This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Wulff, Augustine, Fr., O.C.S.O.".
Fr. Augustine Wulff was a Trappist monk of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky.
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. |
1960/12/08 |
HCS from Merton |
Cordial good wishes and congratulations - may Our Lord reward your gift of yourself with ever more |
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| 2. |
undated/no/no (#01) |
TLS from Merton |
I am in a quandary-- even worse than usual. A Negro family I know wanted to have a coat of arms |
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«detailed view» |
| 3. |
undated/no/no (#02) |
TPCS from Merton |
On this feast of the great Doctor of the West May God bless you in all things, especially in your |
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| 4. |
undated/no/no (#03) |
TL[c] from Merton |
It seems Jose will be around for a few days yet, and you may be seeing him. You might perhaps be |
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«detailed view» |
| 5. |
undated/no/no (#04) |
HNS from Merton |
Thank you for letting me see these two new ones. "Last Summer" is reflective and poignant and I like |
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Merton's comments on some poems written by Wulff, "Last Summer" and "Elfin Echo," which Merton describes as "maybe a little Scotistic - in the ending? (Haecceitas). So much the better."
«detailed view» |
| 6. |
undated/no/no (#05) |
HNS from Merton |
For some reason I like God's Acre almost the best of all you have written, though it is |
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Merton's comments on some poems written by Wulff, "God's Acre" or "God's Ace" (handwriting not clear)
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| 7. |
undated/no/no (#06) |
HLS from Merton |
Well, as Passiontide approaches you can hardly do better than embrace the Cross, and there is |
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recommendations about censorship process in the order / difficulty of publishing poetry as a book / suggestions of places to submit poetry
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| 8. |
undated/no/no (#07) |
HLS from Merton |
I enjoyed both these very much. Progression - (which perhaps has too many "ands") is very |
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Merton's comments on some poems written by Wulff, "Progression" and "Sea Cycle"
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| 9. |
undated/no/no (#08) |
TNS from Merton |
Now that they have got away from me I am a little stuck when it comes to commenting articulately |
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Merton's comments on some paintings by Wulff
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| 10. |
undated/no/no (#09) |
TNS from Merton |
I have a Benedictine magazine that is in [damaged portion of page] needs good things to be pulled |
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Merton's recommendations on where to publish some poems written by Wulff including in Sponsa Regis
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| 11. |
undated/no/no (#10) |
HNS from Merton |
I'll have some one bring up the Shavings- The Synchrony I admit rather baffles me the other it grows |
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Merton's comments on some poems written by Wulff, "The Shavings" and "The Synchrony"
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| 12. |
undated/no/no (#11) |
HNS from Merton |
Fr Augustine + Returning with many thanks - A good time was 'ad by all! In Domino [-] f m Louis |
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[verso: handwritten note not in Merton's writing]
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| 13. |
undated/no/no (#12) |
HNS from Merton |
Do you mean to tell me a Pekinese is an animal? I suggest it be staged on Christmas Day |
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[verso: handwritten note not in Merton's writing]
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| 14. |
undated/no/no (#13) |
TNS from Merton |
Do you have some English language course for Spanish speaking people? I would like to borrow it |
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English course for two new Spanish-speaking postulants / Wulff writing to Evaristo Flores
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| 15. |
undated/no/no (#14) |
TNS from Merton |
It was not that I forgot to return this delicate threnody, but one of the novices was copying it, |
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sadness about discontinuing the liturgical practice of the Lenten curtain / postulant who was a Redemptorist priest and a Spanish speaker living in Brazil
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