| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1963/07/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was a pleasure to receive your letter. Certainly you will be very welcome at the Abbey, and if | Yes |
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| | 1963/10/15 | HLS | to Merton | I have often been on the point of writing, but other things have always interfered. I am sorry | |
| asking if Merton will do an introduction for a work on Isaac de Stella by Sr. Penelope, C.S.M.V. from Wantage |
| | 1963/10/21 | HLS | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I find the proposal to do an introduction on Isaac for Sister Penelope | Yes |
| introduction for a work on Isaac de Stella |
| | 1963/12/01 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thank you so much for the Traherne. It will be very valuable if and when I come to carry out my | Yes |
| Anglican Mystics / Etta Gullick / William Law / Rev. Mother of Fair Acres / "events of ten days ago" (Kennedy assassination) |
| | 1963/12/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you so much for the Traherne. It will be very valuable if and when I come to carry out my | Yes |
| Anglican Mystics / Etta Gullick / William Law / Rev. Mother of Fair Acres / "events of ten days ago" (Kennedy assassination) |
| | 1964/01/04 | HLS | to Merton | Please forgive me for not writing before. I have meant to, over and over again, but have always put | |
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| | 1964/04/25 | TL[c] | from Merton | Have I yet thanked you for the remarkable little book of essays on the Blessed Virgin. I | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/31 | HLS | to Merton | It's a very long time since I have written. I am so sorry, but you certainly know how life is. I | |
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| | 1965/05/22 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Please believe that I am covered with the most utter confusion. I knew I owed you a letter, and | Yes |
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| | 1965/05/22 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Please believe that I am covered with the most utter confusion. I knew I owed you a letter, and | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/11 | HLS | to Merton | This letter is principally to say that I am going to be in the states next year from January to the | |
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| | 1966/07/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry Fr Linus missed you. He was anxious to see you. However I can count on permission to see you | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/02 | HLS | to Merton | I am getting near to the date of coming to New York. I fly on the 16th of this month. I have been | |
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| | 1967/01/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I hope this will meet you in New York and find you well and ready for action. Certainly I look | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/27 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. I have now heard from my friends in Louisville and shall be | |
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| | 1967/03/18 | HLS | to Merton | Just a note to say that I hope to be at Gethsemani on Tuesday after Easter, probably in the | |
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| | 1967/04/04 | HLS | to Merton | I was taught at home (and also at […] perhaps?) that one ought always to write Thank You Letters | |
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| | 1967/06/16 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | So many things to thank your for. It seems a long time since your visit, when the weather was fine, | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/16 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | So many things to thank your for. It seems a long time since your visit, when the weather was fine, | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/20 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter, and for all the fascinating things that have arrived. I have | |
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| | 1967/08/15 | HLS | to Merton | I have been meaning to write for the last two or three weeks. Many things to say, most of which can | |
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| | 1967/08/29 | HLS | to Merton | This is just to ask one thing. I had planned to come to Gethsemani after Easter next year. But it | |
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| | 1967/09/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have two letters of yours to answer, and the first one is the second. There is no problem at all | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/27 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter which was extremely encouraging from more points of view than | |
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| | 1968/01/28 | HLS | to Merton | Just a note to announce my arrival on this side of the Atlantic. It looks as though I might be | |
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| | 1968/02/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Pardon the pretentious note paper. Someone thought it wd be a good gift, and it is useful. Though | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/05 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter and the article, which I have glanced through. It needs | |
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| | 1968/03/20 | HLS | to Merton | Plans have matured considerably for my visit. I shall only be at Gethsemani from Wednesday 3rd to | |
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| | 1968/03/21 | HLS | to Merton | Here is the first draft of the translation of Ana Griffiths' poems. It's the only copy I have so I | |
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| | 1968/03/24 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The hermitage looks like this even today-- though we are supposed to be in "spring". However I hope | Yes |
| photocopy of page includes faint photograph of the area around Merton's hermitage covered in snow |
| | 1968/03/26 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter. We shall aim to be at the monastery by about half past two on | |
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| | 1968/04/17 | HLS | to Merton | I have been meaning to write for a long time to say, How good that was. I did enjoy it. We drove | |
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| | 1968/08/11 | HLS | to Merton | This is just a note to greet you from Boston. Last week's conference surpassed <u>all</u> | |
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| | 1968/08/27 | TLS | from Merton | September has nearly come around and alas, no Wales. First of all the General Chapter is not until | Yes |
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| | 1968/11/10? (#01) | HPCS | from Merton | By all means use the article - with better title. The Indian journey has been fine so far, fine | Yes |
| Dalai Lama / return from Asia in May via England a trip to Wales with Allchin |
| | 1968/11/10? (#02) | transcript | from Merton | By all means use the article with better title. | Yes |
| [typed message for handwritten postcard] Dalai Lama / return from Asia in May via England a trip to Wales with Allchin |
| | 1971/02/16 | HLS | to Center from Allchin, Arthur MacDonald | I must apologize for never replying before this to your letter about the letters of Thomas Merton, | |
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| | 1971/02/19 | TL[c] | from Center to Allchin, Arthur MacDonald | Thank you for your letter of February 16 concerning your correspondence with Thomas Merton. We will | |
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| | 1972/10/26 | TLS | to Center from Allchin, Arthur MacDonald, and Sr. Bridget | Thank you for your letter of August 7th about my correspondence with Thomas Merton. I am replying | |
| Replying on his own behalf and for Sr. Bridget, S.L.G. (formerly Sr. Bridget, O.S.H. / Order of St. Helena) |
| | 1972/11/03 | TL[c] | from Center to Allchin, Arthur MacDonald | Thank you for your letter of October 26 regarding yours and Sister Bridget's correspondence with | |
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| | 1972/12/08 | TL[c] | from Center to Allchin, Arthur MacDonald | Rather than holding off until I start alphabetically through the correspondence, I have pulled yours | |
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| | 1973/01/25 | TALS | to Center from Allchin, Arthur MacDonald | Thank you very much for your letter of 8th December and for the xerox copies of my letters to Father | |
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| | undated/no/no (#01) | other | to Merton | I know of a place -- said the young and foolish disciple whose name was impulsive Action -- where | |
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| | undated/no/no (#02) | other | | The Reverend Arthur MacDonald Allchin (known as Donald to his friends. | |
| Biography of Arthur MacDonald |
| | undated/no/no (#03) | other | | These pages include summary-notes of the Allchin letters with the dates of the Merton letters | |
| Merton- A.M. Allchin correspondence summary notes |
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