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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Burns, Ethel M.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1958-1967, 1970

Volume: 24 item(s); 28 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burns, Ethel M.".

Biography

Ethel Burns was writing from New York and seemed to be familiar with some of Merton's Columbia University acquaintances, including Mark Van Doren, whom she mentions seeing on a TV interview in which he spoke of Merton.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1958/12/25? HCSfrom MertonThis is a very late "Christmas" card to thank you for your kind letter and the Mass stipend which  ["Christmas Card 1958" - verso: "From a woodcut by Gerhard Marcks for the hand-press edition of Thomas Merton's 'The Tower of Babel,' printed for New Directions by R. von Sichowsky in Hamburg, Germany."]
 1959/04/18 HNSfrom MertonMy Masses today and tomorrow are for your intention. God bless you - I wish you many graces.   
 1961/06/17 TLS from Kelty, Matthew (for Merton) / to Ethel BurnsA note of thanks from Father Louis for your letter and also for your Mass offering. If this answer  [from Fr. Matthew Kelty, sent on behalf of Merton to Ethel Burns]
 1963/02/13 TLSfrom from Basil, Br., O.C.S.O. / to Ethel BurnsThank you for your letter. Thank you also for your kind donation, which of course Father   
 1964/04/04 HNSfrom MertonBless you and thanks for remembering me. I am better now - pretty busy too. May our bond give you   
 1965/01/03 TNSfrom MertonThanks again and best wishes for the New Year. I hope all things go well with you. Do not worry   
 1966/02/07 HPCSfrom MertonThanks for your kind remembrance, and I hope you will <u>keep well</u>. The weather is getting  [verso: Front Guest Garden at Gethsemani Abbey]
 1966/08/22 HLSto MertonYour feast day will soon be here and I want to wish you a happy one. A little offering is enclosed,   
 1966/08/30 HNSfrom MertonMany thanks for your kind letter and gift. No, I did not know Mark Van Doren had mentioned me in   
 1967/08/18 (#01)TLSfrom MertonThanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very   
 1967/08/18 (#02)TAL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter and for the stipend. I will gladly say that Mass for priests. I think very   
 1968/01/01 TALS[x]from MertonChristmas mail was an avalanche this year: it always is, but more so in 1967. News from friends  [Signature xeroxed or mimeographed, but there is an original handwritten note by Merton to Burns: "Ethel- I'll be saying Mass for priest and will remember you in it. Joy and peace in the Lord TM." Transferred from Sub-Section D.2 (Mimeographs) on 2009/July/28]
 1970/10/23 HLSto Center from Burns, EthelThank you for your letter regarding Fr Merton. Father, his correspondence with me was brief, some   
 1970/11/10 TL[x]from Center to Burns, EthelThank you for your letter of October 23. More and more people are replying to the form letter we   
 1970/11/21 HLSto Center from Burns, EthelI hope these articles will be of some use to you - some of them are deteriorating and when I   
 undated/08/23 TLSfrom MertonThanks for your remembrance and gift. I shall pray for you especially along with all my friends on   
 undated/12/25? HCSfrom MertonThanks for the gift and clipping. I hope you are well these days. I have had a bad back but am   
 undated/no/no (#01)TNSfrom MertonI tried to reach you with this at 181st Street last June when you sent the Masses but there was  [verso: "Ars Liturgica . NR.7989 . Maria Laach . Germania"]
 undated/no/no (#02)HLSfrom MertonLet nothing disturb you! Trust and peace. God is always near. Thanks for remembering my birthday  [verso: "Statue of St. Benedict (by Peter Watts) Abbey of Gethsemani, Ky."]
 undated/no/no (#03)HLSfrom MertonThanks again for your kindness. I do keep you in my prayers. Life is not as easy and pleasant as   
 undated/no/no (#04)HNS[x]from Mertonwith gratitude and best wishes for the New Year. You will certainly be in my Masses all year.  [see Sub-Section D.9 for the original on the cover of an offprint of "The Pasternak Affair in Perspective," a reprint from <u>Thought</u> 34.135 (Winter 1959-1960)]
 undated/no/no (#05)HNS[x]from MertonThanks for your very interesting letter and the offering! I bet Columbia is amazing now. This  [see Sub-Section D.9 for the original on the title page of a mimeograph of preface to the Japanese edition of <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i>]
 undated/no/no (#06)HNS[x]from Merton+ for Ethel Burns with prayers and good wishes in Xt [-] Thomas Merton  [see Sub-Section B.6 for the original signature and inscription in the book <i>Life and Holiness</i>]
 undated/no/no (#07)HNS[x]from Merton+ to Ethel M. Burns - with all good wishes and prayers and with deep gratitude for your kindness.  [see Sub-Section B.6 for the original signature and inscription in the book <i>Thoughts in Solitude</i>]
        

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