MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Stark, Philip, Fr., S.J.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967-1969
Volume: 22 item(s); 35 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Biography
Fr. Philip Stark was a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, Missouri.
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Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1967/04/22 | TLS | to Merton | Please forgive the familiarity as well as this brash intrusion on your solitude, but your name is so | |
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| | 1967/05/06 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have been wanting to thank you for your letter and for the <u>America</u> review. But I hate | |
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| | 1967/05/16 | TALS | to Merton | Your letter & Easter encyclical set off a whole explosion of insights & avenues of thought, | |
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| | 1967/06/27 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your last newsletter. It started my summer off in the best possible way. | |
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| | 1967/11/09 | TALS | to Merton | It just occurred to me--Is there a manuscript I could type for you? You mentioned in one of your | |
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| | 1967/11/20 | TLS | to Merton | Call no one good but God alone! By all means send the ms. of the yours-Lax correspondence, | |
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| | 1967/11/29 | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is the whole thing but you only need to type about half of it. Part Two can be typed, and as | |
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| | 1967/12/02 | TL | to Merton | Yours ever so nicely committed rec'd in great splendor, tribulation in unimaginary enclosed space | |
| [addressed "dear J. Pierpont Ribblesdale" and signed "Oscuri auguri, Benvoglio" - the letter is in the style of the Merton-Lax correspondence that Merton sends Stark to type] |
| | 1968/01/29 | TALS | to Merton | The goods are on their way, the originals herewith registered and the rest insured (typed copy with | |
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| | 1968/01/31 | TL[c] | from Merton | Illustrious service! May you have many rewards in caelestibus. May you dance the polka | |
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| | 1968/03/16 | TLS | to Merton | Now it's my turn (a month late) to thank you for those juicy books; you're helping me a lot | |
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| | 1968/03/20 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the offer to run off an "Easter Encyclical". Yes, as a matter | |
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| | 1968/04/01 | TLS | to Merton | The Easter letters will be speeding your way shortly: there was a delay owing to lapse | |
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| | 1968/04/22 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for letting me have your essay on The Stranger. I made a couple of xerox copies | |
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| | 1968/04/25 | TL[c] | from Merton | Surprises!! Thanks first for the stencils. I think I can get the novices to run them off. | |
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| | 1968/11/20 | TLS | to Merton | It was wonderful to hear from you, I enjoyed hearing about your little gita to New York. Reminds me | |
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| | 1968/12/10 (#01) | telegram | from Hart, Patrick | Regret to inform you of the death of Fr. Thomas Merton in Bangkok. [-] Signed, Bro. P. Hart | |
| [handwritten text of telegram sent by Br. Patrick Hart of Gethsemani] |
| | 1968/12/10 (#02) | telegram | from Hart, Patrick | WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU OF THE DEATH OF FATHER THOMAS MERTON IN BANGKOK | |
| [typed duplicate of telephoned telegram sent by Br. Patrick Hart of Gethsemani] |
| | 1969/01/14 | TALS[x] | from Lawler, Justus / to Patrick Hart | About two weeks before Father Louis' tragic death he sent me a card about the project I had | |
| [Justus George Lawler was an editor at Herder and Herder and editor of the journal, <u>Continuum</u>] <u>Continuum</u> memorial issue for Merton |
| | 1969/02/24 | TLS | from Lawler, Justus | Just a brief note to thank you for your willingness to contribute to our <u>Continuum</u> issue. | |
| [Justus George Lawler was an editor at Herder and Herder and editor of the journal, <u>Continuum</u>] <u>Continuum</u> memorial issue for Merton |
| | 1969/04/28 | TL[c] | to Lawler, Justus | Here's my bit in tribute to Tom Merton. Scarcely very momentous, admittedly, and if you have no use | |
| [Justus George Lawler was an editor at Herder and Herder and editor of the journal, <u>Continuum</u>] |
| | undated/no/no | other | by Stark, Philip | It was on a July sixth that I first met Thomas Merton. Since I had been thinking about Faulkner, | |
| [copied from "Fox, James", Series 29, Item #009 - a reminiscence by Stark of meeting Merton called "A Summer at Gethsemani"] |
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