| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1954/10/02 | TL[x] | from Merton | Some time ago when I was reading you <u>Psychoanalysis and Religion</u> I thought I would write you | Yes |
| [last page/pages not included?] <u>Man for Himself</u> / <u>Escape from Freedom</u> / Karen Horney / psychoanalyst and the Catholic priest / Rule of St. Benedict and spiritual formation / obedience and authority / disagreement about mystics and God's existence |
| | 1954/10/27 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I was deeply touched by your letter, both by your kindness in writing me your reaction to my books, | |
| obedience and humility / authority / mystical religion |
| | 1954/12/08 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Thank you very much for your kind and interesting letter of November 9th. I would have answered | |
| Adam story in Genesis / Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" / self-sacrifice as narcissism / <i>Escape from Freedom</i> / Billy Graham, Rev. Peale, Bishop Sheen and selling religion |
| | 1955/03/18 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Even though I am answering your letter at the earliest opportunity I do not suppose that I can catch | Yes |
| discussing the risk of atomic war |
| | 1955/03/18 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Even though I am answering your letter at the earliest opportunity, I do not suppose that I can | Yes |
| [copy of published version] atomic war / inability to sign declaration / suggests Jacques Maritain and Bishop John Wright / China and Formosa / <i>No Man Is an Island</i> |
| | 1955/04/13 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I received your letter of March 18th when I arrived back in Mexico about 2 weeks ago. I am sorry | |
| atomic war / Merton not able to sign petition / <i>Ascent to Truth</i> and <i>No Man Is an Island</i> / Persian mystic Rumi |
| | 1955/09/12 | TL[x] | from Merton | I am about half way through the <u>Sane Society</u> which I received some time ago. I am reading it | Yes |
| mental health / Eric Gill's thought on work / Merton's disagreements about Fromm's history of religions / Ecclesiastes and Lao Tse / <i>Forgotten Language</i> |
| | 1955/10/28 | HLS | to Merton | I must count on your patience if I hope you forgive my long silence. It was not the result | |
| Rumi / Simone Weil / possibility of having to cease correspondence due to Merton's solitude / Fromm relates blessing story from Talmud |
| | 1958/10/30 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Had I not been sick for quite a few weeks, I would have thanked you earlier for your very kind | |
| book on Prometheus / Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis / Dr. Suzuki |
| | 1959/03/18 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I just received your letter of March 5th, and I do not want to delay expressing to you my gratitude | |
| Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis / Dr. Suzuki / I Ching |
| | 1960/09/30 | TLS | from Merton | Under separate cover a new book of mine is on its way to you: <i>Disputed Questions</i>. | Yes |
| Dr. Suzuki / Abraham Heschel / Niebuhr / U.S. and Cuba |
| | 1960/11/03 | TALS[x] | to Merton | When I returned yesterday from a prolonged trip to the states I found to my great pleasure your | |
| Dr. Suzuki / Sane Nuclear Policy movement / war / Cuba / Debs Dinner of the Socialist Party speech published in "Daedalus" / English translation of Marx / Marx's spiritual non-theistic mysticism and existentialism vs. Sartre or Heidegger |
| | 1961/03/11 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I just want to thank you for sending me your piece on the atom bomb, which I found powerful and | |
| James Laughlin / book on foreign policy / atomic warfare / Herman Kahn from the Rand Corporation |
| | 1961/09/26 | TLS | from Merton | Your latest book has reached me and the material is very interesting. The texts you have presented | Yes |
| [verso: scribbles and writing in black ink] Marx / "species being" / alienated society / Dr. Suzuki |
| | 1961/10/09 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter of September 26th, which I found here on my return from a trip | |
| Marx's non-alienated man / connections between Marx and non-theistic mysticism like Zen Buddhism / post-apocalyptic vision of fighting to defend a fall-out shelter in atomic aftermath |
| | 1961/11/14 | TLS | from Merton | Your new book MAY MAN PREVAIL has reached me and I am reading it with the greatest interest. | Yes |
| New Directions' anthology on peace / <u>Daedalus</u> article on unilateral disarmament / Lewis Mumford / Jerome Frank / Catholic peace movement / Cardinal Ottaviani |
| | 1961/11/23 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter of November 14th, which I received today. First of all I want | |
| <i>May Man Prevail</i> / Catholic peace movement / Dr. John Bennett from Union Theological Seminary / Pablo Antonio Cuadra / English translation of a Russian poem included: "Babi Yar" by Yevg. Yevtushenko |
| | 1961/12/no | other | from Merton | I am deeply grateful for your two letters, and glad to hear the new book is coming along so well. | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters, #5] experience of the Jews / Christians too sure of freedom / Catholic peace movement / Catholic Worker / English Catholics / Walter Stein <i>Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscience</i> / refusal of Europeans to publish some anti-war articles and articles on Auschwitz because the material was too negative / Yevtushenko poem / world government |
| | 1962/01/30 | TALS | to Merton | I would have answered you much earlier, but I was busy finishing an article on Civil Defense for | |
| Catholic Worker article on war / enclosing copy of poem by young Russian poet / Russian system / Herman Kahn |
| | 1962/02/16 | TLS | from Merton | I was sorry to hear you had been ill, and glad to hear you had been finishing the article on Civil | Yes |
| article for <u>Fellowship</u> enclosed / monastery's routine censorship / Yevtushenko poem on Babi Yar |
| | 1962/02/26 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter of February 16. In the meantime I also had a letter from Mr. | |
| James Laughlin of New Directions / paper on civil defense / humanism of the 18th century - Goethe, Herder, Schiller, Lessing, Marx / United Nations |
| | 1963/09/10 | TALS | to Merton | I am sure you have seen my little paper on "War Within Man" in the series "Beyond Deterrents." | |
| European philosophical meeting on "Man and Modern Society" / Yugoslav, Czech, and Polish philosophers / liberal Jesuit theologians - Diaz Allegria, Danielou, Karl Rahner / Nicolas of Cusa / Albert Schweitzer |
| | 1963/10/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was good to hear from you again. I am sorry for my long silence, but I have had a hard time | Yes |
| hospital for cervical disc / Yugoslav and Polish "revisionists" / "unconscious faith", Kierkegaard, conformism and security / humanist studies / Pax award |
| | 1965/12/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | I have not heard from you for a very long time, but my thoughts have always been with you. | |
| new year's greetings |
| | 1966/01/15 | TALS | from Merton | I was glad to get your note. You are right, I have not written for a long time, but I think of you | Yes |
| Reza Arasteh / Rumi / Chuang Tzu / Gandhi / Zen / hermitage |
| | 1966/02/07 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter of January 15th, which I was very happy to receive. Your letter | |
| Chuang Tzu / Gandhi / hermitage / book on Old Testament / Talmud / Psalms / new book on psychoanalysis and the concept of the unconscious / Dr. Suzuki, Dr. Stunkard and Mr. de Martino / Monsignor [Ivan D.] Illich and discussions of non-theistic religious experience |
| | 1966/04/27 | HLS | from Merton | The other day I finished your <u>Heart of Man</u> and found much good in this expansion of the | Yes |
| recovering from operation / hermitage / Chuang Tzu |
| | 1966/08/25 | TLS | to Merton | Upon my return a few days ago from a long trip I found your card of April 27 with enclosure. I hope | |
| Dr. Machovec, a Marxist and non-theistic religious man of metaphysical radicalism, book on Karl Barth's theology and "The Meaning of Life" / Don Milani / Clara Urquhart / <u>You Shall Be as Gods, a Radical Interpretation of the Old Testament and Its Tradition</u> by Fromm / meditation |
| | 1966/10/08 | TLS | to Merton | I hate to impose upon you, but I am sure you will understand why I do it. One of our neighbors here | |
| [8 pages of enclosures] pgs 1-4, Memorandum RE: "Papal Conference on Solutions to the Present Dangers to the Survival of Mankind", Biographical sketch of poet Carmen Blumenkron / 3 Blumenkron poems: "Laudamus Te", "Autumn Psalm" and "Chalice of Silence" |
| | 1966/10/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have been hoping to answer your letter of late August and now your new letter with the poems of | Yes |
| conference "on solutions to the present dangers to the survival of mankind" / suggestions on a location other than Rome / Papal involvement / Carmen Blumenkron's poems / Dr. Machovec / Elizabeth Mann Borghese / <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> / Don Milani / Padre Camilo Torres / Albert Camus |
| | 1973/10/09 | TLS | to Center from Fromm, Erich | I am very embarrassed to find your letter of August 7th 1972 which had been misplaced in a folder | |
| Discusses sending original letters from Merton to the Center |
| | 1973/11/30 | TLS[x] | from Center to Fromm, Erich | Mr. Victor Kramer at Georgia State University has requested permission to look at your | |
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| | 1973/12/05 | TL[c] | from Center to Fromm, Erich | Your letter addressed to Mr. Raymond Bailey was forwarded to me just today for answering. | |
| Request for Fromm's correspondence and asking permission for researchers to use his letters |
| | 1974/12/17 | TL[c] | to Center from Fromm, Erich | Thank you for your letter of 30th August, which arrived during my absence and was mislaid in a wrong | |
| [card enclosed with indications of what rights researchers will have in using his materials] |
| | 1975/02/25 | TLS | to Center from Mayer, B. H. | Following the correspondence with Miss Betty Delius, Dr. Fromm has asked me to send to you the | |
| Letter from Fromm's secretary that accompanied the letters of Fromm's he sent |
| | 1983/02/28 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Ruth Liepman | I am a professor at Nazareth College of Rochester and an author. I have recently been appointed by | |
| seeking letters previous to 1960/09/30 and any between 1963 and 1966 / Ruth represents the Erich Fromm estate |
| | 1983/06/03 | TLS | from Weibel, Ruth / to William Shannon | Re: missing letters from Thomas Merton to Erich Fromm | |
| follow up letter |
| | 1983/06/06 | TLS | from Funk, Rainer / to William Shannon | unfortunately it took some time to send a copy of your letter to the literary agency to me (I am the | |
| no letters between or before / Dr. Funk is Fromm archivist |
| | 1983/06/10 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Ruth Weibel | Thank you for your kind letter of June 3 responding to my letter of February 28. I appreciate your | |
| thanks for forwarding letter / seeking addresses and phone numbers (Mrs. Fromm/Dr Funk) |
| | 1983/07/06 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Rainer Funk | Thank you for your letter of June 6. I am enclosing the two letters you requested of Merton to Dr. | |
| letters have been discovered at the Special Collections - UK, Lexington, KY. / also seeking final draft of Erich Fromm's THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF WAR |
| | 1983/07/26 | TLS | from Funk, Rainer / to William Shannon | thank you very much for your letter of July 6. Meantime I sent you by special mail the xerocopies | |
| thanks for xeroxed copies and UK address |
| | 1983/08/07 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to William Marshall | I'm going over the Erich Fromm letters, I noted that the letter of October 2, 1954 should be three | |
| seeing third page of letter / Wm. Marshall: University of Kentucky Libraries (Special Collections), Lexington, KY |
| | 1983/08/15 | TLS | from McCann, Claire / to William Shannon | Mr. Marshall is out of the office for a few days so I'm replying to your letter of August 7th. | |
| the 1954/10/02 letter to Dr. Fromm is incomplete |
| | 1983/10/01 | TLS | from Funk, Rainer / to William Shannon | in your letter, dated July 6, 1983, you asked me for the final draft of Merton's comments on Fromm's | |
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| | 1983/11/03 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Rainer Funk | I received the package you sent enclosing Merton's commentary on Erich Fromm's manuscript which | |
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| | 1983/12/04 | TLS | from Funk, Rainer / to William Shannon | thank you very much for your letter and also for the xerocopies of WAR WITHIN MAN which I am glad to | |
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| | 1984/02/01 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Rainer Funk | It has been some time since I have been in touch with you. I appreciate all the help you have given | |
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| | 1984/03/01 | TLS | from Funk, Rainer / to William Shannon | excuse my delay in answering your letter. I have to plan a removal of the Archives to another house | |
| enclosures: CITIZENS FOR REASON declaration with Fromm asked Merton to sign in 1955 / also letters to various individuals about a Papal Conference |
| | 1984/06/18 | TLS | from Funk, Rainer / to William Shannon | today I did find between the files the poem you asked for in your letter of February 1, 1984. | |
| enclosed: YEVTOSHENKO'S POEM ABOUT BABI YAR AND ANTI-SEMITES |
| | undated/no/no | other | | Erich Fromm, psychoanalyst, philosopher and anthropologist, was born in Frankfort, Germany | |
| biographical information collected by Wm. Shannon |
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