| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1960/12/26 | HCS | to Merton | Xmas continues through the Feast of the … - the circumcision or to Epiphany - So a very Merry Xmas | |
| Includes a section from the Talmud on card and a black and white woodcut picture |
| | 1961/01/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was a real pleasure to get your kind greetings for Christmas and the New Year and I was very | Yes |
| thanks for Christmas and New Year greetings and for books (The First Step) |
| | 1961/04/02? | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am glad you found the Reinhold book. I could not even trace the copy we used to have in the | Yes |
| listing of books / some to be lent to Rabbi Schachter |
| | 1961/12/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I don't apologize for not having written as you understand perfectly. And you know that whether I | Yes |
| speaks of holding lights up to the whirlwind / comments about life in the monastery / seeks articles against nuclear war |
| | 1962/01/29 | TALS | to Merton | Allow me to thank you for the two books, I like the <i>New Man</i> a whole lot and am, when reading | |
| Christological references and Hassidic counterparts / existentialism / Buber / B'nai B'rith Institute in Tennessee / Steven Schwarzschild / Box Lax |
| | 1962/02/01 | TALS | to Merton | Enclosed you will find a copy of a letter to Mr. Joseph Manella who is the head of the Kibbutz of | |
| Kibbutz of the Jubalites / Herbert Weiner's <i>Wild Goats of Ejn Gedi</i> / <i>The First Step</i> in Hebrew / French Protestant monks / oekumenische Marienschwesternschaft in Halberstadt / "Spiritual Direction and Meditation" and "The Silent Life" / "Target Equals City" |
| | 1962/02/02 | TAL[c] | to Manella, Joseph | I just received your postcard and trust that by now you are back in the Kibbutz, and may have | |
| [enclosure from 1962/02/01] recommended books by Merton, including and especially, <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> as well as a long list of others he thinks Manella should have (mainly Merton's works on spirituality) |
| | 1962/02/15 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many things: first I sent the books to Joe at the Kibbutz. I want to know a lot more about this | Yes |
| [see Cold War Letter #37] |
| | 1962/02/15 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Many things: first I sent the books to Joe at the Kibbutz. I want to know a lot more about this | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #37, from collected Cold War Letters] The <i>Last of the Just</i> / Jews as "great eschatological [sic] sign of the twentieth century" / <i>The New Man</i> and the Old Testament / "Christ as Prometheus" view justifies war, crusades, Auschwitz, the bomb, the Last Judgment |
| | 1962/02/24 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Could you spare any more of your Hassidic mimeographed texts? I promised some dear friends I would | Yes |
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| | 1962/05/21 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Glad you got the <u>Banner</u> - we will take care of everything. Please let me know if there is | Yes |
| <u>Garden of Hassidism</u> also interesting and illuminating / |
| | 1962/07/05? | TPCS[x] | from Merton | The 24th is a good day for me. If you get here the day before I might be able to see you that | |
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| | 1962/09/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the letter and for the review. The latter was fine and I am glad you were able to | Yes |
| mentions Rabbi Gendler / <i>A Thomas Merton Reader</i> |
| | 1962/10/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Wonderful note. And above all I am moved by the quotation -- Liqutey Torah Ahre. Especially the | Yes |
| seeks Jewish sources of creation story (12th century) / speaks of The Pope (judgment, ecumenism) / conscientious objection |
| | 1962/10/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | I received a beautiful card from Father Bernadine, showing the interior of the Trappist Monte | |
| Jewish sources for the 12th century masters of the School of Chartres (creation story) / possible visit from Rabbi Joel Orent (interested in Tibetan Buddhism) |
| | 1963/01/11 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your meaningful Christmas card - including the mink coat paradox & horror. We are right | Yes |
| the feminine - the heart of the mystery of Israel / will continue writing to Orent / included: a transcript of letter by Shannon |
| | 1963/08/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | For the last couple of days we have been having a fine visit with Werblowski [sic]. He had many | Yes |
| R. J. Zwi Werblowsky |
| | 1963/11/24 | TALS | to Merton | I have already sent you, by surface mail, the book by Lou Jacobs - <u>Tract on Ecstasy</u>. I would | |
| Gerald Heard / apophatic mysticism and Rabbi Dov Bear / Juan de la Cruz / Margaret Bradbury / |
| | 1963/12/25? | HCS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for <u>Tract on Ecstasy</u>. (?) I will read and pass on to Gerald Heard. It looks | Yes |
| Heard from Werblowsky - nothing from T. Glover |
| | 1964/01/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | Of recent prayers for you have had a gritty texture. I don't know if that makes sense, but anyhow, | |
| wonders when Joe Orent should visit |
| | 1964/02/01 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the good note. I am sorry to learn that some of the inevitable grit and grime of my | Yes |
| Robbe's <i>Treatise on Ecstasy</i> / Joel Orent / Heschel / Tom Glover / R. J. Zwi Werblowsky sent <i>Bahya Ibn Paquda</i> and Vajda book on medieval Jewish mysticism |
| | 1964/02/06 (#01) | TACS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter. Send the book on, meanwhile, to Heard. A postal card, a couple of days | |
| [on card: quote by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Ladi] Pakuda / sending transcript of <u>LSD and the Ascent of the Soul of the Ba'al Shem Tov</u> |
| | 1964/02/06 (#02) | other[x] | | Thank you for your letter. Send the book on, meanwhile, to Heard. A postal card, a couple of days | |
| [not item by Schacter enclosed to Merton but additional background material - Schachter essay not found but similar subject copied and added to the file for informational purposes: "The Ba'al Shem Tov's Aliyath Han'shamah and the LSD Experience" by unknown author (possibly Schachter) in papers of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)] |
| | 1964/02/13 | TACS | to Merton | Your latest thing on dread coincides with much that has been happening to me lately, and if you | |
| <i>Shoes of the Fisherman</i> / Rabbi Eisendrat / closeness of Midrash to Gospels and even epistles / problem is the Passion / Reb Zusheh / experience of God and death |
| | 1964/04/07 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your Easter note and I have not forgotten the long good letter dictated in the car | Yes |
| "the prayer of dread" / Abbot Ammonas / censors / <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> in Hebrew / "Message to Poets" |
| | 1964/04/22 | TL[x] | to Merton | I received your letter in Chicago. I thank you for it. Obviously, you can quote from the letter; | |
| rambling letter |
| | 1964/04/25 | TL[c] | from Merton | About May 24th -25th and 26th. You will certainly be welcome if you and your group wish to come. | Yes |
| granting permission to use the hermitage / Dom Fulgence and the cowl / notes on LSD / Gerald Heard / Tom Glover |
| | 1964/05/06 | TL[c] | from Merton | Just got back from the hospital to this madhouse, and the machines are roaring outside the window. | Yes |
| hospital / construction work / machines / stating the abbot would not allow them to use hermitage |
| | 1964/11/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | With great delight and very frequent nodding, I read the material you sent me, and first of all I | |
| rambling letter |
| | 1964/11/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the wonderful long letter and the note with it. I will try to reply decently and in | Yes |
| restrictions on visitors and communication / "Identity Crisis papers" / drawings exhibit in Louisville / Third Session [of Second Vatican Council] and Jews / doubts about Church's capacity for renewal / silence and going underground / "Freedom Songs" |
| | 1964/12/no? | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you so much for the material which arrived all in good order. When I finished reading your | |
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| | 1966/12/01 | transcript | to Merton | Shalom -- Pax -- Enchante -- Om -- "Tah-tah" -- and all the good! Today is a day. Yesterday was | |
| [transcript of letter send to Merton on a reel-to-reel tape / transferred copy on cassette and CD, and all copies in Sub-Section F.5, Audio Collections] Bucke Memorial Society in Montreal / war / <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| | 1973/12/04 | TLS[x] | from Center to Schachter, Zalman M. | Mr. Edward Kaplan, a teacher at Amherst College, has requested permission to look at your | |
| permission for use of correspondence |
| | 1973/12/12 | HLS | to Center from Schachter, Zalman M. | You had an old address -- your letter took a while getting here. I know Ed Kaplan and yes you may | |
| Permission for use of correspondence |
| | 1974/04/11 | TLS[x] | from Delius, Betty / to Zalman Schachter | We have received your letter of December 12, 1973 granting permission for Mr. Edward Kaplan to read | |
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| | 1982/09/06 | TL[c] | from Shannon, William / to Zalman Schachter | I have recently been appointed by the Thomas Merton Legacy Trust as the general editor | |
| seeking other letters, and how initial contact was made / also seeking biography |
| | 1982/09/23 | TL[c] | from Shannon, William / to Zalman Schachter | I am glad I finally got in touch with you and am delighted that you will be coming to Rochester. | |
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| | 1982/11/03 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Zalman Schachter | I am most grateful to you for the materials you sent me, including your vita and the tape you did | |
| thanks for interview, and letters |
| | 1983/02/08 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Zalman Schachter | I fear it has been some time since I have written to you. I am most grateful, though, for your | |
| Many questions about correspondence |
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