Rice, Edward, 1918-2001

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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Rice, Edward".

Edward Rice was one of Merton's friends from Columbia University that also contributed to the university's satirical magazine The Jester. He was one of the only Catholics in Merton's circle (before the conversion of Lax and others), and he was chosen as Merton's godfather for Merton's baptism in 1938. Ed Rice became a freelance journalist and photographer. He founded the ecumenical and progressive Catholic magazine Jubilee, to which Merton was a contributor. As a journalist, he traveled throughout the world, sometimes getting into danger, including a threat of disembowelment by Bedouins in Jordan. (Sources: The Thomas Merton Encyclopedia, edited by William Shannon, Christine Bochen, and Patrick O'Connell, pp. 384-385; and Cummings, Mary. "Edward Rice '40: Traveling on Unbeaten Paths." Columbia College Today. May 2001. Online version. Accessed 22 Feb. 2006. ‹http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/may01/may01_feature_rice.html›.)

#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
1.	1940/04/no	TLS[x] from Merton	some Cuba, baby, some Cuba. Listen, I was in Havana a couple days and you never seen such a city.		«detailed view»
2.	1940/12/03	other[x] from Merton			[copy of envelope that Merton used to send Rice 4 poems (most currently unpublished) - see Section E.2 for copies of the poems: "The Minotaur's Picnic", "Watergap", "City's Spring" and "Lycidas"] «detailed view»
3.	1941/02/24	TLS[x] from Merton	Your story of how you bought finegans wake reminds me of the time lax went into the same kind		[addressed "Rous", like 1941/02/24 letter] «detailed view»
4.	1941/no/no?	TLS[x] from Merton	I have just sat in my chalet in the snow and corrected seventeen million english exams and only six		[labeled Rice at Columbia, but mentions Rice in letter - addressed "Rous"] «detailed view»
5.	1950/06/23	TALS to Merton	Lax just passed on a letter from you. I was going to write you about the magazine, but I see that		«detailed view»
6.	1957/02/28	TL[c] from Merton	I got permission to write to you because perhaps you can put me in touch directly or indirectly	✓	«detailed view»
7.	1959/02/09	TLS to Merton	Hope this reaches you before the Iron Curtain falls on Wednesday. Yes, by all means, articles		«detailed view»
8.	1959/02/28	TLS[x] from Merton	Man I go to sharpen up this typewriter and write some time in a month a profound article		«detailed view»
9.	1959/05/09	TLS[x] from Merton	That beat generation man Lax he was down here o yes manmanman. Well and he brought back to you,		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files] sent "Boris Pasternak and the People with Watch Chains" / sending article on Mount Athos / Gethsemani cheese / Art and Worship - Robert Giroux and Farrar, Straus / James Laughlin and the desert fathers book (Wisdom of the Desert) / Robert Lax as beat and hermit «detailed view»
10.	1959/05/28	TLS to Merton	Yes, we received Pasternak (and the insert) and Mt Athos. Many thanks for both. You have no idea		«detailed view»
11.	1959/10/26	TALS to Merton	I've read your books about the human spirit and I think they're peachy. My friend Hubert Larks does		«detailed view»
12.	1960/01/05	TAL to Merton	Yes, Eloise & I will come, will leave Jan 29 (Sunday) & arrive, I suppose, Monday night		«detailed view»
13.	1960/03/31	TAL from Merton	I write to you as to Mr Jubilee Ikon. Dear Mister Ikon (Jubilee). I have been imprisoned		«detailed view»
14.	1960/04/08	TALS to Merton	By separate mail we sent you an annunciation ikon, on paper, just like Uncle Ivan used to make.		«detailed view»
15.	1960/06/16	TALS to Merton	Listen , Jazzbo, you blow across the pipes, not into them. Never mind Swanee River.		«detailed view»
16.	1960/06/20	TLS[x] from Merton	Well I wish to declare that the Huge Book printed on ghost skins by Nestles Chocolate Inc, Vevey		«detailed view»
17.	1960/06/27	TLS[x] from Merton	The censors have passed Peter Damian and Herkleitos both. So they are ok, no corrections.		«detailed view»
18.	1960/08/25	TL to Merton	Laundry man say, run tzu, run three, run all nineteen pages of fortune cookie recipie.		«detailed view»
19.	1960/08/30	TL to Merton	By all means, an article on the monkey man (yes, my sister did marry one & the whole		«detailed view»
20.	1960/08/no?	TLS to Merton	send quickly dolci. send quickly heraklitos. i will send dolci a five dollar prize even as you		«detailed view»
21.	1960/11/12	TLS[x] from Merton	Well, I now have the final supreme decision about the Teilhard de Chardin article. It is that this		«detailed view»
22.	1961/01/10	TLS[x] from Merton	Fine letter. I will be craning for the sails of the mercedes Jan 30 next day big birthday am five		«detailed view»
23.	1961/02/13	TLS to Merton	Some more clippings for background for the art book. The one on Janis will tell you something		«detailed view»
24.	1961/09/03	TL[c] from Merton	The letter will serve as an introduction for the Rt Rev. Archimandrite Basil Kazan. Providentially	✓	«detailed view»
25.	1961/10/08	TLS to Merton	Hah, you thought I'd never write. No the Iron Curtain hasn't been holding up my letters,		«detailed view»
26.	1961/10/13	TLS[x] from Merton	Received yesterday yours of 8th. If the image woman was here she has been and gone without		«detailed view»
27.	1961/11/02	TLS to Merton	So you hid from the whiskey image woman. Too bad. She had pockets full of Old Crow, Old Grandad,		«detailed view»
28.	1961/11/15	TL from Merton	Letters from Jim Forest at the CW have given me a pretty confused picture of what has been going on		«detailed view»
29.	1961/11/22	TLS to Merton	Yes, do the article on God and the H Bomb. Perhaps rather than a review it could be a take-off		«detailed view»
30.	1961/11/30	TLS to Merton	Whatever happed to J.P. Morgan's midget? Have you heard about Enos, first American spaceman around		«detailed view»
31.	1962/01/04	TLS to Merton	Went into the fallout shelter for Christmas & just came out. Why didn't they drop the bomb?		«detailed view»
32.	1962/01/08	TLS[x] from Merton	What you need is Trappish fallup bisquix, with built in bourbon flavor and goats hair packages		«detailed view»
33.	1962/01/23	TALS to Merton	Receiving the Marissa M. material. Not yet decided about running it since H & H turned over		«detailed view»
34.	1962/02/10 (#01)	TALS[x] from Merton	The article of Fr Michael Azkoul is quite good, and it touches on the main theme of eastern	✓	[handwritten annotations on xerox by William Shannon] «detailed view»
35.	1962/02/10 (#02)	transcript from Merton	The article of Fr. M.A. is quite good, and it touches on the main theme of eastern Christian	✓	[Cold War Letters #33 - transcript from bound set] «detailed view»
36.	1962/03/21	TALS to Merton	Enclosed are galleys of your article. Sounds like the best you've done on the subject.		«detailed view»
37.	1962/03/22	TLS to Merton	I sent you galleys of the article yesterday, but I see not that the Catholic Worker has already run		«detailed view»
38.	1962/03/27	TLS to Merton	OK, write new lead for the article. The Worker crowd is sort of irresponsible at time and I think		«detailed view»
39.	1962/04/26	TLS to Merton	Glad you sent in the Stein Collage. I like it & think its good, although you (down there) don't		«detailed view»
40.	1962/05/15	TLS to Merton	I've got cold feet about the fall-out collage (but a warm heart, if that means anything).		«detailed view»
41.	1962/07/05	HPCS to Merton	Ravenna, city of my dreams [-] Ed		[verso: color photograph of part of one of the mosaics from San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy, depicting an imperial procession from the reign of Justinian] «detailed view»
42.	1962/09/06	TL to Merton	You'd better take off Thataway. (Or I'd better.) Due to a complete misunderstanding of your		«detailed view»
43.	1962/09/10	TLS[x] from Merton	Never mind. Don't give it a thought, Foertg it I mean forget it. Pass it off with a wave		«detailed view»
44.	1963/08/21	TLS to Merton	Enclosed the LeClerq piece. Sorry it didn't work out, since I had some beautiful pictures of him.		«detailed view»
45.	1963/10/26	TL[c] from Merton	Long time ago I said I was going to do an article on the Shakers. Here it is . Under separate	✓	«detailed view»
46.	1963/no/no?	TLS to Merton	the abbot of erlach (h gold's prayergeschaft) of whom was taken some pictures last spring		«detailed view»
47.	1964/08/03	TAL[c] from Merton	Hold everything. Stop press. Jangle jangle. terrible mistake. That piece on Gandhi was,	✓	«detailed view»
48.	1964/09/03	TAL[c] from Merton	I have not ceased to be sorry for my blunder about the Gandhi article. And I suppose New Directions	✓	«detailed view»
49.	1964/10/02	TLS to Merton	have spent the summer thinking about the nature of man. Man is the only animal that wears clothes		«detailed view»
50.	1965/07/26	TL[c] from Merton	First, thanks for sending the book on Zen Monasticism back when. Holy Ghost and angels must have		«detailed view»
51.	1965/08/12	TAL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter. I am appalled by the things that seem to be happening around there.	✓	«detailed view»
52.	1965/09/03	TLS[x] from Merton	Ok October. I am terribly sorry about your family trouble. I suppose that is one of the most		[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Accession 2, Hart Working Files] «detailed view»
53.	1965/12/14	TLS to Merton	Enclosed a letter someone wanted forwarded to you. (Not really sure of your address at the moment		«detailed view»
54.	1966/01/05	TLS to Merton	your introductions just arrived this morning. I think it's excellent--just what I wanted.		«detailed view»
55.	1966/01/18	TALS to Merton	that was a very pleasant weekend. I feel remiss about not having come down more often,		«detailed view»
56.	1966/01/27	TL[c] from Merton	Got your letter yesterday at end of retreat preached by guess who Bishop Sheen. I am exempt	✓	«detailed view»
57.	1966/02/04 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Enclosed a Xerox of the article about you in our March issue. I hope it is sufficiently vague.		«detailed view»
58.	1966/02/04 (#02)	TAL[c] from Merton	Listen man, about the anguish. There are things you can intelligently do about it. Not easy,	✓	[no year listed - seemingly mislabeled 1967/02/04 in the published letters] «detailed view»
59.	1966/03/16	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter from Iraq. The trip sounds interesting. I wonder if you are going to be	✓	«detailed view»
60.	1966/03/no	HLS to Merton	have been out of the states for three weeks -- in Lebanon, Turkey & Jordan doing some stories		«detailed view»
61.	1966/07/14	TLS to Merton	if Cross Currents doesn't take the Buddhist article, we will. We have a nice piece by Nhat Hanh		«detailed view»
62.	1966/07/20	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks letter. I will tell you fast if Cross Currents rejects article, or you might call Cunneen	✓	«detailed view»
63.	1966/08/26	TLS to Merton	checked Cunneen about the Buddhist article but he tells me he has just written you that it will be		«detailed view»
64.	1966/08/29	TL[c] from Merton	Other day when I wrote that note I mailed it just before I picked up your envelope with the Dylan	✓	«detailed view»
65.	1966/12/05	TLS to Merton	By separate mail I am sending you a collection of photographs--some of yourself (the shots I took		«detailed view»
66.	1966/12/09	TALS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your letter of the 5th which I got today. And thanks for sending the pix. I will be	✓	«detailed view»
67.	1967/01/13	TL[c] from Merton	Glad the introduction is ok. Since you say there is no wild rush, I will go over it and try	✓	«detailed view»
68.	1967/01/16 (#01)	TLS to Merton	got your compassionate note. Hope the crowd comes up with some ideas. Was in a deep depression		«detailed view»
69.	1967/01/16 (#02)	other[x]	DEATH OF A HOLY TERROR [-] On March 11, 1966, at one-thirty in the afternoon, Jean Bourgoint,		[article by Denise Van Moppès on Jean Bourgoint and the novel loosely based on his life] «detailed view»
70.	1967/01/16 (#03)	other[x]	LETTRE AUX AMIS ET COOPERATEURS [-] Merci d'abord à chacun de tous ceux auxquels		«detailed view»
71.	1967/01/20	TLS to Merton	I am reluctantly sending back the Camus piece because it is too long. At a rough guess it is about		«detailed view»
72.	1967/01/30	TL[c] from Merton	First, thanks for the book on Hinduism. I haven't touched it yet but will let you know more	✓	«detailed view»
73.	1967/02/01 (#01)	TLS to Merton	enclosed another letter & clipping about Bourgoint. No hurry about doing the article,		«detailed view»
74.	1967/02/01 (#02)	other to Merton	DEMAIN, SALLE DROUOT [-] LA FIN DES ENFANTS TERRIBLE [-] par le P.-P. Michel RIQUET		«detailed view»
75.	1967/02/02	TLS to Merton	I wonder if you could send me a copy of the Camus piece before Lent closes in. I have my own		«detailed view»
76.	1967/02/06	TL[c] from Merton	Here are two copies of the Camus article. On one of them I have shown how it could be cut without		«detailed view»
77.	1967/02/25	TLS to Merton	Received both the revised version of the article on monastic renewal and the two copies of the Camus		«detailed view»
78.	1967/03/18	TL[c] from Merton	Here is the article on Frere Pascal. I hope you have some good pictures, for it needs illustration.		«detailed view»
79.	1967/04/13	TLS to Merton	I really should have written you immediately about the Bourgoint article. It's exceptionally good		«detailed view»
80.	1967/04/15	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter: I was glad to get it. I didn't know if you were in Alaska or what.		«detailed view»
81.	1967/07/07 (#01)	TALS to Merton	Thought it was time to give you the news about Jubilee. Herder and Herder is in the midst of buying		«detailed view»
82.	1967/07/07 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for the latest Jubilee. The Bro Pascal article came out nicely with the Cocteau drawings.	✓	«detailed view»
83.	1967/07/12	TLS to Merton	Got your letter of the seventh. Will send out the dozen June copies. I do have the Journal of My		«detailed view»
84.	1967/07/18	TL[c] from Merton	The Journalof [sic] my Escape has not got here yet, but I hope it will arrive safely. Expect also	✓	«detailed view»
85.	1967/07/20	TLS to Merton	sent off "Journal of My Escape" to you this morning. Let me know if it arrives. After this could		«detailed view»
86.	1967/07/31?	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for yours of the 20 and for the Journal of my Escape which is here and looks pretty fair	✓	«detailed view»
87.	1967/08/04	TLS to Merton	Glad the "Journal" arrives safely. Hadn't realized until after I mailed it that you wanted a Xerox		«detailed view»
88.	1967/08/08	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for the latest: I am really glad you are finally off the Herder meathook. Sorry about	✓	«detailed view»
89.	undated/no/no	HN to Merton	ED RICE [-] IS ALIVE [-] AND [-] WELL IN [-] HAVANA [-] CUBA		«detailed view»
90.	undated/no/no	other	NEW & REVISED COPY---EDWARD RICE BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE		«detailed view»

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