Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1966/10/21 | telegram | from Fox, James / to Jacques Maritain | DORA COME ANYTIME AFTER NOV 2ND. PLEASE NOTIFY EXACT TIME OF ARRIVAL IN LOUISVILLE | |
| [message from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani, to Jacques Maritain to notify Doris Dana about arrangements to visit Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 1966/11/no? | TL[c] | to Merton | I am profoundly grateful to you and Abbot James for your telegram which you sent to Jacques Maritain | |
| [no date on letter - sent between October telegram from Fox and Dana's letter to Merton of December 7] |
| 1966/12/07 | TL[c] | to Merton | Please forgive me my silence. Since I returned from Princeton I found myself in a calamitous | |
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| 1966/12/14 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Forgive my delay. Your letter itself reached me with some delay and as to your previous note | |
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| 1966/12/14 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Forgive my delay. Your letter itself reached me with some delay and as to your previous note | |
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| 1967/01/04? | TNS | from Gannon, Leone | Your room is No.2 and it is open for you. Father Louise [sic] said he would see you at 9:30 | |
| [from Leone Gannon, who worked in Gethsemani Abbey's guesthouse] |
| 1967/01/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I cannot find the words to express to you how much my visit with you meant and always will mean | |
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| 1967/01/13 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | I cannot find the words to express to you how much my visit with you meant and always will mean | |
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| 1967/01/13 (#03) | TL[c] | to Montalva, Eduardo Frei | First of all I want to tell you how glad I am that you are coming to visit the United States, | |
| [from Dana to Eduardo Frei Montalva, President of Chile] |
| 1967/01/13 (#04) | TL[c] | to Fox, James | I want to express my deepest thanks to you once again for having made it possible for me to visit | |
| [from Dana to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 1967/01/20 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | The yeast and vitamins arrived the other day, and last evening Ishi came. I am very grateful | |
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| 1967/01/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | The yeast and vitamins arrived the other day, and last evening Ishi came. I am very grateful | |
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| 1967/01/23 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Your letter reached me only after all the other things, and that is why I did not mention it | |
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| 1967/01/23 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your letter reached me only after all the other things, and that is why I did not mention it | |
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| 1967/01/23 (#03) | HNS | from Merton | I forgot to enclose these with my letter this morning. I don't know what to say about my possibly | |
| [sent in large envelope and reference to sending something, but enclosure not extant] responds to possibility of serving as executor for Gabriela Mistral's estate, stating it would likely not be a good idea but open to discussion |
| 1967/01/31 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | First of all I want to thank you for the enormous surprise package. The chocolates will be greatly | |
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| 1967/01/31 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | First of all I want to thank you for the enormous surprise package. The chocolates will be greatly | |
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| 1967/01/no? | telegram | to Merton | ARRIVING FIRST FLIGHT OBTAINABLE MORNING JANUARY 4TH 9:54 AM stop DRIVING IMMEDIATELY TO ABBEY | |
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| 1967/03/05 | HCS | from Merton | I thought you would like to see this piece on Ishi I wrote for the Catholic Worker. | |
| [card from Merton in a larger gray envelope in which was enclosed his essay, "Ishi Means Man" (not extant)] |
| 1967/04/18 | HPCS | to Merton | On my way to Madrid from Paris, I stopped off to see many of the towns you lived in - and am sending | |
| visiting Prades, France / visiting Jacques [Maritain] in Toulouse / going to Madrid |
| 1967/05/18 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Many thanks for the Lanternari book which just arrived. You must have picked up some of my thought | |
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| 1967/05/18 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the Lanternari book which just arrived. You must have picked up some of my thought | |
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| 1967/10/08 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I have been feeling very guilty about my long silence and do ask for forgiveness. There are many | |
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| 1967/10/08 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Merton | I have been feeling very guilty about my long silence and do ask for forgiveness. There are many | |
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| 1967/10/11 | HLS | from Merton | I was very happy to hear from you and would be even more happy to see you soon. | |
| discussing dates for Dana to visit Gethsemani in late October of 1967 / suggests they go together to Lexington to hear music composed by John Jacob Niles from Merton's poems, which he hears are "rather unusual" |
| 1967/11/25 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Here is a copy of the study I was vaguely talking about in the car when you were here. I have | |
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| 1967/11/25 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is a copy of the study I was vaguely talking about in the car when you were here. I have | |
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| 1967/11/29 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for sending me the signed books which I much appreciated and thanks also for the magazines | |
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| 1967/11/29 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | Thank you for sending me the signed books which I much appreciated and thanks also for the magazines | |
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| 1967/12/28 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Many things to thank you for. The Stephens book is beautiful, and I am glad at the good news | |
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| 1967/12/28 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many things to thank you for. The Stephens book is beautiful, and I am glad at the good news | |
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| 1968/07/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton to Friends | For various reasons I was quite busy during May and June, and so for July and part of August I am | Yes |
| [labeled "MIDSUMMER LETTER 1968" - circular letter sent to his friends] |
| 1968/12/18 | HLS | from Griffin, John Howard | My window overlooks the mound of red clay where Tom was buried last evening. Typically, he was late | |
| Merton and Dana's mutual friend John Howard Griffin describes the delayed arrival of his body from Bangkok, stating Merton was "Typically, he was late for his own funeral" |
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