| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1 | 1965/10/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You would probably do better not to wait for me. I will certainly get around to that piece before | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so very much for your note of the 4th. Believe me, I appreciate the demands on your time, | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/13 (#02) | other | | DIRECTORS REPORT [-] COMMITTEE OF SOUTHERN CHURCHMEN [-] AUGUST 30, 1965 | |
| [sent to Merton in 1965/10/13 letter] |
| 1 | 1965/12/27 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your warm note - I reciprocate all along and wish you joy in a blessed New Year. | |
| piece Merton was writing regarding Second Vatican Council constitution on "The Church in the Modern World" - possible piece for <u>Katallagete</u> |
| 1 | 1966/02/03 | TLS | to Merton | Will Campbell just called to say that this issue of <u>Katallagete</u> is in the mail (they are | |
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| 1 | 1966/02/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your notes and for the new issue of Katallagete which I have been reading. | |
| Walker Percy / Markus Barth |
| 1 | 1966/02/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your notes and for the new issue of Katallagete which I have been reading. | |
| Walker Percy / Markus Barth |
| 1 | 1966/02/24 | TALS | to Merton | I do not mean to embarrass you by quoting your own writings to you, but I don't know of any other | |
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| 1 | 1966/04/26 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Terribly sorry I forgot to send you this - here is the part of the ms you can draw on if you want | |
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| 1 | 1966/05/09 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the copies of the magazine which reached me safely. As a matter | |
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| 1 | 1966/05/12 | TLS | to Merton | Forgive me for keeping the mss. of your commentary so long, but I now have copied off what we would | |
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| 1 | 1966/05/16 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I finally decided that the only thing to do with my <u>Church and World</u> commentary was show it | |
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| 1 | 1966/06/27 | TLS | to Merton | The mail just brought some material from FOR, including your moving statement "Nhat Hahn [sic] is my | |
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| 1 | 1966/06/29? | HLS[x] | from Merton | There is no problem at all about your using the Nhat Hanh statement as far as I am concerned. | |
| [undated - likely 1966] Thich Nhât Hanh - "Nhât Hanh Is My Brother" / "Godless Christianity" article |
| 1 | 1966/07/06 | HLS[x] | from Merton | By all means write to Continuum if they don't act soon. Justus G. Lawler, 15 | |
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| 1 | 1966/07/22 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I have an important favor to put before you, and while I am eager to do so, I am uneasy lest I botch | |
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| 1 | 1966/07/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | During the past several weeks, I have been in correspondence with Father Thomas Merton about | |
| [copy of letter to Naomi Burton of Doubleday, Merton's literary agent, enclosed with July 22 letter to Merton - dated 1966/07/08] |
| 1 | 1966/07/22 (#03) | TAL[c] | from Levant, Dan / to Naomi Burton Stone | I'm attaching a letter from James Holloway and my reply to him. This is about a book of Merton's | |
| [copy enclosed with July 22 letter to Merton (carbon copy to John Delaney) - dated 1966/07/12] |
| 1 | 1966/07/26 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the eloquent enclosed statement by Will. I have read them both | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/25 | TL[x] | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Father Merton has decided now that he is not going to make a full length book from the material | |
| "Church in the World" material - will not become a book, so <u>Katallagete</u> can make two articles from it |
| 1 | 1966/09/24 | TLS | to Merton | Received this a.m. sheets of the finished product of the journal, summer issue, the second day | |
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| 1 | 1966/09/28 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am glad to hear that this issue of Katallagete is on its way and I shall look forward to seeing it | |
| Merton's feelings that "Death of God" material is inadequate and his reservations about Holloway publishing it |
| 1 | 1966/09/28 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am glad to hear that this issue of Katallagete is on its way and I shall look forward to seeing it | |
| Merton's feelings that "Death of God" material is inadequate and his reservations about Holloway publishing it |
| 1 | 1966/09/30 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for your note of the 28th. I am returning the mss on Godless Christianity as you requested. | |
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| 1 | 1966/10/15 | TALS | to Merton | I sent a couple of copies first-class, and a few more book-rate, and I hope by now they have arrived | |
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| 1 | 1966/10/25 | TL[x] | to New York Review, to the editors | I am enclosing a check for fourteen dollars ($14.00) to cover the cost of a three-year subscription | |
| [Holloway sending a check to pay for a 3-year subscription to the <u>New York Review</u> for Merton] |
| 1 | 1966/11/14 | TLS | to Merton | As work goes along on the politics-as-messiah theme we seem to be accumulating enough first-rate | |
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| 1 | 1966/12/14 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is a very delayed acknowledgement of all the copies of the summer issue, and a comment on same. | |
| thoughts on article from last issue of <u>Katallagete</u> / "Godless Christianity" article / thanks for <u>New York Review</u> / reading and a possible study of William Faulkner / possibility of seeing Holloway and Will Campbell later in January of 1967 |
| 1 | 1966/12/14 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is a very delayed acknowledgement of all the copies of the summer issue, and a comment on same. | |
| thoughts on article from last issue of <u>Katallagete</u> / "Godless Christianity" article / thanks for <u>New York Review</u> / reading and a possible study of William Faulkner / possibility of seeing Holloway and Will Campbell later in January of 1967 |
| 1 | 1967/01/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I really enjoyed having you and Will here the other day. By the way I could not find in my pocket | |
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| 1 | 1967/01/18 | TALS | to Merton | I'm sending with this today the Johnny Cash record, so please be on the lookout. Parcel post inside | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/01 | TLS | to Merton | This is an awkward sort of letter, but not so much as it might have been had we not had the chance | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry I was not prompt in answering your last two letters: we have been on retreat. As to dividing | |
| Flannery O'Connor's <i>Wise Blood</i> - "best summary of God is Dead Theology" / thoughts on Johnny Cash and comparisons with Bob Dylan / working more on William Faulkner |
| 1 | 1967/02/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry I was not prompt in answering your last two letters: we have been on retreat. As to dividing | |
| Flannery O'Connor's <i>Wise Blood</i> - "best summary of God is Dead Theology" / thoughts on Johnny Cash and comparisons with Bob Dylan / working more on William Faulkner |
| 1 | 1967/02/28 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Just got back from the hospital today. Here is the article. Feel free to edit it as you please. | |
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| 1 | 1967/03/04 | TLS | to Merton | A quick note to let you know that the "Godless Christianity"? mss. arrived o.k. Many, many thanks | |
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| 1 | 1967/04/04 | TLS | to Merton | For some time we have wanted to arrange a meeting for the working segment of the editorial board | |
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| 1 | 1967/04/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry for the delay in answering yours of the 4th. I have had a lot of people to see lately | |
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| 1 | 1967/04/22 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter. I am clarified. I'll expect news of the editorial board meeting around end | |
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| 1 | 1967/06/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks, belatedly for the card. I also enjoy Johnny Cash, especially in his references to the hermit | |
| Johnny Cash and the hermit life |
| 1 | 1967/07/03 | TLS | to Merton | Not trying to add to what I know is your backlog of reading. But I had an extra set of galleys | |
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| 1 | 1967/07/21 | TLS | to Merton | Strange as it seems, we've been unable to locate either the complete text of the resolutions of the | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/20 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the copies of Kat which came in safely. I think the cover is very effective and in fact | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/22 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of the 20th, and esp. for the enclosures. And for the kind words about | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/22 (#02) | other | | Facing the Future [-] By Walter Lippmann [-] The Negro Insurrection: An Ominous Gap Triggers Rioting | |
| [newspaper clipping from the 1967/08/20 <u>Louisville Courier-Journal</u>] |
| 1 | 1967/08/31 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | A very persuasive letter came in from Will yesterday. He inveigled me with the summary of new | |
| letter from Will Campbell summarizing new country songs / Merton's article "The Hot Summer of 1967" for <u>Katallagete</u> / William Faulkner / Cornell [Tom Cornell?] - Alabama / Catholic Church - "St Vitus dance plus logorrhea" |
| 1 | 1967/08/31 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | A very persuasive letter came in from Will yesterday. He inveigled me with the summary of new | |
| letter from Will Campbell summarizing new country songs / Merton's article "The Hot Summer of 1967" for <u>Katallagete</u> / William Faulkner / Cornell [Tom Cornell?] - Alabama / Catholic Church - "St Vitus dance plus logorrhea" |
| 1 | 1967/09/02 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your letter of the 31st. You're not the first one to fall before a Campbell | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here, hastily, is the copy of Hot Summer. I leave you to judge whether it would be improved without | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/11 | TALS | to Merton | Thanks for the Hot Summer which arrived o.k. Just had time to read it before going to N'ville this | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/21 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Faulkner at Oxford arrived o.k. Let me know if you find others you can use. Not sure if I sent you | |
| [encloses two black and white photographs - there are two men pictured: Jim Holloway, editor, is in the "Katallagete 2" shirt and the other, the publisher and co-founder with Holloway, is Will Campbell, "Katallagete 1" - also encloses a newspaper clipping (see next record)] |
| 1 | 1967/09/21 (#02) | other | | Faulkner, in Letter to Ex-Butler, Said Negro Must Earn Equality [-] By M. S. Handler [-] In a letter | |
| [newspaper clipping sent by Holloway describing a letter author William Faulkner sent to his ex-butler concerning racial issues] |
| 1 | 1967/09/22 | TL[c] | from Merton | When I see you fellows all decked out in your athletic finery, it makes me wonder when I am going to | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | I was very sorry to hear about Dr. Allport, and can understand how this bears on you at this time. | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/28 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for your note of the 23rd. Will is free Tuesday, Oct. 3, which is also the best day for me | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/no? | HLS[x] | from Merton | Jim, I should have enclosed this with the note - If you want it for a Spring issue ok. | |
| [handwritten note to "Jim" on copy of "Easter Homily for Argus Communications" - date unknown but essay dated September 1967 - possibly a note to Jim Douglass, October 17, 1967 letter from Holloway to Merton mentions a Merton essay sent by Jim Douglass] |
| 1 | 1967/10/17 | TALS | to Merton | The mss is finally in the hands of the printer, who starts on it tomorrow. The special supplement | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/20 | TL[c] | from Merton | A fellow who knows Groppi and has worked with him just went through on his way to Alabama | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/03 | TALS | to Merton | Here are proofs for both articles for Fall Kat. I haven't read either (in proof). You might check | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/06 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Here are the proofs in haste. This is my afternoon to try to catch up with the mail. | |
| Doris [Doris Dana?] - visit to Lexington with John Jacob Niles / early December meeting with nuns |
| 1 | 1967/11/25 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks the buttons. I got an idea. For a change. What do you think about Kat getting into the | |
| possibility of <u>Katallagete</u> producing cryptic buttons - "Combat the Bloat" and "Read Kat", etc. |
| 1 | 1967/11/25 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks the buttons. I got an idea. For a change. What do you think about Kat getting into the | |
| possibility of <u>Katallagete</u> producing cryptic buttons - "Combat the Bloat" and "Read Kat", etc. |
| 1 | 1967/11/28 | HNS[x] | from Merton | The Styron book got here from Nashville today. Many thanks. Will get review to you early January | |
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| 1 | 1967/12/02 (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here's a [indecipherable word] worked with Groppi and will do an article for Kat. | |
| Doris Dana to translate more of Mistral [Gabriela Mistral] / Ping Ferry article for <u>Katallagete</u> |
| 1 | 1967/12/02? (#02) | TLS[x] | from Lyons, John, Br. / to Merton | Greetings and all that! Well, I finally arrived back at Salvatorian Center after running around | |
| Will Campbell / article on Father Groppi for <u>Katallagete</u> / Sr. Therese [Sr. Thérèse Lentfoehr] |
| 1 | 1967/12/08 | other[x] | | Gethsemani's Abbot Fox Is Retiring [-] Abbot M. James Fox of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani | |
| [newspaper clipping] |
| 1 | 1968/01/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have finished my draft of the Nat Turner review and after it has been typed it will be on its way. | |
| article "Who Is Nat Turner?" / abbatial election (to replace Dom James Fox) |
| 1 | 1968/01/15 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here is Nat Turner. Hope it's ok. Snowed in for fair here! Still pretty tied up in January but | |
| [sent with "New Year's Letter 1968" mimeographed circular letter] |
| 1 | 1968/01/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | The Styron piece is splendid: you've put the crux of the matter extremely well, and in short compass | |
| publishing Merton's piece "Who Is Nat Turner?" with article on the Black Power Movement in California by John Howard Griffin and an article by Ping Ferry / Leslie Dunbar of the Field Foundation wants to use Merton's "The Hot Summer of 1967" in annual report / Philip Berrigan to come to Cincinnati and Louisville |
| 1 | 1968/01/26 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Best time to see you (and/or Will) would be for me sometime between Feb 12 and 25 (Sundays excluded) | |
| arranging a meeting regarding Phil [Philip Berrigan?] |
| 1 | 1968/02/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | Sorry for the delay in responding to your note of the 26th. Will and I have been tied up in | |
| arrranging time to meet Merton February 17 |
| 1 | 1968/02/23 | TN[x] | to Merton | Thaks for the Styron changes; no problem to include. We may have another week (and of Feb) to wait | |
| changes to "Who Is Nat Turner?" article |
| 1 | 1968/02/no? (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just ran across some info which calls for an important change in the Nat Turner | |
| [no date, likely between Holloway's letters of February 12 and February 23, 1968] |
| 1 | 1968/02/no? (#02) | other[x] | from Merton | WHO IS NAT TURNER? by Thomas Merton for Katallagete [-] January 1968 | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Ping Ferry wrote that he might come "Friday or Saturday April 22 or 23rd" but the calendar doesn't | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | No problem about Friday April 26. Saturday is better but it makes no real difference at all, | |
| Ping Ferry's trip to Gethsemani to meet with Merton / <u>Monks Pond</u> / idea of issue of <u>Katallagete</u> on Jacques Ellul - suggests one on Herbert Marcuse / William Faulkner |
| 1 | 1968/04/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for the note. I think now we're set. As it <u>now</u> develops, I think it is better | |
| arrangements for a meeting at Gethsemani including Holloway and Ping Ferry in late April 1968 / <u>Monks Pond</u> / Daniel Berrigan and the trial of Philip Berrigan - possible trip to Kentucky / possibility of Herbert Marcuse article for issue of <u>Katallagete</u> featuring Jacques Ellul |
| 1 | 1968/04/21 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note. I'll expect Ping. I don't think he'd object if you came along, but perhaps | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/16? | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Your letter followed me out here. Have been busy at a convent north of here. Will be tied up | |
| [postcard from San Francisco - postmarked Santa Fe, NM, May 16, 1968] |
| 1 | 1968/07/31 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It seems I haven't written you for a long time. Can it be that I owe you a letter since May? | |
| declining Holloway's invitation to write about the Kennedy assassination - Merton explaining that he had, for the time being, disengaged from politics - announces his trip to Asia later in 1968 for dialogue with Catholic religious and interfaith groups - possibility of re-engaging politics in the following year |
| 1 | 1968/08/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I've an idea for that second article-- something about Moltmann's Theology of Hope. | |
| Jürgen Moltmann - Jacques Ellul's exegesis of common places / places Merton can be reached in California - Ping Ferry, etc. / possibilities for interfaith dialogue / Liturgical Conference |
| 1 | 1968/08/31 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for the note. Hadn't realized tht [sic] you were leaving Ky. so soon. And therefore not sure | |
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| 1 | 1968/09/06? | HNS[x] | from Merton | Ok about Moltmann. Maybe I could do something on the Structuralists. Levi-Strauss, Lacan, etc. | |
| [no year - seems to be 1968] |
| 1 | 1968/09/09 | TLS[x] | from Meatyard, Ralph Eugene | I have showings of various types of Art on the walls of my business establishment from month | |
| Meatyard's display of Merton "drawings, photographs, manuscripts, books, etc." in his business, Eyeglasses of Kentucky (in Lexington) |
| 1 | 1968/12/14 | telegram[x] | from Hart, Patrick | FUNERAL MASS FOR FATHER MERTON TUESDAY DECEMBER 17TH 10 AM THIS TELEGRAM WILL ADMIT | |
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| 1 | undated/01/05 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Your letter did not reach me until yesterday - next week would be fine for me - to give you time, | |
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| 1 | undated/02/22 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is that article, finally. I hope it will be of some use. I have a feeling it will not please | |
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| 1 | undated/05/04 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Dan says he hopes to be over here with you next Monday. Everything fine - I expect you both | |
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| 1 | undated/09/01 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here's the old guy in his Katallagete sweatshirt, registering satisfaction. Best, Tom. | |
| [sending a photo of Merton by Ralph Eugene Meatyard with his <u>Katallagete</u> sweatshirt - Campbell and Holloway had numbers 1 and 2 on their sweatshirts, and they gave Merton one with the infinity symbol (∞) on it] |
| 2 | undated/no/no | | | [Folder description only - one folder and smaller sub-folders] | |
| [Each sub-folder has the name and letters related to Merton of someone in correspondence with James Holloway: Markus Barth, Dan and Phil Berrigan, Will Campbell (and Fred Hall), James McBride Dabbs, Jim Douglass, Leslie Dunbar, Jacques Ellul, W.H. Ferry, J.H. Griffin, Lee Keck, Julius Lester, James B. Meriwether, Reinhold Niebuhr, Walker Percy, Tom Pettigrew, and William Stringfellow.] |
| 3 | undated/no/no | | | [Folder description only - one folder with all letters in Series Three] | |
| [Contains correspondence related to publishing Merton materials, much to do with transcripts of Merton's work on Faulkner, between James Holloway and Robert Daggy, Betty Delius, Br. Patrick Hart, James Laughlin, Tommie O'Callaghan, Naomi Burton Stone, and representatives of Merton's publishers.] |
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