Thomas Merton Collection

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
122 "Brennan, Benedicta, Mother, I.H.M. (Sr. Margaret Brennan)" correspondence Record subgroup 1968
#1 1952-07-08, HLS to Merton, 'I am writing you on behalf of a group of poets and artists who are at present' Item 1952 July 8
#3 1964-03-31 (#02), TALS[x] from Merton, 'Thanks for your letter and for the magazine. I have the magazine in the pile of' Item 1964 March 31
#7 1964-12-28, TLS to Merton, 'Happy Feast. I pray this finds you filled with the love, joy and peace of this' Item 1964 December 28
#3 1968-02-28 (#01), TLS from Merton, 'Thanks for your most generous letter, stock of poems, offer of addresses,' Item 1968 February 28
#6 1968-04-28 (#01), TALS from Merton, 'Such a long time I have your Tiger and letters, and finally I want to answer. How' Item 1968 April 28
#1 1967-05-30, TLS to Merton, 'Thank you for the poem, Originators, which we will put, with your permission, in' Item 1967 May 3
#2 1967-08-17, TALS to Merton, 'Enclosed is a «proof» of your poem, «The Originators» which we intend to' Item 1967 August 17
#4 1967-08-24, TLS to Merton, 'You must tell me the appropriate way to address you. I am reading WATERS OF SILOE' Item 1967 August 24
128 "Britton, Richard" correspondence Record subgroup 1966
#1 1964-08-26, TLS to Drury, Thomas J., Bishop, 'As you had suggested in my interview with you recently, I spoke with Father Bernard' Item 1964 August 26
#1 1967-05-15, TLS to Merton, 'Under separate cover I am sending you a book which is a kind of thankyou for your' Item 1967 May 15
134 "Brown, Raphael" correspondence Record subgroup 1966
#1 1966-12-24, HLS to Merton, 'Having done the Library of Congress reply to the McGill U. query on this topic for' Item 1966 December 24
#1 1966-06-30, TALS to Merton, 'I am writing on behalf of the Arts Festival Committee of McMaster University' Item 1966 June 3
#1 1963-12-04, TLS to Merton, 'Hawthorn is a familiar name to you I know. And I hope you remember the Daniel-Rops' Item 1963 December 4
#2 1963-12-12, TAL[c] from Merton, 'It was good to hear from you and receive the proofs of Daniel-Rops' book. I am glad' Item 1963 December 12
137 "Bruce, Frank Milton" correspondence Record subgroup 1947-1949
#1 1947-06-17, TLS[x] to Fox, James, 'Enclosed is a letter which we have just written to Father Louis concerning "Exile' Item 1947 June 17
#3 1948-08-09, TLS to Merton, 'Some years ago a Jesuit telephoned me to say that a very dear friend of ours, a' Item 1948 August 9
#3 1963-02-23, TL[c] from Merton, 'Since Jacques Maritain told me of your project, I have been expecting your letter. ' Item 1963 February 23
#4 1963-07-18, TALS to Merton, 'I am writing by return, because you are anxious about Jacques Maritain, and so' Item 1963 July 18
#5 1963-09-08, TALS to Merton, 'Thank you very much for all those mimeographed things - I simply cannot tell you how' Item 1963 September 8
#7 1963-11-04, TALS to Merton, 'Raissa's anniversary, and the 8th will be my father's, when I hope you will say a' Item 1963 November 4
#22 1966-08-no-day, TLS[x] from Merton, '[..] way. The hunters around here are wild shots. Lightning strikes trees all around' Item 1966 August (date approximate)
140 "Bryan, A." correspondence Record subgroup 1968
#1 1963, TL[c] from Merton, 'The thing I forgot was this. It is really no special problem but I thought for once' Item 1963 (date approximate)
#3 1966-05-27, TL[c] from Merton, 'Thanks for your letter. I was glad to hear from you, though I well understand that' Item 1966 May 27
143 "Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV" correspondence Record subgroup 1979, 1984, 1987
145 "Buckley, Arthur R." correspondence Record subgroup 1967
#1 1967-04-04, TLS to Merton, 'I write to inquire whether your schedule of commitments might permit you to do the' Item 1967 April 4
146 "Bùi-bàng-Hiên, R., Fr." correspondence Record subgroup 1965
#1 1963-04-22, TLS to Merton, 'We have received in The Special Collections Department of Margaret I. King Library' Item 1963 April 22
#3 1960-03-21, TLS to Merton, 'I flew back to New York the other day to watch the birth of "God is My Life". The' Item 1960 March 21
#7 1965-04-02, TL[c] from Merton, 'Thanks for your good and prompt letter. I am sending three rather poor photographs' Item 1965 April 2
#2 1961-12-26 (#01), TLS[x] from Merton, 'For several weeks I have wanted to find an opportunity to answer your letter with' Item 1961 December 26
#6 1970-12-10, TLS to Center from Burdick, Jeanne, 'As a response to your letter of October 5th concerning correspondence between Thomas' Item 1970 December 1
#1 1965-11-02, TL[c] from Merton, 'I have read your long letter carefully, and sympathize with you. I wonder if you' Item 1965 November 2
#1 1968-06-24, HLS to Merton, 'Recently I polled our community for suggestions as to a Retreat Master for our next' Item 1968 June 24
#2 1968-06-27 (#01), TL[c] from Merton, 'Thanks for your kind invitation to preach the retreat at the Genesee. Since I have' Item 1968 June 27
#2 1967-05-22, TLS to Merton, 'I have been working here at Boystown since the first of the year, spend part of the' Item 1967 May 22
156 "Burns, Ethel M." correspondence Record subgroup 1958-1967, 1970
#1 1958-12-25, HCS from Merton, 'This is a very late "Christmas" card to thank you for your kind letter and the Mass' Item 1958 December 25 (date approximate)
#8 1966-08-22, HLS to Merton, 'Your feast day will soon be here and I want to wish you a happy one. A little' Item 1966 August 22
#3 1968-03-30 (#02), TLS[x] from van den Bogaard, Cyprian / to Flavian Burns, 'To start with I want to send you my best wishes for God's blessing for your new and' Item 1968 March 3 (date approximate)
#6 1968-06-20, HLS to Merton, 'My own opinion is still, that you should not go to this meeting. I think they' Item 1968 June 2
#8 1968-08-16 (#02), TL[c] from Merton, 'In regard to the letter of Dom John Morson about foreign censorship and in' Item 1968 August 16
#10 1968-09-04, TL[x] from Laughlin, James, 'Thank you so much for your letter authorizing that any charges on Father Louis's' Item 1968 September 4
#19 1985-01-09, HLS[x] to Hart, Patrick, 'Thank you for letting me read this book by Victor Kramer. To quote Naomi:' Item 1985 January 9
#7 1963-07-10, TL[c] from Merton, 'The immediate purpose of this letter is to let you know that the Nuns of Stanbrook' Item 1963 July 1
#9 1964-03-31, TLS to Merton, 'Many thanks for yours of March 25th. I feel very ashamed of myself for not having' Item 1964 March 31
#10 1964-04-18, TAL[c] from Merton, 'Glad to hear from you again, and thanks for the clippings. No we don't get the' Item 1964 April 18
159 "Burtt, Edwin Arthur, Dr." correspondence Record subgroup 1965-1966
162 "Bussard, Paul, Fr." correspondence Record subgroup 1952
#1 1952-01-30, TLS[c] to Merton, 'We are planning to publish in book form approximately 100 of the best articles which' Item 1952 January 3
#4 1967-07-03, TALS to Merton, 'Guess what! You got a new name you didn't need!!!! HELLO!! This is the Disaster' Item 1967 July 3
#6 1967-07-18 (#02), TLS[x] from Merton, 'I refuse to call anybody Susie. (I met a girl in a bar in London who was called' Item 1967 July 18
#7 1967-08-28, HLS to Merton, 'I send this quick. I know you would probably not hear so I am writing. I have a' Item 1967 August 28
#18 1968-02-11 (#02), TLS[x] from Merton, 'What did you think? That I thought the Crimble box was a bomb and jumped in the' Item 1968 February 11
164 "Butterfield, Victor Lloyd" correspondence Record subgroup 1967
165 "Byles, Marie Beuzeville" correspondence Record subgroup 1966-1967
#1 1968-08-19, TLS to Merton, 'Thank you very much for your nice letter, and I am excited about my poems' Item 1968 August 19
#1 1967-09-20, TL[c] from Merton, 'Your outline looks very good to me, and there is not much that I would add to it. ' Item 1967 September 2
#2 1967-09-no-day (#01), other to Merton, 'NEW DIMENSIONS IN THEOLOGY [-] A new Eight-Week Series of Tuesday Night Lectures at' Item 1967 September (date approximate)
D4b Reviews Subseries see other levels of description
Annual THE ALASKAN JOURNAL OF THOMAS MERTON Item 1988 View
006 Art and worship (notes on art and worship). Series unpublished
01a Review: "Thomas Merton." Item 1951-06-30
01c Review: "Thomas Merton: The Ascent to Truth." Item undated
03a Review: "Mystical Contemplation, and Intuitive State." Item 1951-09-23
03b Review: "Merton Takes Reader Along Mystic Path." Item 1951-09-22
04a Review: "The Object is Always the Love of God." Item 1951-09-23
04b Review: "The Illuminative Way." Item 1951-09-30
04c Review: "Contemplation Highest Activity." Item 1951-10-07
06d Review: "Books." Item 1951-10-26
07a Review: "Merton . . . On Progress in Mysticism." Item 1951-10-20
09c Review: "The Ascent to Truth by Thomas Merton; McLeod's; 342 pages; $4.50." Item 1951-11
10a Review: "The Ascent to Truth by Thomas Merton; McLeod's; 342 pages; $4.50." Item 1951-11
13b Review: "Thomas Merton Points Way for Ascent to Truth." Item undated
15a Review: "Merton, Thomas. The Ascent to truth." Item 1952-01
15c Review: "The Ascent to Truth by Thomas Merton." Item 1952-02-22
17b Review: "Merton, Thomas. The Ascent to Truth." Item undated
18g Review Item 1951-10-11
18h Review Item 1951-11-11
21 Review: "Merton Reissued." Item 1977-08
22 Review: "Merton Goes up Mount of Contemplation." Item 1957-10-07
23 Review: "Merton and St. John of the Cross." Item 1951-12
25 Review Item 1951-11
26 Review Item 1952-03
27 Review Item 1951-12
31 Review Item 1952
01 Review: "Books in Review." Item undated
03 Review: "Search by Merton comes alive in book." Item 1973-08-26
11 Review: "The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton." Item 1977
16 Review: "Mystic's Last Journey." Item 1973-08-06
32 Review: "The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton." Item 1973-07-08
39 Review: "Creative Endeavour." Item 1976-02-07
50 Review Item 1973
52 Review Item undated
53 Review: "From 'Seven Storey' to the Himalayas." Item undated