| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1950/02/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Father Abbot gave me your letter to answer. There is a statue of the General Chapter forbidding | Yes |
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| | 1963/08/15 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I have just had a letter addressed to Dr. S. Freedgood at my address in NYC from Dr. M. Bramachari, | |
| [encloses letter to Brahmachari of the same date] |
| | 1963/08/15 (#02) | TL[c] | to Bramachari, , Mahanambrata | I am sorry to learn that your friend, Mr. A.J. Chatterjee, is suffering from T.B. with neurological | |
| [enclosed with letter to Merton of the same date] |
| | 1964/01/02 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Got your letter in August and went to the hospital soon after it with a bad back because the pixies | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/06 | TLS | to Merton | I think the best place to meet is the New Moon Inn at 110th and Broadway. The West End Cafeteria is | |
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| | 1964/02/10 | TLS | to Merton | Anne showed me your letter thanking her for the parcel of books. Now I have another question | |
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| | 1965/07/01 | TL[c] | from Merton | As I gradually approach the terminus of my latest work, the Metaphysical Footnote, now running | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/10 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am writing to inquire about a subversive outfit in your building and perhaps even right under your | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/17 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | By risible circumstance, Time-Life Books <u>is</u> located under my desk: I am at this very moment | |
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| | 1967/01/17 (#02) | TALS | to Merton | As I was putting the carbon of my letter to you of this morning in my files, I discovered this copy | |
| [encloses letter from Julia Freedgood] |
| | 1967/01/17 (#03) | TAL[x] | from Freedgood, Julia / to David J. and Katharyn Colton | My parents, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Freedgood, have asked me to write and thank you for the book you | |
| [to David J. and Katharyn Colton (great uncle and aunt of Julia Freedgood) - dated 1966/12/31 - enclosed with 1967/01/17 letters from Sy Freedgood to Merton] |
| | 1967/01/19 | TAL[c] | to Merton | I have been pondering the letter I sent you the other day in answer to your request of Jan. 10th for | |
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| | 1967/02/02 | TALS | to Merton | I get the impression from the letter you sent Anne on Jan. 29th that you had not yet on that date | |
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| | 1967/02/04 | TL[c] | from Merton | Ok, I have wiped out all the tapes and have sunk a tugboat called the Maine in Havana harbor. | Yes |
| [letter has the facetious date of 1902 on it] |
| | 1967/02/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am horrified to hear how Slate was set upon by Hells Angels in the Metro. The Metro ought to be | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/24 | HLS | to Merton | If it's okay with you, I'd like very much to come down for a couple of days sometime during the work | |
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| | 1967/04/06 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for the books. I will sell them at once for the value of the inscriptions and replace them | |
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| | 1967/04/06 (#02) | other | | <u>POET IN A PINCH</u> [-] (<u>BEIRUT--GRIGGS</u>). EVGENY YEVTUSHENKO BLEW INTO | |
| [enclosed with 1967/04/06 letter from Freedgood to Merton] |
| | 1967/04/12 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your two letters and for the transcript of the tape. Thanks also for discussing | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/28 | TALS | to Merton | This lady apparently joined the CIA and <u>found</u> God. So, if any of your colleagues are still | |
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| | 1967/05/02 | TALS[x] | to Hartford, Huntington | I have a complaint to make about the conduct of the guards and ticket seller at your museum. | |
| [labeled "For NIPS distribution" - NIPS was Freedgood's "National Institutes of Public Scolds", of which Merton was a member of the Steering Committee and copied on this letter] |
| | 1967/05/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the Nips blasts. The enclosed will show that I am doing my own small part. | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/12 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for bringing to my attention the momentous decision of Judge Milton Shalleck regarding | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/12 (#02) | TAL[x] | from Merton | Thanks for bringing to my attention the momentous decision of Judge Milton Shalleck regarding | Yes |
| [seemingly a copy for NIPS distribution on 1967/05/22] |
| | 1967/05/15 (#01) | TLS | to NIPS Steering Committee | I regret to bring the enclosed matter to your attention. Assuming there is an iota of truth to | |
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| | 1967/05/15 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Ferrari, M. | We acknowledge receipt of your letter of April 24, 1967, and regret to inform you that the indicator | |
| [enclosed with Freedgood's letter of 1967/05/15 - 1967/05/09 letter from M. Ferrari, manager of the Central Bureau for Registered Addresses in New York] |
| | 1967/05/16 | TLS | to Merton | Andrei Voznesensky is talking at Town Hall tonight and later some friends of Anne's and mine | |
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| | 1967/05/17 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have not been able to find a copy of my letter to you but here is one to the NY Times Book Review, | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/18 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Krianes, J. | I was so taken by your perfervid talk re NIPS (the National Institutes of Public Scolds) at that | |
| [message copies to NIPS members - recipient of letter is variously addressed as Jim; Jas. K. Ma Krianes, Jr.; and J. Ma Kreanes] |
| | 1967/05/18 (#02) | other | to NIPS Members | NIPS STEERING COMMITTEE [-] 1) Mrs. Seymour Freedgood [-] Doubleday & Co., 277 Park Ave., | |
| [enclosed with 1967/05/18 letter - includes names and addresses of NIPS Steering Committee and "Cautious Observers"] |
| | 1967/05/19 | HLS[x] | to Brown, Francis | I was very impressed with the talk you gave me about the "new" Sunday Times - and particularly | |
| [from Freedgood to Francis Brown, editor of the <u>New York Times Book Review</u> - Freedgood includes Merton's 1967/05/04 letter to the <u>NYT Book Review</u> disputing a negative review given to Lewis Mumford's <i>The Myth of the Machine</i> - copy sent to Merton] |
| | 1967/05/22 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the interesting clipping on Voznesensky. As a matter of fact, I would like to meet him | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/31 | TALS[x] | from Fox, James / to Seymour Freedgood | A few days ago a truck pulled up to the monastery and unloaded seventeen cases of "Heinz 57 | |
| [copy of Dom James Fox's letter sent to NIPS members regarding a truckload of Heinz products delivered to Gethsemani - Freedgood notes to members, "Stop laughing. This is serious."] |
| | 1967/06/13 | TALS[x] | to Merton | I want you to be the first to have the NIPS letterheads after Anne and Dr. Free-Weld (Dec'd). | |
| [on letterhead of "The National Institutes of Public Scolds" with Merton's name listed on Steering Committee - letter initially addressed to Prof. Laurence Lafore with Larry crossed out, then Father crossed out and addressed "Dad"] |
| | 1967/12/31 | TL[c] | from Merton | Happy New Year to you and Ann. Bumper crops. Derby winners for Julia. World champion Polo | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/23 | other | | Read at the Services for Seymour Freedgood [-] January 23, 1968 [-] by John Brooks | |
| [pamphlet with a eulogy read at the funeral of Seymour Freedgood] |
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