| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1 | 1962/01/04 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter which I answer immediatel[y.] Yes, Raissa's <u>Journal</u> - | |
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| 1 | 1962/12/12 | TALS | to Merton | This will have to be sketchy, but there are a number of things to tell you. First, I want to thank | |
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| 1 | 1962/12/29 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Our mutual friend, Jacques Maritain, to conserve energy and postage asks me to deliver many messages | |
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| 1 | 1962/12/31 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This letter may or may not be completely intelligible as I have a nasty virus infection and can | |
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| 1 | 1963/03/10 | TLS[x] | to Merton | A note in haste. I had to fly back here because of my daughter's illness. She is much better now. | |
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| 1 | 1963/03/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the card and the previous letter. I am glad to hear the photos turned out nicely. | |
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| 1 | 1963/04/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The pictures arrived and they are magnificent. I do not speak of the subject, which is mediocre, | |
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| 1 | 1963/04/15 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Another brief note. I am wondering if your letter - the request for photos parallels Father Abbot's | |
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| 1 | 1963/05/09 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | A brief note to tell you that I have finally found a moment to print up the pix. They are drying | |
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| 1 | 1963/05/09 (#02) | other | | Clyde Kennard's mother | |
| [5"x7" b/w photo Griffin took of the mother of Clyde Kennard - Clyde was an African-American who tried to enroll in the all-white Mississippi Southern College but was unfairly framed by the state's Sovereignty Commission and sentenced to 7 years - after release in 1963, cancer left untreated in prison killed him] |
| 1 | 1963/05/15 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First I want to thank you for all the pictures. For all the ones you sent to the people everywhere | |
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| 1 | 1963/05/15 (#02) | other[x] | by Merton | And the children of Birmingham Walked into the story Of Grandma's teeth ("Better to love you with") | |
| [Merton sends Griffin a hand corrected manuscript of Merton's poem "And the Children of Birmingham"] |
| 1 | 1963/05/31 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter of May 28, and the most moving poem about the children of Birmingham. | |
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| 1 | 1963/06/10 | TL[x] | to Merton | P.D. East has just sent me a copy of his note to you, and it occurs to me that you may not remember | |
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| 1 | 1963/07/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for letting me know about Clyde. I offered Mass for him this morning. I am sure that his life | |
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| 1 | 1963/07/15 | TLS[x] | to Merton | In great haste. Thank you for your letter. Yes, you know now that three of the photos of you have | |
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| 1 | 1963/07/20 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Thank you for these mailings, particularly your own pieces, which mean a great deal more to me than | |
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| 1 | 1963/08/07 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I talked with Ed Keating on the phone today, and he was raving about what he called your spectacular | |
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| 1 | 1963/08/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This piece by Illtud Evans seemed to me to be excellent. I am glad he is going to be in this issue | |
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| 1 | 1963/08/30 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Am just in this afternoon from a lengthy trip. God love you for that letter and the paragraph | |
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| 1 | 1963/09/15 | TLS | to Merton | I have just returned from a few days in Mississippi and Northern Louisiana. Brought P.D. out with | |
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| 1 | 1963/09/19 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I heard the awful news from Birmingham while I was in a hospital with a cervical disk, which I hoped | |
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| 1 | 1963/10/29 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Ramparts reached me today. It is really powerful. The combination worked out very well. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/10/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Merton | I leave later in the day for more lectures, but I could not get away without thanking you for your | |
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| 1 | 1964/02/02 | HLS | to Merton | In haste. Just came in from Chicago where I was with Dick Gregory who dashed into Miss. tonight | |
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| 1 | 1964/02/07? | HNS[x] | from Merton | Good thing you did not come in January because we were on retreat and I would not have been able | |
| [no year given, but seems to be 1964 from context, see "Kreyche, Robert J." file] |
| 1 | 1964/12/04 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was good to hear from you again and above all thanks for the fantastic picture of Maritain. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/12/21 | TLS | to Merton | I finally got to make the prints you wanted, and this note is to tell you that I will make up | |
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| 1 | 1965/01/27 | HLS | to Merton | Wonderful to see you. Forgot to mention that Bob Hoyt, Editor, <u>National Catholic Reporter</u>, | |
| [Griffin writes from the Riverside Motor Inn, Lansing, Michigan] |
| 1 | 1965/02/03 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I thought I had sent you a card about this - may be something happened to it. TM. | |
| [date from postmark] |
| 1 | 1965/02/22 | TLS | to Merton | I have just read your piece in <u>Blackfriars</u> and wanted to tell you how splendid I thought it | |
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| 1 | 1965/02/26 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note - sorry to hear you had to go to hospital but I hope you get a good rest | |
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| 1 | 1965/03/30 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Good to get your letter and to hear that you are more or less resting. This is just to say you are | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/04/28? | HNS[x] | from Merton | I asked the Sister at St Louis to send you the drawing Dancer II, and I hope you will like it. | |
| [note not dated but likely referring to letter Merton sent above date to Sr. Gabriel Mary Hoare, S.L., of Webster College, St. Louis, Missouri] |
| 1 | 1965/05/04 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your note. Am delighted about the drawing and look forward eagerly to receiving it. | |
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| 1 | 1965/06/30 | TLS | to Merton | A brief note this late night of the eve of another surgery to get your reaction to a project. | |
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| 1 | 1965/07/11 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I am delighted to hear that you are getting out a Reader. Splendid. Above all I am glad that some | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/21 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for the permission to use the portrait and for the note. I was particularly taken with | |
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| 1 | 1966/03/22 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Will pray for le 4<sup>e</sup> enfant! It is now <u>my</u> turn for the hospital. Back operation | |
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| 1 | 1966/04/08 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Father Abbot has given permission for you and Jacques to visit Gethsemani and I certainly look | |
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| 1 | 1966/05/27 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I have been wondering what became of you. Glad to get your much delayed letter of May 19th which | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/03 | TLS | to Merton | What great and beautiful pages I read in <u>Life</u> from your new book. Am sending this to Jacques | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for sending the Life piece on to Jacques. I was the last man in the country | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/19 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your note which came just as I was about to write you a message from Jacques. | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/24 | TLS | to Merton | A note in haste to ask an act of charity of you. Lillian Smith is in Emory Hospital in Atlanta with | |
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| 1 | 1966/09/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Glad to hear you are established in a convenient new place. Will look forward to your visit | |
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| 1 | 1966/09/26 | TLS | to Merton | Your packet arrived at a splendid time since I am down from last Friday's cutting and have spent | |
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| 1 | 1966/11/16 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Just heard from Jacques today. Marvelous about Le Paysan and the Mauriac review and the sales. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/11/16 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | A brief note to tell you that the root negatives arrived in perfect condition from Canada this | |
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| 1 | 1966/11/20 | TLS | to Merton | In haste to tell you that I have not yet sent the contacts because I have still four more rolls | |
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| 1 | 1966/11/21 | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | I am sorry to have waited so long to answer your kind letter of September 26. But I never received | |
| [from Marie Tadié to Griffin - see "Tadié, Marie" file] |
| 1 | 1966/11/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for both letters. No rush atvall about the contact sheets, I just feared they were lost. | |
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| 1 | 1966/11/28 | TLS | to Fox, James | The enclosed letter from Marie Tadié is self-explanatory (alas, and more, revealing) and I thought | |
| [from Griffin to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani - see "Tadié, Marie" file] |
| 1 | 1966/12/07 | TLS | to Merton | A letter from Jacques today with these "messages" for you: "Si tu as l'occasion d'ecrire a Tom | |
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| 1 | 1966/12/12 (#01) | TLS | to Fox, James | Enlosed [sic] an excellent review of Tom;s [sic] book. Also it occurs to me that if you need an | |
| [from Griffin to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani - see "Tadié, Marie" file] |
| 1 | 1966/12/12 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many many thanks for the magnificent root prints. I signed them as you requested and have sent | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/12/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Only a word to tell you that the signed photos arrived back here safely and in perfect condition. | |
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| 1 | 1966/12/13 (#02) | other | | Yosuf Karsh [-] Andreas Feininger [-] Margaret Bourke-White [-] Earl Theissen [-] Todd Walker | |
| [enclosed with 1966/12/13 letter, in which Griffin states, "I am enclosing a list of photographers whose work is on permanent display in a Photography Hall of Fame in Los Angeles (Reseda High School)"] |
| 1 | 1966/12/30 | TLS | to Merton | Very briefly to bring you up to date (if I have already done so, forgive the repeat.) Joseph Cunneen | |
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| 1 | 1966/12/no? | HNS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the message from Jacques. I finally heard from Doris Dana and I think she will be | |
| [no date, but seems to reply to Griffin letter of 1966/12/07 and matches context of first visit by Doris Dana] |
| 1 | 1967/01/02 | TLS | to Merton | Here are some of the prints. As I wrote you, I will send them as I make them rather than try | |
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| 1 | 1967/01/10 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the prints of the two groups in the hermitage and of the Mass. Very fine indeed. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/01/13 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter and the mimeographed Christmas letter (which I had not seen). How nicely | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Jacques wrote the other day. He wanted me to call you on the phone about Raissa's Journal. | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/06 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter. In great, great haste to send an answer. When the Gallaghers of Bruce | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/18 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks much for the letter and the negatives which arrive safely and are now in the stage of contact | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/04/03 | TLS[x] | to Merton | In great haste. I have just been preparing a large photographic documentary on Jacques for Italian | |
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| 1 | 1967/04/05? | HNS[x] | from Merton | OK the pictures only <u>the hermitage must not be mentioned</u> - no allusion to solitary life | |
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| 1 | 1967/04/22 | TLS | to Merton | In great haste to reassure you that I sent the message to Bernard not to make any mention of any | |
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| 1 | 1967/06/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | I don't know how you are, but I am hoping you are well enough to read this and the enclosed | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/06/24 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I think you hit it very much on the head about the <u>Paysan</u>. In the difficult spots, it seems | |
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| 1 | 1967/06/24 (#02) | TALS | to Merton | I forgot to tell you that the translator called me, very unhappy about my many corrections; he said: | |
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| 1 | 1967/06/24 (#03) | TALS[c] | to Maritain, Jacques | Je te joins une lettre que je viens écrire a Tom Merton en réponse a une lettre qu'il m'a | |
| [carbon copy enclosed to Merton of a letter from Griffin to Jacques Maritain] |
| 1 | 1967/06/29 | TLS | to Merton | Just to keep you informed. A good deal has now been straightened out. Mr. Cuneen called me | |
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| 1 | 1967/07/02 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your three letters. I certainly think the best solution is for someone to go over | |
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| 1 | 1967/07/03 | TL[c] | from Merton | One word that I forgot to add to my letter of yesterday. I hope you have not written to Anne Ford | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/07/05 | TLS | to Merton | A cable from Jacques this morning asks me to come with corrected (as much as possible) manuscript | |
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| 1 | 1967/07/06 | TLS | to Merton | I have just received a cable from Jacques, which reads: THANKS FOR SPLENDID IDEA. HOPE | |
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| 1 | 1967/07/25 | TLS | to Merton | A note on the eve of my departure to ask for your prayers for this venture. Right now I am like | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/04 | TLS | to Merton | A word from here where you are so often in our thoughts. Tonight we read the letter about the death | |
| [writing from the Chateau de Kolbsheim in France while visiting Jacques Maritain] |
| 1 | 1967/08/24 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Are you back? I want to get this to you before you undergo more surgery. I hope everything went | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/08/28 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter and especially for the Hot Summer of Sixty Seven notes, which I will read | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/02 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and the enclosed pix. The one of Jacques is especially charming. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/09/09 | TLS | to Merton | Greg and I worked together and very carefully on the first roll to determine the kind of development | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/12 | TALS[x] | from Merton | God bless you and Greg. The contacts are fine, and I can see you will get marvelously sensitive | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/15 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter and the enclosed cropped contacts. This is just to let you know what your | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/17 | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed are six pictures on different papers (the numbers marked on the back) all of them #3 grade. | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/20 | TLS | to Merton | Here are contact sheets C and D. One of the photos of the beautiful wheel (D10) has a red mark | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | First, thanks very much for the advice about sales. Actually I have been contemplating only very | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/09/25 | TNS | to Merton | Thank you for the instructions and clarifications. Yes, we will return the marked contacts when | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/26 | TNS | to Merton | Rec'd copy of current MOTIVE this afternoon so mystery of the photos from Nashville is solved. | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/27 | TLS | to Merton | A note from Bonazzi this morning. He wants one of your prints for a cover for Latitudes #5 (to | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/29 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter and the check. Gregory is delighted that you are delighted. He does not | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/29 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | This check is for Roll A-- and I added a little extra because of the postage. Will take care of the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/10/01 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | In a separate package I am sending you a dummy mock-up of the January Latitudes so you | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I marked the contacts for cropping but they were too late for yesterday's mail. They'll go out, like | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/02 | TLS | to Merton | Forgive the influx. Poor Gregory is about to lose his mind and so am I. He is home today from | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/03 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Bonazzi, Robert | Gregory and I are in a dudgeon over these Merton photos. After we mocked up a first cover. | |
| [carbon copy sent to Merton - see 1967/10/03[2] for note to Merton typed on the same page] |
| 1 | 1967/10/03 (#02) | TNS | to Merton | You will probably have the prints from E&F when you receive this. I enclose a marvelous can | |
| [note to Merton typed on the same page as 1967/10/03[1] letter to Robert Bonazzi] |
| 1 | 1967/10/03 (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the two possibilities for the Latitude covers. Actually I much prefer the big stones: | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/10/03 (#04) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the two possiblities for the Latitude covers. Actually I much prefer the big stones: | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/08 | TLS | to Merton | A hasty word to tell you that Bonazzi was here, and before I told him your choice of cover, | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/13 | TLS | to Merton | Weird things - your cropped sheets of E & F, mailed there Sept. 30, postmarked Fr. Worth, Sept. | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/16 | TL[c] | from Merton | I'm glad everything is settled with Bonazzi, and happy he can use the materials. Glad too that the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/11/06 | TLS | to Merton | Your letter to Gregory this morning reminds me that I have not written to thank you for sending | |
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| 1 | 1967/12/01? | TLS[x] | from Merton | This year has gone by fast, and not without sorrows. Besides the death of Victor Hammer last summer | |
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| 1 | 1967/12/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | Just time for a brief note, to enclose this check for Greg, before I go down to concelebrate | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/12/10 | TCS | to Merton | Thanks for your wonderful personal letter and Christmas letter. The services have carried the news | |
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| 1 | 1967/12/15 | TCS | to Merton | Your pix are done and just marvelous. Greg even made you a few of these cards just for the fun | |
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| 1 | 1967/12/no? | HCS[x] | from Merton | Love and joy to all of you at Christmas. Thanks for everything, all the marvelous prints | |
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| 1 | 1968/01/05 | TAL[c] | from Merton | At last the Christmas rush is over and I can breathe again. Thanks for your good letter about the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/01/08 | TLS | to Merton | As soon as the "donor" returns from a short trip, I will contact him about the camera. What you | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Did Greg ever get a chance to look at those three rolls of film I sent at the beginning of Jan? | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just a word to thank you for the marvelous photo autographed by Jacques and you. Dan has told me | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/12 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for Greg's check which arrived today. Now, I have some business to discuss about | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/15 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter came in this morning. I think the camera idea is a very practical one and I'll also | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/27 | TL[c] | from Merton | Your letter about the camera was one of the most exciting things that ever happened. THE most | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/03/29 | TL[c] | from Merton | It is fabulous. What a joy of a thing to work with. I am sending the two first rolls and hoping | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/04/01 | TLS | to Merton | I cannot tell you how happy Greg and I are that you like the camera and lenses. That 100mm lens | |
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| 1 | 1968/04/04 | HLS | to Merton | I think of you and men like you this sleepless night. I announced Dr. King's death at my lecture | |
| [written from the Travelodge hotel in Utica, New York] |
| 1 | 1968/04/14 | TLS | to Merton | Ihave [sic] been processing my Washington and Baltimore photos and fell into such grief I could not | |
| [photocopy of one of Merton's photographs of a niche in the cloister wall of Gethsemani with a piece of art with Mary and the baby Jesus] |
| 1 | 1968/04/16 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Pix and letter arrived today a quick answer (hence the messy paper): By all means come the 26th. | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/01 | TCS | to Merton | This is a great portrait in a blow-up, certainly the best since the ones I took on my first visit. | |
| [close-up photograph of Merton by Griffin on card] |
| 1 | 1968/05/03 | TLS | to Merton | Am back in town for four days and write you late at night and in great haste. Gregory will get | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/04 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Picture is fine. Go ahead and use - I've aged a bit. Hope you are ok - sorry for walking you off | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/15 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Just leaving for New Mexico after 8 days at this fabulous convent of the Redwoods, 200 mi. north | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the contacts and especially for the marvelous blowups. I am so happy that | |
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| 1 | 1968/06/20 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks so much for the magnifying glass which arrived safely. It is certainly a great help. | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for all the new contacts-- everything arrived ok. I'd like to put in a small order | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/03 | TPCS | to Merton | Have done the special order. These are some of the most beautiful ones you have ever made. I judge | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/13 | TLS | to Merton | No, Gregory does not want to give up handling your processing, and he was distressed that you | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Happy to get your letter. I understand perfectly, and there is no hurry -- but hope to get prints | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/03 | TL[c] | from Merton | Gawd, I never saw anyone whose physical appearance was so affected by a Papal Encyclical. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/08/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The calligraphy took an awful long time to get here-- maybe two weeks or more. I am sending a note | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Really distressing about those chemicals! Fortunately I got a couple of the ones I liked best into | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/28 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many, many thanks for all the fine prints. They are more handsome than ever. I hope to use quite | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/31? | HNS[x] | from Merton | Many, many thanks for all the fine prints. They are more handsome than ever. I hope to use quite | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/no? (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Just trying to be good Catholics, Love, John | |
| [refers to enclosure] |
| 1 | 1968/08/no? (#02) | other | | <u>GRIFFIN SUPPORTS POPE'S BIRTH CONTROL STATEMENT</u> FT. WORTH, TX--- J. Griffin, | |
| [a humorous enclosure meant to look like a press release making light of the Pope Paul VI's statement against birth control - includes a photograph of an African wood carving which Griffin states is a portrait by his wife of him] |
| 1 | 1968/09/14 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Two rolls will be coming to you from out here. I think I have better ones of the Church now and they | |
| [written from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, Abiquiu, New Mexico] |
| 1 | 1968/11/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Today I am sending out a box of five films which cover most of what I have taken in India and so far | |
| [written on stationery of the Hotel Imperial, New Delhi, India] |
| 1 | 1968/12/07 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Japan airlines hit me for overweight yesterday - I hit back by moving up to 1st class (where the | |
| [written on stationery of the Oriental Hotel, Bangkok] |
| 1 | 1968/12/11 | telegram[x] | from Hart, Patrick / to John Howard Griffin | WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU OF THE DEATH OF FATHER THOMAS MERTAON [sic] IN BANGKOK | |
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| 1 | 1969/09/18 | TLS[x] | from Say, Celestine | Thank you for your letter of September 9. It was thoughtful of you to send me copies of the photo | |
| [group of priests and men and women religious identified from a group photo taken at the 1968 meeting Merton attended in Bangkok (the photograph is in the Merton Collection, B1968-12-16 / photo included: Very Rev. Maxime Thong, Prior, Cistercian Abbey of Phuoc-Sor, Thu-Duc, South Vietnam; Rev. Jean Leclercq, Abbey of Clairvaux, Luxembourg; Merton; Rt. Rev. Abbot C. P. Tholens, Secretariat, Aide a l'Implantation Monastique; Sister Marie de la Croix, Cistercian Abbey of Notre Dame de Lourdes, Seiboen, Jurenji, Japan; Rev. Paul Gordan, Secretariat, A.I.M. (Beuron, Germany); Sr. Beda Kim, Fatima Hospital, Taegu, South Korea; and Rev. Mother Rosemarie Enriquez, Prioress, Immaculate Heart of Mary Abbey, Vigan, Ilocos, Sur, Philippines] |
| 1 | 1970/07/20 | TALS[x] | from Eliasoph, Paula | My friendship with Thomas Merton was by correspondence, although I was a contemporary of his father, | |
| [see also "Eliasoph, Paula (Rubin)" file in Section A] |
| 1 | 1970/08/10 | TL[x] | from Devereux, Don | The box of 30 color slides from May 1968 represent photos taken variously in three general locations | |
| [from Don Devereux (see also Devereux file) to Br. Patrick Hart and Griffin - identifies locations of 30 color slides Merton took in May 1968 on this trip to New Mexico (possibly corresponding to 1129-1161 in Merton's photographs) including three main locations: area around Poshuuingue (Pueblo Indian village) and the Tewa World Shrine (45 miles northwest of Santa Fe); Ghost Ranch where Georgia O'Keeffe was in residence; and the Monastery of Christ in the Desert |
| 1 | 1971/07/12 | TLS[x] | from Marshall, Thomas M. | Father Merton was diagnosed as having cervical spondylosis for which an anterior cervical fusion | |
| [in Michael Mott papers from Northwestern - likely medical records requested by John Howard Griffin on a procedure on Merton's back, March 25, 1966] |
| 1 | 1971/07/13 | TLS[x] | from Gilmore, Alan | This lettter represents an attempt to record an 'anecdote' or two connection with my memories | |
| [from Fr. M. Alan Gilmore, O.C.S.O. of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 1 | 1971/08/20 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Gilmore, Alan | Thank you for your letter. I'm happy that those anecdotes will help in some way. I have looked | |
| [from Br. Benedict, O.C.S.O. of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 1 | 1971/08/20 (#02) | TL[x] | to Fox, James | A note in haste about a point concerning Sy Freedgood's last visit to Gethsemani.. | |
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| 1 | 1971/08/28 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | I received your charming note of 8/20. Yes, I have vivid recollections of Sy's visit. I remember | |
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| 1 | 1971/12/03 | TLS[x] | from Waddell, Chrysogonus | Brother Pat has passed on to me your letter of Nov. 24, with its paragraph asking about Fr. Louis | |
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| 1 | 1975/10/21 | TL[x] | to Palivic, Tom | Forgive me if I did not decipher your name correctly. Your lettter of October 19 just arrived. | |
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| 1 | 1977/11/23 | other[x] | | A brave man nears his death [-] 'People find out at the end that all of those things they believe | |
| [article about Griffin by Bruce Buursma in the November 23, 1977 issue of the <u>Louisville Courier-Journal</u>, Section C, p. 1] |
| 1 | 1977/11/no | other | | Dying Like Me [-] Thurston Smith interviews John Howard Griffin [-] John Howard Griffin is best | |
| [interview with Griffin in the November 1977 issue of <u>U.S. Catholic</u>, pp. 22-26] |
| 1 | undated/05/27 | HLS[x] | from Bamberger, John Eudes | I just got back; last evening I read your letter and was very glad to have a word from you again. | |
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| 1 | undated/no/no (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | (Please make <u>all glossy this time</u>) You'll get my letter along with this - Just wanted to use | |
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| 1 | undated/no/no (#02) | other[x] | from Merton | for John Howard Griffin with all my friendship [-] Tom. | |
| [book transferred to Sub-Section B.6 with inscription by Merton to John Howard Griffin inside <i>Cables to the Ace</i>] |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#03) | other[x] | from Merton | +for John Howard Griffin in union of prayer and concern. Thomas Merton | |
| [bound mimeograph of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" transferred to Sub-Section D.9 with inscription by Merton to John Howard Griffin] |
| 2 | 1962/12/25? | HLS[x] | from Maritain, Jacques | Bení soit votre chère et lumineuse famille, my Dearest John! | |
| [dated "Noël 1962 - letter to Griffin with a message for Merton] |
| 2 | 1964/09/04? | HLS[x] | from Maritain, Jacques | Je reçois ce matin votre lettre du 1<sup>er</sup> septembre. | |
| [reference to Merton] |
| 2 | 1965/04/21 | HLS[x] | from Maritain, Jacques | Enfin des marvelles de vous, mon très cher John! Merci de m'avoir écrit. | |
| [reference to Merton (Maritain heard that Merton was sick)] |
| 2 | 1966/02/11 | HLS[x] | from Maritain, Jacques | Votre chère et admirable lettre du 1<sup>er</sup> février m'a touché au fond du coeur. | |
| [reference to Merton] |
| 2 | 1966/08/15 | HLS[x] | from Maritain, Jacques | Comme je suis heureux qu'enfin vous alliez mieux, et que les | |
| [reference to Merton] |
| 2 | 1966/11/22 | HLS[x] | from Maritain, Jacques | Merci de tu chère lettre, du 8 et du 14. Je t'écris en hâte, | |
| [reference to Merton] |
| 2 | 1967/06/24 | TALS[x] | to Maritain, Jacques | Je te joins une lettre que je viens écrire a Tom Merton en réponse a une lettre qu'il m'a | |
| [see also carbon copy of this letter enclosed to Merton of a letter from Griffin to Jacques Maritain, Series 1] |
| 2 | 1968/12/26 | HLS[x] | from Maritain, Jacques | Merci de tout coeur de tes chères lettres, mon bien-aimé John. | |
| [reference to Merton] |
| 2 | 1970/07/18 | HLS[x] | from Maritain, Jacques | Merci de m'avois écrit. Ta lettre | |
| [reference to Merton] |
| 3 | 1963/01/26 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | It is my hope and prayer that you and your family are enjoying the graces and blessings of God. | |
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| 3 | 1963/02/05 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | I do hope and prayer that you and your family are enjoying the graces and blessings of God. | |
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| 3 | 1963/02/10? | HLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Enclosed is a little booklet you might enjoy reading. That is the way one group is trying to solve | |
| [undated but in order between February 5th and 14th letters] |
| 3 | 1963/02/14 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | I do hope and prayer that you are enjoying the graces and blessings of God. Because of the contents | |
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| 3 | 1963/04/21 | HLS[x] | from Thompson, August | I do hope and pray you and your family are enjoying the graces and blessings of the Season. | |
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| 3 | 1963/07/03 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | This is just a note to thank you and your family for the wonderful hospitality you showed me while | |
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| 3 | 1963/07/20 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | It is my hope and prayer that you and the family are still enjoying the graces and blessings of God. | |
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| 3 | 1963/07/20 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | This letter was supposed to be written last night but so many things came up that I did not get to | |
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| 3 | 1963/07/30 | TL[x] | from Thompson, August | The carbon arrived today. I have read it over and think you did a fine job on it just as I told Mr. | |
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| 3 | 1963/07/no? | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | It is my hope and prayer that you and the family are still enjoying the graces and blessings of God. | |
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| 3 | 1963/08/08 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Thanks for your call of yesterday. This is all proving very interesting. Tomorrow I will return home | |
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| 3 | 1963/08/17 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | Enclosed is the letter I promised I would send. I also enclosed a copy of the letter I sent | |
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| 3 | 1963/09/05 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Thank you sincerely for your letters of August 30th. I was glad you finally got home again. | |
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| 3 | 1963/09/10 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Thank you sincerely for your letter and also the two from Gregory. Gee, I felt good at his | |
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| 3 | 1963/10/02 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Well, it looks as if I will be in Cincinatti [sic] this week coming. Are you going to be up that way | |
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| 3 | 1963/10/07 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | In about an hour I will leave for the air-port in route to Cincinnati. Before I left I thought I | |
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| 3 | 1963/11/26 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | I was a little taken back by the letter of the Bishop to NCWC. I thought about it as I told you | |
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| 3 | 1963/12/07 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | I am sorry I did not explain myself a little more in my last letter. I was referring to what you | |
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| 3 | 1964/02/05 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | Your most welcome letter arrived today. It was so good to hear from you. I had planned to write you | |
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| 3 | 1964/02/10 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Gee, it has been more than a month since I heard from you and also wrote to you. Your last letter | |
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| 3 | 1964/02/10 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | I just tried to get you at home tonight and found that you did not come in as yet. I would guess | |
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| 3 | 1964/05/13 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | I can well imagine you are tired this time. How did the promotion in New York go? | |
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| 3 | 1964/10/20 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Today I received a letter from Brad, and he told me you were to come home on the 25th. | |
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| 3 | 1964/11/04 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | I just talked to Ed Keating this afternoon and he told me he thought you would be home at this time. | |
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| 3 | 1964/12/30 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Man I have been receiving so many visitors since the week began that I don't know what is going on. | |
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| 3 | 1965/01/23 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Thank you so much for the call last night. I had planned to write you and tell you what I wanted | |
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| 3 | 1965/03/01 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Gee, it has been a long time since I have written you and even talked with you. I really think | |
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| 3 | 1965/03/01 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Long time since I have heard from you and am wondering how you are doing now. | |
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| 3 | 1965/04/08 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | The fact that I did not hear from you I would hope is due to the fact that you got very busy and not | |
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| 3 | 1965/05/19 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Well, Fr. Bank came to see me and we had a most enjoyable time short though it was. | |
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| 3 | 1965/06/10 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | See youare [sic] the center of controversy in Milwaukee again. Why can't you stay out of trouble? | |
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| 3 | 1965/06/21 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Thank you so very much for the letter which arrived today. The books all got here before the letter. | |
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| 3 | 1965/08/02 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | I was so very happy that the surgery went well the day before you wrote. Be quite sure I pray that | |
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| 3 | 1965/08/19 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | Bradford sent me the form to sign today. I thought I would rush it back to you and type a note also. | |
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| 3 | 1965/08/25 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | Here I am at St. Gregory in Milwaukee. Gee, it is something trying to get accustomed to this | |
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| 3 | 1965/09/27 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | I know I promised you that this letter was going to be in your hands a long time ago. | |
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| 3 | 1966/05/03 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Thank you so very much for your letter which I received yesterday. I was sorry to hear that | |
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| 3 | 1967/08/15 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Just got your letter today telling me that you had said a few things to Jac and the Canon. | |
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| 3 | 1967/11/09 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Thank you so much for your letter and also for answering my last phone call. I found out a day | |
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| 3 | 1968/01/02 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | A very happy and blessed New Year to you and the family. Hope all goes well with you this time | |
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| 3 | 1968/09/12 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Gee, you will never know how happy I was to hear your voice and that it sounded so strong. | |
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| 3 | 1969/01/10 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Well, finally, here is the authentic copy! Thank you most sincerely for your suggestions as to how I | |
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| 3 | 1969/03/31 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | I have been having those carbons around for a few days and thought that I would be able to write you | |
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| 3 | 1969/04/08 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | I am going away to the Trappist and then I will not have to continually write letters! There I will | |
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| 3 | 1969/04/15 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | I suppose Piedy must have told you I called the other night. I wanted to see if you thought there | |
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| 3 | 1969/04/no? | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | Dear Relatives and Friends: Though this letter is late for Easter I did want you to know that I was | |
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| 3 | 1969/05/18 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Enclosed are the letter I told you I was going to send you carbonsof [sic]. I am not pleased with | |
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| 3 | 1969/12/11 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | Phoned last night to find out you are still in Kentucky. Know you must have enjoyed it up there | |
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| 3 | 1970/04/08 | TLS[x] | from Thompson, August | I received your letter today and also the picture of the two of us. I look so very serious. | |
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| 3 | 1980/07/28 | TALS[x] | from Thompson, August | John you do not realize just how great it was to see you and the family the other day. I hope also | |
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| 4 | 1963/01/20 | TL[x] | to Thompson, August | I am sorry I had to leave out of Houston so early the morning after the lecture - sorry mostly | |
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| 4 | 1963/01/31 | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | I am just in from Chicago and found your splendid letter here. Thank you with all my heart. | |
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| 4 | 1963/05/01 | TL[x] | to Thompson, August | Thank you for your letter. The date is fine. I will come to Ferriday either Sunday evening or Monday | |
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| 4 | 1963/07/08 | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | Thank you for the additional material. You will know before you get this why my material is not | |
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| 4 | 1963/07/28 | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | Here is the material you requested me to return: 1) The Race Relations Guide. 2) The Bishop Gerow | |
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| 4 | 1963/08/09 | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | This is written even as you drive back to your parish. Thank you so much for the copy of His | |
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| 4 | 1963/08/30 (#01) | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | Then [sic] enclosed is for an "official" answer, and I spread it on a bit, but it is all true, | |
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| 4 | 1963/08/30 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | Thank you for your good letter, which I must answer in great haste, since Ihave [sic] only this | |
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| 4 | 1963/09/06 | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | I have sent your suggestions along to Ed Keating and I know he will incorporate them into | |
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| 4 | 1963/09/07 | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | Last night we air-mailed you Gregory's typed, hand-sined letter and on the way home from the post- | |
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| 4 | 1965/09/03 | TLS[x] | to Thompson, August | Thank you for your good letter and its enclosures. I must answer in great haste since I leave in | |
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