Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1950/01/28 | HLS | to Merton | Merci de votre lettre du 15 janvier. Je vous envoie la description de vos manuscrits | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1950/03/no? | HLS | to Merton | J'ai bien reçu les films de vos manuscrits de S. Bernard et je vous en remercie. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1950/04/22 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Another film of the St Bernard Sermons is now on the way to you. This time I looked it over to see | Yes |
| |
| 1950/04/22 (#02) | other | | Census of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canda by Semour de Ricci | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - handwritten notes and a notecard, the notecard explains that information contained informs footnotes of 1950/04/22 letter from Merton to Leclercq] |
| 1950/05/05 | HLS | to Merton | I was just going to write to you when I received, yesterday, your new letter. Thank you | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1950/07/29 | HLS | to Merton | Immobilisé à Bruxelles par la grève, je trouve enfin le temps de répondre à votre longue | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1950/10/09 | TALS | from Merton | It is a long time since I received your July letter which I read and pondered on with deep | Yes |
| |
| 1950/10/26 | HLS | to Merton | I received some weeks ago the nice little book <u>Spirit of</u> | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1952/06/17 | transcript | to Merton | Thank you very much indeed for your last letter and for <i>The Last of the Fathers</i>. | Yes |
| [photocopy from book of published letters] |
| 1953/01/25 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for the Rifau. [..] Not yet answer from the censors… I begin to get anxious… I remember | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1953/03/17 | HLS | to Merton | It has been very kind of you, indeed, to send me your <u>Sign of Jonas</u>. Thank you sincerely. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1953/05/18 | TALS | from Merton | Forgive me for my delay in answering your good letter. <u>Jonas</u> is already being translated | Yes |
| |
| 1953/05/29 | TALS | to Merton | Le livre de Casel <u>Die Mônchsweihe</u> ne paraîtra pas prochainement, car on attend une nouvelle | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1953/08/21 | TALS | from Merton | You must think me a very churlish and ungrateful person to leave your letter so long unanswered. | Yes |
| |
| 1953/09/23 | HLS | to Merton | I received your very good letter of Aug. 21 just before leaving Clervaux for Dijon, where I had | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1953/10/13 | HLS[x] | to Merton | I write to ask you a service. But of course, you are quite free to refuse it; I shall understand it | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1953/11/05 | TALS | from Merton | It was a satisfaction to me when Father Abbot gave me permission to write the preface for your | Yes |
| |
| 1953/11/23 | HLS | to Merton | I have received your letter, and then the Preface. I have read it and shall translate it. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1953/12/07 | HCS | from Merton | Many thanks for your very kind letter of Nov 23. I am glad the preface satisfied you, and am still | Yes |
| |
| 1954/01/08 | HALS | from Merton | Many thanks for your translation of the Preface. I have read it with pleasure and satisfaction | Yes |
| |
| 1954/04/07 | TLS | to Merton | Je reçois à l'instant votre beau volume Bread in the Wilderness. Je vous remercie beaucoup d'avoir | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1954/04/27 | TALS | from Merton | I have just written to the Agent. I suspect that Plon is unjustly penalizing you because the Agent | Yes |
| |
| 1954/07/13 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Je comprends vos soucis. Je comprends aussi le point de vue de vos supérieurs. Ce n'est sans doute | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1954/07/28 | TALS | from Merton | Yesterday I heard from our Reverendissime Pere and I hasten to let you know that he raises | Yes |
| |
| 1954/08/06 | HLS | to Merton | I received here, where I have been lecturing on S Bernard's Mariology, your letter of July 28. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - written from Maria Laach, Germany] |
| 1954/08/30 | HLS | to Merton | Many thanks indeed for your new pages, which I enjoyed translating them [sic]. I appreciated you | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1954/10/05 | HLS | to Merton | The French edition of <u>The Last of the Fathers</u> came out yesterday. It has been quite | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1954/11/04 | TALS | from Merton | It was good to receive the good news in your last letter. I will look forward to seeing | Yes |
| |
| 1954/11/17 | HLS | to Merton | I just wrote the 1st publisher to | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1955/04/27 | TLS | from Merton | On vient de terminer, il y a quelques jours, notre visite reguliere dans laquelle l'Abbe Visiteur | Yes |
| |
| 1955/05/17 | HLS | to Merton | Many thanks for sending me the photograph of your Antiphony. And for all | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1955/05/18 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | Good Father Louis wrote you a letter towards the end of April. From the very nature of the case, I | |
| [copied from "Fox, James" file - Fox's letter to Montini attached] Merton "disturbed emotionally" in letter to Archbishop Giovanni Montini in Milan / Merton to remain with Order and become grounds keeper of woods surrounding Gethsemani |
| 1955/05/18 (#02) | TL[c] | from Fox, James / to Giovanni Montini | Thisis [sic] the first letter I have ever written to you, Your Excellency, but we have received many | Yes |
| [carbon copy sent to Leclercq of Fox's letter to Archbishop Giovanni Montini dated 1955-05-16 (who would later be Pope Paul VI)] |
| 1955/05/26 (#01) | HLS[x] | to Fox, James | I thank you for sending me a note, together with the letter of Fr. Louis. As you must realize, | |
| [for original see "Fox, James", Series 29] |
| 1955/05/26 (#02) | transcript | to Fox, James | I thank you for sending me a note, together with the letter of Fr. Louis. As you must realize, | |
| [for original see "Fox, James", Series 29] |
| 1955/06/03 | TALS | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of May 26. I wish I had received it sooner. Early in May, having | Yes |
| |
| 1955/06/08 | HL | from Levy-Duplatt, Maurizio | J'ai lu la lettre du P. Louis et celles de son abbé. Ils semblent | |
| [incomplete letter / addressee crossed out and signed "Maurizio" - likely Levy-Duplatt letter to Leclercq regarding Merton and forwarded to Merton] |
| 1955/06/13 | TALS | from Fox, James | We received your very kind letter of May 26. Do not think there is any quarrel between good Father | |
| [copies from "Fox, James" file] no quarrel between Fox and Merton / agrees with Leclercq that Merton - "Too much of an extrovert." and that he would not be able to give up writing - Gabriel Sortais agrees he should give up writing for 5 years / Merton's "love of adventure" - would not stay long with the Camaldolese |
| 1955/08/11 | TALS | from Merton | Thank you for your last letter. I am sending this together with a note to your good Reverend Father | Yes |
| |
| 1955/09/25 | TLS | from Merton | Here is the manuscript which I spoke of-- let us say that about half of it is on solitude. | Yes |
| |
| 1955/10/21 | HLS | to Merton | I received your manuscript and read it. Thank you too for your letter of Sept 25. I didn't answer | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1955/11/19 | HLS | to Merton | I received a few days ago the first copies of | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1955/12/03 | TLS | from Merton | You had heard from Dom Gabriel Sortais the issue of the discussions about my vocation. But you had | Yes |
| |
| 1956/02/06 | TALS | from Merton | It is already a long time since I had the pleasure of receiving your finished and published work | Yes |
| |
| 1956/09/01? | TALS | from Merton | [missing first part...] has a spiritual significance. More than that, I hope the book is suitable. | Yes |
| [undated - Fall 1956] |
| 1956/09/07 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | D. Gabriel kindly sends me his approval and <u>Imprimi potest</u> for your 37 meditations translated | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1956/09/07? (#02) | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your Celts. I sent the new text to the nun who had already finished the translation, | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - no date but stapled to letter of 1956/09/07] |
| 1957/10/19 | TALS | from Merton | It has been a long time since I have had the satisfaction of writing to you. However, Father Abbot | Yes |
| |
| 1957/10/31 | HLS | to Merton | I immediately wrote to the publisher, and I just receive the enclosed answer. Please tell him | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1957/11/13 | TLS | from Merton | Many thanks for your prompt and cooperative reply. I was relieved to hear that the book had not yet | Yes |
| |
| 1957/12/30 | TLS | from Fox, James | Your good letter to Father Louis arrived some time ago. It was caught in the annual Christmas | |
| [copies from "Fox, James" file] Merton back from hospital and recovering / false reports of Merton contributing article to book on Dom Alexis - letters from Fr. Bernard Besret and M. Daniel-Rops |
| 1958/05/22 | | | Some time ago questions were asked about the French translation of | Yes |
| [see 1959/05/22 - incorrectly dated 1958 in <i>Survival or Prophecy</i>] |
| 1959/05/22 | TALS | from Merton | Sometime ago questions were asked about the French translation of Thoughts in Solitude, | Yes |
| [incorrectly dated 1958 in <i>Survival or Prophecy</i>] |
| 1959/06/02 | HLS | to Merton | I never heard, myself, about your ms. since the last time you asked to have it again in order | Yes |
| |
| 1959/10/08 | TLS | from Merton | I am writing to ask if by any chance it might be possible for me to get back the <u>English</u> text | Yes |
| |
| 1959/10/23 | HLS | to Merton | I found your dear letter when arriving in Rome until February. I shall find the english text | Yes |
| |
| 1959/11/09 | TALS | from Fox, James | Your letter of October 23 to Father Louis arrived. But I deemed it better not to give it to him as | |
| [copies from "Fox, James" file] Fox has not given Leclercq's letter to Merton - thinks Leclercq is misguided in advising Merton on a vocation as a hermit - asks that Leclercq not mention this to Merton in the future, but to stick to "literary matters, …the Preface, THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE, etc. |
| 1959/11/19 | TALS | from Merton | Me voici encore, et c'est le meme sujet, de la traduction "les Chemins de la joie". Mon agent | Yes |
| |
| 1959/11/28 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Merci pour l'interest que vous | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1959/11/28 (#02) | transcript | to Merton | I pray a lot for you. All that you tell me interests me intensely. It is always difficult to see | Yes |
| [photocopy from book of published letters] |
| 1959/11/28 (#03) | transcript | to Merton | Thank you for the interest you have in the translation of the nun of Thoughts in Solitude. | Yes |
| [transcript of complete letter - published letter is missing some sentences - transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1959/12/18 | HLS | to Merton | Mr Wittmann answers:"As soon as I Kowl had the definitive translation of <u>Thoughts in Solitude</u> | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1960/01/08 | HLS | to Merton | Many many thanks, dear Fr Louis, for your very fine book on Guerric. It will contribute to a better | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1960/01/17 | HLS | to Merton | I have written to Wittman as you said. Thank you for your kindness. I am as glad that you have | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1960/01/26 | TALS | from Fox, James | We understand that you are giving quite a few lectures in Rome. We are very happy that you are | |
| [copies from "Fox, James" file] asking for Leclercq's address to the Generals of the Religious Orders on obedience |
| 1960/01/no? | TLS | from Merton | An answer was received from Rome-- from Cardinal Valeri,-- which makes it quite definite that God's | |
| [it seems the first part of letter cut off - answered by Leclercq's letter of 1960/01/17] |
| 1960/12/13 | HLS | to Merton | Mr Wittmann write me now that he wrote you concerning the translation of <u>Thoughts in Solitude</u> | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1960/12/24 | TALS | from Merton | Well, I don't understand the situation either. I certainly remember that a long time ago I took up | Yes |
| |
| 1960/12/31 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for your letter. If I did not meet you, I at least met D. James at Genesee. I shall be | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - original from H.7, previously held as photocopy] |
| 1961/02/02 | HLS | to Merton | Immediately wrote to a confrere of yours to get the ms. And to give it to Mrs. | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1961/02/03 | HLS | to Merton | J'ai téléphoné à M. Wittmann, qui m'a répondu qu'il refusait de me remettre le manuscrit de la | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1961/04/04 | HLS | from Juglar, Jean | Thanks for your news. Glad that the book will soon appear. I think it may bring - | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - original from H.7, previously held as photocopy - seems to be from Fr. Jean Juglar, O.S.B. from the Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Paris to Dom Jean Leclercq; Leclercq includes a note to Merton at the end of the letter] |
| 1961/06/11 | HLS | to Merton | I am sending you back a volume of K Rahner <u>Free Speech in the Church</u>. I enjoyed it very | Yes |
| |
| 1961/07/12 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | I sought in vain the Imprimatur to <i>Living in Silence</i>. What I found was the ones concerning | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1961/07/12 (#02) | transcript | to Merton | I sought the Imprimatur to <i>Living in Silence</i>. What I found was the one concerning | Yes |
| [photocopy from book of published letters] |
| 1961/07/31 | HLS | to Merton | Fr. Michael of St [..] asked for a copy of my [..] I cannot refuse. But I copy you just to | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - some words difficult to decipher] |
| 1963/06/10 | TL[c] | from Merton | How are you? I do not know where this letter will find you, but I suppose the best thing to do | Yes |
| |
| 1963/06/18 | HLS | from Merton | Glad to read you! I am well and, strange enough, in Clervaux. My trip in the States last autumn | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - original from H.7, previously held as photocopy] |
| 1963/07/23 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was very kind of you to send the material on Grimlaic. I will keep working on the idea | Yes |
| |
| 1963/08/14? | HNS | to Merton | Thanks for your little. Would you have a carbon copy of your translation of the Presenza al mondo | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1963/10/26 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | I have just visited all the Trappist abbey of Ireland, and visited again those of England. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1963/10/26 (#02) | transcript | to Merton | I have just visited all the Trappist abbeys of Ireland, and visited again those of England. | Yes |
| [photocopy from book of published letters] |
| 1963/11/10 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | First of all I hope the translation of your article on Benedictine work reached you in Ireland. | Yes |
| |
| 1963/11/10 (#02) | TAL[x] | from Merton | First of all I hope the translation of your article on Benedictine work reached you in Ireland. | Yes |
| [top half of page with handwritten annotations (by Leclercq?)] |
| 1963/11/12 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for the translation on Benedictine work, which I received in due time. I realize it was not | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - original from H.7, previously held as photocopy] |
| 1964/01/12 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | First I want to thank you for your kindness in sending me the mimeograph of p. Hausherr's study | Yes |
| |
| 1964/01/12 (#02) | TALS | from Merton | First I want to thank you for your kindness in sending me the mimeograph of p. Hausherr's study | Yes |
| |
| 1964/03/23 | HLS | to Merton | Sorry to have not yet acknowledged your last papers. I have been talking in different places, | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - original from H.7, previously held as photocopy] |
| 1964/03/28 | TALS | from Merton | Thanks for your note about Fr Ronald Roloff. As a matter of fact I think you have guessed that what | Yes |
| [dated "Holy Saturday" 1964] |
| 1964/04/15 | HLS | to Merton | I had read and appreciated your <u>Diaspora</u>, before going to a Congress in Italy on Islam | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - original from H.7, previously held as photocopy] |
| 1964/05/26 (#01) | other[x] | to Merton | <u>NOTE POUR LA PRESSE</u> Du jeudi 21 au merdi 26 mai, s'est tenue au manastère bénédictin de Boaké | |
| [copy from Sub-Section D.7, Periodicals used by Merton - no indication of author, but fits time period Leclercq was visiting a Benedictine monastery at Bouaké in the Ivory Coast] |
| 1964/05/26? (#02) | HPCS | to Merton | Just arriving, find your letter, gave to P Denis your news and wishes | |
| [black and white photograph of a monk in the cloister of the Benedictine monastery of Bouaké in the Ivory Coast / no date, but Leclercq visiting this monastery at this time period] |
| 1964/06/30? | HNS | to Merton | I have a French translation [by?] mimeo of your Rahner article in <u>Commonweal</u>. | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1964/07/no? | HLS | to Merton | Dans le ms. Mazarine 771 [..] le texte ne | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - no date but answered in letter of 1964/08/02] |
| 1964/08/02 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter. I am grateful for the information about Mazarine 771, even though | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1964/08/20 (#01) | TLS | from Gillet, Ignace / to Merton | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe la copie de la lettre que je viens d'adresser à dom Jean | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - from Dom Ignace Gillet, Abbot General of the Trappists, to Merton] |
| 1964/08/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Gillet, Ignace | J'ai lu, aussi vite que mes occupations me le permettent, l'article du Père Merton que vous avez | |
| [from Dom Ignace Gillet, Abbot General of the Trappists] |
| 1964/08/23 | HN | to Merton | D. Ignace writes me he sends you a copy of his long letter to me. It is clean, and it is OK. | |
| |
| 1964/08/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am very sorry you have had to have so much trouble with this "Monk in Diaspora" article. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1964/08/29 (#01) | HLS[x] | to Merton | Thanks for your nice letter of Aug 19. | |
| |
| 1964/08/29 (#02) | TALS | from Pennington, Basil | Thank you for your kind letter of July 29th, which I am only now getting to answer. I have been | |
| |
| 1964/09/28 | TALS | from Merton | Dom Paulus Gordan is publishing a German translation of "Monk in Diaspora" in Erbe und Auftrag. | Yes |
| |
| 1964/10/10 | HLS[x] | to Merton | Several english abbots or monks who were at Scourmont for the funeral | Yes |
| |
| 1964/10/22 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your most recent letter, and your news. It is all right if the Monk in the Diaspora | Yes |
| |
| 1964/12/10 | HLS[x] | to Merton | Thanks for all your new papers. I have them sent by read by different people. I took profit | |
| |
| 1965/04/02 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Forgive me for keeping your offprint on the letter of St Peter Damian so long. I am returning it, | Yes |
| |
| 1965/04/02 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Forgive me for keeping your offprint on the letter of St Peter Damian so long. I am returning it, | Yes |
| |
| 1965/04/09 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for your letter and the news, which are not excellent, except from the viewpoint of | Yes |
| |
| 1965/05/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is to thank you for the books and offprints which arrived safely. I have done my chronique | Yes |
| |
| 1965/05/11 (#02) | TALS | from Merton | This is to thank you for the books and offprints which arrived safely. I have done my chronique | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1965/05/29 | HLS | to Merton | I got your letter of May 11 when coming from the Obout Trappist monastery in Cameroons | Yes |
| |
| 1965/06/14? (#01) | HPCS | to Merton | I enjoy immensely staying in this St Maur's Priory, Hangar, P.O. Songea, Tanzania, which is | Yes |
| [verso: colorized photograph of Masai warrior - letter from Tanzania / published as a postscript to letter of 1965/05/29] |
| 1965/06/14? (#02) | transcript | to Merton | I enjoy immensely staying in St Maur's Priory, Hangar, P.O. Songea, Tanzania, which is the only | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 / published as a postscript to letter of 1965/05/29] |
| 1965/07/05 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Many thanks for the offprint on African Monasticism and for your letter from Togo. I am convinced, | Yes |
| |
| 1965/07/05 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the offprint on African Monasticism and for your letter from Togo. I am convinced, | Yes |
| |
| 1965/07/10 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Thanks, Father, for your letter of July 5 and for your invitation to address the novices. | Yes |
| |
| 1965/07/10 (#02) | other | | <i>L'eremitismo in Occidente nei secoli XI e XII</i> [-] Atti della II Settimana Internazionale di | |
| [enclosure with Leclercq's 1965/07/10 letter - pamphlet on western hermits of the 11th to 12th centuries, published by the Università Cattolica del S. Cuore in Milan] |
| 1965/07/10 (#03) | other | | Dahomean style. | |
| [card with west African art of the Dahomean style on one side and Leclercq's handwritten note on the other side] |
| 1965/07/10 (#04) | other | | recesioni [-] GIUSEPPE VIOLA, <i>Un contemplativo nel mondo - Don Luigi Pelloux,</i> Morcelliana, | |
| [an article on Don Luigi Pelloux] |
| 1965/09/18 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Your two packages of papers have arrived from Collegeville and they are in thehands [sic] of our | Yes |
| |
| 1965/09/18 (#02) | TALS | from Merton | Your two packages of papers have arrived from Collegeville and they are in thehands [sic] of our | Yes |
| [verso: Leclercq's handwritten annotations] |
| 1965/10/18 | HLS | to Merton | I had [indecipherable word..] these abstracts. I send you a copy of them for Fr. J. Eudes. | Yes |
| |
| 1965/11/05 | HLS | to Merton | It's in <u>Aevum</u> 389 (1965) p 370-378 that then is an article of Francesus Casoth | |
| |
| 1965/11/13 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Happy feast: it is the day of all the saints of the Order, and I am sure you have countless friends | Yes |
| |
| 1965/11/13 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Happy feast: it is the day of all the saints of the Order, and I am sure you have countless friends | Yes |
| |
| 1966/01/28 | HLS | from Merton | Reading Delamille's contribution to Eremitismo, (tr by Meniola Volume, Milan 1965) I find he | |
| |
| 1966/02/08 | HLS | to Merton | Have written to Schomelb and shall tell you if he answers. But does not always. I don't think this | |
| |
| 1966/06/27 | HLS | to Merton | I got your letter in Africa. We were working (and I had in my turn, adding some comments) in the | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - traveling between or to Einsiedeln and Clervaux] |
| 1966/07/07 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your good card from Africa. I have sent some mimeographs and books to the monks of Hanga | Yes |
| |
| 1966/07/07 (#02) | TAL | from Merton | Thanks for your good card from Africa. I have sent some mimeographs and books to the monks of Hanga | Yes |
| [top have of original letter only with Leclercq's annotations] |
| 1966/07/14 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for your letter of Jul 7, which I found coming back from Africa and Madagascar. | Yes |
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| 1966/07/14 (#02) | TALS | from Squire, Aelred | I was deeply touched at your having troubled to write to me from Africa. The situation for my book | |
| [letter to Leclercq from Fr. Aelred Squire, a Dominican priest from St. Vith, Belgium (see "Squire, Aelred" file for letters to Merton) - see next record for note to Merton from Leclercq] |
| 1966/07/14 (#03) | HNS | to Merton | did [indecipherable name..] speak to you of the book of F. Aelred Squire, a[n] English Dominican, | |
| [note dated 1966/07/15 written on the bottom of the letter from Fr. Aelred Squire to Leclercq] |
| 1966/07/21 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your two recent notes. I will certainly do what I can to help Fr Aelred Squire to get | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1966/07/21 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your two recent notes. I will certainly do what I can to help Fr Aelred Squire to get | Yes |
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| 1966/08/16 | HLS | to Merton | I know now that I shall land down at Louisville Airport on Sat. 27 Aug at 21.05 Fl. A A 741. | Yes |
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| 1966/10/10 | HLS | to Merton | Several english abbots or monks who were at Scourmont for the funeral of D. Belongey[?] suggested | |
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| 1966/11/18 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Yesterday your <u>Chances de la spiritualite occidentale</u> arrived and I want to thank you very | Yes |
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| 1966/11/18 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Yesterday your <u>Chances de la spiritualite occidentale</u> arrived and I want to thank you very | Yes |
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| 1966/12/10 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for all your new papers. I have them read by different people. I took profit by them | |
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| 1966/12/12 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for the last essays you sent. Work on! The AIM is preparing a journey for me, | Yes |
| [AIM is an acronym for Aide à l'Implantation Monastique] |
| 1967/02/17 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Forgive my long delay in answering your pre Christmas letter. I was swamped by letters in December | Yes |
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| 1967/02/17 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Forgive my long delay in answering your pre Christmas letter. I was swamped by letters in December | Yes |
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| 1967/04/11 (#01) | TAL[x] | to Merton | L'Asie a commencé à Orly, deuxième étape de ce boeing Londres-Tokyo de Air-India avec ses hôtesses | |
| [written from the Asirvanam Monastery in Kengeri, India / see "Series 2"] |
| 1967/04/11 (#02) | TAL | to Merton | L'Asie a commencé à Orly, deuxième étape de ce boeing Londres-Tokyo de Air-India avec ses hôtesses | |
| [written from the Asirvanam Monastery in Kengeri, India] |
| 1967/04/13 | TL | to Merton | Je continue la retraite ici à raison de trois causeries par jour. Il y a de la beauté dans le site | |
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| 1967/04/19 | TL | from Merton | La retraite à Asirvanam dura jusqu'à samedi soir. Ce dernier après-midi, avec un moine indien, | |
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| 1967/04/21 | TL | to Merton | Voici achevée cette expérience de l'Ashram chrétien, dont je ne sais si je pourrai vous dire grand | |
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| 1967/04/23 | TL | to Merton | Trois heures de vol lent et bas dans un petit Volker des India Air Lines, comme ceux de Luxair, | |
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| 1967/04/27 | TL | to Merton | Voici déjà qu'approche la fin de mon séjour en ce monastère si tué au bord de la mer, près des | |
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| 1967/04/30 | TL | to Merton | Un dernier mot avant de quitter ce Cambodge si attachant, parce que si plein de problèmes, et aussi | |
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| 1967/04/no? | HPCS | to Merton | Thank you for sending books to Sweden. You know that surface mail is slow, especially | Yes |
| [1 postcard and 1 extra page - verso of postcard: color photograph of a bust of Egyptian King Tutankhamen] |
| 1967/05/05 | TL | to Merton | Voici déjà presque une semaine passée dans ce pays en guerre. Les premières images que | |
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| 1967/05/07 | TAL | to Merton | J'avais passé la dernière nuit à Saïgon dans la procure de l'un des ordres religieux. | |
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| 1967/05/22 | TL | to Merton | Avant-hier samedi, après un vol d'une demi-heure, nous arrivons à Ban-me-Thuot. Comme je devais | |
| [begins midway of page 17 on last page of 1967/05/07] |
| 1967/05/23 | HLS | to Merton | I am glad to leave this country of VN after 26 days of anger. Not because of the war, which | Yes |
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| 1967/05/24 | TAL | to Merton | Hier, anniversaire de la naissance de Bouddha, journée de trêve pour la guerre, ou plutôt pour | |
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| 1967/05/25 | TL | to Merton | Je passe cette Fête-Dieu au monastère cistercien de Phuoc Son, à une trentaine de kilomètres | |
| [begins midway of page 27 on last page of 1967/05/24] |
| 1967/05/26 | TL | to Merton | Vol Saïgon-Manila. Ce matin, dernière causerie à Mhuoc Son. Le jeune Père qui me conduisait | |
| [begins midway of page 31 on last page of 1967/05/25] |
| 1967/05/31 | TL | to Merton | Je trouve enfin le moment pour vous écrire après ces premières journées à Manille, qui furent très | |
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| 1967/05/no? | HPCS | to Merton | it's a joy for me to hear that your book, translated, give a good idea of US in this country. | Yes |
| [verso: color photograph of "People praying at the main altar of the Xa Loi Pagoda, downtown Saigon"] |
| 1967/06/01 | TL | to Merton | Ce matin, on m'a gentiment conduit voir l'un des "barrios", villages pauvres comme il y en a dans | |
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| 1967/06/04 | TAL | to Merton | Ces derniers jours à Manille m'ont beaucoup instruit sur les Philippines et sur les chances | |
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| 1967/06/07 | TL[c] | from Merton | I don't know if you are still in the Philippines or [w]hether you are on your way back to Europe. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1967/06/11 | TL | to Merton | C'est seulement dans le train de nuit qui m'emmène vers Djakharta que je trouve le temps de vous | |
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| 1967/06/12 | TAL | to Merton | Dans le train qui me ramène de Rawaseneng à Djakarta, et pendent que mes souvenirs de votre | |
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| 1967/06/29 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for your private and circular letters. I flew back from Djakarta to Vichy via Singapore, | Yes |
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| 1967/07/02 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the booklet about the charming little Abbey of St Vincent de Chantelle. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1967/07/18 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I have just finished reading your collection of letters on your Asian journey. Quite an experience! | Yes |
| [see "Series 2" for the referenced collection of letters of Leclercq's Asian journey] |
| 1967/07/18 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have just finished reading your collection of letters on your Asian journey. Quite an experience! | Yes |
| [see "Series 2" for the referenced collection of letters of Leclercq's Asian journey] |
| 1967/07/20 | HLS | to Merton | I come from a conference on monastic liturgy in Orval: 100 monks and cloistered nuns OSB. OCSO. | Yes |
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| 1967/08/08 | HLS | to Merton | First, thank you for your kind judgment on my letters from Asia. I plan, during my flights in US | Yes |
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| 1967/08/23 | HLS | to Merton | I understand that I have to stay in the hotel on a weekend, from Sat to Mo. OK. As it would be | |
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| 1967/08/29 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for your new letter of Aug 19. I maintain the date I fixed, weekend of Sept 9-10, unless you | Yes |
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| 1967/10/28 | HLS | to Merton | I had just commented [on] the Message of the Contemplatives to the Synod, in the wonderful Carmel | Yes |
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| 1967/11/10 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Sorry to have been silent so long. I have been over my ears in letters etc and cannot handle it. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1967/11/10 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry to have been silent so long. I have been over my ears in letters etc and cannot handle it. | Yes |
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| 1967/12/30 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks, dear P. Louis, for the papers you sent me. I gave the envelope to a confrère who had heard | Yes |
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| 1968/01/09 | TLS | to Merton | Je commence par vous accuser réception du chèque destiné au Dr. Bolshakoff et que nous tenons | |
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| 1968/01/14 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Annuntio tibi gaudium magnum: habemus abbatem-- I waited for the election before replying to your | Yes |
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| 1968/01/14 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Annuntio tibi gaudium magnum: habemus abbatem-- I waited for the election before replying to your | Yes |
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| 1968/01/21 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for the good news. And for the contemplatives' forum. I had heard of it, but not read. | Yes |
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| 1968/01/30 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 21st about the Bangkok meeting. I have discussed it with the new | Yes |
| [Leclercq's annotations] |
| 1968/01/30 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 21st about the Bangkok meeting. I have discussed it with the new | Yes |
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| 1968/01/30 (#03) | transcript | from Merton | Merci beaucoup de votre lettre du 21 au sujet de la rencontre de Bangkok. J'en ai discuté avec | Yes |
| [French translation of Merton's letter to Leclercq of 1968/01/30] |
| 1968/02/02 | HLS | to Merton | Thanks for your letter which I received today. I read it to Abbot de Floris, who brought me | Yes |
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| 1968/03/09 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am afraid I cannot yet give any definite answer on the Bangkok project. Fr Flavian has not said | Yes |
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| 1968/03/09 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I am afraid I cannot yet give any definite answer on the Bangkok project. Fr Flavian has not said | Yes |
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| 1968/04/no? | HNS | from Merton | Here is a new thing for modern monks!! I invite my fellow Goliards to publish with me. Remember | |
| [no date - Merton's note written on the first page of the Spring issue of <u>Monks Pond</u> sent to Leclercq] |
| 1968/06/01 | HNS | to Merton | Nothing new, except that the former Prior of the Bénédictines of Thien An has been killed in Saigon | Yes |
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| 1968/06/14 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanksfirst [sic] of all for <i>Ecclesia saltans</i>, who will appear in due course dancing | Yes |
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| 1968/07/23 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter about the arrangements for Bangkok. I will be glad to give the talk | Yes |
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| 1968/07/23 (#02) | other | | Thanks for your good lettre [sic] about the arrangements for Bangkok. I will be glad to give | |
| [retyped portion of the letter of 1968/07/23] |
| 1968/10/15 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | When do you plan to be in Japan? I still plat to be here from Nov. 25 around, until Dec 6-7, | |
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| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - writing from Clervaux] |
| 1968/10/15 (#02) | HLS | to Burns, Flavian | I suppose you know where is F. Louis. Could you forward this letter to him, and already if you know | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - writing from Clervaux] |
| 1968/11/03 | TALS | from de Floris, Marie, Abbé, O.S.B. | Un mois seulement nous sépare désormais de la rencontre de Bangkok. | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - addressed, "Mon Révérend Père, Ma Révérende Mère,"] travel details and schedule of speakers for Bangkok conference where Merton died (and was one of the speakers) |
| 1968/11/08 | HLS | to Merton | I shall be in New Delhi (American Express, International Hotel. Wellesley Rd) from Nov 23 05.25 am | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - writing from Rome] |
| 1971/03/22 | HLS | to Center from Leclercq, Jean | I enclose what I have and find at the moment of the letters of T. Merton. I may have more | |
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| 1971/04/12 | TL[x] | from Center to Leclercq, Jean | Forgive me for being so long in answering your letter, but Fr. Pooler asked me to write you since | |
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| 1971/06/11 | HLS[x] | to Center from Leclercq, Jean | I have still found this letter of T. Merton which may be important for his biography and I send you | |
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| 1971/06/18 | TL[x] | from Center to Leclercq, Jean | You were so kind to send us another letter of Fr. Louis' for our Thomas Merton Collection. | |
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| 1972/07/26 | HLS | to Center from Leclercq, Jean | I still found these 2 letters of T. Merton which I think it could be interesting for you to have. | |
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| 1972/11/07 | TL[c] | from Center to Leclercq, Jean | Your recent letter and the Merton correspondence attached to it, addressed to Mrs. Hays | |
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| 1972/11/20 | TL[c] | from Center to Leclercq, Jean | Thank you so very much for the original letters of Thomas Merton you sent us for our Merton | |
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| 1973/06/10 | other | to Center from Leclercq, Jean | The Thomas Merton Studies Center has my permission to permit scholars to read my personal | |
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| undated/09/16 | TALS | from Maurice, Fr., Er. Cam. | Vous savez sans doute déjà que notre dernier Chapitre Général a décidé de tenter une fondation | |
| [Fr. Maurice of the Camaldolese Hermits of the Congregation of Monte Corona, Holy Family Hermitage in McConnelsville, Ohio - likely to Leclercq] |
| undated/no/no (#01) | TL | to Merton | Je vais demander un conseil sur la pratique du voeu de pauvreté et vous exprimer en même temps | |
| [first page only - the rest missing] |
| undated/no/no (#02) | HLS[x] | to Merton | They have service specifically for that, they send many books | |
| [partial letter - page two and three - missing first page] |
| undated/no/no (#03) | other | | Xtianity is <u>beyond</u> religion and <u>beyond</u> culture. | |
| [notes by Merton?] |
| undated/no/no (#04) | HLS[x] | to Merton | I am not an authority, but I find <u>The Night of Destiny</u> OK. | |
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| undated/no/no (#05) | HLS | to Merton | I never hound myself about | |
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| undated/no/no (#06) | other | by Leclercq, Jean | 1. Demander "<u>ce que l'Afrique attend des moines</u>", c'est peut-être ne pas bien poser | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 / Title: "Perspectives sur l'avenir du monachisme africain"] |
| undated/no/no (#07) | HNS | to Merton | P.S. Thanks for your new letter. P. Erwinis Fraternité de la Vierge des Pauvres BOURRICOS | PAR | |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
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