| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1961/11/09 | TLS | to Merton | I had hoped, after shortly returning home -- and especially after receiving the Preface -- to write | |
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| | 1961/11/27 | TLS | to Merton | It was not until very recently that I came upon the "only copy" you loaned me of <u>Trappist</u> | |
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| | 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 | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #62 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1962/04/no? | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter and the enclosures. And for the previous one which I do not think | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #64 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1962/05/26 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Quick answers: 1) Better Wisdom of Emptiness than Theology of Creativity. You can use your | |
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| | 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, | |
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| | 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, | |
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| | 1964/07/27 | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed see column I did last week. A couple of reference notes: Roxbury is Boston's Harlem; | |
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| | 1964/08/03 | TLS | to Merton | Perhaps your novices--to say nothing of yourself--might like to see the enclosed items of possible | |
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| | 1964/08/12 | TLS | to Merton | Listen, for several years now I've been quite taken with Leopold Senghor, both the man and his | |
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| | 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, | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 1965/04/13 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS: Just an addnote. Mary Stack McNiff this past minute | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 1965/05/14 | TLS | to Merton | See the paragraph on "Rain & Rhinoceros" in Tangents column, page 4. | |
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| | 1965/12/14 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I had been asked by The Boston Globe, some weeks ago, to review <u>Seasons of Celebration</u> | |
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| | 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 <u>The Pilot</u> of Boston, Massachusetts] |
| | 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 <i>Seasons of Celebration</i> - McDonnell writes very negatively about this book and does not think it is up to the quality of Merton's other books] |
| | 1965/12/17 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have no objections whatever to your review. You are perfectly entitled to your opinion | |
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| | 1966/07/22 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I thought you might be amused to see our this week's "Tangents" in The Pilot. | |
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| | 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 <u>The Pilot</u> of Boston, Massachusetts] |
| | 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 | |
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| | 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 <u>Boston Globe</u> by Thomas P. McDonnell] |
| | 1967/01/11 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks very, very much for the ND 19--marvelous stuff in it, especially of course the Alberti, | |
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| | 1967/01/16 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your very good letter of the 11th, and your column on the Christmas shopping which | |
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| | 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. | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 1967/03/12 (#02) | other | | I [-] Let's start with <u>The Seven Storey Mountain</u>, 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)] |
| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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] |
| | 1967/03/20 | TL[c] | from Merton | Your revised questions are fine: they have much more bite. Unfortunately when I got them I had | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 1967/05/20 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am glad of Stile's reaction: very good. Actually, Motive is the best possible place | |
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| | 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 | |
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| | 1967/05/26 | TLS | to Merton | These are the carbons of the submitted version to JBStiles of MOTIVE. I've made Xerox copies | |
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| | 1967/06/27 | TLS | to Merton | How's the Gethsemani countryside these days of earliest summer...the corn apears [sic] inching | |
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| | 1967/06/30 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the Voznesensky poems: I like him a lot. I understand the best translation of him | |
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| | 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. | |
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| | 1967/07/21 (#02) | other | to Merton | Bless Me, Father-- For I Have <i>What?</i> By THOMAS P. McDONNELL [-] (PILOT Staff Writer) | |
| [1967/07/08 article from <u>The Pilot</u>] |
| | 1967/07/21 (#03) | other | to Merton | The Decline & Fall Of Socratic Dialog [-] By THOMAS P. McDONNELL [-] (PILOT Staff Writer) | |
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| | 1967/08/09 | TLS | to Merton | Please note this page from <u>New Zealand Tablet</u>, by one Malcolm Muggeridge, whom you may | |
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| | 1967/08/11 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thank for your letter and the clippings. And for the tip off about Fr Clifford Stevens. | |
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| | 1967/10/no | other[x] | | motive [-] October 1967 [-] Sixty Cents | |
| [photocopy of McDonnell's interview with Merton as published in <u>Motive</u>] |
| | 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 <u>Motive</u>] |
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