| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1946/05/20 | TLS[x] | to Laughlin, James | I am writing to ask permission to include in an anthology of poems on the Blessed Virgin Mary | |
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| | 1946/06/22 | TLS[x] | to Laughlin, James | Thank you very much for your letter of May 31st in which you stated that I might have permission | |
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| | 1948/11/03 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Your literally overwhelming letter has had to wait a week for an answer, and I apologize not only | Yes |
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| | 1948/11/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It would be inhuman for a person to resist the temptation to answer such a beautiful letter as your | Yes |
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| | 1948/12/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This time it was my turn to faint! I have never had such a marvelous Christmas present. | Yes |
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| | 1949/01/18 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your beautiful letters have gone unanswered for a long time, and if I do not do something about them | Yes |
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| | 1949/02/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your beautiful letters, your notes, the letters of Father Ellard and his articles | Yes |
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| | 1949/04/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Easter overwhelmed me with presents and favors from Milwaukee. You have outdone yourself, | Yes |
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| | 1949/05/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your kind letter, so full of interesting things, and of solicitude. | Yes |
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| | 1949/06/02 | TALS[x] | from Merton | At last I have a moment to breathe and I can at least write you a short letter. Even a long one | Yes |
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| | 1949/06/06 | TLS[x] | to Laughlin, James | This morning I received a note from Father Louis OCR (Thomas Merton) asking me to send you | |
| proposed anthology of Catholic poetry |
| | 1949/06/09 | TL[x] | from Laughlin, James | Thank you ever so much for sending in your fine poems for Father Merton's anthology. | |
| proposed anthology of Catholic poetry |
| | 1949/06/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Well, first of all, about the relic of the True Cross. I spoke of it again to Rev. Father, but he | Yes |
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| | 1949/07/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | At last I can get around to your delightful letters-- I mean to answer it. You see, I am now | Yes |
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| | 1949/08/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You are too kind to me. The article is restrained and temperate and yet it is rather complimentary | Yes |
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| | 1949/08/28 | TALS[x] | from Merton | There is a tremendous pile of correspondence on hand and I am forced to write in the middle | Yes |
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| | 1949/10/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I can wish you a very happy feast day: my prayers have reached you already so it doesn't matter if | Yes |
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| | 1949/11/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here I am renovated by a retreat. Monsignor Sheen preached it and it was splendid. He took | Yes |
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| | 1950/01/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am weeks behind with everything and am at last able to write a word to thank you for the lovely | Yes |
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| | 1950/01/21 | TALS[x] | from Merton | In haste. P.C. too. Yes I made a couple of changes. OK? Your introduction is really splendid. | |
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| | 1950/02/18 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is the Bob Lax poem on Our Lady. It is the only copy I have. The explanation for the two | Yes |
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| | 1950/04/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Since I am a Trappist, I suppose words <u>ought to fail</u> me. But even though I am a most | Yes |
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| | 1950/04/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your Easter Letter and all that went with it-- especially the nice enlarged copy | Yes |
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| | 1950/05/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | As usual I have a score of things to thank you for and I am far behind with all of them. | Yes |
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| | 1950/06/03 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your marvelous anniversary gift leaves me practically inarticulate. It came, by a happy | Yes |
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| | 1950/07/04 | TLS[x] | to Connolly, Terence | As I was about to sit down to thank you for your late letter and to express my appreciation of your | |
| photocopies of pages from the manuscript of <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i> sent to Lentfoehr and discrepancies in numbering and completeness |
| | 1950/07/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This word should reach you before your bid day. I have been hoping to scrape up some other business | Yes |
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| | 1950/07/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | A photographer was here doing some color work and he wanted to take a picture of me: so here it is. | Yes |
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| | 1950/07/31 | TALS[x] | from Merton | By now you ought to be back from your tour. I hope you had a good time and even a rest-- | Yes |
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| | 1950/08/03 | TLS[x] | to Connolly, Terence | Accept this belated "thank you" for your great kindness in having the pages photostated for me. | |
| photocopies of pages from the manuscript of <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i> sent to Lentfoehr and discrepancies in numbering and completeness |
| | 1950/08/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Tomorrow is the feast of the rock whence I am hewn-- St Bernard-- and whom you have brought | Yes |
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| | 1950/09/03 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The St Bernard reference (on studies) is, I think "L. Martin, O.P., "Formation Theologique de S. | |
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| | 1950/09/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks-- this is written in haste to get it off in the mail tonight. Yes, by all means send | |
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| | 1950/09/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You should have been told a long time ago, but I forgot to mention it in the last letter. | Yes |
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| | 1950/09/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | For your feast day I send you first of all my best wishes and the promise of special prayers | Yes |
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| | 1950/10/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The blue paper bound copies of the notes have begun to arrive. We are all swept off our feet | |
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| | 1950/10/31 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Returning this to you at once. Many thanks, I had forgotten all about it. It was one | |
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| | 1950/11/29 | TALS[x] | from Merton | This is going to be a very laconic note. It is wedged in between the hospital and our annual | Yes |
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| | 1951/01/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Only now, after Epiphany, am I beginning to answer Christmas letters. It has been a terrible delay, | Yes |
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| | 1951/02/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | To pour some oil in the wounds-- and as a surprise (for I have to write in Lent now, whether | Yes |
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| | 1951/03/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many many thanks for the wonderful job on the <u>Journal</u>. I can easily fill in the spaces | Yes |
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| | 1951/04/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Our "Father Immediate" has just arrived for the regular visitation and as I am secretary for these | Yes |
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| | 1951/05/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You must be anxious to know whether I received your beautiful poem. There are many reasons why | Yes |
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| | 1951/05/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This must be your time to do special penance. Our Lady must want to see your heart purified more | Yes |
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| | 1951/06/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Really I haven't the faintest idea of the data but I think it must be around the 5th. It is Tuesday | Yes |
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| | 1951/07/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for yet another letter full of relics of Pius X whose life we are now reading | Yes |
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| | 1951/07/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | May God bless you and give you joy on your anniversary. Be sure that I am praying for you in a most | Yes |
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| | 1951/09/11 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | The notes that you forwarded here in regard to Father Louis' Journal arrived safely. Do you have | |
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| | 1951/09/22 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | We received the latest package of manuscripts, the notes and the carbon. They arrived in good time. | |
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| | 1951/09/25 | TALS[x] | from Merton | It seems as though the Feast of St Louis (when I received your charming note) was just the day | Yes |
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| | 1951/10/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Please forgive me for not acknowledging before now the typescript of the Journal which you sent | Yes |
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| | 1951/10/no? | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the notes. Please do not think me excessively careless in overlooking a couple | |
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| | 1951/11/01 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Sure by all means use any pre-monastery material and the Bermuda painting and any Trappist mug | |
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| | 1951/11/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the note from Ed and for the card about St Benet's and the letter about it too-- | Yes |
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| | 1951/12/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | If this is to reach you by Christmas I had better hurry to get it into the mail. I am sending you | Yes |
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| | 1952/01/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | On the feast of St Therese's baptism I take a fleeting occasion to let you know my joy at receiving | Yes |
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| | 1952/02/04 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for these sheets. I have made the corrections. Perhaps the corrections are even less | Yes |
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| | 1952/03/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The books reached me in time for Our Lady's Feast. On that day (I opened the box the day before) | |
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| | 1952/04/25 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Yes, the little volume of Rilke arrived safely and I am delighted with it. I have always liked | Yes |
| [postcard from 1952/05/01 photocopied on the same page - postmarked Milwaukee, though sent from Trappist, KY] |
| | 1952/05/12 | HPCS | from Merton | I am sorry I have no idea how our last card got delayed or how it happened to be post-marked as it | Yes |
| [photocopied on the same page as postcard from 1952/04/26] |
| | 1952/07/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you for your letter which I am sorry not to have answered sooner. Bob Giroux was down | Yes |
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| | 1952/07/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is the remaining matter, on De Praecepto et Dispensatione, I think I marked it as Part V. | |
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| | 1952/08/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Forgive my delay in sending you this. It was the last copy in the house and I had given it | |
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| | 1952/09/02 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your letter arrived yesterday, and I had been thinking of the notes which I had failed to check for | Yes |
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| | 1952/09/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is just a note to thank you for your letter for Our Lady's Name's Day and for the book | |
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| | 1952/09/27 | HLS[x] | from Merton | The notes arrived and they are really splendid. You outdid yourself in the way you organized | Yes |
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| | 1952/11/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The <u>Fearless Heart</u> reached me today and reminded you that I had not yet answered your letter | Yes |
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| | 1952/12/25? | HCS[x] | from Merton | Christmas blessings and joy in the Infant Savior-- f m Louis. | |
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| | 1953/01/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Please forgive me. I wrote you a letter in my own fine Italian hand and then carried it around | Yes |
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| | 1953/02/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all, whenever I begin a letter to you, I have to think back and recall how many presents | |
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| | 1953/03/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | On the eve of St Patrick's, I am slipping these notes to you under the Lenten iron-curtain, hoping | |
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| | 1953/04/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Forgive me for having caused you anxiety by my delay in writing. No, I had not written at Easter. | Yes |
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| | 1953/05/20 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I usually feel very good after reading my notes in your typing, and this last batch is no exception. | Yes |
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| | 1953/06/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your card arrived and I was happy to know you were settled at Wausau for the summer. How the good | Yes |
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| | 1953/06/30 | TALS[x] | from Merton | This ribbon is getting a bit dim and June is drawing to a close but I hope I can use up the end | Yes |
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| | 1953/07/26 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the orientation notes functionally complete. However I have still to finish one part, | |
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| | 1953/08/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here, now, are the last of this year's conferences. At least I believe so. I am sure I have sent | |
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| | 1953/09/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | These notes have been help up a little, as I have had no time for anything whatever. | Yes |
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| | 1953/10/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I consulted Father Abbot yesterday about the chances of our running off the stencils here. | Yes |
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| | 1953/11/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your good letter was only given to me yesterday so I had to send you a wire with the correction you | |
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| | 1953/12/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Today is, I believe, the "feast" of Bl. John Ruysbroeck. I hope he will bless the fortunes | Yes |
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| | 1953/12/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | <u>Bread in the Wilderness</u> was sent to you yesterday and should be reaching you soon. | Yes |
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| | 1954/01/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | St Agnes will not let me go any longer without writing to you, and thanking you for the companions, | Yes |
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| | 1954/02/26 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | In the last moments before Lent I am writing belatedly to thank you for the manuscript | |
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| | 1954/02/26? (#02) | other[x] | from Merton | This is my friend La Soledad of Camaguey [-] to Sister Thérèse–with wishes for a holy and happy Lent | |
| [see verso for explanatory note on provenance - holy card with a prayer in Spanish and picture of a statue of Nostra Señora de la Soledad that Merton obtained in Cuba in 1940 at the Church of La Soledad in Camaguey, given to Sr. Thérèse in 1954 (seemingly before Lent and possibly with his letter of February)] |
| | 1954/03/03 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | In our letter the other day I completely forgot to thank you for the books. | |
| [photocopied on same page as 1954/06/19] |
| | 1954/06/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have been hunting around for your last letter, because I know there were things in it I wanted | Yes |
| [photocopied on same page as 1954/03/03] |
| | 1954/07/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | We are on the eve of your double-feast-day and I want to get this letter to you by then, to bring | Yes |
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| | 1954/09/01 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Have you grown tired of waiting for my reaction to your three poems, sent at the end of July? | Yes |
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| | 1954/09/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The tobacco is all in the barn-- the place is crammed-- and has been in for over a week but my work | |
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| | 1954/11/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter was wonderful. I enjoyed every line immensely. Especially the adventures on the second | Yes |
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| | 1954/12/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have been scrounging around for something to send you this Christmas, and there is little here | Yes |
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| | 1955/01/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | We begin our retreat tonight, and I still have some letters to get out, so I am picking a small page | Yes |
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| | 1955/02/22 | TALS[x] | from Merton | With the most earnest Lenten resolutions fermenting in my soul, I want to get this letter off to you | Yes |
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| | 1955/05/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was waiting to answer your Easter letter because they never found the book you were sending. | |
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| | 1955/07/12 | TALS[x] | from Merton | What hasbecome [sic] of you? I think you are so immersed in your sociology that you have forgotten | Yes |
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| | 1955/08/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter on St Ann's day was full of good things, and the Art notes are a joy, as usual. | Yes |
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| | 1955/09/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are all the archangels and angels, and St Therese cannot be far off. They are her escort, | Yes |
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| | 1955/10/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was glad to hear Ed had sent you the original manuscript of <u>Babel</u>-- of the version that was | Yes |
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| | 1955/12/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This picture of the scholastics was taken back in September before I moved over to the novitiate, | Yes |
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| | 1956/01/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The notes which you mailed on the feast of St Agnes reached me today on the "octave" which we still | |
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| | 1956/02/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here we are already in the first week of Lent. I must get these notes back to you, or I never will. | Yes |
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| | 1956/05/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You must think I am dead for sure, this time. Have you said a De Profundis for my soul? | Yes |
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| | 1956/06/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your kind and delightful note forthe [sic] anniversary of my ordination. | Yes |
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| | 1956/07/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Today is the solemnity of St Benedict-- I regret to say we do not celebrate it in the Cistercian | Yes |
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| | 1956/09/25 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Some time ago I obtained permission to write for your feast day, and have been waiting to do so | Yes |
| [see also a photocopy sent by Dom James Fox to Abbot General Gabriel Sortais in Series 7 of the "Fox, James" file, includes transcript] |
| | 1956/11/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the All Saints letter. We have until the octave to answer and I am making the best | Yes |
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| | 1957/01/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I thought I was going to have a chance to write to you long ago, but here it is almost Epiphany | Yes |
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| | 1957/04/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Both your letters reached me at Easter-- as far as letter writing is concerned the Christmas season | |
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| | 1957/08/21 | TL[x] | from Merton | Here it is after the feast of St Bernard already and I haven't touched the typewriter. I had to get | Yes |
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| | 1957/10/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is ages since I got permission to send these Liturgy notes to you to be mimeographed. | Yes |
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| | 1957/11/10? | TLS[x] | from Merton | I rush this off to you with the notes, which I have gone over rather hurriedly but I am sure | |
| [note: no year listed - formerly estimated 1958/11/10, but changed to 1957/11/10 on advice from Patrick O'Connell, April 5, 2013] |
| | 1957/11/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Very late! I had to get permission to extend the letter writing period, as I didn't have time | |
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| | 1958/01/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | There was something marvelous, I mean providentially marvelous, in your choice of a present. | |
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| | 1958/03/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here I am at last- on the very eve of Palm Sunday. Months ago I got permission to write and send | Yes |
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| | 1958/04/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just time for a short one: I have been very much caught up in everything since Easter. It was good | Yes |
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| | 1958/05/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I don't know if I can get this to you in time- it may be held up in getting off, though Father Abbot | Yes |
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| | 1958/07/14 | TALS[x] | from Merton | It is the 14th of July, French Independence day. Poor France, I haven't heard much of what has been | Yes |
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| | 1958/09/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Peace. Here I am a long time after the Assumption. I still haven't written most of the Assumption | Yes |
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| | 1959/01/13 | TALS[x] | from Merton | St Bruno arrived, a most welcome surprise. In fact, a sensation. Naturally there are few saints | |
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| | 1959/02/12 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Not only is it Lent but we are on the eve of our retreat (Friday to Friday-- please pray for us) | Yes |
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| | 1959/04/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First Friday in April, Easter Friday, clouds and winds, a lovely day and I have a chance to thank | Yes |
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| | 1959/05/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is not an adequate answer to your beautiful letter- just a quick acknowledgement. I forgot | Yes |
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| | 1959/07/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the 4th of July and at last I am getting around to replying to your charming letters-- | Yes |
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| | 1959/07/31 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I cannot send you the present I wanted to. Victor Hammer is ill and the special edition | |
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| | 1959/09/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are Michael and all his angels, and that means that St Therese is at the door and ready | Yes |
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| | 1959/10/no? (#01) | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Here are a few more "things" including a magazine you probably never see. I have a couple | |
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| | 1959/10/no? (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here it is. Thanks. I hope there are no more difficulties in the new material. If there are-- | |
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| | 1959/10/no? (#03) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some more manuscripts, most of which are confidential as yet and not for exhibition. | |
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| | 1959/11/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is a late answer to your fine and cheering All Saints' letter. You sounded very well and happy | Yes |
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| | 1959/12/11 | TL[x] | from Merton | I just want to get off my Christmas presents in time- mostly pictures. Myself, Lax and Ad Reinhardt | Yes |
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| | 1960/01/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here we are just about to enter into the annual retreat and I have not yet written most of my | Yes |
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| | 1960/05/30 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I think this is the first letter I have written you with the new Royal complete with foreign accents | Yes |
| [left edge of second page cut on photocopy] |
| | 1960/07/20 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the letter, the clippings and the charming books about the S.D.S. These are some | |
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| | 1960/09/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letters and cards and pictures from Colorado were simply wonderful and don't think I have not | |
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| | 1960/12/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This letter is to cover the little Broadside which I am sending you separately. | Yes |
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| | 1961/02/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | If I say I am ashamed of myself you will reply with reason that I ought to be. It is already | Yes |
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| | 1961/02/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | A very quick note, though it is Ash Wednesday. This is important and has been waiting. | |
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| | 1961/04/no | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your Easter letter and for the lecture- which is very good to have. I am always | |
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| | 1961/05/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here we are on the vigil of the Ascension: and the first nice day for a long time. | Yes |
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| | 1961/09/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is getting close to your feast day and the weather is getting to be pleasantly Theresian, | Yes |
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| | 1962/01/11 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I am finally getting around to your Christmas letter and to the two saints. I am most happy to have | Yes |
| [Cold War Letter #20] |
| | 1962/01/11 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | As for the "extreme groups": they are going to be a difficult problem for the country and may do | Yes |
| [Cold War Letter #20 - transcript from bound copy] |
| | 1962/03/03 | HPCS | to Merton | Here is Melozzo da Forli's angel bringing you my <u>pre-Lenten</u> greeting, and my deeper thanks | |
| [verso: color reproduction of "Angelo Annuziante" by Melozzo da Forli] |
| | 1962/06/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your book, for it is really a book, really astonished me. It was quite an "experience" for me, too, | Yes |
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| | 1962/07/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | With a kind of providential slip of the mind and of the fingers I have dated this letter ten days | Yes |
| [may actually have been written on 1962/07/07 due to Merton's acknowledged mistake in dating the letter] |
| | 1962/09/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was fine to get your letter and yes, I did get the huge card from Georgetown. | Yes |
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| | 1962/11/19 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter of the other day. I note that you are going down to Chicago these days | Yes |
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| | 1962/11/24 | HPCS | to Merton | Greetings from Sandberg's city but today no fog "on little cat feet", but brilliant sunshine. | |
| [verso: color reproduction of "The Old Guitarist" by Pablo Picasso - dated "Feast of St. John +" and postmarked 1962/11/24] |
| | 1962/12/20 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Here I come with a noise out of the woods, something to say for Christmas. It was very cold | Yes |
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| | 1962/12/20 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here I come with a noise out of the woods, something to say for Christmas. It was very cold | Yes |
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| | 1963/01/18 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Just before retreat - I am getting some more things off to you. One rough draft of some notes - | |
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| | 1963/02/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Well, they were most welcome those saints. Two more welcome ones I cannot imagine. | Yes |
| [photocopy of second page slightly cut off on left side] |
| | 1963/05/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I open Mary's month with a letter to you, much too long delayed. Yours just arrived, and you are | Yes |
| [photocopy of both pages slightly cut off on left side] |
| | 1963/06/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | After being up to my neck in business mail for days, I want to get around to a few | Yes |
| [photocopy of both pages slightly cut off on left side] |
| | 1963/08/09 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | How is Washington? I am sure you are working hard, and can imagine that it is not easy. | Yes |
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| | 1963/08/09 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | How is Washington? I am sure you are working hard, and can imagine that it is not easy. | Yes |
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| | 1963/08/19 | HPCS | to Merton | This card tells you where I spent the last hours in D.C.,- now on my way home. Did you know that | |
| [verso: color reproduction of "The Singing Party" by Hogarth from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.] |
| | 1963/09/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks very much for your cards and letter, and I am glad the Washington affair went off well. | Yes |
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| | 1963/10/03 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here it is October 3rd and I have not written to you yet. But I certainly thought of you | Yes |
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| | 1963/11/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I thought I would put a couple of the latest things in an envelope for you, and since one is a set | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/01 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Needless to say I have been thinking guiltily of the letter I owe you. Especially on the Feast | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/01 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Needless to say I have been thinking guiltily of the letter I owe you. Especially on the Feast | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/20 | TALS | to Merton | If this comes to you before your Easter greeting-- which will come from Minneapolis where, | |
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| | 1964/04/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have your good letters and the little Thomas book (which I will read with joy) and by now | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/12 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | A second "good word" for your celebration and the assurance of my prayers in my Mass that day. | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/12 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | A second "good word" for your celebration and the assurance of my prayers in my Mass that day. | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I don't have a decent sheet of paper, but I know you don't need a letterhead. Let the yellow seem | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/13 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This will be my Christmas note, besides my thanks for your latest: your poems, the clippings, | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This will be my Christmas note, besides my thanks for your latest: your poems, the clippings, | Yes |
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| | 1965/01/no? | HNS[x] | from Merton | I tried to find something to send you for Christmas and was able to unearth nothing but a few | |
| [note written on page on page with Merton's poem "The Holy Child's Song"] |
| | 1965/03/27 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your St Patrick's Day letter and all its news and good wishes. I am afraid I have been | Yes |
| [photocopy of second page slightly cut off on left side] |
| | 1965/03/27 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your St Patrick's Day letter and all its news and good wishes. I am afraid I have been | Yes |
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| | 1965/03/no? | TALS | to Merton | This is just a short note this mid-Lent to first of all greet you for your feast, that of St. Joseph | |
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| | 1965/06/16 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your card and the clippings came. This is St Lutgarde's day and I want to celebrate a little | Yes |
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| | 1965/06/16 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your card and the clippings came. This is St Lutgarde's day and I want to celebrate a little | Yes |
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| | 1965/08/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your note from Georgetown. I am glad you had such a good time. You deserve it, | Yes |
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| | 1965/09/28 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I don't think I answered your last very interesting letter. Congratulations on being back | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am putting some photos of the hermitage in an envelope and must go down to the monastery, | Yes |
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| | 1965/12/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here it is happy newyear and I have not yet said merry Christmas. I have hopelessly fallen back | Yes |
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| | 1966/02/01 | TLS | to Merton | Do hermits have Birthdays? If so, this brings you my warmest greetings and wishes for many, many | |
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| | 1966/02/06 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | How like me to speak to you about Brother John's list for the bibliography he plans - and then | |
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| | 1966/02/06 (#02) | other | to Merton | BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE WORKS OF THOMAS MERTON [-] <u>Outline</u> [-] I. Introduction | |
| [handwritten note from Lentfoehr reads, "This Brother is getting his degree in Library Science from Marquette."] |
| | 1966/02/14 | TALS | to Merton | I am writing this in great haste----because of something that happened today (or rather | |
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| | 1966/02/16 (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | Don't worry about the slip-up over the pictures. Go ahead and print them. The rules have been | |
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| | 1966/02/16 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | This morning I sent my quick note about the photos so I hope that is all taken care of. I have just | Yes |
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| | 1966/02/16 (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton | This morning I sent my quick note about the photos so I hope that is all taken care of. I have just | Yes |
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| | 1966/04/05 | HLS[x] | from Merton | For the moment only the briefest note. I want to get these Easter gifts to you before we are | Yes |
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| | 1966/04/15 | HLS[x] | from Merton | The reason for my long silence is that I have been in the hospital and had to have an operation | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/01 | TALS | to Merton | My letter is late, but my thoughts were with you on the anniversary of your ordination. | |
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| | 1966/06/07 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was a joy to get your letter of the 1st. I was glad to hear of the poem about Joan, | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/07 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | It was a joy to get your letter of the 1st. I was glad to hear of the poem about Joan, | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/12 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am putting another packet of "stuff" in the mail for you today - in anticipation of your feast | |
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| | 1966/07/23 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | It is high time that I wrote to thank you for your good letter and for the wonderful new manuscripts | |
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| | 1966/07/23 (#02) | other | to Merton | Song: "If You Seek" [-] Song to Our Lady of Cobre [-] For My Brother--Reported Missing in Action | |
| [sent with letter of 1966/July/23 - seems to be a table of contents for selected poems - signed by Lentfoehr and dated 1966/July/15] |
| | 1966/07/31 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | You are getting the first benefit of the new ribbon. I can see it will hardly compensate for my | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/31 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | You are getting the first benefit of the new ribbon. I can see it will hardly compensate for my | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/30 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Just a few items at the summer's end. I hope all were really well at Georgetown. Pray for me | |
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| | 1966/09/13 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the fine letter giving me all the news of Georgetown. It must have been fine, | Yes |
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| | 1966/09/13 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the fine letter giving me all the news of Georgetown. It must have been fine, | Yes |
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| | 1966/09/14 | HNS[x] | to Merton | <u>Three</u> letters of this year - were <u>destroyed</u> - I thought it best, for in them Merton | |
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| | 1966/09/28 | HNS[x] | from Merton | May this ms of Cables serve as a Feast Day Present. I don't know what you'll think of the book. | |
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| | 1966/10/10 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I thought you'd like to see this. It is from <u>Motive</u>, one of the liveliest Xtian magazines | |
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| | 1966/11/18 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your wonderful letter. This is not an adequate reply - I will get to that letter. | |
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| | 1966/12/no? | TALS[x] | from Merton | These may not reach you for Christmas but they are only odds and ends anyhow. A drawing I found | |
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| | 1967/03/23 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is Holy Thursday, a lovely warm spring afternoon. I will soon get changed and go down | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/23 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | It is Holy Thursday, a lovely warm spring afternoon. I will soon get changed and go down | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/01 | TALS[x] | from Merton | This is just a hasty note to ask two favors. I hope I am not importunate, but I am trying to get my | |
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| | 1967/05/09 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for <u>everything</u>-- the photographs with your precious note, and now the "variety" | |
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| | 1967/05/12 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter, to which this is a rush answer. First, the Prof. Smith | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/12 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter, to which this is a rush answer. First, the Prof. Smith | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/12 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This morning I failed to slip back in the envelope the page you sent me and the accompanying mimeo. | |
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| | 1967/05/12 (#04) | TL[c] | from Merton | This morning I failed to slip back in the envelope the page you sent me and the accompanying mimeo. | |
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| | 1967/06/13 | TALS | to Merton | A <u>belated</u> (and how!) greeting-- on the anniversary of your ordination! Though I was | |
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| | 1967/06/24 | TALS | to Merton | Your patience with me must be exhausted. But I have finished re-typing the <u>manuscript</u> | |
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| | 1967/06/26 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter: no worry at all as far as I am concerned about where you put something | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/27 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Just a note to thank you for your letter and say that <u>lists of translated books are not</u> | |
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| | 1967/07/05 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The first bit of the bibliography got here the other day: that is the most important part. | |
| [Merton photocopied two rows of block letters from magazines onto the stationary of the letter: "the monks." and "Modern Moving... (he interjects in handwriting, "we hope?!") "with Old Fashioned Care"] |
| | 1967/07/19 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for your "Feast-Day" letter and all the good things you sent! I am deeply grateful | |
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| | 1967/08/04 | HLS | to Merton | Many and warm greetings from Georgetown! When I walked up the library steps at Healy Hall | |
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| | 1967/09/02 | TALS | to Merton | Though it's still Georgetown stationary---I am back again in the <u>Rioting City</u>! Father Groppi | |
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| | 1967/09/05 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | It was good of you to send the little clipping about Ad Reinhardt. I had known nothing about his | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/05 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | It was good of you to send the little clipping about Ad Reinhardt. I had known nothing about his | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/26 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | In a few days it will be your feast day, and on that day I will offer my Mass for you, as a partial | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/26 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | In a few days it will be your feast day, and on that day I will offer my Mass for you, as a partial | Yes |
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| | 1967/10/13 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yes, it was real!! I am probably as surprised as you are. I did not think I would be able to reach | Yes |
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| | 1967/10/13 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Yes, it was real!! I am probably as surprised as you are. I did not think I would be able to reach | Yes |
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| | 1967/10/16 | TALS | to Merton | I've been living on "cloud nine" since Thursday! Yes, it's <u>real</u>! Your letter just came, | |
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| | 1967/11/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I don't want any more time to go by before - thank you for the will: you didnot [sic] need to send | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/22 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I feel guilty taking your nice ikon when I am already so rich, but it is beautiful and it stands | |
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| | 1968/01/no? (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter. Tommie is still in hospital but doing well. Have you copies | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/no? (#02) | other | from Merton | IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. AMEN. [-] Be it known to you and to all whom it is of interest, that | |
| [handwritten note by Merton accompanying a card announcing the election of Dom Flavian Burns at abbot] |
| | 1968/02/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | I believe you have not seen this set of "Rules governing the use..." which has been drawn | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/06 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is not snowy like this today. We have actually had a day or two of what seemed to be spring | Yes |
| [Merton photocopied snapshot of his hermitage surrounded by snow] |
| | 1968/03/06 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | It is not snowy like this today. We have actually had a day or two of what seemed to be spring | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/no? | TALS[x] | to Merton | Here it is your feast of anniversary of solemn vows--which you celebrate with St. Joseph, and you | |
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| | 1968/04/no? | TPCS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the Lonergan talk-- I must really read it, as I hear much about him. | |
| [postcard by Family Dog Productions of San Francisco] |
| | 1968/07/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Hope this reaches you at Georgetown in time for your feast days. I think it should, with the mail | Yes |
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| | 1968/08/20 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Just a quickie. I've almost stopped writing letters. Not only the intense heat, but everything | Yes |
| [on <u>Monks Pond</u> letterhead] |
| | 1968/11/21 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | I have been a month in India - over a month - and most of it in the Himalayas. A great experience. | Yes |
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| | 1968/12/10 | telegram[x] | from Burns, Flavian | WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU OF THE DEATH OF FATHER LOUIS MERTON IN BANGKOK | Yes |
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| | 1970/09/06 | TALS[x] | to O'Callaghan, Tommie | Excuse my delay in writing to thank once again for the beautiful hospitality you offered me; | |
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| | 1982/06/23 | TLS | from Napack, Mark / to William Shannon | I am pleased to hear that you will be doing research at The Merton Center from July 12 to July 15. | |
| [from Mark Napack, Assistant Director of The Merton Center for Religious Studies at Columbia University to William Shannon, editor of Merton's published letters - another copy of the letter contains Shannon's annotations] |
| | undated/no/no | HPCS[x] | from Merton | He[re are so]me things for your files - but they are to be | |
| [verso: photograph of monks in an outdoor procession at La Pierre-Qui-Vire Abbey] |
| | undated/no/no | TAN[x] | from Merton | Here are my "saints" I give you a list so that there will be plenty of choice, but you have already | |
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| | undated/no/no | HCS[x] | from Merton | Here are some more notes and especially some brief conference notes on Liturgical Feasts | |
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| | undated/no/no | HNS[x] | from Merton | It was a bleak, cold day when Bernadette saw our Immaculate Lady - but the cold ceased to matter. | |
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| | undated/no/no | HNS[x] | from Merton | May I please have the Gilson book back - or at least another copy of it - as I need it urgently | |
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