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First lines: "Your brief sketch of St. John of the Cross is very nice except for one aspect which I hope you will"... Contents index: [see "Censors Reports" file in correspondence for signed copy - from a file kept by Dom James Fox on censorship] "Saints for Now" by Clare Boothe Luce with an essay by Merton regarding St. John of the Cross - censor's comments - concern about the Carmelite "prison incident, 'monastic incarceration'" and that, without fuller context, it would be confusing to readers and upsetting to the Carmelites - sent to Merton with note from Br. Alfred, O.C.S.O. of 1952/July/07.

First lines: "I enclose a copy of the review of Mott's book on Fr. Louis. It is typed (computerized, I should say!"...

First lines: "Thanks so much for your kind letter of March 1 with the Preface to DISPUTED QUESTIONS. They can go"... Contents index: "Disputed Questions," "Carmelite Sanctity," "The Christian Life of Prayer," and "Art and Worship".

First lines: "Two more "little articles" received and will be cared for. Notice from Rome that Fr. Louis recent"... Contents index: [verso: reproduction of "Our Lady of Sorrows" by Luis Morales / originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Somehow, somewhere, I've mislaid the copy of Fr. Louis article on nuclear warfare. Would you be kind"... Contents index: [originally filed by Dom James Fox in a file about censors (see "Censors Reports" and likely regarding "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / dated "Conversion of St. Paul" (January 25) and Fox marks replying to his letter by late January 1962] two rejected articles / Fr. Charles [English?].

First lines: "Here we come again knocking at your door just as Lent approches, with a little penance for our"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

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First lines: "First- please tell Fr. Louis to go ahead with his preface to Disputed Questions - nihil obstat."... Contents index: "Disputed Questions" [book].

First lines: "We certainly are keeping the Air Mail or Postal Clerks busy these days. I just received your note"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "I received your gracious note of Septuagesima Sunday. Don't worry about the other copy of CHRISTIAN"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Some years ago a Jesuit telephoned me to say that a very dear friend of ours, a Jesuit missionary in"... Contents index: death of Dom Frederic Dunne / suggestion of advertising «The Seven Storey Mountain» with "Another Man Who Got Even with God" (after title of Fr. Raymond's book) / Al Croft's trip to Gethsemani / possiblity of publishing biography of the life of St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

First lines: "Thank you for letting me read this book by Victor Kramer. To quote Naomi: "«This» is the Merton"... Contents index: praise for Victor Kramer's book («Thomas Merton» and later revised as «Thomas Merton, Monk and Artist») / comparison to Michael Mott's «Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton» and George Woodcock's «Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet».

First lines: "Before Ash Wednesday descends upon us I want to thank you for your last letter."... Contents index: [two carbon copy transcripts of the letter filed in Dom James Fox's file concerning Merton and the critical article of him by Dom Aelred Graham, "A Modern Man in Reverse" / see also "Graham, Aelred" correspondence file, Series 2 for this file].

First lines: "Thank you ever so much for your very fine remarks on Father Berrigan's poems. I am afraid it is"... Contents index: [filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani] Merton's remarks on Fr. Daniel Berrigan's poems / contact information for "Dan", Msgr. Ivan D. Illich in Cuernavaca / Jack English.

First lines: "Have just mailed the censorship report on the two brief pieces you refer to in your recent note"... Contents index: "Disputed Questions" [book].

First lines: "You are very thougthful to recall the matter of postage. Now I will be able to enter the office by"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "We received your gracious note January 18 with the two manuscripts. Here we go again! I wish they"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Here is a returned ms of Fr. Louis - «Nuclear War» and Frather Jn Eudes article for the Cath."... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Enclosed is a letter which we have just written to Father Louis concerning "Exile Ends in Glory.""... Contents index: [Merton uses verso of letter for notes for a manuscript of "The Cloud and the Fire," an early draft of «The Ascent to Truth», see manuscripts of "The Cloud and the Fire" for original] recommendation to reduce length of «Exile Ends in Glory» to reduce cost and appeal to a wider audience.

First lines: "Thanks very much for your thoughtfulness in sending us the list of your friends to whom author's"... Contents index: «Exile Ends in Glory» / «The Seven Storey Mountain» - advantage of using Harcourt Brace, a secular publisher, rather than a Catholic publisher like Bruce to reach bigger market / likely release «What Are These Wounds?» in 1949 because of the other two books in 1948 / Fr. Raymond Flanagan's «The Man Who Got Even with God».

First lines: "I am writing directly to you, for I feared a letter to Father M. Louis might not reach him during"... Contents index: [carbon copy transcript of the letter filed in Dom James Fox's file concerning the Merton and the critical article of him by Dom Aelred Graham, "A Modern Man in Reverse" / see also "Graham, Aelred" correspondence file, Series 2 for this file].

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: "It is silly to bother you with this piece of absurd nonsense, but as I made you a sign about it,"... Contents index: [see also "Censors Reports" file, Series 36, "New Seeds of Contemplation"] censors negative comments about Merton's interpretation of René Descartes - censor compares Merton's ideas on Christian contemplation to Hindu contemplation, but Merton thinks the censor's own notion of contemplation more closely compares to a negative stereotype of Hindu mysticism.

First lines: "I'm really distressed at being so in arrears with the censorship. Just after Christmas I came down"... Contents index: "Ash Wednesday" [poem] and "Easter: the New Life" [essay].

First lines: "Have just mailed a most enthusiastic endorsement of 'The Power and Meaning of Love' to Father"... Contents index: "A Tribute to Greatness: Comment on Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak".

First lines: "We are sending you one of Father Louis', so-called 'little articles'. It is called ORIGINAL CHILD"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Original Child Bomb"].

First lines: "We received word from our Most Rev. Abbot General in regard to the article on PEACE written"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "All under control, I trust. Did the best I could by "Peace," and now pray it will descend upon us."... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "We received your gracious note of January 18 with the two manuscripts. Here we go again!"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "Had word from Fr. Clement that «Nuclear War» has been cleared for publication. Still can't find"... Contents index: [originally filed in a collection of Censors Reports kept by James Fox - see also the "Censors Reports" file under "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" (possibly also referring to "Target Equals City" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Responsibilities")].

First lines: "With Best Wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year"... Contents index: [signed by the Secretary of the Council for Religious and Cultural Affairs of H. H. the Dalai Lama, Gangchen Kyishong, Dhamsala H. P. India.].

First lines: "We received your charming letter of February 14. I am answering for good Father Louis."... Contents index: [copy of a letter filed in Dom James Fox's file concerning the Merton and the critical article of him by Dom Aelred Graham, "A Modern Man in Reverse" / see also "Graham, Aelred" correspondence file, Series 2].