Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section D.2:

Circular Letters to Friends (for mimeographing)

Item 1 - [01] A CHRISTMAS LETTER - 1965

First Lines:  I hate to resort to mimeographed letters but it has become completely impossible for me to answer

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  December 25, 1965?

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  4 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 2 - [02] Christmas Morning.

First Lines:  Sorry, I have just had to give up any hope of answering most of my Christmas mail personally.

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  December 25, 1966?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  8 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 3 - [03] CHRISTMAS - NEW YEAR LETTER 1966 - 1967

First Lines:  Even with the aid of mimeograph it is not possible to adequately take care of everybody, acknowledge

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  December 25, 1966?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 4 - [04] Septuagesima Sunday 1967

First Lines:  Several wrote that they liked my mimeographed Christmas letter and urged me to go on mimeographing

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  January 22, 1967?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  12 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 5 - [05] Lent 67

First Lines:  The last mimeographed letter is running out and there are still more than four weeks to go before

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  February no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  17 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 6 - [06] EASTER 1967

First Lines:  It has been a beautiful warm Easter here, though the most recent news from the East Coast complains

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  March 26, 1967

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  4 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 7 - [07] PENTECOST 1967

First Lines:  The main piece of news at this season is the ordination to the priesthood of my old friend Dan Walsh

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  May 14, 1967

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  5 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 8 - [08] MIDSUMMER 67

First Lines:  Recently I heard of the following strange event. Frank Sheed, in London, was awakened at four

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  July no-day, 1967

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  9 copies - not titled in these versions, but elsewhere (Section A - Circular Letters..) as "MIDSUMMER 67."

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 9 - [09] ADVENT-CHRISTMAS LETTER 1967

First Lines:  This year has gone by fast, and not without sorrows. Besides the death of Victor Hammer last summer

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  December no-day, 1967?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  5 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 10 - [10] NEW YEAR'S LETTER 1968

First Lines:  Christmas mail was an avalanche this year: it always is, but more so in 1967. News from friends

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  January 01, 1968

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  8 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 11 - [11] NEW YEAR'S LETTER 1968

First Lines:  Christmas mail was an avalanche this year: it always is, but more so in 1967. News from friends

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, original anotations and signature

Date:  January 01, 1968

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Merton notes in pen to unknown recipients: "Best love to all of you! I'm snowed in. Tom."

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 12 - [12] PRE-LENT LETTER 1968

First Lines:  The approach of Lent once again makes me realize that the only way to handle the pile of letters

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  February no-day, 1968?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  25 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 13 - [13] EASTER LETTER 1968

First Lines:  As I write this there is snow on the ground from a blizzard we had the other day, but the sun is

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter

Date:  April no-day, 1968?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  25 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 14 - [14] PASCHAL TIME 1968

First Lines:  My Easter letter was written a couple of weeks before Easter, and it is of course not much use my

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter

Date:  May no-day, 1968?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  4 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 15 - [15] MIDSUMMER LETTER 1968

First Lines:  For various reasons I was quite busy during May and June, and so for July and part of August I am

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  July no-day, 1968?

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 16 - [16] FALL 1968

First Lines:  As you know, I have been cutting down more and more on letters and now my contacts will be almost

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter, copied signature

Date:  no-month no-day, 1968

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  5 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 17 - [17] ASIAN LETTER 1

First Lines:  This newsletter is not a reply to mail because I have not been getting mail on this Asian trip

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph of typed letter

Date:  November 09, 1968

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 18 - [18] RE: TM's death in 1968

First Lines:  The news of the sudden and unexpected death of your beloved son, Father Louis, has already been

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph

Date:  December 11, 1968

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Sent on behalf of the six Trappist delegates at the Conference in Bangkok where Merton died.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 19 - [19] RE: TM's death in 1968

First Lines:  We are deeply moved by the countless expressions of sympathy which we have been receiving

Sub-Type:  Correspondence

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph

Date:  December 11, 1968

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  3 copies. Sent on behalf of the monks of Gethsemani. Enclosed also was the statement in this file by the six Trappist delegates at the Conference in Bangkok where Merton died.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12