Stone, Naomi Burton, 1911-2004 - Correspondence Print View

This file contains a vast number of letters spanning Merton writing career from his first big success with The Seven Storey Mountain to his final works. Naomi Burton Stone not only worked professionally with Merton to help him improve his craft as a writer and find the best places to publish his work, she became a kind of mother-figure or sister-figure in his life, helping him to navigate some of his personal and professional crises with both care and sternness at times. She was appointed by Merton as one of the original trustees of his literary estate.

Biography

Naomi Burton Stone was Merton's literary agent who became a close friend and confidant. She was born in England and came to the United States in 1939. She took an early interest in Merton's work and was trying, unsuccessfully, to publish his early novels before he entered the monastery. However, she at first thought his writing career had ended when he entered the monastery. Later, Merton would send her a manuscript of The Seven Storey Mountain. In late 1946, she met with success in submitting it to Robert Giroux, who published and edited the best-selling book. (Source: Witness to Freedom, p. 123.)

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Date	Type	To/From	First Lines	Pub	Notes
1946/10/21	TLS[x]	from Merton	Bob Lax said he told you this would be coming. It is pretty long, but I think I know where it can be
1947/03/26	TLS[x]	to Merton	I have been in correspondence with Laughlin about not only the new collection of poems		[verso contains some minor corrections in pen by Merton for <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i>] contracts for <i>The Tears of the Blind Lions</i> and <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> / whether to publish <i>Journal of My Escape from the Nazis</i>
1947/04/09	TALS	to Merton	Thank you very much for your letter and copy of yours to Laughlin. I am very happy indeed that you
1947/04/14	TLS[x]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter which I am answering at once to tell you that if you want to tell Laughlin
1947/04/17	TLS[x]	from Merton	One of the things I was afraid of has happened, and one of our censors has refused a <u>nihil</u>
1947/04/21	TALS	to Merton	I was upset by your letter but Bob seems to be sure that everything can be worked out satisfactorily
1948/03/08	TLS[x]	from Merton	Laughlin sent this check here by mistake. He is in Europe and I guess didn't get my reminder about
1948/06/01	TLS[x]	to Laughlin, James	We drew up contracts, in accordance with your instructions, between yourselves, Tom Murton [sic]
1948/07/08	TLS	to Giroux, Robert	I should have written this letter sooner, to confirm that Thomas Merton will take a straight ten		[signed copy to Merton / approved by Giroux 1948/07/09]
1948/08/04		from Merton
1948/08/04	TLS[x]	from Merton	Go ahead and tell Commonweal to use the stuff. It is too late now anyway. It doesn't make much
1949/02/12	TALS[x]	from Merton	The other day a little gren business that looked like an income tax receipt came in from Curtis		[annotations by Stone]
1949/02/16	TLS	to Merton	The form you received was a copy of the one we have to send to the government, no matter whether
1949/02/19	TALS[x]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter and the other business which I am filing. I am sorry I was mixed up about		[annotations by Stone]
1949/04/20	TALS[x]	from Merton	About a permanent agreement with Harcourt Brace: I see no particular hitch, except that I would		[annotations by Stone]
1949/05/20	TL[x]	from Laughlin, James	There is no hurry about this matter, but it just happened to pass through my head, so I thought		Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton
1949/12/06	TALS[x]	to Merton	I am enclosing a copy of the letter I wrote to Frank Bruce yesterday. I tried to make it sound		[see "Curtis Brown, Ltd." file for original letter]
1949/12/21	TALS	to Merton	Thanks very much indeed for your letter. I am glad you and Father Abbott [sic] think that
1950/01/24	TALS	to Merton	I saw Mr. Sheed last week and I am glad to say he is a wonderful and reasonable person as maybe you
1950/02/08	TALS	to Merton	I think about everybody is going to write you about the Journal. Harcourt Brace are very disturbed
1950/03/21	TALS	to Merton	Hollis and Carter are very anxious that WHAT ARE THESE WOUNDS shouldn't appear on
1950/03/31	TALS	to Merton	I have just put off reading the section of THE WHALE AND THE IVY for far too long. There have been
1950/04/11	TALS	to Merton	Thanks very much for your letter and various enclosures with which I have dealt. As to the Journal,
1950/04/19	TLS	to Merton	Many thanks for yours of April fourteenth and the new pages of the Journal. I think it's really
1950/04/26	TLS	to Merton	I was sorry to have to wire you yesterday but I received a letter from Jay saying that he had put
1950/05/05	TLS	to Merton	Thanks a lot for your letter of April twenty-ninth. I probably should be a lot more disappointed
1950/06/01	TLS	to Merton	Many thanks for the corrected contemplative pamphlet for Burns which I am sending off and I am
1950/06/15	TLS	to Merton	Many thanks for yours of June tenth. I am sure you may give those Catholic priests the rights
1950/07/24	TLS	to Merton	This is just an interim letter to say that I have read the manuscript of BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS
1950/07/29	TLS[x]	from Merton	Thanks much for your letter. Both of them in fact, because I guess I didn't answer the other one
1950/08/05	TALS[x]	from Merton	I got Jay's letter and his reaction to the BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS proposal. It was what you were
1950/08/15	TLS	to Merton	Believe me I have been worried at not writing you sooner about the PSALM book. I heard from Jay
1950/09/19	TALS	to Merton	I am really sorry to hear that you are in the infirmary even in a room named after St. Naomi.
1950/10/13	TALS	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of the third and the galleys of WHAT IS CONTEMPLATION. I am sure Jay is
1950/10/23	TLS	to Merton	I have just had a letter from Tom Burns quoting one you wrote him and which I felt I should explain
1950/12/30	TALS[x]	from Merton	Happy New Year. I am enclosing a copy of a letter I am just sending to Bob. As you know I have been
1951/01/15	TL[x]	to Merton	As you know by now, we have received the copy of FIRE CLOUD AND DARKNESS and I am sending
1951/01/17	TL[c]	from Giroux, Robert	I am very happy to enclose our check for fourteen thousand sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.		[transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - transcribed copy of letter made by Stone and sent to Dom James Fox with letter of 1951/01/18]
1951/01/18 (#01)	TLS	to Fox, James	I know that Father Louis will show you this letter but since we so very much need your advice		[transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - sending Giroux letter of 1951/01/17 and her letter to Merton of 1951/01/18]
1951/01/18 (#02)	TL[c]	from Giroux, Robert	I am very happy to enclose our check for fourteen thousand sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.		[copy for Merton of 1951/01/17 letter from Robert Giroux to Stone]
1951/01/18 (#03)	TLS	to Merton	I have today received a very handsome check from Harcourt Brace, together with the attached letter
1951/01/18 (#04)	TL[c]	to Merton	I have today received a very handsome check from Harcourt Brace, together with the attached letter		[transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2 - sending Giroux letter of 1951/01/17]
1951/01/27 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	As soon as your letter arrived I talked the whole matter over with Father Abbot. We then considered
1951/01/27 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	As soon as your letter arrived I talked the whole matter over with Father Abbot. We then considered		[transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2]
1951/02/15	TLS	to Merton	I am writing to you but I hope you will show this to Father Abbott [sic] and that he will forgive me
1951/03/02	TALS[x]	from Merton	Catching up with back mail. Thanks for your letter about the New Directions problem. Your answer
1951/03/06 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of March second. Mrs. Haggard has asked me to say that the piece from
1951/03/06 (#02)	TALS[x]	from Merton	Father Abbot is not inclined to favor this proposal about a play. Did I write to you the other day		[annotated by Stone]
1951/05/15	TALS	to Merton	What a perfectly wonderful wedding present. Nothing could please me more. As you know I felt
1951/05/22	TLS	to Merton	I have finished reading the Journal and have sent it over to Bob. It really is wonderful
1951/06/07	TLS	to Merton	This is just a letter to say that I hear from Jay that he is going to see you around the fourteenth
1951/06/20	TLS	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter. I had heard from Jay about the Journal, of course. Frankly, I was
1951/06/29	TLS[x]	from Merton	Perhaps my way of putting Jay's proposal to you had the wrong effect. I will not intesify
1951/07/23	TLS	to Merton	I should have written you sooner in reply to your letter about Laughlin and another book after BREAD
1951/11/06	TLS[x]	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter. In answer to your first question, the British do not consider
1952/06/03	TLS[x]	from Merton	The little job for Clare Luce's anthology was done by me because she asked Father Abbot and Father
1952/06/20 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	We have been checking on the anthology for Sheed & Ward called SAINTS FOR NOW.
1952/06/20 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton to Sheed & Ward	This is to authorize you to pay any monies due me from my contributions to SAINTS FOR NOW to Curtis		[handwritten note at top reads, "To be kept by Author" / typed note on bottom reads, "Original signed by Rev. Father returned to Naomi Burton on 30 July 1952"]
1952/07/15	TLS	to Merton	Miss Weiner has shown me recent correspondence with you about your books and Sudamericana,
1952/10/06	TLS	to Merton	I was most sorry to hear from Macgregor at New Directions that Monsignor Fearns seems to have raised
1952/11/05	TALS	to Merton	I have had the following from MacGregor at New Directions: "Probably Thomas Merton has also written
1952/11/06	TLS	to Merton	I am happy to tell you that New American Library have made a deal with Hollis & Carter
1952/11/07	TL[x]	from Merton	You remember that pamphlet, CISTERCIAN CONTEMPLATIVES we published here some time ago.
1952/11/17	TLS	to Merton	I have had the following from Tom Burns today: "Many thanks for your cable, followed by your letter
1952/12/09	TLS[x]	from Merton	Thanks for your letters, one about the release of <u>Jonas</u> and the other about Dom Aelred Graham
1953/01/29	TLS	to Merton	I have a letter from Bob MacGregor today saying that he has heard from you direct that the Order
1953/02/02	TL[x]	to Merton	Thank you for your wire. I am sorry you couldn't let the photographers go down there. We have just
1953/04/16	TLS	to Merton	PERSPECTIVES USA, a magazine published by the Ford Foundation, have bought reprint rights
1953/05/10	TLS[x]	from Merton	I enclose a preface, written at the request of the Henry Regnery Co, for their selected
1953/05/13	TLS	to Merton	Many thanks for yours of May 10th. I am sending on the preface to Henry Regnery and will let you
1953/11/12	TLS	to Merton	I checked wtih [sic] Bob Giroux about the Chinese Trappist book because I didn't want to tell you my
1953/12/11	TLS	to Merton	Thank you so much for your letter and the enclosures. I'll pass the Japan letter
1954/02/08	TLS[x]	from Merton	I felt that my last letter had been an awful jumble, but I did not realise just how awful a jumble
1954/04/20	TLS[x]	from Merton	As you know, the Church is having what it calls a "Marian year". The Holy Father is quite serious
1954/06/16	TLS	to Merton	Of course I was proud as punch when I read my name in JONAS. I was tickled when a total stranger
1954/11/08	TALS	to Merton	How good it was to get a letter from you this morning. The illustrated book sounds very interesting
1954/11/10	TLS[x]	from Merton	This is just a line about the non-business part of your last letter. I want to say how glad I am
1955/02/14	other		AGREEMENT made this 14th , days of February, 1955, by and between Abbey of Gethsemani Inc., c/o		[rights and royalties agreement between the Abbey of Gethsemani (represented by Stone at Curtis Brown) and Farrar, Straus and Company for the work, <i>Life of a Young Monk</i> (A Vision Book) by Merton - 2 copies]
1955/02/25	TLS	to Straus, Roger	With reference to the contract between The Abbey of Gethsemani for Thomas Merton's book for Vision		[contract in the form of letter from Stone to Roger Straus of Farrar, Straus publishers - signed and returned to Stone - 2 copies, both signed]
1955/03/01	TLS	to Merton	I am very glad to be enclosing contracts for Father Louis' proposed book for the Vision Book Series
1955/03/10	TALS	to Merton	Please don't feel bad about the Vision Book contract. Why don't you just hold on to it for six
1955/03/30	TLS	to Merton	I have just been reading SILENCE IN HEAVEN and have some minor comments to make.
1955/04/04	TALS	to Merton	I am very happy to write you that I've had the following from John McCallum at Harcourt Brace:
1955/04/07	TALS	to Merton	Bob is writing to you about the awful Fearns situation. Harcourt Brace received a letter from
1955/04/08	TALS	to Merton	Sorry to bombard you with letters, but I know it will slip my mind if I don't write you now about it
1955/04/12	telegram	from Merton
1955/04/15	TLS	to Merton	I have put off answering you last letter, partly because of lack of time to sit down and write
1955/04/20	telegram	from Merton
1955/05/02	telegram	from Merton
1955/05/02	TLS	to Merton	THE LIVING BREAD arrived on Friday and I read it over this weekend. To me it seems really terrific,
1955/05/10	TALS	to Merton	I am sending you by mail today the top copy of THE LIVING BREAD as typed up. I am sending one
1955/06/09	telegram	from Merton
1955/07/06	TLS[x]	from Merton	Many thanks for the notes on Living Bread. I do not yet have the manuscript, but I will get to work
1955/07/08	telegram	from Merton
1955/07/25	telegram	from Merton
1955/07/27	TALS	to Merton	I am extremely keen about the poems and about THE TOWER OF BABEL and think they will make
1955/08/04	TL[c]	from Merton	I am glad you like Babel and the poems, and I am all in favor of letting New Directions do the job,
1955/08/24	TLS	to Merton	Wow! Jubilee are simply delighted with THE TOWER OF BABEL and want to print it in their October
1955/12/06 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	I suppose it is not much use in saying to a Trappist that after my neglecting to write to you for so
1955/12/06 (#02)	TLS	to Merton	I probably never would have written you about the thousand and one things I should have written
1955/12/12	TL[c]	from Merton	This one is business. I'll take care of the other matter separately. So, thanks for your letter.
1956/01/12	TLS[x]	from Fox, James	Father Louis has told us of your plan for a visit next month. We do look forward to that.		[from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey]
1956/01/16 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Here is a letter from Dom Claude which I just received although it was sent airmail Dec. 21.
1956/01/16 (#02)	TL[x]	to Fox, James	Thank you for your letter of January 12. Please don't let Miss Doherty sell any manuscript		[from Stone to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey]
1956/01/24	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	Dom M. James Fox has written to us about your request concerning an early Thomas Merton manuscript.		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1956/01/29	TLS[x]	from Merton	Thank you for your letter of January 24. I hope that both this letter and the Ms. reached you
1956/02/01	TL[c]	from Burns, Tom / to Graham Watson	This is just a formal acknowledgment of your letter of the 31st January about THE LIVING BREAD,		[from Tom Burns of Burns, Oates & Washbourne publishers to Graham Watson of Curtis Brown publishers]
1956/02/16?	HLS	from Sue [?]	These are from Claire's sweater, or did you pay me? You probably did only I'll lose these if I
1956/02/22 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	I'm sorry but this looks like a long letter. Bear with me. 1. Here is a copy of a letter between
1956/02/22 (#02)	TL[c]	to Loring-Rheims, Mrs.	I am just back from Kentucky and hasten to write to you, and to thank you for your letter
1956/02/29	TLS[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	Your letter of February 21st arrived with the MS - both safely. I am sorry that there		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House - she writes from Combermere, Ontario, Canada]
1956/03/01	TLS	to Merton	I have talked to Bob MacGregor of New Directions about type for TOWER OF BABEL and Other Poems.
1956/03/14	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	I have had two copies of the Journal made, and I am retiring your own copy under separate cover		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1956/03/16	TLS[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	Thank you very much for your letter of March 5. I am glad that the little misunderstanding that		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1956/03/20	TLS	to Merton	First of all, I have read the new first chapter for LIVING IN SILENCE. I will read it again when it
1956/03/24	TALS[x]	from Merton	I just have your fine letter of the 20th. Four days flat. Not bad. What have you been praying for		[annotations by Stone]
1956/04/02 (#01)	TALS	to Merton	Yours of March 28th just arrived so I shall rush this off and answer what hasn't already been
1956/04/02 (#02)	other	to Merton	Tom please note some of the questions raised may be due to the lousy typing job done by Ambassador.		[typed list of questions about <i>Spiritual Direction</i> [and Meditation?] with handwritten annotations by Stone]
1956/04/02 (#03)	TLS	to Merton	Various things. First of all, Harcourt Brace have, with my help, to be unmodest about it, sold
1956/04/11	TALS	to Merton	Your letter of April 4th arrived this afternoon and I must write at once to say that I am terribly
1956/04/14?	other[x]	from Merton	Dreams (2) [-] January 1956- during annual retreat. I drive away from the house where I used		[dream diary of uncertain date - in a letter of 14 April 1956, Merton states he has "typed some dreams" / first page, "Dreams (2)," is dated January 1956 - second page, "Dreams (3)" is dated May and June 1955, but it may instead be 1956 (and therefore the date sent to Stone would be even later than noted)]
1956/04/18	TALS	to Merton	I finally unearthed Marbridge although you will be interested to hear there was a publisher called
1956/04/25	TLS	to Merton	This is going to be a vast catch-all business letter. 1. I have the ms. of the revised first
1956/04/27	TLS	to Merton	There are nine other letters I should write but how can I write anyone but you at this moment?		[written on stationery from the Olean Motel, Olean, New York]
1956/05/02	TL[x]	from Merton	First of all, here are a couple of poems. Let them be as presents for the 6th. Matthew Scott is		[see the "Giroux, Robert" file (under 1956/08/00?[3]) for a copy of the letter forwarded to Giroux - very faint reprographic copy]
1956/05/08	TALS	to Merton	Thank you for your letter of May 2nd and the two poems. I very definitely don't feel that The Sting
1956/05/12	TLS	to Merton	Well, were you ever saved by the bell. I had planned to tell you exactly what I thought about
1956/05/14	TLS	to Merton	Here are proofs from THOUGHT of Elias. Will you please correct them and return them to me?
1956/05/21	TLS[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	Thank you for writing. I have been wondering what had happened to you, the manuscript, Father Louis		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House - she writes from Combermere, Ontario, Canada]
1956/05/25	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	Thanks so much for your letter of May 21st. I will certainly get together with Farrar Straus		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House - she writes from Combermere, Ontario, Canada]
1956/05/28	TALS	to Merton	Thank you so much for your letter of May 17th and one of May 22nd. I will try to answer them both
1956/05/30	TLS[x]	from Merton	Many thanks for your letter with the pictures of Olean. I will reply to it in full as soon as I get
1956/06/01	TLS	to Merton	Frightful important emergency. Well - anyway. Father O'Neill has just phoned me to say that you
1956/06/08	TALS	to Merton	Slight problem. If I should have written to Father Abbot about this please pass it along.
1956/06/21	TL[x]	to Merton	I have seen Mr. Giroux and Mr. Straus of Farrar Straus & Cudahy. They are prepared to offer you
1956/06/22 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	The attached letter to the Liturgical Press speaks for itself. I'm so glad we were able
1956/06/22 (#02)	TL[c]	to Heidt, William	I'm very happy to tell you that I've just had the following letter from Mr. W. C. Smith at Benziger
1956/06/25	TLS[x]	from Merton	Your letter of June 21st just received, and I hasten to answer it. I would, of course, gladly
1956/06/29	TALS	to Merton	That long letter I owe you will come. Probably one reason I don't write it is that I feel good
1956/07/10	TLS[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	Now I hate to think Madonna House is ruining the lives of your four nieces in England who used		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House - she writes from Combermere, Ontario, Canada]
1956/07/18	TLS	to Fox, James	I seem always to be coming up with another question. Do you remember that when I was at Gethsemani		[to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey]
1956/07/26	TL[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	I have had the following from the Abbot at Gethsemani: "Since good Catherine is in her most		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House - she writes from Combermere, Ontario, Canada]
1956/07/30	TAL[x]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter. I went over to the Liturgical Press and checked with them and they were		[see the "Giroux, Robert" file (under 1956/08/00?[4]) for a copy of the letter forwarded to Giroux - very faint reprographic copy]
1956/08/10	TLS[x]	from Merton	Good news. The Abbot General says we can go ahead with <u>Cuban Journal</u> provided that
1956/08/13 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	That's wonderful about the CUBAN JOURNAL. You yourself will want to do a little censoring I believe
1956/08/13 (#02)	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	Initial good news from Gethsemani. Tom writes: "The Abbot General says we can go ahead with		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1956/08/17 (#01)	TL[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	Thanks for your letter of August 13 which I hasten to answer. I also enclose a copy of my letter		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House - she writes from Combermere, Ontario, Canada]
1956/08/17 (#02)	TAL[x]	from Doherty, Catherine / to Merton	It is such a joy to me that there is really a valid reason for me to write to you, for though I know		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty to Merton - she writes from Combermere, Ontario, Canada]
1956/08/21 (#01)	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	Thanks so much for your letter of August 17th. I'm sure you will get some letter from Tom but		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1956/08/21 (#02)	TL[x]	to Giroux, Robert	I think I better send you the original of a document I've had from Catherine Doherty about Merton's		[to Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1956/08/22	TL[x]	from Merton to Catherine Doherty	This is to provide you with an official record of the fact that in 1941 I made you a present
1956/08/27 (#01)	other[x]	from from Doherty, Catherine / to Merton	TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that Thomas Merton, now known as Father Louis, Monk		[copy of a statement by Catherine de Hueck Doherty that Merton had given her a copy of the manuscript of the <u>Cuban Diary</u> (also known as the Cuban Journal and published as the <u>Secular Journal of Thomas Merton</u>) that Doherty could publish and give the rewards to her apostolate]
1956/08/27 (#02)	other[x]	from Doherty, Catherine / to Merton	TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that Thomas Merton, now known as Father Louis, Monk		[photocopy of signed statement by Catherine de Hueck Doherty that Merton had given her a copy of the manuscript of the <u>Cuban Diary</u> (also known as the Cuban Journal and published as the <u>Secular Journal of Thomas Merton</u>) that Doherty could publish and give the rewards to her apostolate]
1956/10/04	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	I am so happy to send for your signature two copies of the contract for THE CUBAN JOURNAL OF THOMAS		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1956/10/04	TALS	to Merton	It really was wonderful to see you and Ned'd tour made an enormous impression on him.		Robert MacGregor - order of poems for <i>The Strange Islands</i> / <i>Cuban Journal</i> (<i>The Secular Journal</i>) - best to delete a some phrases rather than to rewrite to be true to original
1956/10/28	HLS	to Merton	I hope I haven't left this till to late and it will reach you for All Saints Day. Actually I don't
1956/11/07	TALS[x]	from Merton	Well, here is your ole darkie chum from way down in Dixie Land. They allow us colored folks		[annotations by Stone]
1956/12/17	telegram	from Merton
1957/03/01	TLS	to Fox, James	Bob Giroux has sent on to me the enclosed sheaf of reviews on THE SILENT LIFE. I thought you would
1957/03/19	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	I just wanted to let you know that the Merton Journal has not been		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1957/03/25	TLS[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	It certainly was nice to hear from you. I kind of have been wondering what has been happening		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House - she writes from Combermere, Ontario, Canada]
1957/04/19	TL[c]	to Merton	I shouldn't have left it till Good Friday to write to you. I have honestly meant every day to write
1957/05/24	TL[x]	to Giroux, Robert	Interim report on the SECULAR JOURNAL. Father Abbot's secretary writes as follows:		[to Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1957/05/29	TLS	to Merton	Well here we are approaching Ascension Day. I am sure this five day a year letter business is
1957/07/05	TL[x]	to Fox, James	How goes the censorship situation with A SECULAR DIARY. You know I was surprised a while back		[from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey]
1957/07/08	TN[x]	to Merton	No word on this except that the title almost certainly will be A SECULAR JOURNAL. At the moment
1957/08/16	TL[x]	to Giroux, Robert	I keep getting word from Father Abbot that any minute now we will get the release on A SECULAR		[to Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1957/08/21 (#01)	TLS[x]	from Giroux, Robert	This is just to say that we are perfectly in accord on the two points covered in your letter		[from Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1957/08/21 (#02)	TLS[x]	to Giroux, Robert	I've had a letter from Gethsemani and thought you would like to see the following: "I am sure that		[to Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1957/08/24	TLS[x]	from Merton	With horror I realize that I have barely six days in which to reach you with this letter--
1957/10/14	TLS[x]	from Fox, James	Your letter of October 4 was received and forwarded to me. One of our Abbots died in Paris.		[from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey]
1957/10/16	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	I'm appalled to have the enclosed from Father Abbott [sic] Fox but I just hope that it will work out		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1957/10/25	TLS[x]	from Merton	Father Abbot gave me permission to anticipate All Saints with the points that follow, then if you
1957/10/26	TL[c]	from Merton	This is an afterthought but I think it is a good one. You may receive this on the same day as my
1957/10/30 (#01)	TALS	to Merton	So good to hear from you. I have two letters, one more or less contradicting the other,
1957/10/30 (#02)	TL[x]	to Giroux, Robert	I'm enclosing a copy of a letter from Tom dated October 26th. He has sent along this material and I		[to Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1957/11/06	TL[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	Your letter, which I just read from my return from Rome and the Lay Congress there and the many long		[copied from the "Curtis Brown, Ltdl" file] news about <i>The Secular Journal</i> being held up by censors "has been quite a blow" - "in absolute dire need of money"
1957/11/16	TALS[x]	from Merton	Still no news from that fourth censor. I don't know what he is going to come up with, but I wonder
1957/12/16	TALS[x]	from Merton	The full official text of the Abbot General's decision has not yet come through, but unofficially
1957/12/19	TLS[x]	from Doherty, Catherine	Happy, holy Christmas to you! And I hope your New Year will be filled with peace and joy!		[from Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1957/12/30 (#01)	TL[x]	to Doherty, Catherine	I'm terribly sorry to answer your letter of the 19th with any gloom and I've delayed answering it		[to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Merton's friend also known as "The Baroness", who founded Friendship House and Madonna House]
1957/12/30 (#02)	TL[x]	to Giroux, Robert	I was upset enough about poor Catherine Doherty reading in the Critic an announcement		[to Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1958/02/28	TLS	to Merton	Bob quoted to me from your recent letter to him about the SECULAR JOURNAL. I had heard
1958/10/20 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	I am enclosing a copy of the letter with all the details of the Catholic Literary Foundation
1958/10/20 (#02)	TLS	from Giroux, Robert	The agreement with the Catholic Literary Foundation on THE SECULAR JOURNAL is now final,		[from Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1958/10/24	TLS	to Merton	First of all, I'm sending you under separate cover two copies of THE COMMONWEAL which carry
1958/11/12	TALS	to Merton	Your memory must <u>really</u> be getting dim! I'm sure it's not more than a couple of weeks
1958/11/19 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	I am happy to send you the enclosed letter from Bob Giroux about ART AND WORSHIP. Looks good
1958/11/19 (#02)	TL[c]	from Giroux, Robert	I am very much interested in ART AND WORSHIP, the proofs of which Tom has sent me.		[from Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1958/12/22	TALS	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of December 15. The TIMES BOOK REVIEW turned down "the Pasternak Affair
1959/01/09	TLS	to Merton	Thanks so much for yours of January 3. I am sorry that the pictures upset you and others
1959/01/13	TLS[x]	to Giroux, Robert	Would you be good enough to send three copies of THE SECULAR JOURNAL OF THOMAS MERTON		[from Ann Howard (Secretary to Stone) to Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1959/01/26	TL[x]	to Giroux, Robert	I've had the following from Father Irenaeus, and your secretary has very kindly promised to send him		[to Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1959/01/27	TL[x]	from Giroux, Robert / to Irenaeus Herscher	This is just to say that two copies of THE SECULAR JOURNAL OF THOMAS MERTON have been sent
1959/02/20	TALS	to Merton	I have now read WHAT SHOULD I DO? (The Desert Fathers sayings) and think it is a <u>very</u>
1959/03/11	TLS	to Merton	I'm so happy to hear about THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE winning the Christopher Award for 1958,
1959/03/16		from Merton
1959/03/16	TALS[x]	from Merton	I am confused, overwhelmed, by the bronze medal. (Not really. But it was nice of them anyway.)
1959/04/13	TLS	to Merton	I've just had the following from Bob Giroux at Farrar Straus: "SAYINGS OF THE DESERT FATHERS
1959/04/16	TL[x]	from Merton	For the past few days there has been in the monastery guess who: one of the censors. Fr Abbot got		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - original of letter was likely signed but the bottom of page is cut short] Fr. Paul Bourne, censor from Conyers, Georgia (Holy Ghost / Holy Spirit Trappist Abbey) / problem of censorship - censors proposing editorial changes and not objections to faith and morals - should consult editors and not report to Abbot General / Paul Bourne's objections to <i>Art and Worship</i> / <i>The Wisdom of the Desert</i> / essay "Christianity and Totalitarianism" for <u>Cross Currents</u>
1959/04/22 (#01)	TALS	to Merton	I'm so happy to have your letter of April 16th which sounds very gay and cheerful, and I have
1959/04/22 (#02)	TL[c]	to Laughlin, James	I'm so delighted that you want to do THE DESERT FATHERS and, just to get things started, I will
1959/04/28 (#02)	TL[x]	from Merton to James Laughlin	It is good news that the Desert Fathers go to ND and that you are interested in making it a very		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - see also letter to Naomi Burton Stone (item number one of this date)] <i>The Wisdom of the Desert</i> - design of the book, archaic versus modern - Victor Hammer and American Uncial font / musical setting for "The Tower of Babel - Vincent Persichetti
1959/04/28? (#01)	TN[x]	from Merton	Here, in haste, is the copy of my letter to J. So you have everything to date. I am expecting Bob		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - see also letter to James Laughlin (item number two of this date)] French edition of <i>Thoughts in Solitude</i> / <i>The Wisdom of the Desert</i>
1959/05/09 (#01)	TLS[x]	from Merton	Well, imagine that finally the censors came through with their approval for the stuff on Pasternak.		[very difficult to read / possibly a copy made from a copy sent to Robert Giroux by Merton / see also "Giroux" correspondence file]
1959/05/09 (#02)	TLS[x]	from Merton	Well, imagine that finally the censors came through with their approval for the stuff on Pasternak.		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files]
1959/06/02	TLS	to Merton	I have various letters for which to thank you, and I'm sorry to have been so slow in doing so.
1959/06/08	TLS	to Merton	"Thought" are very keen about the Pasternak article and will probably use it in the Fall, if they
1959/06/23	TLS	to Merton	I'm enclosing herewith the contract for DESERT FATHERS, and I'm sending them to you since you
1959/08/07	TALS	from Giroux, Robert	I am glad to enclose our advance check for $500.00 against royalties due on THE SECULAR JOURNAL		[from Robert Giroux, at this time editor from the publisher Farrar, Straus and Cudahy in New York City]
1959/08/10	TLS	to Merton	Thanks for your letter of August 5th, and I'm sorry about The Critic. Bob is going along with ART
1959/08/21	TLS	to Merton	Herewith the contracts for the selected poems with New Directions. You will see we put in a clause
1959/08/31	TLS	to Merton	OK, please cross out the clause re Mark Van Doren preface and we will explain to New Directions,
1959/10/20 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	As you will see from the enclosed, we have given permission to Rinehart to use POETRY AND THE
1959/10/20 (#02)	other		The undersigned requests a non-exclusive license to reprint [-] Title... POETRY AND THE		[form from Curtis Brown requesting reprint rights for Merton's "Poetry and the Contemplative Life", to be used by Rinehart & Co. publishers for the book <i>Essays in the American Catholic Tradition</i> by P. Albert Duhamel - signed by agents of Curtis Brown and Rinehart]
1959/11/02	TLS	to Merton	Here's the answer to various points in your letter of the 23rd. "The Power and Meaning of Love"
1959/11/15	TALS	to Merton	Just a very brief note to thank you so much for your letter of the 7th. The past is much too much
1959/11/16	TLS	to Merton	Here's the business answer to your letter. First of all, about the Merton Reader. This suggestion
1960/01/07	TLS	to Merton	I realized, having re-read my letter to you after 24 hours, that my feelings about "not caring about
1960/01/28	TLS[x]	from Merton	Many thanks to Ann, to Doubleday, for the Anchor and other books I am reading with delicious horror
1962/11/25	TL[c]	from Merton	I have many things to thank you for: and first of all Marina de Berg's book. You have done a very
1963/05/01	TALS	to Merton	Happy St. Joseph the Worker's Day and all that jazz. I simply cannot wait around any longer
1963/05/16	TL[c]	from Merton	Well I finally got a reaction out of Bob. You probably know the lineup. He wants to publish four
1963/05/25	TALS	to Merton	I had planned - and even started dictating - a letter to you yesterday so that you wouldn't think
1963/05/29	TALS	to Merton	Very many thanks for your note with the contracts which of course crosses mine asking for these
1963/06/10	TLS	to Merton	I didn't write you last week because you were on retreat - anyway that sounds like a frightfully
1963/06/11	TL[c]	from Merton	First of all, need I say that there is absolutely not a sign of life out of Bob? He has not sent
1963/06/22	TALS	to Merton	Sorry to be so slow in writing. I don't know why I find it so hard to call Bob but I do but finally
1963/06/25	TL[c]	from Merton	Here is a letter which finally came from Bob, but it does not say anything very definite.
1963/07/01	TALS	to Merton	Many thanks for yours of June 25th with copy of Bob's. He said he would send me a copy but
1963/07/15	TL[c]	from Merton	I hope you had a good time in Maine. I did as you suggested, and sent the check to Warren Sullivan
1963/07/19	TL[c]	from Merton	This has been a hot day in every possible sense. Utterly vile heat, and then on top of it a letter
1963/07/25	TALS	to Merton	I have received from Bob today the proposed draft letter and I'm hoping that you will understand -
1963/08/20	TLS	to Merton	I'm beginning to get a little worried at not having heard from you for some time, and because I know
1963/08/22	TL[c]	from Merton	Your letter reached me this morning. Rather fast, in fact. You can imagine what I did with Bob's
1963/08/30	TLS	to Merton	I feel badly that I haven't written to you, but I have wanted to clear my befuddled brain,
1963/09/04	HPCS	to Merton	Reading from T Merton at Supper - I can't escape you! [-] So I'm retreating in beautiful natural		[verso: color photograph from the Carmel Retreat House in Oakland, New Jersey]
1963/09/05	TL[c]	from Merton	Some questions and difficulties: 1) That editor of a small circulation magazine (Continuum, is new)
1963/09/10	TL[c]	from Merton	I thought the best thing to do was to tell the editor of Continuum, Justus G. Lawler, to get
1963/11/14	TALS	to Merton	I'm sorry to have been silent for so long, but I seem to have been swamped and I really don't see,
1963/12/13	TLS	to Merton	I've been having a very pleasant correspondence with Louis Gales of the Catechetical Guild,
1963/12/17	TL[c]	from Merton	All right go ahead with the art book for Bob. There is one more thing I want to add, a short
1963/12/23	TALS	to Merton	I have got proofs from the Catechetical Guild of the adaptation from LIFE AND HOLINESS and am
1963/12/31	TAL[c]	from Merton	This will have to be short and sweet, I am just digging into the huge pile of mail that has
1964/01/07	TL[c]	from Merton	Happy New Year. Several things. First of all I have never heard anything from Tom Burns	Yes
1964/01/09 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	The ms. of BLACK REVOLUTION AND COLD WAR arrived safe and sound and has gone off to Bob
1964/01/09 (#02)	TAL[c]	from Merton	The Letter part of that book I sent you have been passed by the censor, a little equivocally,
1964/01/28	TALS[x]	to Merton	Thank you very much for the final text of ART AND WORSHIP, which I am delighted to have am		[copied from “Fox, James” file, Series 19, correspondence with Naomi Burton Stone] <i>Art and Worship</i>, "The Cold War and Black Revolution" (published in modified form in the United States as <i>Seeds of Destruction</i>) / thinks Merton's response to a critic of his piece on Dr. Zhivago was uncharitable and should not be included in published form
1964/01/30	TL[c]	from Merton	About the censorship of BLACK REVOLUTION etc/ To make sure there is no equivocation about it I have
1964/02/05	TLS	to Merton	Thanks very much for your letter of January 30th. I have told Bob that you feel the manuscript
1964/02/11	TLS	to Merton	I was very happy to have your letter of February 8th because you sound more cheerful and like
1964/02/17	TL[c]	from Merton	The piece I wrote for the Vatican Pavilion is only three or four pages. Itis [sic] a sort of script
1964/03/03 (#01)	TAL[c]	from Merton	Well, the unthinkable has happened. It usually does. A letter from the new Abbot General came	Yes
1964/03/03 (#02)	TALS[x]	from Merton	Well, the unthinkable has happened. It usually does. A letter from the new Abbot General came	Yes	[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - contains handwritten note not included in published version]
1964/03/05	TLS	to Merton	Fantastic. I know how deeply upsetting this is for you. I have talked to Bob and he is more
1964/03/10	TALS	to Merton	First of all, of course I will get in touch with Harold Robbins about that idea. I wonder why Ed
1964/03/13	TL[c]	from Merton	I have worked out the reason for the misunderstanding with the new General. I had asked the old one	Yes
1964/04/05	TALS	to Merton	Enclosed you will see a letter from a Miss Fenton at Geoffrey Chapman and my reply - rather a snippy
1964/04/17 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Sine [sic] I was just on the phone to a lady in Paris I think I had better go to confession.
1964/04/17 (#02)	TLS[x]	from Merton	Sine [sic] I was just on the phone to a lady in Paris I think I had better go to confession.		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files]
1964/04/20	TL[c]	from Merton	Will you please take care of this request from Putnam? Obviously I have not the slightest intention
1964/05/08	TAL[c]	from Merton	What has become of you? Are you in Maine? I have been hesitating about sending this ms to you,
1964/05/11	TALS	to Merton	I know, I know. It is terrible of me but I feel in a permanent state of having the whole roof fall
1964/06/26	TLS	to Merton	It's a long time since I've heard from you and I do hope that doesn't mean you have been having more
1964/06/27	TAL[c]	from Merton	Your letter reached me promptly and I am very glad. I am glad also that this new thing turned up
1964/07/02	TL[c]	to Merton	It was a relief to hear from you because it had been so long and I wondered how things were going.
1964/07/17	TLS[x]	from Seitz, Ron	It has been some time since you have heard from me, and possibly you do not even remember me.		[Ron Seitz writes from Anaheim, California]
1964/07/23	TL[c]	from Merton	I might as well send you this. It is not meant to be finished and there would be quite a lot more
1964/07/27	TL	to Merton	First of all I wanted to let you know that the liturgy manuscript has arrived safely in Maine.
1964/08/03	TAL[c]	from Merton	This is mostly about MORE THAN SENTINELS. I am very glad the proofs were sent, enjoyed reading it
1964/08/05 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	Just a line to tell you that the new manuscript arrived safely and I have peeked into it and it
1964/08/05 (#02)	TL[c]	from Gordey, Beverly	I hope that after Dr. Merton's note to Madame Tadié, that she will send him the manuscript.
1964/08/12	TLS	to Merton	First of all, here is Marie Tadie's note and the clipping to which she refers. Honestly, hasn't
1964/08/28	TL[c]	from Merton	Please don't worry about the missing pages in "An Interesting Era" (that is only a very provisional
1964/08/29	TAL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for the feastday letter. Glad I was mentioned in the diptychs in your monastic parish.
1964/09/16	TAL[c]	from Merton	I promised this man I would do something to help him get his book published in America.
1964/09/29	TALS	to Merton	Many thanks for both your letters and for the manuscript about the French mystic which I have passed
1964/10/03	TL[c]	from Merton	First of all thanks for the book. It is beautiful and I especially like the picture on the back
1964/10/07	TLS	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of October 3 and I hope you are exaggerating wildly about Father Abbot.
1964/10/28	TL	to Merton	Just a line to tell you that I have sent off SEASONS OF CELEBRATION to Bob Giroux. Lovely title
1964/11/09	TLS	to Merton	Just a line to thank you for your letter of October 22nd with one to Marie Tadie and the copy
1964/11/23	TALS	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter and the copy of yours to Marie Tadie. Of course it's perfectly all
1964/12/10	TLS	to Merton	How very kind of you to autograph the book for Bill Kelley. I know how happy it will make him.
1964/12/23	TL[c]	from Merton	You are right about the proposition of the Birminghams. I think as a matter off [sic] fact they
1965/01/07 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	Official type letter. I have delayed approaching you on this because I thought at first the idea
1965/01/07 (#02)	TALS	to Merton	I had lunch with Bob Giroux on Tuesday and he told me he was happy with the Liturgy book.
1965/01/11	TL[c]	from Merton	Here is your satellite the shadowy and much sobered "Mr Burton" speaking wraithlike again from
1965/01/29	TL	to Merton	I should have written you long since and meant to write last weekend but I finally managed to write
1965/02/13	TL[c]	from Merton	I can't find your last letter so this may not be a complete answer. Just going by the things I
1965/02/16	TLS[x]	from Horrigan, Alfred / to James Laughlin	I am planning to be in New York City from February 24 to March 3. If your schedule permits, I would		[concerning the establishment of a literary trust for Merton - letter between James Laughlin, editor of New Directions, and Msgr. Alfred Horrigan, president of Bellarmine College]
1965/02/18	TLS[x]	from Laughlin, James	It was great to talk with your on the 'phone the other day and I look forward to taking you to lunch		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/02/18 (#01)	TLS[x]	from Laughlin, James	It was great to talk with you on the 'phone the other day and I look forward to taking you to lunch		[letter from James Laughlin, editor of New Directions]
1965/02/18 (#02)	TL[x]	from Horrigan, Alfred / to James Laughlin	It was good to hear from you again, and I do look forward to another pleasant visit with you,
1965/02/23	TLS[x]	from Horrigan, Alfred / to James Laughlin	Thank you so very much for your letter of February 18. In view of the interesting circumstances		[letter between James Laughlin, editor of New Directions, and Msgr. Alfred Horrigan, president of Bellarmine College]
1965/02/25	TL[x]	to Laughlin, James	Very good to here from you and I agree completely with you and your attitude towards Monsignor		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/02/25 (#01)	TL[x]	from Merton to Alfred Horrigan	James Laughlin sent me a copy of his recent letter to you about the literary executorship.		[to Msgr. Alfred Horrigan, president of Bellarmine College]
1965/02/25 (#02)	TL[x]	to Laughlin, James	Very good to hear from you and I agree completely with you and your attitude towards Monsignor
1965/03/08	TLS[x]	from Laughlin, James	Thank you so much for your fine long letter of February 25th about Tom's affairs. Your ideas		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/03/11	TAL[x]	to Dwyer, William	Did your father speak to you about your possibly agreeing to serve with J. Laughlin of New		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/03/18	TLS	from Gramatky, Linda / to Merton	Miss Burton dictated a letter to you yesterday, but somehow we erased the tape instead and so her
1965/03/23	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for the letter that got erased from the tape. Linda's run down on it got here this morning.
1965/03/26	TL[c]	from Dwyer, William	I am returning herewith the Thomas Merton correspondence which you left with me last week.		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/03/30 (#01)	TLS	to Dwyer, William	Many thanks for your letter of March 26th and I will get in touch with J. Laughlin and we'll try
1965/03/30 (#02)	TALS[x]	to Dwyer, William	Many thanks for your letter of March 26th and I will get in touch with J. Laughlin and we'll try to		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/03/31 (#01)	TL[c]	from Dwyer, William	<u>Re: Merton Executorship</u> [-] Thank you for your letter of March 30th. If the senior Dwyer
1965/03/31 (#02)	TL[x]	from Dwyer, William	Thank you for your letter of March 30th. If the senior Dwyer learns that I am accidentally mailing		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/04/06	other		4/6/65 - Merton. Merton Executorship [-] 1. Complete list of literary property, including		[Stone's handwritten notes on the executorship of Merton's literary estate]
1965/04/22	TL[x]	from Dwyer, William / to James Laughlin	Yesterday I received the Merton books which you were kind enough to send to me and I am delighted
1965/04/26	TLS	from Dwyer, William / to James Laughlin	I acknowledge receipt of and thank you for EMBLEMS IN A SEASON OF FURY and ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB
1965/05/03 (#01)	TL[x]	from Merton	This is a quick answer to yours of April 28th, and I am making a copy for J. whom I expect here this		[one faded mimeograph and one preservation xerox]
1965/05/03 (#02)	other[x]		<u>Mailing List</u>: MIMEOGRAPHS [-] Bro. Antoninus 217 Laurel Grove Kentfield, California		[one faded mimeograph and one preservation xerox]
1965/05/06	TLS	to Merton	Thanks so much for your long letter. Terrific efficiency. I am amazed. That's a good idea about
1965/05/21	TLS	to Merton	I don't believe that I sent you a copy of the letter I received from Thomas Merton that he wrote
1965/05/21 (#01)	TLS[x]	to Dwyer, William	I don't believe that I sent you a copy of the letter I received from Thomas Merton that he wrote		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/05/21 (#02)	TL[x]	from Merton	This is a quick answer to your of April 28th, and I am making a copy for J. whom I expect here this		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original - enclosed with letter of 1965/05/21 from Stone to William Dwyer]
1965/05/21 (#03)	other	from Merton	<u>Mailing List</u>: MIMEOGRAPHS [-] Bro. Antoninus 217 Laurel		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original - enclosed with letter of 1965/05/21 from Stone to Dwyer - mailing list of people to whom his mimeographs are sent - copies are quite faded]
1965/05/24	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter and the clipping. What is the simplest thing to do about those songs
1965/05/27	TLS	to Merton	Thanks for your letter of May 24th, which I will answer briefly. I am pretty sure that you ought
1965/05/no	other		COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK [-] The Library Reporter [-] May 1965 [-] Number 12		[includes holdings of the Columbia University Library, including manuscripts by Merton - "50 manuscripts and printed versions of the poems and prose writings of the Reverend Thomas Merton of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Trappist, Kentucky."]
1965/06/01 (#01)	TLS	to Dwyer, William	Here's another efficient thing from Thomas Merton; namely, a list of all the mimeographed things
1965/06/01 (#02)	other		<u>Partial Check-list of Stencils: Father Louis - May 1965</u> 1. Cistercian Theology -St Bernard		[Merton's typed list of 83 mimeographs with some handwritten notes]
1965/06/14 (#01)	TLS	to Dwyer, William	I'm enclosing herewith two binders from Sister Therese which are catalogues of Father Louis's work.
1965/06/14 (#02)	TALS[x]	from Gramatky, Linda / to William Dwyer	I'm enclosing herewith two binders from Sister Therese which are catalogues of Father Louis's work.		[Linda Gramatky was secretary to Naomi Burton Stone]
1965/06/15	TL[c]	from Merton	Please excuse this paper. The secretary of Fr Abbot, or both secretaries, are working on the copies
1965/06/22 (#01)	TLS	to Dwyer, William	I thought you'd like to know that our boy, Merton, has now got both of the Abbot's secretaries
1965/06/22 (#02)	TALS[x]	to Dwyer, William	I thought you'd like to know that our boy, Merton, has now got both of the Abbot's secretaries		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/06/26	TL[c]	from Merton	Sorry about that business of the Mass for Dorothy Bell: I mean sorry that you did not get any
1965/07/06	TL[c]	from Merton	Here is the manuscript of MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS which you want to give to Bob. I think
1965/07/17	TL[c]	from Merton	Here is the copy of the letter I finally got around to writing Tom Burns. I wanted you to have it,
1965/07/21 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	I'm enclosing a whole bunch of contracts that the little monks have been busily thermofaxing for you
1965/07/21 (#02)	TLS[x]	to Dwyer, William	I'm enclosing a whole bunch of contracts that the little monks have been busily thermofaxing for you		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/07/22 (#01)	TL[c]	from Dwyer, William	<u>Re: Thomas Merton</u> I am receiving great stacks of materials from you and promise to do
1965/07/22 (#02)	TL[x]	from Dwyer, William	I am receiving great stacks of materials from you and promise to do my best to digest them.		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original]
1965/07/23	HLS	from Merton	Many thanks for your letter. I have not heard anything from Bob yet but will let you know as soon
1965/08/01	HLS[x]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter and for the masterpiece about [indecipherable word..]. I had a hard time
1965/08/04 (#01)	TL	to Merton	Sorry I didn't acknowledge sooner yours of July 23rd with the communique from Genovefa, whose last
1965/08/04 (#02)	TL[c]	to Merton	Sorry I didn't acknowledge sooner yours of July 23rd with the communique from Genovefa, whose last
1965/08/04 (#03)	TLS	to Merton	I'm really absolutely delighted with TRUTH AND VIOLENCE in every aspect. It's given me many things
1965/08/04 (#04)	TL[c]	to Merton	I'm really absolutely delighted with TRUTH AND VIOLENCE in every aspect. It's given me many things
1965/08/04 (#05)	TL[x]	from Giroux, Robert	I am delighted with MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS, and have written Tom to tell him so. I proposed
1965/08/09 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter of the 4th. There is of course a lot more of the Journal material scattered	Yes
1965/08/09 (#02)	TLS[x]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter of the 4th. There is of course a lot more of the Journal material scattered	Yes
1965/08/10 (#01)	TALS	from Merton	Here are the roughest rough copies of two other sections of the Journal. Night Spirit and Dawn Air	Yes
1965/08/10 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	Here are the roughest rough copies of two other sections of the Journal. Night Spirit and Dawn Air	Yes
1965/08/11	TL[c]	to Merton	I'm terribly sorry to hear you're in the hospital. Please let me know how you are and do take care
1965/08/12	TLS	to Merton	I wanted to answer at once your letter of August 9th. Yesterday I mailed a letter from New York
1965/08/17	TL[c]	from Merton	This is just to thank you very, very much for your really understanding letter. In a thing like	Yes
1965/08/23	TL	to Merton	I'm dictating this letter on St. Bernard's Day, even though it won't be typed up until Monday,
1965/08/25	TALS[x]	from Merton	I thought I had mentioned that perhaps Harpers might want a bit of the Journal material,	Yes
1965/08/31	TLS[x]	from Merton	Glad to see that you have the fans all stirred up (Catholic Digest). Yes, thanks for telling people	Yes
1965/09/01	TLS[x]	to Merton	Thanks so much for your letter of August 25 and I don't think you did mention the material for
1965/09/01 (#01)	TL[c]	to Merton	Thanks so much for your letter of August 25th and I don't think you did mention the material
1965/09/01 (#02)	TALS[x]	to Merton	Thanks so much for your letter of August 25th and I don't think you did mention the material
1965/09/10 (#01)	TLS[x]	from Merton	Probably the best thing would be for you to plan on coming down in November, about the middle
1965/09/10 (#02)	TL	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of August 31st. Yes, J did write about the paperback of BEHAVIOR
1965/09/10 (#03)	TAL	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of August 31st. Yes, J did write about the paperback of BEHAVIOR
1965/09/16 (#01)	TLS	from Merton	Many thanks for the wonderful offer for Conjectures. I make haste to accept, even though Fr Abbot
1965/09/16 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	Many thanks for the wonderful offer for Conjectures. I make haste to accept, even though Fr Abbot
1965/09/17	TL[c]	to Merton	Just a line to say that it might be a little bit better if I planned to come down in December, but I
1965/09/22 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	I'll probably be writing you from home within the next week or two as I'm going to be on vacation,
1965/09/22 (#02)	TL	to Merton	I'll probably be writing you from home within the next week or two as I'm going to be on vacation,
1965/10/01	TLS	to Merton	I hear from Jacques Maritain that he is having some difficulty placing the translation
1965/10/05	TALS	from Merton	Sorry, problem again. Once more it is Marie Tadié, and since Doubleday is concerned I think I might
1965/10/14	TALS	from Merton	I will send this to your office to await your return from vacation. As you see I am embarrassed by
1965/10/26 (#01)	TALS	from Merton	Tomorrow I hope to send off the manuscript of <u>Barth's Dream and Other Conjectures</u>.	Yes
1965/10/26 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	Tomorrow I hope to send off the manuscript of <u>Barth's Dream and Other Conjectures</u>.	Yes
1965/10/27	TALS	to Merton	I'm back at work and have various letters of yours to answer. I'll start at the wrong end with
1965/10/30	TLS	from Merton	Thanks for the letter. It is perfectly all right about the title. I recognize that you are	Yes
1965/11/04 (#01)	TCS	from Merton	Here is that list I was promising. Also a meditation I wrote for some nice Anglican nuns, and which
1965/11/04 (#02)	other	from Merton	<u>BOOKS</u> by Thomas Merton. As of 1966. [-] *-ones marked with asterisk are to be omitted from		[mimeographed list of Merton's books at the time - handwritten note about asterisks marking books not to be included on printed lists, including <i>Exile Ends in Glory</i>, <i>What Are These Wounds?</i>, <i>The Last of the Fathers</i>, and <i>The Behavior of Titans</i>]
1965/11/09 (#01)	TLS	to Dwyer, William	Because we just signed a contract with the Abbey of Gethsemani for a book by Thomas Merton, he sent
1965/11/09 (#02)	TALS[x]	to Dwyer, William	Because we just signed a contract with the Abbey of Gethsemani for a book by Thomas Merton,		[see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of original - encloses list Merton compiled of his books to that time]
1965/11/09 (#03)	TALS	to Merton	Thanks very much for your post card and a list of books which really you sent along last week too
1965/11/09 (#04)	TL[c]	to Merton	Thanks very much for your post card and a list of books which really you sent along last week too
1965/11/09 (#05)	HNS	from Merton	Delighted if you can come next week. I will await information from Abbot. As to that editing job
1965/11/12	TLS	to Merton	Hasty line to say that I have finished the book and am EXTREMELY enthusiastic. Agree some cutting
1965/11/15	TLS	from Merton	I did not get your letter until Saturday, and this reply may not reach you in time, though it should
1965/11/22 (#01)	TLS	from Merton	This is just a quick note about the parts of Conjectures that can safely be sent out to magazines.
1965/11/22 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	This is just a quick note about the parts of Conjectures that can safely be sent out to magazines.
1965/11/26	HNS	from Merton	Here is the preface. I think it is less bad, but if you want to edit it further, go ahead.
1965/11/29	TALS	to Merton	First of all, here is the November 27 issue of the <u>New Yorker</u> and I will get the missing one
1965/12/09 (#01)	TL	to Merton	I have been over the Preface and made some suggestions and am attaching a copy of it with those
1965/12/09 (#02)	TL[c]	to Merton	I have been over the Preface and made some suggestions and am attaching a copy of it with those		[2 identical carbons]
1965/12/09 (#03)	other[x]	to Merton	RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE [-] THE MOST IMPORTANT CATHOLICS? [-] By Religious News Service		[news clipping regarding a late 1965 issue of <u>The Critic</u>, list Merton as one of "The 15 Most Important Catholics in the U.S.A."]
1965/12/11	HNS	from Merton	Thanks for tidying up the preface. I will write a decent letter soon, I hope. Meanwhile, in case
1965/12/12 (#01)	TALS	from Merton	The idea of a book on prayer is a god one. I would not think of the "Climate of M.P." as a nucleus
1965/12/12 (#02)	TALS	from Merton	The idea of a book on prayer is a god one. I would not think of the "Climate of M.P." as a nucleus
1965/12/13	TLS	to Merton	John Delaney is asking whether you have come to a final conclusion about THE SPIRITUAL READING
1965/12/16 (#01)	TLS	from Merton	I have just written John Delaney saying I regret that I cannot edit that "Treasury etc" book.
1965/12/16 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	I have just written John Delaney saying I regret that I cannot edit that "Treasury etc" book.
1965/12/17	TL[c]	from Ellis, Elisabeth / to Merton	Thanks for returning the Preface to CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER and for your letter
1965/12/22	TL[c]	to Merton	Thanks very much for returning the Preface and for your letter of December 12. It was a good letter
1966/01/14	TL[c]	from Merton	Your letter of the 11th reached me this morning. I can give you the names of the censors as follows
1966/01/17 (#01)	TALS	to Merton	This is a copy of a memo from Larry Reed who is in charge of our Copyright department
1966/01/17 (#02)	TLS	from Reed, Larry / to Lisa Ray	RE: CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER by Thomas Merton [-] Two portions of this book		[from Larry Reed of the copyright department of Doubleday publishers to Lisa Ray of the production department of Doubleday - carbon copy to Stone which she forwards to Merton]
1966/01/19 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	Thanks very much for your letter of January 14 and for the names of the censors and the set up
1966/01/19 (#02)	TLS	from Krieger, Ellen / to Gay Ellis	RE: CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER by Thomas Merton [-] We have looked through
1966/01/22 (#01)	TLS	from Merton	This is in answer to various queries. First as regards copyrights. Two other pieces of the book
1966/01/22 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	This is in answer to various queries. First as regards copyrights. Two other pieces of the book
1966/01/26	TL[c]	to Merton	Thanks very much indeed for all the information which I'm sure will be helpful. The Permissions
1966/01/27	TL[c]	to Fox, James	Thank you very much for your letter of January 24. I think your letter is a masterpiece and I shall
1966/01/31	TL[c]	to Merton	Two kind friends have now sent me the full article in the Louisville <u>Courier-Journal</u>.
1966/02/04	TLS	from Merton	I think Ed Rice is worried about everybody. He told me that Bob Lax was very ill in Greece when	Yes
1966/02/08 (#01)	TL[c]	to Fox, James	Thank you for your wonderful letter of February 2 and for the copy of the Louisville <u>Courier-</u>
1966/02/08 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	Your letter of February 4 was very reassuring and really made me laugh. I don't know why I should
1966/02/08 (#03)	TALS	to Delaney, John	I thought you would be interested in seeing these two communications from Father Abbot and Tom re Ed		[see "Delaney, John" file for hard copy]
1966/02/08 (#04)	TALS	from Delaney, John	Give me a ring Monday and let us talk it over. I think you should do something about Ed Rice and		[see "Delaney, John" file for hard copy - no date - reply on the same memorandum as Naomi Burton Stone's message to Delaney]
1966/02/14	TNS	from Merton	This is just a note to say that the official date for the imprimi potest is Feb. 9th, 1966.
1966/02/15	TL[c]	to Rice, Edward	You know you really got me so scared about Tom and his health when you came by a week or so ago		[to Merton's friend Ed Rice, editor of <u>Jubilee</u> magazine]
1966/02/17	TLS	from Ellis, Elisabeth / to Merton	Thanks very much for your card of February 14th with the official date for the <u>imprimi potest</u>		[from Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis, Secretary to Naomi Burton]
1966/02/23	TL[c]	from Merton	I know Jay's acknowledged your card about the <u>imprimi potest</u> and I was very glad to have that
1966/03/08	TLS	to Merton	First of all, about your copyedited manuscript. I know you can't put dates into it because you have
1966/03/09	TLS	from Merton	The ms of CONJECTURES went off, or should have gone off, yesterday. I do not send these things out
1966/03/11	TL[c]	from Merton	Well, the ms went back with the dates dutifully inserted. I only go[t] your letter this morning.
1966/03/24	TAL[c]	to Merton	Five hundred things to say. First of all, we took all the dates out and put the ms. back as it was.
1966/03/30	TL[c]	to Merton	Many thanks for your good and long letter of March 24th. I am so glad to have the straight dope
1966/04/02	HNS	from Merton	Operation went ok. Still in hospital. Bit painful. Hope to get out soon. Glad to hear about
1966/04/07	TL[c]	to Merton	Terribly glad to hear you are getting along all right though I'm very sorry it's so painful.
1966/04/26	TL[c]	to Merton	I've now completed my slow but enjoyable reading of the Monastic material you have sent in.
1966/05/02 (#01)	TLS	from Merton	First, I was told proofs of <u>Conjectures</u> were being sent on April 25th, which is already
1966/05/02 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	First, I was told proofs of <u>Conjectures</u> were being sent on April 25th, which is already		[2 copies]
1966/05/05 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	Good about the MONASTICISM IN CRISIS which will do for a working title. I thought of asking if we
1966/05/05 (#02)	TL[c]	to Merton	Good about the MONASTICISM IN CRISIS which will do for a working title. I thought of asking if we
1966/05/10	TLS	from Merton	Thanks for yours of the 5th. Ok, I got someone to send CHURCH IN GODLESS WORLD. It should
1966/05/16	TL[c]	from Merton	Just a line to tell you that the manuscripts arrived in Maine. I was convinced I read the cell one,
1966/05/24	TL[c]	to Fox, James	First of all, thanks so much for the beautiful postcard from Mepkin. I was so pleased to have it
1966/05/25	TL[c]	to Tadié, Marie	Thanks so much for your letter of May 12th and I was writing Father Abbot at Gethsemani to day so I
1966/06/13	TL[c]	from Merton	I was asked to write this article for the Jornal do Brasil in Rio, part of a series in which Toynbee
1966/06/16	TLS	to Merton	Thanks very much for your card and the copy of IS THE WORLD A PROBLEM? I see that this has already
1966/06/22 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Your letter about the contract terms came yesterday and as far as I can understand they are fine.
1966/06/22 (#02)	other[c]	from Merton	CONTENTS OF BOOK PROVISIONALLY CALLED WORLDLY ESSAYS [-] Sent to Doubleday for consideration
1966/07/12	TL[c]	to Holloway, James	Thank you very much for your letter of July 8th. I've just written Father Merton about the Church		[2 copies]
1966/07/12 (#01)	TALS	to Merton	Various things: first of all, we are going ahead with contracts and they'll be going off
1966/07/12 (#02)	TL[c]	to Merton	Various things: first of all, we are going ahead with contracts and they'll be going off
1966/07/17	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for yours of the 12th about <u>Worldly Essays</u>. Yes, I thoroughly agree. I am not
1966/07/23 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	I am glad we are dropping the whole idea of "Wrldly Essays" [sic]. But now, along those same lines
1966/07/23 (#02)	TLS[x]	from Merton	I am glad we are dropping the whole idea of "Wrldly Essays" [sic]. But now, along those same lines
1966/07/26	TLS	to Merton	Thanks very much for yours of July 17th and I am glad you agree about WORLDLY ESSAYS.
1966/08/04 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	Many thanks for your letter about THE CHURCH IN THE GODLESS WORLD. I've talked to John Delaney
1966/08/04 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	Many thanks for your letter about THE CHURCH IN THE GODLESS WORLD. I've talked to John Delaney
1966/08/09 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for yours of the 4th. I am very glad to be able to put aside and forget THE CHURCH AND THE
1966/08/09 (#02)	other[c]	from Merton	Please send free publicity copies of CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER to the following: Erich		[list of names and addresses for publicity copies of <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i>]
1966/08/16 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	Thanks so much for yours of August 9th and we're all agreed then the THE [sic] CHURCH IN THE
1966/08/16 (#02)	TL[x]	from Zino, Vittorio / to John Delaney	This will confirm my telephone conversation of this morning with respect to the offending epithets		[from Vittorio Zino of New York City to John J. Delaney, an editor with Doubleday publishers]
1966/08/25	TL[x]	to Holloway, James	Father Merton has decided now that he is not going to make a full length book from the material he		[to Jim Holloway, who was professor at Berea College in Kentucky was co-founder and editor with Will Campbell of Katallagete (Greek for "be reconciled!"), a magazine sponsored by the Committee of Southern Churchmen (CSC) - see the "Holloway, James" file for more letters]
1966/08/26	TL[c]	from Merton	Regarding Vittorio Emmanuele Zino. Yes he did write to me and I wrote back explaining that I was
1966/08/31	TLS	to Fox, James	Thanks very much for your long letter of the 20th. Oh dear, Marie Tadie really is the limit, isn't
1966/09/07	TLS	to Merton	I discussed with John Delaney the possibility of making the change in the text that Emmanuele Zino
1966/09/12	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter and for the letters from <u>Life</u>. I have had a fair amount of mail,
1966/09/15 (#01)	TALS	to Merton	Just a line to let you know that <u>Aelred Riveaux</u> by Aelred Squire, O.P. has arrived safely,
1966/09/15 (#02)	TL[x]	from Merton	CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER [-] Being the famous man of letters of the Abbey of Gethsemani		[review of Merton's <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - review from the <u>Virginia Kirkus Service</u> from September of 1966]
1966/09/18	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter and for the Virginia Kirkus review. Makes the book sound like an awful mess.
1966/09/27	TLS	to Merton	Thanks very much for your letter of September 18th and for letting me have Father Aelred Squire's
1966/10/01 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Many thanks for yours of the 27th Sept. Enclosed is the latest "little monk" pitch and I don't like
1966/10/01 (#02)	TLS[x]	from Merton	Many thanks for yours of the 27th Sept. Enclosed is the latest "little monk" pitch and I don't like
1966/10/01 (#03)	other[x]		"Singing a People Upward" [-] Awarded Sacred Writings of Thomas Merton, Renowned Author, Poet		[flier advertising the donation of 8 of Merton's poems, "Reflections on Love" (Freedom Songs) to Robert Lawrence Williams - flier by Williams to promote a foundation supporting the "African and Negro Missions"]
1966/10/16	TL[c]	from Merton	Two things: first Marie Tadie has finally become such a fantastic nuisance to everyone that
1966/10/17	TL[c]	to Merton	The brochure and your letter of October 1st are absolutely incredible - I mean, the brochure is
1966/11/11 (#01)	TLS	to Norbert, Br., O.C.S.O.	I am writing you as I believe Father Abbot is in South America and I did not particularly want to
1966/11/11 (#02)	TL[c]	to Tadié, Marie	I was sorry to have your letter of November 4 but I really do not know what I can do about it. It
1966/11/16	HLS[x]	from Tadié, Marie	Thank you for your letter of November 11. If I have been obliged to ask permission to translate
1966/11/30 (#01)	TL[c]	to Tadié, Marie	Thank you for your letter of November 16. I don't feel I can write to Father Louis, since he does
1966/11/30 (#02)	TL[c]	to Fox, James	Thanks so much for the photograph of Vina del Mar - I was a bit startled when I first looked at it
1966/12/08	TLS	to Merton	I wanted to acknowledge the ten articles, introductions etc. which arrived in two packages last week
1966/12/16	TL[c]	from Merton	Many things to thank you for: first I enjoyed "Partridge in a Pear Tree" which is really charming
1966/12/25?	HCS	from Ascherl, Joe	I miss you here in New York - but I know how happy you are up in York village. And thank you
1967/01/27 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Sorry I didn't come through immediately with the answer on the Antoninus photo your first time.
1967/01/27 (#02)	TALS[x]	from Jeannie [?]	"Seven Story [sic] Mountain" has done it again and I am so pleased and excited I can hardly stand it		[see also the "Miller, Frank" file for more information about the political cartoonist from <u>Des Moines Register and Tribune</u>]
1967/01/30	HLS	to Fox, James	Aha. I knew that poor M.T. would eventually appear in her true colors to the lawyer. Not that she		Merton's response is handwritten on envelope, "Very Good! Now we are all unanimous…"
1967/02/01	TLS	to Merton	Thanks so much for yours of January 27. I did get a copy of your memo on the Antoninus picture,
1967/02/03	TALS[x]	from Fox, James	I just received your wonderful letter of January 30. Since I just wrote you and sent you Father
1967/02/04	TL[c]	from Merton	I am writing this fast as we go on retreat this evening. Unfortunately the doctor said yesterday
1967/02/06	TLS	to Fox, James	Thank you for both of your letters. I return Fr Louis' notes -- in case they [sic] Devil's Advocate		Stone returns proposed draft of Tadié contract with Merton's handwritten notes
1967/02/15	TALS	to Merton	I am so distressed about the operation but let's pray that it will really banish the bursitis
1967/02/24 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	Thanks for your card and I shall aim for mid-Aril. Better all around since we got deluged with snow		[one color photo enclosed of Naomi Burton's husband, Melville E. (Ned) Stone, on a snow-covered road in front of their house in rural New York]
1967/02/24 (#02)	TL[c]	to Bourne, Russell	Many thanks for yours of February 17th and the enclosed document. Perhaps I didn't make it clear		[to Russell Bourne, an editor working for Time-Life Books in New York City - see also "Bourne, Russell" file]
1967/03/06	TLS	to Merton	Thought you might like to see this from the Tablet if you haven't already. I sent Fr Squire's book
1967/03/09	TL[c]	from Merton	Don't worry about the Amiya Chakravarty book. He (he) wants to use a short piece of about 1500
1967/03/21 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	I am planning now to fly from New York to Louisville on a plane that arrives about 12.20 - at least
1967/03/21 (#02)	other		"No, Brother Boniface, I don't think we can meditate better after a wine break."		[cartoon enclosed with Stone's letter to Merton depicting two monks and a caption]
1967/03/29	TLS	to Merton	Just a line to tell you that the information I gave you previously about planes is no longer true.
1967/04/05	HNS	from Merton
1967/04/24	TLS	to Merton	Arrived here safe and sound yesterday morning. Seems longer ago. It is a beautiful city
1967/05/04	TLS	to Merton	For the record, we have made a sale of second serial rights in CONJECTURES
1967/05/07	TL[c]	from Merton	Many thanks for the note from New Orleans. I suppose you are back in the wilds now and that they
1967/05/23 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Many thanks for the photos. I was happy to get them and thought most of them were satisfactory,
1967/05/23 (#02)	TLS[x]	from Glass, Gwen	Re: CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER by Thomas Merton [-] I am happy to tell you that we have		[from Gwen Glass of Doubleday publishers]
1967/05/30	TL[c]	from Merton	I enclose a copy of a letter from Sor Emmanuel, who has been a very genrrous [sic] and devoted
1967/06/06 (#01)	TALS	to Merton	Thanks so much for your letter of May 23rd, and I'm so glad you like the photographs. I thought
1967/06/06 (#02)	TLS[x]	from Smith, Lawrence / to Gwen Glass	Thank you for your letter of June 15th. I shall be very pleased to tell Vozes that Thomas Merton		[from Lawrence Smith, who was an authors' and publishers' representative from Buenos Aires, Argentina, representing the publisher Editôria Vozes Limitada, to Gwen Glass of Doubleday publishers]
1967/07/03	TL[c]	from Merton	A small problem: do you know anything about this? It is a little perplexing to me and if you can
1967/07/10 (#01)	TLS	to Merton	What a peculiar mystery. I wonder what the essay will turn out to be. You don't make it
1967/07/10 (#02)	TLS	to Merton	I thought you would like to be reassured about Sor Emmanuel and the translation of CONJECTURES
1967/07/15	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for your letter. I have heard back from the man at Columbia, Wesley First, and he admits	Yes
1967/07/25	TALS	to Merton	Many thanks for yours of July 15th. I'll call the dogs off on the Columbia essay, I'm that it's
1967/08/22	TLS	to Merton	I was quite wrong on THE SIGN OF JONAS. It is out of print in Image books because we sold out all
1967/09/26	TL[c]	from Merton	John Slate, my friend who was going to take care of the legal end of the literary estate, has died.	Yes
1967/09/29	TLS	to Merton	So glad to hear from you. I think JOURNAL OF MY ESCAPE sounds a wonderful idea. I only have
1967/10/04 (#01)	HLS	to Fox, James	Thank you for your letters of Sept. 29 and 30 and enclosures. I do agree with Fr. Louis. The
1967/10/04 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	It was good to get your letter of Sept. 29th. About the <u>Journal of my Escape.</u>
1967/10/16	TLS	to Merton	Thanks so much for your letter of the 4th. Why don't we skip November. It is not too easy for me
1967/10/19 (#01)	TLS	to Fox, James	Many thanks for your letter of October 12th. I don't know what to say about Marie Tadie. It is
1967/10/19 (#02)	TL[c]	from Merton	I am answering your letter right away because first of all, if you can possibly come in November,	Yes
1967/12/16	TALS[x]	from Merton	To get up to date on business before Christmas. First, the typing of <u>Journal of my Escape</u> is
1967/12/26	TL	to Merton	A lot of things about which to write. I meant to send you a CARE package before Christmas but never
1968/01/10	TLS	to Merton	Just a very hasty note to say that something frightful seems to have happened to that Cargoes tape.
1968/01/15	TALS	to Merton	Thanks for your letter of January 4th. It arrived here on the 9th just as I was going down to New
1968/01/19	TL[c]	from Merton	Your long and patient letter reached me yesterday. In the middle of a bad bout of flu. I spent	Yes
1968/01/24	TL[c]	from Merton	The Cargo tape came back to me and I immediately sent it off to you without unpacking it.
1968/01/31	TLS	to Merton	Thanks for your letter of January 24, which just arrived. I shall look forward to receiving
1968/02/07	HNS	from Merton
1968/02/07	TL[c]	from Merton	About Journal of my Escape. In a day or two I hope to have the mimeographed copy in the mail.
1968/02/13	TL[c]	from Merton	I am sure nothing is wrong with the Cargo Tape. It is not back yet, but from your letter I can tell
1968/02/16	TLS	to Merton	I am enclosing our check for $1548.70 and the six months' statement on CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY
1968/02/21	HNS	from Merton
1968/02/21 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	This is to acknowledge receipt of the royalties for CONJECTURES. Many thanks.
1968/02/21 (#02)	TLS	to Merton	I'm glad to report that the manuscript of JOURNAL OF MY ESCAPE FROM THE NAZIS arrived safely
1968/02/27 (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	This is about the Cargo idea. First of all, the tape is on its way back to you. I checked it	Yes
1968/02/27 (#02)	TLS[x]	from Merton	This is about the Cargo idea. First of all, the tape is on its way back to you. I checked it	Yes
1968/03/01	TLS	to Merton	Thank you so much for your good letter of Feb 27th - and I really mean good letter, not that
1968/03/03	TL[c]	from Merton	Many thanks for the letter about JOURNAL OF ESCAPE. I found it highly encouraging, naturally, and I	Yes
1968/05/04	TL[c]	from Merton	Well, here it is the evening of Derby Day and I do not even know who won. (Just feel funny, not	Yes
1968/06/20	TLS	to Merton	At last final word on JOURNAL OF MY ESCAPE. At the business meeting in New York I was authorized
1968/06/24	TL[c]	from Merton	I have given a couple of days of careful thought and prayer to your letter of the 20th about
1968/06/27	TL[c]	from Merton	The reshuffled ms is on the way to the NY office with a new title: MY ARGUMENT WITH THE GESTAPO	Yes
1968/07/20	TL[c]	from Merton	Three weeks or so ago I sent the final ms of Journal of my Escape with new title: My ARGUMENT WITH
1968/08/06	TLS	to Merton	Herewith your statement for the six months ending April 30 1968 in CONJECTURES and our check
1968/08/19	TL[c]	from Merton	Terrific heat here for a long time. That is one reason why I have been slow to answer letters.	Yes
1968/09/02	TLS	to Merton	Three letters to thank you for. On receiving the first of Aug 19th I phoned the office
1968/09/05	HCS	to Merton	Excuse paper! It's just the nearest. Have received new collection		[written on a "Thank You" card]
1968/09/06	TALS[x]	from Merton	Very many thanks for yours of the 6th. First, about Argument with Gestapo (better title?).		[annotations by Stone]
1969/02/14	other[x]	by Stone, Naomi Burton	On December 10th, 1968, Thomas Merton died at the age of 53 in Bangkok, Thailand, where he had gone		[copy (with photocopied corrections) of a manscript of Stone's essay, "A Note on the Author and This Book", published in Merton's <i>My Argument with the Gestapo</i>]
1969/05/23	TL[c]	to Tadié, Marie	Many thanks for your letter of May 2nd and the copy of the letter from Father Francois Louvel.
1969/05/29	TLS[x]	from Tadié, Marie	Many thanks for your letter of May 23d. Il [sic] will be some months before "The Spiritual Father
1969/06/03	TL[c]	to Tadié, Marie	Many thanks for your letter of May 29th. With reference to your second point, there is, of course,
1972/07/27	other[x]	to Center from Stone, Naomi Burton	I hereby grant permission that all my correspondence from Curtis Brown, Ltd. and Doubleday
undated/02/21	TALS	from Joachim	I am so late in telling you about "The World of Thomas Merton" but it was a smash! It's absolutely
undated/05/24	HLS	to Merton	Having made such a wash of things (clearly <u>I</u> am the one who fails to communicate adequately)
undated/07/09	HLS	to Merton	I really was very happy to have your last letter. I am writing this by hand because I cannot
undated/no/no (#01)	TL[c]	from Merton	Thanks for your good letter. I am sorry to hear that RS is being tiresome but I am not surprised.
undated/no/no (#02)	TLS[x]	from Merton	Thanks for your good letter. I am sorry to hear that RS is being tiresome but I am not surprised.		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files]
undated/no/no (#03)	TLS	to Merton	I am delighted to tell you that we have accepted, on your behalf, the following offer from Hollis		[top of page missing]
undated/no/no (#04)	other		Barth's Dream. 1956-1961. Truth and Violence. -1961-1962. Night Spirit and Dawn Air. 1962-		[handwritten note by Merton]
undated/no/no (#05)	other	to Giroux, Robert	This will confirm our understanding that we shall make a special discount offer to the trade		[top of page missing]

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