| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1959/02/03 | TAL[x] | from Merton to Rochefort | Votre livre sur S. Jean de la Croix est très bien fait, très clair et je l'ai beaucoup goùté. | |
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| | 1959/05/21 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | I have wanted to write you to thank you for your thoughtful assistance in the arrangements for me. | |
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| | 1959/05/21 (#02) | other | to Merton | HERBERT MASON [-] <b>MILL HOLLOW</b> <i>"Everything must be imagined."</i> - <b>The Idiot</b> | |
| [poem "Mill Hollow" by Herbert Mason] |
| | 1959/06/06 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your paragraph on Prometheus echoes very exactly and sums up what I have been driving at. | Yes |
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| | 1959/06/16 | HLS | to Merton | I appreciate very much your letter and your including me in your correspondence. "And having become | |
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| | 1959/08/02 | TALS | to Merton | When I wrote you in June, I mentioned that I would like to write again later in the summer -briefly- | |
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| | 1959/08/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | One of the most fascinating things I have had my hands on in a long time is that offprint of Louis | Yes |
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| | 1959/08/31 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter and your booklet on Pasternak which I have a few minutes ago finished | |
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| | 1959/09/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your fine letter just came, with the new copy of the poem, which I shall send right along to New | Yes |
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| | 1959/09/19 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter and your thoughtful efforts about the 'poem'. | |
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| | 1959/09/24 | HLS | to Merton | Last evening I met with Louis Massignon and we talked a bit about your interest in the Seven | |
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| | 1959/11/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is a long age since I have written to any of you and you must think I have forgotten all my | Yes |
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| | 1959/11/26 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter - I am sorry about your news of having been in the hospital. | |
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| | 1959/11/26 (#02) | other | to Merton | The sound of sea, the breathing that calls [-] the soul to come away, to become driftwood | |
| [poem by Mason entitled, "Bec Vilin"] |
| | 1959/12/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am sorry to have let your letter go so long without a reply. As you can well imagine, I have been | Yes |
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| | 1959/12/28 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your book; it has a strong current in it and many interesting thoughts; | |
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| | 1960/01/01 | HPCS | to Merton | I received your last letter and your thoughts for M. Rochefort are encouraging. | |
| [dated Feast of the Circumcision] |
| | 1960/02/01 | TALS | to Merton | As of 3:25 pm yesterday we have been the parents of a little girl, Cathleen Marie, and I wanted | |
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| | 1960/02/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Wonderful news- all the more wonderful to me because Catherine Mary saw the light on my birthday, | Yes |
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| | 1960/05/03 | TALS | to Merton | I wanted to forward the news (enclosed) and to say that Louis and the other 700 'demonstrators' were | |
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| | 1960/06/01 | TALS[x] | from Merton | It is hopeless for me to try to write you a really good letter. I just delay writing and then write | Yes |
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| | 1960/06/08 | TALS | to Merton | This letter comes in sort of a haste because we have been given a 'scholarship' aboard an Italian | |
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| | 1960/06/28 | TLS | to Merton | We arrived in NY and will be at the above address for a week, then the Maine one.. | |
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| | 1960/07/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you for the several letters, and I am glad you are not in the country. I got your letter, | Yes |
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| | 1960/08/02? | HNS[x] | from Merton to Fr. Francis, O.C.S.O. | I will be over to see Herbert Mason at about 8:15 this morning - I could not tell him exactly last | |
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| | 1960/08/20 | TLS | to Merton | Malheureusement, j'étais enrhumé à New York après des visites avec M. Rice, M. MacGregor, | |
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| | 1960/09/08 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I wanted to drop you a brief note to tell you of our immediate plans. I have been offered a job | |
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| | 1960/09/08 (#02) | other | to Merton | Encomium [-] I have tasted the slightest taint of blood [-] And now the nettles close around | |
| [two typescripts of poems by Mason enclosed, "Encomium" and "Eve"] |
| | 1960/09/29 | TLS | to Merton | Just a brief note. Am enjoying the teaching at St. Joseph's and finding the students and their | |
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| | 1960/10/15 | TALS | to Merton | I have received a note from Louis written by Mme. Massignon. He is in the hospital having just | |
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| | 1960/10/19 | TLS | to Merton | Did you ever get a little article of Louis' on Muslim ' Time' ? Well, if I could only get out | |
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| | 1960/10/25 | HLS | to Merton | Two letters from Louis 'en clinique'... He asks me to write you for your prayers, the 29th | |
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| | 1960/11/12 | HLS | to Merton | You may have heard that Mme. Maritain died two days ago. Louis has written me of this news very | |
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| | 1960/11/26 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for sending the notes of your Presentation sermon and the text. It was very good for me | |
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| | 1960/12/15 | TLS | to Merton | Dorothy Day is publishing in this month's C.Worker a little article of mine on "caritas" which | |
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| | 1961/01/14 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | It is a long time since I have written. Four or five good letters from you, and I have not answered | Yes |
| [annotations by Mason] |
| | 1961/01/14 (#02) | other[x] | from Merton | THE MOSLEMS' ANGEL OF DEATH. [-] Like a jeweled peacock he stirs all over | |
| [photocopy of a poem by Merton] |
| | 1961/04/03 | HLS | to Merton | I gather from Louis' letter yesterday that he is in better health but greatly distressed over recent | |
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| | 1961/07/16 | HALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your two letters and especially [indecipherable word..] for the CW which is always | |
| [annotations by Mason] |
| | 1961/07/25 | TALS | to Merton | We sent the pilgrims a telegram the morning of Ste. Madeleine; and today Louis and Mme. Massignon | |
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| | 1961/07/31 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You were perfectly right to give me your frank observations on the "chant", and I respect your | Yes |
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| | 1961/08/19 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Well Catholic Worker snatched the Auschwitz piece well before the Beats in California | Yes |
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| | 1961/09/13 | TLS | to Merton | I have been in the arduous process of moving our belongings and dilapidations to a new 1st floor | |
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| | 1961/10/11 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | I appreciated your remarks on the Cuadra letter. It won't be published here, at least not without | Yes |
| [dated 1961/10/01 in the published letters] |
| | 1961/11/11 | TLS | to Merton | It seems I am never, in this life at least, to hear from Madawaska about a Trappist monastery: | |
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| | 1961/12/04 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | I got your letter and was able to participate in both parts. I heard about the terrible business, | Yes |
| [dated 1961/12/01 in the published letters] |
| | 1962/01/09 | HLS | to Merton | I have owed you a letter for some time and since I don't see any ideal free time forecast, | |
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| | 1962/02/04 | TALS | to Merton | I think you owe me a note but your pamphlets and articles and books you've sent me have more | |
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| | 1962/02/27 | TLS | to Merton | I seem to like to pile letter upon letter, as if I were laboring under a passion for making a mystic | |
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| | 1962/03/09 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am going to become a worse and worse correspondent I am afraid. So you must be prepared | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #52] |
| | 1962/03/09 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I am going to become a worse and worse correspondent I am afraid. So you must be prepared | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #52 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1962/06/27 | TALS[x] | from Massignon, Louis | your Wife's crystallization is, indeed, a rather natural process, -and doesn't require as | |
| [forwarded to Merton] |
| | 1962/11/17 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thank you for informing me so promptly of the solemn news of Louis' death. I had been thinking | Yes |
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| | 1963/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have a copy of Louis' <u>Parole Donnée</u> and am reading it here and there, that is I am not | |
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| | 1963/11/15 | TLS | to Merton | Coincidence I am writing you on the anniversary of Louis' requiem mass. My correspondence has been | |
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| | 1964/01/06 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Epiphany morning, lots of rain, a moment of quiet before the High Mass: I want to answer your | |
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| | 1964/09/27 | TAL[c] | from Merton | It has been good to hear from you, letter, poem. note with poem. I liked the poem and felt | |
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| | 1965/03/22 | HLS | to Merton | It's been a long time since I've written; hope this doesn't press in upon your time. Like you, | |
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| | 1965/04/20 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I fully intended to write to you before Holy Saturday to tell you how moved I was at the news | |
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| | 1965/04/20 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I fully intended to write to you before Holy Saturday to tell you how moved I was at the news | |
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| | 1967/07/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton to Friends | Recently I heard of the following strange event. Frank Sheed, in London, was awakened | |
| [see "Circular Letters to Friends" file - some other copies labeled "MIDSUMMER 67"] |
| | 1967/08/17 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks very much for sending me the statement of Noam Chomsky, which I thought excellent. | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/27 | TALS | to Merton | Your letter of the 17th was forwarded to me up here at East Sebago, Maine, where we are vacationing | |
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| | 1967/08/no? | HNS | to Merton | Prof. Noam Chomsky mailed these matters recently to me and asked if I would forward a copy to you | |
| [see "A CALL TO RESIST ILLEGITIMATE AUTHORITY" in the "Chomsky, Noam" file] |
| | 1969/03/13 | TLS[x] | from Lawlor, Patrick | I have just read your very fine tribute to Thomas Merton, noting also that you had a long exchange | |
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| | 1987/06/04 | HLS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | Enclosed are copies of ten letters from Tom Merton, written in the period of my forthcoming | |
| [from Mason to Bob Giroux of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, publishers] |
| | 1987/06/23 | TALS[x] | from Giroux, Robert / to William Shannon | I enclose copies of ten historic Merton letters to Herbert Mason, whose book on Louis Massignon, | |
| [from Bob Giroux of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, publishers to Fr. William H. Shannon, general editor of Merton's published correspondence] |
| | 1992/09/20 | TALS[x] | from Shannon, William | It was good to talk with you on the phone. I am excited about getting the rest of Merton's letters | |
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| | 1992/12/04 | transcript | from Shannon, William | Herbert Mason told me that he visited Merton at Gethsemani in August of 1960 | |
| [William Shannon's transcript of a telephone conversation with Herbert Mason] |
| | 1992/12/05 | TALS | to Shannon, William | Enclosed some more Merton cards, letters, notes for your use (copies). You'll recall I sent you | |
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| | undated/no/no | other[x] | from Merton | PASSIVITY AND ABUSE OF AUTHORITY [-] The following very interesting texts are taken from | |
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