| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1961/02/15 | HALS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your kind letter. I will send Darton, Longman and Todd of the American | |
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| | 1961/02/23 | HLS | to Merton | I think you had better have Parts I and II of the "Rule of Perfection", as well as Part III which I | |
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| | 1961/03/05 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | I am reading Part III of Benet with the very greatest interest. It's true that he has a welter | Yes |
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| | 1961/03/23 | HLS | to Merton | I am so glad you like Benet. I also find the first and second means wonderful. I am sure you are | |
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| | 1961/04/22 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I now have the first two parts of Canfield's "Rule" though I have not had a chance to read them. | Yes |
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| | 1961/04/24 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for sending "Prayer..." I am using it as spiritual reading. It is a most | |
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| | 1961/04/28 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. I should have no objection to your suggested private primitive | |
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| | 1961/05/10 | HLS | to Merton | I have just seen Mr Todd (of Darton, Longman and Todd) with regard to your suggestion | |
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| | 1961/05/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter. I will write to Eugene Exman as you suggest. I think that the | Yes |
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| | 1961/05/24 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. I gather that Mr Exman says that your proposal edition will be | |
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| | 1961/06/02 (#01) | HLS[x] | to Merton | I am afraid that the typescript of Canfield's life has not been very well checked. It arrived just | |
| [original filed with Gullick's manuscript of her translation of Benet of Canfield in Sub-Section C.2 filed as, "Supereminent life, The: Selections from the third part of Benet of Canfield's Rule of perfection of the essential will of God practiced in the life supereminent"] |
| | 1961/06/02 (#02) | HALS[x] | to Merton | The section on Augustine Baker's contemplation is very tentative - I've read quite a lot of his mss | |
| [contains notes in Merton's handwriting - original filed with Gullick's manuscript of her translation of Benet of Canfield in Sub-Section C.2 filed as, "Supereminent life, The: Selections from the third part of Benet of Canfield's Rule of perfection of the essential will of God practiced in the life supereminent"] |
| | 1961/06/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you very much for your typescript of the Life of Benet. I have been a bit rushed lately | Yes |
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| | 1961/06/14 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. I gather Mr Exman has never received the Rule of Perfection! | |
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| | 1961/07/01 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I still have no word whatever from the man to whom I sent my selections from Benet a couple | Yes |
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| | 1961/07/01 (#02) | HLS | to Merton | I think it will be better if I put my very minor points about the selection from the Rule on a lined | |
| [see "Supereminent Life.." in Sub-Section E.1, Folder 13, for the original letter received with an accession from Gethsemani Abbey] |
| | 1961/07/25 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Your copy of the Benet selections has returned with your suggestions and I shall take them all into | Yes |
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| | 1961/09/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your last long letter, I mean the long one of August 1, was so good that I wanted to take a lot | Yes |
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| | 1961/09/15 | HLS | to Merton | With some trepidation I send you my introductory section on the "Active Life." It wants editing, but | |
| [originally filed with manuscripts from Gullick's manuscript of her translation of Benet of Canfield in Sub-Section C.2 filed as, "Supereminent life, The: Selections from the third part of Benet of Canfield's Rule of perfection of the essential will of God practiced in the life supereminent"] |
| | 1961/10/08 | HLS | to Merton | I've sent you postcards from various places on our travels, but I'm afraid I've not been very sure | |
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| | 1961/10/17 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | I did so enjoy your letter which I found waiting for me on my return from our travels. We didn't | |
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| | 1961/10/17? (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I know you have been patient with me as a bad correspondent. I owe you replies for two or three | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #1 - from bound set - no date, but after Oct. 17th] |
| | 1961/11/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Well I have managed to find a moment clear on this feast of Our Lady and I am trying as best I can | Yes |
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| | 1961/12/22 | transcript | from Merton | The new book on Gregory of Nyssa by Danielou and Musurillo has been sent me for review | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #14 - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/01/22 | HLS | to Merton | I do not know whether you have been worried by the problem of the last five chapters of the Rule | |
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| | 1962/01/29 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Eric Colledge in an introduction to an English translation of some sermons of Tauler says that a Dr. | Yes |
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| | 1962/02/17 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. I haven't heard of the edition of the Latin and French texts | |
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| | 1962/03/05 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much indeed for Ascetical and Mystical theology - it came today which has been | |
| [spans two air mail letters (two pages each)] |
| | 1962/03/30 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Another idea about the selections from Benet came to me: perhaps I can interest some Quaker | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #63] |
| | 1962/03/30 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Another idea about the selections from Benet came to me: perhaps I can interest some Quaker | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #63 - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/05/16 | HLS | to Merton | I had hoped to hear from you after Easter, but imagine that you are too occupied. Re. the 'Mirror | |
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| | 1962/06/06 | HLS | to Merton | I wrote M. Orcibal about 'The Mirror of Simple Souls', I have received from him copy 66 of a private | |
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| | 1962/06/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the good news about the "Mirror of Simple Souls". It was very good of you to get | Yes |
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| | 1962/06/26 | HLS | to Merton | I was so pleased to get your letter. Mr. Watkin and I were most worried in case anything drastic | |
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| | 1962/07/14 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I remembered you especially at Mass this morning, and I want to get this letter off to you before | Yes |
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| | 1962/08/31 | HLS[x] | from Merton | As usual I owe you several letters. I have a chance to catch up as I am now in the hospital - | Yes |
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| | 1962/09/29 | HPCS | to Merton | You didn't say what sort of card you wanted of Arles. This covers most of it. I'll send | |
| [verso: black and white aerial photograph of Arles] |
| | 1962/10/29 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | I really appreciated the letters and cards from France. Thank you so much. I did not envy you so | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #108] |
| | 1962/10/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I really appreciated the letters and cards from France. Thank you so much. I did not envy you so | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #108] |
| | 1962/10/29 (#03) | transcript | from Merton | I really appreciated the letters and cards from France. Thank you so much. I did not envy you so | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #108 - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/11/02 | HLS | to Merton | I am writing primarily to find out whether you got the English "Mirror of Simple Souls." | |
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| | 1962/11/13 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so very much for the book. I've never seen a "Reader" before. It isn't an "Anthology" | |
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| | 1963/01/14 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for sending me "Wisdom in Emptiness" and your Advent sermon. | |
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| | 1963/01/18 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | I am really sorry for not having written for so long. Correspondence gets to be more and more | Yes |
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| | 1963/01/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am really sorry for not having written for so long. Correspondence gets to be more and more | Yes |
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| | 1963/01/22 (#01) | HPCS | from Merton | Have you read the article "Essentiel" in the Dictionnaire de Spiritualité Vol V? | |
| [formerly had photocopy from William Shannon] |
| | 1963/01/22 (#02) | other | by Gullick, Etta | Henry Herp or Harphius, born at Erp in North Brabant at the beginning of the fifteenth century, | |
| [undated handwritten notes by Etta Gullick associated with postcard (item one)] |
| | 1963/03/22 | HLS | to Merton | I hope all is going well with you. It's been such a | |
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| | 1963/03/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good long letter about the hard winter, the Abbot of Donwside [sic], the Council | Yes |
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| | 1963/04/10 (#01) | HPCS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter which I will reply to in Rome. These cloisters are most | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of inner courtyard of "The paradise cloister" in Amalfi, Italy] |
| | 1963/04/10 (#02) | HLS | to Merton | I write sitting on the Spanish steps in the sun. It is very pleasant. I haven't been in Rome since | |
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| | 1963/04/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter from the Spanish steps, and the others. But especially from "the Spanish | Yes |
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| | 1963/06/08 | HLS | to Merton | I have been thinking of you a lot at the moment as I've spent the last week in Bodley reading | |
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| | 1963/07/28 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the three letters I owe you. I cannot hope to answer them adequately now. But I envy | Yes |
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| | 1963/07/28 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the three letters I owe you. I cannot hope to answer them adequately now. But I envy | Yes |
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| | 1963/08/20 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so very much for writing such a long letter. It was most kind of you. I am not worthy | |
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| | 1963/08/23 | HLS | to Merton | I was thrilled to get your card today and Donald Allchin. A joint card was a surprise! I hope you | |
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| | 1963/09/24 | HPCS | to Merton | We are having tea by the lake here surrounded by ducks. It is very beautiful, as the tree are | |
| [verso: black and white photo of the ruins of Fountains Abbey in England] |
| | 1963/09/25 | HPCS | to Merton | Not such a good card of Jervaulx -- but might go for your novices. Best wishes [-] Etta | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of "Jervaulx Abbey from the park, showing the misericord on left" - England] |
| | 1963/09/28 (#01) | HPCS | to Merton | This is a better one of Fountains [-] Best wishes [-] Etta | |
| [verso: black and white aerial photo of the ruins at Fountains Abbey, England] |
| | 1963/09/28 (#02) | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so very much for Father Delp, and the other writings. I am fascinated about Fenelon | |
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| | 1963/10/18 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I have been a really abominable correspondent and now to add insult to injury I am writing without | Yes |
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| | 1963/10/23 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter which I was very pleased to get. However as I like to think | |
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| | 1963/11/21 | HLS | to Merton | Donald Allchin tells me that you are flat on your back. I do hope that you are recovering and that | |
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| | 1963/11/24 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Just a word of thanks for the books, Wm Law and Lancelot Andrewes. I am so glad to have them | Yes |
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| | 1963/12/12 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for Cusa and "darkness" which I will read tonight. I have sent you the vast | |
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| | 1964/01/07 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | The "vast tome" on Anglicanism just arrived. I am sure it will be very helpful indeed and am really | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/07 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | The "vast tome" on Anglicanism just arrived. I am sure it will be very helpful indeed and am really | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/08 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for the book of poems and the article. I am enjoying the poems and translations | |
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| | 1964/02/16 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Just a brief letter to thank you for the big book "Crucible of Love". I have not got into it | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/17 | HLS | to Merton | I'm in bed with a flu-cold so have time to write and reflect. On Friday night I took Charles | |
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| | 1964/03/22 | HPCS | to Merton | I don't know if a card of Durham would be an use or interest. Best wishes for Easter [-] Etta. | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of Durham Cathedral] |
| | 1964/03/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | I return the bit on the Pearl. Did I send you my piece on monastic prayer? It is here. | |
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| | 1964/04/03 | HPCS | to Merton | Happy Easter! This church in its original form was built by St. Wilfred. It is fine and has many | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of the choir and sanctuary at Hexham Abbey, England] |
| | 1964/05/08 | HPCS | to Merton | I am going to send you a copy of the Clergy Review (April) with an interesting article on the | |
| [verso: black and white aerial photograph of Downside Abbey, England] |
| | 1964/05/22 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | It is difficult for me to remember whether or not I answered your letters from Italy, but I think | Yes |
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| | 1964/05/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is difficult for me to remember whether or not I answered your letters from Italy, but I think | Yes |
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| | 1964/06/15 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Yes, the Clergy Review: I am not sure if you wanted it returned. Somewhere along the line I got | Yes |
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| | 1964/06/15 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yes, the Clergy Review: I am not sure if you wanted it returned. Somewhere along the line I got | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/06 | HLS | to Merton | I haven't written you properly for a long time and I haven't heard from you for a long time. | |
| [dated September 6-7, 1964 (previously misdated online as 1964/06/07)] |
| | 1964/09/12 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the letters I owe you. This has been a very bad summer for letter writing here. | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/12 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letters I owe you. This has been a very bad summer for letter writing here. | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/21 | HPCS | to Merton | This might be of interest to you and your novices. Anglican nuns use the cell and the church | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of the interior of the cell of Julian of Norwich] |
| | 1964/10/05 | HPCS | to Merton | This is very lovely. Your novices might like it. Thank you so much for your letter [-] Best wishes | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of the ruins of Binham Priory in Norfolk, England] |
| | 1965/01/25 | TL[c] | from Merton | You much be very tired of waiting for answers to your letters, and I hope you understand that I have | Yes |
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| | 1965/05/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I was very sorry to get your letter announcing that you would not come. What a shame, to have | Yes |
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| | 1965/05/05 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was very sorry to get your letter announcing that you would not come. What a shame, to have | Yes |
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| | 1965/05/07 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. I am so sorry we didn't make it. We are going to make another | |
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| | 1965/06/04 | HLS | to Merton | I am so pleased to get "The Poorer Means" and "Contemp. and Ecumenism" -- could more copies | |
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| | 1965/06/09 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Several more copies of "Contemplation and Ecumenism" are on the way to you. I also put in some | Yes |
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| | 1965/06/09 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Several more copies of "Contemplation and Ecumenism" are on the way to you. I also put in some | Yes |
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| | 1965/07/16 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am glad to send you more of what I have. It is on the way by sea-mail. If people like them, that | Yes |
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| | 1965/07/22 | HLS | to Merton | Please forgive lack of like paper, but this is as it happens. I have missed not hearing from you, | |
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| | 1965/08/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I think I owe you a couple of letters. Your letters are always so good and full of interesting | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your very interesting letters from Scotland. That is all ancient history by now, | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/11 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am returning the paper on Theocentric and Christocentric prayer for if I do not do so immediately | Yes |
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| | 1966/01/15 | HLS | to Merton | My paper on 'Theocentric and Christocentric prayer' was a great success at the gathering of R.C. | |
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| | 1966/02/02 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for the climate of monastic prayer. I could do with at least 6 more copies. | |
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| | 1966/02/26 | HLS | to Merton | I sent you the booklet on Forde Abbey yesterday but forgot to put my name on the envelope so hope | |
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| | 1966/03/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the booklet on Forde. The one or two pictures of twelfth century building are quite | Yes |
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| | 1966/03/27 | HLS | to Merton | I am writing in the Collegio Stiopico[sp?], Citta di Vaticano after having addressed | |
| [one page on Gullick's personal letterhead and another on the letterhead of the Grand Hôtel de la Ville in Rome] |
| | 1966/04/06 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I have very much enjoyed your letters from Rome and am interested in your meeting with Fr | Yes |
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| | 1966/04/17 | HLS | to Merton | I am so glad that your generation has been successful. I hope that you are continuing to improve | |
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| | 1966/04/27 | HLS | to Merton | I have to save contacts with a publisher who would be interested in Raisa Maratain's [sic] journal | |
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| | 1966/08/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter from St Andrews and for the others too. I thought I had answered one or | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter from St Andrews and for the others too. I thought I had answered one or | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/08 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. It is tiresome of me to reply so soon! I am sorry about | |
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| | 1966/09/30 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry I have been so bad about answering, but I really thought that I had said, long ago, that | Yes |
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| | 1966/09/30 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry I have been so bad about answering, but I really thought that I had said, long ago, that | Yes |
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| | 1966/11/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is not yet my complete letter on your ms about Benet of Canfield. I think I have received all | Yes |
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| | 1966/11/30 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter. I am glad you approve in the main of my introduction. | |
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| | 1967/01/15 | HLS | to Merton | Will it be possible to come and see you April 11th, 12th or 13th. We hope to leave Washington | |
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| | 1967/04/13 | HLS | to Merton | I like Chuang Tzu very much. His loss of self-awareness or whatever one calls it, is the same as | |
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| | 1967/04/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I really enjoyed your visit and it was nice to meet you both. I enjoyed | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/27 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. Looking back on our trip to N. America we both agree that | |
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| | 1967/05/06 | HLS | to Merton | I enjoy dipping into your "Conjectures" and hope you don't mind this method of approach. | |
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| | 1967/07/11 | HLS | to Merton | We are having a holiday in St. Andrews and exploring Fife. We've been most fortunate with | |
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| | 1967/07/26 | HLS | to Merton | Would it be possible for me to have another copy of the Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander? | |
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| | 1967/08/31 | TL[c] | from Merton | I'm sorry to see your air letter is dated more than a month ago. This has been an unusually busy | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/25 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for the two copies of your book. They arrived "damaged by seawater", but are | |
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| | 1967/10/04 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for another collection of articles by you. I like the one in 'the Current' | |
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| | 1967/10/06 | HLS | to Merton | Your bit in Newsletter Rev. R.M. Buck [sic] Memorial Society would be of use to | |
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| | 1967/10/10 | HLS[x] | from Merton | This is the only available copy of "New Consciousness" past now but I'll try to get some others. | |
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| | 1968/02/13 | HLS | to Merton | I've sent you a hurried bit that I wrote for Shidi Caltolici [sp?]. I included a prayer of yours | |
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| | 1968/04/26 | TL[c] | from Merton | I must owe you more than one letter, but it is just impossible for me to keep up with mail, and more | Yes |
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| | 1973/03/19 | HLS | to Center from Gullick, Etta | Thank you for your letter requesting any correspondence which I have of Thomas Merton. | |
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| | 1973/07/03 | TL[c] | from Center to Gullick, Etta | Thank you so much for the additional Merton correspondence. It will be added to the more than | |
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| | 1973/07/18 | HLS[x] | to Center from Gullick, Etta | I still don't know if you are Father or Rev. I intended to ask Donald Allchin when we met | |
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| | 1973/08/17 | TL[x] | from Center to Gullick, Etta | Let me begin by saying that I am Raymond Bailey. I am also an ordained Baptist minister but prefer | |
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| | 1983/06/09 | TLS | from Shannon, William / to Etta Gullick | I enclose the second draft of my notes on your letters. I thought you might like to look them over | |
| [enclosed is 16-page notes on Gullick letters by William H. Shannon] |
| | undated/no/no | HCS | to Merton | Every best wish for Christmas [-] Eva. | |
| [verso: color reproduction of "Nativity. From a Book of Hours according to the Use of Paris. 1407." - illuminated manuscript from the Bodleian Library, Oxford] |
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