This file contains a large exchange of letters between Thomas Merton and James Laughlin. The letters range from publishing matters to personal dialog between friends. There is a gap in the carbon copies of the letters from Merton from early to mid-June of 1966, but they were reproduced from Laughlin's collection in the published set of letters (see "Related Information" below). Laughlin often made carbon copies or photocopies of important letters he thought Merton should see. Most were from Laughlin to the other correspondent and copied to Merton's attention. Here follows a list of other correspondents whose letters with Laughlin were copied to Merton: Antonucci, Emil; Brock, Terry F.; Cardenal, Ernesto; Carrera Andrade, Jorge; Chakravarty, Amiya; Ciardi, John; Cornell, Julien; Cuadra, Pablo Antonio; the Cultural Attaché for Peru in the U.S.; Duncan, Harry; Dwyer, William; Eve, Martin; Fergesen, Max; Ferry, W. H.; Ford, John J.; Fromm, Erich; Gay, K. C.; Gottwald, Norman K.; Hammer, Victor; Harris, Leonard R.; Horrigan, Alfred; Johnson, Hubert A.; Levine, Stephen; the Manager of Editorial Sudamericana; Manresa, Josefina; Mardersbeig, J.; Maritain, Jacques; Miller, David; Milosz, Czeslaw; Morgan, Frederick; Mumford, Lewis; Mussayassul, Melanie Nagel; Oliver, M., Mrs.; Pauling, Linus; Pearce, Donald J.; Stein, Walter; Stone, Naomi Burton; Thittila, Bikkhu U.; Thomas, Trevor; Tshering, Tashi; Vallejo, Georgette de; Van Doren, Mark; Williams, C. Dickerman; Wyatt, Wilson; and Yandell, Lunsford.
NOTE: in the "Container List" description below, the "Cooper #" refers to the numbering used by David Cooper in Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters. Not all letters are published and many are not published in their entirety.
James Laughlin and Merton first came to known each other through Merton's former professor at Columbia University, poet Mark Van Doren. Van Doren recommended some of Merton's poems to Laughlin for his publishing house, New Directions. These poems became Merton's first published book, Thirty Poems. Laughlin, having been born into a wealthy steel-producing family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, decided he would rather enter the literary world. He attended Harvard and, during his years there, went to Europe and met Ezra Pound, who encouraged Laughlin to get into publishing. While still a student at Harvard, Laughlin began New Directions in Norfolk, Connecticut, publishing a young generation of modern poets. Through correspondence and visits to Gethsemani, Merton and Laughlin forged an intimate friendship, entrusting Laughlin with some of his most private confidences.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1. |
Series 1: 1945/05/14? |
TL[x] to Merton |
As I understand it now I may proceed with setting up the new book with Kimball, but I am to wait |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
2. |
Series 1: 1945/05/24? |
TL[x] to Merton |
I am very excited about the prospect of visiting you at the monastery. Please write me what part |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [1st page of letter, may be incomplete]
«detailed view» |
3. |
Series 1: 1945/05/27? |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I am delighted to hear that you really plan to come here. It is very simple to get here. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #1]
«detailed view» |
4. |
Series 1: 1945/09/28 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
It seems to be better to save Mark a lot of bother, and deal with you directly, especially as there |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #2]
«detailed view» |
5. |
Series 1: 1945/10/27 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Here are one or two things from the liturgical book, for you to see. Right now we are all very busy |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... liturgical book / religious anthology of Catholic poetry / Mark Van Doren and Robert Lax / Journal of My Escape from the Nazis - "about the best thing I had done"
«detailed view» |
6. |
Series 1: 1945/11/02 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the letter which, I guess, crossed with the things I sent you last week-- |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #3]
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7. |
Series 1: 1945/11/17 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the catalogue - you have a fine list there, I think. Our library could certainly use |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [letter quoted in The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin edited by Barbara Epler and Daniel Javitch] requesting Dylan Thomas' "New Poems" - "unless there is something in them that is definitely none of our business - e.g. witchcraft"
«detailed view» |
8. |
Series 1: 1946/01/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
In answer to your questions concerning the religious anthology. Definitely I think you ought |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... religious anthology of Catholic poetry and an idea for another Christian volume (various denominations represented) of religious experience
«detailed view» |
9. |
Series 1: 1946/01/12 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Here at last are some proofs. I think from now on it will go quicker. This chap is a legal printer |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #4]
«detailed view» |
10. |
Series 1: 1946/03/01 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Last couple of days before Ash Wednesday, just time to write and thank you for "Some Natural Things" |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #5]
«detailed view» |
11. |
Series 1: 1946/03/04 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I forgot to say, the other day: please send as many copies of the "Divided Sea" to Mark and to Bob |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... request to send A Man in the Divided Sea to Mark Van Doren and Robert Lax
«detailed view» |
12. |
Series 1: 1946/08/17 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
The divided sea got to me yesterday. It is fine. You have given the poems a swell presentation. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #6]
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13. |
Series 1: 1947/01/02 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
When you were away in Paris-- I am assuming you are back-- I asked Mark to send you a ms |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Kafkaesque manuscript of "Journal of My Escape from the Nazis" / another 30 poems for publication
«detailed view» |
14. |
Series 1: 1947/03/no? |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are some pictures which just arrived from Utah. We'd like to get them all in. Make a montage |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [dated "Spring 47"]
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15. |
Series 1: 1947/04/06? |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Thanks very much for your letter and the check. As they both arrive in Lent I could not acknowledge |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #7 - dated "Easter, 1947"]
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16. |
Series 1: 1947/04/17 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
Today is Easter Day and I am thinking of you particularly because of your letter came last night |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [sending letter from Klosters, Switzerland] upcoming elections in Italy - Communists in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia / influence of Church and pope / Creekmore - Spanish text of St. John [John of the Cross] / Robert Speaight's recordings / illness of William Carlos Williams / sending poems by Everson and Watkins
«detailed view» |
17. |
Series 1: 1947/04/18 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here is another poem, and now lets call it a day on that new book. I am anxious to hear |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
18. |
Series 1: 1947/04/25? |
TL[x] to Merton |
Many thanks for your two letters and for the poems to be added to the script of the new book. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #8]
«detailed view» |
19. |
Series 1: 1947/05/14 |
TL[x] to Merton |
As I understand it now I may proceed with setting up the new book with Kimball, but I am to wait |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... ideas for books on St. John of the Cross and a brief anthology of Catholic poetry for the New Classics series
«detailed view» |
20. |
Series 1: 1947/05/20 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Yes, that is correct. You may set up the book, although there may be one or two minor changes-- |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Catholic anthology of religious poetry / St. John of the Cross and translation of "Dark Night of the Soul" / Kenneth Rexroth / possibility of Merton being sent to Utah - more hard labor than writing
«detailed view» |
21. |
Series 1: 1947/05/20 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Yes, that is correct. You may set up the book, although there may be one or two minor changes-- |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
22. |
Series 1: 1947/05/24 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I am very excited about the prospect of visiting you at the monastery. Please write me what part |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... asking directions to Gethsemani Abbey / Kenneth Rexroth as Anglo-Catholic and interested in things Roman Catholic - Gregorian chant - conscientious objector during Second World War - influenced by mystical view of sex of D. H. Lawrence
«detailed view» |
23. |
Series 1: 1947/05/27 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I am delighted to hear that you really plan to come here. It is very simple to get here. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #1 - Cooper dates at 1945/May/27, but seems to fit with Laughlin's 1947 visit]
«detailed view» |
24. |
Series 1: 1947/06/17 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Here are two poems I wanted to give you, with corrections. A magazine called '47 wrote asking |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #9]
«detailed view» |
25. |
Series 1: 1947/07/02 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks so much for both your letters. About the books you send, we will send back everything that |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #10]
«detailed view» |
26. |
Series 1: 1947/07/09? |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I was happy that you read the article and want to reprint it: Yes, by all means do so. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Jules Supervielle / departure of the monks leaving for Utah foundation
«detailed view» |
27. |
Series 1: 1947/07/12 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I am very pleased that you approve the idea of reprinting your essay in the next annual. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #11]
«detailed view» |
28. |
Series 1: 1947/07/17 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the proofs which I return with a few alterations, and above all things thanks for your |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #12]
«detailed view» |
29. |
Series 1: 1947/08/06 |
TL[x] from Merton |
I am sorry not to have written for so long. Things have gotten pretty jammed up with so many new |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
30. |
Series 1: 1947/08/09 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the latour du Pin which I haven't yet had time to get into! Please let me know at once |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Latour du Pin (Patrice de La Tour du Pin?)
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31. |
Series 1: 1947/08/12? |
TALS[x] from Merton |
It is the feast of my friend Saint Clare of Assisi so I am sending you a poem but don't put it |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Figures for an Apocalypse / Cistercian Contemplatives / worries about "Poetry and Contemplative Life" appearing in New Directions literature alongside something "raw like some of the spots in Tropic of Cancer" [Henry Miller] / modern Carmelite book for Laughlin - The Spiritual Doctrine of Elizabeth of the Trinity by Fr. Philipon, O.P.
«detailed view» |
32. |
Series 1: 1947/08/16 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here is the material for the new booklet Cistercian Contemplatives. I did not wait for your reply |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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33. |
Series 1: 1947/08/21 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
All right go ahead with the essay in the back of Figures for an Apoc. I forgot if I told you |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
34. |
Series 1: 1947/08/no? |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Many thanks for the Montecassino book. It was the first time I had seen anything of the destruction. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [no year listed, estimated] book with photographs showing the destruction of Monte Cassino (World War II Allied bombing of Monte Cassino) / Jules Supervielle
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35. |
Series 1: 1947/09/03 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter. The length is all right we'll just charge more. The corrected version |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... sending poem to forward to Dylan Thomas also sent to magazine Tiger's Eye (possibly "The Gift of Understanding" by Merton)
«detailed view» |
36. |
Series 1: 1947/09/05 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
How would it be if we brought out about 2500 of Cist Contemplatives in a kind of cardboard binding |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
37. |
Series 1: 1947/09/08 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
How would it be if we brought out about 2500 of Cist Contemplatives in a kind of cardboard binding |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Latour du Pin (Patrice de La Tour du Pin?) / Claudel (Paul Claudel?) / asking for old religious verse, modernized Anglo-Saxon verse, Richard Rolle, "The Pearl," and an anthology by Carleton Brown
«detailed view» |
38. |
Series 1: 1947/09/10? |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the good newsy letter about all those people. I'll pray hard for Dylan Thomas because |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #13]
«detailed view» |
39. |
Series 1: 1947/09/15 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Sorry for the delay I only just got all this a few minutes ago nearly a week after you sent it. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
40. |
Series 1: 1947/09/15 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Here is the complete corrected copy the one to be set up. I am afraid I know nothing about |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... responds to Laughlin's question about Eleanor Ruggles' Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life - Merton does not know it
«detailed view» |
41. |
Series 1: 1947/09/16 |
TALS[x] to McHale, John J. |
Thank you for your recent letter stating that you hold the American rights to the Burns & Oates |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [contains handwritten note by Merton on Patrice de La Tour du Pin's "Psaumes" and Jules Supervielle's "Choix De Poemes" / asking about Huntsville, Utah foundation after Laughlin's visit, Our Lady of the Holy Trinity Abbey] regarding translation of St. John of the Cross's "The Dark Night of the Soul"
«detailed view» |
42. |
Series 1: 1947/09/18 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Will you please send us back the carbon copy of Cist Contemplatives as I may have to send it to one |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
43. |
Series 1: 1947/09/24 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I have just sent to Commonweal three poems from Figures. Landscape prophet and wild dog; |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
44. |
Series 1: 1947/10/01 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I just sent to Spirit the following poems from Figures: "Evening Zero Weather" |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
45. |
Series 1: 1947/10/03 |
TLS to Merton |
I have just retruned [sic] from a very pleasing visit to Huntsville. The site is extraordinarily |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [estimated date provided by Laughlin biographer Ian MacNiven - transferred from the James Laughlin Trust Papers, Merton Center Sub-Section H.9, on March 16, 2010]
«detailed view» |
46. |
Series 1: 1947/10/08 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your interesting letter from Utah. I just got it this morning together with Mr Kunz's |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
47. |
Series 1: 1947/10/08 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I just got a check from Sewanee Review for the poem "On the anniversary of my Baptism", but that |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
48. |
Series 1: 1947/10/15 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
If it is not too late will you please replace the two air-views of the Georgia monastery by these |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Patrice de La Tour du Pin's Une Somme De Poésie
«detailed view» |
49. |
Series 1: 1947/10/31 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the pictures: I have marked four of them which would be interesting to us if you would |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Leica camera used by a monk at another monastery to take photographs Merton sends / Merton makes recommendations of abbeys to visit when Laughlin visits France and remarks about monasteries about which he is curious / magazine, The Tiger's Eye
«detailed view» |
50. |
Series 1: 1947/11/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the check. The Buffalo people asked permission to print a poem from Commonweal last |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton complains about being assigned "official souvenir" booklet about Trappists (Guide to Cistercian Life?)
«detailed view» |
51. |
Series 1: 1947/11/26 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter. Glad you are settled in the mountains. I know how you feel. Thanks also |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #14]
«detailed view» |
52. |
Series 1: 1947/12/17 |
TLS[x] from Cooke, Douglas C. / to Merton |
Shortly before his departure for Europe Dr. James Laughlin of New Directions Press arranged for us |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [from Douglas C. Cooke of the Liberty Photo-Engraving Corporation of New York]
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53. |
Series 1: 1947/no/no? |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am returning the dedicated life since you want it back in a hurry. I am not as interested as I |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [no year listed, estimated] "The Dedicated Life" (The Dedicated Life in Poetry, Patrice de La Tour Du Pin; George Sutherland Fraser; Laurent de Cayeux?)
«detailed view» |
54. |
Series 1: 1948/02/08 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the fine letter. I had been meaning to write but I have been too crowded. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #15]
«detailed view» |
55. |
Series 1: 1948/03/23 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I don't know where this will catch you, but anyway I hope it will find you somewhere. Cistercian |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... release of Cistercian Contemplatives: A Guide to Trappist Life
«detailed view» |
56. |
Series 1: 1948/04/08 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter which I was very glad to get and for the picture which is fine. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #16]
«detailed view» |
57. |
Series 1: 1948/04/14 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
This is a memo about another project. We get many requests from people who don't quite understand |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... some ideas for what would become Seeds of Contemplation after St. John of the Cross and "Soil and Seeds"
«detailed view» |
58. |
Series 1: 1948/04/29 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter and the copy of the one to your English agent. Burns, I take it, is Burns |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... poems for the Dublin Review / monastic censors versus censors in New York / book on St. John of the Cross and "The Dark Night of the Soul"
«detailed view» |
59. |
Series 1: 1948/05/12 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the card from Ascona. I must have gone through there once in a train. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #17]
«detailed view» |
60. |
Series 1: 1948/06/28 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
First of all this is to say that I am about finishing the SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION and want to know |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #18] Vernon Watkins / Robert Lowell
«detailed view» |
61. |
Series 1: 1948/07/09 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I hope this will not have to chase you to Europe and back. It is an answer to your beautiful Mont |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #19]
«detailed view» |
62. |
Series 1: 1948/07/31 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Glad you are home! Here are some corrections on A Man. page 29 The lines No one who loves |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
63. |
Series 1: 1948/08/04 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Writing you this letter today is not nearly so gay as it would have been yesterday. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #20]
«detailed view» |
64. |
Series 1: 1948/08/10 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for sending me the corrections for the new edition of A MAN IN THE DIVIDED SEA |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #21]
«detailed view» |
65. |
Series 1: 1948/08/27 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are some rewritten sections of SEEDS. There is first an Author's Note. Then I have rewritten |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
66. |
Series 1: 1948/09/01 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I spoke to Father Abbot the other day about your bringing Bob Fitzgerald down here with you |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
67. |
Series 1: 1948/09/20 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Please forgive me for not having written for such a long time. Things have been in such a terrible |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... printer's layout for Seeds of Contemplation / on Dom James Fox's approval for Merton to continue writing / corrections for A Man in the Divided Sea / finding a place for the Carthusians in western Pennsylvania on mountain land of Laughlin's mother, but that "she would take a good deal of persuading"
«detailed view» |
68. |
Series 1: 1948/09/27 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I was glad to get your letter and to know that things are going along on the book. My suggestions |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #22]
«detailed view» |
69. |
Series 1: 1948/10/15 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
The way to get here from Louisville is to take a bus to Bardstown or Newhaven and from there get |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
70. |
Series 1: 1948/11/02 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are the proofs of SEEDS. I did a little trimming and had to change a lot of commas because my |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
71. |
Series 1: 1948/11/15 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I have just posted off to you a copy of the second edition of A MAN IN THE DIVIDED SEA, and I hope |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... asking T. S. Eliot about selecting some of Merton's poems / Evelyn Waugh's proposed visit to see Merton / Catholic poetry anthology
«detailed view» |
72. |
Series 1: 1948/11/18 (#01) |
TL[x] to Merton |
You may remember that we were discussing the possibility of using a little design on the cover |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #23]
«detailed view» |
73. |
Series 1: 1948/11/18 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Naomi has sent you a copy of the letter I got from the translator of St John X. She seems to think |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
74. |
Series 1: 1948/11/22 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to skip the design, at least as far as the cloth cover |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #24]
«detailed view» |
75. |
Series 1: 1948/11/29 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Many thanks for your note of the 18th. I can't remember whether I have written you the last step |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... manuscript of translation of St. John of the Cross selections / binding Merton books in leather for Pope Pius XII / speaking of Merton and Eric Gill with John Shaw, a Tulsa, Oklahoma oil man
«detailed view» |
76. |
Series 1: 1948/12/01 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I now have a little more information for you about the idea of having copies of your books bound up |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... binding books in leather for Pope Pius XII / American rights issues concerning the translation of St. John of the Cross - Allison Piers / drawings sent to Laughlin by Merton / possibly using Eric Gill drawing for cover of Seeds of Contemplation / T. S. Eliot / additional printing of Figures for an Apocalypse
«detailed view» |
77. |
Series 1: 1948/12/18 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are the page proofs, with the censor's corrections made. I made every correction |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #25]
«detailed view» |
78. |
Series 1: 1948/12/24? |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are one or two ancient poems I dug up. Not much good except Dirge for Miami and Circe. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #26 - dated "Christmas Eve"]
«detailed view» |
79. |
Series 1: 1948/12/29 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
Thank you ever so much for several letters, for returning the proofs, and for the Christmas gift |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #27]
«detailed view» |
80. |
Series 1: 1948/no/no? |
TLS[x] from Merton |
This is a poem I would like to have printed opposite the picture of Our Lady in Seeds of |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton includes a poem in Latin "Memento Dei Genitrix" which appeared in Seeds of Contemplation
«detailed view» |
81. |
Series 1: 1949/02/03 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I just received your letter of February 1st, and was very happy to hear from you again. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... marketing Seeds of Contemplation to Catholic book clubs - some reject because too soon after Seven Storey Mountain - "Seeds" as the modern "Imitation of Christ" / poem Merton sent by Bob Blacks
«detailed view» |
82. |
Series 1: 1949/03/15 |
HPCS to Merton |
This is my last Alpine stop before coming home. It has been a pretty good trip - at least I have |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [verso: black and white photograph of a high altar Val D'isere in Grenoble, France]
«detailed view» |
83. |
Series 1: 1949/03/22 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I am just back yesterday from my trip to Europe and find the office in a state of pleasant |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... the large number of orders for Seeds of Contemplation / transcript of letter from T. S. Eliot to Laughlin turning down offer to publish a selection of Merton's poems stating that Merton "is going to write too many poems instead of making a small number perfect" - Laughlin's reaction to Eliot's criticism
«detailed view» |
84. |
Series 1: 1949/03/no? |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter from Klosters. Today you should be back in N.Y. This is to repeat all |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #29 - undated, but shortly after Merton's diaconate ordination March 19, 1949]
«detailed view» |
85. |
Series 1: 1949/04/06 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for your letter that came in the other day. It was exciting news about your |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #30]
«detailed view» |
86. |
Series 1: 1949/04/17 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
Today is Easter Day and I am thinking of you particularly because your letter came last night |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #28 - dated "Easter Day" written at Klosters]
«detailed view» |
87. |
Series 1: 1949/04/20 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
This will catch you on your return from Utah. First, it is to confirm the 26th of May |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Paul Claudel / Robert Speaight talking to the community about "Murder in the Cathedral"
«detailed view» |
88. |
Series 1: 1949/05/02 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your card from Aspen. This is just to confirm the date. Ordination will be May 26th |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #31]
«detailed view» |
89. |
Series 1: 1949/05/02 (#02) |
TL[x] to Merton |
I'll just put a memo on the rush reel on the dictating machine to let you know that when I got back |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
90. |
Series 1: 1949/05/17 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Bob and I have been planning our trip together down next week and he asked me to send you |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
91. |
Series 1: 1949/05/no? |
HNS[x] from Merton |
Ordination about 9:30 Thursday morning 26th - Low Mass Friday - about 6.30 - High Mass - Saturday 9. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton informs Laughlin of his ordination day Masses and Masses the following days and that Laughlin may see him Thursday after about 2pm
«detailed view» |
92. |
Series 1: 1949/06/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
In a big hurry I am sending you a couple of corrections for the next printing of SEEDS. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
93. |
Series 1: 1949/06/09 |
HPCS[x] to Merton |
Hope you have had a good summer. Paris is fine still. The man who took the pictures of Le Devot |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Le Devot Christ / Perpetua font for typesetting by Eric Gill's old firm in England
«detailed view» |
94. |
Series 1: 1949/06/13 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for your letter with corrections for the new printing of SEEDS. They are good |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... sales figures for Seeds of Contemplation - listed on Publisher's Weekly / liturgical book
«detailed view» |
95. |
Series 1: 1949/06/13 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for your letter with the corrections for the new printing of SEEDS. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... sales rank information for Seeds of Contemplation and number of book orders / future book on liturgy / special white leather binding of Seeds of Contemplation finished and send to Pope
«detailed view» |
96. |
Series 1: 1949/06/15 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Enclosed you will find the plate proofs of the new composition for the pages which we reset in SEEDS |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
97. |
Series 1: 1949/06/25 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
First here is a paper with a couple of prayers. One I wrote and the other is the Hail Mary |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... sending two prayers - text of the "Hail Mary" and a prayer to the Holy Spirit written by Merton / discussion revisions for a second edition of Seeds of Contemplation / "if I am going to go on writing, I have to work out a severe discipline to cut down on correspondence" / leather-bound Merton books sent to Pope
«detailed view» |
98. |
Series 1: 1949/07/05 |
TL[x] to Merton |
This letter will come to you from the New York office, but it is being dictated from out in Aspen, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
99. |
Series 1: 1949/07/30 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Father Abbot has given the okay for you to go ahead and work the record proposition whichever way |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
100. |
Series 1: 1949/08/08 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Please forgive me for having been such a lousy correspondent in recent weeks. I had an absolutely |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
101. |
Series 1: 1949/08/09 |
TL[x] to Merton |
In my letter the other day, I forgot to ask about one thing. I think I told you that I have over |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... mentions to Merton a printer in Verona, Italy, Hans Mardersteig - wants to collaborate with him on printing a fine or hand printed edition of "some standard Catholic devotional text" - wants to know what Merton would suggest
«detailed view» |
102. |
Series 1: 1949/08/13 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
About the BLIND LIONS-- I'd like to see the script before it goes to the printer. Could you send |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #32]
«detailed view» |
103. |
Series 1: 1949/08/26 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Your very good letter of August 18th reached me just as I was leaving for Nantucket. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #33]
«detailed view» |
104. |
Series 1: 1949/08/28 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the Nantucket letter, I wish we had a monastery on one of those islands, or on some |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
105. |
Series 1: 1949/08/no? |
TALS[x] from Merton |
The new preface of SEEDS should go along with the old one. Whether the censor should see |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... sent manuscript of The Tears of the Blind Lions / dropping idea of St. John of the Cross book for Blessed John of Ruysbroeck's "The Sparkling Stone", "The Golden Epistle" of William of St. Thierry or St. Bernard of Clairvaux's "Missus Est" / "I am trying to sell Fr. Abbot the idea of a hermitage in the woods"
«detailed view» |
106. |
Series 1: 1949/09/15 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks eversomuch for your letter and for sending back the poems for the TEARS OF THE BLIND LIONS |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #34]
«detailed view» |
107. |
Series 1: 1949/09/30 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Okay, cut Sports. About the censor-- you should print the date also, Sept. 27th. Spelling changes |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... thoughts on the atomic bomb compared to "the light and heat that get generated by my Mass" - being "molded and changed by what goes on at the altar"
«detailed view» |
108. |
Series 1: 1949/09/no |
TL[x] to Merton |
I have been having fun fussing around with a pair of scissors, paste and the proofs of TEARS, and it |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... proofs for Tears of the Blind Lions - permission to reorder poems for space considerations, and TM's priorities of what should be cut / Laughlin's friend's death in a plane crash / Russians having atomic bomb
«detailed view» |
109. |
Series 1: 1949/10/14 |
TL[x] to Merton |
This is not a proper letter to your last letter. But I want to answer that myself personally, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... cover for Seeds of Contemplation - on Merton granting permission to cut his poem on Dylan Thomas from Tears of the Blind Lions / Kenneth Patchen / sending translation of Kierkegaard's journals
«detailed view» |
110. |
Series 1: 1949/10/22 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
About the second edition of Seeds, just say that some significant revisions have been made |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Søren Kierkegaard / Fyodor Dostoyevsky / Franz Kafka / Kenneth Patchen
«detailed view» |
111. |
Series 1: 1949/10/25 |
HPCS[x] to Merton |
Corp. Mgt. is on the way to the vault for some careful study! I don't |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [copy of letter from Cooper file is cut off]
«detailed view» |
112. |
Series 1: 1949/11/19 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Tears have arrived, splendidly done. Thanks again for a beautiful job. I like this as well |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #35]
«detailed view» |
113. |
Series 1: 1949/11/29 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I was awfully pleased to get your letter and learn that you like the appearance of Tears. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... book sales figures / Robert Speaight and plans for him to record Merton's poems / Laughlin's background in the Bible from his grandfather, "a very ardent Presbyterian"
«detailed view» |
114. |
Series 1: 1949/12/10 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
First, I am late with the list of poems. I don't know about order of preference. It doesn't much |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... thoughts on Christmas and its significance in the Christian life / Naomi Burton Stone - journals of Kafka and Rilke - Rilke and Kafka as solitaries / Merton's new job of teaching / novice asking for Arthur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" and Charles Baudelaire
«detailed view» |
115. |
Series 1: 1949/12/22 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for your good letter of December 10th, giving the list of poems for a selection, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Robert Speaight's recordings of Merton poems / plans to give New Directions a personal journal for publication / Laughlin sending Rimbaud's "Season in Hell" - Laughlin's impressions of poem / Laughlin responds about Christmas and about sending his children to Sunday school - their thoughts on religion
«detailed view» |
116. |
Series 1: 1950/01/07 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Weeks behind with everything. It is so long since I have had a chance to write, and so many things |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #36]
«detailed view» |
117. |
Series 1: 1950/02/08 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks a lot for your good letter of January 7th. Please forgive me for not answering sooner, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #37]
«detailed view» |
118. |
Series 1: 1950/02/25 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
The Morcelliana people have written to me now that they think a hundred dollars is too high |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #38]
«detailed view» |
119. |
Series 1: 1950/04/25 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I'm sorry not to have written properly while I was over in Europe, but you know how it is on a trip |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
120. |
Series 1: 1950/05/01 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
All that about Europe sounded wonderful, especially the part about the glaciers. I wish I had a hut |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #39]
«detailed view» |
121. |
Series 1: 1950/05/07 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks a lot for your good letter of the first. I also had a very nice one from Father Abbot with |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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122. |
Series 1: 1950/05/20 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the letter and the books. I sure like the way Rexroth's is printed by your Verona friend |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #40]
«detailed view» |
123. |
Series 1: 1950/06/01 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I suppose it must be nearly full summer down there with you, as it is finally spring with us here |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
124. |
Series 1: 1950/06/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I was happy to get your letter. Thanks also for the Ta Hio. All that oriental stuff is very |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Mencius / Panjatali's yoga [Patanjali?] / Verona book - Blaise Pascal's Pensées - St. Gregory of Nyssa's "Life of Moses" - Dutch mystic Hadjewich's writings - / possible book of correspondence of advanced spiritual meditation from various spiritual traditions (Christian contemplatives to yoga masters)
«detailed view» |
125. |
Series 1: 1950/06/21 |
TL[x] to Merton |
About the annual. For you it is an aesthetic problem, for me a moral one. But I will handle it now |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
126. |
Series 1: 1950/06/26 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
About the annual. For you it is an aesthetic problem, for me a moral one. But I will handle it now |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #41]
«detailed view» |
127. |
Series 1: 1950/07/26 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
I am horrified when I see the date on your last letter-- June 26th-- and realize that I have let |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton's Dylan Thomas poem - delay of using it due to concurrent publication of a piece by Gore Vidal regarding homosexuality in the New Directions Annual
«detailed view» |
128. |
Series 1: 1950/07/29 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I was awfully glad to get your letter because this is just the moment when it is to the interest |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
129. |
Series 1: 1950/08/02 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Many thanks for your good letter of July 29th, but forgive me for saying that I find the contents |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
130. |
Series 1: 1950/08/07 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Following up my letter of the other day about the book on the Psalms, I have just had a very nice |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
131. |
Series 1: 1950/08/19 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
The reason why I have not written, as you can guess, is that I have been trying to get organized |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #42]
«detailed view» |
132. |
Series 1: 1950/09/11 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Will you kindly take care of the enclosed request about a French anthology? |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton going to the hospital regarding ulcers (colitis) / concerning Ezra Pound sending a funny letter regarding some under ripe cheese he had received from Gethsemani
«detailed view» |
133. |
Series 1: 1950/09/12 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Many thanks for your good letter of August 19th. My delay in answering the same is not |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #43]
«detailed view» |
134. |
Series 1: 1950/09/19 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Many thanks for your note of September 11th, but I was indeed sorry to hear that you have to go up |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
135. |
Series 1: 1950/10/03 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
No, I wrote to Bob again, and told him that the book was yours. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #44]
«detailed view» |
136. |
Series 1: 1950/10/17 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for your good letter of October 3rd, and I am pleased to learn that you are |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
137. |
Series 1: 1950/11/08 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I was extremely sorry to learn from Naomi over the telephone today that you had gone back |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... on Merton returning to the hospital / meeting with Naomi Burton Stone / Merton sending some of his drawings to Laughlin - concern that some of the modernist drawings will upset Catholic censors
«detailed view» |
138. |
Series 1: 1950/11/13 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Being in the hospital I have come by this typewriter and dare to write letters. Here too is a poem |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #45]
«detailed view» |
139. |
Series 1: 1950/11/15 (#01) |
telegram[x] from Merton |
PLEASE RUSH MANUSCRIPT TO SAINT JOSEPHS INFIRMARY LOUISVILLE I CAN FINISH WORK HERE |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
140. |
Series 1: 1950/11/15? (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
After I had sent off this morning's letter with the poem I realized that you did not have my address |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
141. |
Series 1: 1950/11/15? (#03) |
TL[x] to Merton |
Forgive me for not shooting the script down to you the day your wire came, but it reached me in New |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
142. |
Series 1: 1950/11/22 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here is the completed ms of BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS. I only have to add some material |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #46]
«detailed view» |
143. |
Series 1: 1950/12/05 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for your letter of November 22nd, and I'm glad to know that you are making |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Charles Carey - visit to Gethsemani Abbey
«detailed view» |
144. |
Series 1: 1950/12/20 |
TL[x] to Merton |
The enclosed just came in, and I have sent off the book to the judges. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
145. |
Series 1: 1951/01/20 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are a bunch of drawings. I was going to send you one as a Christmas card but never got around |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... André Gide - design by Alvin Lustig
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146. |
Series 1: 1951/01/30 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for your letter of January 20th, and I am delighted with the drawings |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton's "drawings of the Greeks" and some sent for use in Bread in the Wilderness
«detailed view» |
147. |
Series 1: 1951/02/27 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Rushing these pictures of the Dévot Christ of Perpignan to you in case Lustig might be able |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
148. |
Series 1: 1951/04/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
It was good to get your letter from the Canadian Alps. The thought of a hut that one reaches only |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #47]
«detailed view» |
149. |
Series 1: 1951/04/16 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks very much for your letter of April 6th, which has just reached me out in Alta, whither I have |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... on the upcoming Catholic Poetry Forum in New York - some speakers reactionary / Robert Speaight - Harvard recording of Merton's poems / T. S. Eliot lecture / book on Russian pilgrim Merton sent
«detailed view» |
150. |
Series 1: 1951/04/25 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I have just had a letter from Lustig in New York, and here is what he says: "All I need to design |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
151. |
Series 1: 1951/05/04 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am awfully late in writing this but we have been busy with the regular checkup of the monastery by |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
152. |
Series 1: 1951/05/15 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Just got your little note, giving me the green light to go ahead and get the script ready for Lustig |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
153. |
Series 1: 1951/06/25 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I certainly did have a wonderful visit down there and want to thank you, and Father Abbot |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... meeting with Alvin Lustig about Bread in the Wilderness - Lustig opposed to using Merton drawings in book and just wants to use the photos Merton sent of le Dévôt-Christ of the Cathedral of St. John, Perpignan, France
«detailed view» |
154. |
Series 1: 1951/06/27 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
By all means go ahead with the Crucifix which is called Le Devot Christ and is found at Perpignan. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... idea of giving the drawings to Bob Giroux for use in the journal of Merton's to be published by him
«detailed view» |
155. |
Series 1: 1951/07/07 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the book of type samples. Unless Lustig has other ideas I think Perpetua would be fine |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #48]
«detailed view» |
156. |
Series 1: 1951/07/09 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks ever so much for your good letter of June 27th and I am pleased that you are willing to go |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #49]
«detailed view» |
157. |
Series 1: 1951/07/20 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks very much for sending along the book of the new version of the Psalms. One of the girls |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
158. |
Series 1: 1951/07/26 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Lustig has just brought in his preliminary sketches for the book and I am terribly excited about |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
159. |
Series 1: 1951/08/03 |
TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Clark |
I am returning Lustigs layouts for BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS and a note for him also. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
160. |
Series 1: 1951/09/06 |
HPCS to Merton |
Hope you have had a good summer. Paris is fine still. The man who took the pictures of Le Devot |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [verso: black and white photograph of l'Église Saint-Sulpice in Paris]
«detailed view» |
161. |
Series 1: 1951/10/23? (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
I'm back now and getting into the rhythm of work again. How have you been? Here are some cards |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [no year supplied - Cooper lists as 1951]
«detailed view» |
162. |
Series 1: 1951/10/23? (#02) |
HN from Merton |
+JHS [-] Jay |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [note by Merton on verso of Laughlin's 1951/10/23 letter to Merton - possible draft of letter to Laughlin]
«detailed view» |
163. |
Series 1: 1951/10/29 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter and cards from various parts- eagerly look forward to the stuff on Miraflores |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #50]
«detailed view» |
164. |
Series 1: 1951/11/20 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I am back in New York now, and have received the contracts for "Bread" from Naomi, and they appear |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... ideas of places to publish Merton's poems "Early Mass" and "Sports Without Blood"
«detailed view» |
165. |
Series 1: 1951/12/21 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Your letter of November 20 has been lying around all this time. By all means let Victor Weybright |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #51]
«detailed view» |
166. |
Series 1: 1952/01/02 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
It was good to get your Christmas letter. Many thanks, and best to you for the coming year. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #52]
«detailed view» |
167. |
Series 1: 1952/01/15 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Just sent off Weybright's agreement. I like the idea of his New World Writing and am glad to be |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #53]
«detailed view» |
168. |
Series 1: 1952/01/21 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thank you ever so much for your fine letter of January 15th and the various business enclosures. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Grenville Clark
«detailed view» |
169. |
Series 1: 1952/03/18 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thank you for sending along the request for Italian permission. I shall check into this, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Bread in the Wilderness - Eric Gill's press / suggesting Merton for advisory board of magazine Perspectives USA to represent Catholic intellectual movement
«detailed view» |
170. |
Series 1: 1952/04/07 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks ever so much for sending me your "Introduction to Cistercian Theology." I am terribly glad |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
171. |
Series 1: 1952/04/10 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
No sign of those proofs yet. Why I write to you is this: we are now getting right into editorial |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... The Sign of Jonas editorial work / proofs for Bread in the Wilderness
«detailed view» |
172. |
Series 1: 1952/06/05 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Bob MacGregor said I could reach you through American Express in Geneva. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #54]
«detailed view» |
173. |
Series 1: 1952/08/19 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I feel terribly badly that I have let so much time go by this summer without writing you. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #55]
«detailed view» |
174. |
Series 1: 1952/09/28 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am astonished to see that it is already a month since I got your letter. Yes, the revised proofs |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #56]
«detailed view» |
175. |
Series 1: 1953/08/13? |
TL[x] to Merton |
I'm sorry not to have written for so long. I was three months out in India and had a great time. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #57]
«detailed view» |
176. |
Series 1: 1953/09/14 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Bob McGregor has relayed to me an enquiry you sent him about your author's copies of the issue |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Robert MacGregor - essay on St. John of the Cross in Perspectives
«detailed view» |
177. |
Series 1: 1953/09/25 |
TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Glynn |
The first part of the censor's approbation in Bread in the Wilderness should read as follows: |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
178. |
Series 1: 1953/09/25 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Many thanks for the various editions of Perspectives which are coming in. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #58]
«detailed view» |
179. |
Series 1: 1953/10/27 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Your letter was, as always, a great pleasure to me, and I am so pleased to think that you are |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
180. |
Series 1: 1953/12/07 |
TNS[x] to Merton |
I think this guy Weaver is wonderful and am very glad that you put me on to him. Hope we can print |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [note on a full letter from Laughlin to Professor Richard M. Weaver - Laughlin writes in praise of Weaver's The Ethics of Rhetoric, which Merton recommends]
«detailed view» |
181. |
Series 1: 1953/12/21 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
After all the crises and difficulties the new book went through, it was wonderful to see |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #59]
«detailed view» |
182. |
Series 1: 1954/01/07 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thank you so much for your good letter of December 21. Needless to say, I am very happy that you |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #60]
«detailed view» |
183. |
Series 1: 1954/07/03 |
to Merton |
Thank you so much for your letter of June 16th, and especially for your kind wishes for Ann |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #61 - see 1956/July/03 - this letter is misdated on the original and published by Cooper under 1954. The events referenced in the letter happened in 1956 as does Merton's letter of June 16. The letter was typed and signed in Laughlin's name by a secretary.]
«detailed view» |
184. |
Series 1: 1954/07/03 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thank you so much for your letter of June 16th, and especially for your kind wishes for Ann |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #61]
«detailed view» |
185. |
Series 1: 1955/01/20 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
I feel like seven kinds of pig not to have written you for so long. I think of you often and wonder |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Perspectives magazine - Richard M. Weaver piece - sending Merton "Perspectives in Japan" / Prioress at Regina Laudis, Bethlehem, CT, asking to do a new translation of the Spiritual Exercises of Gertrude the Great / Robert Giroux at Harcourt Brace
«detailed view» |
186. |
Series 1: 1955/02/16 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
It was good to hear from you again and to get the Japanese Perspectives. You must have had a fine |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #62]
«detailed view» |
187. |
Series 1: 1955/04/15 |
TLS[x] from Gordon, David / to Merton |
I write to you again in sinu Ecclesiae nostroe and in profound thanks for the exhalation |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... warning to Merton from David Gordon, a Catholic convert from New York, about publishing with James Laughlin, whom Gordon describes as "a poisoner of Catholic souls"
«detailed view» |
188. |
Series 1: 1955/08/16 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Writing a letter to you these days is like writing to some Jules Verne character in an airship. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #63]
«detailed view» |
189. |
Series 1: 1955/09/19 |
TL[x] to Merton |
It was good to find your fine letter of August 16th here in the New York office on my return after |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... trip to India and Iran / yellow mosques of Isfahan, Iran - Persian culture / comparisons of Islam to the Calvinism of his childhood, "devotion and austerity" / Buddhist Dhammapada and the Tamil Kural / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz translated by C. F. MacIntyre / modern Greek poets / asking Merton to send some Trappist cheese to Ezra Pound
«detailed view» |
190. |
Series 1: 1955/12/14 |
TLS to Merton |
Once again, I'm afraid, despite the best intentions, I have fallen badly behind with correspondence. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
191. |
Series 1: 1956/05/07 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
For a long time I have been meaning to write about several things. For one, I at last sent off |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #64]
«detailed view» |
192. |
Series 1: 1956/05/09 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I wrote you yesterday about the poems of a kid called Dan Quinn who had been here for a few weeks |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
193. |
Series 1: 1956/05/24 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your very fine letter of May 7th. It was good to hear from you again |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #65 - pages 2-4 original to the Center, page one copied from Harvard]
«detailed view» |
194. |
Series 1: 1956/06/16 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
First of all, congratulations on your marriage. By all means bring her down when you come |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #66]
«detailed view» |
195. |
Series 1: 1956/07/03 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you so much for your letter of June 16th, and especially for your kind wishes for Ann |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #61 - this letter is misdated on the original as 1954 and published by Cooper under 1954. The events referenced in the letter happened in 1956 as does Merton's letter of June 16. The letter was typed and signed in Laughlin's name by a secretary. (Information per Laughlin biographer Ian S. MacNiven.)]
«detailed view» |
196. |
Series 1: 1956/07/20 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I hope you will forgive a joint letter, with carbons, but traveling around fast from place to place |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [addressed to "Naomi, Tom and Bob" - likely Naomi Burton (Stone), Merton and Robert Giroux]
«detailed view» |
197. |
Series 1: 1956/07/20 (#02) |
other |
ITALIAN APPEALS FOR THE LIBERATION OF EZRA POUND [-] On October 30th, 1955, the 70th |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [possibly enclosed with 1956/07/20 letter - actual date uncertain - see also the correspondence file of Florence mayor, Giorgio La Pira]
«detailed view» |
198. |
Series 1: 1956/07/20 (#03) |
TL[c] from Duncan, Harry |
Last Thursday my partner and dearest friend Paul died of injuries received in an auto accident |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [writing from the Cummington Press, Rowe, Massachusetts]
«detailed view» |
199. |
Series 1: 1956/07/25 (#01) |
HPCS to Merton |
Isn't this a marvelous painting? I'd never seen it before. Got your [word missing..] books about |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [verso: color print of the Jan Brueghel painting "Der Turmbau zu Babel" (The Tower of Babel)]
«detailed view» |
200. |
Series 1: 1956/07/25 (#02) |
TL[c] to Duncan, Harry |
I am deeply distressed to learn of the cruel blow which is has struck you -- the death of your |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
201. |
Series 1: 1956/07/26 |
HPCS to Merton |
What a lovely spot. This old Kloster of yr. order. Dare say you know all about it, but am sending |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
202. |
Series 1: 1956/08/06 |
HPCS[x] from Merton |
The Marcks [unclear word] sounds fine for Tower of Babel - by all means go ahead |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Gerhardt Marcks
«detailed view» |
203. |
Series 1: 1956/09/25 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Good news! I just had a letter from Gerhard Marcks in Cologne saying that he has read "The Tower of |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... plans of Gerhard Marcks to create woodcuts to illustrate Merton's poem "The Tower of Babel"
«detailed view» |
204. |
Series 1: 1957/01/02 |
TLS to Merton |
Bob has passed on to me your letter of December 15th, with its kind messages for me, and I am glad |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
205. |
Series 1: 1957/08/30 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
How-- and where-- are you? There are lots of things to write to you about, if only I can remember |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #67]
«detailed view» |
206. |
Series 1: 1957/09/27 |
TLS to Merton |
Your letter was wonderful, a real joy, and this is not the long letter I am going to write you |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
207. |
Series 1: 1957/11/08 |
TLS to Merton |
What a wretch I am to have let so much time go by without answering your wonderful letter. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #68]
«detailed view» |
208. |
Series 1: 1958/08/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you so very much for sending me the beautiful little Prometheus, a lovely thing is a work of |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
209. |
Series 1: 1958/09/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you so much for sending me the intriguingly shaped "Pax." That is a very appealing tone |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
210. |
Series 1: 1958/09/29 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter of the 23rd. I think it would be ok to print the poems in the anthology. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... wanting to see his translations of the poems of Pablo Antonio Cuadra published in New Directions anthology / writing long article on Boris Pasternak / "Letter to an Innocent Bystander"
«detailed view» |
211. |
Series 1: 1958/10/09 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I am considerable attracted to the poems by Cuadra that you have translated. It is, so far, a minor |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Pablo Antonio Cuadra / suggests sending "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" to Ted Weeks at the Atlantic / Merton's ad in Pantheon
«detailed view» |
212. |
Series 1: 1958/10/16 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter, and for the Pasternak Selected Writings which came in today. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #70]
«detailed view» |
213. |
Series 1: 1959/01/17 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
The Perspective of Italy has arrived together with your copy of your letter to P.A. Cuadra. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #71]
«detailed view» |
214. |
Series 1: 1959/01/26 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your fine letter of January 17th, and I am so pleased that you enjoyed |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
215. |
Series 1: 1959/02/12 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
It was good to get your letter of Jan. 26th, and I can imagine how hard it must be to get out |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #72]
«detailed view» |
216. |
Series 1: 1959/02/20 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your fine letter of the 12th, which reached me down here in Florida, where I am |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #73]
«detailed view» |
217. |
Series 1: 1959/03/02 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Bob and I have been making some inquiries about easy-to-read Russian books which you might |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Russian book suggestions - Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time and Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades / Russian language study
«detailed view» |
218. |
Series 1: 1959/03/02 |
TLS to Merton |
Bob and I have been making some inquiries about easy-to-read Russian books which you might like, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Russian book suggestions - Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time and Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades / Russian language study
«detailed view» |
219. |
Series 1: 1959/03/11 |
TL[x] from Ohannessian, Griselda / to Merton |
Mr. Laughlin asked me to follow up on a little question he had in regard to your remarks |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Griselda Jackson Ohannessian of New Directions asking if they can quote from a letter of Merton for a blurb for a book by Giuseppe Ungaretti
«detailed view» |
220. |
Series 1: 1959/04/13 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I thought you might like to see this nice letter from Mardersteig, who is, in my book, the greatest |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
221. |
Series 1: 1959/04/13 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Mardersteig, J. |
It was very kind of you to send me a copy of your beautiful edition of Thomas Merton's "The Tower of |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
222. |
Series 1: 1959/04/17 |
TL[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton |
Thank you so much for steering Tom's translations from the Desert Fathers to me. I read them last |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
223. |
Series 1: 1959/04/18 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I want to rush this off to you, so it may be a little incoherent. But the main thing is that |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #74]
«detailed view» |
224. |
Series 1: 1959/04/23 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your letter of April 18th, with the expanded text of the "Desert Fathers" |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
225. |
Series 1: 1959/04/23 (#02) |
TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton |
Thank you so much for steering Tom's translations from the Desert Fathers to me. I read them last |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
226. |
Series 1: 1959/04/28? (#01) |
TN[x] from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone |
Here, in haste, is the copy of my letter to J. So you have everything to date. I am expecting Bob |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - see also letter to James Laughlin (item number two of this date)] French edition of Thoughts in Solitude / The Wisdom of the Desert 2016/05/01 Hart, Patrick, Br., O.C.S.O.
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227. |
Series 1: 1959/04/28? (#02) |
TN[x] from Merton |
It is good news that the Desert Fathers go to ND and that you are interested in making it a very |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - see also letter to Naomi Burton Stone (item number one of this date)] The Wisdom of the Desert - design of the book, archaic versus modern - Victor Hammer and American Uncial font / musical setting for ""The Tower of Babel - Vincent Persichetti
«detailed view» |
228. |
Series 1: 1959/05/08 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your very fine letter of April 28th. First of all, let me say how excited I am |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
229. |
Series 1: 1959/05/14 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
June first or second would be really fine-- or any time that week except the fifth, (Friday) which |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... D. T. Suzuki and book on the desert fathers - hope to have a book design by Mardersteig / Victor Hammer / Brazilian poet Jorge de Lima / dropping idea of studying Russian language
«detailed view» |
230. |
Series 1: 1959/06/17 |
TL[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton |
Thank you so much for your good letter of June 15th, received in Norfolk, from where I am dictating |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
231. |
Series 1: 1959/06/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your fine letter of the 18th. I am still enjoying the glow of my visit with you, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
232. |
Series 1: 1959/07/06 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
I certainly did enjoy the [indecipherable word.. ] with you. Driving through that lovely country |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
233. |
Series 1: 1959/07/06 (#02) |
other |
Progress Causes Latin Eruptions [-] By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [-] Latin America has a fever. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [newspaper clipping - enclosed with 1959/07/06 letter]
«detailed view» |
234. |
Series 1: 1959/07/06 (#03) |
other |
AMERICAS VOTE NICARAGUA STUDY [-] O.A.S. Is Expected to Send Fact-Finding Mission |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [newspaper clipping - enclosed with 1959/07/06 letter]
«detailed view» |
235. |
Series 1: 1959/08/11 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Please forgive me for having been so uncommunicative while I was out west. I had a marvelous time. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... enclosed with 1959/08/11 letter - letter to Cuadra dated 1959/08/05
«detailed view» |
236. |
Series 1: 1959/08/11 (#02) |
TL[c] to Van Doren, Mark |
Many thanks for your card of the 31st, about the manuscript of Tom's "Selected Poems." |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... enclosed with 1959/08/11 letter - letter to Van Doren dated 1959/08/04
«detailed view» |
237. |
Series 1: 1959/08/11 (#03) |
TAL[c] to Cuadra, Pablo Antonio |
I want to thank you so much for sending me the autographed copy of your beautiful little book, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... enclosed with 1959/08/11 letter - letter to Cuadra dated 1959/08/05
«detailed view» |
238. |
Series 1: 1959/10/19 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I am here in the hospital for some minor repairs - will be going back to the monastery in a few days |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #75]
«detailed view» |
239. |
Series 1: 1959/11/02 |
TLS to Merton |
I really am getting quite potty in my old age. I dictated this whole letter to you last week, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
240. |
Series 1: 1959/11/11 |
TALS to Merton |
That old Suzuki really is tremendous, isn't he? Bob has given me his piece to read, and your new |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
241. |
Series 1: 1959/11/14 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your two letters. I'll start with the Suzuki questions. He gave me carte blanche |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... D. T. Suzuki and book on the desert fathers - Mardersteig's Dante / Victor Hammer / Ernesto Cardenal and feedback from Octavio Paz / Mark Van Doren and the scandal of Charlie Van Doren
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242. |
Series 1: 1959/12/11 |
TALS to Merton |
I have held off in writing you recently, hoping that I might arrive in person, on my way out to Utah |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
243. |
Series 1: 1959/12/14 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Your letter and Bob's together with one copy of the Selected Poems reached me today. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #76]
«detailed view» |
244. |
Series 1: 1959/12/17 |
TALS to Merton |
So glad to get your good letter of December 14th and pleased that you liked the appearance of the |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
245. |
Series 1: 1960/01/05 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for sending the specimen pages that Mardersteig has designed. They are simply splendid. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Mardersteign's design / Laughlin's visit to Gethsemani January 12 / Victor Hammer and his crucifix for the Gethsemani chapel
«detailed view» |
246. |
Series 1: 1960/01/09 |
HLS to Merton |
So pleased that you like M's layout too. Will try to bring down script so we can work over |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
247. |
Series 1: 1960/01/29 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
We are in an emergency. There are going to have to be drastic changes in our plan for the |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #77]
«detailed view» |
248. |
Series 1: 1960/01/29 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
We are in an emergency. There are going to have to be drastic changes in our plan for the |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #77]
«detailed view» |
249. |
Series 1: 1960/01/29 (#03) |
other |
Merton - Wisdom of the Desert [-] TABLE OF CONTENTS [-] Part I [-] Note [-] The Wisdom |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
250. |
Series 1: 1960/01/31 (#01) |
other |
SELECTED POEMS [-] Father Merton's own selection from his five previous volumes of poetry |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [advertisement for Merton's Selected Poems - handwritten list of magazines in which the add is to appear, including Jubilee, Commonweal, America, Catholic World, and Catholic Library World]
«detailed view» |
251. |
Series 1: 1960/01/31 (#02) |
other |
A Selection Of Merton Poems [-] A Review by William Habich [-] SELECTED POEMS |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [news clipping - review by William Habich of Merton's Selected Poems from the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1960/01/31]
«detailed view» |
252. |
Series 1: 1960/01/31 (#03) |
other |
Selected Poems Of Thomas Merton [-] (New Directions Paperbook $1.45) [-] Quoting Thomas |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [news clipping - review Merton's Selected Poems from the The Globe of Sioux City, Iowa, 1960/01/07]
«detailed view» |
253. |
Series 1: 1960/02/02 |
TLS to Merton |
This morning there arrived on my desk, from an old friend in France, the writer Joseph Delteil, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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254. |
Series 1: 1960/02/10 |
TLS to Merton |
Just back from some very pleasant skiing up in snowy Vermont with my daughter and some friends, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #78]
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255. |
Series 1: 1960/02/15 |
TLS to Merton |
Miss Haggard, up at Curtis Brown, has just sent the poem back to me, writing: "I am returning |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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256. |
Series 1: 1960/02/19 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
It is getting a little hard to keep up with everything that goes on, all of a sudden. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Joseph Delteil / D. T. Suzuki material - silence from Abbot General / Dorothy Day and the plight of Hopi Indians in the United States / Laughlin's newborn son Henry / Bill Everson / Bob Lax / E. W. May interview / South American poets - translating Jorge Carrera Andrade / "Problems and Pardons" manuscript
«detailed view» |
257. |
Series 1: 1960/02/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your good letter of February 19th. Yes, things do get busy, don't they? |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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258. |
Series 1: 1960/03/03 |
TNS[x] from Merton |
In case one of those blokes might like two instead of one, here is another poem. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton received Delteil book - his offhand reflection
«detailed view» |
259. |
Series 1: 1960/03/15 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your note of March 3rd, and that's a nice poem, the "Messenger from the Horizon", |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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260. |
Series 1: 1960/03/18 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
that has been working on me for some time, of very informally discussing basic things with small |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [dated by Cooper as March 18, 1960 - only last page extant in this file] small group, open-ended discussions with writers and intellectuals / project to study the Shakers - correspondence with Shaker eldress from New Hampshire / suggests Laughlin visit Gethsemani with Robert Lax, Jack Kerouac and others
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261. |
Series 1: 1960/04/04 |
TALS to Merton |
I feel badly to have let so many days slip by without answering your good letter of March 18th. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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262. |
Series 1: 1960/04/07 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Last evening I spent an hour or so with your discovery, the venerable hermit, Isaac of Ninive. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Isaac of Nineveh and comparisons to the Desert Fathers / "Problems and Pardons" manuscript (The Behavior of Titans)
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263. |
Series 1: 1960/04/20 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Finally the Delteil book starts back to you. I can see where Henry Miller would like it, and I like |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #79]
«detailed view» |
264. |
Series 1: 1960/05/10 |
TALS to Merton |
That is fine that the censors have come through with their approval on "P & P". I am shooting |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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265. |
Series 1: 1960/05/15? |
TALS[x] from Merton |
A real hasty note, to try to get it in the mail this afternoon. I have been rushing to finish |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [no date - mid-May from context] article on Mount Athos and Orthodox Christians / rejection by order of publishing D. T. Suzuki material / meeting of Merton with 6-7 African American Methodist ministers from Tennessee and African American artists from Louisville / Apuleius's "Amor and Psyche" commentary by E. Neumann / Ernesto Cardenal
«detailed view» |
266. |
Series 1: 1960/05/31 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
A problem has arisen. Bob Giroux thinks that Problems and Pardons as a title comes too close |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #80]
«detailed view» |
267. |
Series 1: 1960/06/02 |
TALS to Merton |
I feel very badly to have let two of your letters go unanswered so long. Let me explain that this |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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268. |
Series 1: 1960/06/07 |
TL[c] to Merton |
Just got your letter of May 31st in which you tell of Bob Giroux's objections to the title "Problems |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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269. |
Series 1: 1960/06/12 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter(s) of recent date. I am glad that the new title is all right with you. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "Problems and Pardons" manuscript re-titled The Behavior of Titans for publication - sending Herakleitos article for addition to book / Merton's D. T. Suzuki work for New Directions Annual / Latin American poets - Jorge Carrera Andrade, Octavio Paz, Esther de Caseres, Ernesto Cardenal
«detailed view» |
270. |
Series 1: 1960/06/16 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
Many thanks for your good letter of June 12th, with enclosure of the piece on Herakleitos, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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271. |
Series 1: 1960/06/16 (#02) |
TL[x] from Laughlin, James / to Dorothy Day |
Father Merton writes me that you are going to print his piece, "Prometheus", in "The Catholic Worker |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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272. |
Series 1: 1960/06/20 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here is the full Suzuki text. I have had the preface retyped with a lot of necessary changes and I |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #81]
«detailed view» |
273. |
Series 1: 1960/06/21 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Here is another version of any concluding remarks. It should take the place of the version I sent |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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274. |
Series 1: 1960/06/21 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Here is another version of any concluding remarks. It should take the place of the version I sent |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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275. |
Series 1: 1960/06/24 |
TALS to Merton |
Many thanks for your letter of June 20th, enclosing the text of the Merton-Suzuki interchange, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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276. |
Series 1: 1960/06/28 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Here are the poems of Carrera Andrade that I have done so far, with a little introduction. They are |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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277. |
Series 1: 1960/07/09 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your note of June 28th. I like the little poem "A Song for Nobody" VERY much -- |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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278. |
Series 1: 1960/07/30 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
This is just a note to say that the material on Carrera Andrade and the new poem have all been |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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279. |
Series 1: 1960/08/08 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Do you know of some really good schools in Switzerland and France? I am trying to help out a kid |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... need help finding schools in Europe for a bright high school aged student who had visited - working through Ezra Pound translations of Confucius during visit - idea of studying Chinese language / Wisdom of the Desert / Mencius / poet Herbert Mason
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280. |
Series 1: 1960/08/12 |
TALS to Merton |
I'm sorry to have fallen silent again for so many days. Perhaps I could blame it on the summer, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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281. |
Series 1: 1960/08/15 |
TALS to Merton |
Many thanks for your letter of August 8th, just received in the country, with the query about a good |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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282. |
Series 1: 1960/08/25 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Many thanks for the letter about the schools which I relayed to the mother of the brilliant child, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Herbert Mason / interested in finding material by additional Latin American poets - Miguel Angel Asturias, Carlos Pellicer, Luis Cardoza y Aragon, Raul Leyva / interested in [Bertolt] Brecht
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283. |
Series 1: 1960/08/31 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your note of August 25th, enclosing the, as you say, quite remarkable poems of young |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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284. |
Series 1: 1960/09/01 |
TLS to Merton |
The other evening I had dinner with Octavio Paz. He came over here unexpectedly for a week |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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285. |
Series 1: 1960/09/15 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letters of Aug. 31st and Sept 1. And today I got the proofs of WISDOM in the mail |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... poet Nels Richardson / list of books suggested by Octavio Paz - [Jorge Luis] Borges / Harper's Bazaar using material from The Wisdom of the Desert
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286. |
Series 1: 1960/09/26 |
TLS to Merton |
The new, slightly smaller edition of "Bread" has just come in, and I think it looks very nice. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Nels Richardson / Ezra Pound's translation of Mencius / Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea
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287. |
Series 1: 1960/11/07 |
TLS[x] from Fox, James |
Your book CAN THESE BONES LIVE to Father Louis arrived, postmarked from Clifton, New Jersey. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Dom James sending back Edward Dahlberg's Can These Bones Live - "Certain chapters and drawings really are not for monks… We have not mentioned it to Father Louis"
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288. |
Series 1: 1960/11/10 |
TL[x] to Fox, James |
It was so good of you to write me at such length about the Dahlberg book, but I am so distressed to |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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289. |
Series 1: 1960/11/17 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I have just been writing to a man in Karachi who is interested in my books- a Moslem to whom I can't |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... afraid to send Abdul Aziz a copy of Seeds of Contemplation because of an error about the Sufis - inspiration to do New Seeds of Contemplation with this and other corrections and additions
«detailed view» |
290. |
Series 1: 1960/11/22 |
TALS to Merton |
Many thanks for your note suggesting the possibility of a revised edition of "Seeds." I haven't |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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291. |
Series 1: 1960/11/28 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
What you say about the Cuadra poems is all right with me. I would be translating only three or four |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #82]
«detailed view» |
292. |
Series 1: 1960/11/30 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your letter of November 28th. I think that is a good decision to put all |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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293. |
Series 1: 1960/12/02 |
TALS to Merton |
Does the name Ramon J. Sender ring a bell with you? He is a Spanish writer--author of several very |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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294. |
Series 1: 1960/12/05 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here is the introduction to the Cuadra poems. I have absolutely no factual information, like dates |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... advising to write to Ernesto Cardenal about biographical information about Pablo Antonio Cuadra / Ramon Sender book and Antologia de la Poesia Negra / desire for Loeb Classical Library edition of Aeschylus in Greek and Latin - Sophocles
«detailed view» |
295. |
Series 1: 1960/12/09 |
TLS to Merton |
Could you take a quick look at this copy I just wrote for the jacket of the TITANS and flash it back |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
296. |
Series 1: 1960/12/15 |
TL[c] to Cuadra, Pablo Antonio |
Thank you so much for your most kind letter of December 7th, with enclosure of the biographical |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [carbon copy sent to Merton]
«detailed view» |
297. |
Series 1: 1960/12/17 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Well, it is pretty bold of you to let authors write their own blurbs. I did however slightly revise |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #83]
«detailed view» |
298. |
Series 1: 1960/12/20 |
TLS to Merton |
Bob has just brought me your rewrite of the blurb for "Titans" and I think it is great--an enormous |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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299. |
Series 1: 1960/12/26 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your fine letter of December 17th, enclosing the two good poems-- "Advice |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #84]
«detailed view» |
300. |
Series 1: 1961/01/04 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I got your good letter of Dec. 26th and am glad you liked the poems. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #85 - letter dated 1960/January/04 but Cooper dates it as a mistake]
«detailed view» |
301. |
Series 1: 1961/02/09 |
TALS to Merton |
Here are your proofs of all the fine and wonderful things that you have so generously given us for |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
302. |
Series 1: 1961/02/11 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Proofs came and I enjoyed reading them. The Suzuki piece is wonderful. Having the footnotes |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... idea of Laughlin and Jack Mills coming to Gethsemani
«detailed view» |
303. |
Series 1: 1961/02/20 |
TL[c] to Thittila, Bikkhu U. |
I hope you will forgive my delay in replying to your very kind letter of September last. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [letter to The Rev. Bikkhu U Thittila in Rangoon, Burma - carbon copy to Merton]
«detailed view» |
304. |
Series 1: 1961/02/21 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks very much indeed for being so quick with the Suzuki proofs. And I am glad you found them |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
305. |
Series 1: 1961/02/no? |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Titans just arrived and it is very, very handsome. Congratulations on its really beautiful jacket. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton states that Laughlin forgot to include imprimatur of the Archbishop of New York
«detailed view» |
306. |
Series 1: 1961/03/03 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
First of all the Hasegawa print certainly did arrive and I am overjoyed with it. We have given it |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #86]
«detailed view» |
307. |
Series 1: 1961/03/27 |
TLS to Merton |
This letter will be typed in the New York office, but I am dictating it from out in Utah, where |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
308. |
Series 1: 1961/04/05 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Much thanks for the great long letter with the third dimension of your daughter's conversation |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #87]
«detailed view» |
309. |
Series 1: 1961/04/06 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I just ran across a title of a book that would be of considerable help in any work I do on Chinese |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... asking for help in obtaining the following books: The Confucian Persuasion by Arthur F. Wright and Chinese Thought and Institutions edited by John King Fairbank / "wrote to Doc Williams [William Carlos Williams] and sent him the solitude poem printed by Victor." [Victor Hammer]
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310. |
Series 1: 1961/04/18 |
TALS to Merton |
Under separate cover I am sending you a little paperback of the "Benjamin Minor" of Richard of St. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
311. |
Series 1: 1961/05/01 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Here it is May 1 and raining hard – but a lovely quiet morning nevertheless in the hermitage. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... John and Barbara Beecher / translation of Chuang Tzu
«detailed view» |
312. |
Series 1: 1961/05/03? |
TLS[x] from Merton |
One thing I forgot in my last letter was the question of the offprints. I am glad it can be |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... William Carlos Williams recommends Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish as a "religious poem"
«detailed view» |
313. |
Series 1: 1961/05/23 |
HLS to Merton |
Sorry for silence. My dear old Aunt went to Heaven and there has been much to do. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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314. |
Series 1: 1961/05/24 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
It happens that the censors of the order have vetoed the atomic bomb piece "because others have |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... private printing and circulation of manuscript on nuclear war [Peace in the Post-Christian Era] / Gandhi essay book
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315. |
Series 1: 1961/05/26 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your note. Yes it is all right to state the case as you put it. Dialogue on Zen |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "Dialogue on Zen and Christian Mysticism" / Thomas McDonnell's Merton Reader
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316. |
Series 1: 1961/05/31 |
TLS to Merton |
Before it slips my mind, did you get that copy of the translation of Richard of St. Victor that was |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
317. |
Series 1: 1961/06/05 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter of May 31st. I am glad of all the news. And first of all there has been |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... permission from abbot general to publish "Original Child Bomb" / Victor Hammer and "Hagia Sophia"
«detailed view» |
318. |
Series 1: 1961/06/21 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Fitzgerald's Odyssey has come and it is a fine big handsome thing, reads very well, one |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Paul Sih and a English-Chinese side-by-side version of The Way of Chuang Tzu / letter from Salvatore Quasimodo / Romain Rolland's journal on India - Tagore / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
«detailed view» |
319. |
Series 1: 1961/06/29 |
TALS to Merton |
Here I am out in SF, staying with Rexroth in his marvelous house, a real old palace, which he can |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
320. |
Series 1: 1961/07/01 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Good to hear from you. Lax wrote in the same mail and said Antonucci had designed something |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #88]
«detailed view» |
321. |
Series 1: 1961/07/01 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton to Mihael Cukovecki |
Nous vous donnons bien volontiers la permission de traduire les livres que vous nous avez demandée. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [see also the "Cukovecki, Mihael Rudolf, Fr., O.F.M." file] responds to permission request to translate Seeds of Contemplation and No Man Is an Island into Croatian
«detailed view» |
322. |
Series 1: 1961/07/05 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your letter of June 21st, which has just reached me out in San Francisco, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Paul Sih and The Way of Chuang Tzu
«detailed view» |
323. |
Series 1: 1961/07/05 (#02) |
HNS from ? / to Merton |
I'm "vetting" J's letters since his secy away. Thanks a great deal for your July 5th letter which |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
324. |
Series 1: 1961/07/05 (#03) |
HLS from Mussayassul, Melanie Nagel |
how nice to hear from you, with three lovely books - I'm grateful and I thank you - |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [original copy forwarded to Merton - originally sent to Laughlin 1961/04/11]
«detailed view» |
325. |
Series 1: 1961/07/08 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I just got through writing to Ferlinghetti about the Original Child. Yesterday I received from Bob |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Lawrence Ferlinghetti's desire to publish and his suggestions for "Original Child Bomb" - to Robert Lax for Pax, layout by Emil Antonucci / "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway"
«detailed view» |
326. |
Series 1: 1961/07/14 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your letter of July first, which reached me out in San Francisco, from where I am |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
327. |
Series 1: 1961/07/22 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
It is good to get your roundabout letters from the coast, and it sounds great out there. Especially |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #89]
«detailed view» |
328. |
Series 1: 1961/07/24 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
Emil Antonucci has just sent me his dummy of your "Bomb" book, and the lay-out for the first |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "Original Child Bomb" - to Robert Lax for Pax, layout by Emil Antonucci - Lawrence Ferlinghetti publishing poem in Journal for the Protection of All Beings / "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway" - Laughlin's mixed view, genius of Hemingway vs. the "glorification of violence" - Ezra Pound on Hemingway
«detailed view» |
329. |
Series 1: 1961/07/24 (#02) |
TL[c] to Antonucci, Emil |
Thank you so much for your letter with the dummy of the proposed book for Tom's "Original Child Bomb |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Emil Antonucci was designer and illustrator of a special limited edition of "Original Child Bomb"]
«detailed view» |
330. |
Series 1: 1961/07/26 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I have just received a nice letter from Jorge Carrera Andrade who writes that he is now Ambassador |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
331. |
Series 1: 1961/07/26 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Tshering, Tashi / to George and Bob |
I am about to settle down by now and living in men's dormitory a new building which is |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Tashi Tshering writes from Seattle, Washington, to "George and Bob" in New York City - mimeograph of letter sent to Merton]
«detailed view» |
332. |
Series 1: 1961/07/27 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Your carbon to Antonucci has not arrived but I am replying right away to the letter. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Ernest Hemingway - "the cult of blood and guts was very phony… sad at his death" / Br. Antoninus (William Oliver Everson) / Victor Hammer printing "Hagia Sophia" / feedback on Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish"
«detailed view» |
333. |
Series 1: 1961/08/02 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
This morning I wrote to Lawrence about the furnace poem and the censors. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... asking address of poet Jorge Carrera Andrade in Ecuador / Brother Antoninus / Claude Fredericks and idea for selections from 16th century mystic, Benet of Canfield
«detailed view» |
334. |
Series 1: 1961/08/11 |
TLS to Merton |
Please forgive my delay in replying to your good letter of July 27th. I have been moving about |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #90]
«detailed view» |
335. |
Series 1: 1961/08/17 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your note of August 2nd, which reached me just as I am beginning my trip back east. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
336. |
Series 1: 1961/08/18 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
I'm now planning to fly from Denver to Louisville on Friday, August 25th. Will pick up rental car |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Laughlin writes from the Alta Lodge in Sandy, Utah]
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337. |
Series 1: 1961/08/18 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your good letter. By now, as you know, a series of accidents has led to the publication |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #91]
«detailed view» |
338. |
Series 1: 1961/08/19 |
HPCS[x] from Merton |
Fine! Will look for you on the 25th or 26th. Come as soon as you can. Sunday is not the best |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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339. |
Series 1: 1961/09/06 |
HLS to Merton |
Just to thank you - and tell you how much I enjoyed my visit. Really the high point of my whole |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
340. |
Series 1: 1961/09/12 |
TLS to Merton |
I am sore of heart. That matter we discussed, where a friend of ours is trying to push me around, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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341. |
Series 1: 1961/09/18 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Did Gilda send you one of these specimens of the layout for the "New Seeds"? Isn't it handsome? |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
342. |
Series 1: 1961/09/19 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
First of all the book of Denise Levertov just arrived. I think her book from Jonathan Williams was |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #92]
«detailed view» |
343. |
Series 1: 1961/09/25 |
TL[c] to Antonucci, Emil |
Just a line to let you know that Gilda has shown me your revised layout for the "Bomb" and I like it |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
344. |
Series 1: 1961/09/26 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I always bless you especially when it comes jacket writing time. Those lines you sent |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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345. |
Series 1: 1961/09/26 (#02) |
HLS to Merton |
The Cuadra Giants has some fine stuff in it. I'll dictate about it tomorrow. Here is some gist for |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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346. |
Series 1: 1961/09/30 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Gosh things are madly busy these days… So this isn't the real letter answer to your last yet, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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347. |
Series 1: 1961/10/01 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for all the "grist." Some of it is being read in the refectory. I am returning the Ferry one. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... invitation for W. H. "Ping" Ferry to visit Gethsemani / asking for reaction to "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" / Henry Miller's book Remember to Remember
«detailed view» |
348. |
Series 1: 1961/10/02 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
On the bomb piece, the only indication of censorship is, as far as I remember, this sentence: |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... speech by Andrei Gromyko - reaction by John F. Kennedy and the United States to Soviet politics / question of whether Lawrence Ferlinghetti was blacklisted by Dom James Fox because Fox did not like Journal for the Protection of All Beings
«detailed view» |
349. |
Series 1: 1961/10/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton to Gilda Kuhlman |
I am returning the sketch for the title page. It is quite good, and I will readily go along with it |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Merton's concern over the title page being crowded and prefers no sketch, just title
«detailed view» |
350. |
Series 1: 1961/10/09 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you so much for several recent letters, but first, while it is fresh in my mind, let me say |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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351. |
Series 1: 1961/10/18 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I was glad to hear from Gilda that you had been giving her some very helpful counsel in the matter |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
352. |
Series 1: 1961/10/18 (#02) |
TAL[x] to Merton |
The ND 17 is finally ready, and will be officially published on November 30th, but I must |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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353. |
Series 1: 1961/10/24 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
This letter is overdue and there are a thousand things to say. Shooting all over the target |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #93]
«detailed view» |
354. |
Series 1: 1961/10/30 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
An idea has occurred to me for a ND paperback for next spring, on Peace. It could be a kind |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #94]
«detailed view» |
355. |
Series 1: 1961/10/31 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
My pal Walter Hasenclever in Stuttgart has sent through this dope on the Kohlhammer edition |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
356. |
Series 1: 1961/10/31 (#02) |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your good letter of October 24th, with the most interesting piece about defense |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
357. |
Series 1: 1961/11/01 |
TLS to Merton |
Yours of the 30th just reached me, and I type this homecooked, midnight-oiled line to let you know |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
358. |
Series 1: 1961/11/03 |
TLS to Merton |
As I home-typed to you last night, I'm most enthusiastic about your idea of a little paperback |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #95]
«detailed view» |
359. |
Series 1: 1961/11/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
All right, here is the idea about the paperback. I already have at hand several articles which I am |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... possible essays for paperback on peace, including those by Jerome Frank, Erich Fromm, Lewis Mumford, Ned O'Gorman, Harrison Brown and James Real, Walter Millis, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich
«detailed view» |
360. |
Series 1: 1961/11/07 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Here is the Clement of Alexandria. The mimeograph is unsatisfactory and the typist did not |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
361. |
Series 1: 1961/11/08 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I agree with everything in your longer letter about the paperback. By all means get in touch |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... book on Gandhi / peace book possibly using title of Lewis Mumford article, "Human Way Out" / Hayden Carruth book
«detailed view» |
362. |
Series 1: 1961/11/08 (#02) |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I made a mistake this morning when I wrote you that Schocken Books had done a paperback containing |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... use of some material on Gandhi
«detailed view» |
363. |
Series 1: 1961/11/10 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I am sending you herewith the wonderful little book of poems written by Ernesto Cardenal |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "Elegy for James Thurber" - possibility of Denise Levertov publishing it in The Nation / Gandhi
«detailed view» |
364. |
Series 1: 1961/11/11 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
"Armistice" Day, as they still call it here, seems a good day to get going on our Peace paperback. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... involving W. H. Ferry in peace paperback / Lewis Mumford - "A Human Way Out"
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365. |
Series 1: 1961/11/11 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here is the Lewis Mumford piece about which I spoke to you, as a possibility for the Paperback. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" being published in Mexico and Nicaragua - still wanting to track down other Nicaraguan poets / Meister Eckhart / pamphlet by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara on United States foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union
«detailed view» |
366. |
Series 1: 1961/11/15 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your note of the 8th, reporting that the Gandhi text which has been used in the |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
367. |
Series 1: 1961/11/17 |
HLS to Merton |
The Mumford is great. It is "Lincolnesque." The style gives the conviction. Ferry is back |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
368. |
Series 1: 1961/11/21 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Enclosed is copy of a letter just received from Ferry, which is helpful, but I am distressed that he |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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369. |
Series 1: 1961/11/21 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Ferry, W. H. |
I didn't let you know about my New York visit because I didn't plan to stop over until my last day |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
370. |
Series 1: 1961/11/22 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Very fine bibble. Have no complaints or additions or anything. I will get to the page about |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
371. |
Series 1: 1961/11/25 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Have not yet received the dictated letter you spoke of with copy of letter from Ferry. Has it gone |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #96]
«detailed view» |
372. |
Series 1: 1961/11/27 (#01) |
TL[x] to Merton |
In a recent letter from Henry Miller to Bob, Henry speaks very warmly of you, as he always does, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Laughlin quotes Henry Miller, "I feel closer to him [Merton], his way of thinking, than any American writer I know of." - Miller recommends to Merton books by Erich Gutkind, The Absolute Collective and Choose Life
«detailed view» |
373. |
Series 1: 1961/11/27 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Your letter and the copy of Ferry's letter came today. Good news: Lewis Mumford has written a very |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr / Gordon Zahn / Erich Fromm's article in Liberation, "Pathology of the Cold War" / C. Wright Mills / Norman Cousins
«detailed view» |
374. |
Series 1: 1961/11/27 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Your letter and the copy of Ferry's letter came today. Good news: Lewis Mumford has written a very |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr / Gordon Zahn / Erich Fromm's article in Liberation, "Pathology of the Cold War" / C. Wright Mills / Norman Cousins
«detailed view» |
375. |
Series 1: 1961/12/01 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Carey McWilliams wrote suggesting I do an article for him. I thought I would try a review article |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #97]
«detailed view» |
376. |
Series 1: 1961/12/01 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Have been reading the paperback stuff most of the day, so can hardly report myself as cheerful, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Ned O'Gorman / article by Roger Hagan of Harvard published in The Nation
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377. |
Series 1: 1961/12/06 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your good letters of November 25th and 27th. Also the little note about the |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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378. |
Series 1: 1961/12/06 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
I had not realized that I was supposed to send the copy of the Gerrard Piel article to you, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [enclosed with 1961/12/06[1] letter - see "Ferry, Wilbur H." file for copy of the original]
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379. |
Series 1: 1961/12/09 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Great news. The Merlin Press has come through with permission for the English Book on Nuclear |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... authors and articles to include for Breakthrough to Peace book about nuclear war
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380. |
Series 1: 1961/12/10 |
HLS to Merton |
Will write properly in the morning. Just wanted to get these into the mail to you tonight. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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381. |
Series 1: 1961/12/12 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for sending me your most attractive little Loretto pamphlet. It is very nicely done, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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382. |
Series 1: 1961/12/15 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I have two new ideas about the paperpack [sic], which I think should be called THE MORALS OF |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #98]
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383. |
Series 1: 1961/12/16 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here is the chapter of the book by Gordon Zahn. He is talking about the way the German Catholic |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... censorship trouble with "Peace, Christian Duties [and Perspectives]" / predicting trouble with censorship for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - idea of privately mimeographing materials and distributing them - sending "Conjectures" to Ping Ferry to copy and distribute - "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants"
«detailed view» |
384. |
Series 1: 1961/12/19 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the latest items. I am still having trouble with the censor but it is possible that |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Dom James Fox helping to get peace article past censors / James Newman letter / "The Human Way Out" / getting Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander censored for England
«detailed view» |
385. |
Series 1: 1961/12/21 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you so much for your good letter of December 15th, with the most interesting enclosures. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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386. |
Series 1: 1961/12/21 (#02) |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Two new things from Ferry. Both excellent for the book. 1 "Very Improbable President" by Hallock |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "The Very Improbable President" by Hallock Hoffman / W. H. Ferry, February 14, 1961, "Present policies and the major powers" / War/Peace Report, December 1961
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387. |
Series 1: 1961/12/27 |
TALS to Merton |
Many thanks for your good letters of December 16th and 19th, and also for the carbon of Gordon |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
388. |
Series 1: 1961/12/31 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your last letter. I will be eagerly expecting you on the 15th, and we will go over all |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #99]
«detailed view» |
389. |
Series 1: 1961/no/no? (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I just got a letter from Erich Fromm, a very good letter too. He wants to be in the book, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... civic defense and fallout shelters / Rollo May / Gerard Piel
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390. |
Series 1: 1961/no/no? (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am rushing this list back to you. Thanks very much for it. Thanks also for the Seven Mystics |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
391. |
Series 1: 1962/01/09 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Am looking forward to seeing you next Monday. Hope everything works out. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "Peace : Christian Duties and Perspectives" (or "Peace : Christian Duties and Responsibilities") / Gordon Zahn and Breakthrough to Peace / Pablo Antonio Cuadra's reply to letter
«detailed view» |
392. |
Series 1: 1962/01/20 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
A man called Allan Forbes Jr. has sent in a hair raising essay on the arms race, it is the best yet. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [second page is a handwritten, revised list of essays to include for Breakthrough to Peace]
«detailed view» |
393. |
Series 1: 1962/01/22 |
TL[x] from Rissin, Rhoda / to Merton |
The enclosed copy of letter from Gerard Piel at "Scientific American" about his article did not |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... forwarding letter to Merton and Laughlin from Gerard Piel
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394. |
Series 1: 1962/01/29 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are two things. First the Forbes ms of which I spoke in my last letter. In this I suggest we |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... censorship of Breakthrough to Peace / Gandhi book
«detailed view» |
395. |
Series 1: 1962/01/31 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Here are two copies of the essay by Herbert Butterfield which I think is really excellent |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
396. |
Series 1: 1962/02/06 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here is the Peace article revised and unfortunately quite a lot lengthened. Since it had got |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... pieces for peace anthology from Karl Stern and Erich Fromm / Catholic Worker and civil disobedience at Atomic Energy Commission sites / Douglas Steere's visit to Gethsemani
«detailed view» |
397. |
Series 1: 1962/02/07 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Just heard a couple of things that need to be told you right away about the Peace book and related |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Walter Stein / Lewis Mumford / Erich Fromm / Karl Stern - on John McCone's possible appointment as head the CIA / Claude Fredericks and "Good Samaritan"
«detailed view» |
398. |
Series 1: 1962/02/14 |
TLS to Merton |
I'm sorry to have left you hanging in the air, so to speak, so many days, while I was getting back |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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399. |
Series 1: 1962/02/15 |
TLS to Merton |
Yesterday was one of those days again, when there wasn't much steam in the old boiler, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
400. |
Series 1: 1962/02/19 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Here is a rather interesting piece, by Dr. Sanford Gifford up at Harvard Medical School, that caught |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
401. |
Series 1: 1962/02/19 (#02) |
TLS to Merton |
Did Ping send you a copy of the Donald N. Michael pamphlet on "Cybernation"? It is very interesting |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
402. |
Series 1: 1962/02/20 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I will write a decent reply to your good letters when I get a chance. I'm sending this off pronto. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... sending letter from Sr. M. Irmã Emmanuel de Souza e Silva from Petropolis, Brazil
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403. |
Series 1: 1962/02/22 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
The Fromm article is in an offprint from the Commentary which includes one by H. Kahn which I am |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Erich Fromm and Herman Kahn article, "A Debate on Civil Defense"
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404. |
Series 1: 1962/02/25 |
HPCS to Merton |
Many thanks for revised Clement. Am shooting it right on to Mardersteig. J. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [verso: color print of a painting of Dierick Bouts, "Die Anbetung Der Könige", Munich, Germany]
«detailed view» |
405. |
Series 1: 1962/02/28 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I believe that Dagmar Henne, the very good agent in Munich, sent you a copy of her letter to me |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
406. |
Series 1: 1962/03/02 (#01) |
TL[c] to Harris, Leonard R. |
Thank you so much for your letter of February 28th. I know that Father Merton will share my great |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Laughlin writes to Leonard R. Harris of Channel Press in Manhasset, New York - carbon copy to Merton]
«detailed view» |
407. |
Series 1: 1962/03/02 (#02) |
TL[c] from Harris, Leonard R. |
Thank you so much for your letter of February 28th. I know that Father Merton will share my great |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [from Leonard R. Harris of Channel Press in Manhasset, New York - originally dated 1962/02/28 - mimeograph sent to Merton]
«detailed view» |
408. |
Series 1: 1962/03/04 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am glad you got the Butterfield article straightened out and that we can use it. The censor has |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #100]
«detailed view» |
409. |
Series 1: 1962/03/06 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
I thought it might be a good idea to do some copyediting on the text of "Clement" before we sent it |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
410. |
Series 1: 1962/03/06 (#02) |
HLS from Mumford, Lewis |
I had meant to write you long before this and I apologize for my delay. I am delighted that you'd |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [mimeographed copy of Mumford's 1962/03/02 letter to Laughlin - sent to Merton]
«detailed view» |
411. |
Series 1: 1962/03/06 (#03) |
TL[x] to Merton |
I'm sorry to have dropped into silence for several days again. I had rather a nasty bout of sinus, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Erich Fromm's rebuttal of Herman Kahn for possible inclusion in Breakthrough to Peace - Lewis Mumford's "Morals of Extermination"
«detailed view» |
412. |
Series 1: 1962/03/12 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Just a note to say that it is ok about the royalties of Bomb the way you had them lined up, for me |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Alan Forbes / W. H. Ferry's visit - to bring Scott Buchanan
«detailed view» |
413. |
Series 1: 1962/03/13 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
This is the continuation of my reply to your good letter of March 4th. Did you received the text of |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
414. |
Series 1: 1962/03/13 (#02) |
TALS to Merton |
That is good news that the censors have passed your preface. I hope they won't tie us up by wanting |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
415. |
Series 1: 1962/03/13 (#03) |
HN to Merton |
At an average of 360 words to the page. A 256 pp book (4- 64's) = 246 *pp of text = about 88,000 |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
416. |
Series 1: 1962/03/13 (#04) |
TL[c] to Fromm, Erich |
Thank you so much for your good letter of February 22nd, and for the copies, sent both to me |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
417. |
Series 1: 1962/03/16 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the lineup on the HUMAN WAY OUT. I am glad we can get moving on it and that everything |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #101]
«detailed view» |
418. |
Series 1: 1962/03/28 |
TLS to Merton |
I did not reply to your letters about the suggested cuts on the anthology, because just at that |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #102]
«detailed view» |
419. |
Series 1: 1962/03/29 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Hugh Johnston, the very able sales manager down at Lippincott, has been discussing the peace |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... need for a better title for the book (later titled Breakthrough to Peace) than "The Human Way Out", should include peace
«detailed view» |
420. |
Series 1: 1962/03/31 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I wrote to Frank Sheed, the President of Sheed and Ward, about the permissions on the Stein book. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Hayden Carruth / Denise Levertov
«detailed view» |
421. |
Series 1: 1962/03/no |
other[x] |
THOMAS MERTON ROYALTY REPORT [-] Period Covered: 7/1/61-12/31/61. [-] BEHAVIOR |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [mimeographed list of Merton's books and royalties paid]
«detailed view» |
422. |
Series 1: 1962/04/02 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I will send this to the N.Y. office in case you are there. First as I said in my letter to Norfolk, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... censors approval of Breakthrough to Peace
«detailed view» |
423. |
Series 1: 1962/04/04 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for yours of March 31st which I found on getting back to Norfolk. That's great that you |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
424. |
Series 1: 1962/04/07 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I am shooting the essay back to you with some changes. I did not manage to shorten it much after |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... thinks "Breakthrough for Peace" a good title
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425. |
Series 1: 1962/04/10 |
TLS to Merton |
I imagine that Ferry must be down there by now and I hope it is turning out to be a very successful |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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426. |
Series 1: 1962/04/11 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
A long phone conversation this morning with the permissions lady at Sheed & Ward. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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427. |
Series 1: 1962/04/11 (#02) |
TL[c] to Hammer, Victor |
Father Merton kindly sent along to me your copy of the very interesting Cavalletti "Immagini |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [carbon copy to Merton]
«detailed view» |
428. |
Series 1: 1962/04/12 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
As you can see from this letter I have just written to the sales manager at Lippincott, I am very |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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429. |
Series 1: 1962/04/12 (#02) |
TL[c] to Johnson, Hubert A. |
I am much perplexed. It is now over three weeks past the publication date of "Original Child Bomb," |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [carbon copy to Merton]
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430. |
Series 1: 1962/04/12 (#03) |
TLS to Merton |
The word this morning from the lady at Sheed & Ward (Miss Wijnhausen) is that we may only use |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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431. |
Series 1: 1962/04/12 (#04) |
TLS[x] from Stein, Walter |
Thank you very much for your letter of the 27th. The news, from Sheed & Ward, is most |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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432. |
Series 1: 1962/04/12 (#05) |
TLS to Merton |
I have now had a chance to go over the list for the anthology, on the assumption that you will wish |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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433. |
Series 1: 1962/04/12 (#06) |
TLS[x] to Eve, Martin |
I have heard about Sheed & Ward's refusal to allow Anthology rights and I am taking this up |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Martin Eve was with the Merlin Press in London - mimeograph sent to Merton - original letter dated 1962/03/30]
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434. |
Series 1: 1962/04/13 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I've just had a very encouraging telephone conversation with Norman Cousins at the "Saturday Review. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Norman Cousins - interest in running "Original Child Bomb in The Saturday Review
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435. |
Series 1: 1962/04/15 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
First of all about the anthology. Ok if it has to be six thousand words from the Stein article |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Norman K. Gottwald of Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts - American Protestant perspective for Breakthrough to Peace / Merton against high publicity for "Original Child Bomb" - praise for poem by Congressman Frank Kowalski
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436. |
Series 1: 1962/04/17 (#01) |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I got your letter about Norman Cousins - and all the 4 copies too. I am sending them back |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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437. |
Series 1: 1962/04/17 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are some notes for the blurbs. They are of course very hasty and need a lot of reworking |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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438. |
Series 1: 1962/04/24 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Many thanks for several recent letters and bless you for those roughs for the blurbs. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... Norman K. Gottwald / politics of using "Original Child Bomb" - sent to bulletin of atomic scientists / Leo Szilard / prayer for Congressman Kowalski / W. H. Ferry's visit to Gethsemani and meeting with Laughlin
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439. |
Series 1: 1962/04/26 |
TL[x] to Merton |
One thing that we need to decide very quickly now is the sub-title for "Breakthrough to Peace." |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... subtitle for Breakthrough to Peace
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440. |
Series 1: 1962/04/27 |
TL[x] to Merton |
How does this strike you for possible copy for the ads on the "Bomb"? What YOU can do about |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... proposed advertisement copy for "Original Child Bomb"
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441. |
Series 1: 1962/04/28 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am sending back the inserts sent by Stein. If we are making the cuts that were suggested, I don't |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #103]
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442. |
Series 1: 1962/05/01 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for all the letters, clippings and so on. I hope we have finally got squared away on all |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #104 - copied from photocopy at Dartmouth College]
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443. |
Series 1: 1962/05/02 (#01) |
HNS to Merton |
Long talk with Kowalski on the phone. He sounds like a fine young man. The Conn Democratic powers |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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444. |
Series 1: 1962/05/02 (#02) |
TL[c] to Miller, David |
I enclose herewith check in the amount of $250.00 to order of "Committee for Kowalski for U. S. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [to David Miller of Meriden, Connecticut - carbon copies to Merton and W. H. Ferry]
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445. |
Series 1: 1962/05/02 (#03) |
HNS to Merton |
Gottwald took a week to answer. I'll report further when we get a page count from actual galleys |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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446. |
Series 1: 1962/05/02 (#04) |
TLS[x] from Gottwald, Norman K. |
Thank you for your recent letter with the proposed condensation of my lecture. I have thought |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [from Norman K. Gottwald of Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts - originally dated 1962/04/27 to Laughlin - mimeograph copy to Merton]
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447. |
Series 1: 1962/05/02 (#05) |
TL[c] to Gottwald, Norman K. |
Thank you so much for your good letter of April 27th. I certainly sympathize with your decision |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [to Norman K. Gottwald of Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts - carbon copy to Merton]
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448. |
Series 1: 1962/05/03 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
I ran across this quote from Einstein again and want to get it to you before I forget. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #105]
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449. |
Series 1: 1962/05/03 (#01) |
HLS to Merton |
Please rush back to me at NYC office. Your essay will come next week. Hope you can keep changes |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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450. |
Series 1: 1962/05/03 (#02) |
TL[c] to Johnson, Hubert A. |
Thank you so much for your good letter of April 30th. I know how busy you are down there |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [to Hubert Johnson of J. B. Lippincott - carbon copy to Merton]
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451. |
Series 1: 1962/05/04 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your good letter of May 1st, but of course I am terribly sorry to hear about |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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452. |
Series 1: 1962/05/04 (#02) |
other |
"Reading Original Child Bomb is a chilling and a shattering experience, recalling to me the sight |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [quote by U.S. Representative Frank Kowalski, a former military governor of the Prefecture of Hiroshima]
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453. |
Series 1: 1962/05/09 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
The last batch of galleys on "Breakthrough" came in last night and I did a careful castoff on what |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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454. |
Series 1: 1962/05/09 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Manager, Editorial Sudamericana |
We must sincerely apologize for not having answered your letter dated January 29. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [from the Manager of Editorial Sudamericana to Laughlin - mimeograph to Merton]
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455. |
Series 1: 1962/05/10 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are the proofs. I have cut a few passages, sentences here and there, in the belief that this |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #106]
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456. |
Series 1: 1962/05/17 |
TLS to Merton |
We are just back from the sales conference with the Lippincott salesmen in Philadelphia. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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457. |
Series 1: 1962/05/18 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Is this blurb for the back of "Clement" all right? It is based on the notes you were good enough |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "Clement of Alexandria. Selections from the Protreptikos." / radio on-air reading of Merton's poem "Original Child Bomb" on WBAI in New York
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458. |
Series 1: 1962/05/19 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Frankly I think the title "A Book for Peace" is just no good. It won't do. There has to be more |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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459. |
Series 1: 1962/05/20 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
In my letter to the office I said I did not like the title - a Book for Peace. And I prefer |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... title for Breakthrough to Peace / asking for books - C. Moore and K. Spencer's Electronics, Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools, and C. Wright Mills' Listen, Yankee / writing to Robert MacGregor concerning seeing the Tibetan monks in New Jersey
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460. |
Series 1: 1962/05/21 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I am sending off the blurb to Mardersteig pronto, made one change, said Clement of Alexandria is the |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... recommends book sent by Ping Ferry, Hello, Stupid! by A. L. Kitselman / ideas for title for Breakthrough to Peace
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461. |
Series 1: 1962/05/22 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Do you know this wonderful "Book of Signs" drawn by Rudolph Koch? We still need a "decorative spot" |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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462. |
Series 1: 1962/05/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for your letters of the 19th and the 21st, which seem to have arrived the same day. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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463. |
Series 1: 1962/05/27 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Toiling on the Sabbath, but I guess it's a good cause. Here is the blurb copy for catalogue |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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464. |
Series 1: 1962/05/28 |
TL[x] to Merton |
The proofs of "Clement" have just come in from Mardersteig, and aren't they beautiful? He really is |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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465. |
Series 1: 1962/05/30 |
TLS from Merton |
I haven't had time to write a decent letter for the last few days but there are a few things that |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #107]
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466. |
Series 1: 1962/06/01 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Here are the proofs from Mardersteig. You are right, they are beautiful indeed. I am very happy |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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467. |
Series 1: 1962/06/05 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Thanks so much for your letter of June 1st, with prompt return of the "Clement" proofs, and so few |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... sent to Merton, Katherine Ann Porter's Ship of Fools / Merton's poem "A Picture of Lee Ying"
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468. |
Series 1: 1962/06/20 |
TL[x] to Merton |
That's a fine piece that you have in the most recent number of the "Catholic Worker." |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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469. |
Series 1: 1962/06/20 |
TL[x] to Merton |
That's a fine piece that you have in the most recent number of the "Catholic Worker." |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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470. |
Series 1: 1962/06/22 (#01) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Ok about Burns' idea for Clement as a Christmas giveaway. I wrote and told him this would be all |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... thoughts on Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools
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471. |
Series 1: 1962/06/22 (#02) |
HPCS[x] from Merton |
As I wrote in letter to Norfolk - Burns' idea for a give away (of Clement) is ok with me. In Xt Tom |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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472. |
Series 1: 1962/07/09 |
TALS[x] from Merton |
This is an idea I have had on my mind for a week or two, and I thought I would pass it along. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... idea for a book combining all of The Behavior of Titans and "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants", "The Tower of Babel", "Hagia Sophia", "Original Child Bomb", "Ox Mountain Parable" and selections from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
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473. |
Series 1: 1962/07/13 |
TLS[x] from Pearce, Donald J. |
I have just read in Library Journal (1 June, page 2151) Mr. McDonald's review of Thomas |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [from Donald Pearce, Head Librarian of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks - mimeograph to Merton]
«detailed view» |
474. |
Series 1: 1962/07/18 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I just got the Texas Quarterly with the Durrenmatt in it which I will read pronto with joy. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... finding magazine for "Song for the Death of Averroes" / Henry Miller sent Merton a literary magazine published by English Carmelite Friars
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475. |
Series 1: 1962/07/19 (#01) |
TL[c] to Pearce, Donald J. |
Thank you so much for your extremely interesting letter of July 13th about Father Merton's |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [to Donald Pearce, Head Librarian of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks - carbon copy to Merton]
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476. |
Series 1: 1962/07/19 (#02) |
other |
ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB - Trade ed. [-] Sales Returns Free [-] March 4594 |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [monthly sales figures for the trade edition and limited edition of "Original Child Bomb"]
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477. |
Series 1: 1962/07/20 |
TLS to Merton |
Sorry not to have gotten back to you sooner on your good letter of July 9th. Rhoda was away for her |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
«detailed view» |
478. |
Series 1: 1962/07/30 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
I just got through writing to Bob and I typed out a list of things that would be in the paperback |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #108]
«detailed view» |
479. |
Series 1: 1962/07/30 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
I just got through writing to Bob and I typed out a list of things that would be in the paperback |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #108]
«detailed view» |
480. |
Series 1: 1962/07/30? (#03) |
other[x] from Merton |
Emblems from a Season of Fury [-] Song if you seek (Accent) [-] The Moslem's Angel of Death |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [draft table of contents with title handwritten and source of prior publication added in parentheses)
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481. |
Series 1: 1962/07/31 |
transcript from Merton to Ping Ferry |
Great letter of yours to the Sta Barbara News Press, on the Everyman I case! Very clear, |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... "Committee for Correspondence" / sending mimeographs of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era"
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482. |
Series 1: 1962/08/09 |
TL[x] to Merton |
Something pretty awful has happened--a cruel blow of fate, or is chance, so to speak. |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... printing error will cause delay in release of Breakthrough to Peace / gift copies of Clement of Alexandria / "Song for the Death of Averroes" accepted by Texas Quarterly / Joseph Delteil's book on St. Francis of Assisi
«detailed view» |
483. |
Series 1: 1962/08/16 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
Yes I have the H. Miller books; they got here with a brief delay. The Wisdom of the Heart is |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... [Cooper #109]
«detailed view» |
484. |
Series 1: 1962/09/05 |
TLS to Merton |
Victor just sent me a copy of the HAGIA SOFIA and it certainly is a beautiful thing, both book |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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485. |
Series 1: 1962/09/07 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your note and for the books. I found them perfectly all right, and I am glad we did not |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... review copies of new book to Henry Miller, Mark Van Doren, Ed Rice, Naomi Burton, Bob Lax, and the "Catlick magazines" - America, Jubilee, Ave Maria, Commonweal, Catholic World / Merton reading Henry Miller's Wisdom of the Heart / David Lutyens, poet (David Bulwer Lutyens)
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486. |
Series 1: 1962/09/11 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks so much for your good letter of September 7th. That's wonderful news that you got such |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas... distribution of Breakthrough to Peace - "get it around fast, and not care too much whether we take in the shekels. After all, the shekels aren't going to do any of us much good if we all get blown up." / request from Messiah College to broadcast "Original Child Bomb on radio / death of e. e. cummings
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487. |
Series 1: 1962/09/14 |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Thanks for the good letter of the 11th. I will look forward to getting the extra copies |
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Series 1: Original Merton-Laughlin Correspondence with occas...
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488. |
Series 1: 1962/09/21 |
HLS[x] from Merton |
For a long time I have been me |