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Date [Source / Page]Author QuotedTitle QuotedQuotation by Merton
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1949/04/07
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 30]
Louis BouyerMystère Pascal: méditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte Have a good Holy Week and Easter. Do you know that marvelous book, "le Mystère de Pascal" by Louis Bouyer? It ..
1950/11/22
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 79]
Karl SternPillar of Fire They have been keeping me here in the hospital for some time, mainly to make me rest.... Father Abbot dropped ..
1953/04/11
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 151]
Jacques MaritainCreative Intuition in Art and Poetry Someone sent me Maritain's new book, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, and it seems to be very fine...
1953/04/11
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 150]
T.S. EliotFour Quartets Thanks very much for the new complete Eliot. It is very valuable to me. I don't know when I shall ever get aro..
1953/04/11
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 150]
T.S. EliotMurder in the Cathedral Thanks very much for the new complete Eliot. It is very valuable to me. I don't know when I shall ever get aro..
1953/06/20
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 155]
Jean RounaultNightmare / pseudonym of Rainer Biemel Then also the book Nightmare finally got to me through the iron curtain and I have read bitds of it. Rounault,..
1954/01/14
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 170]
Bernardus of ClairvauxDe Consideratione I have been over these proofs [of Last of the Fathers]... I made two significant and rather long additions - t..
1954/06/05
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 179]
Karen HorneyNeurosis and human growth : the struggle toward selfrealization I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely glad Karl Stern is writing about the rela..
1954/06/05
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 179]
Karl Sternthird revolution : a study of psychiatry and religion I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely glad Karl Stern is writing about the rela..
1954/10/11
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 183]
Charles Monroe CoffinMajor Poets: English and American. Many thanks for the books - Judson, Mumford and Coffin. I am already greatly enjoying the anthology. Suddenly ..
1954/11/16
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 186]
Karl Sternthird revolution : a study of psychiatry and religion Many thanks for the THIRD REVOLUTION. I am half-way through it and I will comment and write to Sern when I hav..
1959/06/20
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 232]
Arthur KoestlerSleepwalkers I have not yet thanked you either for the books that J. Laughlin brought down. The Sleepwalkers is a real acqu..
1959/12/29
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 237]
Robert LaxCircus of the Sun Have you seen Bob Lax's wonderful Circus poem [Circus of the Sun], now in a book of its own?..
1961/02/13
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 262]
Jean LeclercqAlone with God Happy to hear you are bringing out Leclercq's Alone with God. It will be worthwhile I believe, though I don't ..
1961/05/13
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 269]
Isaac Bashevis SingerGimpel the fool The Singer books have come and I am in the midst of one of them, Gimpel, which is fabulous, literally. I think..
1961/10/18
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 272]
Nikolai LeskovCathedral Clergy The new books have arrived. I am delighted to get to [Nicolas] Leskov at last, he has long been on my list. Ha..
1961/10/18
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 272]
Robert LowellImitations The new books have arrived. I am delighted to get to [Nicolas] Leskov at last, he has long been on my list. Ha..
1963/05/10
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 297]
Xavier RynneLetters from Vatican City The Xavier Rynne book [Letters from Vatican City: Vatican Council I, First Season; Backgrounds and Debates] ar..
1964/07/01
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 325]
Michael SerafianPilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin First of all, I am very grateful for the new books. I have started immediately on [Michael] Serafian and find..
1964/10/26
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 334]
Fernand PouillonPierres sauvages Sorry to be a bit slow reporting on "Les Pierres Sauvages."... I think Pouillon's book is a good one and emine..
1965/04/29
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 341]
Flannnery O'ConnorEverhthing That Rises Must Converge Thanks for Flannery O'Connor's new book [Everything That Rises Must Converge], which, of course, I have read i..
1965/07/03
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 343]
Karl SternFlight from Woman I like Karl Stern's new book [The Flight of Woman] very much indeed. I am finishing it now, and have enjoyed i..
1965/07/03
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 343]
Paul Evdokimovfemme et le salut du monde : étude d'anthropologie chrétienne sur les charismes de la femme / Paul Evdokimov I like Karl Stern's new book [The Flight of Woman] very much indeed. I am finishing it now, and have enjoyed i..
1965/07/29
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 345-46]
Tom WolfeKandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby And now, finally, Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake Stremaline Baby. It is a magnificent book. Wh..
1966/12/13
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 359]
John (Jingxiong) WuGolden Age of Zen By the way, did I ever tell you John Wu has written quite a good book [The Golden Age of Zen (1966)] on Zen (t..
1967/02/04
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 360]
Flannnery O'ConnorWise Blood I am reading Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and am struck by the way she wrote all the essentials of the God i..

Abbreviations ▲ Source of Merton's Quotation and Citation
Ltrs: CforT The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.
Ltrs: Giroux Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton.
Ltrs: Hammer The Letters of Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.
Ltrs: HGL The Hidden Ground of Love.
Ltrs: Laughlin Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.
Ltrs: Leclercq Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Merton and Jean Leclercq.
Ltrs: RtoJ The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.
Ltrs: Ruether Letters of Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Ltrs: SofC The School of Charity. Letters on Religious Renewal.
Ltrs: WtoF Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Merton in Times of Crisis.