| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1958/12/06 | TLS | from Merton | Having read your remarkable book "The Captive Mind" I find it necessary to write to you, as without | Yes |
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| | 1959/01/17 | TALS | to Merton | Your letter traveled quite a long time. I thank you cordially for it and feel it created already | Yes |
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| | 1959/02/28 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your splendid letter. It was delayedin [sic] reaching me by the inevitable monastic | Yes |
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| | 1959/02/28 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your splendid letter. It was delayedin [sic] reaching me by the inevitable monastic | Yes |
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| | 1959/02/28 (#03) | TNS | from Merton | I realize it might seem a great impertinence to offer this as reading for people behind the Iron | Yes |
| [Merton sent this note attached to something he wrote - in <i>Striving Towards Being</i>, Faggen identifies this as a note attached to "Letter to an Innocent Bystander"] |
| | 1959/05/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | The only trouble with receiving letters as good and full as yours, | Yes |
| [part of the right margin of the first page cut off] |
| | 1959/05/no? (#01) | TLS | to Merton | You seem to give me credit of wisdom. In fact I am uneasy about being an adult and standing alone, | Yes |
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| | 1959/05/no? (#02) | TLS | to Merton | And yet, I continue. This is a beautiful Easter day. Tits before the house are busy with their | Yes |
| [dated by Faggen, "before May 21,1959 [-] Easter Saturday"] |
| | 1959/07/16 | TLS | to Merton | After I got your last letter I felt an urge to answer immediately but it is better I did not. | Yes |
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| | 1959/09/12 | TLS | from Merton | First of all thanks for Alpha's book, <u>Le Samedi Saint</u>. I read it with interest, and found it | Yes |
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| | 1960/02/28 | TALS | to Merton | Centuries. Once I wrote a long letter to you but did not send it. First, about your books. | Yes |
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| | 1960/05/06 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | It is a shame to make so fine a letter as your last one wait so long for an answer, and yet it is | Yes |
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| | 1960/05/06 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | It is a shame to make so fine a letter as your last one wait so long for an answer, and yet it is | Yes |
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| | 1960/07/08 | TALS | to Merton | 1. You should not call yourself a bourgeois. First, if that term can be used in social sciences, | Yes |
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| | 1960/10/30 | TLS | to Merton | A few weeks ago I came with my family to Berkeley where I teach Polish literature. Quite a turmoil | Yes |
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| | 1960/11/09 | TL[c] | from Merton | It was a great pleasure to get your letter of Oct. 30th and to realize that you were actually | Yes |
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| | 1960/no/no? | TL | to Merton | Your letters give me always joy. I should tell you something of my impressions from my reading | Yes |
| [no date - Faggen places it between the 1960/02/28 and 1959/09/12 letters] |
| | 1961/03/28 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | It is a terribly long time since your last letter. And it was a good one too. The better they are, | Yes |
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| | 1961/03/28 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | This is part an added note to the long letter I mailed this morning. Don't be perturbed about | Yes |
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| | 1961/05/30 | TALS | to Merton | There are too many things to tell, which makes writing a letter hard. Those things are rather | Yes |
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| | 1961/06/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter is very meaningful to me. Without having anything specific to say eit[her] I respond | Yes |
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| | 1961/06/15 | HLS | to Merton | Just a few words to correct the impression that I am more in angoisse than I am in it really | Yes |
| [Faggen's book incorrectly prints "anguosse" instead of "angoisse"] |
| | 1961/09/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I wish I could write to you more often. To you I can talk, and begin to say what I want to say. | Yes |
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| | 1961/10/05 | TALS | to Merton | My trip did not materialize, perhaps because of a routine or a feeling that there are many things | Yes |
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| | 1961/no/no? | TALS | to Merton | I have read with astonishment your article on Heraclitus (or Herakleitos, as you justly spell) | Yes |
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| | 1962/01/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letters are the best, I think, and therefore the hardest to answer. Or rather not the hardest, | Yes |
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| | 1962/02/no? | HLS | to Merton | Just a few words to thank you for your letter and materials. "Song for the Death of Averroës" | Yes |
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| | 1962/03/14 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I am sad as I have been thinking these last times that perhaps I offended you, that I should not | Yes |
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| | 1962/03/14 (#02) | TALS | to Merton | I add. The question of peace movements is important here, in view of a violent controversy around | Yes |
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| | 1962/03/21 | transcript | from Merton | There are few people whose advice I respect as much as I do yours, and whatever you say I take | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #56 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1963/05/18 | TLS | to Merton | I do nt [sic] know how to start the letter - so long time and yet so swift passage of time. | Yes |
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| | 1963/11/11 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I waited quite a while for Laughlin to send the Polish poets, and then when he sent them, | Yes |
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| | 1964/08/31 | HLS | to Merton | I am supposed to be in Chicago around Sept. 10 and at last I see the occasion to fly to Louisville | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/19 | TL[c] | from Merton | Just a word to wish you the blessings of the holy season and to say I have recently written to Anne | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/31 | TALS | to Merton | I write this on New Year's Eve which we spend traditionally at home, without any company, since that | Yes |
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| | 1965/03/30 | TL[c] | from Merton | Your good reflective letter of New Year's Eve was one that I appreciated very much. In fact I saved | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/05 | TL[c] | from Merton | It is a long time since I have heard from you. In fact three years ago to the day I remember | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/15 | TLS | to Merton | I lived through quite turbulent two years. Very emotional. Also long stays in France. | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/no? | HLS | to Merton | I know I wounded you by my last letter. Forgive me. Forgive my stupid and cruel jokes. | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/15 | TL[c] | from Merton | Let me reassure you. There was absolutely nothing wounding in your letter. Anything you may | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I'm fighting my way through another issue of my magazine, and am consoled by the quality of so much | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/29 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The Penguin selection of Herbert is splendid. A very fine book. I keep being impressed by his work | Yes |
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| | 1968/11/21 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | I have been in India about a month and have met quite a few interesting people. Seen monasteries, | Yes |
| [written from Darjeeling, India] |
| | 1990/09/08 | TLS[x] | from Bochen, Christine M. | Thank you for your letter of August 27, 1990. I know that Farrar, Strauss, Giroux is publishing | |
| concerning letters the Merton Center did not have from Yale archive / publication of Merton-Milosz correspondence |
| | undated/no/no | other | to Merton | Un Chant [-] Anne [-] Du rivage ou je me tiens la terre s'éloigne, [- ] la clarté de ses bois | |
| [handwritten in pen: "1934 [-] Czeslaw Milosz traduit par O.V. de L. Milosz (Oscar-Vladislas de Lubisez Milosz, Czeslaw Milosz' uncle)] |
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