First lines: "About your class schedule, looks fine to me. All I need to know really is when you are having"...
First lines: "One of those antihistamines broke up in my pocket. As I don't know how to ask Bro Camillus or what"...
First lines: "It seems to me that the fact that milk is no longer given three times a week at supper constitutes"...
First lines: "This is a very awful translation of some texts of Isaac of Nineveh by the Dutchman,"... Contents index: [verso: notes by Bamberger about Merton's move to the hermitage]
First lines: "My request to B. Irenaeus for new sox has not led to anything. But I will need them if I am to go"...
First lines: "As far as I can see there is no way for the bro novices to get to your 10 20 Mass on Thursdays"...
First lines: "In case you don't know, the Medicare bill has been passed and [name note legible] and those eligible"...
First lines: "Isaac of Ninive [sic]"... Contents index: [handwritten scrap of paper]
First lines: "I have to see the Doctor again Friday (Dec. 30th) [-] Will you please make the necessary"...
First lines: "I got out of the clinic at 12:30 and the Doctor was not yet finished. So far everything"...
First lines: "P. Patrick wants these bulletins for Collectanea. Can you red this copy? I am taking the ones"...
First lines: "Do you think Bro Ca[ the rest of name is illegible] could find a small moment to translate this?"... Contents index: [verso: Bamberger notes that Merton refers to a Polish letter he needed to be translated]
First lines: "The tests were ok and there is nothing new. Same sensitive colon. Once again recommendation"...
First lines: "I have just received the report on the stool culture which we did on Father Merton. This shows"...
First lines: "Frln. Dagmar Henne [-] Agence Hoffman [-] Seestrasse 6 [-] 8 Munchen 23 W. Germany"...
First lines: "Jack O'Neil [-] Peace Corps [-] Box 707 [-] Monrovia Liberia [-] 1 Crucifix [-] New Seeds [-] No Man"...
First lines: "For our files. [-] Lunsford P. Yandell"...
First lines: "May I please have our hardcover No Man Is Island [sic] and 1 paperback Disputed"...
First lines: "I had some ointment in the bathroom and it has vanished. One of the inmates playing tricks?"...
First lines: "May I please have the following to sign and send out: requested by Dom Leclercq for monastery"...
First lines: "May I please have 1 - Gandhi [-] 1 - Raids on the Unspeakable [-] to send out - and when"...
First lines: "I'll take the clothes down tomorrow AM. [-] Thanks [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [note from Merton]
First lines: "I ran out of witch hazel [-] May I please have a bottle today (Saturday) if possible?"...
First lines: "I just saw the eye-doctor and he wants me in his office to check on possible eye injury,"...
First lines: "Did not get allergy shot Sunday - will try again Monday after dinner OK? [-] fr m Louis"...
First lines: "Do you have a minute after dinner? [-] Thanx in Jesu [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [Bamberger notes in pencil, "about his secretary who got sick and getting another to replace"]
First lines: "Thanks for the offer of the room - as I am now I can get along without it. Things are going better"... Contents index: [verso: printed card with the text, "I am sorry [-] I missed [-] Your Birthday]
First lines: "Many thanks for letting me use this book. It is tremendous! [-] In Jesu [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [Bamberger notes on that Merton is writing about «The Eternal Present» by Sigfried Giedion]
First lines: "I thought you would be interested in these reports. [-] In Jesu [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [Bamberger notes that Merton was referring to a report of the Committee of Responsibility on Vietnam]
First lines: "Thanks for your note. I can agree with your desire to work for new liturgical forms but I am so"...
First lines: "Would you have the opera Gregory Palamas of Nilus by any fortunate chance? If so could I borrow"...
First lines: "You might enjoy this - no need to return it. [-] In Jesu [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [verso: note by Bamberger, "Article on Van Gogh by Meerloo"]
First lines: "It seems to me that it would be better if Bro Matthias never worked in the calf barn, as h[e] has"... Contents index: [Bamberger notes, "I disagreed."]
First lines: "might as well put this in to library when through [-] inadvertently signed in blood. [-] fr m L."... Contents index: [small spot of Merton's blood on note paper]
First lines: "Dr Mitchell told me to come back next Saturday the 11th if the bursitis was still troubling me"...
First lines: "I spoke with Br Finbarr. In my opinion this boy has a good monastic vocation but he obviously"...
First lines: "I grossly maligned the yogurt: it is the new buttermilk that is causing cramps and diarrhea."...
First lines: "Our B. Robert (postulant) has a chill with diarrhea etc again and has been resting. I told him"...
First lines: "I will give a conference today after all on some Oriental texts on the Presentation if anybody wants"... Contents index: [see also #148a on the other side of the same note]
First lines: "I will need another bursitis shot next Monday Sept 26th [-] Could you please make"...
First lines: "Maybe someone should do a report on the Monastic Renewal article herewith - but first they'd"...
First lines: "I have to write a piece on Dom Vital for Achel's magazine: will you please let me have any relevant"...
First lines: "I have to see Dr Mitchell 10 am next Saturday - 25th [-] Could you please make arrangements"...
First lines: "Bro Ailred is now using a book of poems of Tiutchev in Russian and French which you may eventually"...
First lines: "Dr Mitchell wants to operate on that bursa. He has arranged for me to be admitted to St Joe's"...
First lines: "No I don't have the [indecipherable word..] copies I have recently used the material"...
First lines: "As regards your question; -- I have no trouble with six bottles -- but I wonder about the price."...
First lines: "you may wish to see this sometime in the next year..."... Contents index: [see also #195b on the same note - Bamberger notes that the earlier message was on the occasion of returning Gregory Zilboorg's «History of Medical Psychology» and the later note (from 1965) was when Merton was moving to the woods (his hermitage)]
First lines: "God bless you. VERY REV. THOMAS PLASSMANN, O.F.M. [-] RECTOR [-] CHRIST THE KING"...
First lines: "A Christmas Poem. For Jane, Kate and Ann and Lee, and Dorothy. (that is, a poem only for girls.)"... Contents index: [poem by Bamberger]
First lines: "Mr. Wicklum, who is Dom Fulgence's friend-- called me. He expects to arrive Sunday, April 4th,"...
First lines: "Direction in St John of the +. Faulty directions [-] 1 Moral deficiency - jealousy"... Contents index: [handwritten notes by Merton on St. John of the Cross]
First lines: "The Law in the Teaching of Saint Paul. [-] The topic of our first conference this morning is"... Contents index: [term paper by Bamberger while a scholastic at Gethsemani - Merton was Master of Scholastic and has handwritten corrections and a grade on the paper]
First lines: "Gethsemani Life of Praise [-] 3 books to Fr Louis [-] 10/1/66"...
First lines: "Ammon Hennacy [-] Box 655 [-] Salt Lake City, Utah [-] Gandhi on Non Violence [-] Please forward"...
First lines: "Thanks for your note about Harpers. I am glad everything is all right - now. May I please have"...
First lines: "I'll drop by Monday AM for a"...
First lines: "Have to go to Dr tomorrow - just checked and found there was no underwear - could you please"...
First lines: "May I please have 4 Chuang Tzu to send out and 4 Gandhi also? Many thanx in Jesu [-] fr m Louis"...
First lines: "May I please have copies of Ascent to Truth and No Man is an Island to send out? (1 of each)"...
First lines: "The doctor sent me a shot as I can't get there this week (Decoration Day) [-] I'll come up for it"...
First lines: "I will have an informal conference and discussion on church architecture today, for those who wish"...
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: "Can someone use these? Dan Walsh gave them - they gather dust in my place. [-] In the Lord"...
First lines: "Gifts to Miss Naal. [-] 1 - Conjectures [-] 1 - New Man PB. [-] 1 - Gandhi [-] 1lb Trappist cheese"... Contents index: [note by Merton]
First lines: "The Br. Antoninus record was passed on to fr Linus and"... Contents index: [contains another handwritten note in pencil from Br. Charles to Bamberger]
First lines: "I don't know if you saw the note on the door opposite yours, but about eleven thirty last night as"...
First lines: "Dr Mitchell ex-rayed the back and said the operation had been a complete success and the back"...
First lines: "Dr Mitchell recommended these - can you please provide? [-] Thanks in Jesu [-] fr m Louis"...
First lines: "I have an appointment with Dr Mitchell Saturday - could you please make the necessary arrangements?"... Contents index: [see also #95a on the same page]
First lines: "Doing better - moved from Infirmary to hermitage. Buddhist monk, prof. at Cambridge, came from Viet"... Contents index: [see also #95a on the same page]
First lines: "I will try out sleeping in hermitage for a few nights - to see if dampness effects the bursitis."... Contents index: [Bamberger adds notes about Merton's condition on verso of card]
First lines: "I had a long session with Br Alphonse yesterday. He is one novice about whom"...
First lines: "Are you free for two minutes after dinner today? [-] In Jesu [-] fr m Louis"... Contents index: [verso: Bamberger makes some knows about some of Merton's health problems and some quotes from Merton on his desire for solitude and attempt of the eremitical life]
First lines: "Thought you would like to glance at this - thou [sic] you can throw it away. [-] In Jesu"... Contents index: [verso: "an article on psychology"]
First lines: "Second thoughts on the study schedule we spoke of today. Instead of getting Fr Tarcisius in on it,"...
First lines: "As this skin thing seems to be getting worse and the poison ivy seems to be in my system, I think"...
First lines: "I could see you and Fr Prior about [indecipherable word..] either Thursday at 10.45 a.m. or Saturday"...
First lines: "Fr Eudes [-] many thanks! [-] fr m Louis"...
First lines: "As to the Alberti piece: please believe that I had no idea you would take it that way."... Contents index: [only a segment of a message (top and bottom cut off) - verso: Bamberger notes that this was a message from Merton to one of his secretaries]
First lines: "About this skin condition, in resumé. 1) Poison ivy on the hands for over two months, at first it"...
First lines: "Just for the record: this has been building up since Christmas and quite a few factors are involved"...
First lines: "Thanks for your note on Bro [name scratch out by Bamberger]. The points you cited were the main"...
First lines: "I did not get your note until noon today. Sometime I will say a few words to clear up this"...
First lines: "will you give a conference at 4:00 p.m. on some Oriental texts on the Presentation for any who wish"... Contents index: [see also #148b on the other side of the same note]
First lines: "In preparing my talks on the Church and the modern world and looking ahead to some of the things"... Contents index: [to Bamberger, Fr. Baldwin and the Prior of Gethsemani]
First lines: "This has all the earmarks of an Opus Chrysogonicum as I can tell from a brief examination"... Contents index: [verso: Bamberger notes that this message was "apropos of some notes I found in Acta Sanctorum"]
First lines: "Don't worry about that Bio. Strath. If there is no special health-food outfit around, you won't be"...
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 D
First lines: "I trust in your tolerance on this holy day. This stuff, of which I have used one bottle, is"...
First lines: "could we change your date to Saturday, do you think? Bernard has several people to take"... Contents index: [see also #165b on the other side of the same note]
First lines: "Maybe if Bro Clement has a ride Friday (I could just as easily go at 7 or whenever convenient"... Contents index: [see also #165a on the other side of the same note]
First lines: "This shoulder and back thing gets more and more troublesome. It is especially bad at night when it"...
First lines: "I certainly think this ought to be published. It is an excellent job and very useful. On the other"...
First lines: "I hope you did not think I was being even more unsociable than usual this morning. Your confidence"...
First lines: "Saturday Fr Felix is giving the novice conference, so Juniors will not come this time - In Our Lord"...
First lines: "I have to go to see Dr Mitchell next Friday Sept 9. If I leave at 9 it will be ok. Many thanx"...
First lines: "Dr Scheen said the skin condition is progressing - ordered another ointment to help out."...
First lines: "Per your request of 11-8-63, please note that we have been giving Father Merton Sparine, 25 mgm. to"...
First lines: "Room where FR. LOUIS died is on the corner. Taken by Mother Christiana of Seiben"... Contents index: [color photograph of the exterior of the room where Merton died]