| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1958/09/26 | transcript | from Pasternak, Boris | I do not intend to open a long interchange of thanksgivings of both our mutual signs. But, | |
| [sent by Harris to Merton in letter of January 20, 1967 - see "Six Letters of Boris Paternak" under the letter of 1967/January/20] |
| | 1958/11/07 | transcript | from Pasternak, Boris | I catch you at your willingness to make me a pleasure but I don't need book presents. I thank you | |
| [Pasternak asks Harris to write to Merton and thank him for his letters - sent by Harris to Merton in letter of January 20, 1967 - see "Six Letters of Boris Paternak" under the letter of 1967/January/20] |
| | 1958/11/18 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Mr. Boris Pasternak wished me to pass a message to you. I quote his own English: Write if possible | |
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| | 1958/12/04 | TLS | from Merton | Your letter was a wonderful and welcome surprise. The message from Pasternak was a joy and a relief | Yes |
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| | 1958/12/12 | transcript | from Pasternak, Boris | Ravishing and dearest pair. I thank you boundless dear friend for having written to Tom, Bob and so | |
| [mentions Merton as "Tom" - sent by Harris to Merton in letter of January 20, 1967 - see "Six Letters of Boris Paternak" under the letter of 1967/January/20] |
| | 1959/01/31 | TALS | from Merton | It is a long time since your letter of Dec. 11th. As a matter of fact it took a little time to get | Yes |
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| | 1959/02/21 | TLS[x] | to Merton | (I hope that is a correct way to address you. "Mr. Merton" is beginning to sound a bit odd to me by | |
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| | 1959/02/26 | HNS[x] | to Merton | A P.S. to my letter of the other day -- I heard from Pasternak this morning a letter dated 16 Feb. | |
| [note states that it is from "U. of Lexington Library" (University of Kentucky in Lexington?)] |
| | 1959/03/14 | TALS | from Merton | I am sure that you are doing the right thing, and I say this not because by some kind of reflex | Yes |
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| | 1959/05/05 | TLS | from Merton | I should have sprung to arms immediately at your last letter, but as you said the whole thing would | Yes |
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| | 1959/06/22 | TLS | from Merton | There is a great long backlog of things to thank you for, and the greatest of them is | Yes |
| [see also "Fox, James" Series 29 for a photocopy of the letter in which Dom James highlights a section about following one's inner truth] |
| | 1959/08/14 | transcript | from Pasternak, Boris | Go to Rome dear friend and don't think of the other journey. I find myself in the state | |
| [sent by Harris to Merton in letter of January 20, 1967 - see "Six Letters of Boris Paternak" under the letter of 1967/January/20] |
| | 1959/09/12 | TLS | from Merton | I wonder how long it is since I last wrote to you? I have been busy with some work, and have fallen | Yes |
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| | 1960/02/09 | transcript | from Pasternak, Boris | Please transmit to your lady and to your children my lovely thanks for their being so nice and | |
| [sent by Harris to Merton in letter of January 20, 1967 - see "Six Letters of Boris Paternak" under the letter of 1967/January/20] |
| | 1960/02/18 | TLS | from Merton | First, thanks for the fabulous photograph of the great embracings which take place on top | Yes |
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| | 1960/05/13 | TLS | from Merton | The French trip sounded very interesting and I was waiting to hear from you about it. I am glad | Yes |
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| | 1960/06/17 | TLS | from Merton | Thank you for your letter about Pasternak and for the other ones too, and for all the postcards | Yes |
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| | 1960/09/07 | TALS | from Merton | Your letter came yesterday and I was glad to hear from you. In particular I had been looking | Yes |
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| | 1962/06/08 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I suppose it was really rather foolish of me to send you the CW Letters as a present on your entry | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters # 83] |
| | 1962/06/08 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I suppose it was really rather foolish of me to send you the CW Letters as a present on your entry | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters # 83 - from bound set] |
| | 1963/05/15 | TLS | from Merton | I don't think the publication of the letters is a good idea. It would be difficult and complicated, | Yes |
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| | 1963/06/11 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for the bomb book and the others. I read the former quickly and have passed it on | |
| [contains note of the 13th same page] |
| | 1963/06/13 | TNS | to Merton | The above seems very chaotic. The books coincided with a new barrel of cider -- the poor man's | |
| [see 1963/June/11 - note dated 13th appears on the bottom of the same page] |
| | 1963/06/29 | TLS | from Merton | I bless the day you got the cider. That was a good letter. I forget if it was in that one you sent | Yes |
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| | 1966/05/24 | HLS | to Merton | Are you still there? We have grown used to your portrait on the wall and suddenly realized how long | |
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| | 1966/10/no? | HNS | from Merton | I was so happy with your letter in May- but had just got out of the hospital and wasn't writing much | |
| [handwritten note on the cover page of Merton's essay "Prophetic Ambiguities: Milton and Camus" (dated October 1966) for <u>The Saturday Review</u> ("Can we survive nihilism?: Satan, Milton, and Camus") - note on part of one page, ditto of essay on ten double-sided pages] |
| | 1967/01/20 (#01) | HALS | to Merton | It was a delight to hear from you again. We hope that your hut in the woods is a real all-American | |
| [Harris encloses letters he received from Boris Pasternak - descriptions of these letters are included under their date in this listing: 1958/09/26, 1958/11/07, 1958/12/12, 1959/08/14 and 1960/02/09] |
| | 1967/01/20 (#02) | other | | <u>SIX LETTERS OF BORIS PASTERNAK</u> [-] <u>Important:</u> these letters, | |
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| | 1967/04/10 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Here are more stamps for our trusty secret agent in Cornwall. And by the way, speaking of Cornwall: | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/19 | HLS | to Merton | Suddenly in the middle of dinner we both said: "We have not sent a Christmas card to Thomas Merton!" | |
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| | 1967/12/31 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am contemplating the great man and progeny: photo lies before me on work -and-dinner table of my | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/09 | HLS | to Merton | A day of wrath and gloom (1st day of term: cuts and squeezes have hamstrung, emasculated and | |
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| | 1972/10/20 | TALS | to Center from Harris, John | Thank you for your cyclostyled letter of August 7th, which arrived here today (I imagine it would | |
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| | 1972/10/31 | TL[c] | from Center to Harris, John | Thank you for your response of October 20 to our general letter to correspondents of Thomas Merton. | |
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| | 1973/01/02 | HLS[x] | to Center from Harris, John | It's been shockingly lazy of me not to have replied to your letter of 31st Oct. before now. | |
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| | 1973/03/02 | TL[x] | from Center to Harris, John | Thank you for your letter of January 2, and for the accompanying Merton correspondence. We are very | |
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| | 1977/01/25 | TALS[x] | from Harris, John / to Patrick Hart | God bless you! Bis dat qui cito dat... I was delighted to receive your parcel this morning | |
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| | 1980/07/10 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Harris, John / to Patrick Hart | It seems a long time since 1977, when we were exchanging letters; rummaging in my Kentuckian | |
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| | 1980/07/10 (#02) | HNS[x] | from Harris, John / to Patrick Hart | You might like this one.. what an egoist I am! "Pastis" is Pernod (or Ricard, or whatever) - costs | |
| [includes samples of his published writing in French periodical <u>Le Monde</u>] |
| | 1983/01/24 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to John Harris | I am a professor at Nazareth College of Rochester and also the Roman Catholic chaplain to the | |
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| | 1983/01/31 | TALS | from Harris, John / to William Shannon | It is very kind of you to have consulted me about the Merton letters. I am so glad that I am here | |
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| | 1983/02/07 | TALS[x] | from Shannon, William / to John Harris | I remember in my days of devotion to GK. Chesterton that people were writing books to identify | |
| [addresses the letter to "Peter Smith", Harris' suggested pseudonym for publication purposes] |
| | 1983/02/15 (#01) | TALS | from Harris, John / to William Shannon | I congratulate myself on exchanging letters with a monsignor, epspecially [sic] as I have just read | |
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| | 1983/02/15 (#02) | other | | <u>ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL</u> [-] H: me; P: H's first wife; S: his 2nd wife. [-] H, on R.A.F. | |
| [enclosure to 1983/02/15 letter explaining the background of Harris' marriages and difficulties with the Catholic Church over divorce and remarriage] |
| | 1983/03/02 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to John Harris | I hope you don't mind my addressing you in this more familiar way. It is becoming a bit much | |
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| | 1983/03/10 (#01) | TALS | from Harris, John / to William Shannon | I am wholly in favour of your addressing me as John. I hope you will permit me to continue to call | |
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| | 1983/03/10 (#02) | HN | from Harris, John / to William Shannon | ("Saint-Fulcran" - name of imaginary village, remarkably like the one I live in. The TV people got | |
| [includes piece of writing by Harris - "Semaine fulcrano-anglaise"] |
| | 1984/12/20 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to John Harris | I am sure that by now you are thinking that "your" monsignor (I hope I am still the only | |
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| | 2010/09/24 | HLS | to Center from Bedish, Anne | Enclosed the letters I found from Thomas Merton to my father as we discussed over email. | |
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| | undated/no/no | other | | 2. Pasternak was offered the Nobel Prize for literature on Oct 23, 1958. At first he accepted; | |
| [William Shannon's handwritten notes on Harris letters] |
| | undated/no/no | other | | John Harris was the man who was instrumental in putting Merton in contact with Boris Pasternak. | |
| [typed notes containing all letters marked "transcript" between Merton and Harris and between Harris and Pasternak] |
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