| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1963/03/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you for your kind letter. I assure you that I am brimming over with confidence in you, | Yes |
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| | 1963/05/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is a very lovely May morning here, with larks singing and not a cloud in the sky. | Yes |
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| | 1963/05/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | About American distribution of the Raissa Maritain poems: first I think Princeton is a good idea, | Yes |
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| | 1963/05/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | There is a little bit of legal bother that has arisen to plague me in connection with the Guigo: | |
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| | 1963/06/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter and for the two little designs for the "cum permissu." I find the "more | Yes |
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| | 1963/06/29 | TALS[x] | from Merton | About Guigo: here are some "precisions" on that. My advisor tells me that actually the problem | Yes |
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| | 1963/07/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The Danish samples are most attractive. I think the ones I like best for Guigo are 8,2 and 4 | Yes |
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| | 1963/09/23 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am writing this in the hospital so it will be a bit of a [sweat?] and I will confine myself | |
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| | 1963/10/03 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter and the returned proofs. I am so sorry to hear you are laid low, | |
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| | 1963/10/09 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Yes, as you can see, I am at home again. I am also able to type, figuratively speaking. | |
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| | 1963/10/09 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yes, as you can see, I am at home again. I am also able to type, figuratively speaking. | |
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| | 1963/10/20 | HLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter. I am so glad your progress is good and the troublesome disk subsiding. | |
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| | 1963/11/03 | HLS | to Merton | The copy of <u>D. Gertrude</u> which you so kindly sent me, arrived, with your admirable Pax medal | |
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| | 1963/11/08 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | I want to get this off to you immediately, and it will be short and to the point, so that Guigo will | |
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| | 1963/11/08 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I want to get this off to you immediately, and it will be short and to the point, so that Guigo will | |
| Merton adds a handwritten note: "PS The Ascent to Truth is rather dry and awful. Can I send you New Seeds of Contemplation?" |
| | 1963/11/17 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Here is something I thought I should send you right away. Next year is the fifth centenary | |
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| | 1963/11/17 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is something I thought I should send you right away. Next year is the fifth centenary | |
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| | 1963/11/17 (#03) | other[x] | | IN ACCEPTANCE OF THE PAX MEDAL - 1963 First I want to thank you most sincerely for the honor | |
| [enclosed with 1963/11/17 letter from Merton to Cumming] |
| | 1963/11/28 | HLS | to Merton | How kind: we'd simply <u>love</u> to have <u>New Seeds</u>. Great enthusiasm this end! | |
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| | 1964/01/16 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for yours of November 28th. And now I cannot remember whether I immediately put a copy | |
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| | 1964/01/16 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your of November 28th. And now I cannot remember whether I immediately put a copy | |
| Merton adds typed and handwritten additions not included on carbon copy - Denise McNiff and about a Benectine living an active ministry |
| | 1964/02/16 | HLS | to Merton | <u>Guigo</u> is almost finished and how I am perplexed [...] Copyright. I enclose two uncut sheets | |
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| | 1964/02/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for the pages of Guigo. It is most attractive, everything that I hoped for | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for the pages of Guigo. It is most attractive, everything that I hoped for | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/08 | HLS | to Merton | Laetare! I hope you have had another such day as we have here - blue skies, brilliant sunshine, | |
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| | 1964/04/12? | HLS | to Merton | Our investigation of the Lille mss has turned out disappointing and a little disturbing. | |
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| | 1964/04/15 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | It is some time since the first copy of the Solitary Life arrived and I have not yet thanked you. | Yes |
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| | 1964/04/15 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | It is some time since the first copy of the Solitary Life arrived and I have not yet thanked you. | Yes |
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| | 1964/05/03 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter : I am glad you were pleased with Guigo despite its imperfections. | |
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| | 1964/05/07 | HLS[x] | from Merton | An exciting and joyful from today with the arrival of Dame Margaret's life and Dame Barbara's | |
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| | 1964/05/08? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter came today after I had sent off my note yesterday. I am sending back the "blurb" which | Yes |
| [published as 1964/September/10; however, evidence from the Stanbrook Archives indicates the above May date] |
| | 1964/06/02 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your two notes. I am glad the mss have arrived safely. I hope to send some more, | |
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| | 1964/07/03 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter, received this morning. I am in the middle of writing you | |
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| | 1964/07/17 | HLS | to Merton | We are in the middle of a posted strike, so it seems a suitable time to write a letter that needs | |
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| | 1964/07/22 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Today two books arrived, beautifully bound, the <u>Spritual Anker</u> [sic] and the <u>Treatise</u> | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Today two books arrived, beautifully bound, the <u>Spritual Anker</u> [sic] and the <u>Treatise</u> | Yes |
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| | 1964/08/03 | TLS[x] | from Rackley, Denys, Fr. | Greetings and peace and joy in our Lord Jesus Christ from the Grande Chartreuse! | |
| asks Cumming to convince Merton into translating a letter of Carthusian founder St. Bruno with the same subject as Merton's translation of a letter of Guiges (i.e., Guigo I, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse, 1083?-1136) |
| | 1964/09/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is not a real answer to your last long letter which was very interesting and encouraging. | |
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| | 1964/09/05 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is not a real answer to your last long letter which was very interesting and encouraging. | |
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| | 1964/09/09 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the prayer of Cassiodorus which I mentioned in my last letter. I send also the Latin | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/23 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter, note and the typescript of Cassiodorus. I like it immensely and have | |
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| | 1964/11/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The cards arrived today and they are simply splendid. Thank you ever so much, and thanks also | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/20 | HLS | to Merton | This is a brief note to thank you for your letter and the typescripts which have arrived and are now | |
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| | 1965/03/09 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry to subject you to my handwriting but it is a quiet time and I can't type - the novices are | Yes |
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| | 1965/04/06 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am not just subjecting you to my handwriting because you said it was legible (most charitably!!) | |
| Dialectic B / Dame Hildelith's essay on virginity and Merton's thoughts |
| | 1965/07/04 | HLS | to Merton | I have so much to thank you for and this letter should have been written weeks ago. I waited | |
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| | 1965/07/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the letter and for the mss of Cambrai material, which I will go over later. | |
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| | 1965/07/11 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the letter and for the mss of Cambrai material, which I will go over later. | Yes |
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| | 1965/08/12 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter and for the packets which have arrived since. These were | |
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| | 1965/08/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Unfortunately I have misplaced your last letter, but I know what the main point was and I hasten | Yes |
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| | 1966/04/22 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I must give the impression of being always in the hospital - just got out after a back operation. | |
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| | 1966/04/27 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your note. I intended writing this week anyway. I was so sorry to hear from | |
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| | 1966/09/12 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Certainly much water has gone under the bridge-- whether of the Severn or of the Ohio-- since your | |
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| | 1966/09/12 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Certainly much water has gone under the bridge-- whether of the Severn or of the Ohio-- since your | |
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| | 1966/10/02 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter. The Severn has been flowing peacefully with no floods - it is very apt | |
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| | 1966/10/15 | HL | to Merton | At last the Cassiodorus proofs - <u>and</u> the paper came yesterday, so we are all set to print | |
| [last page[s] missing] |
| | 1966/10/24 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I think I must now remember not to call you Dame, is that right? Personally I rather liked it. | Yes |
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| | 1966/10/24 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I think I must now remember not to call you Dame, is that right? Personally I rather liked it. | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/20 | HLS | to Merton | I am quite ashamed to write for this letter should have been sent to you before Christmas. | |
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| | 1967/04/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | (I have no idea now whether I should call you "Dame" or merely "Sister" but since you have been | Yes |
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| | 1968/11/18 | HLS | to Merton | It is ages since I wrote, but that is deliberate because you must be so snowed under with writing | |
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| | undated/no/no (#01) | HLS | from Sitwell, Gerard | Herewith the pictures and the necessary permissions. Thank you for letting me see Merton | |
| [undated - from Dom Gerard Sitwell, O.S.B. to Dame Hildelith] |
| | undated/no/no (#02) | other | | THE ACT OF BEING [-] Patriarch tree [-] With foliage light | |
| [poem by Raissa Maritain and translated from French to English by Merton? - original handwritten comments by Dame Hildelith, "French is a spare language, and English a rich one, don't you think? One can't really achieve the same texture." - included after 1964/02/22 letter] |
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