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The letters in this group from Merton to Ann Skakel accompanied three manuscripts: Silence in Heaven, The Last of the Fathers: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and the Encyclical Letter, Doctor Mellifluus, and Conference Notes on St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Some are original signed copies by Merton and mostly concern the handling and preparation of the manuscripts for publication.
Ann Skakel, wife of George Skakel, was the mother of Robert F. Kennedy's widow Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Ann Skakel and her husband George died in a plane crash in 1955.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also "Kennedy, Ethel (Skakel)" file.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1949/09/03 |
TL from Merton to Daniel Walsh |
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[partial (faded) scan from web auction - not original - see 2004/05/27 letter]
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1951/09/10 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Dan Walsh tells me you are willing to add to all your other kindnesses to us the work |
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[partial scan from web auction (full page one and very little of second page) - not original - see 2004/05/27 letter]
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1951/09/25 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Many thanks for your very kind letter saying you would type the notes yourself and mimeograph |
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[partial scan from web auction (full page one and very little of second page) - not original - see 2004/05/27 letter]
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1951/10/15 |
TLS from Merton |
You must wonder if the birds have flown away with me or something. Anyway, here are the last |
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[transferred from Ann Skakel papers, Sub-Section H.16] manuscript for The Ascent to Truth
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1953/02/05 |
TLS[x] from Walsh, Daniel |
I just returned from a luncheon date with Bob Giroux - we celebrated the publication of |
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[full page scan from web auction - not original - see 2004/05/27 letter]
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1953/10/11 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Again I am deeply appreciative to you for sending and autographing the book "St. Bernard |
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[full page scan from web auction - not original - see 2004/05/27 letter]
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1953/10/19 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Your ears must |
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[partial scan from web auction - not original - see 2004/05/27 letter]
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1953/10/21 |
TLS from Merton |
To my confusion I discover that I forgot one of the conferences in the series I sent you the other |
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"Conferences on St. Bernard of Clairvaux by the Scholastics of the Abbey of Gethsemani" / requesting that Skakel write a table of contents for book
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1954/01/05 |
TLS from Merton |
You must be tired of waiting for me to come through with the manuscript. Even now, it is not the |
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Merton stopping work on book, Existential Communion (later published as The New Man) / sending manuscript for Silence in Heaven
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1954/10/01 |
TCS from Merton |
Father Abbot tells me you are looking for some manuscript material from the Last of the Fathers. |
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[full page scan from web auction - not original - see 2004/05/27 letter]
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2004/05/27 |
other |
Mrslunacy's Antiques Arts & Collectibles [-] THOMAS MERTON HAND SIGNED TYPED LETTERS |
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[online catalog for a web auction of some of 14 letters - correspondents include Merton, Ann Skakel and Dan Walsh]
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