Thomas Merton Collection

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
#02 1967-05-27, TL[c] Aud from Merton, 'Sure, I remember Jim Aud, and of course have always the fondest memories of St' Item 1967 May 27
#01 1963-05-27, TALS Austin to Merton, 'May we have your permission to reprint in our 15th annual volume of Borestone' Item 1963 May 27
#02 1963-05-31, HALS Austin from Merton, 'Many thanks for your kind letter. I am glad to grant permission for "The Moslems'' Item 1963 May 31
#01 1962-01-23, TLS Black to Merton, 'I have a recent letter from Edward Deming Andrews of Pittsfield, Massachusetts in' Item 1962 January 23
#02 1962-01-27, transcript Black from Merton, 'I need not tell you how I would love to be there on February 2nd. There are few' Item 1962 January 27 (date approximate)
#02 1966-10-13, TL[x] Blumenkren from Merton, 'I have been hoping to answer your letter of late August and now your new letter with' Item 1966 October 13
#01 1968-02-05, TLS Boardman to Merton, 'On May 30, 1968 we are going to publish BLACK POWER AND WHITE PROTESTANTS, by Joseph' Item 1968 February 5
#02 1964-10-28, TLS Boettcher from Merton, 'When I suggested the Little Sisters I realized that the suggestion would be a bit of' Item 1964 October 28
#10 1970-10-23, HLS[x] Boettcher to Center from Boettcher, Nancy Hauck, 'Enclosed are the letters I have from Tom Merton. Please Xerox them for me. I have' Item 1970 October 23
#11 1970-10-30, TL[x] Boettcher from Center to Boettcher, Nancy Hauck, 'We were delighted to receive your packet of letters concerning your Nanny, Thomas' Item 1970 October 3
#05 1970-11-10, TL[c] Bogdana from Center to Bogdana, Sr., 'Thank you for the information you sent about your correspondence with Father Thomas' Item 1970 November 1
#02 1966-02-09, TL[c] Boggs from Merton, 'I received your letter of the 3rd only yesterday. I am afraid this answer will be' Item 1966 February 9
#01 1961-03-02, HLS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'I intended to write to you for some time but only now do it. I read the most of' Item 1961 March 2
#02 1961-03-20, HLS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'Many thanks for your kind letter of March 14th. I have received it today on my' Item 1961 March 2
#08 1962-09-03, HNS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'P.S. I read your letter to the Mayor of Hiroshima with attention. I think it shall' Item 1962 September 3
#13 1963-02-15, HLS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'Many thanks for your letter of Jan 29th, which I received here in Groningen, where I' Item 1963 February 15
#19 1963-11-25, HLS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'Many thanks for your letter of Nov. 11th, which I received in Dublin on my way here.' Item 1963 November 25
#24 1964-10-21, HLS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'I have no letters from you since last December, although I wrote myself to you three' Item 1964 October 21
#33 1965-12-08, TL[c] Bolshakoff from Merton, 'First of all I am taking this occasion to send you a Christmas present from our' Item 1965 December 8
#38 1967-03-12, HLS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'I enclose my Eastertide "Letter", which is, possibly, more interesting than the' Item 1967 March 12
#39 1967-04-21, HLS Bolshakoff to Merton, 'Since I sent you on March 12th my letter from Florence with the latest "Letter to' Item 1967 April 21
#45 undated (#01), other Bolshakoff to Merton, 'The list of people to send the LETTER TO' Item undated
#46 undated (#02), other Bolshakoff, 'A Russian Forerunner of Psychosomatic Medicine [-] STARETZ SEMEN KLIMICH' Item undated
#01 1966-10-14, TALS Bonazzi to Merton, 'John Griffin wrote me as soon as he got back from the Abbey with you and Jacques' Item 1966 October 14
#07 1967-09-08, TL[c] Bonazzi from Merton, 'Perfectly ok to use the quote from "Letter to Innocent Bystander". And of course to' Item 1967 September 8
008 "Aelred, Fr., S.S.F." correspondence Record subgroup 1964
021 "Alice, M., Sr., O.S.B." correspondence Record subgroup 1967, 1970
030 "Amici de Jesus, Marie, Sr., O.C.D." correspondence Record subgroup 1954
033 "Anderson, James Bruce" correspondence Record subgroup 1963-1964
037 "Andrea, Sr., S.L." correspondence Record subgroup 1967
039 "Andrews, Faith Elizabeth (Young)" correspondence Record subgroup 1964-1965, 1971-1984
044 "Anna Mary, Sr." correspondence Record subgroup 1949
045 "Anne Madeleine, Sr., V.H.M." correspondence Record subgroup 1968
049 "Anton, Rita (Kenter)" correspondence Record subgroup 1966-1967
051 "Antoninus, Br. (William Oliver Everson), O.P." correspondence Record subgroup 1960-1968, 1973
057 "Arca de Sardiña, Evora" correspondence Record subgroup 1961-1966
066 "Astudillo, Rubén" correspondence Record subgroup undated
075 "Ayyaneth, Fr." correspondence Record subgroup 1964
076 "Aziz, Abdul" correspondence Record subgroup 1959-1968, 1990-1999
#01 1967-11-18, TALS Aberle to Merton, 'Forgive me, but whereas I know that Franciscans are addressed by their first names' Item 1967 November 18 View
#13 1967-10-08, TALS Bonazzi to Merton, 'Since last writing you we have decided to do a little 20-page quarto to commemorate' Item 1967 October 8 (date approximate)
#14 1967-10-09, TLS Bonazzi to Merton, 'Just returned from Griffin's. The photographs are fantastic! We will just flip' Item 1967 October 9
#18 1967-12-10, TL[c] Bonazzi from Merton, 'I don't see any problems whatever about the copyrights. It seems to me everything' Item 1967 December 1
#19 1967-12-26, TLS Bonazzi to Merton, 'Heard the long almighty & beautiful tape at John Griffin's last weekend and he' Item 1967 December 26
#20 1968-01-31, TLS Bonazzi to Merton, 'Thank you for your note. What is this about starting a magazine of your own? I' Item 1968 January 31
#23 1997-03-31 (#01), TLS Bonazzi to Grip, Robert, 'Thanks so much for the kindly support, the generous clarification of expenses in our' Item 1997 March 31
#02 1964-05-08, TALS Borgstin to Merton, 'Please excuse my long silence. Actually, it would have been a great consolation to' Item 1964 May 8
#03 1965-04-05, HLS Borgstin to Merton, 'Many thanks for the copies of your articles which dome to me from time to time. I' Item 1965 April 5
#06 1966-07-25, TL[c] Borgstin from Merton, 'Many thanks for your kind and detailed letter of July 20 which tells me the final' Item 1966 July 25
#07 1967-08-25, HLS Borgstin to Merton, 'A blessed and joyful feast! All of us here are remembering you specially today, and' Item 1967 August 25
#02 1968-05-23 (#01), TALS Borton from Merton, 'Thanks for the confidence you show in me, in presenting your questions about John of' Item 1968 May 23
#05 1972-08-no-day, TALS[x] Borton to Center from Borton, Cameron, 'I am enclosing a xeroxed copy of the one letter I received from Thomas Merton in' Item 1972 August (date approximate)
#02 1968-01-26, TL[c] Botte from Merton, 'The article you refer to has not yet appeared in Spiritual Life. I have a' Item 1968 January 26
#01 1966-07-11, TL[c] Bourgeouis from Merton, 'I am returning your thoughts which I have read over superficially. Do not think' Item 1966 July 11
#02 1965-06-04, TALS Bourne to Merton, 'By all means take your time with Father Capon's book. If you are inspired --' Item 1965 June 4
#01 1951-02-21, HLS Bourne to Merton, 'Your prelude to the chant afforded a sort of Laetare Sunday diversion in my Lenten' Item 1951 February 21
#04 1951-09-17, TLS Bourne to Merton, 'An advance copy or your excellent new book, Ascent to Truth, reached us a few days' Item 1951 September 17
#05 1952-03-17, TL[c] Bourne to Merton, 'Your brief sketch of St. John of the Cross is very nice except for one aspect which' Item 1952 March 17
#11 1953-05-22, TALS Bourne from Merton, 'Here is the completed draft of Tower of Babel. I am sending it as a straight' Item 1953 May 22
#13 1953-10-29, TALS Bourne to Merton, 'This Intro. to Doctor Mellifluus seems to me quite the best thing of this sort you' Item 1953 October 29
#20 1960-04-09, TLS Bourne to Fox, James, 'Have just mailed the censorship report on the two brief pieces you refer to in your' Item 1960 April 9
#22 1961-11-30, TLS Bourne to Fox, James, 'You are very thougthful to recall the matter of postage. Now I will be able to enter' Item 1961 November 3 (date approximate)
#25 1962-01-12, TLS[c] Bourne from Fox, James, 'We received your gracious note January 18 with the two manuscripts. Here we go' Item 1962 January 12
#26 1962-01-18, HLS Bourne to Fox, James, 'Here is a returned ms of Fr. Louis - Nuclear War and Frather Jn Eudes article' Item 1962 January 18
#34 1962-04-28, TL[c] Bourne from Merton, 'As you know periodically my affairs get in an awful tangle, and they are in one now:' Item 1962 April 28
#36 1963-05-04, HLS Bourne to Merton, 'First of all, I trust you to refrain from any official reference to what I might say' Item 1963 May 4 (date approximate)
#38 1964-01-16, TL[c] Bourne from Merton, 'Before Dom James took off for the Chapter I had a talk with him about the censorship' Item 1964 January 16
#39 1964-02-01, HLS Bourne to Merton, 'Will take care of your Notes on Art etc at once. For the records' Item 1964 February 1
#40 1964-03-10, TL[c] Bourne from Merton, 'This little item here had better be sent to you I think. It has been offered by a' Item 1964 March 1
#51 1965-01-18 (#02), TL[c] Bourne from Merton, 'I am sending two copies of a preface which I wrote thinking that probably it would' Item 1965 January 18
#59 1965-04-15, HLS Bourne to Merton, 'Mille pardons. Really I'm all confused. Just came across most of this on my desk' Item 1965 April 15
#60 1965-10-07, HLS Bourne to Merton, 'After getting your poem out of the file an hour ago I've now utterly lost it. No' Item 1965 October 7
#62 1965-11-22 (#02), TL[c] Bourne from Merton, 'Next Spring New Directions is bringing out a paperback selection of various prose' Item 1965 November 22
#68 1967-06-30 (#01), TLS Bourne from Merton, 'Thanks for your kind letter. I do hope we can reach some kind of real openness on' Item 1967 June 3
#72 1973-11-30, TLS[x] Bourne from Center to Bourne, Paul, 'Mr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at' Item 1973 November 3
#73 1973-12-04, HLS Bourne to Center from Bourne, Paul, 'As a Trappist monk of ancient vintage with no place to store things I never saved' Item 1973 December 4
#78 undated (#04), HNS Bourne to Merton, 'P. 17 of #7 (Eng. Mystics) is missing - we did not lose it! […] The report from' Item undated
#83 undated (#09), other[x] Bourne from Merton, 'Do you think they require censoring?? In Jesu f m Louis [-] By no means!' Item undated
#03 1967-01-05, TLS Bourne to Merton, 'Your kind letter arrived just in time for me to share it with the project's' Item 1967 January 5
#04 1967-01-07, TL[c] Bourne from Merton, 'Thanks for your letter of the 5th which reached me this morning. I still have not' Item 1967 January 7
#11 1967-09-24, TL[c] Bourne from Merton, 'I am enclosing a tentative plan for my introduction to the opening volume of the' Item 1967 September 24
#15 1968-03-13, TLS Bourne to Merton, 'You're right that the best place for your piece would be in the position between the' Item 1968 March 13
#01 1967-10-09, TLS Boyd to Merton, 'Thanks for your permission to send the releases about your fields of interest to' Item 1967 October 9
#03 1967-06-19 (#02), TLS[x] Brown from Merton, 'Thanks for your note and for the book and for the reprint. And above all thanks for' Item 1967 June 19
#01 1966-12-24, HLS Brown to Merton, 'Having done the Library of Congress reply to the McGill U. query on this topic for' Item 1966 December 24
#01 1963-12-04, TLS Browne to Merton, 'Hawthorn is a familiar name to you I know. And I hope you remember the Daniel-Rops' Item 1963 December 4
#01 1947-06-17, TLS[x] Bruce to Fox, James, 'Enclosed is a letter which we have just written to Father Louis concerning "Exile' Item 1947 June 17
#02 1948-07-13, TLS Bruce to Merton, 'Thanks very much for your thoughtfulness in sending us the list of your friends to' Item 1948 July 13
#01 1963, TL[c] Bryan from Merton, 'The thing I forgot was this. It is really no special problem but I thought for once' Item 1963 (date approximate)
#01 1979-11-23, TLS[x] Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho to George, James, 'Thank you for your letter. I was very happy to have the opportunity of meeting you' Item 1979 November 23
#02 1967-04-08, TL[c] Buckley from Merton, 'Thanks for your kind letter of April 4th. I do not think it would be possible for' Item 1967 April 8
#01 1963-04-22, TLS Bull to Merton, 'We have received in The Special Collections Department of Margaret I. King Library' Item 1963 April 22
#02 1960-01-19, TLS Burden to Merton, 'I am enclosing the proofs of your introduction to God is My Life. I would have' Item 1960 January 19
#06 1965-03-29, TLS Burden to Merton, 'Thanks so much for your note together with the enclosure concerning the exhibit. ' Item 1965 March 29
#03 1961-12-26 (#02), transcript Burdick from Merton, 'For several weeks I have wanted to find an opportunity to answer your letter with' Item 1961 December 26
#06 1970-12-10, TLS Burdick to Center from Burdick, Jeanne, 'As a response to your letter of October 5th concerning correspondence between Thomas' Item 1970 December 1
#01 1968-06-24, HLS Burke to Merton, 'Recently I polled our community for suggestions as to a Retreat Master for our next' Item 1968 June 24
#02 1968-06-27 (#01), TL[c] Burke from Merton, 'Thanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have' Item 1968 June 27
#03 1961-06-17, TLS Burns from Kelty, Matthew (for Merton) / to Ethel Burns, 'A note of thanks from Father Louis for your letter and also for your Mass offering. ' Item 1961 June 17
#04 1963-02-13, TLS Burns from from Basil, Br., O.C.S.O. / to Ethel Burns, 'Thank you for your letter. Thank you also for your kind donation, which of course' Item 1963 February 13