This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Stark, Philip, Fr., S.J.".
Fr. Philip Stark was a Jesuit priest from St. Louis, Missouri.
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. |
1967/04/22 |
TLS to Merton |
Please forgive the familiarity as well as this brash intrusion on your solitude, but your name is so |
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1967/05/06 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I have been wanting to thank you for your letter and for the America review. But I hate |
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1967/05/16 |
TALS to Merton |
Your letter & Easter encyclical set off a whole explosion of insights & avenues of thought, |
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1967/06/27 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your last newsletter. It started my summer off in the best possible way. |
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1967/11/09 |
TALS to Merton |
It just occurred to me--Is there a manuscript I could type for you? You mentioned in one of your |
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1967/11/20 |
TLS to Merton |
Call no one good but God alone! By all means send the ms. of the yours-Lax correspondence, |
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1967/11/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Here is the whole thing but you only need to type about half of it. Part Two can be typed, and as |
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| 8. |
1967/12/02 |
TL to Merton |
Yours ever so nicely committed rec'd in great splendor, tribulation in unimaginary enclosed space |
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[addressed "dear J. Pierpont Ribblesdale" and signed "Oscuri auguri, Benvoglio" - the letter is in the style of the Merton-Lax correspondence that Merton sends Stark to type]
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1968/01/29 |
TALS to Merton |
The goods are on their way, the originals herewith registered and the rest insured (typed copy with |
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1968/01/31 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Illustrious service! May you have many rewards in caelestibus. May you dance the polka |
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| 11. |
1968/03/16 |
TLS to Merton |
Now it's my turn (a month late) to thank you for those juicy books; you're helping me a lot |
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1968/03/20 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter and for the offer to run off an "Easter Encyclical". Yes, as a matter |
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| 13. |
1968/04/01 |
TLS to Merton |
The Easter letters will be speeding your way shortly: there was a delay owing to lapse |
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| 14. |
1968/04/22 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for letting me have your essay on The Stranger. I made a couple of xerox copies |
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1968/04/25 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Surprises!! Thanks first for the stencils. I think I can get the novices to run them off. |
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1968/11/20 |
TLS to Merton |
It was wonderful to hear from you, I enjoyed hearing about your little gita to New York. Reminds me |
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1968/12/10 (#01) |
telegram from Hart, Patrick |
Regret to inform you of the death of Fr. Thomas Merton in Bangkok. [-] Signed, Bro. P. Hart |
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[handwritten text of telegram sent by Br. Patrick Hart of Gethsemani]
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1968/12/10 (#02) |
telegram from Hart, Patrick |
WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU OF THE DEATH OF FATHER THOMAS MERTON IN BANGKOK |
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[typed duplicate of telephoned telegram sent by Br. Patrick Hart of Gethsemani]
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| 19. |
1969/01/14 |
TALS[x] from Lawler, Justus / to Patrick Hart |
About two weeks before Father Louis' tragic death he sent me a card about the project I had |
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[Justus George Lawler was an editor at Herder and Herder and editor of the journal, Continuum] Continuum memorial issue for Merton
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1969/02/24 |
TLS from Lawler, Justus |
Just a brief note to thank you for your willingness to contribute to our Continuum issue. |
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[Justus George Lawler was an editor at Herder and Herder and editor of the journal, Continuum] Continuum memorial issue for Merton
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1969/04/28 |
TL[c] to Lawler, Justus |
Here's my bit in tribute to Tom Merton. Scarcely very momentous, admittedly, and if you have no use |
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[Justus George Lawler was an editor at Herder and Herder and editor of the journal, Continuum]
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| 22. |
undated/no/no |
other by Stark, Philip |
It was on a July sixth that I first met Thomas Merton. Since I had been thinking about Faulkner, |
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[copied from "Fox, James", Series 29, Item #009 - a reminiscence by Stark of meeting Merton called "A Summer at Gethsemani"]
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