| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1966/08/12 | HLS | to Merton | Justus Lawler passed on your recent letter to me with your very kind remarks on my article. | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/18 | TL[c] | from Merton | I do very much want to read your book, but there are several reasons why it would probably not be | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/no? | TLS | to Merton | The carbon of my book has currently strayed out of my hands into those of a graduate student at U | Yes |
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| | 1966/09/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the essay on the Augustinian theology of sexuality which I liked very | Yes |
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| | 1966/10/10 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your books which arrived today. I was poking through it here and there. | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/29 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have been thinking of this letter for a while, and so I am writing it. The immediate occasion: | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/14 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your very good letter. It was what I needed, a sign that someone was there and that | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/17 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I was relieved to get your sane letter. I tend to write missives without really realizing it, | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/17 (#02) | other | to Merton | I LOVE YOU. [-] Mimi | |
| [note card with note and drawings by Ruether's three-year-old daughter] |
| | 1967/02/no? | TALS | to Merton | I was profoundly moved by your last letter. I have had a feeling in reading your words previously | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/04 (#01) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Your long letter on the monastic renewal piece reached me today. I am just out of the hospital | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/04? (#02) | TLS | to Merton | I couldn't read all of your letter, but a certain state of shock came through to me from it. | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/07 | TLS | to Merton | What can I say about your paper on monastic renewal?? Let us just admit at the outset that I am | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/09 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the new letter, received this morning. I can type now, for a while, and will try to get | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/15? | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your long letter and also for the manuscript so promptly returned. | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/19 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter which came the other day during the visit of an old friend of mine, a tough | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/21? | TLS | to Merton | I am really kind of disappointed in you. Do you realize how defensive you are, how you are forever | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/24 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am really very grateful for your last letter, the one that came in with the litanies today. | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/25 | TL[c] | from Merton | Yes, I realize that you are right about the crisis bit, because I am in one of those situations when | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/09 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | It is a Sunday evening and because the community has its day of recollection I have had the day off | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/09 (#02) | TALS | to Merton | Bill Jerr was with the Lexington group and remembers you very fondly. I told him I didn't know what | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/no? (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Much relieved at your last two letters. We are sort of up another ridge. I am also glad you like | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/no? (#02) | TLS | to Merton | I really appreciate your gesture towards St. Steve's. Did I ever send you our Good Friday, Easter | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry for the long delay in answering this time. I have had publishers here and lawyers here | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/05? (#02) | TLS | to Merton | Stop protesting! you don't have to justify your life!!! I think that is why I keep needling you, | Yes |
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| | 1967/05/30 | TL[c] | from Merton | I know "Theoria to Theory" would like a dialogue, as they have confirmed this. How to do it, | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/29 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | This is a letter about a family that I have gotten to know this year in Washington. | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/29 (#02) | HNS | from Merton to James Fox | Could we send something? If so please return and let me know check made out to R. Ruether | |
| [verso of envelope sent on 1967/06/29 (postmarked 1967/06/30) by Ruether] |
| | 1967/07/07 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter-- and the more recent mimeographed letter too. I showed this to Fr Abbot | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/10 | transcript | from Merton | I just heard today about the exhibit of drawings: two have been sold so far and there is money | Yes |
| [no extant carbon - transcript from published letters] |
| | 1967/07/12? | TLS | to Merton | I am most appreciative of your help with the Parkes. I have gotten enough help to be able to do | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/17 | TL[c] | from Merton | I enjoyed your letter, especially the conversation. Those kids and those conversations! They are | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/20? | TALS | to Merton | I have been in communication with John Pauker and shall go down to see the drawings sometime soon. | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/04 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and the clippings-- and also for your other letter. I was glad to hear about | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/09 | TLS | to Merton | The communion book is done. After fretting over it for some time, all of the sudden it wrote itself | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/11 | TL[c] | from Merton | Long time since your last letter. I am very interested in the new books, especially the Gregory one | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/14 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your article. I must say that I find it very difficult to read those details. | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/31 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Ah, yes, I have become very wicked. This is due in great part to my hanging around with these women | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/31? (#01) | TLS | to Merton | You are really a shocking and dissolute fellow. Didn't anyone ever tell you that the one thing | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/31 | HLS | to Merton | I picked up the drawings the other day from Pauker. I think he sold 5 or 6 - I have 29. | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/18 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for picking up the drawings. As a matter of fact I paid Pauker everything he paid out | Yes |
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| | 1983/11/03 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Rosemary Ruether | I talked with you last evening on the phone with regard to the letters that Thomas Merton wrote to | |
| seeking additional letters |
| | undated/no/no | other | | Index to Volume LXXXIV [-] <i>March 25, 1966 to September 30, 1966</i> [-] <i>Articles, Poetry</i> | |
| [index to volume 84 of <u>Commonweal</u> - including Merton's essay, "Is the World a Problem?"] |
| | undated/no/no | transcript | | T.Merton - Rosemary Ruether | |
| Shannon's transcription of correspondence |
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