| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1 | 1953/01/15 | transcript | from Merton | This is just a note to thank you for the article you wrote about me in the <i>Atlantic</i>. | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1 | 1953/02/05 | HLS[x] | from Graham, Aelred / to Robert Giroux | Many thanks for "The Sign of Jonas" which I am reading through with interest. It seems to confirm | |
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| 1 | 1953/02/14 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Having just finished reading your "SIGN OF JONAS" (in my view by far the most attractive of all your | |
| [see Section 2 for original] |
| 1 | 1953/03/03 | TLS[x] | to Fox, James | A letter from a mutual friend of ours -- William J. McCormack, Jr., an alumnus of Portsmouth Priory | |
| [see Series 2 for orignal letter] |
| 1 | 1963/04/17 | HLS | to Merton | Your very kind and heartening message has just reached me. Only the other day I was reading | |
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| 1 | 1963/04/24 | TALS[x] | from Merton | As a matter of fact I went ahead and wrote a review. I liked the book so much and found so much | Yes |
| [transferred from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files, Accession 2] |
| 1 | 1963/04/26 | TLS | to Merton | What a magnanimous person you are! Thank you indeed for your letter, with its stream of intuitions, | |
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| 1 | 1963/08/24 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your kind letter of August 21. Seeing that he is so warmly commended by you I shall | |
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| 1 | 1963/09/10 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your very good letter. I do not know whether Fr John of the Cross will get there, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/10/03 | TLS | to Merton | As I have just written to Father Thurston N. Davis, S.J. of AMERICA, from time to time we bring out | |
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| 1 | 1963/11/15 | TALS | to Merton | Your kind letter of November 1st with its enclosures has only just now arrived. I am sorry indeed | |
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| 1 | 1963/11/19 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Father Abbot showed me your recent letter concerning Father John of the Cross, and asked if I would | |
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| 1 | 1963/12/02 | TLS | to Merton | I have written today at some length to your Father Abbot, Dom James, about Father John of the Cross | |
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| 1 | 1963/12/04 | TL[c] | from Merton | It is already a long time since your letter of November 15, which took a little time to reach me. | |
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| 1 | 1963/12/07 | TALS | to Merton | I have your kind letter of December 4 which seems to have crossed with my recent one to you. | |
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| 1 | 1963/12/16 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Just a brief answer to your letter, and to assure you that I quite understand the situation | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/03/10 | HLS | to Merton | What a memorable - and how happy an - experience it was meeting and talking with you. | |
| [stationery from Saint Louis Priory in Missouri] |
| 1 | 1964/05/14 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I still have here your note from St Louis, and I had been meaning to answer and say that certainly | |
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| 1 | 1964/05/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | It was very good to have your most welcome letter of May 14th. Thank you indeed for it | |
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| 1 | 1964/05/20 (#02) | other | | A new crusade in the offing? [-] By Dom Aelred Graham [-] By his recent pilgrimage to the Holy Land | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/12 | TALS | to Merton | It is much too long since we were last in touch with one another. But now here I am, in quasi | |
| [letter care of Elsie Mitchell-- Graham was spending the summer at the house of Elsie and John Mitchell of Cataumet, Massachusetts (see the "Mitchell, Elsie" file in the correspondence)] |
| 1 | 1968/07/15 | TL[c] | from Merton | Your fine letter was a pleasant surprise-- and just what I needed. the lines you sketch out are | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/no | TALS | to Merton | I hope I "intuit" correctly in thinking that you may prefer this mode of address. By all means | |
| [letter care of Elsie Mitchell-- Graham was spending the summer at the house of Elsie and John Mitchell of Cataumet, Massachusetts (see the "Mitchell, Elsie" file in the correspondence)] |
| 1 | 1968/08/03 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yes, personally I prefer first names. It is so much simpler. And I do value very highly your | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/08/03 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Yes, personally I prefer first names. It is so much simpler. And I do value very highly your | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/08/05 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for yours of the 3rd. Mails seem to be agreeably speedy at the moment! Elsie and I | |
| [seemingly misdated as 1967/August/05 - written care of Elsie Mitchell-- Graham was spending the summer at the house of Elsie and John Mitchell of Cataumet, Massachusetts (see the "Mitchell, Elsie" file in the correspondence)] |
| 1 | 1968/08/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | My plans are now shaping up, and it does seem more likely that I can stretch things out so as to get | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many, many thanks for your letter of the 19th and the enclosures. I wrote immediately to Harold | |
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| 1 | 1968/10/15 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Today I fly to Asia - tomorrow I hope to be conversing with Bikkhu Khantipulo at Wat Bovoranives.... | |
| [on stationery of the Clift Hotel in San Francisco] |
| 1 | 1983/11/20 | TLS | from Fletcher, Wulstan | Please forgive me for taking so long in attending to and forwarding the photocopies of Merton's | |
| [from Wulstan Fletcher, O.S.B. of Ampleforth Abbey in England to Fr. William H. Shannon] |
| 2 | 1953/02/07 | transcript | from Van Zeller, Hubert / to Merton | Hesitating about bothering you with an opinion which can obviously make no great difference, | |
| [from Dom Hubert Van Zeller, O.S.B. (Downside Abbey, near Bath, England) to Merton] |
| 2 | 1953/02/14 (#01) | transcript | to Merton | Having just finished reading your "SIGN OF JONAS" (in my view by far the most attractive of all your | |
| [transcript typescript by Dom James and 3 carbon copies] |
| 2 | 1953/02/16 | transcript | from Ahern, Barnabas / to Merton | Before Ash Wednesday descends upon us I want to thank you for your last letter. I read that | |
| [transcript typescript and one carbon copy (two carbons transferred to "Ahern, Barnabas" file] |
| 2 | 1953/02/20 | transcript | from Ahern, Barnabas / to James Fox | I am writing directly to you, for I feared a letter to Father M. Louis might not reach him during | |
| [transcript typescript and two carbon copies (one carbon transferred to "Ahern, Barnabas" file] |
| 2 | 1953/03/03 | TLS | to Fox, James | A letter from a mutual friend of ours -- William J. McCormack, Jr., an alumnus of Portsmouth Priory | |
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| 2 | 1953/03/03 | TL[c] | from Fox, James / to Aelred Graham | We received your charming letter of February 14. I am answering for good Father Louis. | |
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| 2 | 1964/03/10 | transcript | to Merton | What a memorable - and how happy an - experience it was meeting and talking with you. | |
| [series Series 1 for original handwritten letter] |
| 3 | 1953/01/no | other | | THOMAS MERTON [-] A Modern Man in Reverse by AELRED GRAHAM [-] 1 [-] It is high time that somebody | |
| [two copies of articles from the "Books and Men" section of <u>Atlantic</u>, January 1953 (Vol. 191, #1), pp. 70-74] |
| 3 | 1953/02/02 | other | | Benedictine v. Trappist [-] Ever since the publication four years ago of his bestselling | |
| [a copy of an article from the "Religion" section of <u>Time</u> magazine, February 2, 1953] |
| 3 | 1953/02/09 | other | | Merton's Newest [-] Thomas Merton's "The Sign of Jonas"* is easily his best and most readable book | |
| [a copy of an article from the "Religion" section of <u>Newsweek</u> magazine, February 9, 1953] |
| 3 | 1953/03/09 | other | | The World & Thomas Merton [-] Sir: In your Feb. 2 article "Benedictine v. Trappist" I was very | |
| [a copy of an article from the "Letters to the Editor" section of <u>Time</u> magazine, March 9, 1953, p.8-9] |
| 3 | 1953/03/no (#01) | other | | In the <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>, a local literary sheet not usually given to the publicizing | |
| [a copy of an article from the "Pointers" section of <u>The Point</u> magazine (Cambridge, MA), March 1953, p. 2] |
| 3 | 1953/03/no (#02) | other | | In Defense of Thomas Merton [-] Sir: When Thomas Merton's <i>Seven Storey Mountain</i> was first | |
| [a copy of an article from the "Repartee, Letters to the Editor" section of <u>Atlantic</u> magazine, March 1953, p. 20] |
| 3 | 1953/04/no (#01) | other | | William Davey: Dom Aelred Graham's distressing article "Thomas Merton, A Modern Man in Reverse" | |
| [a copy of an article "Thomas Merton and Dom Aelred Graham" and one copy of the full journal <u>Integrity</u> (New York), April 1953, p. 34-42] |
| 3 | 1953/04/no (#02) | other | | Dear Oblates, Those of you who read this column regularly (there must be very few left by this time! | |
| [a copy the article "Brother Samson on: The Merton-Graham Controversy" from a full issue <u>The Oblate</u> (Atchison, Kansas), April 1953 (Vol. 5, #4), p. 25-27] |
| 3 | 1953/05/13 | other | | To judge from the Catholic press, the Church's activity today is as vigorous as it has ever been. | |
| [a copy of an article "The Mysticism of Thomas Merton" by Aelred Graham from <u>The Commonweal</u>, May 13, 1955, p. 155-159] |
| 3 | 1953/no/no? (#01) | other | | Dom Aelred Graham had been invited to lecture at Notre Dame a month before his article appeared | |
| [anonymous defense, or transcript of such a statement - could possibly be by Dom James Fox because Fox was at Notre Dame for Graham's referenced lecture / one typescript and three carbon copies] |
| 3 | 1953/no/no? (#02) | other | | The word is out to "get" Tom Merton. His name has been marked down for slaughter by sons of Belial | |
| [anonymous statement, defense of Merton against Graham, titled "A Perverse Son of St. Benedict" / two carbon copies] |
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