de Octubre el libro que leí"...