MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Cornell, Thomas Charles, 1934-2022
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1962-1967
Volume: 28 item(s); 48 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This group of letters documents an important connection Merton had with someone deeply involved in the peace movement, non-violent resistance to the Vietnam War, and in counseling conscientious objectors. Included are original letters from Cornell to Merton and carbon copies of letters from Merton to Cornell.
Biography
Tom Cornell was active in the Catholic Worker Movement since Merton's contact with him in the 1960's and for many years lived on a Catholic Worker farm. He was a founding member of the Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF). He was a friend and associate of Dorothy Day and Jim Forest.
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Related Information and Links
See also "Day, Dorothy" and "Forest, James" files; and see also A Penny a Copy: Readings from the Catholic Worker, edited by Thomas C. Cornell and James H. Forest.
Other Finding Aids
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.
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Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1962/11/02 | TLS | to Merton | Jim Forest showed me the letters concerning PEACE IN THE POST-CHRISTIAN ERA. I knew that | |
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| | 1962/12/11 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for the PPCE. Please send us ten copies, so that poeple [sic] who should know | |
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| | 1965/08/03 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter reached me in the hospital, delayed. Only a couple days left and I don't think I can | |
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| | 1965/11/22 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for the letter, addressed to Jim, that arrived in today's mail. I have been trying to get | |
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| | 1965/11/no | other | | PEACE AND PROTEST | |
| statement by Merton's of his thoughts on pacifism |
| | 1965/12/05 (#01) | TAL[x] | from Merton | I appreciated your letter very much. I thought it was very clear and as far as I am concerned you | |
| [see Section E.1 of the classification (Manuscript Essays) under the title "Concerning the Catholic Peace Fellowship" - annotated carbon copy of this letter is included in file for this unpublished essay - there are also letters (from December 3 and 4 from Merton to Jim Forest and John Heidbrink (respectively)] |
| | 1965/12/05 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I appreciated your letter very much. I thought it was very clear and as far as I am concerned you | |
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| | 1966/01/17 | TLS | to Merton | Jim is in California for two weeks on a field trip for the FOR. Pity California! Jim has a lot | |
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| | 1966/02/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have been having a lot of trouble with this typewriter so I hope I get through this letter without | |
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| | 1966/02/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have been having a lot of trouble with this typewriter so I hope I get through this letter without | |
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| | 1966/08/no | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here are a few copies of the article. I will certainly keep you in mind on the Feast of St Francis - | |
| [handwritten note from Merton to Cornell on the title page of Merton's essay "Camus and the Catholic Church" - the note is not dated but the essay was written August 1966] |
| | 1966/09/17 | TLS | to Merton | Dorothy just read me your note over the phone. She is thrilled and delighted with the article | |
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| | 1966/10/17 | TLS | to Merton | Just a note to ask you to pray for the soul of Donald Day, Dorothy's brother in Finland, who was | |
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| | 1966/11/11 | TLS | to Merton | Are you well? I think of you often. You look at me from two angles on the wall. Quite literally | |
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| | 1966/11/16 | TL[c] | from Merton to Jim Forest and Tom Cornell | I have letters from both of you and both are important so I want to make sure I get answers out | Yes |
| [published with the James Forest letters] |
| | 1966/12/21 | TLS | to Merton | Well, it looks as if they have done it. Reports are that this is the second day of bombing of Hanoi | |
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| | 1966/12/29 | TLS | to Merton | Christmas is drawing nigh: And Christmas shopping is still not accomplished. It has been | |
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| | 1967/01/07 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Just wrote to Local Board 18, Newark, about John Wu Jr. Hope I am not too late. Your letter was | |
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| | 1967/01/07 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just wrote to Local Board 18, Newark, about John Wu Jr. Hope I am not too late. Your letter was | |
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| | 1967/02/21 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for writing for John Wu. You will be pleased to know that he got his 1-O Classification | |
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| | 1967/02/28 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. Just getting out of hospital today. Have some money left over which | |
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| | 1967/03/08 | TLS | to Merton | Things have been so rushed here since A. J.'s death that I hardly know what the state | |
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| | 1967/03/14 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | By all means go ahead and use the Camus article in the CW Reader. Glad to hear that the book | |
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| | 1967/03/14 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | By all means go ahead and use the Camus article in the CW Reader. Glad to hear that the book | |
| [contains handwritten note not on carbon] |
| | 1967/05/02 | TLS | to Merton | Just left Dan Berrigan. He has been encountering quite a bit of flak from the SJs on his proposed | |
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| | 1967/12/07 | TLS | to Merton | Just a short one. The Macmillan Company wants permission to publish your letter to Jim Forest | |
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| | 1967/12/10 | TL[c] | from Merton | Perfectly okay to use the letter of Feb. 1962 though I can't remember what kind of point it had. | |
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| | 1972/09/14 | TLS | to Center from Cornell, Tom | In response to your letter to Alfred Hassler of August 7, our correspondence with Thomas Merton has | |
| [see "Hassler, Alfred" file for original of this letter] |
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