| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1958/12/25? | HCS | from Merton | This is a very late "Christmas" card to thank you for your kind letter and the Mass stipend which | |
| ["Christmas Card 1958" - verso: "From a woodcut by Gerhard Marcks for the hand-press edition of Thomas Merton's 'The Tower of Babel,' printed for New Directions by R. von Sichowsky in Hamburg, Germany."] |
| | 1959/04/18 | HNS | from Merton | My Masses today and tomorrow are for your intention. God bless you - I wish you many graces. | |
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| | 1961/06/17 | TLS | from Kelty, Matthew (for Merton) / to Ethel Burns | A note of thanks from Father Louis for your letter and also for your Mass offering. If this answer | |
| [from Fr. Matthew Kelty, sent on behalf of Merton to Ethel Burns] |
| | 1963/02/13 | TLS | from from Basil, Br., O.C.S.O. / to Ethel Burns | Thank you for your letter. Thank you also for your kind donation, which of course Father | |
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| | 1964/04/04 | HNS | from Merton | Bless you and thanks for remembering me. I am better now - pretty busy too. May our bond give you | |
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| | 1965/01/03 | TNS | from Merton | Thanks again and best wishes for the New Year. I hope all things go well with you. Do not worry | |
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| | 1966/02/07 | HPCS | from Merton | Thanks for your kind remembrance, and I hope you will <u>keep well</u>. The weather is getting | |
| [verso: Front Guest Garden at Gethsemani Abbey] |
| | 1966/08/22 | HLS | to Merton | Your feast day will soon be here and I want to wish you a happy one. A little offering is enclosed, | |
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| | 1966/08/30 | HNS | from Merton | Many thanks for your kind letter and gift. No, I did not know Mark Van Doren had mentioned me in | |
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| | 1967/08/18 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very | |
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| | 1967/08/18 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very | |
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| | 1968/01/01 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Christmas mail was an avalanche this year: it always is, but more so in 1967. News from friends | |
| [Signature xeroxed or mimeographed, but there is an original handwritten note by Merton to Burns: "Ethel- I'll be saying Mass for priest and will remember you in it. Joy and peace in the Lord TM." Transferred from Sub-Section D.2 (Mimeographs) on 2009/July/28] |
| | 1970/10/23 | HLS | to Center from Burns, Ethel | Thank you for your letter regarding Fr Merton. Father, his correspondence with me was brief, some | |
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| | 1970/11/10 | TL[x] | from Center to Burns, Ethel | Thank you for your letter of October 23. More and more people are replying to the form letter we | |
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| | 1970/11/21 | HLS | to Center from Burns, Ethel | I hope these articles will be of some use to you - some of them are deteriorating and when I | |
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| | undated/08/23 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your remembrance and gift. I shall pray for you especially along with all my friends on | |
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| | undated/12/25? | HCS | from Merton | Thanks for the gift and clipping. I hope you are well these days. I have had a bad back but am | |
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| | undated/no/no (#01) | TNS | from Merton | I tried to reach you with this at 181st Street last June when you sent the Masses but there was | |
| [verso: "Ars Liturgica . NR.7989 . Maria Laach . Germania"] |
| | undated/no/no (#02) | HLS | from Merton | Let nothing disturb you! Trust and peace. God is always near. Thanks for remembering my birthday | |
| [verso: "Statue of St. Benedict (by Peter Watts) Abbey of Gethsemani, Ky."] |
| | undated/no/no (#03) | HLS | from Merton | Thanks again for your kindness. I do keep you in my prayers. Life is not as easy and pleasant as | |
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| | undated/no/no (#04) | HNS[x] | from Merton | with gratitude and best wishes for the New Year. You will certainly be in my Masses all year. | |
| [see Sub-Section D.9 for the original on the cover of an offprint of "The Pasternak Affair in Perspective," a reprint from <u>Thought</u> 34.135 (Winter 1959-1960)] |
| | undated/no/no (#05) | HNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your very interesting letter and the offering! I bet Columbia is amazing now. This | |
| [see Sub-Section D.9 for the original on the title page of a mimeograph of preface to the Japanese edition of <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i>] |
| | undated/no/no (#06) | HNS[x] | from Merton | + for Ethel Burns with prayers and good wishes in Xt [-] Thomas Merton | |
| [see Sub-Section B.6 for the original signature and inscription in the book <i>Life and Holiness</i>] |
| | undated/no/no (#07) | HNS[x] | from Merton | + to Ethel M. Burns - with all good wishes and prayers and with deep gratitude for your kindness. | |
| [see Sub-Section B.6 for the original signature and inscription in the book <i>Thoughts in Solitude</i>] |
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