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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Lawler, Justus George, 1927-

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1968

Volume: 84 item(s); 100 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Justus George Lawler was an editor with Herder and Herder. He lived near Chicago and edited the journal Continuum. He has since written books on Church history, ethics, and Catholic literature and art.

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Related Information and Links

See also Cold War Letters #47, #60 and #70 published in Witness to Freedom, pp. 39, 46 and 50.

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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/02/15 TLSto MertonI have just finished your article in the current Blackfriars, and was overwhelmed by it as by its   
 1962/02/no? transcriptfrom MertonNaturally your letter was very gratifying. I am sorry I have delayed in making a reply, but as youYes [Cold War Letters #47 - copy from bound set]
 1962/03/22 TLSto MertonEven at the cost of overdoing my appreciation, I would like to express by this greeting my very real   
 1962/03/no? transcriptfrom MertonI appreciate whatyou [sic] mean about the series "Quaestiones Disputatae". The few articles I haveYes [Cold War Letters #60 - copy from bound set]
 1962/04/12 TLSto MertonThankyou [sic] for the mimeo copies of your articles. I had just read the Batchelder book before   
 1962/04/16 TLSto MertonI just read the exchange in the Commonweal re your bomb article. It is more and more apparent   
 1962/05/28 TALSfrom MertonYour article looked fine in print and I enjoyed that whole issue. I was happy to have been to some   
 1962/05/no? transcriptfrom MertonThanks for your good letter of last month and for the article. I liked the latter a lot and thoughtYes [Cold War Letters #70 - copy from bound set]
 1962/07/19 TLSto MertonI hope your mailing list hasn't been fouled up, as I didn't receive a copy of your disarmament book.   
 1962/07/30 TLS[x]from MertonThe purpose of this letter is to bring up the subject of the English course, on tape, which you said   
 1962/08/07 TLSto MertonI am having copies of the better tapes made, and will send them on as soon as possible.   
 1962/09/17 TLSto MertonThis is good news which more than compensates for the bad word from NY that H&H has   
 1962/09/27 TLSto MertonThanks for the Breakthrough book; it is a very good collection, and I will order some extra   
 1962/10/15 TLSto MertonI received the Introduction; it's great; a fit prelude to Delp. I will send two copies on for   
 1962/10/18 TL[c]from MertonHere is the book: all ship-shape, I hope. I have added more than I first planned, and I think this   
 1962/11/16 TAL[c]from MertonFirst, unfinished business. I did not yet thank you for the Stalingrad letters. They are very   
 1962/11/20 TLSto MertonI did not want to write until I had some word re the contract. The Abbot's letter was very gentle,   
 1962/11/24 TAL[c]from MertonEvidently the FOR thinks you are a Supreme Court Justice. I think the explanation is that one   
 1962/12/18 TL[c]from MertonThis contract is turning into quite a picnic, I see. Father Abbot has passed the latest version on   
 1962/12/20 TLSto MertonConcerning the contract, by all means strike out no. 14, and as for the people in no. 16, they can   
 1962/12/29 TAL[c]from MertonThanks very much for the wire and letter, fixing up the contract, as I said in my letter the other   
 1963/02/07 TAL[c]from MertonCopies of the book have arrived and I find them very handsome. Thanks very much.   
 1963/05/27 TL[c]from MertonHere is a little piece which I first thought might be a letter to the editors of the Commonweal,   
 1963/06/24 TLSto MertonThe summer issue is finally all at the printer. I sent you a couple of photocopies, mainly with   
 1963/07/01 TALSto MertonHere is a pile of things you may use. I don't know what order they are in. The tape is of the Delp   
 1963/07/06 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your good letter and all the material, which arrived this morning. Everything is most   
 1963/08/11 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for the new tape, which I have not yet played. But I did get to the other one, the Delp   
 1963/09/25 TLSto MertonI tried to call your agent yesterday and couldn't get her, so I have decided to skip the liturgy   
 1963/11/01 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for Hocchuth []. I had read your bit on it, which sounded fair and  Merton's review of Rolf Hochhuth's The Deputy (Der stellvertreter), "The Trial of Pope Pius XII"
 1963/11/05 TLSto MertonThe NY people are sending you the wrong books; Seasoltz and Westow are both pretty mediocre,   
 1963/12/16 TAL[c]from MertonHere is the Journal material. I have an over all title, "Truth and Violence"[.] It ought to do.   
 1964/02/20 TLSto MertonEnclosed is a pretty good issue of Minority of One you may not have seen. I imagine W. H. Ferry   
 1964/02/25 TAL[c]from MertonIt was good to get your letter and the copy of "Minority of One" which I had not seen.   
 1964/02/no? TPCSto MertonWe had a fire here during the holidays that dislocated things for the past couple of weeks;   
 1964/03/17 TLSto MertonFather Bernard Collins of Holy Cross Abbey has written me about the Monastic Studies series   
 1964/03/30 TAL[c]from MertonYes, the latest issues arrived and I am grateful. Since you mention it, I could use three or four   
 1964/04/17 TALSto MertonHere is the copy of the reflections you sent; I have made some comments here and there, but I don't   
 1964/05/11 TLSto MertonThe gals were disappointed, but they will recover Okly. Concerning the reflections on violence,   
 1964/05/22 TAL[c]from MertonHere is your piece on non-violence etc, deliberately selective and scattered. I have not included   
 1964/05/no? TNSto MertonThis has been on my desk for a couple of weeks; I noticed a very critical review somewhere   
 1964/08/11 TAL[c]from MertonFirst, thanks for sending the Teaching of Contempt. To begin with I am afraid I will not have time   
 1964/08/no? TNSto MertonThings have been hectic as usual. You should have received the copies of the summer issue by now.   
 1964/10/17 TAL[c]from MertonThanks for all the new books. Yes, I especially liked Peterson on the Angels and Liturgy.   
 1964/11/17 TAL[c]from MertonHere is the Zen article. I have completely rewritten it and you will see that I have brought   
 1964/11/no? TLSto MertonHope your back is not too much trouble. Minor problems on the bomb book have developed which   
 1964/12/01 TLSto MertonThe Flannery O'Connor piece in Jubilee was very good, and (naturally) set me to wondering if you   
 1964/12/07 TL[c]from MertonThanks for the good letter. I will try that article, or hope to. The material is in my mind   
 1964/12/28 TLSto MertonThis will require no reply. I hope you can do the poetry-prayer piece. I hadn't seen the Ramparts   
 1965/01/17 TL[c]from MertonI am very happy that you saw fit to dedicate to me, together with Archbishop Roberts, your book   
 1965/02/09 TLSto MertonHere is the Christianity and Race article. It is too long for a chronicle piece, so we couldn't   
 1965/04/14 TLSto MertonI don't know if you see this magazine, but I thought you might be interested in the S. American   
 1965/04/18 TL[c]from MertonThanks for the Motive. I was interested to see some Nicanor Parra translated including one   
 1965/05/12 TL[c]from MertonThat batch of letters in the Commonweal rather annoyed me. Certainly they did not really see what   
 1965/06/no? TLSto MertonI am sorry I have to return the article; there is no way I can squeeze it into the next issue on   
 1965/07/06 TLSto MertonA short note which I hope won't interrupt things in the hermitage. We are quite committed to doing   
 1965/07/10 TL[c]from MertonIf I do write anything for the Regamey book it will have to be awfully short, because I have a whole   
 1965/09/24 TLSto MertonCould I ask a large favor? On the spur of the moment I decided last week to apply for a Guggenheim:   
 1965/11/18 TLS[x]to MertonNo need to read the book; you have probably heard it all before, and most of it appeared  [copy found in file kept by Dom James Fox, see "Fox, James" file in Series titled, "Publishers Correspondence: Herder and Herder"] thoughts on his book with references to Milton [likely <i>The Christian Image: Studies in Religious Art and Poetry</i>] / respect for James Forest, Philip and Daniel Berrigan, and individual Catholic Workers, but collective criticism of the Catholic Peace Fellowship and their thoughts on Vietnam - articles for <u>Continuum</u>
 1965/12/24 TL[c]from MertonI have been a bad correspondent, and am just trying to catch up. This will therefore have to be   
 1966/02/18 TL[c]from MertonI think you asked me about this ms, as a possibility for material for Continuum. I am sending   
 1966/03/03 TLSto MertonSorry about the delay in writing; the ms. came safely, and I looked through it very fast last week   
 1966/03/08 TL[c]from MertonPlease don't mind if I use up this red ribbon. Glad you can use a bit of the Church-world ms   
 1966/06/09 TLSto MertonI should have written you on this sooner, but the baby takes more time that [sic] I would have   
 1966/07/25 TL[c]from MertonAs far as I am concerned the Spring <u>Continuum</u> is the best yet: the most interesting   
 1966/08/18 TL[c]from MertonThanks for passing my letter along to Rosemary Ruether. She wrote to me. I will read her book,   
 1966/10/04 TL[c]from MertonFirst of all I want to thank you for the Archbishop Roberts volume which has arrived. I am very   
 1966/10/17 TLSto MertonSorry to be so late in replying about the Camus piece. There is really no way we can use it in any   
 1966/10/no? HNSto MertonBy all means send the piece on Albert. It's too late for the fall issue so anytime before January   
 1966/11/08 TPCSto MertonCan use the Dario piece in the next issue, fall. If you have any other short pieces, for Chronicles   
 1966/12/no? TPCSto MertonJust back from California; the chronicle piece is fine, and will appear in the next issue; anything   
 1967/01/17 TL[c]from MertonYes, I did like your last issue, the hard hitting one on anti-semitism. I thought it one   
 1967/01/25 TLSto MertonThanks much for the kind words about the last Continuum; it peeved Gregory Baum, but otherwise   
 1967/01/27 TL[c]from MertonI have got someone looking into the question of what happened to the letter about and ms of Isaac   
 1967/04/03 (#01)TL[c]from MertonI have owed you a letter for a long time: but since my last writing I have been in the hospital   
 1967/04/03 (#02)TL[c]from MertonAs a post script: I had finished my letter and even sealed it when I got busy on some texts   
 1967/04/28 TLSfrom MertonDo you have anything planned for our next issue? I'd like to continue the short pieces on the poets   
 1967/05/17 TL[c]from MertonI don't know if this bit on Malcolm X will be of any use to you. I am sending it along, anyhow.   
 1967/09/29 TLSto MertonI'm trying to get some copies of the poetry of David Jones off to you, but the books are a little   
 1967/10/31 TL[c]from MertonI already have Sophrony. Don't worry about "Unseen Warfare". One other book turns up however.   
 1967/11/14 telegramto MertonJUBLIEE [sic] WILL HONOR MARITAIN WITH EXTRACT FROM BEST OF PAST WRITINGS. WILL USE  [asking Merton to write 1,000 words on Maritain and photograph of Merton and Maritain for the cover of a book - Merton writes in pen "No. Nov 16"]
 1967/no/no TPCSto MertonMore or less desperately, I could use a chronicle or two if you could happen to turn one up.   
 1968/04/23 TLSto MertonThanks much for the copy of <u>Monks Pond</u>. I don't see how you get time to do all this, but I   
 1968/05/05 TL[c]from MertonSorry I have delayed over your letter of April 23rd. The usual problem-- too much mail and no help   
 undated/no/no TLSto MertonA request I forgot in my earlier note. Herder international is preparing some kind of immense xmas   
        

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