| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1961/10/30 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thank you for your good letter of October 25. I am glad Dorothy Day and the CW got in touch with | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #2] |
| | 1961/10/30 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you for your good letter of October 25. I am glad Dorothy Day and the CW got in touch with | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #2] |
| | 1961/10/30 (#03) | transcript | from Merton | Thank you for your good letter of October 25. I am glad Dorothy Day and the CW got in touch with | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #2 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1961/11/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | I enclose the most recenter PAX Bulletin. You may keep it. If it isn't the one you want let me know | |
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| | 1961/11/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks very much for the Pax Bulletin. It was very welcome and has been eagerly read by several | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First, thank you for all the books and articles which have arrived. I am reading them with great, | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | I have been away for two weeks. Therefore, excuse the delay. <u>Red or Dead</u> is excellent. | |
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| | 1961/12/02 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I will be glad to get to know the FOR better. I had never heard of it, I must confess. | Yes |
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| | 1962/01/03 | TL[x] | to Merton | I was discussing your new book with Professor Douglas Steere of Haverford College in Pennsylvania | |
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| | 1962/02/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | The Metzger piece you did is praiseworthy and deserves much gratitude from those of us who have | |
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| | 1962/02/15 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you for the tearsheets of Red or Dead. I assume you don't want me to return them. | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #38] |
| | 1962/02/15 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Thank you for the tearsheets of Red or Dead. I assume you don't want me to return them. | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #38 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1962/05/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am just about a month behind with mail. It is not quite as hectic here as there, but it can be | Yes |
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| | 1962/05/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the little slip about using my name for the China project. Notice that I am saying nothing | Yes |
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| | 1962/06/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | Let me say first that Dan Berrigan's retreat with twelve Protestant ministers at the Benedictine | |
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| | 1962/08/08 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Fr. McDole is here. I am glad you wrote, as the letter reached me Monday. I had forgotten about | Yes |
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| | 1962/08/08 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Fr. McDole is here. I am glad you wrote, as the letter reached me Monday. I had forgotten about | Yes |
| [William Shannon's transcript - photocopy of original letter is faded] |
| | 1962/09/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | Excuse my silence but I have been romping through the sweet old streets of Italy. | |
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| | 1962/09/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter. I am glad to hear you are back from Europe and that you want to come | Yes |
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| | 1962/11/27 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | Excuse the beveity of this note but I am in the hospital for gall bladder operation. All is well, | |
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| | 1962/11/27 (#02) | TL[x] | to Goss-Mayr, Hildegard | I have seldome been moved by a letter as much as I was by yours which came recently. | |
| [to Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr] |
| | 1962/12/09 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I was very sorry to hear, from Margaret Von Selle, that you were still in the hospital, or again | Yes |
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| | 1962/12/09 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was very sorry to hear, from Margaret Von Selle, that you were still in the hospital, or again | Yes |
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| | 1963/04/09 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I just wrote to Glenn Smiley and gave him a message for you, but I might as well send along a copy | Yes |
| [encloses letter of the same date to Paul Peachey] |
| | 1963/04/09 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton to Paul Peachey | Thanks for your letter and for the reply to my question. I have left the quote as it stands in the | Yes |
| [encloses with letter of the same date to Heidbrink - annotation is by Heidbrink and notes that Peachey is a "Mennonite scholar who helped to arrange the retreat at M's hermitage with Muste etc."] |
| | 1963/04/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | A word to say that Jim Forest, Hermine Evans and I have about given up on PAX. I have always been | |
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| | 1963/05/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | A brief letter: Paul Peachey and I are working with a group of Catholic scholars as we are trying | |
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| | 1963/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Since I have formally been forbidden to write on the subject of nuclear war, it would be unwise | Yes |
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| | 1963/05/24 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for your note.Don't bother to reply to this one. I am grateful for the name of James Douglass | |
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| | 1963/06/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | The superb pictures came and also the Fenelon and Zen pieces. I must quickly thank you for them. | |
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| | 1963/09/09 | TAL[x] | to Merton | Excuse this brief note but there has dawned on me the necessity of going further into our life | |
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| | 1963/09/14 (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | I think for the moment that would be too big a gang. We could not handle so many. | |
| [written from the hospital] |
| | 1963/09/14 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I think for the moment that would be too big a gang. We could not handle so many. | |
| [William Shannon's transcript - photocopy of original letter is faded] |
| | 1963/10/15 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the prayers, which I appreciate. About thekind [sic] of group that | Yes |
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| | 1963/10/15 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the prayers, which I appreciate. About thekind [sic] of group that | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/23 (#01) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the material on Latin America. I am sorry to hear you are ill. Take care of yourself. | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/23 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for the material on Latin America. I am sorry to hear you are ill. Take care of yourself. | Yes |
| [William Shannon's transcript - photocopy of original letter is faded] |
| | 1964/03/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | I must reply to the questions you raised in the previous letter regarding Thomas Ritt. The poor | |
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| | 1964/03/11 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the information about T. Ritt. I know he is having a very hard time and my impression | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/11 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the information about T. Ritt. I know he is having a very hard time and my impression | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for your letter. Lochman was moved, too, by the visit. I enclose I.F. Stone's (Jewish | |
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| | 1964/05/09 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | I have your letter of April 29th here, and the memo about PD East, for which thanks. He was here, | Yes |
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| | 1964/05/09 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have your letter of April 29th here, and the memo about PD East, for which thanks. He was here, | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/14 | TAL[c] | from Merton | How are you? And where are you? I thought I had better drop you a line and find out where things | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/17 | TALS | to Merton | I am eleven years married today. At twenty five I would not have thought for a moment that such joy | |
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| | 1964/09/19 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the very good letter. Yes, I will be thinking about all those things. The great thing | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the very good letter. Yes, I will be thinking about all those things. The great thing | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/26 | HCS | to Merton | Dan cannot come earlier than Nov. 18. I'm in England Nov. 16-28. Rat! I've just received my | |
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| | 1964/10/29 | TALS | to Merton | Things are shaping up for the wake-in-preparation at Trappist with these key people from the peace | |
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| | 1964/10/no? | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your card. I think the best thing would be to plan on the group coming Nov. 18-20, | Yes |
| [undated] |
| | 1964/11/26 | TL[c] | from Merton | By now you may have heard reports from others of the retreat last week. I think we all felt it was | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/01 | HLS[x] | from Nelson, John Oliver "Jack" | Nary another day must go by without my 1) saluting you on what I hear of your operation and its | |
| Jack Nelson thanks Heidbrink for "that amazing Thomas Merton experience" (retreat at Gethsemani, "The Spiritual Roots of Protest") |
| | 1965/01/15 | TALS | to Merton | Excuse this typing business. It will probably turn out like an ancient scratch sheet. But everyone | |
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| | 1965/01/22 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was very good to have your special delivery letter, first because it give me news that you are | Yes |
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| | 1965/01/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for writing. I understand your point. Dan will consider doing it, I think. Hope so! | |
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| | 1965/04/30 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I just got your note about Jean and Hidegarde [sic], and was planning in any case to answer your | Yes |
| [Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr] |
| | 1965/04/30 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I just got your note about Jean and Hidegarde [sic], and was planning in any case to answer your | Yes |
| [handwritten postscript not in published letter or on carbon] A.J. Muste / Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr |
| | 1965/05/16 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is a first draft of a letter I am hoping to send off to Paul VI tomorrow. I was shocked but not | |
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| | 1965/06/16 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the card. You can certainly have the Simone Weil essay to print, though I presume | Yes |
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| | 1965/06/16 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the card. You can certainly have the Simone Weil essay to print, though I presume | Yes |
| [handwritten postscript not in published letter or on carbon] |
| | 1965/07/25 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have been waiting for a chance to make some thoughtful comment on your excellent notes on the Just | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | Jim Forest shared your letter with me today. I am merely writing for Jim's sake, I guess, rather | |
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| | 1965/11/20 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Yesterday I got very good letters from Dan and Jim and answered them immediately. Today I received | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/20 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yesterday I got very good letters from Dan and Jim and answered them immediately. Today I received | Yes |
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| | 1965/12/04 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | First, thanks for your note and the enclosures. All were helpful. I owe you (and here you | Yes |
| [see Section E.1 of the classification (Manuscript Essays) under the title "Concerning the Catholic Peace Fellowship" - annotated carbon copy of this letter is included in file for this unpublished essay - also included are letters of December 3 and 5 from Merton to Jim Forest and Tom Cornell (respectively)] |
| | 1965/12/04 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | First, thanks for your note and the enclosures. All were helpful. I owe you (and here you | Yes |
| [see Section E.1 of the classification (Manuscript Essays) under the title "Concerning the Catholic Peace Fellowship" - annotated carbon copy of this letter is included in file for this unpublished essay - also included are letters of December 3 and 5 from Merton to Jim Forest and Tom Cornell (respectively)] |
| | 1965/12/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for writing. I understand your point. Dan will consider doing it, I think. Hope so! | |
| [seems to be missing a page or pages of the letter] |
| | 1966/01/26 | other[x] | | THOMAS MERTON IN SECLUSION: MONK PLANS TO LIMIT WRITING by Religious News Service (1-26-66) | |
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| | 1966/05/20 (#01) | telegram | to Merton | UNEXPECTED ARRIVAL U S A #3 BUDDIST [sic] LEADER FROM VIETNAM HE AND I IN LOUISVILLE | |
| [Thich Nhat Hanh] |
| | 1966/05/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your telegram arrived today and though I am not able to give an absolutely definite answer, | Yes |
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| | 1966/05/20 (#03) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your telegram arrived today and though I am not able to give an absolutely definite answer, | Yes |
| [many notes by Heidbrink on the letter] |
| | 1966/05/30 (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here is the corrected text. I find it is my last available copy, but I can get more run off. | Yes |
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| | 1966/05/30 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Here is the corrected text. I find it is my last available copy, but I can get more run off. | Yes |
| [William Shannon's transcript - photocopy of original letter is faded] |
| | 1966/06/01 (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | My face is red like this pen. Proofs for "Blessed Are the Meek" just came in. I forgot entirely | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/01 (#02) | HNS[x] | from Merton | My face is red like this pen. Proofs for "Blessed Are the Meek" just came in. I forgot entirely | Yes |
| [William Shannon's transcript - photocopy of original letter is faded] |
| | 1966/06/07 | TCS | to Merton | You are to send me the corrected copy of "Blessed are the meek". You gave Nhat an uncorrected copy. | |
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| | 1966/06/13 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have your card of the 7th. Sent the corrected copy of Blessed Are the Meek some time before that, | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/13 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton to John Heidbrink and others | A STATEMENT concerning Thich Nhat Hanh. by Thomas Merton. This is not a political statement. | |
| [written 1966/05/29 - enclosed with 1966/06/13 letter to Heidbrink] |
| | 1966/06/22 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for the "goodies". <u>Chinese Thought</u> lights a flame. <u>Humanism</u> and the | |
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| | 1966/06/26 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter: I think the idea of translating Nhat's little book on Buddhism is a good one | Yes |
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| | 1966/06/26 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter: I think the idea of translating Nhat's little book on Buddhism is a good one | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/13 | TLS | to Merton | I am returning the photos. Please excuse my tardiness. I am pretty well sure now of being able | |
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| | 1966/07/15 | TCS[x] | from Merton | I thought you would be interested in this piece. I have sent it to Cross Currents, but have no idea | Yes |
| [Merton sends "Buddhism and the Modern World" / also copy of first page of essay with a handwritten note by Merton] |
| | 1966/07/21 | HCS | to Merton | Thanks for writing and for the Buddhist piece. I've not read yet. If you are not going to send | |
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| | 1966/08/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Did I answer your card and send more Buddhist pieces? Probably not yet. Here are a few more. | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/02 (#01) | HNS | to Merton | I send this on since it is the most recent news we have. Hassler leaves Sunday to join Nhat again | |
| [handwritten note on photocopy of a letter from Thich Nhat Hanh - see next record] |
| | 1966/08/02 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Nhât Hanh, Thich / to Ray [?] | Thank you so much for your letters and for what you have been doing for us. I just returned from | |
| [photocopy of a handwritten letter from Thich Nhat Hanh, address to "Ray" - see previous record for note from John Heidbrink to Merton] |
| | 1966/08/10 | HLS | to Merton | I've read twice the piece you wrote on Buddhism and Social awakening. Thanks for doing it | |
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| | 1967/03/05 | TL[c] | from Merton | Glad to have you come by yourself, or with just one or two others. I don't relish the large group | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/22 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your real good letter of the 1st. I was especially interested to hear something about | Yes |
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| | 1983/10/24 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William | I hope you don't mind my calling you "John." After reading your name so often in the other | |
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| | 1983/10/24 (#02) | other | | Heidbrink to Merton [-] May 20, 1966 H to M - telegram [-] Unexpected arrival USA Buddhist leader | |
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| | 1984/02/17 (#01) | HLS | to Shannon, William | Finally I've photocopied the Tom letters for your project. I've made available only those which | |
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| | 1984/02/17 (#02) | HNS | to Shannon, William | Pls. ignore my scribble on the letters - they unfortunately reproduced and do not function as any | |
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| | 1984/02/27 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William | It was a delight for me to receive the Merton letters you sent. Since I have been working on the | |
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| | 1984/03/10 | HLS | to Shannon, William | Not convinced at all by your letter; and neither am I angered. It's best a part of Merton floats | |
| [verso of letter is photocopy of a typescript for Merton's poem from <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i>, "A Dream at Arles on the Night of the Mistral"] |
| | undated/no/no | HLS | to Merton | pictures not ready yet - Here is one way your great statement was used - | |
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