| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1 | 1949/05/01 | transcript | from Merton | I am glad to be having this day of recollection before ordination, instead of after. My personal | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] goals for priesthood: "obscurity and simplicity", an "unknown saint" |
| 1 | 1949/10/01 | transcript | from Merton | This is intended to find you safely landed and established at the Valley. First, will you please | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] article to give for censorship to Fr. Gabriel - "The White Pebble" and book <i>The Waters of Siloe</i> / proposals for structuring theology classes / feeling more at home at Gethsemani - especially through Mass / Frater Thomas' poetry / Camel in San Francisco |
| 1 | 1949/no/no (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Another protocol from Chop Suey Louie the mad Chinese poet. It is just to say that I am picturing | Yes |
| visiting psychiatrist Dr. de Quevedo / wants "to cease existing as an ego outside of God" |
| 1 | 1949/no/no (#02) | transcript | from Merton | …You can guess that the two hours between 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon, when you let me out into | Yes |
| [Summer of 1949: Xerox of published letter] having the chance to spend time alone in the woods / "When I am alone, Jesus is with me at once." / difficulty of finding Jesus around others |
| 1 | 1950/09/27 | transcript | from Merton | May Jesus love you and bless you and bring you home soon. Here is a problem to bother you when you | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] Novice Master does not like Merton's current spiritual orientation course for novices - thinks it violates Canon Law 561 / agrees that it causes dissent with novices picking either Merton's or Novice Master's spirituality and should be changed / hospital stay - no ulcers but colitis and low blood pressure |
| 1 | 1950/no/no? | transcript | from Merton | I went through the retreat with the impression of being very much talked at without having | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] "Retreat Notes" / meditation on the "Cautions of St. John of the Cross" / ability to live a contemplative life at Gethsemani - letting God direct this activity and not forcing it himself |
| 1 | 1951/02/04 | transcript | from Merton | It seems to me that what Jesus wants of me this Lent is less external activity, more recollection, | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] cutting down writing load for Lent / needs to finish <i>Ascent to Truth</i> for Harcourt, Brace |
| 1 | 1951/10/07 | transcript | from Merton | This is a report on our private retreat from September 29 to October 6. As an act of gratitude for | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] retreat days / walking in the woods and quiet work and prayer / mostly silent except for Traxcavator making noise / feels that solitude is key but that it can also help him to appreciate the community life after having spent time in solitude |
| 1 | 1955/05/16 | TL[c] | to Montini, Giovanni | Thisis [sic] the first letter I have ever written to you, Your Excellency, but we have received many | Yes |
| [attached to 1955/05/18 letter from Fox to Jean Leclercq - see also a copy in Series 14] Merton's vocational crisis - interest in Carthusians or Camaldolese - desire for solitary life / Merton's background, conversion history, entry into monastery, life as a writer, Master of Novices / Fr. Barnabas Mary, C.P. and Gabriel Sortais - negative effect of Merton leaving |
| 1 | 1955/05/18 | TLS | to Leclercq, Jean | Good Father Louis wrote you a letter towards the end of April. From the very nature of the case, I | |
| [see also Series 29 for a carbon copy of the same letter] Merton "disturbed emotionally" in letter to Archbishop Giovanni Montini in Milan / Merton to remain with Order and become grounds keeper of woods surrounding Gethsemani [Fox's letter to Montini attached] |
| 1 | 1955/06/13 (#01) | TALS | to Leclercq, Jean | We received your very kind letter of May 26. Do not think there is any quarrel between good Father | |
| no quarrel between Fox and Merton / agrees with Leclercq that Merton - "Too much of an extrovert." and that he would not be able to give up writing - Gabriel Sortais agrees he should give up writing for 5 years / Merton's "love of adventure" - would not stay long with the Camaldolese |
| 1 | 1956/01/12 | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Father Louis has told us of your plan for a visit next month. We do look forward to that. | |
| [see "Stone, Naomi Burton" file for a copy of this letter - to Merton's literary agent, Naomi Burton Stone] |
| 1 | 1956/01/16 | TL[x] | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you for your letter of January 12. Please don't let Miss Doherty sell any manuscript | |
| [see "Stone, Naomi Burton" file for a copy of this letter - from Fox to Naomi Burton Stone] |
| 1 | 1956/02/no | HLS[x] | from Merton | Welcome home! Don't work too hard now that you are back. On this day of recollection--going over | Yes |
| [dated "Day of Recollection Feb '56"] complains of "nervous depression and weakness" / reliance on faith and love of the Cross / "hope it is the darkness before dawn" |
| 1 | 1957/01/25 | transcript | from Merton | This has been, I believe, a very good retreat for me, one of the best since I entered. In the last | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] vocation getting more solid despite "darkness, depression and disgust" - need for hope |
| 1 | 1957/01/26 | transcript | from Merton | This note supersedes yesterday's because I wrote our retreat resolution too soon--the best graces | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] end of the retreat was the most fruitful / "abandon myself completely into the hands of Our Lady as a child" |
| 1 | 1957/07/15 | transcript | from Merton | Well, we are really sweating at last. I think the summer has arrived in honor of St. Stephen, so | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] possibility of a new foundation in South America / drawbacks - disease, low work output at high altitude, unstable political situations and potential reprisals against the Church, lack of communications and poor mobility in Andean countries / possibilities in Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay |
| 1 | 1957/12/30 | TLS | to Leclercq, Jean | Your good letter to Father Louis arrived some time ago. It was caught in the annual Christmas | |
| Merton back from hospital and recovering / false reports of Merton contributing article to book on Dom Alexis - letters from Fr. Bernard Besret and M. Daniel-Rops |
| 1 | 1959/11/09 | TALS | to Leclercq, Jean | Your letter of October 23 to Father Louis arrived. But I deemed it better not to give it to him as | |
| Fox has not given Leclercq's letter to Merton - thinks Leclercq is misguided in advising Merton on a vocation as a hermit - asks that Leclercq not mention this to Merton in the future, but to stick to "literary matters, …the Preface, THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE, etc. |
| 1 | 1959/11/19 | TALS | to Fox, James | In order to obey what you ordered me, I am sending this letter to you, hopping [sic] that you will | |
| [to Dom James Fox and to be given to Merton - see "Ricaurte, José Eusebio" file for original] translation of <i>Basic Principles of Monastic Prayer</a> / possible donor of land around Medellin, Colombia, for founding of Trappist monastery / asking Merton for advice on his group, the Priest Slaves of Mary |
| 1 | 1959/12/17 (#01) | transcript | from Merton | I want you to receive this news when you come home, and before I see you. The whole question of my | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] vocation question settled by Rome - Sacred Congregation feels that because of his writing, he must remain at Gethsemani / sees that this is the will of God / resolves not to take steps to leave the Order and will continue as Novice Master / asks to be hermit at Gethsemani / still loves community |
| 1 | 1959/12/17? (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Concerning the rights of conscience: The reason I did not directly consult you about my application | Yes |
| [Xerox of published letter] Merton defends his right to appeal to higher Superiors without going through Fox and that asking for an indult was not an act of disobedience |
| 1 | 1959/no/no? | TNS | from Merton | Reverendissime Gen. has given permission to carry on with the Pasternak article, has appointed other | |
| Boris Pasternak / Czeslaw Milosz / Francois Mayhieu of the "Bede Griffith outfit in India" |
| 1 | 1960/01/15 | TLS | from Porter, Thomas Aquinas / to James Fox | Just a few lines with the enclosed Ms. Of Fr. Louis to tell you that we finished our retreat | |
| [for original, see "Porter" file / referenced manuscript is not extant] |
| 1 | 1960/01/26 | TALS | to Leclercq, Jean | We understand that you are giving quite a few lectures in Rome. We are very happy that you are | |
| asking for Leclercq's address to the Generals of the Religious Orders on obedience |
| 1 | 1961/02/14 | TLS | from Ryan, Joseph | I am indeed most grateful for your generous offering in the amount of forty dollars and for your | |
| enrollment of Merton in the "Catholic Near East Welfare Association" - "The Holy Father's Mission Aid For The Oriental Church" |
| 1 | 1961/05/04 | TLS | from O'Meara, Thomas Aquinas | Since so many, for one reason or another, would be interested in writing to Fr. Louis (Thomas Merton | |
| reference to Dominican hermit, Père Vayssière, in <i>Disputed Questions</i> - requesting more information from Merton about Vayssière |
| 1 | 1962/08/16 | TLS[x] | to Forest, Jim | You have a long memory-- and I appreciate your gracious note of August 8 with the enclosed copy | |
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| 1 | 1963/04/25 | TLS[x] | to Marlon Green | We saw your picture in the paper, and that you had won your case with the United States Supreme | |
| [see "Green, Marlon D." file for the physical copy of the letter] Green's Supreme Court victory / lack of success at Gethsemani in retaining black vocations - one black man taking vows within a month |
| 1 | 1963/10/07 | TL[c] | to Horrigan, Alfred | We received your gracious letter of October 2 in regard to a "Thomas Merton Collection" at | |
| Merton has already agreed to start a collection at Bellarmine and has already sent some contributions / limitations on what can be given - two other collections already founded - one at University of Kentucky where Merton given honorary degree of Doctorate in the past year |
| 1 | 1964/02/18? | transcript | from Gillet, Ignace | Votre lettre du 7 m'est parvenue le 11, mais c'est aujourd'hui seulement que je trouve le temps, | |
| rejection of <i>Black Revolution and Cold War</i> (<i>Seeds of Destruction</i>) / even though individual articles were permitted, Gillet points to letters from 1962 and 1963 that suggest Sortais was against such articles appearing together in a book |
| 1 | 1964/03/20 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Concerning the censorship of the book now entitled SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION. 1. I fully accept the | |
| can accept that 3 war articles (previously accepted for print in magazines) should not appear in book form / Bob Giroux (publisher) argues book with 3 articles is already set in type / Dom Ignace Gillet does not like idea of monk being interested in "modern controversial problems" / "Meditations of Fr. Delp" |
| 1 | 1964/03/20 (#02) | TLS | from Merton | Concerning the censorship of the book now entitled SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION. 1. I fully accept the | |
| [found in "censors file"] can accept that 3 war articles (previously accepted for print in magazines) should not appear in book form / Bob Giroux (publisher) argues book with 3 articles is already set in type / Dom Ignace Gillet does not like idea of monk being interested in "modern controversial problems" / Fr. Delp meditations |
| 1 | 1964/03/no? (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the letter of Dom Ignace. I was rather surprised. Of course it raises a bit of a | |
| Dom Ignace Gillet and censorship of book <i>Black Revolution / Letters in Crisis</i> (later <i>Seeds of Destruction</i>) - Gillet refuses the whole book because of the articles on war / Merton notes that Farrar Straus is already printing the book with the 3 banned articles / permission to print with only approved articles |
| 1 | 1964/03/no? (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the letter of Dom Ignace. I was rather surprised. Of course it raises a bit of a | |
| [same as TL[c] from 1964/03/00?, but with some annotations by Merton in blue ink - found in "Censors" file] |
| 1 | 1964/05/30? | TLS | to Merton | I received a letter from our Abbot General this morning which reads in part as follows in regard to | |
| <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> and the article "Christian Ethics and World Crisis" - Dom Ignace Gillet opposes the inclusion of the controversial topic of nuclear war in favor of a more generalized plea for peace |
| 1 | 1964/07/10 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | First of all a letter from Fr Illtud Evans says he would like to advance the date of the retreat to | |
| [letter to Fox who left, or is about to leave, for a visitation to other monasteries] Illtud Evans / asking permission to do an article for <u>Holiday</u> magazine / Cuban who does not know English is applying for entry |
| 1 | 1964/09/24 | TLS | from Merton | In view of the fact that Fr Dumoulin SJ one of the foremost Catholic experts on Buddhism in Japan | |
| labeled "PETITION" - asking permission to visit Zen and Buddhist monasteries in Japan / already a precedent among Jesuits / advantages to Merton's contemplative life |
| 1 | 1964/09/29? (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton | About yesterday's talk: certainly I am very happy that we were able to consider together the | Yes |
| [see TLS[x] copy in Series 4] possibility of founding hermitage and trip to Japan (of a "personal repugnance" to Fox) to visit Zen and Cistercian monasteries / assurance of Merton's loathing of modern cities - not a "jaunt in the world" / Jim Wygal and Merton's psychological fitness for trip |
| 1 | 1964/09/29? (#04) | TLS | from Merton | About yesterday's talk: certainly I am very happy that we were able to consider together the | Yes |
| possibility of founding hermitage and trip to Japan (of a "personal repugnance" to Fox) to visit Zen and Cistercian monasteries / assurance of Merton's loathing of modern cities - not a "jaunt in the world" / Jim Wygal and Merton's psychological fitness for trip |
| 1 | 1964/no/no? (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I got in touch with Fr Paul as soon as I heard the results of the election and asked him to send the | |
| election of new Abbot General - sending Ignace Gillet copy of <i>Black Revolution</i> (<i>Seeds of Destruction</i>) / articles have separately been approved for publishing - can they be joined as a book? / questions of building a little prayer shelter outside for novices, changes to Office - Liturgical Committee |
| 1 | 1965/08/14 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am giving this to you as a kind of summary of what I have gathered to be ok from our conversations | |
| "Memo regarding mail" / Br. Patrick and Br. Dunstan / what mail to open, which book and magazines to keep - wants <u>Le Monde</u> and <u>I.F. Stone Weekly</u> but not <u>Commonweal</u> |
| 1 | 1965/11/13 | TLS | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Just a quickie for now to say by all means come next week-- November 17th is fine for us here-- with | |
| contract discussions |
| 1 | 1965/11/22 | TLS | to Morrissey, James | This is a hard letter for me to write, but I am obliged to do it. Sometime ago, I believe, we | |
| [Morrissey was with Louisville, Kentucky's newspaper, the Courier-Journal] telling Morrissey that he will not be allowed to take new photos of Gethsemani for an article on Merton, but that he can use photos taken for Postulant's Guide and another pictorial book of the monastery / Dan Walsh |
| 1 | 1965/11/29 | TALS | to Stone, Naomi Burton | It was wonderful to have you here, if only for a little while. Remember, we promised a "not-so-long | |
| enclosing proposed changes for Burton to present to the Contract Department of the publishing house |
| 1 | 1966/01/25 | TLS | to Morrissey, James | We received your gracious letter of the 24th along with copies of your wonderful article. It turned | |
| favorable response on article from Fox and from the Courier-Journal's readers |
| 1 | 1966/01/28 | TLS | to Morrissey, James | Many thanks for your kind note of the 26th along with extra copies, which we will be able to make | |
| Merton sending Morrissey's article to friends, including his aunts in New Zealand (Aunt Ka and Aunt Kit) / permission to give photo portrait of Merton to <u>Newsweek</u> and the <u>Times</u> / photo credit to Merton's friend Arthur Fillmore of St. Louis |
| 1 | 1966/02/02 | TAL | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracious letter of January 27. I am glad our attempt to write to the "Eiffel Tower" | |
| "'Eiffel Tower' woman" - Fox's trepidations in writing Marie Tadié / Ed Rice - New York vs. Kentucky - lack of modern conveniences at hermitage (no more visitors?) - Rice and a gloomy article for <u>Jubilee</u> / Dan Berrigan's comments on Merton / huge publicity of Morrissey's article - Dan Walsh |
| 1 | 1966/02/no? | HLS | from Merton | Please do not worry about Naomi. I will take care of her. Why don't these people mind their own | |
| despite Naomi Burton Stone's report to Fox, Merton claims he finds no problems in conditions at the hermitage (not too cold for him) / Merton proposes that banning all visitors might solve such problems and keep Fox from getting involved in trouble with guests |
| 1 | 1966/03/02 (#01) | TN[x] | from Merton | Re file and memo on Marie Tadie: Dear Rev Father. The copies of my letters to Marie Tadie and the | |
| Tadié does not want to cooperate with New Directions - trouble between Tadié and Hoffman / Tadié first only wanted to handle prose but now wants poetry including Chuang Tzu book / in future Merton will not correspond with Tadié about business |
| 1 | 1966/04/08 | TLS | to Stone, Naomi Burton | We received your gracious letter of March 30. In regard to good Father Louis-- he will be home here | |
| Merton's surgery and recovery / <u>Life</u> magazine and serial rights - commercialization of Merton's face and media sensationalism / Burton's working relations with John Delaney |
| 1 | 1966/07/28 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | In regard to our current "problems". I shall discuss possible psychological causes with Fr Eudes | Yes |
| Fr. John Eudes Bamberger and psychological evaluation / "fault does not lie with hermitage" nor will problems be solved by returning to community - still a need for contacts with "exceptional people" outside of monastery and in foreign countries |
| 1 | 1966/07/29 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Will you let me make a couple of suggestions, about the future of hermits around here and related | Yes |
| create a system of open communications between hermits and superiors to avoid suspicion on both sides / affair with M. over / inspections of hermitage / second hermit moving in / no visits to hermits by monks - danger of homosexual affairs between some monks, Merton - "I am not so inclined" |
| 1 | 1966/08/07 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I think this ought to take care of the essentials, and I presume we agree on the essential | Yes |
| Merton promises not to smuggle out letters, make illicit phone calls, or leave monastery (even to Loretto) without permission / asking Fox to believe in him and not make it a relationship of distrust with fears of "constraint and (veiled) punitive measures" / [attached document in Series 5, "Dom James Binder"] |
| 1 | 1966/10/01 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am sorry to bother you with this but I think it is necessary. At the request of this Negro singer | |
| wrote "Freedom Songs" poems for Robert Williams to raise money for a foundation for African Students / Williams created leaflet stating that Merton was actively involved in the fund drive, which he does not have permission to do / Merton wrote to him and asks Fox to do the same |
| 1 | 1966/10/21 | telegram | to Maritain, Jacques | DORA COME ANYTIME AFTER NOV 2ND. PLEASE NOTIFY EXACT TIME OF ARRIVAL IN LOUISVILLE | |
| [see "Dana, Doris" file for telegram - message from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani, to Jacques Maritain to notify Doris Dana about arrangements to visit Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 1 | 1966/no/no? (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is an important matter which I have been putting off but I guess I might as well state it | Yes |
| reasons for continuing to go for medical treatment in Louisville despite Merton's episode with a nursing student from Louisville - medically, since the doctors know his conditions better in Louisville - non-medically, since "M." moved from the area midsummer (1966) and will not likely come back |
| 1 | 1967/01/13 | TL[c] | from Dana, Doris | I want to express my deepest thanks to you once again for having made it possible for me to visit | |
| [see the "Dana, Doris" file - from Doris Dana to Dom James Fox] |
| 1 | 1967/01/19 | TNS | from Merton | Memo on Communications. In regard to the new system of handling the mail and so on: 1. I feel | |
| Merton thinks he should get all mail / Fr. Matthew's office to help with routine acknowledgements and Mass offerings / letters concerning aggiornamento - renewal of contemplative religious life - will not give lectures, but will mail responses and make recordings for non-public, non-circulating use / telephone at hermitage? |
| 1 | 1967/01/31 | TLS[x] | to Merton | To-day-- how thankful-- how thankful-- you should be to God-- The anniversary of His bringing you | |
| Fox saying Merton should be grateful on his birthday for the gift of being allowed to live in solitude at the hermitage - contrasts this with what he sees as a bad idea of traveling (responding to invitation from Fr. Bernard of Melleray Abbey to travel to France, see also "Bissey, Colomban" file and Series 3 of Fox letters) |
| 1 | 1967/07/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | Here is a magazine and letter that came from a certain Father-- or rather Msgr Robert J Fox. | |
| [see also the "Fox, Robert" file] |
| 1 | 1967/07/15 | TLS | from Merton | Herewith I am returning the letter of Mgr Fox, and suggest the following solution. 1-About | |
| no to collaboration with Msgr. Fox this year - "out of contact with Harlem for thirty years", so not the right perspective / should give him some time for discussion of matter if he wants to come to Gethsemani - role owed by contemplatives for all those with such a legitimate purpose / careful management of Merton's time |
| 1 | 1967/08/02 | TLS[x] | to Maloney, Charles | I recently received a letter from a certain Father Richard W. Rousseau, S.J., from Fairfield | |
| [letter to Bishop Charles Mahoney, then Auxiliary Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky] visit to Fairfield University, Connecticut, of Franz Cardinal König |
| 1 | 1967/08/03 | TLS[x] | from Maloney, Charles | I received your letter of August 2, concerning the request that Father Louis take part in a "meeting | |
| [letter from Bishop Charles Mahoney, then Auxiliary Bishop of Louisville, Kentucky] visit to Fairfield University, Connecticut, of Franz Cardinal König |
| 1 | 1967/08/07 (#01) | TL[x] | to König, Franz | It has been brought, indirectly, to my attention, that you intend to visit the United States | |
| [letter to Franz Cardinal König, then Archbishop of Vienna] visit to Fairfield University, Connecticut, in late August 1967 and Merton's invitation |
| 1 | 1967/08/07 (#02) | TL[x] | to Rousseau, Richard | Father Louis received a letter from you, dated July 31. He showed it to me, for my perusal | |
| [letter to Fr. Richard W. Rousseau, then President of Fairfield University, Connecticut] visit to Fairfield University, Connecticut, of Franz Cardinal König in late August 1967 and Merton's invitation |
| 1 | 1967/08/22 | TL[c] | from Merton | Since the letter I wrote yesterday was too late for yesterday's mail I am adding this one which may | |
| [another letter from 1967/08/21 is mentioned as being attached] Holy Father's acknowledgement of Merton / not "our" place to write apologetics, but to bear witness / prayer and contemplation - lesson of religious alienation by Marx - monastery not a place of "dead works" - prayer can be a "liberating force" |
| 1 | 1967/09/13 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I'm not arguing about Chile, because in any case I do not really think it would be the answer | |
| [from one folder from the "New Directions Publishing" papers at Harvard, entitled "Letters (carbons) to various people, 1967"] reasons to leave monastery for Chile or some other place |
| 1 | 1967/09/22? | TLS | to Merton | A certain Mr. Barry Garfinkel called from N.Y. He is a member of Mr. Slate's law firm. He wanted | |
| Merton's friend and lawyer handling Trust Agreement, John Slate, has died [on 09/19] / Barry Garfinkel from the same firm wants the authority to continue Slates work on the Agreement |
| 1 | 1967/09/23 | HANS | from Merton | I'd appreciate it if the following cable could be sent [-] Robert Lax - Kalymnos - Greece [-] Slate | |
| text for telegram to Bob Lax reading "Slate died Tuesday" - announcement that one of his fellow Columbia University friends, John Slate, had died - Slate died of a heart attack - see also "Slate, John H." correspondence file |
| 1 | 1967/11/11 | TL[c] | from Merton | re Trust Agreement [-] To summarize some of the points in our good talk today and add some useful | |
| Merton's notes for discussion on the Trust Agreement - founding of the Merton Legacy Trust / stipulation not to make Merton's autobiography into a film or program for TV or radio / kinds of magazines acceptable for publishing - small and literary / the Trustees' and monastery's relationship in the rights to approve publication |
| 1 | 1967/11/14 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | 1. The address of the Paris lawyer is M. Pierre Kramer-Raine | |
| "Summary of the position in regard to M Tadie." / foreign rights entirely in the hands of Merton's publishers / Marie Tadié is still translator for all previously contracted work / Marie Tadié may be used in the future for French translation or someone else, but this is in the hand of the publishers |
| 1 | 1968/02/02 | HCS | from Merton | My prayers go with you into the desert[?] this Feb. 2 - and I hope you will find there all that you | |
| [verso: nativity scene with a quote from St. Augustine] |
| 1 | 1968/10/06 | TL[c] | to Merton | Perhaps you are not expecting a note from me - at least so soon. But I do want you to know - that, | |
| [filed as p. 7-8 attached to 1969/02/01 letter (Fox's handwritten copy in Series 29)] rapid changes in Trappist community - less mandatory silence, hermits permitted, trips outside monastery / Fox's call to be hermit and how he had to wait - how he made Merton wait for Asian journey - in the end Fox a "loyal friend and brother" not Merton's "nemesis" |
| 1 | 1968/10/20 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I have been waiting for a chance to thank you for your warm and gracious letter, which reached me | |
| [filed as p. 9 attached to 1969/02/01 letter, original in Series 7, response to Fox letter of 1968/10/06 (Series 1)] does not blame Fox for his past decisions / new openness in monastic life might lead to abuses - want his trip to be for a "spiritual goal" / finding Asian Buddhist meditation centers unknown in the West / Americans don't meditate nor "really know themselves" |
| 1 | 1969/02/01 (#01) | TL[c] | to "Gethsemani Diaspora" | It was Tuesday, December 10 - about 15 minutes before 1:00 in the afternoon. I was about to prepare | |
| copy of a letter Dom James writes about Merton's death and how he heard the news / reflections on Merton's life, works and character; their monk-superior relationship and popular misunderstandings of it / "burnt men" from <i>Seven Storey Mountain</i> / encloses two 1968 letters to and from Merton in Asia and two prayers by Merton |
| 1 | 1969/02/01 (#02) | other | to "Gethsemani Diaspora" | PRAYER [by TM] O God of Mercy and of truth, look down we beg You upon this troubled world, and grant | |
| [filed as p. 10 attached to 1969/02/01 letter of Fox] two prayers by Merton - first from the New York World's Fair of 1964, the Vatican Pavilion - second called, "Act of Abandonment": "MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going..." |
| 1 | 1977/04/no? | other[x] | | Two charged with robbery of retired Trappist abbot [-] Two New Hope men have been arrested and | |
| [newspaper clipping regarding the assault and robbery of Dom James Fox retired to a hermitage by two men from near Gethsemani Abbey who were looking for money and beat Fox when they found he did not have any] |
| 1 | undated/07/08? | HPCS | to Merton | I received your note. Bro Simon talked to me on phone - so that we could expedite matters with | |
| [verso: postcard of "Novitiate House" - "Our Lady of the Genesee Abbey" in Piffard, NY] "matters with 'Mac'" |
| 1 | undated/07/18? | HPCS | to Merton | Just rec'd your charming letter - I thought you might have forgotten! But no - not you. I'm glad | |
| [verso: postcard of "Winter Scene, Quonset Trappist Abbey" in Huntsville, Utah] |
| 1 | undated/07/20? | HCS | from Merton | Thanks for your "cooling" Utah card. I hope the visitation is as cool as the landscape. For my | |
| [verso: heart and flame design with the words "O Clara Luce"] response to Fox's postcard from Utah / Merton's health problems / possible visit by Jean Leclercq in August / Marie Tadié |
| 1 | undated/09/26? | HPCS | to Merton | I rec'd your most gracious note | |
| [verso: postcard from Rome with four photos of famous structures] |
| 1 | undated/11/14? | HPCS | to Merton | A quote from your friend P. Neruda. [?] said he has "mellowed" in his latter years - not so | |
| [verso: postcard of a "Mural 'Presencia de América Latina' in the "Casa del Arte - Concepción - CHILE"] Pablo Neruda / Marie Tadié |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#06) | TL[c] | from Merton | I received this big package from Dom Gorla. It is conscience matter addressed to me and presumably | |
| diaries of conscience matter sent to Merton / Merton's thoughts on someone's vocation to the monastery |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#07) | TN[x] | from Merton | PERSONAL SCHEDULE. Br. M. Louis. 2.15. Rise. Lauds. 2.30 Meditation (Old Testament) (about an | |
| Merton's personal schedule - partial morning schedule only |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#08) | TAL | from Censor (anonymous) | A manuscript of Father Louis of Gethsemani (Thomas Merton) has been sent to me for censorship. It | |
| Nihil Obstat or conditional with notes - "Mystics and Zen Masters", "Classic Chinese Thought", "Jesuits in China", "From Pilgrimage to Crusade", "English Mystics", "Self Knowledge in Gertrude More and Augustine Baker", "Russian Mystics", "Protestant Mysticism", "Pleasant Hill", "Contemplation and Ecumenism" |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#09) | TL | from Censor (anonymous) | I concede the nihil obstat but wish to bring the following to the attention of the author. 1. At | |
| points out some grammatical problems and some area that might be confusing to the reader |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#10) | TLS | to Merton | Here is a letter I received from a good family who lives near the monastery of Our Lady of the | |
| [letter from family not attached herein] letter from family near Our Lady of the Genesee in Piffard, NY - help out Dom Gerard McGinly and other pioneer monks |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#11) | HNS | to Merton | Could you tell me: 1) is that James Fitzsimmons who edits some magazine | |
| magazine in Switzerland |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#12) | HNS | to Merton | I received your last two notes ok. No doubt our account of the audience with Our Holy Father has | |
| asking Holy Father about "Greek Orthodox priests offering Mass" / Holy Father mentions interest in Merton's work and "interested in any help that can be given our non-Catholic brothers" |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#37) | TNS | from Merton | Concerning temperature inhermitage, [sic] just for information: last night, with below zero weather | |
| Merton comfortable and has no complaints despite frigid conditions of hermitage |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#38) | TAN | from Merton | Points for letter to censors about Suzuki article-- you can complete it with other points. 1) We | |
| D. T. Suzuki article - separation of article from Desert Fathers book - not objectionable because it is to be published in a book with other authors and addressed to non-Catholics |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#39) | TAN | from Merton | Marie Tadié is askingabout [sic] that letter you were to write her. I don't think Naomi is going to | |
| Marie Tadié and rights as agent for French, Italian and Spanish works / Naomi Burton Stone and Doubleday |
| 2 | 1951/06/20 (#02) | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | Please pardon our delay in not writing before. The novices are very glad that they do not have to | |
| Merton and becoming a hermit / Fr. Raymond |
| 2 | 1952/02/05 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | We thank you for the answers to the questions that we received in your November letter. We have | |
| students - scholasticate |
| 2 | 1952/02/10 | TL[x] | from Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | Je suis très content du très bon comportement de P. Louis Merton. Il m'a d'ailleurs fait très bonne | |
| Carthusians |
| 2 | 1952/04/11 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | All your dear children at Gethsemani send their best love and greetings and assurance of prayers for | |
| weekly meetings |
| 2 | 1953/01/12 (#01) | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | Good Father Louis has quite recovered from the shock of the book episode. It is certainly unnerved | |
| censors / Fr. Raymond's book on Dom Frederick |
| 2 | 1953/04/09 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | No doubt you will hear quite a bit about good Father Louis. I am sure Father Raymond will tell you | |
| Merton's "hermit tendencies" |
| 2 | 1953/06/17 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | Here it is almost June 21, the Feast of the great Saint Aloysius de Gonzague. We aresending [sic] | |
| Merton's jumpiness - putting on weight |
| 2 | 1953/11/27 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | P.S. Another pleasant bit of news… the very happy visit we had from D. Sighardus Kleiner. He came | |
| Dom Sighard Kleiner |
| 2 | 1954/06/14 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | Father Louis improves much as the days go by. He is getting more settled. He sees that it is God's | |
| Merton improves / finding place at Gethsemani / master of students |
| 2 | 1954/12/07 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | We were very happy to receive your letter of November 13. Good Father Louis seems more settled in | |
| hermit life and vacations |
| 2 | 1955/03/16 (#01) | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | We are writing you in regard to the possible date of coming to America. Word has just come from the | |
| French interpreter for Dom Louis' visit / Merton does not like that job |
| 2 | 1955/03/28 (#01) | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | Father Louis gave a short conference on the Holy Eucharist. He brought out some ideas of Cardinal | |
| Eucharist / life in the woods / visitation / Merton, Urban, and Fr. Raymond - sign language |
| 2 | 1955/06/05 | TLS[x] | from Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | J'ai très longuement examiné ou plutôt médité la position du cher Père Louis Merton, son désir de | |
| hermit's life |
| 2 | 1955/06/30 (#01) | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | We intended to write a longer letter, but the preparations for establishing the foundation in | |
| visitation / Dom Jean Leclercq / Dom Winandy / Dom Maurizio (see also a similar letter to Abbot General Gabriel Sortais in Series 7 in this file of the same date) |
| 2 | 1955/08/08 | TAL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | We thought it better to write separately, and more at length, in regard to the following two | |
| forestry / foundation of Spencer in California / government putting up fire watch lookout tower |
| 2 | 1955/12/30 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | We received your kind letter of December 19. We transmitted your note to Father Louis. Enclosed is | |
| attaching letter to Dom Jean Leclercq from Merton / Carthusian reaction to a Trappist writer like Merton taking the life of a hermit |
| 2 | 1956/03/17 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | This involved me in about two weeks more. I arrived back home then, and things have been going very | |
| Merton as novice master - still nervous and talking about becoming a hermit after 3 years of novice master are up, but still wants to be a Cistercian |
| 2 | 1956/04/16 | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | Good Father Louis is doing well as Father Master, thusfar. He is very interested in checking | |
| Merton's psychiatric examinations of new postulants / Catholic psychiatrist from Louisville administering Rorschach test on Merton - psychiatrist said Merton a "very social being" and "need[s] people" - Merton objects that he intends to be a hermit - Fox like the test |
| 2 | 1956/06/18 (#01) | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | Father Louis is going along. But you never know what is going on in his head. He does very well as | |
| Merton as master of novices - study of neuroses and psychoses and use in studying possible candidates for Trappists |
| 2 | 1957/02/04 (#01) | TL[x] | to Le Pennuen, Louis de Gonzague | We are writing in regard to VITA NEL SILENZIO, which is an Italian translation by Dom Anselmo | |
| Dom Anselmo Giabbani's Italian translation of <i>Silence in Heaven</i> causing embarrassment / dates for Dom Louis' visitation of Gethsemani |
| 2 | 1958/11/25 | HLS[x] | from Amédée, Marie / to Louis de Gonzague Le Pennuen | De votre bonté, j'ose solliciter une intervention en faveur d'une "oeuvre pie". Vous savez que ma | |
| [seems to be a copy of Fr. Amédée's letter that was sent by Dom Louis to Dom James] book on Aelred of Rievaulx with a preface for the English translation by Merton / Dom James' involvement in project |
| 3 | 1960/02/16 (#01) | TL[x] | to Bissey, Colomban | We have more pleasant news for you now than in our last letter in regard to the book AELRED DE | |
| <i>Aelred of Rievaulx</i> book by Fr. Amédée (Amadeus of Bricquebec) translation into English - Fox giving consent for Merton to write preface under specified conditions |
| 3 | 1967/01/24 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Bernard, Fr., O.C.S.O. | Vous n'êtes pas sans savoir que notre Père Abbé vient d'être nommé Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, | |
| invitation for Merton to travel to France for Dom Colomban Bissey's induction into the Legion of Honor |
| 3 | 1967/01/24 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Bernard, Fr., O.C.S.O. / to Merton | Vous savez déjà par une indiscrétion de mon Père Prieur (mon frère de sang) la nomination de notre | |
| [see also item number three of the same date, a note from Merton to Dom James Fox, which was typed onto the same page] invitation for Merton to travel to France for Dom Colomban Bissey's induction into the Legion of Honor |
| 3 | 1967/01/24 (#03) | TNS[x] | from Merton | What about it? How about a nice birthday present? --You yourself often say it is good for monks | |
| [see also item number two of the same date] invitation for Merton to travel to France for Dom Colomban Bissey's induction into the Legion of Honor |
| 3 | 1967/02/01 (#01) | TLS[x] | to Bissey, Colomban | I would not want you to misinterpret my letter which I have written to good Father Bernard | |
| complaint to Dom Colomban Bissey, Abbot of Melleray Abbey in France that one of the monks of Melleray, Fr. Bernard, was trying to "induce Father Louis to make a trip across the Atlantic" for Bissey's induction into the French Légion d'honneur (Legion of Honor) |
| 3 | 1967/02/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Bernard, Fr., O.C.S.O. | I presume that you can read english, I hope. I know you have acted in all innocence-- good will-- | |
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| 4 | 1950/01/04 | TL[x] | to Nogues, Dominique | We received your letter of December 12. Most Reverend General […] Good Father Louis did not mention | |
| trip to Rome |
| 4 | 1950/03/27 | TL[x] | to Nogues, Dominique | Enclosed is a list of Mass intentions for March, which Jesus has provided us for you. In regard to | |
| trip to Rome |
| 4 | 1951/04/06 | TL[x] | to Nogues, Dominique | We are writing also in regard to good Father Louis | |
| day in the woods |
| 4 | 1951/06/20 (#01) | TL[x] | to Nogues, Dominique | No doubt by this time you have heard from good Dom Louis in regard to his trip to America and his | |
| day in the woods |
| 5 | 1951/11/22 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | […] of P. Thomas Merton "Seeds of contemplation" est en cours. Nous avons la traduction "La nuit | |
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| 5 | 1951/12/01 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We just received the package of the manuscripts of "God Goes to Murderers' Row". Did it appear as a | |
| Fr. Raymond's <i>God Goes to Murderers' Row</i> / asking how Dom Gabriel want to handle future Imprimatur requests - by sending the manuscript or simply the Nihil Obstat from various censors to receive Imprimi Potest |
| 5 | 1951/12/12 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | En ce qui concerne l'Imprimi potest, je vous dis en toute simplicité que je voudrais recevoir, | |
| submission requirements that Dom Gabriel requires for Merton and Fr. Raymond's books |
| 5 | 1952/08/26 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | As regards the Master of Scholastics, Father Raymond proclaimed Father Louis for over-stepping the | |
| Fr. Raymond accuses Merton of "over-stepping the boundary of what the Master of Scholastics should be" and asks Dom Gabriel for suggestions of what the role should be since it is not clearly spelled out in Trappist Constitution or Regulations |
| 5 | 1952/09/22 | TNS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Imprimi potest f.M.Gabriel SORTAIS Abbas Generalis die 22a Septembris 1952. | |
| [no indication of what the Imprimi potest is for - see 1952/09/23 letter - for "The Contemplative Life in the United States"?] |
| 5 | 1952/09/23 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | C'est avec plaisir que je vous ai revu à notre Chapitre Général et j'espère que votre voyage de | |
| Imprimi potest for article, "The Contemplative Life in the United States" |
| 5 | 1952/10/23 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We are hoping that this letter reaches you at N.D. des Prairies, because we do not know your | |
| Merton's editor Bob Giroux gave <i>Sign of Jonas</i> manuscript to Jacques Maritain / suggests letting Dom Albert cut parts out of book / book is not a "heavier spirituality" but geared to those "less spiritually minded" / humility in Merton's acceptance of the censorship or editing |
| 5 | 1952/12/22 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Good Father Louis has quite recovered from the shock of the book episode. It certainly unnerved him | |
| Merton working out a plan to be a hermit within Cistercian Order / in the end, <i>Sign of Jonas</i> printed without many changes / good for Merton to have been humbled before the release of the book |
| 5 | 1953/01/12 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | In regard to the statute on publication of books in the Order, paragraph 2 means that books are | |
| questions about publication of books in the Order - only for the benefit of the Order? Can books be sent to printer before the censors see it to see if there are needed changes? / Fr. Raymond and book on life of Dom Frederic |
| 5 | 1953/01/13 | TNS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Nous, Frère Marie-Gabriel SORTAIS, Abbé de Citeaux et Père Général des Cisterciens de la Stricte | |
| giving Imprimi Potest for <i>Bread in the Wilderness: Or Contemplation in the Liturgy</i> |
| 5 | 1953/02/02 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous me parlez aussi du P.Louis et de ses désirs de solitude. Le Bon Dieu est certainement libre de | |
| Merton's questions of changes to monastic lifestyle and being a hermit / how Merton handles the notoriety of his books |
| 5 | 1953/02/16 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | As regards Father Louis, his friends are telling him to keep on writing diaries and journals, | |
| friends encouraging journaling due to expected success of <i>The Sign of Jonas</i> / Fox asks Sortais to write and tell Merton to stop journaling - does not want another published journal / Merton a contradiction - for solitude but always looking to publish / Imprimi Potest for <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> |
| 5 | 1953/03/16 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We were so happy to have seen you progressing and well on the road to recovery. We have not had a | |
| recounting how Merton received Sortais' letter about not writing a journal - thought Sortais meant to not write books either - Fox tells him to "continue moderately" with books, no journal [Merton ceases journal 1953-1956] / Fr. Raymond's new book on Dom Frederic / new rules for censorship |
| 5 | 1953/05/23 | TALS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | En revenant de voyage, j'ai trouvé à Paris Dom Procureur qui, entre autres affaires, m'a remis une | |
| book on life of St. Lutgard and "Postulant's Guide |
| 5 | 1953/06/11 (#02) | TAL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre Père Louis me demande de lui désigner les deux Censeurs auxquels il faut envoyer son nouveau | |
| Chapter General designated 3 censors for the English language / Fox not to tell Merton the names of the censors / Fr. Thomas d'Aquin of Holy Trinity and Fr. Augustin de Genese |
| 5 | 1953/06/16 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your kind letter from Citeaux. We have just received word from Dom Jean that you have | |
| received Imprimi Potest for "Postulant's Guide" |
| 5 | 1953/10/01 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Father Louis is restless at times. Last Fall he wrote to the Carthusians, in Vermont. They invited | |
| Merton's plans to join the Carthusians or be a Camaldolese or Carmelite hermit - still plans to be a quasi-hermit at Gethsemani |
| 5 | 1953/10/15 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | There was a little confusion in the minds of some at Gethsemani about our grange proposition. | |
| Merton "gets exited easily" and wrote Fox (who went to Europe) about newly acquired grange in California |
| 5 | 1953/10/28 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your charming letter. No doubt you have seen the Apostolic Brief which the Office of | |
| Genesee raised to the rank of Abbey / grange in California - Merton quite in favor of it |
| 5 | 1953/11/26 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | And now again, dear R'mme, to other matters. In regard to the books… I have read your post-script | |
| Merton interested in Camaldolese Order (Fox met their Dom Anselmo Giabbani in Italy) and wants to spread information about them in America / Fox thinks it strange for Trappist to write about another order, especially after restlessness expressed in <i>Seven Storey Mountain</i> and <i>Sign of Jonas</i> |
| 5 | 1953/12/04 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ci-joint une lettre pour votre Père Louis ainsi que le dossier de remarques des | |
| censors and the French translation of <i>Ascent to Truth</i> - troubles with the way it was translated rather than the content and is returning it to the censors before giving it his Imprimi Potest / French editor is Albin Michel |
| 5 | 1953/12/16 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Nous, frère Marie Gabriel SORTAIS, Abbé de Cîteaux et Père Général des Cisterciens de la Stricte | |
| Imprimi Potest for a translation of Fr. Raymond's <i>Trappists, the Reds and You: Persecution of the Trappists in China</i> |
| 5 | 1954/01/02 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous voudrez bien considérer cette lettre comme un IMPRIMI POTEST pour le "Prologue" que P. Louis a | |
| Dutch translation of <i>Sign of Jonas</i> and Dom Vincent |
| 5 | 1954/06/12 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Good Father Louis seems more settled as the days go by. Although I know that he hopes, perhaps | |
| Merton's hopes to live as a hermit at Gethsemani - needs permission of the General Chapter / neuroses in young novices - Fr. Urban's proposal of a house on the new farm for novices could have a "vacation" wherein they could talk more freely under guidance of a superior - Fox dislikes idea |
| 5 | 1954/06/21 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | […] matter that has arisen. Father Louis, before the new censorship regulations were promulgated | |
| Merton's script for an oratorio in five parts <i>The Tower of Babel</i> / asking for second censor for project |
| 5 | 1954/07/02 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Merci de vos lettres du 9 et du 21 juin et des nouvelles qu'elles me donnaient sur Gethsemani, Holy | |
| designates Fr. Thomas d'Aquin of Holy Trinity as second censor for <i>Tower of Babel</i> / French translations of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i>, <i>Last of the Fathers</i>, <i>Ascent to Truth</i> and <i>Sign of Jonas</i> - not to assume translation rights for books / trouble with Marie Tadié |
| 5 | 1954/08/03 (#01) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your charming letter of July 2 from Rome, and also your letter of July 14. As regards | |
| <i>Tower of Babel</i> sent to second censor / Fr. Raymond's <i>Seven Sorrows</i> / Jean Leclercq liked <i>Last of the Fathers</i> / compensation for Marie Tadié for not being able to translate <i>Ascent</i> / Sortais reconsidering <i>Jonas</i> translation |
| 5 | 1954/08/03 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Quelques lignes seulement pour vous expliquer l'envoi de la lettre ci-jointe. La Maison d'édition | |
| Curtis Brown publishers / translations of <i>Ascent to Truth</i> and <i>Sign of Jonas</i> |
| 5 | 1954/08/03 (#03) | TLS[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your charming letter of July 2 from Rome, and also your letter of July 14. | |
| [note that this letter was not with original files but was later added from the archives of the Abbot General of the Trappists] |
| 5 | 1954/08/04 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letter of July 27 from Angers. We told Father Louis about the favorable reception | |
| French translation of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> well received |
| 5 | 1954/08/07 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Le second compte-rendu des Censeurs sur "Tower of Babel" vient de m'arriver et je m'empresse de vous | |
| Imprimi Potest for <i>Tower of Babel</i> |
| 5 | 1954/08/12 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letter of August 3 in regard to your letter for Curtis Brown Publishing Company. | |
| Curtis Brown Publishing and Naomi Burton [Stone] / Japanese translation of <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i> - censorship rules for Japanese version |
| 5 | 1954/08/14 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vos deux lettres du 3 et du 5 août me sont parvenues ici et je vous en remercie. Je suis heureux de | |
| Merton's sentiments on the censorship of his translations - does not doubt that Merton will look to avoid future problems in this area |
| 5 | 1954/08/23 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Au même courrier me sont parvenues votre lettre du 12 août, celle de mon Père Louis du 6 et celle de | |
| Japanese translation of <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i> / appointing of censors to this and other translations |
| 5 | 1954/10/07 | TAL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Our Most Reverend Abbot General wrote us in regard to your literary labor. We have consulted with | |
| [sending two copies letters to Sortais - one from Fox to a priest from Abbaye Nôtre-Dame-de-Grâce (Bricquebec Trappists) and one from Merton to Fox] refusal to translate work into English because the community is already too busy with its two authors |
| 5 | 1955/02/19 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | C'est une question de Censure qui me donne l'occasion de vous écrire aujourd'hui. Après avoir reçu | |
| Imprimi Potest for book called, <i>Viewpoints</i> by Merton / insertion of a chapter called "Vocation" and the approval by censors |
| 5 | 1955/02/21 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | 1-) In regard to some new books that are being written here: I do not know whether you know or not, | |
| <i>Silence in Heaven</i> text by Merton with photos of monastic life by Benedictine Monastery of Pierre qui Vire - French and American editions - Italian edition with help of Dom Anselmo Giabbani of the Camaldolese Order / Dom Claude Jean Nesmy and Editions Braun de Mulhouse |
| 5 | 1955/02/28 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letter of February 19, and also of the 21st. We thought that the agents in this | |
| informed Curtis-Brown that they must contact Sortais to determine censors before publication of Merton's books / addition of 11 pages to book <i>Viewpoints</i> and trouble between the publishers going ahead with printing and the approval of censors |
| 5 | 1955/03/16 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Monsignor Larraona wrote a reply to Father Louis' letter, in which the first paragraph was in | |
| letter from Monsignor Larraona to Merton in response to "forged letters which might be sent to the Sacred Congregation of Religious" / Merton and the Camaldolese |
| 5 | 1955/04/01 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vos lettres du 16 et du 22 mars me sont bien arrivées, et je vous remercie des voeux et des prières | |
| Merton's thoughts on leaving the Order - praise of Merton's books by the sole bishop of Denmark, the good reception it has received in this largely Protestant nation, and the negative effect that his leaving the Order would have on this initial good impression |
| 5 | 1955/04/06 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 28 mars m'est arrivée ici et je vous remercie de me tenir au courant des | |
| send Merton's latest poems to the same censors as <i>Silence in Heaven</i> |
| 5 | 1955/04/15 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 2 avril m'est parvenue hier et je vous remercie vivement de m'avoir donné | |
| Sortais reinforces that Imprimi Potest to publish in one language does not assume permission in others / difficulty in getting translators or editors from outside the Order to understand the proper procedures required / <i>Silence in Heaven</i> / Merton's attitude in obeying these rules |
| 5 | 1955/05/18 (#01) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | In our conversations, Father Louis and I, a few questions came up to which I do not know the answers | |
| questions posed to Sortais: if confessor has told Merton that he should be Carthusian and Abbot disagrees, whose authority should be followed? / would Merton's changing orders cause scandal? - Merton thinks the Holy See should be asked / correspondence with Fr. Ford, S.J., to undermine Fox |
| 5 | 1955/05/28 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vos lettres du 17 et 18 mai viennent de m'arriver, avec les copies que vous y avez jointes, et je | |
| Merton's recent letters to Sortais asking for a transfer of monasteries / thoughts on Abbot's authority on matters of a transfer of Orders / possibility of scandal and poor example to novices / Abbot can refuse to allow correspondence / Merton's desire for an eremitical life - possibility of transfer to Mepkin Abbey |
| 5 | 1955/06/07 | TNS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | PAN EN EL DESIERTO Traduction espagnole de BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS, du P. Louis MERTON. NIHIL | |
| Imprimi Potest for Spanish translation of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> |
| 5 | 1955/06/08 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Si je n'ai pas répondu tout de suite à votre lettre du 25 mai, c'est que j'ai pensé que dans | |
| comments on Imprimi Potest for Spanish translation of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> |
| 5 | 1955/06/13 (#03) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | As regards books, Father Louis has finished his book, "The Living Bread," which is the one he was | |
| <i>The Living Bread</i> - writing for Archbishop Carinci and the Priests' Eucharistic League / <i>Silence in Heaven</i> - Merton wants to wait for approval of French censors regarding Camaldolese chapter and whether it should remain in English addition |
| 5 | 1955/06/13 (#04) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your very kind and considerate letter of May 28, from RoseCre, and now we have just | |
| Merton possibly fears changing Orders now, but still hopes for transitus / Dom Jean Leclercq recommends Merton stop writing for at least two years - Fox doubt he can do it / transitus - Dom Anselmo Giabbani and Archbishop Montini's involvement / fire tower and forester duty for Merton |
| 5 | 1955/06/27 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 13 juin m'est arrivée il y a quelques jours déjà, mais le déplacement de Nunraw à | |
| send <i>The Living Bread</i> to censors / censors for Merton's poems / idea of Dom Jean Leclercq for Merton to cease writing for a given period of time - warnings to that effect |
| 5 | 1955/07/09 (#01) | TNS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | PRAYING THE PSALMS, par le P. Louis Merton. NIHIL OBSTAT : fr. M. Augustin, O.L. of the Genesee, | |
| Imprimi Potest for <i>Praying the Psalms</i> |
| 5 | 1955/07/09 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour le petit ouvrage de P. Louis "Praying the Psalms". | |
| Imprimi Potest for French translation of <i>Silence in Heaven</i> - Merton must make changes required by censors / refusing Imprimi Potest for French translation of "The Less Traveled Road" - too long / did not receive accompanying poem to "Tower or Babel" / questions about religious staying in California |
| 5 | 1955/07/15 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour "Tower of Babel", de Père Louis. La maison d'éditions | |
| publishers "Editorial Sudamericana" want Imprimi Potest for <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> - includes a page of Spanish editorial notes for this work and Imprimi Potest for "Tower of Babel" |
| 5 | 1955/07/19 (#01) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your several letters, dear R'mme. Yours of June 27 gave us the two censors for "The | |
| <i>The Living Bread</i> and <i>Praying the Psalms</i> / necessary corrections for <i>Silence in Heaven</i> |
| 5 | 1955/07/19 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | In regard to good Father Louis himself, and his eremitical fancies, we are enclosing some letters | |
| enclosing letters about Merton and his "eremitical fancies" - letter from Dom Maurizio, novice master of Camaldolese at Frascati - from Dom J. Bapt. Poirion of the Carthusians - to and from Naomi Burton [Stone] who thinks challenges at Gethsemani Merton's cross to bear - not heard from Dom Giabbani |
| 5 | 1955/08/13 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ci-inclus l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour "The living Bread", du P. Louis, avec quelques | |
| attached is Imprimi Potest for <i>The Living Bread</i> (scan of it is cut off and does not show complete image) / <i>Silence in Heaven</i> - must balance solitary life of the Camaldolese and cenobitic life or will be sent back to the censors |
| 5 | 1955/11/17 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | le 7 juin dernier je vous envoyais un IMPRIMI POTEST pour la traduction espagnole de "Bread in the | |
| received letter from the Spanish editors of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> saying that Fox had not forwarded Imprimi Potest to them |
| 5 | 1955/11/29 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your last several letters. I especially appreciated your cable of Dom Walter's being | |
| duties as forester replacing Merton's need for a hermitage / Merton first wanting to sleep alone in attic instead of in dormitory but choosing to sleep in dorm - wanting to eat in infirmary but choosing to manage in regular refectory / Imprimi Potest for <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> in Spanish |
| 5 | 1956/01/09 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Good Father Louis has some notes: "Basic Principles of Monastic Life" and several other little | |
| copy of Merton's letter to Dom Jean Leclercq / letter from Carthusian who had about Merton's temptations in his books writes to Fox - says that Trappist vocation is ideal for Merton and that he is not fit to be a hermit |
| 5 | 1956/03/04 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Deux des censeurs américains viennent de m'adresser un compte-rendu pour des ouvrages différents du | |
| asking for information on new works by Merton of which Sortais had not been informed - two new poems for "Tower of Babel", "Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality", "Neurotic personality", and "Poetry and Contemplation" |
| 5 | 1956/04/18 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Les comptes-rendus des Censeurs sur différents petits travaux de Père Louis viennent de me parvenir. | |
| Sortais is happy to have received additional information on these short works of Merton and wants to comment before they go to an editor - "Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality", "Time and the Liturgy", "Poetry and the Contemplative Life", "Your Will and Your Vocation", "Neurotic Personality in the Monastic Life" |
| 5 | 1956/05/07 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letters of April 3 from Latron and April 18 from Uganda. I have not answered them | |
| explanation of why Fox had not been able to reply to previous letters about Merton's other small articles / acknowledgement that in the future he will specify exact titles even for the smaller works |
| 5 | 1956/06/06 | TLS[x] | from De Bourbon, Clément / to James Fox | The Abbot General desires me to answer your letter of May 22. I am afraid that we are not exactly | |
| [sent by Abbot-General Gabriel Sortais' secretary] still more clarification necessary on some of Merton's essays / asks to send all manuscripts in short order |
| 5 | 1956/06/11 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We are sending two copies of a little prayer to the Sacred Heart that Father Louis composted. He | |
| hopes to publish prayer this month and asking to skip all some of the censorship and approval process for a one-page piece / asking to appoint censors for "Notes on Sacred Art" |
| 5 | 1956/06/16 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 11 m'est bien parvenue, avec les deux exemplaires de la prière composée par P. Louis | |
| letter from M. le Chanoine Berrar from the Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français / Merton's writings on silence and solitude |
| 5 | 1956/06/16 (#02) | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel / to M. le Chanoine E. Berrar | Votre lettre du 8 juin, accompagnée des pièces que vous y aviez jointes, m'est parvenue hier soir et | |
| [copy of letter sent to Fox] refusal to allow Merton to travel to Paris - not in keeping with his life of silence and solitude - would be neglectful of his duties as novice master |
| 5 | 1956/06/18 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received a letter from the Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français in regard to good Father | |
| Chanoine Berrar from Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français |
| 5 | 1956/06/26 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Les manuscrits de P. Louis nous sont bien arrivés et je vous en remercie. J'aurai besoin de les | |
| Chanoine Berrar from Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français |
| 5 | 1956/07/14 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | 3/ La copie d'une partie de la lettre que j'ai reçue d'un Père Dominicain, Professeur à l'Angelicum, | |
| Dominican professor asking to see Merton's manuscripts for four short essays - make corrections of the censors to these essays but there is only a need to send it back to one censor and Imprimi Potest can be assumed when he approves / Merton thinks some censors' suggestions "picayunish" |
| 5 | 1956/08/02 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Un mot seulement pour vous accuser réception de vos deux enveloppes du 23 et du 24 Juillet. Vous | |
| Merton's <i>Secular Journal</i> should be submitted to censors though written prior to entering Gethsemani - it should note explicitly that it was done prior to monastic life |
| 5 | 1956/08/17 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe les remarques des censeurs relatives aux derniers ouvrages du P. | |
| "Thoughts in Solitude" [book, under draft title, "Thirty-Seven Meditations"] and "Notes on Sacred Art" [essay} |
| 5 | 1956/08/24 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | En vous envoyant le 17 de ce mois mon IMPRIMI POTEST pour "Thirty-seven Meditations", je vous | |
| "Thoughts in Solitude" [book, under draft title, "Thirty Seven Meditations"] and "The Ascent to Truth" [book] |
| 5 | 1956/09/03 | TAL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We owe you several letters and answers, dear R'mme. We received yours from Maubec, of August 2, in | |
| Cuban Journal [published as Merton's <i>Secular Journal</i>] / corrections made to "Thirty-Seven Meditations" and "Notes on Sacred Art" / French rights to <i>Ascent to Truth</i> - Fr. François, Marie Tadié - publishers Curtis Brown and Albin Michel / "A Kerygma for the Nativity" / refusal for Merton to give sermon in Louisville |
| 5 | 1956/10/01 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Une lettre du Père Thomas d'Aquin, de Holy Trinity, m'arrive pour me dire que Père Louis a bien | |
| "Thoughts in Solitude" [book, under draft title, "Thirty Seven Meditations"] |
| 5 | 1956/10/03 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | As regards Father Louis, he is doing very well as Father Master. However, he still has his nervous | |
| sending copies of some of Merton's letters / Merton resigned to staying at Gethsemani but still hope for a hermitage after job as Father Master is completed |
| 5 | 1956/10/31 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Quelques lignes seulement pour vous transmettre les avis des Censeurs concernant un petit article | |
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| 5 | 1956/10/31 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vos lettres du 2 Mars m'ont été renvoyées de Rome en France, ou je suis actuellment en voyage. | |
| "The Secular Journal" [book, under draft title, "The Cuban Journal" (or in French "Journal Cubain")] |
| 5 | 1956/12/03 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | J'ai bien reçu aussi votre lettre du 7 Novembre, avec toutes les copies que vous me communiquiez. | |
| happy that Merton did not have to undergo further psychological analysis - in his opinion this leads to more trouble than it solves |
| 5 | 1957/01/02 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Ces derniers jours nous avons remarqué en librairie la traduction d'un ouvrage de votre cher P. | |
| <i>Vita nel silenzio</i> - Italian version of <i>The Silent Life</i> |
| 5 | 1957/01/14 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Regarding the book of Father Louis, the one you mention VITA NEL SILENZIO had its original title | |
| confusion over similar titles of books - <i>Vita Nel Silenzio</i>, originally titled in English as <i>Living in Silence</i> and later called <i>The Silent Life</i>, confused with different book entitled <i>Silence in Heaven</i> |
| 5 | 1957/02/04 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your good letter of January 8--and also a copy of VITA NEL SILENZIO translated and | |
| <i>Vita Nel Silenzio</i> sponsored by Dom Anselmo Giabbani - needs censorship - lacks pictures of Gethsemani |
| 5 | 1957/03/02 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | I am writing you in regard to the so-called "CUBAN JOURNAL" which Father Louis had written before he | |
| asks Sortais to appoint censors to <i>The Secular Journal</i> |
| 5 | 1957/03/15 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | As regards Fr. Louis' "CUBAN JOURNAL", we thank you for the names of the two Censors. We certainly | |
| Dom Anselmo Giabbani in the United States looking for a place for new foundation of the Camaldolese and wanted to visit Gethsemani and Merton / Morcelliana-Editrice letter |
| 5 | 1957/04/18 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Une dame française, Mme Loring-Rheims, d'origine américaine, a traduit en notre langue les oeuvres | |
| Mrs. Loring-Rheims' French translations of Merton's poems / Naomi Burton [Stone] has turned down this translation for publication |
| 5 | 1957/04/27 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your charming letter of April 18 from Mariafrieden in regard to Mme. Loring-Rheims' | |
| Merton does not like Loring-Rheims' translation and does not think his poems would be successful in a French translation |
| 5 | 1957/06/03 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your charming letter of May 14. I would like to ask a question which Father Louis | |
| Merton's article on Adam of Perseigne - translated into French and published in Collectanea - should original English version go to censors if already published in French? |
| 5 | 1957/06/15 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 3 m'est arrivée il y a quelque temps déjà et, étant donné les questions que vous m'y | |
| as long as Merton does not change anything from French to English, he can publish English version of Adam of Perseigne article |
| 5 | 1957/07/01 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Also, good Father Louis as Master of the Choir Novices, is writing what might be called a | |
| Merton's "Postulant's Guide" |
| 5 | 1957/07/22 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Pour le "Postulant's Guide" de P.Louis, veuillez le soumettre à P.Paul de Holy Ghost et P.Gabriel de | |
| censors for "Postulant's Guide" / asking status of <i>Cuban Journal</i> (<i>The Secular Journal</i>) |
| 5 | 1957/08/13 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Le deuxième compte-rendu de la censure concernant "A Secular Journal" de Thomas Merton qui n'était | |
| "The Secular Journal" [book, under draft title, "The Cuban Journal"] |
| 5 | 1957/08/17 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 7 m'est arrivée juste après le départ de celle par laquelle je vous demandais | |
| <i>Cuban Journal</i> (<i>The Secular Journal</i>) |
| 5 | 1957/08/21 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letter of August 13 from Westmalle in regard to sending manuscript of A SECULAR | |
| <i>Secular Journal</i> - held by Catherine DeHueck Doherty for many years, who now wants to publish it with proceeds going to the poor |
| 5 | 1957/09/17 (#01) | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour "MONASTIC PEACE". Je vous le donne bien | |
| "Monastic Peace" [essay / brief stand-alone volume] |
| 5 | 1957/09/17 (#02) | other | by Sortais, Gabriel | MONASTIC PEACE par le P. Louis MERTON [-] Nihil Obstat: fr. M. Gabriel O'CONNELL, 20 Aout 1957 | |
| "Monastic Peace" [essay / brief stand-alone volume] / Nihil Obstat, Fr. Gabriel O'Connell and Fr. Paul Bourne; Imprimi Potest, Dom Gabriel Sortais |
| 5 | 1958/01/25 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your charming letter of January 17 in answer to ours of the 7th in regard to the | |
| sending confidential psychological analysis of Merton by Dr. Gregory Zilboorg / sending copy of letter by Catherine DeHueck Doherty |
| 5 | 1958/01/27 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We are enclosing Father Louis' letter. He did not know your address, so he asked me to enclose it | |
| sending a letter by Merton |
| 5 | 1958/02/05 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous m'excuserez certainement de vous répondre brièvement, car le travail recommence déjà à me | |
| <i>Secular Journal</i> ("Cuban Journal") - Merton to correct based on censors corrections and resubmit |
| 5 | 1958/02/15 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We are answering your kind letter of February 5, and also dear Father Clement's of February 8. | |
| Catherine DeHueck Doherty letter to Merton - Fox did not tell Merton that he sent his letter to Sortais / Merton to correct <i>Secular Journal</i> ("Cuban Journal"), write a new preface and resubmit it to censors |
| 5 | 1958/03/17 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | There is one curious matter that has come up which leaves me in a rather bewildered state of mind. | |
| Rev. Mother Abbess Angela of Wrentham letter - claims that Merton and Fr. Paul of Holy Ghost have been appointed the censors for all Trappist publications in the United States - Fox believes she is wrong (or "not in her right mind") and seeks confirmation |
| 5 | 1958/03/20 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 17 m'est arrivée hier, et j'y réponds rapidement avant de prendre l'avion qui va me | |
| confirms that he had suggested Merton to give his advice on some poems by Rev. Mother Abbess Angela de Wrenthem, but assures Fox that this appointment is exceptional and that Merton will not be in the future distracted in his role as Novice Master |
| 5 | 1958/04/08 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe l'IMPRIMI POTEST que j'ai le plaisir de vous envoyer pour | |
| "Secular Journal" [book / formerly under the title "Cuban Journal"] |
| 5 | 1958/04/14 | TALS[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | I believe Fr. Louis has written to you his appreciation of the poem. Privately, he said to me, | |
| Merton said poem of Abbess Angela was "Nothin special-- rather ordinary" / asking for censors for Merton's notes on "Art and Worship" |
| 5 | 1958/04/20 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre letter du 14 m'est parvenue il y a quelques jours. Je n'ai pu y répondre tout de suite, car | |
| "Art and Worship" [unpublished book] |
| 5 | 1958/06/22 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour "Art and Worship", du P. Louis, avec les suggestions | |
| Imprimi Potest for "Art and Worship" with suggestions of the censors |
| 5 | 1958/07/26 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Le cahier ronéotypé de "Liturgical Feasts and Seasons, Part I" m'est bien arrivé il y a quelques | |
| model program for the novitiate / foundation of Spencer in Argentina |
| 5 | 1958/08/01 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | As regards the "Cuban Journal", you have Father Louis' answer now. I knew he had received a letter | |
| situation of rejection of <i>Cuban Journal / Secular Journal</i> / Catherine De Hueck Doherty to keep $500 advance on the book |
| 5 | 1958/08/13 (#01) | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 5 m'est parvenue avant-hier. Vous comprendrez aisément porquoi il m'a fallu deux | |
| collaboration between Merton and Fr. Lombardi |
| 5 | 1958/08/13 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Mlle Marie Tadie, I believe, has translated one of Father Louis' small articles, LETTER TO AN | |
| "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" - translated into French by Marie Tadié and approved for French publication - can it be printed in US? / Merton's "newest dream-project" |
| 5 | 1958/08/18 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 13 m'est arrivée ce matin. Vous m'y demandiez s'il fallait ou non soumettre à la | |
| need to resubmit "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" for an independent review by American censors |
| 5 | 1958/08/25 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We also received your letter of August 18 which acknowledges ours of the 13th. One part dealt with | |
| Merton trying to make arrangements in Fox's absence - his "South American dream" - Fr. Lombardi |
| 5 | 1958/10/06 | TALS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe deux Imprimi Potest. L'autre Imprimi Potest concerne une | |
| regarding a Spanish translation of one of Merton's works / message from Brazil about a Portuguese translation of <i>What Are These Wounds</i> and 5 later books - questions of rights with Bruce Publishing |
| 5 | 1958/10/08 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Ce matin, j'ai reçu un compte-rendu de censure concernant l'article du P.Louis, qui a déjà paru en | |
| censors and "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" |
| 5 | 1958/10/21 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We hasten to acknowledge your three very kind letters-- October 6, 8 and 10 with the various | |
| informed Naomi Burton [Stone] to notify publishing agents to follow censorship policy for all books and translations / letter from Holy Father to Fr. Lombardi - new Pope's reaction to Lombardi's work and to religious communities of men / Merton writing only short pieces - his emotions have swung back to normal |
| 5 | 1958/11/17 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We wish to acknowledge your letter of October 29. It is a difficult job trying to keep these | |
| [translation of 1958/11/16 letter from Jaime Andrade to Merton and a letter from Merton to Fox near the same date enclosed] Portuguese translation of "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" / <i>Art and Worship</i> / Boris Pasternak letter / Fr. Gerald's writings / new Camaldolese foundation in California |
| 5 | 1958/12/14 | TLS | from de Bourbon, Clément | It is an appreciated privilege to write to you, especially when having to thank you- with some delay | |
| "Art and Worship" [unpublished book] / "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" [poem] |
| 5 | 1959/01/19 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 12 Janvier m'est parvenue avant-hier. N'ayez pas de rancune contre P.Clément qui, | |
| Rev. Fr. Lombardi / curious contradictions of Merton - life of solitude and desiring to play a role in the public scene / the Pasternak affair / letter of Merton to Gregory Zilboorg and Merton's desire to play a part on the world scene / Imprimi Potest for six of Merton's articles |
| 5 | 1959/02/10 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | I do not believe we have acknowledged your kind letter of January 19. Good Father Louis has already | |
| Merton has written to Sortais about Pasternak article / Merton's poems in Spanish sent to censors / Imprimi Potest for <i>Sayings of the Desert Fathers</i> / Merton dubious of Rev. Fr. Lombardi's movement but Fox thinks he sees "path to international fame" through it |
| 5 | 1959/02/15 | TLS | from de Bourbon, Clément | I have but good things to tell you to-day. It is really most pleasant to write under such conditions | |
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| 5 | 1959/02/28 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 10 m'est bien arrivée, avec les quatre copies que vous y aviez jointes. Je vous | |
| "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" [poem] |
| 5 | 1959/03/11 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Père Louis m'a écrit pour me dire les raisons qui le present d'écrire un nouvel article, plus | |
| "A Tribute to greatness. Comment on Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak." [review essay] |
| 5 | 1959/03/18 | other | by Sortais, Gabriel | THE POWER AND MEANING OF LOVE by Thomas Merton, O.L. of Gethsemani Abbey [-] NIHIL OBSTAT: | |
| "The Power and Meaning of Love" [book / similar in content to <i>Disputed Questions</i>] |
| 5 | 1959/03/20 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letter of February 28 and also of March 11. We were very happy to learn that the | |
| "Five Old Ladies" and <i>Art and Worship</i> approved / Romano Guardini thinks Merton should stop writing withdraw from activity in order to write "truly great book" / foundations in India, S. America, Rocky Mountains / letter to Pope John XXIII / "neurotic person", formerly at Gethsemani, and foundation in Nevada |
| 5 | 1959/04/20 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Enclosed is a little extract from one of good Father Louis' letter to M. Marie Tadie in Paris, who | |
| Merton's article on the meaning of Easter which appeared in US and in the April issue of the French publication <u>La Vie Spirituelle</u> |
| 5 | 1959/05/02 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour le double article écrit par P. Louis sur | |
| "A Tribute to greatness. Comment on Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak." [review essay] and "Boris Pasternak and the People with Watch Chains" [essay] |
| 5 | 1959/05/25 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | No doubt you are busy with the General Chapter of all the Abbesses-- or at least most all-- of the | |
| photographer friend interested in Gethsemani - asking exception be granted in allowing him to photograph the Abbey - not interested in making a profit - good PR for monasticism - prohibition in showing faces of monks or naming Abbey - Merton's preface / America "a pagan country" |
| 5 | 1959/06/01 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vos deux lettres du 19 et du 25 Mai me sont bien parvenues, la dernière trouvée ici hier matin, à | |
| preface written by Merton / allowing secular photographers to take pictures at Gethsemani / General Chapter of all Trappistine Abbesses |
| 5 | 1959/06/02 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James / to Clément De Bourbon | I will write a longer letter later, but I will say now only a few words-- namely, that our good | |
| [Fr. Clément De Bourbon, Secretary to Abbot General Gabriel Sortais] Fr. Ricardo Lombardi not visiting Gethsemani |
| 5 | 1959/06/05 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letter of the 1st of June. We were not a little surprised, because of the "Douane | |
| problem with customs duty on manuscript sent [book of photographs?] / Merton's publishers in New York exited about photograph book |
| 5 | 1959/06/25 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | […] développée dans l'Église, sous l'influence du Saint-Esprit. C'est pourquoi cette publication | |
| publication of the photograph book would be detrimental and cannot be authorized / appointing different censors for a translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict because the other two censors are busy with Merton's short articles |
| 5 | 1959/06/25 (#02) | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Avant de quitter Cîteaux, il y a maintenant une semaine, j'ai confié au bon frère Paul, le portier | |
| a long explanation of why Sortais cannot permit the publication of the book of photos - acknowledges their artistic value but considers it vanity and ostentation, and a mockery of a lifestyle of solitude and retreat from the world |
| 5 | 1959/06/29 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | La dernière fois que je vous écrivais, je vous annonçais une lettre sur des questions de censure. | |
| Imprimi Potest for 3 shorts essays by Merton / remarks of the censors concerning "Poemas" - differences in South American Spanish from that which is spoken in Spain - must be independently viewed / Merton's popularity in Spain - <i>El Pane Vivo</i> / Spanish translation by Ernesto Cardenal |
| 5 | 1959/07/02 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Juste un mot pour vous envoyer l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour un nouveau petit article de Père Louis, ATLAS | |
| Merton's article "Atlas Watches Every Evening" / critique of a censor who thinks that Merton has abandoned charity in response to the pressure of appealing to a certain community / Sortais will not respond to it out of context, but cautions Fox |
| 5 | 1959/07/13 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We owe you for three letters-- your beautiful one of June 25, the one of June 29 and the one of July | |
| photographer, Shirley Burden, visited Sortais at the Generalice in Rome - Dom Eugene Boylan and obtaining permission to bring television cameras to the monastery / Spanish translations of Merton's works by Gethsemani Choir Novice, Ernesto Cardenal from Central America / "Atlas" article - Hitler and Stalin |
| 5 | 1959/07/24 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Pour plus de commodité je répondrai séparément aux deux parties de votre lettre du 13 Juillet. Je | |
| renouncing certain photographs of Gethsemani for Shirley Burden's book / customs fee for sending of book / Merton's preface for Burden's book and Sortais' consent to publish without a formal Imprimi Potest |
| 5 | 1959/08/05 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | There were several questions I did not reply to yet in our last letter. I appreciate what you had | |
| Sortais' opinion on letters marked "PERSONAL" or "MATTER OF CONSCIENCE" / Shirley Burden's book <i>God Is My Life: the Story of Our Lady of Gethsemani</i> |
| 5 | 1959/08/14 | TLS[x] | from De Bourbon, Clément / to James Fox | I think I must apologize for the delay of the IMPRIMI POTEST the Abbot General has signed today. | |
| apology in not sending Imprimi Potest by Abbot General Gabriel Sortais' secretary |
| 5 | 1959/08/31 (#01) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Father Louis mentioned to me in regard to that book of photos, which we sent to you, and which good | |
| Merton's question Shirley Burden's photo book - can face pictures of monks no longer at Gethsemani included? / final outcome of Merton's trial / Fr. Jean Danielou |
| 5 | 1959/09/28 | TLS[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Père Clément m'a montré aussi les images que vous lui avez laissées, extraites d'une publication sur | |
| Fr. Clément De Bourbon showed Sortais a book published by the monastery at Tilburg that Fox had sent showing faces of monks - it had not received the Imprimi Potest and Sortais does not think this is a precedent to follow / Merton's "conscience matter" letters - Fox's right to control abuse by Merton of system |
| 5 | 1959/10/24 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Si j'ai attendu deux jours pour vous envoyer l'IMPRIMI POTEST ci-joint, c'est que je comptais voir | |
| "A Tribute to greatness. Comment on Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak." [review essay] and "Boris Pasternak and the People with Watch Chains" [essay] |
| 5 | 1959/12/12 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Ceci est seulement un petit mot pour accompagner l'envoi de l'IMPRIMI POTEST ci-joint. Comme vous | |
| delay in approving manuscript and giving Imprimi Potest for short work on John Climacus |
| 5 | 1959/12/15 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 9 m'est arrivée hier. Quand celle-ci vous parviendra, vous serez revenu sain et | |
| designating to censors for <i>The Christian Life of Prayer</i> / Sortais thinks a strange idea that Merton sending photos and manuscripts to University of Kentucky |
| 5 | 1959/12/23 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | On our return home from our trip to the Abbatial Blessing for the First Abbot of New Clairvaux, we | |
| Shirley Burden - hopes that Sortais will visit him in Beverly Hills - no faces in shots, book to be released around Easter / what to do without official Imprimi Potest |
| 5 | 1960/01/15 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | C'est avec beaucoup de retard que je réponds à vos lettres du 14 et du 23 Décembre. Je vous | |
| Merton's may be attempting to make efforts to be humble and tranquil but is failing |
| 5 | 1960/02/16 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Father Louis has rewritten some old ancient manuscripts and put them in the form of a book to be | |
| <i>The New Man</i> - requesting censors for this book |
| 5 | 1960/02/22 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Voici l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour un article de Père Louis. J'y ajoute la lettre de l'un des censeurs | |
| "Vocation to Solitude" - always precautions to take regarding Merton and he needs to seriously revise his article / unfavorable review of Spanish translation of <i>Exile Ends in Glory</i> / editor José Zanartu |
| 5 | 1960/03/01 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Je vous remercie de me tenir au courant de l'état de Père Louis. Le cher Père fait certainement des | |
| Cardinal Valerio Valeri and Rev. Father Paul Philippe from the Sacred Congregation of Religious - Merton's desires to leave Gethsemani / Marie Tadié and hermit, "Soeur Ex" |
| 5 | 1960/03/01 (#02) | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | <u>Questions de CENSURE</u> Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour un poème de P. Louis : | |
| Imprimi Potest for "Love Winter when the Plant Says Nothing" / <i>Vocation to Solitude</i> - negative review of a censor and is turned down in present form / "The Primitive Carmelite Ideal" / rejection of a dialogue with D.T. Suzuki - resubmission of <i>Wisdom of the Desert</i> to censors |
| 5 | 1960/03/08 | TLS | from de Bourbon, Clément | Once again I have to say: MEA CULPA!! As I am keeping in hand the censorship's files, I was | |
| "The New Man" [book] |
| 5 | 1960/03/23 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Good Father Louis seems to be in good spirits at the moment. He has entirely rewritten VOCATION TO | |
| Merton rewrote <i>Vocation to Solitude</i> and resubmitted to censors |
| 5 | 1960/04/02 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Il me faut tout d'abord vous remercier de votre lettre du 23 Mars, qui contenaint, à l'occasion de | |
| the censor who objected to the D.T. Suzuki related pages of <i>Wisdom of the Desert</i> approves of the book if these are removed / Merton wants to incorporate Suzuki segment in a book in collaboration with a psychoanalyst and a Protestant theologian - Sortais refuses but may allow article from New Directions |
| 5 | 1960/04/06 (#01) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | You must be thinking that I have died from the flu and no one has told you about it or have | |
| <i>Vocation to Solitude</i> - in original draft, Merton going through personal crisis and projecting problems on others / new article - "Notes on a Philosophy of Solitude" / Spanish translation of <i>Exile Ends in Glory</i> / vocational trouble at Gethsemani / Merton's remarks about keeping vows |
| 5 | 1960/04/06 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | In regard to VOCATION TO SOLITUDE, Father Louis has rewritten the whole article, and is now calling | |
| <i>Vocation to Solitude</i> revised and renamed to <i>Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude</i> / one censor had objections to article "Primitive Carmelite Ideal" / book with article by D.T. Suzuki and Merton's response with articles by Eric Fromm and Paul Tillich / Fox's defense of and examples of Suzuki published by Catholic Press |
| 5 | 1960/04/08 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We just received your letter of April 2 before my letter has gone out, so I hasten to include a | |
| Erich Fromm and Paul Tillich might not be willing to contribute to Merton's proposed book with Suzuki - Fox defense Merton writing along with a Zen Buddhist, a Jewish psychoanalyst, and a Lutheran minister - the Pope and interfaith dialog - advice from Jacques Maritain or Fr. Danielou / Marie Tadié and Hermit Sister X |
| 5 | 1960/04/18 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 6/8 Avril m'est bien parvenue. Je n'ai absolument pas le temps de vous répondre | |
| Sortais spoke with Rev. Fr. Paul Philippe and there is no way that he can approve a book in collaboration with D.T. Suzuki - an article might be accepted / respects the opinion of Jacques Maritain, but he is in less a position to advise as a layman than Rev. Fr. Paul Philippe of the Sacred Congregation of Religious |
| 5 | 1960/04/25 (#01) | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Je traiterai séparément des diverses questions concernant la censure. Au sujet de <u>P. Louis</u>. | |
| Merton and the study of psychiatry for use as a Novice Master / no time to copy the letter of Cardinal Valerio Valeri to Merton for Fox / publishing of works with photos of the community before having obtained permission |
| 5 | 1960/04/25 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Au sujet du dialogue de P. Louis avec le Dr SUZUKI je vous ai déjà répondu dans ma lettre du 18, et | |
| D.T. Suzuki / South American Spanish translations raising questions of literary value among censors in Madrid / Imprimi Potest for "Prometheus" and "A Signed Confession" / "Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude" still some censor's reservations / <u>Jubilee</u> / "The Primitive Carmel Ideal" / <i>Vocation to Solitude</i> |
| 5 | 1960/04/30 | TALS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Un mot seulement pour accompagner l'envoi des deux IMPRIMI POTEST ci-joints, et surtout pour vous | |
| "un ermite de la Renaissance" / "La Préface de Seul avec Dieu" / "Préface à la Doctrine du Bx Paul Giustiniani" |
| 5 | 1960/05/02 (#01) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your very kind letter of April 18. It dealt principally with the question of Father | |
| Merton writing an article with D.T. Suzuki but not a book / enclosing Jacques Maritain letter of 1960/04/18 / Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Private Secretary to the Pope, sent stole to Merton through architect and friend, Dr. Barbato - Merton asking for blessings in the "Ecumenical Year" for conferences with non-Catholics |
| 5 | 1960/05/02 (#02) | transcript | from Maritain, Jacques / to Merton | I've carefully considered the advice you wanted of me. I think that in itself, a dialogue like that | |
| [translation of Maritain's letter written 1960/04/18 attached to May 2 letter from Fox to Sortais] interfaith discussion necessary as long as it is not proposing "One Religion is as good as another" / prefers book to article / Erich Fromm good but Paul Tillich not so much Protestantism as "philosophic jumble" |
| 5 | 1960/05/05 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | As regards the censors for the book of Father Raymond, we are happy that you appointed good Father | |
| articles "Philosophy of Solitude", "Primitive Carmelite Ideal", "A Renaissance Hermit", and "Carmelite Sanctity" - Fox says, "censor came to the same conclusions that we have been exchanging for the last several years" |
| 5 | 1960/05/11 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Merci pour votre lettre. P. Louis […] déjà communiqué la réponse originale de M. Maritain, que je | |
| Jacques Maritain's response does not change Sortais' point of view that a book in collaboration with Suzuki is not acceptable, but an article is acceptable |
| 5 | 1960/05/30 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | J'ai reçu également ces jours-ci une lettre de P.Paul, de Holy Ghost, qui a dû vous parler de la | |
| Fr. Paul of Holy Ghost wants to quit as a censor of Merton's many small articles / censors for "The Christian Life of Prayer", <i>Disputed Questions</i> and <i>The New Man</i> / more censors requested to protect anonymity and share burden |
| 5 | 1960/06/07 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your charming note of May 30 from Tilburg. We are enclosing our report in regard to Our | |
| Fr. Paul of Holy Ghost and his desires to quit as censor of Merton's works |
| 5 | 1960/06/11 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Sous cette enveloppe, vous trouverez l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour THE NEW MAN. L'un des censeurs a joint à | |
| censor brings suggested corrections for Merton on <i>The New Man</i>, but does not require these for publication - Merton's contact with censor |
| 5 | 1960/06/22 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | C'est en arrivant à Cîteaux, hier, que j'ai trouvé votre lettre du 25 Mai, qui m'est ainsi arrivé | |
| article "Christian Perfection" (earlier titled "Christian Sanctity") given Imprimi Potest / Spanish translations of <i>Exile Ends in Glory</i> and <i>What Are These Wounds</i> |
| 5 | 1960/07/03 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Cette fois-ci je n'ai à vous envoyer ni IMPRIMI POTEST ni remarques de censeurs. Je vous écris | |
| praise for Shirley Burden's <i>God Is My Life</i> with Merton's introduction / French translation of Merton's "Mount Athos" |
| 5 | 1960/07/27 (#01) | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Voici un nouvel IMPRIMI POTEST pour notre cher Père Louis. L'un de ses censeurs me paraît presque | |
| Imprimi Potest for "The Final Judgment" with suggestions from the censor |
| 5 | 1960/07/27 (#02) | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | would be talking to you about the possibilities, you would know the situation here. I do not have | |
| tracking down Shirley Burden about removing photos that Sortais does not want published / Merton's poems "Song for Nobody" and "Song: If You Seek…" sent to censors with 6 poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade translated by Merton / Merton's moodiness and visits to psychiatrist Dr. James Wygal |
| 5 | 1960/10/13 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letter of September 28 with the two Imprimi Potests for good Father Louis. Of | |
| Merton awaiting Imprimi Potest for Chardin article / enclosing letter from Merton to friend Herbert Mason containing Merton's negative views on censorship / Merton's correspondence with Fr. Bruno James and Dorothy Day / Fox on Merton - "he is a sick person, and his emotions carry him away" |
| 5 | 1960/10/30 | TALS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe l'opinion d'un professeur d'Université sur l'article que le Père | |
| University professor's opinion of Merton's article on Teilhard de Chardin and refusal to give Imprimi Potest until Merton's article goes through theological scrutiny / Magisterium asking Catholic publications to be silent on works of Teilhard de Chardin / Merton and response to authority |
| 5 | 1960/11/16 | TL[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your gracious letter of November 8, and we thank you for the Imprimi Potest for PRISON | |
| "Prison Meditations of Father Delp" - approval for Merton's introduction contingent on approval of Bishop of local diocese / Marie Tadié and her constant letter writing and trouble - Fox hopes permission to translate the five books of Merton will give her some peace - must still go through censors and Sortais' approval |
| 5 | 1960/11/30 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Quand cette lettre parviendra à Gethsémani, vous ne serez sans doute pas encore rentré du voyage | |
| Nihil Obstat for Merton's poetry |
| 5 | 1961/01/10 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ci-joint le rapport que je vous ai annoncé sur ma visite à Spencer. Cette visite, | |
| sending Imprimi Potest for three short works |
| 5 | 1961/12/11 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour un poème de Père Louis : "Elegy for James Thurber". | |
| Imprimi Potest and Nihil Obstat for "Elegy for James Thurber" [poem / "Imprimi Potest" statement not extant] |
| 5 | 1962/01/02 (#01) | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | En premier lieu je dois vous accuser réception de vos lettres du 11 et du 14 Décembre, si cela n'a | |
| "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" - reservations about approval, one of three censors refused "Nihil Obstat" |
| 5 | 1962/01/02 (#02) | HN | by Fox, James | 1 censor - ok [-] 3rd c. - ok- no condition. A. G. "I do not hesitate" x no restrictions of not | |
| "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" - Fox's notes about the letter from Sortais |
| 5 | 1962/01/02 (#03) | other[x] | by Sortais, Gabriel | Thomas Merton [-] PEACE, CHRISTIAN DUTIES AND PERSPECTIVES [-] NIHIL OBSTAT: fr. M. Bellarmine | |
| "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" [essay] / Nihil Obstat, Fr. Bellarmine McQuiston and Fr. Paul Bourne; Imprimi Potest, Dom Gabriel Sortais |
| 5 | 1962/01/02 (#04) | other[x] | by Censor (anonymous) | Censor's report for Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives, cont'd. -3- [-] NATO defense | |
| last page fragment of censor's report for "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" |
| 5 | 1962/01/09 | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We want to acknowledge your note of December 11 which gave the IMPRIMI POTEST for Father Louis' | |
| receipt of Imprimi Potest statements for "Elegy for James Thurber" and for "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" / on Merton's writing, its relation to be a Trappist, and Merton's uniqueness |
| 5 | 1962/01/13 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Ceci est seulement une courte note pour accompagner l'IMPRIMI POTEST que vous trouverez ci-joint. | |
| "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / "First and Last Thoughts" [preface to A Merton Reader] and "Clement of Alexandria" [book / essay] / [see "Clement of Alexandria" file] |
| 5 | 1962/01/30 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 9 Janvier m'est parvenue il y a quelques jours seulement. Quelques points | |
| "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" - items specific to these essays and other issues regarding censorship |
| 5 | 1962/01/31 (#01) | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | En ce qui concerne les traductions en espagnol, pour l'Amérique du Sud, Des oeuvres de Père Louis, | |
| censorship of book <i>Disputed Questions</i> and essay "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" |
| 5 | 1962/01/31 (#02) | TL[x] | from Censor (anonymous) / to Gabriel Sortais | Father Clement will explain to you the procedure I followed in censoring the article of Father | |
| [copied onto same paper as letter of February 12, 1962 from Sortais] "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / see also "Censor's Reports, "Christian Ethics.." for reproduction in Fox's file |
| 5 | 1962/02/12 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Father Clement will explain to you the procedure I followed in censoring the article of Father | |
| [copied onto same paper as letter of January 31, 1962 from censor to Sortais] "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / see also "Censor's Reports, "Christian Ethics.." for reproduction in Fox's file / "Monastic Peace" |
| 5 | 1962/02/14 | TLS[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | First, to acknowledge your letter of January 13 with the Imprimi Potest for the manuscript of | |
| "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" [essay, one of the chapters cut from the manuscript of "Black Revolution and Cold War," parts of which became Seeds of Destruction] / acknowledges receipt of Imprimi Potest for "Clement of Alexandria" |
| 5 | 1962/02/20 | TLS[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We received your letter postmarked February 12 at Burgos in Spain. We were very happy to receive | |
| "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" [essay, one of the chapters cut from the manuscript of "Black Revolution and Cold War," parts of which became Seeds of Destruction] |
| 5 | 1962/03/07 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Il me faut d'abord accuser réception de vos deux dernières lettres: celle du 14 Février, avec copie | |
| "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" [essay, one of the chapters cut from the manuscript of "Black Revolution and Cold War," parts of which became Seeds of Destruction] |
| 5 | 1962/03/07 (#02) | TNS[x] | by Sortais, Gabriel | Thomas Merton [-] CHRISTIAN ACTION IN WORLD CRISIS [-] NIHIL OBSTAT: fr. M. Peter Logue, February 13 | |
| "Christian Action in World Crisis" / Nihil Obstat, Fr. Peter Logue and Fr. Columban Heaney; Imprimi Potest, Dom Gabriel Sortais |
| 5 | 1962/03/07 (#03) | other[x] | by Censor (anonymous) | I've had a long tussle, Father, with this sentence on p.9: "While it may be all very well | |
| "Christian Action in World Crisis" / a censor's report |
| 5 | 1962/03/07 (#04) | other[x] | by Censor (anonymous) | Je viens de lire l'article de Thomas Merton, "Christian Action in World Crisis". Ci-inclus le Nihil | |
| "Christian Action in World Crisis" / a censor's report |
| 5 | 1962/03/26 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Voice un IMPRIMI POTEST pour Père Louis, que je vous envoie bien en retard, l'un des censeurs ayant | |
| "Song for the Death of Averroës" [poem], (see "Censor's Reports" for Imprimi Potest sent the same date) / censor's objections to "Target Equals City" |
| 5 | 1962/03/26 (#02) | TNS | from Censor (anonymous) | Article: Target Equals City by Thomas Merton [-] It is my opinion that permission should not | |
| "Target Equals City" [essay] - censor's criticism - censor believes this essay should not be published, nor any other essays by Merton on the subject of war [this essay was not published in Merton's lifetime and appeared in The Passion for Peace: The Social Essays, edited by William H. Shannon, in 1995] |
| 5 | 1962/04/17 (#01) | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Le troisième censeur de "Target equals City" vient seulement de m'envoyer son rapport. | |
| "Target Equals City" [essay, one of the chapters from the posthumously published manuscript of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era"] |
| 5 | 1962/04/17 (#02) | other | from Censor (anonymous) | Comments: I reject the article "in globo" for the following three reasons: 1) Statue [sic] of | |
| "Target Equals City" [essay, rejected, one of the chapters from the posthumously published manuscript of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era"] and "Song for the Death of Averroes" [poem, approved] |
| 5 | 1962/10/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We enclose, also, a note in regard to the publication of "Original Child Bomb" in France. Meanwhile | |
| Marie Tadié and the prohibition of the publication of "Original Child Bomb" in France / Paul Flammand's letter - odd notion that "Child Bomb" can be published in English and not in French - and already likely in circulation among the Japanese |
| 5 | 1962/11/08 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ici l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour l'Introduction que Père Louis destine à un ouvrage intitulé | |
| Merton's introduction to "The Prison Meditations of Father Delp" / Marie Tadié [attached letter of the same date to Marie Tadié from Sortais discussing translation into French of <i>Disputed Questions</i>, <i>Secular Journal</i>, <i>Wisdom of the Desert</i>, <i>New Man</i>, and <i>Behavior of Titans</i>] |
| 5 | 1962/11/26 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez ici un IMPRIMI POTEST your une Préface écrite par P. Louis à un ouvrage intitulé | |
| "In Search of a Yogi" [document incorrectly states, "Yoga"] by Denys Rutledge [preface by Merton] / [see "Censor's Reports" for "Imprimi Potest" statement] |
| 5 | 1963/04/24 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Votre lettre du 9 m'est arrivée ici, à Belval, où je me trouve depuis le soir du mercredi saint. | |
| "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" |
| 5 | 1963/05/07 (#01) | transcript | from Sortais, Gabriel / to Merton | Votre lettre était datée du jour de Pâques. Mais je constate qu'elle n'a été postée que le 20 Avril. | |
| "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" [see "Sortais" file for the original letter] / Encyclical "Pacem in Terris" by Pope John XXIII |
| 5 | 1963/05/07 (#02) | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe une lettre que P. Louis m'a adressée à la date de Pâques | |
| "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" |
| 5 | 1963/05/14 | TALS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe un IMPRIMI POTEST pour Père Louis. Désirant que ce document | |
| "Baroque Gravure" - "And So Goodbye to Cities" [poems] |
| 5 | 1963/06/07 | TLS[x] | to Sortais, Gabriel | It has been some time since I have written you. I never knew your exact address. April 2 I had | |
| "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" / see "Censor's Reports" for Fox's carbon of letter |
| 5 | 1963/08/10 | TLS[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe cinq IMPPRIMI POTEST pour Père Louis. Le cher Père va, | |
| "Black Revolution: Letters to a White Liberal" [essay / section of book - published in Seeds of Destruction] / "The Name of the Lord," "On Remembering Monsieur Delmas," "Advent Mystery," and "The Early Legend" [labelled "4 essays" but "Early Legend" is a poem / original in "Advent Mystery" file] / see also "Censor's Reports" |
| 6 | 1954/02/04 | TLS | from Gillet, Ignace | Les censeurs m'ont envoyé chacunun compte rendu favorable pour un article de Père Raymond, auquel | |
| "Black Revolution and Cold War" [unpublished book / many sections published as Seeds of Destruction] |
| 6 | 1954/02/07 | TLS[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | I received your charming note of February 4. I appreciate the Imprimi Potest for good Father | |
| "Black Revolution and Cold War" [unpublished book / many sections published as Seeds of Destruction] / regarding last article/essay "Letters in Time of Crisis" / [see "Censor's Reports" for Fox's carbon] |
| 6 | 1954/02/18 | TLS | from Gillet, Ignace | Votre lettre du 7 m'est parvenue le 11, mais c'est aujourd'hui seulement que je trouve le temps, | |
| "Original Child Bomb" [poem] |
| 6 | 1964/02/25 | TLS | from Gillet, Ignace | Les censeurs m'ont envoyé leur compte-rendu favorable sur NOTES ON ART AND WORSHIP. | |
| "Notes on Art and Worship" [essay] |
| 6 | 1964/03/04 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | I received your gracious letter of February 18 and also your note of February 25. In regard to the | |
| censors / <i>Black Revolution and Cold War</i> / <i>Letters in a Time of Crisis</i> / <i>Notes on Art and Worship</i> |
| 6 | 1964/03/14 | TL[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | Excusez-moi de n'accuser réception qu'aujourd'hui de votre lettre du 4 mars, reçue le 7, en même | |
| censors / sending copy of 1962/11/08 Imprimi Potest from Abbot General Gabriel Sortais for Merton's introduction to <i>The Prison Meditations of Father Delp</i> |
| 6 | 1964/03/25 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | I am writing you again, dear Reverendissime, in regard to the book of good Father Louis about which | |
| censors / <i>Black Revolution</i>, now called <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> / Merton's introduction to <i>The Prison Meditations of Father Delp</i> |
| 6 | 1964/04/14 | TL[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | Au sujet de votre lettre du 25 mars, je vous dis tout de suite que je ne vois aucune difficulté à | |
| censors / <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> / Merton's introduction to <i>The Prison Meditations of Father Delp</i> |
| 6 | 1964/05/27 | TALS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | Le 15 de ce mois, M. Robert Giroux, Editor-in-Chief de Farrar, Straus & Co, m'écrivait au sujet | |
| censors / <i>Black Revolution</i> - <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> - nuclear war [attaches letter to Robert Giroux from Gillet being sent the same date - "Christian Ethics and World Crisis" in <u>Blackfriars</u> / allowing article to appear in <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> under certain guidelines] |
| 6 | 1964/06/10 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | I have received your letter of May 27. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your | |
| thanking for allowing the publication of "Christian Ethics in World Crisis" in <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> under certain guidelines |
| 6 | 1964/06/16 | TALS[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | Your gracious note with the enclosed Imprimi Potest for good Father Louis' Introduction to | |
| thanks for Imprimi Potest for Merton's introduction to <i>Selections from Gandhi</i> / sending Merton's revisions to "Christian Ethics in World Crisis" |
| 6 | 1964/06/20 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | We received your letter of June8 [sic], and we have already acknowledged your kind permission to | |
| thanks for Imprimi Potest for Merton's introduction to <i>Selections from Gandhi</i> |
| 6 | 1964/06/23 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | This letter contained also the Imprimi Potest for good Father Louis' works: 1) <u>SEASONS OF</u> | |
| Imprimi Potest for <i>Seasons of Celebration</i> and <i>Russian Mystics</i> / sending criticism of censors to Merton - "good for his humility" |
| 6 | 1964/07/13 | TLS[x] | from Simeon, Br., O.C.S.O. / to Ignace Gillet | We are writing to find out whether the manuscript by Father Louis entitled CHRISTIANS IN A WORLD OF | |
| asking if Gillet has received the manuscript for <i>Christians in a World of Crisis</i> |
| 6 | 1964/09/03 | TLS[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | We hope that good Father Louis' letter to you was satisfactory. I showed him your letter to me. He | |
| describes Merton's reaction to the censorship of a book by Gillet - articles were approved individually but rejected as a book in its full form / <i>Peace in the Post-Christian Era</i> / Pope John XXIII's "Pacem in Terris" |
| 6 | 1964/09/23 | TLS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | […] voie de notre vie cistercienne. Et maintenant, petite question à régler avec vous. Je vous | |
| concerning the Imprimi Potest sent for Merton's <i>Seasons of Celebration</i> and <i>Russian Mystics</i> - suggests Dom James remind Merton of how he approved <i>Seasons</i>, which was harshly reviewed by a censor |
| 6 | 1964/09/26 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace / to Merton | J'ai bien reçu vos deux lettres du 11 septembre et tiens à vous en remercier sans tarder. Vous avez | |
| response to a letter to Gillet about changes to the monastic life in allowing Merton to live as a hermit |
| 6 | 1964/09/29 (#01) | TLS[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | You will soon, or at the same time, receive a letter from our good Father Louis Merton. He asked me | |
| "When writing about Father Louis' personal problem, I will use the letter 'X' to stand for Father Louis." / "RE: Question of Establishing a Small 'Laura' Here in the Woods of Gethsemani" / "Board of Advisors" for hermitage at Gethsemani or Snowmass - Jean Leclercq, Andre Louf, Dom Winandy / Zen |
| 6 | 1964/09/29? (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | About yesterday's talk: certainly I am very happy that we were able to consider together the | Yes |
| [attached to 1964/09/29 letter from Fox to Gillet - see TL[c] copy in Series 1] possibility of founding hermitage and trip to Japan (of a "personal repugnance" to Fox) to visit Zen and Cistercian monasteries / assurance of Merton's loathing of modern cities - not a "jaunt in the world" / Jim Wygal and Merton's psychological fitness for trip |
| 6 | 1964/10/13 | TLS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | P.S. - Je n'oublie pas que j'ai toujours à votre lettre au sujet du Père Luis MERTON. Si cette | |
| no time to answer complex questions about Merton in every letter |
| 6 | 1964/10/27 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Dijk, Willibrord van / to Merton | At the request of the Fathers Norbert and George of Orval I send you herewith a report made up by | |
| questions Merton addresses about the history of Cistercian tradition and possibility of changes - allowances for living in hermitage / Fr. Philip in newly founded monastery in Kenya centered on ecumenism and movement / Roger Schutz of Taize against eremitical life / the Robinson-debate |
| 6 | 1964/11/18 | TLS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | Il est grand temps maintenant que je réponde à votre lettre concernant le projet de voyage et de | |
| proposed trip to Japan by Merton and hermitage proposal / contradiction of Merton wanting to both seek more solitude and come into new contact with Eastern monks / Buddhism and Zen / other attempt by the order to dialogue with Orthodox monks |
| 6 | 1964/11/27 | TLS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | En vous écrivant il y a quelque temps au sujet du projet de voyage au Japon du cher Père Louis | |
| proposed trip to Japan by Merton / Cardinal Antoniutti / Dom Willibrord of Tilburg / Abbot of Orval - Norbert and George of Orval / Rev. Father Schillebeeckx / Fr. Philip of Mt. St. Bernard and novices in Kenya |
| 6 | 1964/12/03 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | I received your gracious note of November 27. I am happy that the "Minutes" arrived. I suppose you | |
| Cardinal Antoniutti / enclosing copy of letter of Merton to Dom Willibrord of Tilburg / Fox written article on "Silence in Our Cistercian Life" / Merton's reply to Fr. Dumoulin - inviting Dumoulin and Japanese priests to Gethsemani / Merton a "victim of his emotions" |
| 6 | 1964/12/24 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | I am writing you here in regard to good Father Louis and his latest project of a trip to Japan-- | |
| proposed trip to Japan by Merton on suggestion of Fr. Dumoulin, S.J., who was in the "Secretariat for Non-Christian Unity" / informing Archbishop Paul Philippe of situation, who also dislikes the idea of Merton's trip |
| 6 | 1965/01/02 | TL[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | <u>Cas du Père Louis Merton</u>. Je vous remercie de m'avoir communiqué une photocopie de la lettre | |
| prevent Merton from pursuing studies of Zen in Japan or a hermitage at Gethsemani - "pseudo-vocations érémitiques" |
| 6 | 1965/01/14 (#01) | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | Father L. has a very dear friend in Dr. John Wu. Dr. Wu was once a very ardent pagan, as pagans go, | |
| recounting John C. H. Wu's conversion and that his son is a Maryknoll priest / mentioning attached letter of Merton's proposed trip to Japan to learn about Zen Buddhism |
| 6 | 1965/01/14 (#02) | TL[x] | from Wu, John / to Merton | I am thrilled to read yours of December 23. First of all let me tell you that I am so happy to have | |
| [dated 1964/12/27 by Wu - attached to Dom James' 1965/01/14 letter to Ignace Gillet] Chinese Zen literature - Zen masters - closer to Christ than many Christians / Merton and Jesus both "Fire-Eater[s]" / agrees with Merton's superiors on Japan trip - more Zen in hermitage / Merton's Zen calligraphy / Chuang Tzu |
| 6 | 1965/01/22 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | Good Father Louis asked me in regard to the official "Imprimi Potest" for a book of his, which | |
| Imprimi Potest for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> (formerly "Barth's Dream") - censors have approved |
| 6 | 1965/01/23 | TL[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | J'ai été aussi intéressé de prendre connaissance de la lettre du Dr. John Wu au sujet des projets du | |
| Zen Buddhism |
| 6 | 1965/07/09 | TLS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | Une lettre de l'un des définiteurs, dom André, m'a apprise hier soir que le Père Charles DUMONT, | |
| Fr. Charles Dumont of the <u>Collectanea</u> / Dumont's invitation for Merton to go to Europe |
| 6 | 1965/07/16 | TALS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | La photocopie de votre première lettre concernant votre projet de fondation en Norvège m'est | |
| [attached letter to Charles Dumont from Chimay, Belgium, Editor of the <u>Collectanea</u> from 1965/07/09] proposed Italian radio interview of Merton / asks that Merton not do it or provide a text of what he plans to say for approval / Merton's plans to become a hermit / Cardinal Antoniutti |
| 6 | 1965/07/22 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | I owe you acknowledgments for not a few letters-- July 6-- July 9-- and now July 16. In your July | |
| Merton now a "quasi-hermit" - will take on more of an eremitic lifestyle, but still join the community for meals and Mass / Fox thinks radio broadcast of "the hermit of 1965" would be "a farce" / does not think Charles Dumont is realistic in proposing trans-Atlantic trip for Merton |
| 6 | 1966/02/22 | TLS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | Sans doute n'ai-je encore que l'appréciation d'un seul censeur, mais il est bien à prévoir que son | |
| sending Imprimi Potest for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> on the condition that Fox will ensure that the Spanish translations are acceptable, even in the differences that may be necessary between Spanish editions in Spain verses Argentina |
| 6 | 1966/08/31 (#01) | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | It is just a year now since good Father Louis began his hermits life on the Feast of St. Bernard, | |
| Merton not full hermit - still comes to monastery daily and gives talks to novices / Flavian / Merton's hospital stay for back trouble / doubt of Merton ever being "absolute hermit" / community reaction to Merton and Flavian's eremitic life |
| 6 | 1966/12/16 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | In regard to good Madame Marie Tadie, she still bombards us with letters. She had a Jesuit father | |
| letters to Marie Tadié and her legal consultant Pierre Malinverni / Tadié's desire to put unreasonable limitations on Merton books and translations abroad / article for <u>Hermes</u> / enclosing copy of M. Jacques Masui from Switzerland |
| 6 | 1967/01/04 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace | Le 24 Décembre, je vous écrivais, au sujet de la demande de Monsieur Masui, que je ferais mon | |
| Jacques Masui asking permission of Dom John to publish an article by Merton in English / not impressed by <u>Hermes'</u> vague mission of promoting "la Vie Spirituelle" under the guise of ecumenism |
| 6 | 1967/06/11 | TL[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | One might ask, there is the question of one becoming a hermit, will this give an adverse reflection | |
| Dom James' defense of the eremitical life within the Cistercian Order and announcement of his desire to live such a life |
| 7 | 1948/12/08 | HLS | from Merton | Maybe, by the grace of God, I have made a good retreat. I'm not sure, because right now I am | |
| disgusted by too much organ-playing and fanfare at Mass (Feast of the Immaculate Conception) / realizing that the way to sanctity for Merton is following Trappist Rule / Merton frustrated in not "amount[ing] to anything" - knows that he should not be concerned with this - God allows him publicity as a test to his virtue |
| 7 | 1949/09/10 | TALS | from Merton | Hoping this will not be too late to catch you at Citeaux I am enclosing some notes which I wrote out | Yes |
| plan for theological seminary at Gethsemani that would be the "West Point or Annapolis for Cistercians" - study of Cistercian Fathers and mystical theology / should have separate seminary building away from noise of tractors and organs / idea of a chapel in the woods or grange with Merton as "master of the grange" - solitude |
| 7 | 1950/06/no? | HLS | from Merton | Things are pretty dark. I feel as if I had a hole burnt out of my heart. My soul is empty - or | |
| [June 1950 Day of Recollection] "less troubled when Jesus gives me solitude and silence" / "the Liturgy fills me with trouble and fear" |
| 7 | 1950/11/no? (#01) | HALS | from Merton | At present they are just giving me medicine to prepare me for the operation which will probably be | |
| [possible date from journals November 3-6, 1950] nose operation [for deviated septum] and recovery period / protocol with hospital stays [notes on front and back of the letter - by Fox?] |
| 7 | 1950/11/no? (#02) | TLS | from Merton | Concerning the HOSPITAL SITUATION….. Here are the suggestions you asked for. It seems to me that | |
| rules for monks at hospital - obedience Usages of the Rule when away, provide name of doctor, speaking only "when charity requires", obey hospital authorities, don't wander around hospital too much nor leave hospital campus, no outside visitors except close relatives, don't sing high masses - use of a radio? |
| 7 | 1951/08/05 | TLS | from Merton | It has been a beautiful quiet day of Recollection. Fr Paul Philippe gave a nice talk on Our Lady in | |
| does not want to speak about himself to anyone any more, including himself / desire for solitude |
| 7 | 1951/09/no? | TL | from Merton | I have got to make sure that I get in enough time on study necessary for our work esp. as Master of | |
| balancing time as Master of Students / "Came back from Louisville Wed hating the world more than ever. Came back from the woods Fri loving solitude more than ever." |
| 7 | 1951/no/no | TLS | from Merton | May I be permitted a few suggestions concerning our chant program? Prof. Lefevre was all wet on | |
| forcing love of Gregorian Chant through too much rehearsal is counterproductive / proposes cutting down to two practices a week |
| 7 | 1952/06/no | HLS | from Merton | Since the unusual activity and work I have got involved in since the visitation (during the | |
| overworked and no time for silence and reflection - needs more time for study to prepare others for ordination / sending Fox quotations from a Cistercian Father on silence |
| 7 | 1952/08/13 | HLS | from Merton | First of all I was absent from Vespers today because I got caught in a thunderstorm and stayed out | |
| must turn more towards a life of solitude - "pioneer of solitude and silence in our Order" / asking not to "let me saddle myself with any more jobs" |
| 7 | 1952/09/27 | TLS | from Merton | It is getting near the deadline for writing to you. I hope I can still give you something to glance | |
| no response from Abbot General and one censor refusing Nihil Obstat on <i>Sign of Jonas</i> / realizes that he is trying to impose his idea of "Cistercian" on everyone else / "dubious 'career' as a writer" / dentistry at the monastery / Vincent de Paul Society blaring Fulton Sheen over a loud speaker disturbing monks' refectory |
| 7 | 1952/10/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | PRIVATE VOW - In honor of the simplicity of humility of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God, | Yes |
| Private Vow "that as long as I live I will never accept any election to the office of Abbot or Titular Prior either in this monastery or in any other monastery of the Cistercian Order" |
| 7 | 1952/11/05 | TLS | from Merton | Since I did not write you a note on the monthly day of recollection--it just wouldn't have been fair | |
| last October the worse month in 11 years at Gethsemani - "what hell must be like" / likes activity and likes people but that conflicts with needs for an interior life / trying to pray amidst constant "noise and machine racket" |
| 7 | 1952/12/26? | TL | from Merton | SPIRITUAL INVENTORY This document will accompany our regular material inventory. The latter will | |
| interior absence of good / need for solitude - time in the woods Fox granted is a help / wrote to Carthusians in September - retreat denied by Fox / a list of wrong motives (6) and right motives (3) for staying at Gethsemani - thinks he should stay at Gethsemani but only if allowed to become a Cistercian hermit |
| 7 | 1952/no/no | TALS | from Merton | Notes at end of retreat, 1952. In <u>silenti</u> et <u>quiescenti</u> et <u>meditanti</u> anima | |
| desire for solitude / defense against a tendency to activity |
| 7 | 1953/01/20 | HLS | from Merton | I thought we ought to have a name for the new "refuge" and I chose the name <u>St. Anne's</u>, if | Yes |
| at St. Anne's [woodshed dedicated to St. Anne that Merton got permission to use as a kind of part time hermitage] Merton feels he's "arrived" in his God-given convictions for the first time in his life / the Benedictine values discovered at St. Anne's |
| 7 | 1953/01/no | HLS | from Merton | It seems that 1953 is going to be a pretty busy year for the Master of Students. Started out by | |
| balance between being generous with time, coming to prayers on time, and solitude |
| 7 | 1953/02/15 | TLS | from Merton | This is a mardigras pre+Lent official manifestation of conscience, plus resolutions. I start up the | |
| St. Anne's - solitude and clarity it affords - "this is IT" / "square peg in a round hole" in community life and has always had to "pretend" that "prayer, contemplation, activity" were not in conflict - they are not in conflict at St. Anne's |
| 7 | 1953/03/08 | TLS | from Merton | Since the beginning of Lent the pressure has been turned on again. Since I don't think there was | |
| many duties make it difficult to make time to go to St. Anne's / other monks make him feel bad for going or pressure him to join in common labors / desire to give himself more completely to solitude |
| 7 | 1953/03/11 | TLS | from Merton | The other day I received a rather unpleasant note from Bro. Clement and wrote him an equally | |
| nasty letters exchanged between Merton and Br. Clement - neither was "any value for God" - what he and Clement really want is actually the same thing - both want novices to work more on the farm - certain scholastics shouldn't be excepted and certain jobs should be cancelled when farm labor is needed |
| 7 | 1953/04/12 | TLS | from Merton | The other day I saw that Jesus was much more anxious for me to become a saint than I am myself. I | |
| "stop making my spiritual life point towards some kind of experience" - trying to much "to 'experience' his presence rather than to love Him" / possibility of sending his books to the Holy See to look for errors to be "cleaned out" / the clarity associated with the silence of St. Anne's |
| 7 | 1953/06/11? (#01) | TL | from Merton | You remember I spoke to you asking that on feast days there should be no machines in the bottoms | |
| noisy crew with tractors in the bottoms near St. Anne's - agreement w/ Fox that it would not occur on Feasts - disrupting silence / some in community "<u>like</u> noise and machines" better than silence and prayer / Fox shouldn't compel Merton to stay in this environment - "Why not… give the green light on that transitus?" |
| 7 | 1953/08/09 | HLS | from Merton | Today has been for me one of the best Days of Recollection for a long time -- perhaps because I have | |
| Merton's bitterness is useless / "ordinary crosses" don't bother him, it is the "apparent frustration of all my ideals" |
| 7 | 1953/08/31 | TLS | from Merton | I am writing this out at St Ann's. What I want to say is mea culpa. I have spent the whole summer | |
| avoided St. Anne's all summer and now regrets the time lost / mentions how great returning to the silence is for his prayer life |
| 7 | 1953/09/15 | TALS | from Merton | There are several good reasons for writing to you at this moment. One of them is that I have a | |
| [writing to Fox who is visiting Citeaux] Dan Walsh visited Gethsemani / publishing and censorship concerns / farm work with the scholastics going well - down in the valley where there were "<u>no</u> machines" / Dom Louis and questions at the General Chapter / a transfer to the Camaldolese / Dom Anselmo Giabbani |
| 7 | 1953/09/20 | TALS | from Merton | My visit with you this Sunday morning is by letter, and I hope I am visiting you at Camaldoli. And | |
| thoughts on new foundation - not enough staff to run it - few likely prospects of officers and Merton's thoughts on certain monks' qualifications / suggests buying property, starting to build, but not formerly starting foundation for three years (better yet, 5 or 6) / some in community angry about idea of new foundation |
| 7 | 1953/09/25 | TLS | from Merton | I was surprised and glad to get your note about Bob Lax-- but I don't mean I was surprised at Lax. | |
| Robert Lax - vocation to have no vocation and will do more good that way - got Merton into the Church / proposed conferences for novices on prayer / almost set forest on fire while burning brush / Harcourt Brace and the Encyclical / New Directions and <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> / new book - <i>Sentences</i> |
| 7 | 1953/10/09 | TALS | from Merton | Welcome back to America. I hope you are glad to be back and that you bring with you much spiritual | |
| mental problems with a young priests - need to "qualify our declarations that our life is very high and exalted" to avoid more vocations with emotional problems / Merton no longer cares to be called a "good religious" by others / false rumors that Merton will run the new foundation but would be happy to go to California / Ann Skakel |
| 7 | 1953/12/15 | TACS | from Merton | With all my heart, and with whatever simplicity may be in my heart, I offer you all my best and most | |
| [verso: Nativity scene with the Italian words "buon Natale"] one of the best Advents of his life / seeing past "corny" organ music, decorations, and other externals without bitterness |
| 7 | 1954/02/07 | TLS | from Merton | Several thoughts have struck me today as being indications of God's will. First- a line in the | |
| St. Chantal and useless activity - Merton doesn't waste time but spends it on "<u>futile</u> activities" like the Scripture class instead of prayer and meditation / poverty - will try to limit his personal books / Camaldolese and the Feast of St. Romuald |
| 7 | 1954/03/no | TLS | from Merton | Things are going better on the points mentioned in last month's note-- use of time, spiritual | |
| one interval a day spent studying the moral theology of the 7th, 8th and 10th Commandments for three days a week and another 3 days spent with the Greek New Testament / cutting down on correspondence for Lent except for book concerns - <i>Action and Contemplation</i> / illusion of detachment from creation |
| 7 | 1954/04/04? | TLS | from Merton | I resolved to make this note less of a formality, and really say something. This has been a good | |
| main fault the last 12 years - "Continual, uninterrupted resentment. I resent and even hate Gethsemani." / asks for Fox's prayers |
| 7 | 1954/05/no | TLS | from Merton | In the last month things have continued to get more basic. More self-knowledge. Appalled by the | |
| Merton laments "wasted effort", artificiality and the false self |
| 7 | 1954/09/22 | TALS | from Merton | I think I will enliven your day of recollection with a cold-blooded report on the whole question of | |
| Materialism in the community and who is to blame - some (not Merton) blame Fox and claim he is too much the business man interested in "Wall Street", machines, rich benefactors - Merton agrees that Gethsemani is materialistic and suffers spiritually - blames modern machines but acknowledges that they must earn living |
| 7 | 1954/11/29 | TLS | from Merton | This is a report on our four days' retreat. They wer [sic] four pretty busy days, and in fact I | Yes |
| seeking more solitude but within Cistercian lifestyle - seeing others leave but feeling it is his call to stay |
| 7 | 1954/11/no | TLS | from Merton | I am no wiser than before. I am still getting myself crowded with more work than I can handle | |
| "life less artificial, more real" / spending time in the woods and gaining some true interior solitude |
| 7 | 1955/01/22 | TLS | from Merton | I was going to write you a note listing all the reasons why I want to lead a solitary life. This | |
| entitled, "TO JESUS-- through the person of Reverend Father." / asking what Jesus wants him to do |
| 7 | 1955/03/no | TLS | from Merton | In the past I have wasted time and effort on days of rec. and retreats by not orienting everything | |
| acknowledging validity of aspiring to a personal vocation / Father Masters meetings a waste of time |
| 7 | 1955/06/13? (#02) | TALS | from Merton | Believing that God wills me to do so, I would like to re-open that old question of my vocation. As | |
| vocation to solitary life - quote from Prummer that a vowed religious can seek a more perfect life and this cannot be overruled by Superior / consultation with Fr. Vincent Mary, C.P., Prior of Gethsemani and Dom Porion (Carthusian) / Merton not needed and transfer to Carthusians or Camaldolese would not cause scandal |
| 7 | 1955/08/15 | TLS | from Merton | I got a letter from Dom Gabriel this morning and it mystifies me a little. It tends to confirm my | |
| does not think that Dom Gabriel Sortais or Dom Louis de Gonzague will allow Merton to live an eremitical life at Gethsemani - may revoke his fire tower / Frascati Camaldolese would accept Merton incognito - thinks it would be easier to seek solitude elsewhere - wants to go with Fox to General Chapter in Italy and try out Frascati |
| 7 | 1956/no/no? | HLS | from Merton | If my fifteen years of religious life have not been so good, at least I am thankful that I realize | |
| rooting out that which serves his pride / try to actually teach novices and not just display his knowledge |
| 7 | 1957/02/06 | TLS | from Merton | I don't know where this will reach you, but if it finds you on retreat I hope it will not be much of | |
| notes on novices - some working out and some leaving / life good as Novice Master with prayer and work in the woods |
| 7 | 1957/08/04 | HLS | from Merton | I guess the theme of today's recollection for me is - "With Christ I am nailed to the Cross." | |
| no strength, hope or substance but in the Cross |
| 7 | 1957/09/11 | TLS | from Merton | Here it is Thursday afternoon, and I will talk to you on paper if not facie ad faciem. This morning | |
| notes of progress of novices - good prospects and problems / Fr. Restrepo suggesting new foundation in his homeland of Colombia / small forest fire / looking for "good ideas for cheering up Trappist infirmaries" / Fox's work at the General Chapter / Postulant's Guide |
| 7 | 1957/09/30 | TLS | from Merton | Already the Feast of St Jerome, which means that tomorrow is October. How fast the months go by, | |
| problems with novices and the many that have left or may leave - realizes that Trappist vocation is a rare one / international situation - Little Rock school integration and the unrest - Russia and the Middle East / General Chapter - changing Divine Office from Latin to English / ecumenical dialogue with Protestants |
| 7 | 1957/11/no | HLS | from Merton | I hope this has been a practical Day of Recollection. Anyway the atmosphere for me has been one of | |
| realizes he may have been too independent in the past |
| 7 | 1958/02/no | HLS | from Merton | A very peaceful day - just stayed in one place, on account of our cold - only came out for High Mass | |
| "I have to reach out and take in the whole universe in order to expand my heart." |
| 7 | 1959/09/23 | TLS | from Merton | Yesterday was the first I had heard about the dialogue Mass. Certainly it will be a very good thing | |
| [see also Series 29, Fox quotes this letter from Merton in a memo, "From a letter of Father Louis to Reverend Father - September 23, 1959"] Merton supports dialogue Mass for the brothers, but only for the choir novices if there is communion at the conventual Mass / asking for a leave of absence from Gethsemani |
| 7 | 1960/05/23 | TALS | from Merton | This is written because I want it to be quasi-formal and official so to speak, and I would like to | |
| Abbot General Sortais' censorship / misunderstanding by censor in <i>Philosophy of Solitude</i> that Merton thinks he is above the guidance of Superiors / suspects Sortais resents him going over his head to the Holy See / thinks about quitting as writer - extremes of "axe-grinding" vs. "pious journalism" / Protestant dialogue |
| 7 | 1962/04/08 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton to Gabriel Sortais | Hier Dom James m'a donné le rapport des censeurs sur "Target-City" et en même temps vos lettres du | |
| "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" in <u>Catholic Worker</u> / defense of writings on nuclear war |
| 7 | 1962/04/08? (#01) | TNS | from Merton | I thought you might want to see a copy of the letter to the Abbot General. I didn't go into all | |
| [attaches letter from Merton to Abbot General Gabriel Sortais from 1962/04/08] Kowalski / Merton not getting sleep |
| 7 | 1962/no/08 | TLS | from Merton | Just a few lines to get the essential business items down on paper. First of all I think Bro Aelred | |
| status of novices doing well or leaving / censors and "St. Ignatius of Antioch on the Church" and the poem about the "Ladies' Jail" |
| 7 | 1964/07/10 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | First of all a letter from Fr Illtud Evans says he would like to advance the date of the retreat to | |
| [letter to Fox who left, or is about to leave, for a visitation to other monasteries] Illtud Evans / asking permission to do an article for <u>Holiday</u> magazine / Cuban who does not know English is applying for entry |
| 7 | 1964/09/26 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Gillet, Ignace / to Merton | J'ai bien reçu vos deux lettres du 11 septembre et tiens à vous en remercier sans tarder. Vous avez | |
| [attached to a note to Dom James Fox] response to a letter to Gillet about changes to the monastic life in allowing Merton to live as a hermit |
| 7 | 1964/09/26? (#03) | TANS | from Merton | Here is a reply of Dom Ignace to the letter I spoke of. He seems in general fearful of a "special | |
| against "special solution" in allowing Merton to live as a full hermit - possibility of hermitage cells dependent on monastery - discussion in General Chapter |
| 7 | 1964/no/no? (#02) | TLS | from Merton | I got in touch with Fr Paul as soon as I heard the results of the election and asked him to send the | |
| election of new Abbot General - sending Ignace Gillet copy of <i>Black Revolution</i> (<i>Seeds of Destruction</i>) / articles have separately been approved for publishing - can they be joined as a book? / questions of building a little prayer shelter outside for novices, changes to Office - Liturgical Committee |
| 7 | 1966/03/02 (#02) | TNS | from Merton | Attached are the principal letter of mine to Marie Tadie over the period 1964 and 1965, during which | |
| "Memo: concerning Marie Tadie and foreign rights" |
| 7 | 1966/03/02 (#03) | TNS | from Merton | Re file and memo on Marie Tadie: Dear Rev Father. The copies of my letters to Marie Tadie and the | |
| Tadié does not want to cooperate with New Directions - trouble between Tadié and Hoffman / Tadié first only wanted to handle prose but now wants poetry including Chuang Tzu book / in future Merton will not correspond with Tadié about business |
| 7 | 1966/07/28 (#02) | TLS | from Merton | In regard to our current "problems". I shall discuss possible psychological causes with Fr Eudes | Yes |
| Fr. John Eudes Bamberger and psychological evaluation / "fault does not lie with hermitage" nor will problems be solved by returning to community - still a need for contacts with "exceptional people" outside of monastery and in foreign countries |
| 7 | 1966/07/29 (#02) | TLS | from Merton | Will you let me make a couple of suggestions, about the future of hermits around here and related | Yes |
| create a system of open communications between hermits and superiors to avoid suspicion on both sides / affair with M. over / inspections of hermitage / second hermit moving in / no visits to hermits by monks - danger of homosexual affairs between some monks, Merton - "I am not so inclined" |
| 7 | 1966/08/07 (#02) | TLS | from Merton | I think this ought to take care of the essentials, and I presume we agree on the essential | Yes |
| Merton promises not to smuggle out letters, make illicit phone calls, or leave monastery (even to Loretto) without permission / asking Fox to believe in him and not make it a relationship of distrust with fears of "constraint and (veiled) punitive measures" [attached document "Some Guidelines for Monastic Hermits"] |
| 7 | 1966/08/07 (#03) | TNS | from Merton | SOME GUIDELINES FOR MONASTIC HERMITS. 1. Monastic Hermits, that is to say members under vows of | |
| vowed monks as hermits will continue to live under Rule of St. Benedict, except in matters of interaction with community and still obey an abbot / Merton provides 8 special rules applying to the hermits life (commits to these in the attached letter) |
| 7 | 1966/11/04? (#01) | TNS | from Merton | Best thing to do with Tadié is to say that you assure her we all personally want her to represent | |
| tell Marie Tadié that the monastery wants to have her handle French, Spanish and Italian rights, but this must be cleared with publishers in America |
| 7 | 1966/11/04? (#02) | TNS | from Merton | Many thanks for writing Tadie. I wonder if you have received a reply from her yet. Doubtless she | |
| Marie Tadié - might need to get a lawyer - let Bob McGregor from New Directions handle the matter - copy of letter to Naomi Burton Stone |
| 7 | 1966/11/04? (#03) | HLS | from Merton | About Marie Tadié- write that in her letter she lied in saying she was J H Griffin's agent. He told | |
| Tadié not John Howard Griffin's agent, but translator / no need to pay her for use of photograph - it is owned by Gethsemani |
| 7 | 1966/11/04? (#04) | TAN | from Merton | As regards the terms for Marie Tadie: everything is ok except that in n. 9 as it stands, the Abbey | |
| regarding a contract with Marie Tadié |
| 7 | 1966/11/04? (#05) | HNS | from Merton | In those points for M.Tadie maybe we ought to add: M. Tadie shall see to it that all books sold by | |
| regarding a contract with Marie Tadié |
| 7 | 1966/11/25 (#01) | TL | from Merton | Inregard [sic] to the note of Marie Tadie dated Nov 4 and postmarked the 21st: This illustrates | |
| drawbacks as having the same person as exclusive agent and translator - 9 books sold but not translated yet, dating back 6-7 years / she is getting more difficult to work with |
| 7 | 1966/12/31 | TLS | from Merton | The other daybyou [sic] mentioned something about how was I getting along "spiritually". As I said | |
| events of last summer with "M." and thanks that the mistakes are over / continued struggles with emotional needs but states that he still wants to give himself totally to solitude / thinks that besides "this one emotional involvement", he has "been more truly [him]self than ever before" |
| 7 | 1966/no/no (#02) | TNS | from Merton | I know a certain matter which is painful to both of us has come to your attention. I am not writing | |
| apologizing for making calls [to "M."?] at night from the phone at the steel building / mentions when and how often it happened, but that it will not happen again / would have done this more, not less, if in the community and not at hermitage |
| 7 | 1966/no/no (#03) | TNS | from Merton | Please do not worry about me. I can see that a clean break is the only solution. Things are much | |
| making a clean break with "M." / Jim Wygal's help / "not suffering that much from loneliness" - hermitage and solitude not the problem, but a help in this |
| 7 | 1966/no/no? (#04) | TLS | from Merton | This is an important matter which I have been putting off but I guess I might as well state it | Yes |
| reasons for continuing to go for medical treatment in Louisville despite Merton's episode with a nursing student from Louisville - medically, since the doctors know his conditions better in Louisville - non-medically, since "M." moved from the area midsummer (1966) and will not likely come back |
| 7 | 1968/10/20 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | I have been waiting for a chance to thank you for your warm and gracious letter, which reached me | |
| [Merton writing from the Oberoi Grand Hotel in Calcutta] does not blame Fox for his past decisions / new openness in monastic life might lead to abuses - want his trip to be for a "spiritual goal" / finding Asian Buddhist meditation centers unknown in the West / Americans don't meditate nor "really know themselves" |
| 7 | undated/03/25 (#02) | TAN[c] | from Merton to Fr. Gerald, O.C.S.O | As you are still a member of the student body, I have a theoretical duty to take some interest in | |
| stresses simplicity and brevity in his sermons - avoidance of florid outpourings |
| 7 | undated/03/25? (#01) | TNS | from Merton | I just wanted to say that the Annunciation sermon of Fr G. is a promise and a threat. There is | |
| promise of good and threat of being very obnoxious - too theatrical and artificial - praised by Fr. Raymond |
| 7 | undated/03/30 | TNS | from Merton | For the first time in weeks I am enjoying the unusual sensation-- of being temporarily convinced | |
| feels that his existence is not purposeless, unlike most of the time - talk with Protestant seminarians helped - Br. Clement and others helped by building quiet cell over the new stairs |
| 7 | undated/10/22 | HNS | from Merton | I want to say this in all simplicity, without interior motives. The work with the Bellarmine group | |
| Bellarmine group talk cannot fit into regular part of Trappist life, but was personally enriching for Merton - does not think it could be repeated - would take away from instruction of novices and from his solitude / Our Lady of Peace |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#13) | TLS | from Merton | Here is my frank opinion, as Master of Students, concerning the qualifications of Fr M.Paulinus | |
| "Report on Fr Paulinus, for ordinations" for major orders / Paulinus Grupa / "Report on Fr Francis of Assisi- for minor Orders " |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#14) | TLS | from Merton | May Jesus be with you every step of the way and bless you all the time with His peace and His deep | |
| everything Merton to write about Joseph Cassant in <i>Waters of Siloe</i> / need the <i>Dictionnaire de Theologie Catholique</i> / wants to know whether anyone Fox meets in Europe has any ideas about a greater life of solitude within the Cistercian life |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#15) | TLS | from Merton | I spoke to Fr John Eudes about the possibility of his taking over the infirmary when Fr Anselm | |
| Fr. John Eudes Bamberger possibly taking over infirmary / Fr. Bernard and teaching of Latin and French / possibility of a "shelter in the woods" - "simplest plans" and suggestions of brothers to do the work |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#16) | TALS | from Merton | The title of this document ought to be: WHY DOESN'T FRATER LOUIS MIND HIS OWN BUSINESS? | |
| "idiotic suggestions for the new year:" - regular, individual appointments instead of categories of people to avoid a few individuals constantly dominating meetings / delegate small matters to cellarer, guest master, etc. / appoint a canonist / more of Dom Vital's Liturgy talks / Master of Students for mental and spiritual guidance |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#17) | TALS | from Merton | After a week of very fruitful prayer, suffering and reflection, I am happy and at peace. So I think | |
| leaving decision of the future of his vocation in Fox's hands - thinks it must be in solitude - since Camaldolese are out of the question and since Fox won't allow him to be a hermit at Gethsemani, he asks for transfer to the Carthusians |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#18) | HLS | from Merton | As you will see by this letter, Marie Tadié is becoming impossible. In any case I do not feel I | |
| troubles with Marie Tadié |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#19) | TAL | from Merton | If you wish to continue battling Marie Tadie, then I suggest that we make a clear and strict | |
| troubles with Marie Tadié / proposes "strict legal contract" |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#20) | HLS | from Merton | I would say it would be all right to compromise on time of the agreement- maybe 5 years. We should | |
| regarding a contract with Marie Tadié / getting rid of Tadié's distinction as agent, at least for articles |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#21) | HLS | from Merton | About Marie Tadié. More succinctly we could reply as follows[:] Since she rejects our conditions | |
| since Tadié rejects conditions as agent, Fox should tell her that they would be happy to leave her only as translator |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#22) | TAN | from Merton | PERSONAL SCHEDULE [-] Br M Louis. 2.15 Rise, Lauds. Followed by Meditation until 4. Breakfast. | |
| full daily schedule / three or more hours of mental prayer each day / Psalter said continuously / only coffee for breakfast in fast seasons / work clothes and sandals for foot condition and weather permitting |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#23) | TNS | from Merton | This is a special delivery, and it may sound enthusiastic as I have been spending the entire day (of | |
| spending day of recollection in "Everest Edelin's valley" / Br. Colman and building a log house as a hermitage on a rotating schedule |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#24) | TNS | from Merton | This is a post mortem on today's sermon. It occurred to me, perhaps as a temptation, to think you | |
| seeking perfection - controversy in community and misunderstandings over Merton's stand on the subject |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#25) | HNS | from Merton | It is perhaps silly for me to write you this note, but of course you will understand it. I feel | |
| Merton assumes Fox angry at Godfrey Diekmann letter (see "Diekmann, Godfrey Leo" file) / Fox's aggression to Merton in chapter / Fox assumes vanity in Merton's success as a writer / "born a writer" - if Merton can't write he "might as well die" - will continue to write in solitude, but not as present pace / Edelin's valley |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#26) | TAN | from Merton | One thing occurred to me about this letter and Card. Tardini he mentions " Fr M. and others with | |
| Merton disputes statement by Cardinal Tardini that he is conducting experiments and that others are involved - Fr. Gerard Majella mentioned Marian plan to Tardini - this might be the confusion / retreatants will not interfere Merton's work with novices / work with Jewish Seminarians, Bellarmine students and Protestants |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#27) | TANS | from Merton | Thanks for your kind note. It makes everything clear and I am glad you understand. Purification it | |
| "nervous reactions which come along when I think someone is out to get me" / spent less than ten hours on writing in the last three weeks |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#28) | TNS | from Merton | In my opinion no vow taken by a member of our Order to pass to a "higher life" would be valid. Our | |
| St. Bernard, stability, and the possibility of a call to a higher life |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#29) | TNS | from Merton | It seems to me that my soul feels less and less at home in this body of death. I know that my true | |
| grim commentary on Merton's existence on this earth |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#30) | HLS | from Merton | I am preparing for Lent with a heavy cold. Penitential beginning to a penitential season. Today - | |
| thinking about the fundamentals of silence and mortification |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#31) | TNS | from Merton | In regard to the Spanish translation of the Cuadra letter, now censored by Fr Augustine: 1) May I | |
| <i>Disputed Questions</i> / "Letter to Cuadra Concerning Giants" / the Abbot General |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#32) | TNS | from Merton | As you gave me permission some time ago, I am now starting a private retreat for a few days. This | |
| private retreat in the woods |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#33) | TNS | from Merton | Paradiso! Maybe this is going to be a real good retreat. However one of the first things I | |
| forgot to ask Fr. Matthew to get some clavichord records of Bach from one of his friends / "the value hidden in ordinary everyday opportunities" through the love of God |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#34) | HNS | from Merton | Do you think somebody could teach the novices how to say "<u>Citeaux</u>"? <u>See-toe</u> C is not | |
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| 7 | undated/no/no (#35) | TLS | from Merton | Just a note to welcome you home on the anniversary of your entrance into Gethsemani. It can be a | |
| Gethsemani - "heartbreaking place and yet a place of joy" |
| 7 | undated/no/no (#36) | HLS | from Merton | I assure you of special prayers and all best wishes for every grace and joy on your Feast Day - may | |
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| 8 | 1959/07/30 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We were delighted to receive your good letter of July 24. It is a great relief to know that you | |
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| 8 | 1960/11/19 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Good Father Louis spoke to me about the contracts which you sent him recently in regard to SPIRITUAL | |
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| 8 | 1962/02/15 | TLS[c] | to Tadié, Marie | Good Father Louis received the contracts for the French rights of NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION, and | |
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| 8 | 1962/04/09 (#01) | TLS[c] | to Tadié, Marie | Good Father Louis received your recent communications with the enclosed contracts for THE NEW MAN | |
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| 8 | 1962/04/09 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Good Father Louis received your recent communications with the enclosed contracts for THE NEW MAN | |
| one of the paragraphs is underlined in red |
| 8 | 1962/10/07 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Dom Gabriel Sortais did not give the "Imprimi Potest" to the french translation of "Original Child | |
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| 8 | 1962/10/18 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your letter of October 7th with the enclosure of the letter of the Editors de Seuil | |
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| 8 | 1962/10/20 | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | I am sending you the "addenda" to the following contracts: New Seeds of Contemplation, The New Man | |
| circles and underlines in red pen |
| 8 | 1962/11/06 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you for your cable which I got this morning. I cabled, in return, asking you for a letter of | |
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| 8 | 1962/11/07 (#01) | TALS[c] | to Tadié, Marie | You will probably know by this time that the tempo of cloistered monastic life is not that of the | |
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| 8 | 1962/11/07 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | You will probably know by this time that the tempo of cloistered monastic life is not that of the | |
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| 8 | 1962/11/07 (#03) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | You will probably know by this time that the tempo of cloistered monastic life is not that of the | |
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| 8 | 1962/11/10 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | I received this morning your letter of the 7th of November. (1) I shall send you, next week, the | |
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| 8 | 1962/11/17 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Flamand, Paul | We received your beautiful letters of November 6 and November 10. So, at last you have received the | |
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| 8 | 1962/11/17 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Flamand, Paul | We received your gracious letter of November 5. Since good Madame Marie Tadie has received the | |
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| 8 | 1962/11/21 | HLS | from Flamand, Paul | Thank you for your very kind letter. If I have been very happy to get Dom Sortais' letter, the fact | |
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| 8 | 1962/11/27 | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | I am sending you the letter I got this morning from the <u>Éditions</u> du Seuil so that you may, as | |
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| 8 | 1962/12/17 | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | You must have thought that some nuclear bomb exploded here at Gethsemani, and sent us all into | |
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| 8 | 1963/02/08 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | I received your gracious note of February 8, 1963. I am happy you received our letter of December | |
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| 8 | 1963/02/08 (#02) | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you ever so much for the kind letter you sent me on the 17th of December. I sent the 140 | |
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| 8 | 1963/03/14 (#01) | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | I received your gracious note of February 8, 1963. I am happy you received our letter of December | |
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| 8 | 1963/03/14 (#02) | TAL[x] | to Tadié, Marie | I received your gracious note of February 8, 1963. I am happy you received our letter of December | |
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| 8 | 1963/04/01 (#01) | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | Father Louis spoke to me about your handling of the new book that Herder & Herder has published | |
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| 8 | 1963/04/01 (#02) | HCS | from Merton | I think the Herder contract is such that Marie Tadié in selling French rights, | |
| [Undated, but attached to 1963/04/01 letter of Dom James Fox] |
| 8 | 1963/12/11 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you very much for the contracts. I hope you will receive the money soon, but the | |
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| 8 | 1964/04/10 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Good Father Louis passed on the contracts for EMBLEMS OF A SEASON OF FURY with his approval. | |
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| 8 | 1964/06/15 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Father Louis passed on the contracts for the Italian rights for BLACK REVOLUTION, which meet with | |
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| 8 | 1964/08/10 | TALS[x] | from Tadié, Marie | Enclosed please find three copies of the Spanish and Catalan contracts for THE BLACK REVOLUTION, | |
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| 8 | 1964/10/27? (#01) | HN | from Merton | Did not say she was not agent in France. We can certainly ask publishers to deal with her | |
| [response by Merton to 1964/10/22 letter of Tadié to Dom James written on the envelope] |
| 8 | 1964/10/28 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | I received your gracious letter of October 22. I conferred with good Father Louis in regard to the | |
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| 8 | 1964/10/29 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | "New Directions" wrote to me a letter in which I am told that they are handling the rights for all | |
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| 8 | 1964/11/01 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | I received your kind letter of October 28, and would like to make things clear. When Father Louis | |
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| 8 | 1964/11/05? | TL | from Merton | No need to answer this one of Tadié just yet. There is probably another bombshell on the way and | |
| [attached to 1964/11/01 and 1964/11/12 letters and likely written after Merton's letter from 1964/11/03] |
| 8 | 1964/11/12 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | I include herewith a check for 750 dollars that I received to-day from Madrid, representing the | |
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| 8 | 1964/12/30 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Would you kindly sign those contracts concerning the italian rights of Seeds of Destruction. Keep | |
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| 8 | 1965/01/11 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your letter of December 30th. The contracts which you have sent, in regard to the | |
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| 8 | 1965/06/03 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Would you kindly sign those contracts for a very short book of Father Louis's. (please sign also | |
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| 8 | 1965/06/09 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Thank you for your gracious note of June 3rd with the enclosed contracts for MONASTIC VOCATION | |
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| 8 | 1965/10/24 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | On the 9th of October, Father Louis kindly wrote to say that, although he wishes me to go on being | |
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| 8 | 1965/11/08 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your gracious note of October 24. I want to assure you that all of us here at | |
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| 8 | 1965/11/08 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your gracious note of October 24. I want to assure you that all of us here at | |
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| 8 | 1965/11/18 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Good Father Louis passed on the enclosed contracts for the French translation of SEASONS OF | |
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| 8 | 1965/11/18 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Good Father Louis passed on the enclosed contracts for the French translation of SEASONS OF | |
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| 8 | 1966/01/20 | TAL | to Tadié, Marie | I'm sorry to have been so long in writing to you about the whole question of the foreign rights for | |
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| 8 | 1966/01/24 | TLS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | It has taken some time before I could write you in regard to the whole question of foreign rights | |
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| 8 | 1966/02/11 | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you very much for your letter of the 24th of January 1966. Things are now clear: I remain | |
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| 8 | 1966/02/21 | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | Robert MacGregor from New Directions wrote to me a letter, a copy of which has probably reached you | |
| [response to Tadié's letter in Merton's handwriting appears on second page; Merton is probably addressing Dom James Fox] |
| 8 | 1966/02/24 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | I had accepted, to please you, to work with Hoffman (New Directions' new agent) for the books of | |
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| 8 | 1966/02/25 (#01) | telegram | from Tadié, Marie | HAVE RECEIVED OFFER ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PULLS RIGHT FOR SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION IN SPAIN CONFIRM BY | |
| Verso: [handwritten and signed by Dom James Fox?] "My Dear Fr. Louis -- Quid respondendum???" |
| 8 | 1966/02/25 (#02) | telegram | from Tadié, Marie | HAVE RECEIVED OFFER 1000DOLLARS PLUS RIGHTS FOR SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION IN SPANI H [sic] CONFIRM | |
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| 8 | 1966/02/28 | HANS | to Tadié, Marie | We authorize acceptance offer $1,000 plus right for Seeds | Destruction -- Spain | |
| [was sent as telegram] |
| 8 | 1966/03/02 (#04) | TNS[x] | from Merton | Attached are the principal letter of mine to Marie Tadie over the period 1964 and 1965, during which | |
| "Memo: concerning Marie Tadie and foreign rights" / Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" |
| 8 | 1966/03/02 (#05) | TALS[x] | from Merton | The copies of my letters to Marie Tadie and the long memo I have attached, are intended to give you | |
| "Re file and memo on Marie Tadie" / Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" |
| 8 | 1966/03/11 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Those are the contracts for <u>Seeds of Destruction</u>. Will you kindly sign these and send them | |
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| 8 | 1966/03/22 | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your cablegram of March 21, enclosed are the four copies of the contract in regard to | |
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| 8 | 1966/04/21 | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you for your letter of March 22 with the contracts for Spain. I sent them on immediately, but | |
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| 8 | 1966/07/01 | TAL[d] | to Tadié, Marie | I am sorry that we have not written to you sooner. I have been absent from Gethsemani | |
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| 8 | 1966/07/23 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Would you kindly sign those contracts as soon as possible, keep one for your files, and send them | |
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| 8 | 1966/08/04 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | In regard to good Father Louis, his health is getting along very well at present. He did have some | |
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| 8 | 1966/08/04 (#02) | TAL[d] | to Tadié, Marie | In regard to good Father Louis, his health is getting along very well at present. He did have some | |
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| 8 | 1966/08/04 (#03) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your note of July 23. We have the copies of contract in regard to "Conjectures of a | |
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| 8 | 1966/08/09 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you for the contracts and for your letters of the 4. August. (1) About article 12. It is not | |
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| 8 | 1966/08/14 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Father Louis, as you know, has given an article to a review called <u>Hermès</u>. Although Father | |
| [Dom James writes on envelope] "Fr. Louis" / "Quid Respondendum???" / [Merton replies to letter on envelope] |
| 8 | 1966/08/19 | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your most charming letter of August 9. I am happy that the contracts arrived and our | |
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| 8 | 1966/08/31 (#02) | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thanks very much for your long letter of the 20th. Oh dear, Marie Tadie really is the limit, isn't | |
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| 8 | 1966/09/14 | TLS | from Aubert, F. | We are interested in the French rights of : REDEEMING THE TIME by Thomas Merton and other books of | |
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| 8 | 1966/09/26 | HNS | from Merton | I suggest <u>cable</u> as follows: No problem Seeds of Destruction / mere misunderstanding | |
| [Verso of envelope from Marmion Abbey to Gethsemani community postmarked 1966/09/26 / listed date not exact] |
| 8 | 1966/09/27 | HNS | to Tadié, Marie | Cable: "Seeds Destruction not yet translated into Spanish. Gethsemani" | |
| [note of text sent as cablegram to Tadié / verso: other notes in pencil] |
| 8 | 1966/10/09 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | May I let you know several facts which create unnecessary complications and loss of time for me, all | |
| [3 pages of Tadié's letter, plus notes on envelope from Gethsemani] |
| 8 | 1966/10/19 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | (1) Will you kindly sign those contracts for Spain concerning <u>The New Man</u> and send them back | |
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| 8 | 1966/10/26 | TAL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your letter of October 19. Enclosed are the three copies of the contract in regard to | |
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| 8 | 1966/11/02 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | I received your letter of October 26, 1966. As I do not know what Dom Gillet wrote to you, I cannot | |
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| 8 | 1966/11/04 (#06) | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | This is the list of the works of Thomas Merton that I have sold and will translate <u>according</u> | |
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| 8 | 1966/11/04? (#07) | TNS[x] | from Merton | As regards the terms for Marie Tadie: everything is ok except that in n. 9 as it stands, the Abbey | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" |
| 8 | 1966/11/04? (#08) | HNS[x] | from Merton | In those points for M.Tadie maybe we ought to add: M. Tadie shall see to it that all books sold by | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" |
| 8 | 1966/11/04? (#09) | TNS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for writing Tadie. I wonder if you have received a reply from her yet. Doubtless she | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" / Marie Tadié - might need to get a lawyer - let Bob McGregor from New Directions handle the matter - copy of letter to Naomi Burton Stone |
| 8 | 1966/11/04? (#10) | TNS[x] | from Merton | Best thing to do with Tadié is to say that you assure her we all personally want her to represent | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" / tell Marie Tadié that the monastery wants to have her handle French, Spanish and Italian rights, but this must be cleared with publishers in America |
| 8 | 1966/11/09 | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | I am sending you to-day 3 sets of 4 contracts each concerning (1) Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander | |
| [with typed note to Dom James on the bottom from "bs." [Brother Simeon / secretary to Dom James?]: "It looks like she is trying to keep the fires burning."] |
| 8 | 1966/11/20 | TNS | from Simeon, Br., O.C.S.O. | Good morning to you on this Thanksgiving Day - 1966. I thanked the Good Lord in a special way this | |
| verso: Merton's notes on Tadié |
| 8 | 1966/11/25 (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton | Inregard [sic] to the note of Marie Tadie dated Nov 4 and postmarked the 21st: This illustrates very | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" / drawbacks as having the same person as exclusive agent and translator - 9 books sold but not translated yet, dating back 6-7 years / she is getting more difficult to work with |
| 8 | 1966/11/25 (#03) | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | Please pardon my delay in answering your letter of November the 9 with the enclosed contracts. | |
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| 8 | 1966/11/28 (#01) | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you for the contracts you signed concerning Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander | |
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| 8 | 1966/11/28 (#02) | TLS | from Griffin, John Howard | The enclosed letter from Marie Tadié is self-explanatory (alas, and more, revealing) and I thought | |
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| 8 | 1966/11/29 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Several months ago, I asked you whether you have an agent in <u>Portugal</u>. Would you kindly | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/01 | TALS | from Masui, Jacques | Je ne vous ai plus écrit [...] votre bonne lettre du 14 octobre, car depuis cette époque, j'ai eu | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/12 | TLS | from Griffin, John Howard | Enlosed [sic] an excellent review of Tom;s [sic] book. Also it occurs to me that if you need an | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/15 | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | We have received a letter from good Pierre Malinverni. We have just written him and are sending you | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/19 (#01) | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | I must answer immediately your phrase to Monsieur Malinverni because, as for the whole situation, | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/19 (#02) | telegram | from Tadié, Marie | 1 - AM ASKED FOR MERTON'S BOOKS IN PORTUGAL MAY I SELL THEM? 2 - AM ASKED FOR REDEEMINGTIME [sic] | |
| Merton's responses on front and back of telegram in pen. |
| 8 | 1966/12/21 (#01) | TLS | from Morson, John, Fr. | Madame Tadié of Paris has written me a letter containing the following sentences: "I would like you | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/21 (#02) | TLS | from Malinverni, Pierre | J'ai bien reçu votre lettre du 15 décembre 1966 et je vous dis toute ma reconnaissance pour les | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/28 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | In reply to your cable and letter of December 19-- 1) In regard to selling books in Portugal, we | |
| [second annotate copy of the letter contains bracketing in red pen] |
| 8 | 1966/12/29 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | I had occasion to write to your good friend Mr Pierre Malinverni. I want to keep you "au courant" | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/29 (#02) | TL[c] | to Malinverni, Pierre | We received your gracious note of December 21. We appreciated the tone of your letter--it is so | |
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| 8 | 1966/12/29 (#03) | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Will you find enclosed check No 383345 of 120 dollars U.S.A. first instalment [sic] due to you for | |
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| 8 | 1967/01/02 (#01) | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | In reply to your letter of December 28, 1966: (1) You tell me that I may sell <u>Faith</u>. I sold | |
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| 8 | 1967/01/02 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Malinverni, Pierre | We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani | |
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| 8 | 1967/01/04 (#02) | HALS | from Malinverni, Pierre | I received your letter of December 29th, 1966, and, before everything else, I must tell you that I | |
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| 8 | 1967/01/05 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your note of December 29 with the enclosure due to us from the publishers in Madrid in | |
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| 8 | 1967/01/23 | HNS | from Malinverni, Pierre | Vous prie de bien vouloir [...] de vous adresser cette lettre en anglais, à la demande expresse | |
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| 8 | 1967/01/24 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | It has taken some time before I could write you in regard to the whole question of foreign rights | |
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| 8 | 1967/01/26 | TALS[x] | to Malinverni, Pierre | We received your gracious letter of January 4. I am working on the case as fast as I can. We | |
| confidential enclosure referenced is from 1967/01/23 |
| 8 | 1967/01/30 | HLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | 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…" |
| 8 | 1967/02/03 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I just received your wonderful letter of January 30. Since I just wrote you and sent you Father | |
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| 8 | 1967/02/06 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you for both of your letters. I return Fr Louis' notes -- in case they [sic] Devil's Advocate | |
| Burton returns proposed draft of Tadié contract with Merton's handwritten notes |
| 8 | 1967/02/09 | TALS[x] | to Malinverni, Pierre | We have drawn up a tentative draft of an agreement between the Abbey of Gethsemani and good Madame | |
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| 8 | 1967/02/19 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | In your letter of January 26, 1967, you wrote to my legal advisor, Monsieur Malinverni "I think you | |
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| 8 | 1967/02/24 (#01) | TLS | from Malinverni, Pierre | Nous avons examiné attentivement votre projet d'accord. Je suis très heureux que vous reconnaissiez | |
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| 8 | 1967/02/24 (#02) | transcript | from Malinverni, Pierre | We have carefully studied your suggestions for an agreement. I am very glad that you admit that our | |
| English translation of 1967/02/24 letter from its original French |
| 8 | 1967/03/03 (#01) | HALS | from Tadié, Marie | As you may know, I sold <u>Behavior of Titans</u> to Editions du Seuil and you signed the contract | |
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| 8 | 1967/03/03 (#02) | transcript | from Tadié, Marie | As you know, I sold <u>Behavior of Titans</u> to Editions du Seuil and you signed the contract on | |
| Typed transcript of handwritten 1967/03/03 letter. |
| 8 | 1967/03/11 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Malinverni, Pierre | I received your gracious letter of February 24. In regard to the length of time for which the | |
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| 8 | 1967/03/11 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We want to acknowledge your letters of February 19 and March 3. In your letter of March 3 paragraph | |
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| 8 | 1967/03/13 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Les Éditions du Seuil propose to buy two chapters of <u>Raids</u> which are <u>Martin's</u> | |
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| 8 | 1967/03/18 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Will you sign those four "addenda" to the contract for <u>Behavior of Titans</u> and keep one for | |
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| 8 | 1967/03/23 | TL[c] | to Malinverni, Pierre | Reflecting upon my last letter, I thought perhaps I could have been more specific on one point-- | |
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| 8 | 1967/03/24 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your note of March 13. Evidently, our letter of March 11 crossed with yours. Now, we | |
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| 8 | 1967/04/05 | TLS | from Malinverni, Pierre | I thank you for your letters of March 11 and March 23, 1967; please excuse my delay in answering | |
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| 8 | 1967/04/11 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | I am enclosing the letter I received from Marie Tadié and my reply. It is good for us to have | |
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| 8 | 1967/04/22 | TLS[x] | to Malinverni, Pierre | I have gone to not a little trouble and inconvenience to contact leading authorities in the | |
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| 8 | 1967/05/16 | TLS | from Malinverni, Pierre | | |
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| 8 | 1967/05/31 | telegram | from Malinverni, Pierre | Prière envoyer réponse au sujet contrat Tadié avant votre départ de France. | |
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| 8 | 1967/06/01 | TALS[x] | to Malinverni, Pierre | We received your charming letter of May 16 only on May 26. At the present time, I am away from the | |
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| 8 | 1967/06/19 (#01) | TLS | from Malinverni, Pierre | A la suite de notre lettre du 16 Mai 1967 qui précisait d'une façon nette les conditions d'un accord | |
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| 8 | 1967/06/19 (#02) | other | from Malinverni, Pierre | Following on our letter of May 16, 1967, which clearly and precisely stated the conditions for | |
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| 8 | 1967/07/10 (#01) | TAL[d] | to Malinverni, Pierre | We have just returned from our trip to our monastery in Santiago Chile--Latin America. Only now | |
| annotated draft copy of 1967/07/10(2) |
| 8 | 1967/07/10 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Malinverni, Pierre | We have just returned from our trip to our monastery in Santiago Chile--Latin America. Only now | |
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| 8 | 1967/07/30 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | You will find, enclosed, (1) check no 309540 of $630, for <u>The New Man</u> (2) check no 309541 of | |
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| 8 | 1967/08/10 | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | We received your note of July 30, with the three checks enclosed. Yes, we know that it takes quite | |
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| 8 | 1967/09/19 | TLS | from Tadié, Marie | I have the pleasure to enclose check no 312458, from Spain, for <u>Conjectures of a Guilty</u> | |
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| 8 | 1967/09/29 | TLS | from Merton | No author in his right mind could accept the proposed agreement sent by Marie Tadie. 1- She | |
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| 8 | 1967/10/04 | HLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you for your letters of Sept. 29 and 30 and enclosures. I do agree with Fr. Louis. The | |
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| 8 | 1967/10/12 | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | We received you letter of September 19. The check arrived for the sale of "Conjectures of a Guilty | |
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| 8 | 1967/10/19 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for your letter of October 12th. I don't know what to say about Marie Tadie. It is | |
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| 8 | 1967/11/14 (#02) | TANS | from Merton | 1. The address of the Paris lawyer is M. Pierre Kramer-Raine […] | |
| "Summary of position in regard to M Tadie." |
| 8 | 1967/11/20 (#01) | TAL[d] | from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox | We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani | |
| Draft 1a - different annotations on each copy |
| 8 | 1967/11/20 (#02) | TAL[d] | from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox | We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani | |
| Draft 1b - different annotations on each copy |
| 8 | 1967/11/20 (#03) | TAL[d] | from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox | We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani | |
| Draft 1c - different annotations on each copy |
| 8 | 1967/12/11 (#01) | TL[d] | from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox | We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani | |
| Draft 2a |
| 8 | 1967/12/11 (#02) | TAL[d] | from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox | We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani | |
| Draft 2b - note from Merton "All OK with me!" |
| 8 | 1968/01/05 (#01) | TLS | from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle | We have duly received your letter of January 2, and we thank you for it. We shall be greatly | |
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| 8 | 1968/01/05 (#02) | TNS | from Merton | In writing to Marie Tadie there is another routine matter to be added: In the book, Foi et Violence | |
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| 8 | 1968/01/05 (#03) | TNS | from Simeon, Br., O.C.S.O. | Fr Louis just came in 10:10 with his whole file on your friend Marie Tadie. Have fun. I pray for | |
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| 8 | 1968/01/29 | TALS | from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle | I am sorry to say there is a mistake in our last letter : a "zero" was missed. … excuse us, please! | |
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| 8 | 1969/03/21 | TLS | from Les Editions Albin Michel | Following you cable, we hope you understand that the manuscript of "MONASTIC VOCATION AND THE MODERN | |
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| 8 | 1969/04/01 | TL[c] | from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox | Fr. Flavian Burns has asked me to reply to your kind letter of March 4 in regard to Mme. Marie Tadie | |
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| 8 | 1969/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle | I beg to inform you that I had an other talk with Madame TADIE , perhaps the last one ! Madame | |
| announces that Tadié will abstain from going to court [2 copies, one light and one dark photocopy] |
| 8 | 1969/06/23 | HLS | from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle | Thank you so much for your very kind letter and the check. Of course, the fees you sent us are | |
| Recipient could be Flavian Burns instead of James Fox. Burns was abbot at the time, but Fox continued to hand |
| 8 | undated/no/no (#01) | HLS[x] | from Merton | As you will see by this letter, Marie Tadié is becoming impossible. In any case I do not feel I | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" |
| 8 | undated/no/no (#02) | TAL[x] | from Merton | If you wish to continue battling Marie Tadie, then I suggest that we make a clear and strict | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" |
| 8 | undated/no/no (#03) | HLS[x] | from Merton | About Marie Tadié- write that in her letter she lied in saying she was J H Griffin's agent. He told | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" / Tadié not John Howard Griffin's agent, but translator / no need to pay her for use of photograph - it is owned by Gethsemani |
| 8 | undated/no/no (#04) | HLS[x] | from Merton | I would say it would be all right to compromise on time of the agreement- maybe 5 years. We should | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" |
| 8 | undated/no/no (#05) | HLS[x] | from Merton | About Marie Tadié. More succinctly we could reply as follows[:] Since she rejects our conditions | |
| Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" |
| 9 | 1953/01/29 | TL[c] | from Merton to Barnabas Ahern | Thank you for your letter of clarification; for, yes, I was concerned. Your confidence is | |
| [transcript copy of a letter from Fr. Barnabas Ahern to Merton (see Ahern correspondence file for original), copy likely sent from Fox to Sortais] criticizes Merton's idea of becoming a hermit / suggests a year-long sabbatical doing the work of a Trappist / recommends Dialogues of St. Catherine of Siena |
| 9 | 1955/03/06 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Vos lettres du 21 et du 28 me sont bien arrivées, et je vous remercie du soin que vous prenez | |
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| 9 | 1955/03/16 (#03) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We are writing this separately, in regard to good Father Louis. He is not as cheerful | |
| [see also letter of the same date in Series 3 to Sortais] |
| 9 | 1955/03/28 (#02) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Good Father Louis was in to speak with us. He always is quite open. At the present moment now | |
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| 9 | 1955/04/02 | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We are writing in regard to the book "Silence in Heaven," for which Father Louis has written | |
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| 9 | 1955/05/17 | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We are writing to you in regard to Father Louis. As you know, we had the visitation, which ended | |
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| 9 | 1955/05/25 | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We are trying to keep you informed about good Father Louis and his difficulties, so you can have | |
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| 9 | 1955/06/30 (#02) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We intended to write a longer letter, but the preparations for establishing the foundation in | |
| [see similar letter (Xerox) from Series 2 in this file to Dom Louis de Gonzague Le Pennuen, Abbot of Melleray] |
| 9 | 1955/10/18 | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | As we mentioned in our previous letter, we are writing in regard to our good Father Louis, in whom | Yes |
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| 9 | 1956/09/04 | TL | to Sortais, Gabriel | We thought it well to write somewhat at length about good Father Louis in this way--separately. | |
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| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#01) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Good Father Paulinus, who had the dreams of India and used to write to you and Dom Louis typing | |
| [encloses eight copied letters (the following # 2-9) concerning Merton - most are quite faded, and some have been transcribed] |
| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Zilboorg, Gregory | Your letter is more deeply appreciated than you will ever know. Your directness, and simplicity | |
| [enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Fox to Sortais - letter originally dated 1956/September/10 to Merton from psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (see original in Series 26 - and see also Zilboorg correspondence file)] |
| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#03) | TL[x] | from Merton to Gregory Zilboorg | Your letter was less of a surprise to me than it was to Father Abbot. I rather sensed this would be | |
| [enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Fox to Sortais - letter originally dated 1956/September/14 from Merton to psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (see also his correspondence file)] |
| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#04) | TLS[x] | from Merton to Gregory Zilboorg | Your letter was less of a surprise to me than it was to Father Abbot. I rather sensed this would be | |
| [enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Fox to Sortais - letter originally dated 1956/September/20 from Merton to psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (see original in Series 26 - and see also Zilboorg correspondence file)] |
| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#05) | TAL[x] | from Merton to Angélico Surchamp | Your letter was less of a surprise to me than it was to Father Abbot. I rather sensed this would be | |
| [enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Fox to Sortais - letter originally dated 1956/September/24 from Merton to Dom Angélico Surchamp (see also his correspondence file)] |
| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#06) | TLS[x] | from Merton to Claude Jean-Nesmy | Il y a longtemps que je ne vous ai pas ecrit-- et que je n'ai rien entendu de vous, ce qui est | |
| [enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Fox to Sortais - letter originally dated 1956/September/24 from Merton to Dom Claude Jean-Nesmy (see also his correspondence file)] |
| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#07) | TLS[x] | from Merton to Therese Lentoehr | Some time ago I obtained permission to write for your feast day, and have been waiting to do so | Yes |
| [enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Fox to Sortais - letter originally dated 1956/September/25 from Merton to Sr. Therese Lentfoehr (see also her correspondence file)] |
| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#08) | TLS[x] | from Merton to Robert Giroux | The pictures are very fine. I like the layouts very much and think the whole thing will be splendid | |
| [enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Fox to Sortais - letter originally dated 1956/October/04 (day could be 14 or 24 - quite faded) from Merton to Bob Giroux, his editor and publisher (see also his correspondence file)] |
| 9 | 1956/11/07 (#09) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Father Abbot returned from New York with the pleasant news that we might expect you down here | |
| [enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Fox to Sortais - letter originally dated 1956/October/09 from Merton to psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (see also Zilboorg correspondence file)] |
| 9 | 1958/01/18 | transcript | from Merton to Zilboorg, Gregory | "For my own part, I think this year has been a very happy one, if by happiness one can understand | |
| [titled: "Extracts from a letter to Gregory Zilboorg Jan. 18, 1958"] |
| 9 | 1958/08/05 | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | We know you are always interested in the affairs of Gethsemani. Knowing this, we are sending you | |
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| 9 | 1958/08/12 | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Re: The genesis of good Father Louis' latest "dream-project". We made our fifth foundation | |
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| 9 | 1959/08/03 | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | I want to acknowledge your letter of July 18. It was in regard to the remarks of the censor | |
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| 9 | 1959/08/31 (#02) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | In regard to our good Father Louis, perhaps you may be wondering what has become of him-- | |
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| 9 | 1959/08/no? | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | I am writing you on a separate sheet about another matter-- our good Father Louis. | |
| [no date but likely August or September of 1959 from context and sent with another letter to Sortais] |
| 9 | 1959/11/08 | TLS | from Sortais, Gabriel | Hier, le R.P. dom Déodat, qui fait fonction de Procureur Généal, m'a remis, en revenant de la S. | |
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| 9 | 1959/12/09 (#01) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | You probably have thought I must have fallen into the Atlantic Ocean and been eaten up | |
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| 9 | 1959/12/09 (#02) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | Father Louis has rewritten some of his former notes and brought together under the title | |
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| 9 | 1959/12/09 (#03) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | + MEMORANDUM RE: Fr. L. Good Father L. was utterly surprised by my sudden departure for Europe | |
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| 9 | 1959/12/23 (#02) | TL[c] | to Sortais, Gabriel | + RE: Fr. L. During my absence at the Abbatial Blessing at New Clairvaux, good Father Louis | |
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| 10 | 1966/no/no | HN | | O. God watch over us - very jealous throws bombs - know our weaknesses - be on guard in future | |
| 6 small handwritten notes (written by Fox and likely notes for himself) concerning Merton and a brief relationship with a woman |
| 11 | 1971/09/05 | HNS | from Bamberger, John Eudes | I was asked to review <u>Rice's</u> book on Merton. I had to be short- but thought I should correct | |
| sends Fox a review of Rice's biography (review not extant here), <i>The Man in the Sycamore Tree : The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton : An Entertainment with Photographs</i>, and informs Fox of some factual errors in the book |
| 11 | 1971/09/08 | TNS | to Bamberger, John Eudes | I did not receive your Review, until Sunday, 9/5--Thus I could not have contacted you about it, | |
| responds to Bamberger's review of Edward Rice's <i>The Man in the Sycamore Tree : The Good Times and Hard Life of Thomas Merton : An Entertainment with Photographs</i>, and provides his memories of the building of the hermitage and the idea of a new Trappist foundation in South America, while also giving his perspective on what he sees as Rice's mischaracterization of tensions between Merton and him |
| 12 | 1969/03/20 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I often wondered about good Mme. M.T., since Dec. 10. Now, lo and behold comes a letter from our | |
| [to Merton's literary agent, Naomi Burton Stone - encloses letter of 1969/February/26 from Marie Tadié's lawyer, Monna Salvia Y Satorra, to the Abbey's lawyer in Paris, Marcelle Kraemer-Bach, see Item #2] |
| 12 | 1969/03/20 (#02) | transcript | from Salvia Y Satorra, Monna / to Marcelle Kraemer-Bach | ... I possess in my files, an important correspondence from which it results that Mme. Tadie has | |
| [enclosed with letter from Fox to Naomi Burton Stone, Merton's literary agent - letter of 1969/February/26 from Marie Tadié's lawyer, Monna Salvia Y Satorra, to the Abbey's lawyer in Paris, Marcelle Kraemer-Bach- -translation from the French by Dom James Fox - see also the "Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle" file] |
| 12 | 1969/04/01 | TALS[x] | to Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle and Pierre Kraemer-Raine | Fr. Flavian Burns has asked me to reply to your kind letter of March 4 in regard to Mme. Marie Tadie | |
| [to the Abbey's lawyers in Paris, Marcelle Kraemer-Bach and Pierre Kraemer-Raine - see also the "Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle" file] |
| 12 | 1969/05/20 | TALS | from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle and Pierre Kraemer-Raine | I beg to inform you that I had an other talk with Madame TADIE, perhaps the last one! | |
| [see also the "Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle" file] |
| 12 | 1969/06/10 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | It was lovely to have your letter, and I am sorry too that we had such a short visit in the Abbey. | |
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| 12 | 1969/06/23 | HLS | from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle | Thank you so much for your very kind letter and the check. Of course the fees you sent us are quite | |
| [see also the "Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle" file] |
| 13 | 1960/01/14 | TL[c] | to Larraona, Arcadio | Reports reached us that you are no longer the Secretary for the Sacred Congregation of Religious. | |
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| 13 | 1960/02/05 (#01) | transcript | from Larraona, Arcadio / to Merton | Received and read with great interest your letter to me and the letter for H.E. the Cardinal Prefect | |
| [see "Larraona, Arcadio" file for original in Italian] |
| 13 | 1960/02/05 (#02) | transcript | from Larraona, Arcadio / to Merton | I received and read with great interest your letter to me and the letter for His Eminence, | |
| [see "Larraona, Arcadio" file for original in Italian] |
| 13 | 1960/04/12 (#01) | HLS | from Philippe, Paul-Pierre | I could not find words to excuse myself about my long delay in answering your kind letter | |
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| 13 | 1960/04/12 (#02) | transcript | from Philippe, Paul-Pierre | I could not find words to excuse myself about my long delay in answering your kind letter | |
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| 13 | 1960/no/no? | TNS | from Larraona, Arcadio | Deeply touched by the kind and thoughtful sentiments which you have expressed in my regard, | |
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| 14 | 1959/11/19 (#01) | other[d] | | Rapport relatif au Pere M. Louis (Thomas Merton) Du Monastere de N.D. de Gethsemani, Etats-Unis | |
| [report on Merton by Dom James Fox - labeled in pen, "Duplicate no accents - not proofread"] |
| 14 | 1959/11/19 (#02) | other[x] | | Report in regard Fr. M. Louis (Thomas MERTON), of O.L. of Gethsemani, U.S.A. (Order of the | |
| [report on Merton by Dom James Fox - marked "copy"] |
| 14 | 1960/10/no (#01) | TL[c] | to Capovilla, Loris Francesco | Je vous envoie sous le même pli l'autre lettre don’t parvenir ces renseignements qui vous aideront | |
| [letters in this section addressed "Dear Monsignor" - given the dates and the references to Pope John XXIII, it is likely Msgr. Loris Francesco Capovilla, secretary to Pope John XXIII] |
| 14 | 1960/10/no (#02) | transcript | to Capovilla, Loris Francesco | I am sending you the other letter which I mentioned in my last letter to you. I thought you should | |
| [same letter as Item one of the same date, but in English] |
| 14 | 1960/10/no (#03) | other | | Rapport relatif au Pere M. Louis (Thomas Merton) Du Monastere de N.D. de Gethsemani, Etats-Unis | |
| [document dated 1959/November/19 and same as other document of the same date, but with accent marks handwritten - sent to Capovilla with letter of October 1960] |
| 15 | 1964/09/24 | TALS[x] | from Merton to Heinrich Dumoulin | Your letter of the 16th was a very agreeable surprise, and I must say I was delighted to get it. | |
| [see original letter in "Dumoulin" file with accompanying petition from Merton to Dom James Fox about traveling to Japan] |
| 15 | 1964/10/17 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | Good Father D. has just written to Father Louis here, a copy of which is enclosed. | |
| [letter titled "RE: Rev. H. Dumoulin, S.J.] |
| 15 | 1964/10/17 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Dumoulin, Heinrich / to Merton | Thank you very much for your kind letter of Sept. 24. I am so glad that you are willing to come | |
| [copy made and forwarded to Abbot General Ignace Gillet by Dom James Fox - see original in "Dumoulin, Heinrich" file] |
| 15 | 1964/10/17 (#03) | TL[x] | from Dumoulin, Heinrich / to Ignace Gillet | For some time I am in correspondence with Father Thomas Merton, whose competent books | |
| [2 copies] |
| 16 | 1955/05/16 (#01) | TL[c] | to Montini, Giovanni | This is the first letter I have ever written to you, Your Excellency, but we have received many | Yes |
| Merton's vocational crisis - interest in Carthusians or Camaldolese - desire for solitary life / Merton's background, conversion history, entry into monastery, life as a writer, Master of Novices / Fr. Barnabas Mary, C.P. and Gabriel Sortais - negative effect of Merton leaving |
| 16 | 1955/05/16 (#02) | TL[d] | to Montini, Giovanni | Thisis [sic] the first letter I have ever written to you, Your Excellency, but we have received many | Yes |
| [see also a copy in Series 1] Merton's vocational crisis - interest in Carthusians or Camaldolese - desire for solitary life / Merton's background, conversion history, entry into monastery, life as a writer, Master of Novices / Fr. Barnabas Mary, C.P. and Gabriel Sortais - negative effect of Merton leaving |
| 16 | 1955/08/20 (#01) | HLS | from Montini, Giovanni | Profittando di un momento di quiete oggi ho scritto a Father Louis: | Yes |
| recommends that Fox give Merton his requested additional time for silence and solitude, and that his writing should be limited and on a fixed schedule - agrees with Fox that Merton is better to stay at Gethsemani |
| 16 | 1955/08/20 (#02) | transcript | from Montini, Giovanni | Taking advantage of a moment's quiet today, I have written to Father Louis. I also think he would | Yes |
| [English translation of letter from Montini to Fox] recommends that Fox give Merton his requested additional time for silence and solitude, and that his writing should be limited and on a fixed schedule - agrees with Fox that Merton is better to stay at Gethsemani |
| 16 | 1955/08/20 (#03) | HLS[x] | from Montini, Giovanni / to Merton | Le scrivo con fauto ritardo, lo so, e su una Sua questione che | Yes |
| [see "Paul VI" file for original] regarding whether Merton should leave Gethsemani and join the Camaldolese / advises against this change for practical reasons - Camaldolese unstable at present, leaving Gethsemani would scandalize readers - Merton should listen to his heart but obey his abbot |
| 16 | 1955/08/20 (#04) | transcript | from Montini, Giovanni / to Merton | I am writing to you with a good deal of delay, I know, and on your one question which would have | Yes |
| [English translation of letter of the same date from Montini to Merton] regarding whether Merton should leave Gethsemani and join the Camaldolese / advises against this change for practical reasons - Camaldolese unstable at present, leaving Gethsemani would scandalize readers - Merton should listen to his heart but obey his abbot |
| 16 | 1955/10/20 | TL[c] | to Montini, Giovanni | We have just returned from Our General Chapter in Europe. Please pardon the delay in answering your | Yes |
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| 17 | 1958/06/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Riccardo Lombardi | It was to me a pleasant surprise and a very great honor to receive your kind letter, and I will not | |
| [see also Merton's carbon of the same letter and other related letters in the "Lombardi, Riccardo" file] |
| 17 | 1958/07/09 | TLS | from Lombardi, Riccardo / to Merton | It would be difficult for you to imagine the joy with which I received your good letter. | |
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| 17 | 1958/07/31 | TL[x] | from Sortais, Gabriel | Le R.P. Lombardi, le Jésuite italien qui a fondé le "Mouvement pour un Monde meilleur", est, comme | |
| Pope Piux XII / monastic rules - Lombardi is not at liberty to write to Merton directly and vice versa / fear of Merton leaving the monastic and contemplative life in favor of Lombardi's movement |
| 17 | 1958/08/04 | TL[c] | to Lombardi, Riccardo | I believe we have corresponded before in regard to your wonderful movement PER UN MONDO MIGLIORE. | |
| [includes an earlier draft of the first page on the back of another sheet and <i>post scriptum</i> dated 1958/August/05] |
| 17 | 1958/08/13 | TLS | from Lombardi, Riccardo | I have received your long letter which has given me food for much reflection. It is understood | |
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| 17 | 1958/10/13 | TL[c] | to Lombardi, Riccardo | This is the first free moment I have had since I returned from Europe to write to you. | |
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| 17 | 1958/11/01 | TLS | from Lombardi, Riccardo | You cannot imagine the effect your letter had on me, and the emotion I got on receiving it. | |
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| 17 | 1958/11/29 | TLS | from Lombardi, Riccardo | It is only a short time since I wrote to ask you in what languages we should send material to Father | |
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| 17 | 1958/12/09 | TLS[x] | to Lombardi, Riccardo | We received your good letter of November 1, which I had fully intended to answer before this. | |
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| 17 | 1958/12/23 | TLS | from Saunders, Clarence A. | We are sending you, in the name of Father Lombardi, a copy of the new Italian book ESERCITAZIONI | |
| [from Br. Clarence A. Saunders, S.M., Secretary for the United States of the Centro Internazionale Pio XII per un Mondo Migliore, on behalf of Fr. Riccardo Lombardi] |
| 17 | 1959/01/12 | TL[c] | to Lombardi, Riccardo | We have not heard from you for some time. We wrote you, dear Reverend Father, on December 9. | |
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| 17 | 1959/01/19 (#01) | TLS | from Lombardi, Riccardo | I have at hand your letter of January 12, and I confess that it rather pained me. | |
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| 17 | 1959/01/19 (#02) | TLS | from Lombardi, Riccardo / to Merton | It is quite a time since we exchanged letters and since your Reverend Father Abbot decided to come | |
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| 17 | 1959/02/09 | TALS[x] | to Lombardi, Riccardo | We received your charming letter of January 19. We had previously received the copy of your new | |
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| 17 | 1959/05/19 | TL[c] | to Lombardi, Riccardo | We have not heard from you for some time-- ever since we wrote and sent you the article CHRISTIANITY | |
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| 17 | 1959/06/08 (#01) | TLS | from Lombardi, Riccardo | Here I am back at Rome after almost three months of absence, during which time I have travelled | |
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| 17 | 1959/06/08 (#02) | transcript | from from Pope John XXIII / to Riccardo Lombardi | Here I am back at Rome after almost three months of absence, during which time I have travelled | |
| [originally dated 1959/June/03, forwarded to Fox] |
| 17 | 1959/07/29 | TLS | from Saunders, Clarence A. | The first installment of Father Louis Merton's article has just appeared in the July issue | |
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| 18 | 1964/11/09 | TLS[x] | to Gillet, Ignace | I received your very gracious letter of October 20. I should have answered it sooner, but I wanted | |
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| 18 | 1964/11/27 | TL[c] | to Gillet, Ignace | We have received a letter from good Dom Laurence which explains the situation in regard | |
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| 18 | undated/no/no | other[c] | to Gillet, Ignace | About the appointment of Fr. Louis Merton as a Master of Choir-Novices [-] In the audience granted | |
| [memorandum by Fox] |
| 18 | undated/no/no | other[c] | to Gillet, Ignace | In regard to this problem of X, the purpose of this letter in an exchange of views with you, dear | |
| [titled "RE: ZEN BUDDHISM QUESTION"] |
| 19 | 1963/06/02 | HLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | It was such a joy to see you and I only wish we had a chance for a bit of a visit, but I know how | |
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| 19 | 1963/06/25 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I should have answered you long before this. It was a wonderfully gracious note you wrote me June 2. | |
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| 19 | 1963/07/25 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | You will by this time have seen from Father Louis the proposed letter that Farrar Straus' lawyers | |
| "Prayer as Worship and Experience" (published as "The Climate of Monastic Prayer" and "Contemplative Prayer") |
| 19 | 1963/07/31 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | We received your gracious letter of July 25. You did not know, perhaps, but it was the Feast of St. | |
| "Prayer as Worship and Experience" (published as "The Climate of Monastic Prayer" and "Contemplative Prayer") |
| 19 | 1963/08/14 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I have two nice letters to thank you for and of course particularly for the copy of the Macmillan | |
| situation resolved with Macmillan publishers |
| 19 | 1963/08/23 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracious letter of August 14. I told Father Louis-- Tom-- that the manuscript had | |
| Macmillan situation / Merton angry about a letter of Robert Giroux that was not delivered or lost before he saw it |
| 19 | 1963/08/27 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | So many thanks for your letter of August 23rd. I shall today or tomorrow be writing to Father Louis | |
| regarding Merton's anger about a letter of Robert Giroux that was not delivered or lost before he saw it |
| 19 | 1963/08/no? | other | | Charles W. Ferguson, a senior editor of <u>The Reader's Digest</u>, a distinguished author, | |
| advertising Doubleday's "Religions of America" series to be launched in 1966 (filed with documents from August of 1963) |
| 19 | 1963/09/09 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I want to thank you and Ned for the beautiful visit we had together recently. I have now a better | |
| Dom James and his meetings in New York - Dom James relaying remarks made by Merton |
| 19 | 1963/09/16 | TLS | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your letter of September 9th and trust that the one I am writing today to Tom will come | |
| Merton's health problems - difficulty of dealing with Merton because of his genius |
| 19 | 1963/09/16 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your letter of September 9th and trust that the one I am writing today to Tom will come | |
| Merton's comments about obedience to superiors but acting like a child |
| 19 | 1964/01/01 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | You are, as usual, much too good to us. Cake, cheese, bacon, calendar and your own card | |
| asking about a woman she knows wanting to join (or rejoin) the Church and if it is ok for her to spend some time at Gethsemani |
| 19 | 1964/01/09 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I am glad I waited to answer your January 1 letter until now. In fact, I had no choice in the matter | |
| response about a woman retreatant at Gethsemani (which would have been an exception at this time) |
| 19 | 1964/01/28 | TLS[x] | from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Merton | Thank you very much for the final text of ART AND WORSHIP, which I am delighted to have and am | |
| <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 |
| 19 | 1964/02/08? | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I am very glad to hear from Fr Louis that you are back with us and not Abbot General. I got quite | |
| asking Merton to remove item mentioned in 1964/01/28 letter from book with Robert Giroux's approval |
| 19 | 1964/02/15 | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracious note of February 8 with the enclosed offering for your dear friends. | |
| negotiations with Marie Tadié / possibility of Burton visiting in April |
| 19 | 1964/03/17 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I have such a good letter for which to thank you. I am glad to say that the news of Pat and Mary | |
| possibility of Burton visiting in April but whether she should come or Robert Giroux |
| 19 | 1964/03/21 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I am writing you in regard to our "friend." You will, no doubt, write to him separately yourself. | |
| travel plans for April meeting |
| 19 | 1964/04/02 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your letter of March 23 and then another of March 26. We understand the situation, so | |
| regarding the cancellation of an April meeting |
| 19 | 1964/10/05 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I'm terribly distressed by the current issue of THE SIGN magazine, and I hope that Father McNally is | |
| Burton's objection to the decision by <u>The Sign</u> magazine to use photographs of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin on the cover and in magazine |
| 19 | 1964/10/12 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your copy of <u>THE SIGN</u> and your gracious letter of October 5. I have also shown it | |
| Fox's reaction to the decision by <u>The Sign</u> magazine to use photographs of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin on the cover and in magazine |
| 19 | 1965/03/10 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | <u>Holiday</u> magazine is going to print Father Louis' "Rain and the Rhinoceros." They have sent | |
| article "Rain and the Rhinoceros" - <u>Holiday</u> and <u>Sign</u> magazines |
| 19 | 1965/03/12 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for your letter of March 10th, received this morning. I am returning the form | |
| contracts and the right to limit the use of Merton's photograph - confusion over ability to use Merton materials to advertise a movie (probably not applicable) |
| 19 | 1965/03/23 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracious letter of March 12, which should have been answered long since. | |
| contract for "Rain and the Rhinoceros" |
| 19 | 1965/10/28 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | It isn't often that I write you in regard to good Father L's books. I am writing this letter just | |
| Fox expresses his ideas of what should be cut out of the manuscript of Merton's <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 19 | 1965/11/04 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I am happy to say that things have cleared up a little bit for me in November and if it is all right | |
| planning a visit to Gethsemani in November - plans to discuss foreign rights and some things that might be cut from <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 19 | 1965/11/13 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Just a quickie for now to say by all means come next week-- November 17th is fine for us here-- with | |
| plans for visit to Gethsemani in November |
| 19 | 1965/11/29 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | It was wonderful to have you here, if only for a little while. Remember, we promised a "not-so-long- | |
| sending back Doubleday contracts for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - notice of change of wording of contracts regarding foreign rights in Spanish, French, and Italian |
| 19 | 1965/11/29 (#02) | other[c] | by Fox, James | TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: In regard to the contracts between the Abbey of Gethsemani, Trappist, | |
| notice of change of wording of contracts regarding foreign rights in Spanish, French, and Italian |
| 19 | 1965/12/07 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thanks ever so much for the contracts which I am sending back to you for signature and initialing. | |
| sending back Doubleday contracts for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 19 | 1965/12/09 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Thanks so much for returning the contracts for CONJECTURES so promptly. We have signed them and are | |
| sending back Doubleday contracts for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 19 | 1965/12/13 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for returning the contracts and we will indeed send one signed copy for you in due | |
| timing for the release of <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - conflict with paperback release by James Laughlin at New Directions |
| 19 | 1965/12/20 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracious note of December 13. I am glad the contracts arrived safely. Your good | |
| timing for the release of <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - conflict with paperback release by James Laughlin at New Directions / Marie Tadié |
| 19 | 1966/01/17 | TLS | from Ellis, Elisabeth / to James Fox | Enclosed please find a check for $5,000 as the amount due per our agreement on CONJECTURES | |
| [from Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis, Secretary to Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday] advance payment for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 19 | 1966/01/20 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Fox, James / to Elizabeth Ellis | I received your gracious note of January 17 with the enclosure. We certainly are grateful for your | |
| [to Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis, Secretary to Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday] on reminding Burton to write a letter on Fox's behalf to Marie Tadié - Fox thinks he, as a man, would not be tactful with Tadié who is a "tiger in the tank" and Burton has the "feminine genius… to pick out the right words with the proper soothing or explosive effect" |
| 19 | 1966/01/20 (#02) | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I seem to have had a terrible mental block about putting down something on paper to say to Marie | |
| sending Burton's draft letter to Marie Tadié (not extant) |
| 19 | 1966/01/24 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I gratefully received your gracious letter of January 20 with its terrific enclosure. I took your | |
| Fox sending his version of the letter Burton drafted with some of his own modifications / retreat being held at the time of writing by Fulton J. Sheen at Gethsemani |
| 19 | 1966/01/27 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you very much for your letter of January 24. I think your letter is a masterpiece and I shall | |
| Burton's conversation with Ed Rice - Rice shocked after recent visit to Merton about his appearance and the conditions he lived in - reminded Rice that Merton chose this lifestyle and that he should not publish impromptu comments by Merton / Fr. Daniel Berrigan not "quite the friend to Father Louis that Father Louis imagines he is." |
| 19 | 1966/02/02 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracious letter of January 27. I am glad our attempt to write to the "Eiffel Tower" | |
| Fox's reaction to commments by Ed Rice about harsh conditions under which Merton lived and Fox passing on some comments that Merton was quite satisfied with the status quo |
| 19 | 1966/02/25 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I hope you're back home by now, but if not, this can just wait for your return. Thanks ever so much | |
| Ed Rice and messages about Merton's health / Cardinal Montini (at the time of writing, Pope Paul VI) quotes Merton's <i>Sign of Jonas</i> in a sermon published in his book, <i>The Priest</i>, published by Helicon Press |
| 19 | 1966/03/15 | HLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Have heard from Fr. Louis that he is having a back operation this week and would so much appreciate | |
| Burton on Merton's image being on the cover of <u>Jubilee</u> - praise for the text of the article / Burton to spend most of her time for Doubleday in Maine |
| 19 | 1966/03/24 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I owe you an acknowledgement for you charming note of February 25th, and now your "card" letter | |
| summary of Merton's back and spinal problems and hospitalization / on photographs and publicity about Merton in <u>Jubilee</u> magazine and the Louisville <u>Courier-Journal</u> / anger at Ed Rice for arranging television publicity - Fox having previously thwarted Italian press with "pontifical mandate" from getting interview |
| 19 | 1966/03/30 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for your good and long letter of March 24th. I am so glad to have the straight dope | |
| serial rights for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - strict control of content led to most magazines refusing, except for <u>Life</u> magazine / script by National Council of Catholic Men for a television show about Merton- Burton objected to many parts including "long stupid passage about some immaterial girl out of the past" |
| 19 | 1966/04/08 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | We received your gracious letter of March 30. In regard to Good Father Louis-- he will be home here | |
| Fox's thoughts on commerical media - serial rights for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - <u>Life</u> magazine article on Merton |
| 19 | 1966/05/24 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | First of all, thanks so much for the beautiful postcard from Mepkin. I was so pleased to have it | |
| advertising for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - photographs used by the Louisville <u>Courier-Journal</u> newspaper / Marie Tadié - asking for written authority to translate all Merton books in France - her handling of French, Spanish and Italian rights |
| 19 | 1966/06/09 | TALS[x] | from Br. Simeon / to Marie Tadié | I know how much you must be expecting a letter from our Reverend Father. I wish I were in a position | |
| [from Br. Simeon, secretary to Dom James Fox to Marie Tadié] |
| 19 | 1966/06/12 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie / to Br. Simeon | Thank you for your kind letter of June the 9th. However, some points must be made clear: I wrote | |
| [from Marie Tadié to Br. Simeon, secretary to Dom James Fox] saddened by the lack of returned communication from Merton and from Dom James Fox / monastic censors asking her for remuneration for their services |
| 19 | 1966/07/01 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Here is your letter of May 24 not answered yet. Would you believe it have been down in South America | |
| regarding how to respond to Marie Tadié and her demand of a written guarantee for some services / Merton's health after his surgery |
| 19 | 1966/07/01 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | POSSIBLE LETTER TO MARIE T [-] I am sorry that we have not written to you sooner. But really to tell | |
| reasons for delayed response / Merton's health / how to proceed with unsigned contracts / on payment of censors (American censors have not received payment other than copies of books) / all New Directions arrangements controlled by the publisher for foreign rights - other foreign rights not controlled by American firms |
| 19 | 1966/07/13 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for your letter of July 1st. I'd heard you were down in South America and that sounds | |
| Burton modifying some text of Fox's draft letter that may anger her / Burton questions whether French censors had really asked for money and if they should ask for money, or if this was a misunderstanding / Burton having delivered commencement address at St. Rose College in Albany, NY |
| 19 | 1966/08/04 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | It's almost a month since your beautiful letter of July 13 came. First and above all to thank you | |
| thanking Burton for editing letter Fox was sending to Marie Tadié - her contracts sent for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> / Sr. Catherine Francis of St. Rose College asking to make retreat / church renovation at Gethsemani / on hermits not being "on public view" / Trappist foundations in Argenina and Chile |
| 19 | 1966/08/16 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thanks so much for your letter of August 4th and I'm glad I was helpful about Marie Tadie. | |
| Marie Tadié / <u>Life</u> magazine article on Merton |
| 19 | 1966/08/20 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracous [sic] letter of August 16. Do you believe in telepathy? Anyway, I just | |
| Gethsemani church renovations / Naomi invited to visit Gethsemani and new foundation in Santiago, Chile / Merton's bursitis / photographs in <u>Life</u> magazine by John Howard Griffin / Marie Tadié's demands to be the sole translator of Merton in France |
| 19 | 1966/09/06 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Here is the new contract for Father Louis' next two books which we have been corresponding about. | |
| two-book contract (excluding French, Spanish, and Italian rights) with Doubleday - John Delaney |
| 19 | 1966/09/12 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Just a short note. We received the two contracts, we are forwarding them signed to Mr. John Delaney | |
| notes on Merton's hermit "or quasi-hermit life" - Fox "relieved that he comes to the monastery for his dinner and for his supper" |
| 19 | 1966/10/26 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | You will please pardon the brevity of this letter. We are enclosing a carbon we have just sent | |
| plan to not deal directly with Marie Tadié and work through publishers like Doubleday / trip to monastic foundation in Santiago, Chile |
| 19 | 1966/11/03 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you for your startling letter of October 26. Not entirely startling as Father Louis had | |
| shocked that Marie Tadié "has now attacked the Abbot General" and agrees with taking steps to resolve problems, but does not think it will be easily settled - French, Italian, and Spanish rights for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 19 | 1966/11/04? (#01) | TN[x] | from Merton | As regards the terms for Marie Tadie: everything is ok except that in n. 9 as it stands, the Abbey | |
| clarifications that Marie Tadié can be an agent, but not translator, for Italian and Spanish works - can translate French titles |
| 19 | 1966/11/04? (#02) | HN[x] | from Merton | In those points for M. Tadie maybe we ought to add: "M. Tadie shall see to it that all books sold by | |
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| 19 | 1966/11/30 (#01) | TL[c] | from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Marie Tadié | Thank you for your letter of November 16. I don't feel I can write to Father Louis, since he does | |
| French, Spanish, and Italian rights for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 19 | 1966/11/30 (#02) | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thanks so much for the photograph of Vina del Mar - I was a bit startled when I first looked at it | |
| writing to counter Marie Tadié's claims of having all foreign rights to Merton's works published by Doubleday |
| 19 | 1966/12/12 (#01) | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Marie is at me again. She has now taken up my delinquencies with the Paris office of Doubleday too! | |
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| 19 | 1966/12/12 (#02) | TL[c] | from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Marie Tadié | I hope by now you have received my letter and the two airmailed copies of CONJECTURES and that | |
| French, Spanish, and Italian rights for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 19 | 1966/12/28 (#01) | TL[c] | from Fox, James / to Naomi Burton Stone | I am writing to you--first with great apologies for not answering your gracious and kind letters | |
| Marie Tadié's ultimatum to the Abbot General for all rights to Merton's books or none - when none was offered, her pleas to retain some rights / Fr. Tesson, S.J. / Tadié asking for rights in Portugal; rights to <i>Redeeming the Time</i> and <i>Faith and Violence</i>; magazine translations / drawing up legal agreement with Tadié |
| 19 | 1966/12/28 (#02) | other | by Fox, James | Terms of Contract - btwn Abb of Geth and M. M.T. 1. This contract to endure for 3 years only - | |
| [handwritten notes for a contract with Marie Tadié] |
| 19 | 1967/01/10 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I thought I would enliven your New Year by starting off with a letter from our devoted friend. | |
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| 19 | 1967/01/13 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | So many things to thankyou for. The beautiful, and beautifully inscribed book of Gethsemani; | |
| response to situation with Marie Tadié and what rights she should have or not have as a translator and foreign agent |
| 19 | 1967/01/17 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | My letter and yours of January 10 will have crossed, but I should acknowledge your letter and say I | |
| setting down fixed limits on a contract with Marie Tadié |
| 19 | 1967/01/26 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracious letter of January 13-- followed by your very kind letter of January 17. | |
| Marie Tadié and the lawyer Malinverni |
| 19 | 1967/01/30 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Father Louis has checked over our temporary "agreement" and he has these suggestions that I am | |
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| 19 | 1967/02/24 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | This request from VOZES in Brazil came to us. I asked Father Louis what to do with it, and he said | |
| forwarding request from Brazilian publisher Vozes to Doubleday |
| 19 | 1967/03/01 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Here we go again!! We had been enjoying a very peaceful "cease-fire", when just yesterday I | |
| Marie Tadié and publishing of books in France, Spain, and Italy |
| 19 | 1967/03/04 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I hope this letter doesn't cross with yours, in your reply to my previous one. I thought I would | |
| Merton's response to the Marie Tadié conflict over rights as agent and translator - state terms of Tadié serving as agent and translatory - if rejected, allow her only as translator of French books |
| 19 | 1967/03/05 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I am glad you wrote me again as I now seem to have mislaid your letter with the copies of letter | |
| Burton nuances Merton's ideas about dealing with Marie Tadié - time limits imposed on conditions, etc. / ideas about legal representation |
| 19 | 1967/03/07 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Thanks so much for your letter of February 24 and the request from Vozes for Portuguese rights. | |
| possible visit to Gethsemani in mid-April |
| 19 | 1967/03/10 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | We received your letter of March 5. We are enclosing a letter of M.T. of February 19 to us. | |
| five year time limit for contract / question about whether Tadié would continue as agent in Spain and Italy / advice about a lawyer |
| 19 | 1967/03/11 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Your letter of March 7 from New York arrived. It was in regard to those Portuguese rights for Vozes. | |
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| 19 | 1967/03/23 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your charming letter of March 17-- I am glad that the copies of the correspondence we | |
| letter to the French lawyer, Pierre Malinverni / visit on April 19 |
| 19 | 1967/04/12 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your charming letter of April 2. I'm so happy that plans have been finalized for your | |
| problem with agreement with Vozes in Brazil / letter from Pierre Malinverni in France - response to letter |
| 19 | 1967/04/14 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Since I wrote you my last letter I was talking to good Father Louis. We agreed that in paragraph 5 | |
| additions and corrections to proposed agreement with Marie Tadié |
| 19 | 1967/04/24 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I dashed off a letter to Malinverni and a revised "edition" of the Agreement. Do you see any | |
| Dan Walsh and his visit - worries that Walsh and others from Louisville [Fr. John Loftus and others] disturbed Burton's visit to the monastery |
| 19 | 1967/04/27 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for yours of April 24th which I received upon my return from New Orleans last night. | |
| will plan to visit people in Louisville before coming to Gethsemani on next visit - Fr. John Loftus and the Merton Room at Bellarmine College |
| 19 | 1967/05/11 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your charming letter of April 27. I certainly appreciate your inscribing me to share | |
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| 19 | 1967/06/01 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Here are photostats of the latest letter from Malinverni. You can readily see from the expressions | |
| Marie Tadié's plans to arrange meeting between Fox, Tadié, and the Abbot General - Fox's worry of being confronted with cordial letters from Fox and Merton in the past and complain that she is now being mistreated - already sent such letter to English Definitor, Dom John Morson |
| 19 | 1967/06/11 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for yours of June 1st and the enclosures. I will apologise at once for my typing but I | |
| dispute over length of agreement and Marie Tadié's original demand of an exclusive contract forever |
| 19 | 1967/07/03 (#01) | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Only now am I answering your letter of June 11. We wrote you June 1 and sent you a photostat | |
| response to Fox of English Definitor, Dom John Morson, regarding Marie Tadié |
| 19 | 1967/07/03 (#02) | TL[d] | to Malinverni, Pierre | We have just returned from our trip to our monastery in Santiago Chile--Latin America. Only now have | |
| draft of letter to Marie Tadié's lawyer in France, Pierre Malinverni |
| 19 | 1967/07/05 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for yours of July 3rd and the enclosures. I think your letter to Pierre is very good | |
| increase in claimed damages by Marie Tadié in short period of time |
| 19 | 1967/08/19 | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | It was wonderful to receive the envelope from you of August 15-Feast of Our Lady's Assumption. | |
| receipt of Doubleday's payment for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - sales of ~20,000 not counting book clubs / draft of the answer to lawyer for Marie Tadié, Pierre Malinverni / letter from Marie Tadié - asking about the book <i>Redeeming the Time</i> |
| 19 | 1967/09/29 | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your note of several weeks ago. At last we have some "signs of life" from M.T. | |
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| 19 | 1967/09/30 | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Father Louis has written his reactions to M. Tadie's letter and her contract. He wants to forward | |
| whether Marie Tadié's demands are within ordinary trade practices |
| 19 | 1967/10/12 | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your letter of October 4--Feast of St. Francis indeed. I am on a trip visiting some | |
| instead of waiting for Marie Tadié to accept all terms, to proceed according to what was send as "modus agendi" - not to send any articles but to continue to send books falling under these stipulations |
| 19 | 1967/11/01 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Fr Louis has suggested that I come down for a visit this month and the time that suits me best would | |
| trip in November to discuss business of the Merton Legacy Trust / Burton's speaking engagement with the novices and postulants of the Sisters of Narareth / Merton's report that Marie Tadié's lawyer now writing and attacking him |
| 19 | 1967/11/06 | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Please pardon delay in answering letter since I had been at the Regional Conference of our Trappist | |
| agenda for visit |
| 19 | 1967/11/21 (#01) | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Here is the draft of a letter to the lawyer in Franch whom Father Louis recommended. Look it over | |
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| 19 | 1967/11/21 (#02) | TAL[d] | to Kramer-Raine, Pierre | We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani-- | |
| [letter draft dated November 20 but sent to Burton with letter dated November 21 - to Pierre Kramer-Raine in Paris] |
| 19 | 1967/11/21 (#03) | other[x] | | Terms of agreement between Abbey of Gethsemani--Trappist Kentucky--U.S.A. And Madame Marie Tadie | |
| [agreement dated April 22, 1967, but sent to Burton with letter dated November 21] |
| 19 | 1967/11/26 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Many thanks for your letter of November 21st ane [sic] enclosures. I am returning the carbon | |
| advice on modifying some of the wording to Pierre Kramer-Raine in Paris (see draft dated 1967/11/21) |
| 19 | 1967/12/11 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Your letter of November 27 should have been answered long ere this. I have incorporated your | |
| abbatial elections in January of 1968 / Fox's new hermitage on "hermit's ridge" / Fox's surgery on polyp in chest |
| 19 | 1967/12/26 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Business before pleasure. Many thanks for sending me the second draft of the letter to M Pierre | |
| Burton's thoughts on Fox's retirement |
| 19 | 1968/01/10 | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I received your gracious letter of December 26. The letter to our Paris lawyer has gone already | |
| Fox on his retirement and move to hermitage and what other monks are saying / Merton's "gripe" in the <u>National Catholic Reporter</u> about Fox and about [a trip to?] Japan / Merton's controversial message to community about not being abbot, "My campaign platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse" / Dan Walsh's reaction to Merton portraying Gethsemani in NCR as a "prison" |
| 19 | 1968/01/30 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | "Time and tide wait for no man." In other words a lot of water "has flown down the stream of time | |
| Fox's thoughts on some of Merton's circular letters [seemingly sent one of "Septuagesima Sunday 1967" that Fox marked with a red pencil] |
| 20 | 1962/10/25 | other | | AGREEMENT made this 25th day of October, 1962, between HERDER AND HERDER, Incorporated of New York | |
| [agreement, later modified, for a book published as <i>Life and Holiness</i> (here under the title, "Grace, Work, and Holiness")] |
| 20 | 1962/11/06 | TALS[x] | to Lawler, Justus | We are writing you in reference to Father Louis' work, <u>GRACE, WORK & HOLINESS</u>. | |
| book published as <i>Life and Holiness</i> (here under the title, "Grace, Work, and Holiness") - proposed modifications of agreement |
| 20 | 1962/11/15 | TALS | from Schworer, Frank / to Justus George Lawler | I am returning Merton's letter of Oct 31 to you, and Father Abbot's letter of November 6 to you. | |
| [from Frank Schworer, President of Herder and Herder, to Justus George Lawler, Editor at Herder and Herder] "Grace and Holiness" (early title for <i>Life and Holiness</i>) |
| 20 | 1962/11/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Justus George Lawler | Evidently the FOR thinks you are a Supreme Court Justice. I think the explanation is that one | |
| [from Merton to Justus George Lawler, an editor from Herder and Herder] |
| 20 | 1962/12/18 | TALS[x] | from Merton to Justus George Lawler | This contract is turning into quite a picnic, I see. Father Abbot has passed the latest version on | |
| [from Merton to Justus George Lawler, an editor from Herder and Herder] contract for <i>Life and Holiness</i> / publishing "Prayer, Worship and Experience" with Macmillan |
| 20 | 1962/12/20 (#01) | TLS[x] | to Schworer, Frank | Good Mr. Justus G. Lawler said that we should contact you in regard to straightening out contracts | |
| [to Frank Schworer, president of Herder and Herder] contract for <i>Life and Holiness</i> |
| 20 | 1962/12/20 (#02) | HNS | from Merton | The President of Herder and Herder is Frank Schworer / 232 Madison Ave. / NY 16 / In Jesu / fm Louis | |
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| 20 | 1962/12/20 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Lawler, Justus / to Merton | Concerning the contract, by all means strike out no. 14, and as for the people in no. 16, they can | |
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| 20 | 1962/12/20 (#04) | TLS[x] | from Lawler, Justus / to Merton | Addition to the Contract between the Abbey of Gethsemani, Inc., and Herder and Herder for | |
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| 20 | 1962/12/20 (#04) | TLS[x] | to Schworer, Frank | Your associate, good Mr. Lawler wrote us in regard to the contract for <u>LIFE AND HOLINESS</u>, | |
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| 20 | 1963/02/25 | TL[c] | to Schworer, Frank | It has been brought to my attention that you have used Father Merton's Preface or Introduction | |
| use without Gethsemani's permission of Merton's introduction to <i>The Prison Meditations of Father Delp, S.J.</i> on an episode the Catholic Hour, or "Directions 1963" as an ABC television script |
| 20 | 1963/03/07 | TLS | from Lawler, Justus | Your letter to our New York office has been sent on to me, and I am writing you immediately | |
| [from Herder and Herder editor-in-chief, Justus George Lawler] use without Gethsemani's permission of Merton's introduction to <i>The Prison Meditations of Father Delp, S.J.</i> on an episode the Catholic Hour, or "Directions 1963" as an ABC television script |
| 20 | 1963/06/11 (#01) | TLS | from Schworer, Frank | You will remember a television feature in the Catholic hour, called "Directions '63", on our book | |
| [from Herder and Herder president, Frank Schworer] asking to again use Merton's introduction to <i>The Prison Meditations of Father Delp, S.J.</i> on an episode the Catholic Hour, or "Directions 1963" as an ABC television script |
| 20 | 1963/06/11 (#02) | other | | ABC-TV PRESENTS <u>DIRECTIONS '63: A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE</u> FEBURARY 10, 1963 SHOW #2 | |
| script adaptation with Merton's introduction of <i>The Prison Meditations of Father Delp, S.J.</i> on an episode the Catholic Hour, or "Directions 1963," Show #2, "In Face of Death," first broadcast February 10, 1963 and to be rebroadcast June 30, 1963 |
| 20 | 1963/06/17 | TALS[x] | to Schworer, Frank | We received your gracious letter of June 11 with the enclosed manuscript, as televised | |
| granting permision to use a script adaptation with Merton's introduction of <i>The Prison Meditations of Father Delp, S.J.</i> on an episode the Catholic Hour, or "Directions 1963," Show #2, "In Face of Death," first broadcast February 10, 1963, and for rebroadcast June 30, 1963 |
| 20 | 1963/10/13 | TLS | from Schworer, Frank | We have pleasure in forwarding the following acknowledgement copies of subsidiary rights editions | |
| sending copies of Image Book edition, Spanish editions in cloth and paper, Japanese edition, and Italian ediiton - German edition already sent, French and Portuguese were forthcoming |
| 20 | 1963/10/19 | TALS[x] | to Schworer, Frank | Thank you for your gracious letter of October 13 in regard to the various translations of LIFE | |
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| 20 | 1965/11/18 | TLS[x] | from Lawler, Justus / to Merton | No need to read the book; you have probably heard it all before, and most of it appeared | |
| thoughts on his book with references to Milton [likely <i>The Christian Image: Studies in Religious Art and Poetry</i>] / respect for James Forest, Philip and Daniel Berrigan, and individual Catholic Workers, but collective criticism of the Catholic Peace Fellowship and their thoughts on Vietnam - articles for <u>Continuum</u> |
| 21 | 1959/04/10 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | First of all, I want to apologize on behalf of this publishing house for the use of the youthful | |
| apologizing for using young photographs of Merton in <i>The Secular Journal</i> - Naomi Burton Stone's help in getting photographs |
| 21 | 1960/10/10 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | As you know Father Louis's new book DISPUTED QUESTIONS was published on September 26th, | |
| asking how to distribute advance payment of $5,000 on book |
| 21 | 1960/10/13 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | We received your letter of October 10 in regard to good Father Louis' new book, DISPUTED QUESTIONS. | |
| perferred distribution of book advance payment / Merton and his delight in having Dan Walsh at Gethsemani teaching classes to young monks |
| 21 | 1960/10/17 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | Thank you for your very good letter of October 13th, which arrived this morning. I am happy | |
| 50% advance on <i>Disputed Questions</i> |
| 21 | 1960/10/20 | TL[c] | to Giroux, Robert | We received your good letter of October 17 with its equally good enclosure. We are very happy | |
| Dan Walsh |
| 21 | 1961/01/26 | TALS | from Giroux, Robert | It is good to hear from you, and I was surprised and pleased to find as enclosures the letter | |
| Dan Walsh and Mrs. Hoguet's death / Dr. Tom Dooley's death, a Navy officer and medical doctor in Laos |
| 21 | 1961/01/30 | TALS[c] | to Giroux, Robert | We received your letter of January 26 in regard to Sister Teresita and Dom Benedict's novel. | |
| [verso of letter contains schedule for 1961 annual monastic retreat with Very Rev. Roger Mercurio, C.P., Rector of Louisville Passionist Monastery] Dan Walsh's lectures to Gethsemani community and to the Jesuits at West Baden, Indiana / end of the annual retreat - many of the monks ill with a dystentery amoeba, including Merton |
| 21 | 1961/02/15 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | The question of signing contracts has come up. Father Louis spoke to me about it. We talked it over, | |
| [verso of letter- spirit duplicator ditto of tasks assigned to novices by monstic name and duty] |
| 21 | 1961/02/17 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | I'm sorry that there has been some misunderstanding on the handling of foreign rights. | |
| foreign rights - Curtis Brown, Ltd.; Burns and Oates in London; Albin Michel in Paris; Laurence Pollinger in London; Marie Tadié in Paris; Robert MacGregor and New Directions publishing / novel by Dom Benedict |
| 21 | 1961/03/02 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | We have your letter here of February 17 as yet unanswered. We looked up our files, and we notice | |
| foreign rights / novel by Dom Benedict |
| 21 | 1961/03/02 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Bettencourt, Yolanda | We have your letter here of February 17 as yet unanswered. We looked up our files, and we notice | |
| [from Yolanda Bettencourt, Editorial Department, Livraria AGIR Editora, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] foreign rights and translation rights regarding <i>Disputed Questions</i> |
| 21 | 1961/03/27 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | We have received a letter, March 2, from Rio de Janeiro, from the publishing house of AGIR. | |
| regarding Livraria AGIR Editora, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - foreign rights and translation rights regarding <i>Disputed Questions</i> / Marie Tadié and French rights |
| 21 | 1961/04/14 (#01) | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | The situation on the foreign rights for the books we have under contract (DISPUTED QUESTIONS, | |
| [see item #2 of this date for a note by Merton on envelope of letter] regarding Livraria AGIR Editora, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - foreign rights and translation rights regarding <i>Disputed Questions</i> / Marie Tadié and French rights - Burns and Oates in England - Garzanti in Italy |
| 21 | 1961/04/14 (#02) | HLS | from Merton | It looks ok.- if you countersign there is no problem is there? Agir did one book of mine, I forget | |
| [note by Merton on envelope of letter (item #1 of the same date)] |
| 21 | 1961/05/01 | TALS[x] | from Merton | We received your letter of April 14. Please pardon the delay in answering it. Yes, we feel that we | |
| regarding Livraria AGIR Editora, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - foreign rights and translation rights regarding <i>Disputed Questions</i> / Marie Tadié and French rights / Dan Walsh |
| 21 | 1961/05/19 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Several months we had written you in regard to the novel of the Carthusian Monk, Don Benedict M. | |
| novel by Carthusian monk, ["The Search for Happiness"], Dom Benedict M. Lambres of Chartreuse de la Valsainte in Switzerland, translated by Sr. Teresita |
| 21 | 1961/09/01 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | First of all, a point of business: under our contract for THE NEW MAN, Father Louis' book which is | |
| advance payment on <i>The New Man</i> - royalties for <i>Disputed Questions</i>, <i>The Living Bread</i>, <i>Thoughts in Solitude</i>, and <i>The Silent Life</i> / novel by Carthusian monk, ["The Search for Happiness"], Dom Benedict M. Lambres of Chartreuse de la Valsainte in Switzerland |
| 21 | 1961/09/06 | TL[c] | to Giroux, Robert | We received your gracious letter of September 1. In your second paragraph, dear Bob, you state there | |
| advance payment on <i>The New Man</i> / novel by Carthusian monk, ["The Search for Happiness"], Dom Benedict M. Lambres of Chartreuse de la Valsainte in Switzerland / Merton on the hermit life, teaching ascetical and mystical theology, and hosting a native of Tibet, Orthodox priest, Methodist and Baptist ministers / Dan Walsh |
| 21 | 1961/09/29 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | In addition to the regular royalty check for DISPUTED QUESTIONS in the amount of $729.31, | |
| advance payment on <i>The New Man</i> and royalty payment for <i>Disputed Questions</i> |
| 21 | 1961/11/20 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | Did I ever acknowledge your gracious letter of September 29? If not, I want to do so now. | |
| advance payment on <i>The New Man</i> and royalty payment for <i>Disputed Questions</i> / thanks for Giroux having sent <i>A Memoir of Mary Ann</i> and Ed Rice's <i>The Church</i> / Dan Walsh |
| 21 | 1963/09/06 | TALS[x] | from Giroux, Robert / to Merton | I always seem to be away when important letters come. This time I was brought low by a bad virus | |
| Macmillan, book rights, and conflict - Naomi Burton Stone |
| 21 | 1964/03/21 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | As you know from Father Louis, we are having difficulties in getting things straightened out | |
| difficulties in working out book and censorship relationship with Dom Ignace Gillet, who had recently become Abbot General of the Trappists / what to include or exclude from the book <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> |
| 21 | 1964/08/24 | TALS[c] | to Giroux, Robert | Congratulations and prayerful felicitations on the wonderful news! We are all delighted, indeed-- | |
| new title <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> - Imprimi Potest and plans to publish in January 1965 / New Directions and <i>Clement of Alexandria</i> - use <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> in a similar fashion as Christmas gifts to friends |
| 21 | 1964/08/28 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | Many, many thanks for your kind and thoughtful letter of congratulations. I am all the more pleased | |
| Flannery O'Connor's death - friend of Giroux - once visited the Trappists at Conyers, Georgia / new title <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> - Imprimi Potest and plans to publish in January 1965 / New Directions and <i>Clement of Alexandria</i> - use <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> in a similar fashion as Christmas gifts to friends |
| 21 | 1964/11/10 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | It was good to have your letter of November fifth. I have just been told that copies of SEEDS OF | |
| Flannery O'Connor's death and Merton's tribute to her in <u>Jubilee</u> - release posthumously of <i>Everything that Rises Must Converge</i> (connection to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin) - visit to Trappists at Conyers, Georgia - Fr. Paul Bourne / <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> release dates |
| 21 | 1965/01/15 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | As you know, our contract stipulates that we pay the advance on the new book by Father Louis, SEEDS | |
| death of T.S. Eliot on January 4 / <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> royalties released "on demand" as copies sell - selected by Catholic Book Club of New York and Catholic Literary Foundation of Milwaukee |
| 21 | 1965/01/19 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | I just received your letter of January 15 with the enclosed check for the advance on the new book by | |
| death of T.S. Eliot on January 4 / <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> release - selected by Catholic Book Club of New York and Catholic Literary Foundation of Milwaukee |
| 21 | 1965/08/18 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | Good Father Louis passed on to me the enclosed letter in regard to the five-book contract signed | |
| five-book contract for Merton's books signed in 1960 - <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> to replace <i>Art and Worship</i> |
| 21 | 1965/08/19 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | I should have enclosed this letter from the Diocese of Tucson <i>Register</i>, in regard to review | |
| <i>Seasons of Celebration</i> as Christmas gift |
| 21 | 1965/10/25 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | I have just sent you a copy of SEASONS OF CELEBRATION, Father Louis's new book, by separate cover. | |
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| 21 | 1965/10/30 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | Many thanks for your gracious note of October 25 with the enclosed copies of the leaflet from | |
| <i>Seasons of Celebration</i> for the Christmas gift copies |
| 21 | 1967/01/27 | TLS | from Giroux, Robert | I told you I would let you know when the imprimatur came in for MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS, | |
| Imprimatur received for <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> |
| 21 | 1967/02/03 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | I received your charming note of January 27. We are so happy to know that the imprimatur has been | |
| Imprimatur for <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> |
| 21 | 1967/04/07 | TALS[x] | to Giroux, Robert | We received your charming copy of Father Louis' new book "Mystics and Zen Masters". | |
| Fox relating that Merton had complained about his photo being used on the dust jacket of <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> - Fox asks that Giroux check with him in the future |
| 22 | 1962/07/19 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | I don't believe I thanked you for returning the contracts for our publication of NEW SEEDS | |
| contracts in the United States and for Spanish language editions in Spain and Argentina for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> - royalty statements |
| 22 | 1962/08/01 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | I am delighted to enclose your copy of the contract with Editorial Sudamericana S.A. for the Latin | |
| Latin American rights, Spanish language edition, for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> - payment advance and difficulties of transferring money from Argentina |
| 22 | 1962/08/03 | TL[c] | from MacGregor, Robert / to A. López Llausás | Thank you for returning the two copies of the contract between you and the Abbey of Gethsemani | |
| [from Robert MacGregor to A. López Llausás, Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina] <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> - Latin American rights, Spanish edition |
| 22 | 1962/08/06 | TALS[x] | to MacGregor, Robert | I guess I am as bad as you are in answering mail, so we can both shake on that. I received | |
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| 22 | 1962/08/15 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | I am delighted to enclose the copy of the contract for the Abbey of Abbey of [sic] Gethsemani | |
| contract for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> in Spain - Editoray Distribuidora Hispano Americana |
| 22 | 1962/09/12 | TALS[x] | to MacGregor, Robert | Please pardon the long delay in writing you in regard to the "new clause" for NEW SEEDS OF | |
| returning new clause with Editorial Sudamericana for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> - had been delayed until contracts arranged for <i>Obras Completas</i> (Collected Works) |
| 22 | 1962/10/22 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | I now have the signed amendment to the contract between the Abbey and Editorial Sudamericana S.A. | |
| Portuguese proposed contract for selected poems / new clause with Editorial Sudamericana for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> / overseas shipping has arrived of <i>Clement of Alexandria</i> |
| 22 | 1963/01/16 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | We have received from Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americano S.A., in Barcelona, a check, | |
| <i>Clement of Alexandria</i> as Christmas gifts |
| 22 | 1963/01/24 | TL[c] | to MacGregor, Robert | I received your gracious letter of January 16 with the enclosed check made out to us, which should | |
| <i>Clement of Alexandria</i> as Christmas gift |
| 22 | 1963/02/19 | TL[c] | from Rissin, Rhoda / to Donald O'Rourke | Thank you for your letter of February 9th addressed to Mr. Laughlin, which he has asked me to answer | |
| [from Rhoda Rissin, Permissions Editor of New Directions, to Donald F. O'Rourke, Editor, <u>The King's Men</u>, Dehon Seminary of the Sacred Heart, Great Barringon, MA] permission to use Merton's poem, "The Biography" from <i>Selected Poems</i> in newspaper |
| 22 | 1963/03/06 | TALS | from MacGregor, Robert | I am enclosing our check for $180 representing 90% of the payment from Editora y Distribuidora | |
| advance payment for edition of <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> in Spain |
| 22 | 1963/03/15 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | Our agent in Italy made these contracts out to New Directions, and since there has been a delay | |
| Italian rights for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 22 | 1963/03/18 | TALS[x] | to MacGregor, Robert | We received your gracious letter of March 15 with the contracts for the Italian rights of NEW SEEDS. | |
| Italian rights for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 22 | 1963/04/03 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | I am enclosing in four copies the contract for the German language rights in NEW SEEDS OF | |
| German rights for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 22 | 1963/04/08 | TL[c] | to MacGregor, Robert | Thank you for your gracious note of April 3 with the enclosed contract for the German language | |
| German rights for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 22 | 1963/08/26 | TLS[x] | to MacGregor, Robert | You have not heard from us for quite some time. However, we have not forgotten your wonderful | |
| <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i> as Gethsemani Christmas gifts |
| 22 | 1963/09/10 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | Please excuse my delay in answer [sic] your August 26th letter asking about the possibility | |
| <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i> as Gethsemani Christmas gifts |
| 22 | 1963/11/18 (#01) | TLS | from Wemhoff, Ivan / to Merton | The Editora Vozes Limitada has always quickly responded to any work that comes out in your name. | |
| [from Fr. Ivan Wemhoff, OFM, Editora Vozes Limitada, to Merton] Brazilian publisher asking publish a Portuguese translation of <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> |
| 22 | 1963/11/18 (#02) | HNS | from Merton | This is OK as fas as I am concerned - told him to write Rome for censorship. In Jesu [-] f m Louis | |
| Brazilian edition of <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> |
| 22 | 1964/06/25 | TLS | from Laughlin, James | I thought you might like to know that Bob MacGregor and I are planning to take out incorporation | |
| [contains a handwritten note to James Fox from Robert MacGregor approving the action by James Laughlin stated in the letter] explaining that New Directions is becoming a corporation instead of an individual proprietorship |
| 22 | 1964/07/28 | TALS | from MacGregor, Robert | I am delighted to report that our agent in Italy, Erich Linder, has negotiated a contract with | |
| Italian edition of <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i> - Garzanti |
| 22 | 1964/08/13 | TALS | from MacGregor, Robert | Thank you very much for returning the four copies of the proposed contracts for the Italian rights | |
| <i>Gandhi on Non-Violence</i> book not ready by Christmas, but by spring / asking if Fox would like to either remainder the extra 1,900 copies of <i>Tears of the Blind Lions</i> or send unbound editions to Gethsemani for monks to hand bind and sell [Fox notes in the margins, "Sorry, no."] |
| 22 | 1964/08/20 | TALS | from MacGregor, Robert | I have been meaning to write you about this for some time, but somehow the pressures | |
| proposed change in payment of royalties to pay once instead of twice per year to simplify accounting |
| 22 | 1964/08/27 | TALS[x] | to MacGregor, Robert | Thank you for your good letter of August 20 with enclosures, which we read over carefully | |
| agreement with change in payment of royalties to pay once instead of twice per year to simplify accounting / <i>Way of Chuang Tzu</i> - 100 copies as Christmas gifts |
| 22 | 1965/09/10 | TL[c] | from MacGregor, Robert / to Robert Gales | I have a letter from the Abbot of the Abbey of Gethsemani asking if again this year we can make | |
| [to Robert Gales, Sales Manager, J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia] <i>Way of Chuang Tzu</i> - 100 copies as Christmas gifts |
| 22 | 1965/11/03 | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert | It seems that we have not actually signed a contract with you for THE WAY OF CHUANG TZU by Thomas | |
| contract for <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> |
| 22 | 1965/11/16 | TALS[x] | to MacGregor, Robert | Please pardon the delay in answering your gracious letter of November 3 with the three copies of | |
| amendment to contract for <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> - strike language about media distribution rights - Gethsemani does not grant radio or TV rights to any publishers for monastic books |
| 22 | 1965/11/17 | TALS | to MacGregor, Robert | Of course we are not upset about having the dramatic, music, television and so-on rights to the WAY | |
| 100 Christmas copies of <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> - amendment to contract for <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> - strike language about media distribution rights - Gethsemani does not grant radio or TV rights to any publishers for monastic books |
| 22 | 1965/11/24 | TALS[x] | from MacGregor, Robert | Thanks for your of the 17th with the revised contracts for CHUANG TZU, which we have taken care | |
| 100 Christmas copies of <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> |
| 22 | 1965/12/03 | TLS | to MacGregor, Robert | I am really very embarrassed about what has gone on at Lippincott in regard to your order of 100 | |
| 100 Christmas copies of <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> / contract for <i>Raids on the Unspeakable</i> to be drawn similarly to <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i>, i.e., with no radio or television distribution rights |
| 22 | 1965/12/09 | TALS[x] | from MacGregor, Robert | Thank you for you good letter of the 3rd with the explanation in regard to THE WAY OF CHUANG TZU, | |
| contract for <i>Raids on the Unspeakable</i> |
| 22 | 1966/02/16 (#01) | TNS | from Lorch, Else B. | This is an amended version of a contract for a recording of Father Merton's poems, which we sent you | |
| [from Else Lorch, Permissions Editor, New Directions] LP record sound recording, <i>The Poems of Thomas Merton</i> "Spirit LP 1004" / attached to amended contract |
| 22 | 1966/02/16 (#02) | other | | John F. McKinney [-] Catholic Poetry Society of America [-] 232 Madison Avenue [-] New York, N.Y. | |
| amended contract for LP record sound recording, <i>The Poems of Thomas Merton</i> "Spirit LP 1004" |
| 22 | 1967/03/02 (#01) | TLS | from MacGregor, Robert / to Merton | Enclosed is a copy for your files of the contract with Editorz Vozes Limitada for "The Way of Chuang | |
| contract for Portuguese edition in Latin America of <i>Way of Chuang Tzu</i> by Editora Vozes in Brazil |
| 22 | 1967/03/02 (#02) | TL[c] | from Armstrong, Bonnie / to Miguel Gomes M. de Castro | Thank you for your letter of February 20, returning the contract for "The Way of Chuang Tzu" | |
| contracts for Portuguese edition in Latin America of <i>Way of Chuang Tzu</i> and <i>Gandhi on Non-Violence</i> by Editora Vozes in Brazil |
| 22 | 1967/03/06? | TNS | from MacGregor, Robert / to Merton | Dear Tom - There is logic in what she says but I move not without instructions. Bob Mac G. | |
| [MacGregor's note to Merton is typed onto a copy of a letter from Tadié of 1967/03/03 (also appears under that date in Series 8 of this file, "The Correspondence between James Fox and Marie Tadié"] |
| 22 | 1967/03/13 | TALS[x] | to MacGregor, Robert | Father Louis turned over your letter to him of March 2-- to me, to reply to you. We appreciate | |
| agreeing to idea by Marie Tadié of combining some of <i>Raids on the Unspeakable</i> with <i>The Behavior of Titans</i> for release in France |
| 22 | 1967/03/29 | TL[c] | to MacGregor, Robert | Please pardon delay in not answering sooner your charming letter of March 20. We appreciate the fact | |
| response to Marie Tadié - Merton may have a moratorium on publishing in France until publishing affairs are settled there |
| 23 | 1963/10/09 | TALS | from Yoshida, Thomas Y. | We are most grateful for your kind letter, giving us permission to quote from <i>Seeds</i> | |
| [from Thomas Y. Yoshida] Japanese translations of Merton's books - <i>Seeds of Contemplation haj</i> and <i>No Man Is an Island</i> |
| 23 | 1963/11/08 | TLS | from Radfield, J. E. | We are most grateful for your kind letter, giving us permission to quote from <i>Seeds</i> | |
| [from J.E. Radfield, Chief Editorial Assistant, The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (S.P.C.K.) Publishing] ackowledging permission granted for Canon Waddams to quote from <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> and <i>Thoughts in Solitude</i> in a forthcoming book |
| 24 | 1949/02/14? (#01) | TLS | from Brendan, Br., O.C.S.O. | I did give that letter to our fr. Prior, for returning to Duluth as requested. This is a copy. | |
| [letter from a Br. or Fr. Brendan of Gethsemani Abbey to Dom James Fox - attached to letter from Fr. Maurice O'Connor] Cecil B. DeMille and making a movie out of <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i> |
| 24 | 1949/02/14? (#02) | TL[c] | from DeMille, Cecil B. / to Maurice O'Connor | Thank you for your letter of January 26th which I have delayed answering only because I wanted | |
| [copy of a letter from filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille to Fr. Maurice O'Connor, Church of Saint Margaret Mary, Duluth, MN] Cecil B. de Mille and making a movie out of <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i> |
| 24 | 1950/11/29 (#01) | TAL[d] | to Friend | This winter, in zero weather, with snow on the ground, twenty (?) Trappist novices of Our Lady of | |
| [draft of a Gethsemani fundraising letter mentioning over-crowded conditions at the monastery (158 novices and 107 professed monks in a monastery built for 80), leaving 30 monks in tents outdoors in winter, and news of new foundations] |
| 24 | 1950/11/29 (#02) | TL | to Friend | This winter, in zero weather, with snow on the ground, thirty Trappist novices of Our Lady of | |
| [draft of a Gethsemani fundraising letter mentioning over-crowded conditions at the monastery (158 novices and 107 professed monks in a monastery built for 80), leaving 30 monks in tents outdoors in winter, and news of new foundations] |
| 24 | 1951/12/28 | TL[c] | from Fay, William / to Robert Giroux | I'm very happy to report that Father Merton's "Ascent to Truth," having been judged the most | |
| regarding Merton's receipt of "Golden Book Award" for 1951 by the Catholic Writers Guild of America for <i>The Ascent to Truth</i> |
| 24 | 1952/10/15 | other | | It was nother of those days, fall-blue the sky, billowy clouds hurrying across the heavens, a smoky | |
| [radio script for Al Sisson's "Main Street" broadcast October 15, 1952, 7:30 a.m., on WHAM (Rochester, NY) - features a trip to the Trappist Abbey of the Genesee, but contains many references to Merton and his books] |
| 24 | 1953/01/30 (#01) | TNS | from O'Brien, John A. | I thought you would be interested in seeing the enclosed book review prepared at the request | |
| [from Fr. John A. O'Brien, faculty of the University of Notre Dame] |
| 24 | 1953/01/30? (#02) | other[c] | by O'Brien, John A. | A new book by Thomas Merton is not much of a novelty these days for the author of <i>The Seven</i> | |
| [book review of <i>The Sign of Jonas</i> by Fr. John A. O'Brien, faculty of the University of Notre Dame] |
| 24 | 1953/02/05 | TL[c] | to O'Brien, John A. | We were very grateful to receive your note of January 30th with the enclosed copy of your review | |
| regarding the book review of <i>The Sign of Jonas</i> by Fr. John A. O'Brien, faculty of the University of Notre Dame |
| 24 | 1953/10/26 | TLS | from Work, Martin H. | His Excellency Archbishop Cushing has advised us of your response to his letter concerning | |
| [from Martin H. Work, Executive Secretary of the National Council of Catholic Men in Washington, D.C.] regret on his behalf and on behalf of Archbishop Cushing that it would not be possible to arrange Merton to be taped for "The Catholic Hour" radio show for the Lenten season of 1954 |
| 24 | 1955/09/01 | TLS | from Robinson, Maurice | It's been a long time since we last met and you may have difficulty remembering me. But I visited | |
| [from Maurice Robinson, an assistant producer of the "Today" show on NBC television] idea of featuring Thomas Merton and Gethsemani Abbey on an episode of the "Today" show / Robinson's discussions with Ed Rice of <u>Jubilee</u> magazine |
| 24 | 1955/09/05 | TLS | from Rice, Edward | AS you may already have heard, "Today," one of the CBS [sic] television news programs, would like | |
| idea of featuring Thomas Merton's "Tower of Babel" on an episode of the "Today" show - show's producer a friend of Ed Rice, Gerald Green and his assistant, Maurice Robinson |
| 24 | 1955/09/12 (#01) | TL[c] | to Robinson, Maurice | Thank you for your very kind and generous letter of September 1, with regard to the publicity | |
| [from Maurice Robinson, an assistant producer of the "Today" show on NBC television] declining invitation to have Merton and Gethsemani Abbey on an episode of the "Today" show |
| 24 | 1955/09/12 (#02) | TL[c] | to Rice, Edward | We were very grateful to receive your letter of September 5, in regard to the proposition of good | |
| declining invitation to have Merton and Gethsemani Abbey on an episode of the "Today" show |
| 24 | 1955/12/23 | TLS | from Faley, Roland J. / to Merton | In 1948 the Catholic University Conference of Clerics and Religious conceived the idea of promoting | |
| [from (Rev.) Brother Roland J. Faley, T.O.R., of the Catholic University Conference of Clerics and Religious] asking Merton for an article on the contemplative life |
| 24 | 1956/01/10 | TL[c] | to Faley, Roland J. | We did receive your letter of December 23, addressed to good Father Louis. It certainly would be | |
| declining offer of an article by Merton on the contemplative life for vocations directory - Merton acting as director of novices and not writing |
| 24 | 1956/01/13 | TLS | from Faley, Roland J. | Your kind letter of January 10 has been received, and we are more than appreciative of your kind | |
| asking if Dom James or Fr. Raymond Flanagan would like to contribute an article |
| 24 | 1956/02/02 | HLS | from Faley, Roland J. | In reply to your note of January 30, please fee free to take the month of February and even some | |
| giving more time for the contribution of the artilce on the contemplative life at Gethsemani |
| 24 | 1956/03/01 | TL[c] | to Faley, Roland J. | We are enclosing the article you requested on the contemplative life. I hope our delay has not | |
| submitting artilce on the contemplative life at Gethsemani |
| 24 | 1966/08/16 | TLS | from Blair, Frank / to Merton | Permit me to congratulate you on your excellent new book, Thomas Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty | |
| invitation to interview Merton for NBC's "Today" show |
| 24 | 1966/08/27 | TL[c] | to Blair, Frank | Your gracious letter of August 16 to good Father Louis was turned over to me for reply. As you can | |
| declining invitation to interview Merton for NBC's "Today" show |
| 25 | undated/no/no | | | N/A | |
| [There is a "Curtis Brown" file added February 2014 to the correspondence collection from files from Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 26 | 1956/08/13 | TAL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | Please pardon my delay in not writing sooner to express all that you meant for us Trappists at least | |
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| 26 | 1956/08/24 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | Circumstances entirely beyond my control prevented me from answering your very sweet letter sooner. | |
| Naomi Burton Stone - telling her of psychoanalytic discussions with Zilboorg / idea of Merton taking classes in New York |
| 26 | 1956/09/03 | TL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | We received your very kind and eagerly awaited letter of August 24. We know how busy you are, | |
| [verso: letter from Cecil B. deMille to Fox] Naomi Burton Stone / idea of Merton taking classes in New York (at either Fordham University or Columbia University) to study pre-Cassian monasticism at Columbia University library - difficulty of anonymity / idea of analysis by Zilboorg while in New York / Hilda Graef review / Rorschach tests on novices by Merton halted / Merton offered New York accommodations by Fathers of the Blessed Sacrament |
| 26 | 1956/09/10 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | Your letter is more deeply appreciated than you will ever know. Your directness, frankness, | |
| Merton as a "revengeful person" / warns that Merton's practice of journaling was a "serious impediment to the [psychoanalytic] treatment which is being contemplated" - need for Merton to stop writing in order to get better |
| 26 | 1956/09/14 | TL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | We received your charming letter of September 10. I certainly appreciate all the time and thought | |
| possibilities of Merton coming to New York to stay at a monastery where farm work could be done but close enough to the city for Zilboorg to treat him / Merton's current duties as Master of Novices |
| 26 | 1956/11/07 | TAL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | We saw your article in JUBILEE. It certainly was very fine. Father Eudes writes us occasionally, | |
| Merton's reaction to be limited in writing and receiving letters / dates for a possible visit by Zilboorg |
| 26 | 1956/11/12 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | Your letter arrived last Friday while I was away attending a psychiatric meeting. I just came back | |
| details for Zilboorg's trip to Gethsemani from December 27th through December 30th, 1956 |
| 26 | 1956/11/20 | TL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | We received your charming letter of November 12. How delighted we are that you can arrange to spend | |
| Fox plans not to tell Merton of Zilboorg's trip to Gethsemani so Merton will not "start cogitating and planning and getting all kinds of schemes in his head" |
| 26 | 1956/11/21 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | What a perfectly lovely surprise. All those beautiful prints of the photograph of St. Therese. | |
| passing on a message of praise for Merton by Fr. Thibodeau - asking if Fox would pass the message to Merton - recent letter to her from Merton found him "a little bit discouraged" |
| 26 | 1956/11/26 | TL | to Stone, Naomi Burton | We received your two letters, the enquiry of the 15th concerning censor names on the poems, | |
| will not pass along the letter with a message from Fr. Thibodeau sent by Naomi Burton Stone to Merton - Fox does not want to encourage Merton in his writing but wants him to first focus on monastic life |
| 26 | 1956/11/28 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | A silly problem arose. My secretary and I nearly quarreled. I seem to believe that I did write you | |
| agreement with Fox not to warn Merton of Zilboorg's visit |
| 26 | 1956/12/18 | TL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | We received your charming note of November 28, and also of December 3. I have been out to visit | |
| Merton asking if Zilboorg plans to come and Fox stalling answer |
| 26 | 1956/12/19 | TAL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | I forgot to mention in our letter of yesterday, although I think I mentioned it in the one way | |
| asking if Zilboorg would speak to the community at three morning gatherings Friday through Sunday of his visit to Gethsemani |
| 26 | 1957/01/03 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | It took us twenty-two minutes from Louisville to Cincinnati and after the regular wait, it took just | |
| became more acquainted with the "purely human" side of Merton and came to like him better - remaining convinced that Merton should not have psychoanalysis but possibly infrequent guidance by Zilboorg via correspondence |
| 26 | 1957/01/07 | TAL[c] | from Zilboorg, Gregory / to Charleen M. Schwartz | I cannot tell you how grateful I am to you for having written me and for having enclosed Father | |
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| 26 | 1957/01/14 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | By this time you will have heard from Leo Bartemeier about Father Gilbert. I had dinner with him | |
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| 26 | 1957/01/18 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | I am very sorry indeed that the psychotherapist in question seems to be so very refractory | |
| a psychotherapist sent book [possibly Charleen Schwartz's <i>Neurotic Anxiety</i>] and its relation to Thomistic philosophy |
| 26 | 1957/01/28 | TL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | It is about time I would show signs of life. I am so happy that you enjoyed your all too brief stay | |
| Dr. Leo Bartemeier of the Seton Institute in Baltimore, Maryland / Fr. John Eudes Bamberger, at the time studying at Georgetown University |
| 26 | 1957/02/26 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | How are you? How is your community? I had a telephone call from Leo Bartemeier last night | |
| Zilboorg advising Thomas Merton to drink milk |
| 26 | 1957/03/13 | TL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | It is about time I would show signs of life. I am so happy that you enjoyed your all too brief stay | |
| Dr. Leo Bartemeier of the Seton Institute in Baltimore, Maryland / Fr. John Eudes Bamberger / Dr. Charleen Schwartz / Workshop at Collegeville, Minnesota (priests and religious and psychotherapy) |
| 26 | 1957/03/25 | TLS | from Zilboorg, Gregory | Yes, I did receive the cheeses and the ham, and I did live in sort of a fog which made me not forget | |
| received letter from Merton - "he is beginning to see some of his former misconceptions" - would like to continue correspondence with Merton |
| 26 | 1957/06/11 | TL[c] | to Zilboorg, Gregory | My, how the time has flown. Here I see your last unanswered letter of March 25-- I hope I am | |
| Merton doing well in abstaining from writing and less mail - "He is not the hermit he would like to think that he would like to be." |
| 27 | 1959/08/01 | TAL[c] | to Niedhammer, Matthew | Some time ago, in June, a member of our Community wrote to you about some project of a mission | |
| [see also similar letter, August 11, filed in Series 28 to Bishop James P. Davis] long description of Merton's character and life as a monk - Fox discourages Bishop Niedhammer from allowing Merton to come to Nicaragua to visit Corn Island - Merton's possible desire to found a community or becoming a hermit there / Zilboorg's view |
| 27 | 1959/08/15 | TLS | from Niedhammer, Matthew | Your kind letter came to me just as I am about to leave for San Salvator. I had been expecting it. | |
| will not accept a visit from Merton without Fox's approval / Corn Island would be an ideal place for someone Fox thought should live as a hermit / Niedhammer reads and enjoys Merton's books |
| 27 | 1959/09/03 | TL[c] | to Niedhammer, Matthew | We received your very charming letter of August 15, Your Excellency. We appreciate the beautiful | |
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| 28 | 1959/08/11 | TL[c] | to Davis, James Peter | Some time ago, in June, a member of our Community wrote to you about some project of a mission | |
| [see also similar letter, August 1, filed in Series 27 to Bishop Niedhammer] long description of Merton's character and life as a monk - Fox discourages Bishop David from allowing Merton to come to Puerto Rico - Merton's possible desire to found a community or becoming a hermit there / Zilboorg's view |
| 28 | 1959/08/28 | TLS | from Davis, James Peter | Thank you very much for your recent letter which has served to answer many questions which came | |
| Bishop Davis knows Gregory Zilboorg and fears he encouraged Merton too much in thinking of coming to Puerto Rico |
| 28 | 1959/09/03 | TL[c] | to Davis, James Peter | We received your charming letter of August 28. It was a great relief to know the real point of view | |
| Gregory Zilboorg's diagnosis of terminal cancer |
| 29 | undated/no/no | | Merton | 70 items - see separate webpage | |
| <a href="https://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=5063">https://merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=5063</a> |
| 30 | 1956/05/24 | TL[x] | from Dworschak, Baldwin, Dom, O.S.B. | Your letter of the 22nd reached me this morning, and I am happy to know that the altar cards reached | |
| [see also the "Portz, Alexius" file] inviting Dom James Fox and Merton in particular to the pastoral psychology programs to be held in the summer of 1956 - Fox is also encourated to bring other monks "whose duty it is to judge vocations" |
| 30 | 1956/05/26 | TL[x] | to Dworschak, Baldwin, Dom, O.S.B. | We received your very kind letter of May 24. I certainly appreciate your gracious invitation to be | |
| [see also the "Portz, Alexius" file] plans for three Gethsemani Abbey monks to attend the second week of the summer pastoral psychology seminar: Dom James, Merton, and Fr. John Eudes Bamberger - asking for Abbot Baldwin to keep quiet about the attendance of Merton |
| 30 | 1956/06/04 | TL[x] | from Dworschak, Baldwin, Dom, O.S.B. | I was happy to receive your letter of the 24th of May, and to know that it will be possible for you | |
| [see also the "Portz, Alexius" file] |
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