| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1 | 1960/09/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | We have here with us at the Abbey for about a year a friend of mine and Professor of Philosophy | |
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| 1 | 1960/10/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I wish to join Dr Walsh in offering you all good wishes and assuring you of special prayers on your | |
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| 1 | 1961/05/09 | HLS[x] | from Merton | This is to let you know that I have written to Father Danielou telling him that you have offered | |
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| 1 | 1961/05/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Dr Walsh has asked me to say a Mass for all those who are making profession at Loretto on the 31st. | |
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| 1 | 1961/07/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a short piece on Loretto and Gethsemani. As Dan Walsh told you I wanted to write something | |
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| 1 | 1961/07/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the little piece on Gethsemani and Loretto, completed by an extra page which I have added | |
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| 1 | 1961/08/no? | TNS[x] | from Merton | There is no need to put anything special on the booklet, about the censors. The new regulations | |
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| 1 | 1962/02/02 | HPCS | to Merton | We saw these Indians in southern Chile - a most interesting country. It is hard to make a choice | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of a woman in traditional garb from Mapuche, Chile] |
| 1 | 1962/05/29 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | A quick note to you with this little letter I wrote to the vow class. I shall be there in spirit | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/05/29 (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton to Novices of the Sisters of Loretto | The day has come for you to give yourselves completely to Christ Our Lord. | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #76 - see also "Loretto Sisters' Novices" file - from a purple ditto copy among Tobin's file of Merton letters] |
| 1 | 1962/08/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Good, I will have Fr Berrigan and Tony over there on the 17th, and wish I could be there too, | |
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| 1 | 1962/08/25 | HPCS | to Merton | Happy Fest, and a remembrance in prayer. Thank you for Father Berrigan. His compassionate love of | |
| [verso: color print of "Vierge et Enfant" from the Louvre] |
| 1 | 1963/07/no? | HPCS | to Merton | What a glorious experience to visit Rome! Pope John looked tired, but read the beatification decree | |
| [verso: color postcard of a skyline in Rome, Italy / no date nor discernable postmark date - seems to be written in the summer of 1963] |
| 1 | 1963/08/23 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks so much for your letter and for your kindness in copying out the article. The copies will | |
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| 1 | 1964/07/31? | TLS[x] | from Merton | I hope you have by now received the tape. I gave it to one of our people to bring over on Saturday, | |
| [Merton includes on the stationery some cut-out block letters spelling: "THE MONKS. MODERN MOVING... WITH OLD-FASHIONED CARE"] |
| 1 | 1964/08/15 | TL[c] | from Merton | I don't know if you have gone to Rome yet, but in any case someone will know what to do about | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/08/20 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter and for the mimeographed articles which arrived yesterday. These are | |
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| 1 | 1964/09/03 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of August 20th. And first of all, I would like very much to see you before | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/11/01 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was not really a surprise to me that you were chosen as observer from the better half | Yes |
| [dated "All Saints, 1964"] |
| 1 | 1964/11/06 | HPCS | to Merton | We had a very nice visit with the Gethsemani students at the House of Studies here. I have also | |
| [verso: color photograph of a painting inside the Catacombs in Rome, Italy] |
| 1 | 1964/12/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was great having you here, and we all enjoyed the talk very much. And profited by it too. | |
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| 1 | 1964/12/23 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your note received today. I am very sure the art department at Webster College would | |
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| 1 | 1965/03/01 | TLS | to Merton | I have a letter from Sister Marie de Lourdes, S.U., who will arrive in Louisville on March 14. | |
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| 1 | 1965/05/04 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for your note. I'm just as glad I couldn't come on the fourth. I am sending you | |
| [verso: handwritten note by Merton] |
| 1 | 1965/05/10 | HLS | to Merton | Thursday (13th) at 2p.m. will be fine with me. I'm looking forward to discussing the document | |
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| 1 | 1965/07/07 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was nice to see some Loretto bonnets up in the balcony at Mass today. But that is not what I am | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/12 | TALS | to Merton | I've sent a note to Sister Deborah at Webster to ask her to send you some details on our anniversary | |
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| 1 | 1965/07/18 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have just received the final ok about moving into the hermitage, which will be some time next | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/20 | TALS | to Merton | I am very grateful to learn from the Abbot's letter that you will be able to see us for a short time | |
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| 1 | 1965/08/03 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I asked Fr Abbot about stopping by at Loretto and he did not want it - as I suppose I could have | |
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| 1 | 1965/12/18 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Welcome home! I bet you are tired and happy. It has been great fun to be alive in these days | |
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| 1 | 1966/01/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am a great relic man. I realize I need to have friends around in the hermitage. | |
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| 1 | 1966/09/06 | HCS | to Merton | Just a note of enthusiastic appreciation for "Conjectures-" Dan Walsh kindly let me read | |
| [verso: color print of a Russian icon of the Trinity] |
| 1 | 1967/03/30 | HPCS | to Merton | Beautiful Country in the northwest - Douglas firs incredibly high. The straits are on both sides | |
| [postcard from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - verso: color photograph of "Mounties": "A troop of the world famous Royal Canadian Mounted Police attending the raising of the new flag."] |
| 1 | 1967/08/02 | HCS | to Merton | How <u>good</u> of you to help us out as you have - Thanks so very much from all of us. | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I hope the General Chapter went along all right. I have thought of you often. And also tomorrow | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | Plans have finally matured for the Contemplative Superiors to come down here, but as it is a very | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/12/02 | TL[c] | from Merton | I really appreciate the kindness of the sisters in going to Louisville to pick up my gang | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/12/09 | HNS | to Merton | This Corita-like message is to say thanks for a wonderful sharing this past week. How nice that | |
| [message on a note shaped like a Christmas stocking] |
| 1 | 1968/03/22 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I have written a note to Reverend Father asking permission to visit you at 2:00 p.m. on March 28. | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/22 (#02) | TLS | to Burns, Flavian | May I extend to you my very best wishes on the occasion of your Blessing. May the Lord grant you | |
| [to Dom Flavian Burns, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 1 | 1968/05/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I'm getting this back to you promptly as I am supposed to leave for California Monday. Good idea | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/01 (#02) | HLS | to Merton | We're so happy to have this in typed form. Only a small part is not here - something lost | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/21 | HCS | to Merton | All set for the meeting here on Sunday. Sister Mary Francis will meet the three coming | |
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| 1 | 1968/06/04 | HCS | to Merton | Last week was a sheer joy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart (surely from somewhere | |
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| 2 | 1961/10/04 | transcript | by Merton | Father Louis began speaking by thanking the Novices and Postulants for a beautiful performance of | Yes |
| [lecture by Merton primarity on religious life as vocation with some comments about ministry in New Mexico among Hopis and other native peoples] |
| 2 | 1962/01/10 | transcript | by Merton | You're the class that's going to make vows, is that right? … I was ordained on Ascension Thursday. | Yes |
| [lecture by Merton to Loretto Second-Year Novices on the spiritual life and life of the vows] |
| 2 | 1963/05/15 | transcript | by Merton | In prayer don't measure everything by your expectations, and when you're starting out, (I don't know | Yes |
| ["Talk of Father Louis to Novices and Postulants: May 15, 1963" with sections labeled: "What Are the Fruits of Prayer in Daily Life", "In Prayer, How Can You Tell When It's the False Self that Is Acting in Prayer or Your True Self"…, and "Comments on Recollection"] |
| 2 | 1964/11/01? | transcript | by Merton | In Profession, you have certain necessary elements. Profession implies three things, only one | Yes |
| ["Comments on the Vows" - no date, but Bonnie Thurston speculates Merton sent it to Tobin on November 1, 1964, along with his essay "Identity Crisis and Monastic Vocation"] |
| 2 | undated/no/no | transcript | by Merton | I think a person who is really living a life of prayer should in his daily life be very simple | |
| [under the title "What Are the Fruits of Prayer in Daily Life?"] |
| 3 | 1978/09/27 (#01) | other | by Tobin, Mary Luke, Sr., S.L. | THOMAS MERTON: TEN YEARS LATER [-] Later this fall, Sister Mary Luke Tobin will organize discussion- | Yes |
| [interview with Sr. Mary Luke Tobin published in <u>Interchange</u>, September 27, 1978] |
| 3 | 1978/09/27 (#02) | other | by Tobin, Mary Luke, Sr., S.L. | On a spring morning in 1963, the novices of the Sisters of Loretto in Kentucky were expecting | Yes |
| [“Merton on Prayer: Start Where You Are” with 4 Photographs by Thomas Merton in <u>National Catholic Reporter</u> 19 (14 October 1983): Supplement on Praying no. 1, pp. 11-15] |
| 3 | 1978/09/27 (#02) | other | by Tobin, Mary Luke, Sr., S.L. | THOMAS MERTON: TEN YEARS LATER [-] (This interview with Mary Luke Tobin was published in | Yes |
| [transcript of interview with Sr. Mary Luke Tobin published in <u>Interchange</u>, September 27, 1978 for inclusion in <i>Hidden in the Same Mystery</i>] |
| 3 | 1990/11/03? | other | by Tobin, Mary Luke, Sr., S.L. | <del>It is a joy to be here. I've been here before and it's always a pleasure because people</del> | Yes |
| ["Prayer and Commitment in Thomas Merton" delivered November 3, 1990 at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York] |
| 3 | undated/no/no | other | by Tobin, Mary Luke, Sr., S.L. | <del>It is a joy to be here. I've been here before and it's always a pleasure because people</del> | |
| ["Prophecy and Commitment in Thomas Merton"] |
| 4 | 2001/05/15 | TLS | to Thurston, Bonnie | What a surprise to find the blue bag with its lovely contents on my chair which I presume you put | |
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| 4 | 2001/06/25 | TL | from Thurston, Bonnie | Thanks for your note of May 15th. I'm sorry I didn't get over to see you during the ITMS meeting | |
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| 4 | 2001/06/28 | TLS | to Thurston, Bonnie | Thank you for your great letter. Great, because you have such wonderful suggestions on what to do | |
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| 4 | 2001/12/22 | TLS | to Thurston, Bonnie | What a pleasure to hear from you. This has indeed been a busy year for you, but knowing your | |
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| 4 | 2002/03/06 (#01) | email | from Johnson, Susan / to Bonnie Thurston | Greetings from Louisville! We haven't met, but a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting | |
| [see reply on top of the same printed email] |
| 4 | 2002/03/06? (#02) | email | from Thurston, Bonnie / to Susan Johnson | Luke gave me transcripts of the tapes last June. Here is what I told her: I would be very happy | |
| [response undated - see previous message on the bottom of the same printed email] |
| 4 | 2002/03/30 | TL | from Thurston, Bonnie / to Mary Catherine Rabbitt, S.L. | I am a friend of Sr. Luke Tobin's (and others in your community). Sr. Rose Annette Liddell said you | |
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| 4 | 2002/06/05 | TLS | from Rabbitt, Mary Catherine, S.L. / to Bonnie Thurston | Thank you for your letter of March 30 concerning the publication of the Merton talks that you | |
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| 4 | 2002/08/17 | TL | from Thurston, Bonnie / to Anne McCormick | I'm writing to you in your capacity on the Merton Legacy Trust in hopes you can give some direction | |
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| 4 | 2002/08/22 | email | from McCormick, Anne / to Bonnie Thurston | It was so good to hear from you last night when I collected my mail at home, and I thank you | |
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| 4 | 2002/09/05 | email | from McCormick, Anne / to Bonnie Thurston | As promised I sent off your correspondence on this project to Bob Giroux and Tommie O'Callaghan. | |
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| 4 | 2002/09/27 | email | from McCormick, Anne / to Bonnie Thurston | Bonnie, a bit after the fact there is an official okay from Fr. Damien, verbal and through Patrick | |
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| 4 | 2002/09/27 | TL | from Thurston, Bonnie / to Kate Misbauer, S.L. | Mary Catherine Rabbitt gave me your name last week when I saw her in Denver. I am working on | |
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| 4 | 2005/08/24 | TLS | from Swain, Mary, S.L. / to Bonnie Thurston | I was with Rose Annette in Denver a few weeks ago and she gave me the manuscript to read that you | |
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| 4 | 2008/02/03 | TLS | from Swain, Mary, S.L. / to Bonnie Thurston and Paul Pearson | Clearly, I have no idea how to get something published. I don't know if Grey Henry is generally | |
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