| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1948/07/20 | transcript | from Waugh, Evelyn / to Harcourt Brace | Thank you for sending me the proofs of THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN which I have read with close | |
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| | 1948/08/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You will be surprised to get this but not, I hope, annoyed. Father Abbot gave me permission | Yes |
| [incorrectly dated "August 12, 1948" in <i>Merton & Waugh</i>] |
| | 1948/08/13 | transcript | to Merton | Thank you for your letter of August 2nd. As I wrote to your publishers I greatly admired your book | Yes |
| [see carbon of this letter in the "Giroux, Robert" file] |
| | 1948/09/03 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I cannot tell you how truly happy I am with your letter and the book you sent. Both of them have | Yes |
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| | 1948/09/03 (#02) | transcript | to Billings, John Shaw | Thank you for your letter of Aug: 25th. I had already sent you a note under the false impression | |
| [photocopied transcript from <i>The Letters of Evelyn Waugh</i> - from Waugh to John Shaw Billings with a paragraph referring to Merton and to <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i> (or <i>Elected Silence</i> as it would be published in England)] |
| | 1948/09/22 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am very glad you went ahead with the editing of the Seven Storey Molehill. Since you have | Yes |
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| | 1949/01/10 | transcript | to Mitford, Nancy | Your letter of 4th Jan to hand. I notice it was posted at Marlborough, Wilts. The socialist | |
| [photocopied transcript from <i>The Letters of Evelyn Waugh</i> - from Waugh to Nancy Mitford with a paragraph asking Mitford to send to Merton a copy of Ambrose Gardeil's <i>La structure de l'ame et L'expérience Mystique</i>] |
| | 1949/02/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | As far as I can judge, you must be back in America at the moment, finishing your articles for LIFE. | Yes |
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| | 1949/05/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you very much for your last letter, written before you left New York. Since then a volume | Yes |
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| | 1949/05/27 | transcript | to Merton | First, my joy for you on your ordination. Your letter came just in time to engage my feeble prayers | Yes |
| Transcript copy from the online version of the <u>Evelyn Waugh Newsletter</u>, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1969), ‹http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/EWN3-1.htm›, which also appears in <i>Merton & Waugh</i>. |
| | 1949/07/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you for your letter of May 27th. I haven't seen any sign of the Ronald Knox book which you | Yes |
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| | 1949/08/28 | transcript | to Merton | <i>The Waters of Siloe</i> arrived this morning. A beautifully made book. I am proud to see | Yes |
| Transcript copy from the online version of the <u>Evelyn Waugh Newsletter</u>, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1969), ‹http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/EWN3-1.htm›, which also appears in <i>Merton & Waugh</i>. |
| | 1949/08/29 | transcript | to Merton | I have now read <i>The Waters of Siloe</i> and must write to repeat my thanks for the great honour | Yes |
| [photocopied transcript from <i>The Letters of Evelyn Waugh</i>, which also appears in <i>Merton & Waugh</i>] |
| | 1949/08/30 | transcript | to Merton | …It is extraordinarily generous of you to take my editing of <i>Waters of Siloe</i> in such good | Yes |
| Transcript copy from the online version of the <u>Evelyn Waugh Newsletter</u>, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1969), ‹http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/EWN3-1.htm›. |
| | 1949/09/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you very much for your two letters and your very valuable advice on the two books, | Yes |
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| | 1949/10/15 | TALS[x] | from Merton | You will be amused to hear that your article of the <u>American Epoch in the Catholic Church</u> is | Yes |
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| | 1950/01/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is some time since I have given an account of myself. Burns sent a copy of Fowler and I am very | Yes |
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| | 1950/08/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Hollis and Carter have just sent me <u>Waters of Silence</u>, with your kind foreword and your | Yes |
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| | 1950/08/30 | transcript | to Merton | Of course you have never said anything that remotely "offended" me. How could you think so? | Yes |
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| | 1950/09/11 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The Stromboli note-paper literally overwhelmed me. Iam [sic] answering you at once to send my | Yes |
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| | 1950/12/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This letter has two purposes: to thank you for <u>Helena</u> and to wish you a holy Christmas-- | Yes |
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| | 1951/01/no? | HPCS | to Merton | Thank you vy [sic] much for your letter. Very sorry to hear of your illness. Does your library | Yes |
| [unknown date / possibly a reply to Merton's letter of December 15, 1950 - maybe January 1951 in context of books publication and other letters] Ronald Knox's book, <i>Enthusiasm: a chapter in the history of religion, with special reference to the XVII and XVIII centuries</i>] |
| | 1951/09/15? | transcript | from Waugh, Evelyn to "AF" | Very many thanks for THE ASCENT TO TRUTH which reached me today, September 15th. | |
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| | 1951/12/27? | transcript | to Merton | I have taken an unconscionable time in thanking you for present of <i>The Ascent to Truth</i>. | Yes |
| Transcript copy from the online version of the <u>Evelyn Waugh Newsletter</u>, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1969), ‹http://www.abbotshill.freeserve.co.uk/EWN3-1.htm›, which also appears in <i>Merton & Waugh</i>. |
| | 1952/02/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your very kind letter and for <u>Enthusiasm</u>. I entirely agree with your comment | Yes |
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| | 1973/11/30 | TL[c] | from Center to Evelyn Waugh Estate | Mr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at Mr. Evelyn Waugh's | |
| permission to view Waugh's correspondence |
| | 1991/01/07 | TLS[x] | from Giroux, Robert / to Christine Bochen | I've just found a copy of a marvelous Evelyn Waugh letter to Thomas Merton, which I enclose. | |
| [from Robert Giroux, Merton's friend and publisher from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, to Christine Bochen of Nazareth College in Rochester, New York] |
| | undated/no/no (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | +for Evelyn Waugh [-] in Caritate Xti [-] fr. M. Louis Merton O.C.R. | |
| [inscription in <i>Figures of an Apocalypse</i>] |
| | undated/no/no (#02) | HNS[x] | from Merton | As an expression of gratitude and I might even say veneration, for the best writer of English prose | |
| [inscription in <i>The Waters of Siloe</i>] |
| | undated/no/no (#03) | HNS[x] | from Merton | to Evelyn Waugh - in Corde Christi - fr m Louis O.C.R. | |
| [inscription in <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i>] |
| | undated/no/no (#04) | HNS[x] | from Merton | to Evelyn Waugh with my best wishes and prayers in Christo Domino [-] f. m. Louis Merton, O.C.S.O. | |
| [inscription in <i>The Ascent to Truth</i>] |
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