| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1967/03/17 | HLS | to Merton | It has been my pleasure. I shall be happy to type for you anytime. On pages 5 and 9 of original, | |
| asking about two illegible words |
| | 1967/03/25 | TLS | from Merton | Many thanks for the two jobs. The poems came in yesterday. Those poems! Dan got them going | |
| typing of poems / discussion of payment for typing |
| | 1967/04/02 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Here is more. Will you please do it all double space, and also begin each new item (as I myself | |
| discussion of style points and payment for typing work / with Merton's back, he may have to dictate onto a tape for her |
| | 1967/04/02 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is more. Will you please do it all double space, and also begin each new item (as I myself | |
| discussion of style points and payment for typing work / with Merton's back, he may have to dictate onto a tape for her |
| | 1967/04/12 | TNS | from Merton | Could you please take care of these? The usual thing, double spaced, four carbons. | |
| asking what compensation should be given for typing |
| | 1967/04/17 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I am returning the page that needed completing and sending a couple of odds | |
| question of using tape recorded dictation |
| | 1967/04/18 | TANS | from Merton | All of a sudden I have an urgent one. Could you please let me have this as soon as possible? | |
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| | 1967/05/03 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the package that came in this morning. Here is another one: it is not a matter | |
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| | 1967/05/06 | TLS | from Merton | Here is some more material: the usual, four carbons. None of it is at all urgent, except | |
| statement on <i>A Modern priest looks at his outdated Church</i> by Fr. James Joseph Kavanaugh for typing / rainy Derby Day / sending privately printed booklet from Stanbrook Benedictine nuns |
| | 1967/05/28 | TLS | from Merton | Here are a couple more. I am afraid the one on the Lepers has a lot of my writing on it. | |
| picnic previous week with Tommie O'Callaghan |
| | 1967/06/15 | TLS | from Merton | Here is another job: it is not as bad as it looks because what I have done is cut it practically | |
| picnic at Gethsemani |
| | 1967/07/04 | TLS | from Merton | Here is another piece of typing. The usual four carbons and all. I hope you are not on a trip | |
| [Merton includes on the stationery some cut-out block letters spelling: "the monks. Modern Moving… with Old Fashioned Care"] |
| | 1967/07/17? | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the last job: very good indeed. Do not worry about my asking you to retype. | |
| [Merton includes on the stationery some cut-out block letters spelling: "the monks. Modern Moving… with Old Fashioned Care"] |
| | 1967/07/29 | TLS | to Merton | Apologies, Father, for getting this off to you so late. For the past two weeks, the children have | |
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| | 1967/08/06 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the last batches of things: I am sorry the virus hit the home, and I did not interpret | |
| sending <i>My Argument with the Gestapo</i> |
| | 1967/08/15 | TNS | from Merton | Here is another batch of stuff. I hope you can handle it. There is someone waiting for the article | |
| typing job for article on solitude |
| | 1967/08/22 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the Solitude piece, perfect. I hope that you have received a package of stencils. | |
| typing job for "Prologue : Why I have a wet footprint on top of my mind", later a section of <i>The geography of Lograire</i>, written for Suzanne Butorovich's student newspaper |
| | 1967/08/24? | HNS | from Merton | Thanks for the other things which came in today. No problem about Suzanne not being on the poem. | |
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| | 1967/09/05 | HNS | to Merton | My efforts to complete typing "Hot Summer..." this past weekend were almost in vain. | |
| her German Shepherd named Liebe took "The Hot Summer of Sixty-Seven" manuscript and scattered it on the floor |
| | 1967/09/08 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Here is the ms of that novel, slightly nuts and written years ago. I need it to be stenciled, | |
| Merton Room at Bellarmine College / Ed Rice / wants to send a gift - hesitate to send a book since she sees plenty of his writings - <i>The Merton Reader</i> |
| | 1967/09/08 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is the ms of that novel, slightly nuts and written years ago. I need it to be stenciled, | |
| Merton Room at Bellarmine College / Ed Rice / wants to send a gift - hesitate to send a book since she sees plenty of his writings - <i>The Merton Reader</i> |
| | 1967/09/19 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I am having more stencils sent as you may need them later anyway. But I don't quite know what you | |
| in response to how Merton should be addressed - "Thomas Merton" because "a special religious name is on the way out anyhow" |
| | 1967/09/19 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am having more stencils sent as you may need them later anyway. But I don't quite know what you | |
| in response to how Merton should be addressed - "Thomas Merton" because "a special religious name is on the way out anyhow" |
| | 1967/10/11 | TL[c] | to Merton | I thought it was about time to give you a progress report on the manuscript. Wish I could say | |
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| | 1967/10/14 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. The other day when I was in town I was going to give you a ring but I was | |
| typing <i>My Argument with the Gestapo</i> and poem, "Ben's Last Fight" |
| | 1967/11/06 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for Ben, my own heavyweight champ. I am sorry that the novel has given so much trouble. | |
| on typing of Merton's 25 year old novel ,<i>My Argument with the Gestapo</i> / sending new poems / note on "The New Liturgy" |
| | 1967/11/06 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for Ben, my own heavyweight champ. I am sorry that the novel has given so much trouble. | |
| on typing of Merton's 25 year old novel [possibly <i>My Argument with the Gestapo</i>] / sending new poems / note on "The New Liturgy" |
| | 1967/11/13 | TLS | to Merton | Only about 75 pages to go on the manuscript. Any time is a busy time for me, but I'm so sincerely | |
| [copy placed in the original source file - see "Fox, James" Series 29] |
| | 1967/12/25? | HCS | from Merton | Here's a quickie - could you please type as usual (4 carbons)-? I need it sometime next week. | |
| [undated Christmas card] Christmas gift for Charron] |
| | 1968/01/10 | TALS | from Merton | Hi! In case you're snowed in with nothing to do (?!) here are a few pages for typing. | |
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| | 1968/01/30? | TLS | from Merton | Many thanks, Nat Turner arrived in good time and is now with the magazine. They are happy with it, | |
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| | 1968/02/25? | TLS | from Merton | I'm glad to hear you're back and have the courage to face some more of my mss. | |
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| | 1968/03/11? | HNS | from Merton | I wonder if you safely got a couple of things I sent for typing a couple of weeks ago - | |
| typing of "Wild Places" (Review of <i>Wilderness and the American Mind</i>, by Roderick Nash) |
| | 1968/03/12 | HNS | from Merton | The typescript arrived safely today - crossed with my note. Please disregard the note! | |
| <u>Monks Pond</u> |
| | 1968/03/18 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Sorry my note crossed with the returning mss. last time. I was a little worried because the mail | |
| [<u>Monks Pond</u> letterhead] Merton praying for Charron's sons in Vietnam and military - "Government does not really have a right to draft people for wars like this which are not really for the defense of the country"; "should be fought by a professional army"; "Those who are involved in it have all my sympathy" |
| | 1968/03/18 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry my note crossed with the returning mss. last time. I was a little worried because the mail | |
| Charron's sons - Merton praying for one in Vietnam and one entering the military - "the Government does not really have a right to draft people for wars like this which are not really for the defense of the country" - "should be fought by a professional army" - "Those who are involved in it have all my sympathy" |
| | 1968/03/30? | HLS | from Merton | Well - the copies turned up in this morning's mail! Five days from Louisville (Postmarked 25th) | |
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| | 1968/04/01 | TLS | from Merton | "The Stranger" arrived safely Saturday. Many thanks, you are ever a most great help. | |
| [verso: notes by Charron] |
| | 1968/04/07? | TLS | from Merton | Here's another. This is very short so I don't scruple to send it you in what might be a busy week. | |
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| | 1968/04/18 | TLS | from Merton | Here is another job: this time I am a bit late for a deadline, though I can still make it. | |
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| | 1968/04/25? | HLS | to Merton | The first page of the original is presently among the missing! I've guarded your material like a | |
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| | 1968/05/02 | TNS | from Merton | Here is another small job. It is neither complicated nor urgent, and there is nothing to worry | |
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| | 1968/06/07 | TLS | from Merton | Glad you found that page!! Thanks. All is well, editors pleased with that essay, and so on. | |
| sending poetry for typing |
| | 1968/06/18 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the other texts, poem etc, which reached me safely. Here is one more. | |
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| | 1968/07/15 | TL | from Merton | I have a Jesuit student here for the summer helping out with typing, hence I have not sent anything | |
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| | 1968/07/23? | HNS | from Merton | Here are a couple of Bulletins that I would need in about ten days - no rush. | |
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| | 1968/08/06 | HNS | from Merton | Too hot to type? This is not v. long - and easy work (I <u>think</u>.) If I could have it | |
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| | 1968/09/05? | TNS | from Merton | The "rush" job is being done here, thus saving two days in the mail. The enclosed is not wild rush | |
| [postmarked 1968/September/07 (Saturday), dated Thursday] Merton discusses being sick and taking care of himself at hermitage |
| | 1968/09/06 (#02) | HCS | from Merton | Oops! I'm so sorry I forgot to let you know the ms. arrived safely. I had to make a hurried trip | |
| recent trip to Washington, D.C. and future trip to India, Thailand, Indonesia and Japan / not sending manuscripts from Asia / thanks for typing work - Masses to be said for her and her family |
| | 1968/09/06? (#01) | TNS | from Merton | Hastily adding some new ideas to the piece I sent yesterday. I think it will not be hard to fit | |
| [seemingly a follow-up, dated Friday, to note of Thursday postmarked 1968/September/07 (Saturday)] |
| | 2007/04/22 | other[x] | | CHARRON, Helen Marie (Barringer), peacefully passed away, Tuesday, April 17, 2007 in Reston, VA. | |
| [obituary from <u>The Louisville Courier-Journal</u>] |
| | undated/no/no | TNS | from Merton | Here is the other short piece I referred to. I would very much like to be able to send this out | |
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