This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Oliver, Patricia (Welsh)".
Patricia W. Oliver (Patricia Welsh) was reference librarian at Bellarmine College and cataloged and maintained the Thomas Merton collection in the Library. Merton and Ms. Oliver developed a friendship over meetings in the library and correspondence relating to the collection.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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| 1. |
1967/01/02 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Hi, Happy New Year. I am sending off another tape today. One side is poetry and the other is |
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| 2. |
1967/01/02 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Hi, Happy New Year. I am sending off another tape today. One side is poetry and the other is |
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| 3. |
1967/01/19 |
TLS from Merton |
I had been hoping to get in to the library in the early part of the month but the weather prevented |
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| 4. |
1967/06/28 |
TL[c] to Merton |
I have been hesitant to write you for so long, having an inside line on the deluge of mail you |
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| 5. |
1967/09/28 |
TLS from Merton |
I do not find my envelope of pictures so I must have left it with you yesterday by mistake. |
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| 6. |
1967/10/09 |
TALS from Merton |
Many thanks for the photos. I'll go through them and all the others I have since got, and will send |
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| 7. |
1967/10/11 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for the signed copy of that very good interview in Motive, October, 1967. |
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| 8. |
1967/10/15 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Just a quick reply to your letter about the tapes. The main thing I want to clarify is: |
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| 9. |
1967/10/15 (#02) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Just a quick reply to your letter about the tapes. The main thing I want to clarify is: |
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| 10. |
1967/10/17 |
TAL from Wettig, Joan / to Patricia Oliver |
For our purposes it would be better if Father Merton would record for 2 track monaural |
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[Joan Wettig performed indexing and abstracting of many of Merton's audio lectures]
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| 11. |
1967/10/19 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for the list of your taped conferences. We have made a Xerox copy, and are returning |
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| 12. |
1967/10/21 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
Thanks very much for returning the list: one more page came to me yesterday, so I am sending |
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| 13. |
1967/10/21 (#02) |
other |
165 L 1-Christian Hope and Relatedness 9/18/66 [-] 2-Rundown on Xtian-Marxist relations; |
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[1 page from Wettig tape abstracts]
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| 14. |
1967/11/03 |
TLS from Merton |
Since I last saw you I have a Louisville lawyer, and I believe you must have met him as he says |
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| 15. |
1967/11/09 |
TL[c] to Merton |
Forgive me for this delay in answering your letter dated November 3; the tragedy is that I did not |
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| 16. |
1967/11/15 |
TLS from Merton |
Yes, the communication problem remains quite acute. We have progressed far enough so that we can |
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| 17. |
1967/11/17 |
TLS[x] to Merton |
I received your November 15 letter, and I am happy the trust agreement is signed, and things |
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| 18. |
1967/11/25 |
TALS from Merton |
Thanks very much indeed for the ms from the tape. Having lost your letter I don't have the name |
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| 19. |
1967/12/09 |
TLS from Merton |
Today I am sending a tape, just for putting away in the collection. It is one that was typed by |
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| 20. |
1967/12/12 |
HLS from Merton |
Find: I'll expect to meet you at Ford's office and go to lunch immediately from there. For the PM- |
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| 21. |
1967/12/18 |
HPCS from Merton |
Sorry I missed you - thought I would see you on the way out. Got back and had a fine supper |
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[verso: color photograph of "Two SAN BLAS Indian Chiefs with their families" from Panama]
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| 22. |
1967/12/21 |
TL[x] from Merton |
MY CAMPAIGN PLATFORM [-] for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse. |
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[see Section E.1 of the classification under "My campaign platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse" for a carbon and annotated mimeograph of this statement]
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| 23. |
1968/02/05 |
TLS from Merton |
J. Laughlin is coming Thursday and I hope to stop by with him at the library on Friday morning some |
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| 24. |
1968/03/no? |
TALS from Merton |
How do you like the new magazine? This copy is for you. There is another for the Library |
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| 25. |
1968/04/06 |
HLS from Merton |
Excuse the paper! I want to reply at once - Lax and Rice can't come in April, so it has been put |
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| 26. |
1968/04/no? |
HNS from Merton |
Sorry I missed you the other day - hope you had a good vacation. It's been beautiful. Will write |
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| 27. |
1968/06/13 |
TLS from Merton |
I wonder if you could dig up some information for me. The Sewanee Review wants me to review two |
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| 28. |
1968/06/14 |
TL[c] to Merton |
Here is what I can find published in English, by the author Roland Barthes: WRITING DEGREE ZERO. |
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| 29. |
1968/06/15 |
TLS from Merton |
Much thanks for the info and the flower power-- now in place of honor on the door. |
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| 30. |
1968/08/03 (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
When John Ford finished drawing up these forms I blithely said I'd get them mimeographed out here. |
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| 31. |
1968/08/03 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Ford, John J. / to Merton |
When John Ford finished drawing up these forms I blithely said I'd get them mimeographed out here. |
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[forwarded by Merton to Oliver - see "Ford, John J." file for original]
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| 32. |
1968/09/05 |
TCS from Merton |
Sorry I was busy down town all day last time I came in. My next time in town is planned next |
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| 33. |
1968/10/no? |
HPCS from Merton |
This is an idyllic spot that I haven't seen yet. (Hope to later). Up to now it have been city stuff |
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[verso: color photograph of "Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram, India"]
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| 34. |
undated/no/no |
other[c] from Merton |
Memo: concerning my will and testament [-] 1 - After discussion of the matter with Rt. Rev. Dom |
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