| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1965/03/29 | HLS | to Merton | The enclosed describes the aims and activities of the society which I represent. We sprang up out | |
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| | 1965/04/25 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | It took your good letter quite some time to reach me, and in any case my replies are always somewhat | Yes |
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| | 1965/04/25 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It took your good letter quite some time to reach me, and in any case my replies are always somewhat | Yes |
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| | 1965/05/16 | HLS | to Merton | Before answering your letter myself. I passed it on to two other members of our society. | |
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| | 1965/05/22 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I am grateful for the mimeographed conference proceedings on PERSONALITY CHANGE AND | |
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| | 1965/08/08 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | By now you are probably at Pendle Hill, or maybe you are on your way home again. In any case I hope | Yes |
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| | 1965/08/08 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | By now you are probably at Pendle Hill, or maybe you are on your way home again. In any case I hope | Yes |
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| | 1965/09/22 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | re your Hindu Abbott friend. The answer from Colgate University was not helpful, but Clare Booth | |
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| | 1965/09/22 (#02) | other | to Merton | THE R.M. BUCKE MEMORIAL SOCIETY for the study of religious experience [-] PROGRAMME 1965-1966 | |
| [enclosed with 1965/09/22 letter] |
| | 1965/10/03 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Now that I go to answer your letter I find that I have misplaced it, but I think most of the points | Yes |
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| | 1965/10/03 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Now that I go to answer your letter I find that I have misplaced it, but I think most of the points | Yes |
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| | 1965/10/04 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Yesterday I mailed you a letter which I sent to your old address, the one I had in my address book. | Yes |
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| | 1965/10/04 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yesterday I mailed you a letter which I sent to your old address, the one I had in my address book. | Yes |
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| | 1965/10/28 | TLS | to Merton | Bernard Phillips sent me a carbon copy of his letter to you Oct. 22! I was a bit shocked, partly at | |
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| | 1965/10/31 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I got your letter yesterday and really I had not reacted that way to Bernard Phillips' letter. | Yes |
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| | 1965/10/31 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I got your letter yesterday and really I had not reacted that way to Bernard Phillips' letter. | Yes |
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| | 1965/10/31 (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton to Bernard Phillips | Well, I simply answer your question by turning it around. There are plenty of stories not only | |
| [copy of Merton's letter to Phillips enclosed with 1965/10/31 letter to Parsons] |
| | 1965/11/03 | TLS | to Merton | Letter to Bernard Phillips just fine! It might even help him if he's not careful. He came close | |
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| | 1965/11/no? | TLS[x] | to Merton | Now, there seems to be a parallel to the ox herding pictures, but my single reaction at the time was | |
| [first page not extant] |
| | 1965/12/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have very many things to thank you for. The other day I sent back a first package of what was to | |
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| | 1965/12/01 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I have very many things to thank you for. The other day I sent back a first package of what was | Yes |
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| | 1965/12/06 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Finally got your Chang [sic] Tzu book, and my single reaction was one of relief. This summer I had | |
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| | 1965/12/06 (#02) | other | | SESSHIN SCHEDULE [-] Tuxedo Park, N.Y. [-] November 24 [-] November 28 [-] 1965 [-] 5:00 A.M. Arise | |
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| | 1965/12/06 (#03) | other | | Report on Zen retreat conducted by Yasutani Hakuun Roshi and Rev Eodo Shimeno [-] Nov 24-28 1965 | |
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| | 1965/12/17 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I have about fifteen things of yours to report on, and probably will not manage to say anything | Yes |
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| | 1965/12/17 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have about fifteen things of yours to report on, and probably will not manage to say anything | Yes |
| [originally filed with James Forest materials and moved to Linda Parsons file December 7, 2017 (likely mistaken as Linda Forest)] |
| | 1966/01/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Did I ever thank you for the stones? You have much prettier ones up there than we have here: | |
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| | 1966/01/13 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for yours of Dec. 30th and the enclosures. You really write well about these things. | |
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| | 1966/01/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for yours of Dec. 30th and the enclosure. You really write well about these things. | Yes |
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| | 1966/01/15 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I forgot to add in my letter the other day that I <u>would</u> enjoy reading Chang Chung Yuan's book | |
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| | 1966/01/24 | TLS | to Merton | re yours of Jan. 13th for which I thank you very much- "in getting to the root of why you feel guilt | |
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| | 1966/01/29 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | If this letter turns out to be hard to follow, I tell you in advance that I am having a bad fight | Yes |
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| | 1966/01/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | If this letter turns out to be hard to follow, I tell you in advance that I am having a bad fight | Yes |
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| | 1966/01/31 | TLS[x] | from Merton | A couple of business points while I think of them. If Jacques Masui very badly wants to come down | |
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| | 1966/02/02 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I have only glanced at <u>Battle for the Mind</u> but will read it carefully later, as I think it | Yes |
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| | 1966/02/12 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I don't see any problem about "amoral". To begin with you mean it more speculatively | Yes |
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| | 1966/02/12 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I don't see any problem about "amoral". To begin with you mean it more speculatively | Yes |
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| | 1966/02/17 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Just ran across a very interesting reference. I wonder if you could possibly get me a copy of the | |
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| | 1966/03/02 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Help!! The Chang book arrived only today (sent Feb. 16) and is <u>due</u> March 4. Impossible! | |
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| | 1966/03/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry, it is just not possible for me to keep up, but if I thought there was something very | Yes |
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| | 1966/03/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry, it is just not possible for me to keep up, but if I thought there was something very | Yes |
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| | 1966/03/24 | TNS | to Merton | Let me know if you want the following: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, <u>Three Muslim Sages</u>, Harvard | |
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| | 1966/03/27 | TALS | to Merton | Is your operation over? I was very sorry to hear about it, and a bit sad for a day or two because | |
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| | 1966/03/29 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Just read about half of "Seasons of Celebration". If I'd ever had to understand even a small | |
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| | 1966/03/29 (#02) | other | | IMAGO CHRISTI [-] Depraved tiger, fierce lamb, unholy sepulchre [-] rock empty newly chiseled every | |
| [copy of poem by Haven O'More - enclosed with 1966/03/29 letter] |
| | 1966/04/07 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the three letters and all the enclosures. I am still in the hospital but getting out | Yes |
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| | 1966/04/12 | TLS | to Merton | Did you have a hand in writing the enclosed statutes? I think the group shows good sense | |
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| | 1966/04/13 | TLS | from Clark, Walter H. | Thank you very much for sending me the notes by Thomas Merton on Ascetical and Mystical Theology. | |
| [letter from Walter Horton Clark, professor of the psychology of religion at Andover Newton Theological School] |
| | 1966/04/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Made my first application to Bishop Remi de Roo of Vancouver, British Columbia to join the hermit | |
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| | 1966/04/20 (#02) | other | | McGill University [-] Institute of Islamic Studies [-] Islamics 740 [-] The Mystical Tradition | |
| [bibliography of Sufism compiled in October of 1964 for an Islamic Studies course] |
| | 1966/04/20 (#03) | other | | McGill University [-] Institute of Islamic Studies [-] The Library [-] L. 70 [-] <u>CURRENT</u> | |
| [current accessions list for the Islamic Studies library from January of 1966] |
| | 1966/04/26 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for everything, peanuts, graphology, everything you are a woman of infinite variety. | Yes |
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| | 1966/05/14 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Not much point in longing for solitude, it is not something you get but something you have - it is | Yes |
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| | 1966/05/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | How are you? I hope you were not distressed at my kidding you about solitude. I am back | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | The enclosed item re Queen attending joint religious service might be of interest. One wonders what | |
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| | 1966/06/13 (#02) | other | to Merton | GENERAL NEWS [-] OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY: Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip acknowledge the cheers | |
| [news clipping about Queen Elizabeth of England attending an interreligious service] |
| | 1966/06/18 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I might as well try to write you a proper letter for once. First, thanks for the Tibetan Initiation | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I might as well try to write you a proper letter for once. First, thanks for the Tibetan Initiation | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/30 | TLS | to Merton | Don't give up hope about the Charles Luk book and The law of the Buddha Among the Birds. | |
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| | 1966/07/04 | TLS | to Merton | Back in Montreal and almost clear-headed! Very nice feeling to have all that junk in my mind | |
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| | 1966/07/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks very much for your letter of the 4th, the New Yorker piece on Nhat Hanh, and the one on Dr | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/14 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here are some negative strips with root pictures on them here and there. I was going to wait | |
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| | 1966/07/14 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some negative strips with root pictures on them here and there. I was going to wait | |
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| | 1966/07/17 | TLS | to Merton | Very sorry to hear your sprained ankle. I wish I were one of those fine Christians who would | |
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| | 1966/07/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | The way this letter is typed may not indicate that I am thriving on sattvic foods. I want to thank | |
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| | 1966/07/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | The way this letter is typed may not indicate that I am thriving on sattvic foods. I want to thank | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/24 | TALS | to Merton | Very many thanks for your paper "Transcendent Experience" for the Newsletter. It should certainly | |
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| | 1966/07/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The tea has arrived and is most welcome. To me, that is the best of gifts. I can't think | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/07 | TLS | to Merton | You are to be congratulated on having written and so succeeded in having published the desperately | |
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| | 1967/07/05 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for you good letter. I am glad you appreciate Mystics and Zen Masters, and share your hope | |
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| | 1967/07/14 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for yours of July 5th. And enclosures. Edifying Cables is great fun! Very nice, indeed. | |
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| | 1967/07/18 | TALS | to Merton | Post Script to my letter of July 14th. Excerpt from letter to me by my cousin, Brother Andrew, | |
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| | 1967/08/07 | TL[c] | from Merton | Have I yet thanked you for the Surangama Sutra? If not I do now. It is a book of essential | |
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| | 1968/02/26 | TLS | to Merton | Last summer we met Seyyed Hossein Nassr both in Montreal and in the U.S. He sends you his warmest | |
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| | 1968/03/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for yours of Feb 26th. I was very happy to hear about Dr Nasr[.] He is a person I admire | |
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| | 1972/09/14 | TALS | to Center from Parsons, Linda | Thank you very much for your form letter to the friends of Thomas Merton. First of all let me | |
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| | 1972/09/29 | TL[c] | from Center to Parsons, Linda | Thank you for your letter of September 14, and your kind words about the work of our Center and | |
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| | 2004/12/22 | email | from Center to Gardner, Barbara | Many thanks for your message. Please find attached a copy of Form C as requested. | |
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| | 2004/12/23 (#01) | TLS | from Gardner, Barbara / to Anne McCormick | Dr. Pearson gave me your name as the person to whom I should send our collection of Thomas Merton | |
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| | 2004/12/23 (#02) | other | from Gardner, Barbara / to Anne McCormick | (Form C) Date: Dec. 23, 2004 | |
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