| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1962/08/01 | TAL[c] | to Merton | Thank you very much for writing your latest book "Disputed Questions" to help people, like me, | |
| [handwritten note specifies that the letter was sent in October - Crane sends his articles "Law and Strategy in Space" and "Soviet Attitude Toward International Space Law"] |
| | 1962/10/26 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your kindness in sending the interesting offprints of your articles on "Law and Strategy | |
| international law, the United Nations, and the role of the Soviets or the US in trying to impose its own policies as international law / Cuban nuclear missile crisis |
| | 1963/07/05 | TAL[x] | to Merton | Thank you for your wise words of comment on the two articles I sent you last year on Soviet | |
| [sends his article from <i>Orbis</i>, entitled "Moral Guidelines for the American Strategy Debate"] differing viewpoint to participants in <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> - spiritual orientation of Pacem in Terris |
| | 1964/05/02 | TL[c] | to Merton | As an amateur strategist and would-be specialist in the moral-theological framework of strategic | |
| sending "40 page analysis of Soviet-U.S. negotiations in the U.N. disarmament and space committees" and speech entitled "Moral Guidelines for the American Strategy Debate" / recommending Merton for the Conway Testimonial Committee (Father Edward A. Conway, S.J.) |
| | 1964/05/21 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and for the enclosed documents, the very interesting material | |
| morality of total war - incompatibility with Catholic idea of just war / Soviet political and military strategy / thinks Crane's institute is too narrowly centered on strategy to be free to propose meaningful moral principles in keeping to pragmatic responses to Soviet strategy / Pacem in Terris and international law |
| | 1964/05/21 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and for the enclosed documents, the very interesting material | |
| morality of total war - incompatibility with Catholic idea of just war / Soviet political and military strategy / thinks Crane's institute is too narrowly centered on strategy to be free to propose meaningful moral principles in keeping to pragmatic responses to Soviet strategy / Pacem in Terris and international law |
| | 1964/11/09 | TALS | to Merton | In response to your last letter, which I do not presently have at hand, I would like to emphasize | |
| Crane's plans to write a book, entitled <i>The Management and Resolution of Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Competing Strategies</i> |
| | 1964/12/14 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Your letter of November 9th and the two articles reached me safely. If I have not replied sooner, | |
| responses to Crane's book in light of modern nuclear missile technology and the Second Vatican Council's Schema 13 |
| | 1964/12/14 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your letter of November 9th and the two articles reached me safely. If I have not replied sooner, | |
| responses to Crane's book in light of modern nuclear missile technology and the Second Vatican Council's Schema 13 |
| | 1965/01/28 | TAL[x] | to Merton | Thank you very much for the copy of your book and your paper for the chapter meeting. | |
| Dean Rusk and the "new isolationism" - Communist successes causing retreat into "fortress America" |
| | 1965/03/01 | HLS | to Merton | After reading the rest of your book, the Seeds of Destruction, I see that you have already answered | |
| <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> / Crane's days in a Communist prison and his conversion to Catholicism |
| | 1965/03/03 | TL[x] | to Merton | Just a note to follow-up my last letter. Enclosed is a copy of an article by Eric Voegelin | |
| [sending his memorandum to Admiral Burke advocating a war of liberation in Vietnam and his article on "The Gnostic Mass Movements of Our Time"] Professor Voegelin |
| | 1965/03/09 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and the two most interesting enclosures. I will pass over the Voegelin | |
| Vietnam War - opposition on ethical principles and the oversimplification of the situation on the part of US policy makers / support for Pope's position in advocating negotiation - thinks Vietnam could be "one of the bloodiest, dirtiest, filthiest pieces of savagery man has yet perpetrated" |
| | 1965/03/09 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and the two most interesting enclosures. I will pass over the Voegelin | |
| Vietnam War - opposition on ethical principles and the oversimplification of the situation on the part of US policy makers / support for Pope's position in advocating negotiation - thinks Vietnam could be "one of the bloodiest, dirtiest, filthiest pieces of savagery man has yet perpetrated" |
| | 1965/03/24 | TL[c] | to Merton | Your great concern about my proposal for a national liberation war in Vietnam I think may have | |
| thinks Merton misunderstood "proposal for a national liberation war in Vietnam" - advocates a strictly guerrilla war / encloses talk delivered to Republican Party in Northern Virginia - parts on Civil Rights might be misinterpreted because he tries not to offend segregationalists in the party |
| | 1967/09/01 | TLS | to Merton | Two and a half years ago I sent you a memo of mine condemning the American military approach | |
| admits that Merton was right about Vietnam War / similar situation in Nagaland with the Nagas of India |
| | 1967/10/03 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | It was good to hear from you again and I hope you forgive my delay in replying. You can imagine how | |
| the Nagas people - connection to American Baptists / political activity and prayer / involvement in Asia - Vietnam |
| | 1967/10/03 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | It was good to hear from you again and I hope you forgive my delay in replying. You can imagine how | |
| the Nagas people - connection to American Baptists / political activity and prayer / involvement in Asia - Vietnam |
| | 1973/05/23 | TALS | from Crane, Robert / to Flavian Burns | Some time ago the compiler of Thomas Merton's memorabilia asked me to send him the letters that | |
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| | 1973/10/16 | TL[c] | from Center to Crane, Robert | Let me introduce myself to you as one of the three Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust, and the one | |
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| | 1973/12/30 | TLS | to Center from Crane, Robert | Again your letter concerning Thomas Merton's estate ended up at the bottom of my in-box, | |
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