This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Ericson, Jack T.".
Jack Ericson was special collections curator at the University of Syracuse in New York. He convinced Merton to send some of his papers to their collection of distinguished writers.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See published letters from Merton to Ericson in Witness to Freedom, pp. 174-176.
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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1968/03/19 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your letter of March 4 and the two packages of printed material, which I received |
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1968/03/23 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
I quite understand your problem. Several years ago I came up against it and realized that |
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1968/04/09 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your cordial letter of March 23. I will try to explain my feelings about collections |
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1968/04/13 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for your letter of the 9th. The solution suits me very well, though it is not in every |
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1968/04/23 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your recent packages of material, which I just received. I am in the planning stages |
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1968/05/14 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your recent package, which I just received on my return from Virginia. |
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1968/06/07 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for the recent package of additional material for your collection. I read your Pascal |
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1968/06/17 |
HNS[x] from Merton |
Here are more "materials" which may be useful. Some you may already have - I forget. |
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[detached from "appendix" of essay "Is Buddhism Life Denying?"]
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1968/09/17 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for sending the Joyce article and the six manuscript notebooks, 1966-67, relating to your |
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