| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1966/07/09 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have your letter of the 3rd and will go ahead and plan on the article on Zen and Mysticism first. | |
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| | 1967/12/26 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | As you know, Lunsford Yandell has forwarded to me the excellent ms on Shen Hui, and I am reading it | Yes |
| [encloses copy of 1967/10/10 letter from Merton to Lunsford P. Yandell - see "Yandell, Lunsford" file] |
| | 1967/12/26 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | As you know, Lunsford Yandell has forwarded to me the excellent ms on Shen Hui, and I am reading it | Yes |
| [encloses copy of 1967/10/10 letter from Merton to Lunsford P. Yandell - see "Yandell, Lunsford" file] |
| | 1968/01/05 | TLS | to Merton | Very many thanks for your letter of December 26, which I have just received after I returned | |
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| | 1968/01/09 | TL[c] | from Merton | Just a brief note in response to your welcome letter. I have written to my friend Dr Denis Goulet | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/11 | TLS | to Merton | I thank you very much for your letter of 9th. I have had a telephone conversation with Dr. Goulet, | |
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| | 1968/01/12 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a letter about some interest in your Shen Hui ms. | |
| [stapled to letter to Merton from Angus Cameron of Alfred A. Knopf publishers from 1968/01/05] / carbon copy to Ping Ferry [Wilbur H. Ferry] / on Chi's translations of Zen texts [Shen Hui] |
| | 1968/01/15 | TLS | to Merton | I have a few things to inform you before I have the pleasure of seeing you. | |
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| | 1968/01/21 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am grateful to you and Terence Grey. I have made a fairly short (a dozen pages) selection | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/21 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am grateful to you and Terence Grey. I have made a fairly short (a dozen pages) selection | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/06 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and for the additional pages completing the "Humorous Dialogue". | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/06 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and for the additional pages completing the "Humorous Dialogue". | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/25 | TLS | to Merton | I am glad to inform you that my manuscript on Shen-hui Record has been accepted by the University | |
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| | 1968/02/28 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Very many thanks for the revised Zen Dialogue. It is fine. I am saving it for the third issue | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/28 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Very many thanks for the revised Zen Dialogue. It is fine. I am saving it for the third issue | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/05 | TALS | to Merton | Very many thanks for your letter of 28 February and your Monks Pond. I read it with greatest | |
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| | 1968/03/14 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | The preface to the "Humorous Dialogue" is very good indeed and though I really do not have space | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/14 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | The preface to the "Humorous Dialogue" is very good indeed and though I really do not have space | Yes |
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| | 1968/04/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am grateful for the xerox of Hu Shih's article. It was just what I needed to make everything fall | Yes |
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| | 1968/04/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is my attempt at a preface. Naturally, as I said before, I expect you to find in it things | Yes |
| [photocopied on the same page as 1968/04/03 letter] |
| | 1968/04/23 | TLS | to Merton | I am so sorry that xeroxing has taken such a long time, would you kindly excuse me. | |
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| | 1968/07/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am sorry I was not able to see you and Denis back in May. Due to my trip to California and to | Yes |
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| | 1968/11/21 (#01) | HLS[x] | from Merton | I have been having a very fruitful trip in Asia. I have been in India over a month, mostly in the | Yes |
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| | 1968/11/21 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I have been having a very fruitful trip in Asia. I have been in India over a month, mostly in the | Yes |
| transcription of hand written letter |
| | 1969/11/03 | TLS[x] | from Horrigan, Alfred / to Richard Chi | You will be interested to know that Bellarmine-Ursuline College is initiating a Thomas Merton | |
| invitation to the inaugural event to announce the opening of the Merton Studies Center / event on 1969/11/09 / John Howard Griffin to be the speaker |
| | 1971/03/23 | TLS[x] | to Center from Chi, Richard | I thank you very much for your letter, and I am enclosing Xerox copies of several letters by | |
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| | 1971/04/15 | TL[c] | from Center to Chi, Richard | Forgive me for being so long in answering your letter, but Fr. Pooler asked me to write you since | |
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| | 1984/04/06 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Richard Chi | It was a delight to talk with you on the phone this afternoon. I thought it might be well for me | |
| happy to be able to include letters from Dr. Chi / seeking missing letters |
| | 1984/04/10 | TLS | from Chi, Richard / to William Shannon | Very many thanks for your letter of April 6 and your book on the Inner Experience. | |
| enclosing letters: 1967/12/26, 1968/01/09, 1968/01/12, 1968/01/21 |
| | 1984/04/14 (#01) | TLS | from Chi, Richard / to William Shannon | I believe that by now you have received my letter of April 10. With the kind permission of my | |
| enclosed - a copy of a letter [dated 1967/10/10] from Merton to Lunsford Yandell / this letter was attached to a letter sent to Dr. Chi on 1967/12/26 |
| | 1984/04/14 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to Richard Chi | I hope you do not mind me calling you Richard (and I hope you will call me Bill). We have | |
| thank you for 4 letters / also suggesting that Dr Chi write to Anne McCormick (sec. of Merton Legacy Trust) with the further suggestion that she forward the letter to the Trustees - a letter asking the Trust's permission to use an introduction that Merton wrote for Dr. Chi's book / also seeking identification of Masao Abe (possibly connected with the Eastern Buddhist journal |
| | 1984/04/19 | TLS[c] | from Chi, Richard / to Kenneth Inada | I thank you for your letter and enclosures. I wonder whether you could do me a favor. | |
| seeking addresses for Masao Abe &/or <u>Eastern Buddhist Journal</u> from Professor at SUNY Buffalo |
| | 1984/04/20 | TLS | from Chi, Richard / to William Shannon | I am very glad that by now we can be free from formality; indeed we have very much in common. | |
| Dr. Chi met Merton in January of 1968 / thanks for writing to Anne McCormick / letter has been sent to Japan re: Masao Abe (no carbon as stated) |
| | 1984/04/27 | HLS | from Inada, Kenneth / to Chi Richard | Masao Abe's address now is The Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, 2530 Dole St. | |
| address for Masao Abe / also address for Eastern Buddhist Journal / letter forwarded to William Shannon |
| | 1984/05/01 | TLS | from Chi, Richard / to William Shannon | I have just received a most satisfactory letter from Mrs. Anne McCormick, for which I wish | |
| thanks for William Shannon for his suggestion of writing to Mrs. McCormick |
| | 1984/05/04 | TLS[x] | from Chi, Richard / to Anne McCormick | I write this letter through the kind introduction of Father William H. Shannon. In 1968 Father | |
| letter to Mrs. McCormick requesting that she forward it to the trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust / wishes permission to use Merton's introduction in his book on Chan of Shen-hui and to use correspondence between Merton and himself |
| | 1984/05/24 | TLS[x] | from McCormick, Anne / to Richard Chi | Thank you for your May 4 letter which I have sent to the Trustees of the Merton Legacy Trust | |
| she passed on the willingness of the trustees to grant permission for use of introduction of Merton and correspondence with Merton / no honorarium requested |
| | undated/no/no | other | | Who's Who In The World | |
| biography of Chi, Richard See-Yee / home Bloomington, IN |
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