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Lawrence S. Thompson was Director of the University of Kentucky Libraries at the time of correspondence with Thomas Merton. Merton sent gifts of his manuscripts and other papers for the university's Special Collections and Archives.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1951/02/24 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Forgive this long delay in answering your kind letter. If you know anything about Gethsemani you |
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1951/03/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Many thanks for your kind loan of the books. I am hugely enjoying Mayor Garner, also Bluegrass |
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1956/07/no? |
HLS[x] from Merton |
+Many thanks for your last letter - I hope you will indeed come down here to the Abbey for a weekend |
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1961/10/11 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
There is really no serious objection to a discrete use of the material in exhibition |
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1963/04/12 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
When I discovered that I had been awarded an honorary LLD by the university, I decided it was |
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1963/05/09 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I am very sorry to have missed you the other day. I was taking a day of retreat in the woods |
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undated/no/no (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Forgive the three messy packages of worksheets and letters and what not I have sent you. |
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undated/no/no (#02) |
TLS[x] from Pound, Dorothy / to Almoner of Gethsemani |
Can you inform me of the conditions on which your excellent cheeses are deliverable? weight, price |
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[from the wife of Ezra Pound, postmarked Washington, D.C., possibly during Pound's institutionalization at St. Elizabeths hospital, 1945-1958]
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undated/no/no (#03) |
TNS[x] from Br. Brendan to Merton |
We were stationed near Carthage a long time and Saint Louis became very much more real. |
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[contains a note from Br. Brendan to Gethsemani's Prior recommending that the Pound letter be forwarded to Merton and a note from Br. Brendan to Merton wishing him a happy Feast of St. Louis]
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