McDonnell, Thomas P.

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Thomas P. McDonnell was a staff writer for The Pilot, a publication of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts. He often wrote book reviews about Merton's books, edited A Thomas Merton Reader, and interviewed Merton for Motive, a magazine affiliated with the Methodist Student Movement. McDonnell often sent Merton other reviews and articles he had written for The Pilot and other publications.

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#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
1.	1961/11/09	TLS to Merton	I had hoped, after shortly returning home -- and especially after receiving the Preface -- to write		«detailed view»
2.	1961/11/27	TLS to Merton	It was not until very recently that I came upon the "only copy" you loaned me of Trappist		«detailed view»
3.	1962/03/28	transcript from Merton	I owe you once again, five or six letters. Thanks for the most recent one which did not strike me	✓	[Cold War Letters #62 - transcript from bound set] «detailed view»
4.	1962/04/no?	transcript from Merton	Thanks for your good letter and the enclosures. And for the previous one which I do not think	✓	[Cold War Letters #64 - transcript from bound set] «detailed view»
5.	1962/05/26	TALS[x] from Merton	Quick answers: 1) Better Wisdom of Emptiness than Theology of Creativity. You can use your		«detailed view»
6.	1963/01/11	TAL[c] from Merton	I have come out of the Christmas whirl with a bout of flu and am buried under unanswered letters,		«detailed view»
7.	1963/02/08	TAL[c] from Merton	Good to hear from you and to have the Dumpulin bk. Paul Peachey, the Mennonite who translated it,		«detailed view»
8.	1964/07/27	TLS to Merton	Enclosed see column I did last week. A couple of reference notes: Roxbury is Boston's Harlem;		«detailed view»
9.	1964/08/03	TLS to Merton	Perhaps your novices--to say nothing of yourself--might like to see the enclosed items of possible		«detailed view»
10.	1964/08/12	TLS to Merton	Listen, for several years now I've been quite taken with Leopold Senghor, both the man and his		«detailed view»
11.	1964/09/03	TAL[c] from Merton	I am swimming in a pile of unanswered letters and this does not make for coolness or good sense,		«detailed view»
12.	1965/04/13 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Oh, good grief, Merton finally made it -- in the 10 x 13½ pages of HOLIDAY! And, collector's item		«detailed view»
13.	1965/04/13 (#02)	TLS to Merton	PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS: Just an addnote. Mary Stack McNiff this past minute		«detailed view»
14.	1965/04/24	TL[c] from Merton	I know. Its just that I am sandbagged with mail and at this point I am answering somewhat less than		«detailed view»
15.	1965/05/14	TLS to Merton	See the paragraph on "Rain & Rhinoceros" in Tangents column, page 4.		«detailed view»
16.	1965/12/14 (#01)	TLS to Merton	I had been asked by The Boston Globe, some weeks ago, to review Seasons of Celebration		«detailed view»
17.	1965/12/14 (#02)	other to Merton	TANGENTS [-] Robert Lowell and Chekhov's Gun on the Wall [-] After ROBERT LOWELL'S reading		[1965/12/11 article from The Pilot of Boston, Massachusetts] «detailed view»
18.	1965/12/14 (#03)	other to Merton	SEASONS OF CELEBRATION, by Thomas Merton. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 248 pp. $4.95.		[book review by McDonnell of Seasons of Celebration - McDonnell writes very negatively about this book and does not think it is up to the quality of Merton's other books] «detailed view»
19.	1965/12/17	TL[c] from Merton	I have no objections whatever to your review. You are perfectly entitled to your opinion		«detailed view»
20.	1966/07/22 (#01)	TLS to Merton	I thought you might be amused to see our this week's "Tangents" in The Pilot.		«detailed view»
21.	1966/07/22 (#02)	other to Merton	TANGENTS [-] The Church Mouse That Almost Roared [-] By THOMAS P. McDONNELL [-] (PILOT Staff		[1966/07/23 article from The Pilot of Boston, Massachusetts] «detailed view»
22.	1966/11/28 (#01)	TLS to Merton	The enclosed, as you will note, is from the Sunday edition of The Boston Globe. The typos are		«detailed view»
23.	1966/11/28 (#02)	other to Merton	Thomas Merton Today [-] CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER, By Thomas Merton;		[1966/11/27 book review from the Boston Globe by Thomas P. McDonnell] «detailed view»
24.	1967/01/11	TLS to Merton	Thanks very, very much for the ND 19--marvelous stuff in it, especially of course the Alberti,		«detailed view»
25.	1967/01/16	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your very good letter of the 11th, and your column on the Christmas shopping which		«detailed view»
26.	1967/03/06	TLS to Merton	Here are the Qs for the dialog project. I suppose that I am more in them than I ought to be.		«detailed view»
27.	1967/03/12 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Your questions are first rate. The answers are in the works. I hope to get them off to you by		«detailed view»
28.	1967/03/12 (#02)	other	I [-] Let's start with The Seven Storey Mountain, Father Louis, because I have the more than		[typescript of McDonnell's original questions to Merton and Merton's original handwritten responses (later both the questions and the responses were changed)] «detailed view»
29.	1967/03/13	TLS to Merton	Sorry to hear about the elbow. At least this may keep you from hoisting all those beers that you		«detailed view»
30.	1967/03/15 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Big snowstorm screaming in Boston now (at the office--outside, that is) so I want to get this off		«detailed view»
31.	1967/03/15 (#02)	other to Merton	Books MTW....A.M. STRESSES IN THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM, by Stephen Sandy. Houghton Mifflin		[book review by McDonnell sent to Merton] «detailed view»
32.	1967/03/20	TL[c] from Merton	Your revised questions are fine: they have much more bite. Unfortunately when I got them I had		«detailed view»
33.	1967/04/10	TLS to Merton	Well, here it is. And really, TM, I think it's a pretty good job all around. I tried to correlate		«detailed view»
34.	1967/04/14	TL[c] from Merton	I really think that this conversation shaped up very nicely indeed. So let's go. Since it is		«detailed view»
35.	1967/04/24	TALS to Merton	Yes, that's a real unwelcome lump--the "next year" deal. I had already sent BJS the ms. last Friday		«detailed view»
36.	1967/04/28	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your of the 24. By all means I think it would be too much to hold the interview another		«detailed view»
37.	1967/05/18	TLS to Merton	I guess (see enclosed) that B.J. Stiles is pretty well hooked on the interview piece, and that there		«detailed view»
38.	1967/05/20 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	I am glad of Stile's reaction: very good. Actually, Motive is the best possible place		«detailed view»
39.	1967/05/20 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton to B. J. Stiles	Tom McDonnell has forwarded to me your good positive reaction to the interview and I am happy about		«detailed view»
40.	1967/05/26	TLS to Merton	These are the carbons of the submitted version to JBStiles of MOTIVE. I've made Xerox copies		«detailed view»
41.	1967/06/27	TLS to Merton	How's the Gethsemani countryside these days of earliest summer...the corn apears [sic] inching		«detailed view»
42.	1967/06/30	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for the Voznesensky poems: I like him a lot. I understand the best translation of him		«detailed view»
43.	1967/07/21 (#01)	TLS to Merton	A couple of recent columns. The 7/8 one drew some response--for instance, Fr. Richard Butler, O.P.		«detailed view»
44.	1967/07/21 (#02)	other to Merton	Bless Me, Father-- For I Have What? By THOMAS P. McDONNELL [-] (PILOT Staff Writer)		[1967/07/08 article from The Pilot] «detailed view»
45.	1967/07/21 (#03)	other to Merton	The Decline & Fall Of Socratic Dialog [-] By THOMAS P. McDONNELL [-] (PILOT Staff Writer)		«detailed view»
46.	1967/08/09	TLS to Merton	Please note this page from New Zealand Tablet, by one Malcolm Muggeridge, whom you may		«detailed view»
47.	1967/08/11	TL[c] from Merton	Thank for your letter and the clippings. And for the tip off about Fr Clifford Stevens.		«detailed view»
48.	1967/10/no	other[x]	motive [-] October 1967 [-] Sixty Cents		[photocopy of McDonnell's interview with Merton as published in Motive] «detailed view»
49.	undated/no/no	other from Merton	ANSWERS TO T. MCDONNELL. [-] I- Yes, I'll accept "The Seven Storey Mountain" as a point		[typescript of Merton's answers to McDonnell for Motive] «detailed view»

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