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Date [Source / Page]	Author Quoted	Title Quoted	Quotation by Merton [link to full quote]
1958/12/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 54]	Czeslaw Milosz	Captive Mind	Having read your remarkable book The Captive Mind I find it necessary to write to you, as without your help I ..
1959/02/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 56-57]	Paul Claudel	Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher	There is something much too mental and abstract, something too parochial about a great deal of Catholic though..
1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 59]	Czeslaw Milosz	Seizure of Power	Now about your own books. I suppose it is not strange that your younger earthy and cosmic self should be so sh..
1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 59]	Czeslaw Milosz	Sur les bords de l'Issa	Now about your own books. I suppose it is not strange that your younger earthy and cosmic self should be so sh..
1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 58]	Lional Mordecai Trilling	Broken Mirror: A Collection of Writings from Contemporary Poland / edited by Pawel Mayewski	Reading The Broken Mirror, I was moved by the sense of real kinship with most of the writers. Underneath the i..
1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 61]	Nicolai Berdyaev	Meaning of Creation	Yet I am very taken with Berdyaev. He is certainly too glib. His explanations and intuitions come up with a su..
1959/05/21 [Ltrs: CforT p. 61]	Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev	Solitude and Society	Yet I am very taken with Berdyaev. He is certainly too glib. His explanations and intuitions come up with a su..
1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 66]	Albert Camus	chute, recit	At the same time I enjoy and respect Camus, and think I understand him. What you said about La Chute struck me..
1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 67]	Jean Paul Sartre	Huis Clos	I do not have much interest in Sartre, he puts me to sleep, as if he were deliberately dull: assommant is a mu..
1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 67]	Jean Paul Sartre	nausee : roman	I do not have much interest in Sartre, he puts me to sleep, as if he were deliberately dull: assommant is a mu..
1960/05/06 [Ltrs: CforT p. 68]	Robert Lax	Circus of the Sun	I wish you could see one good book, though, that is unknown, by my friend Robert Lax"”The Circus of the Sun. I..
1961/03/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 74]	Czeslaw Milosz	Captive Mind	This is just an added note to the longer letter I mailed this morning. Don't be perturbed about The Captive Mi..
1963/11/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 82]	Jose Maria Gironella	One Million Dead	I agree with you on your dislike of fiction and can't read most novels even when I try, but now I am well into..
1963/11/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 81]	Quintus Horace	Odes	I am glad you have been working on [Robinson] Jeffers. I can see what would attract you in him, though I have ..
1963/11/11 [Ltrs: CforT p. 81]	Virgil	Georgics	I am glad you have been working on [Robinson] Jeffers. I can see what would attract you in him, though I have ..
1964/12/19 [Ltrs: CforT p. 83]	Czeslaw Milosz	Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology	Just a word to wish you the blessings of the holy season and to say I have recently written to Anne Freedgood ..

Abbreviations ▲	Source of Merton's Quotation and Citation
Ltrs: CforT	The Courage for Truth: Letters of Thomas Merton to Writers.
Ltrs: Giroux	Letters of Robert Giroux and Thomas Merton.
Ltrs: Hammer	The Letters of Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer.
Ltrs: HGL	The Hidden Ground of Love.
Ltrs: Laughlin	Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.
Ltrs: Leclercq	Survival or Prophecy? The Letters of Merton and Jean Leclercq.
Ltrs: RtoJ	The Road to Joy: Letters to New and Old Friends.
Ltrs: Ruether	Letters of Merton and Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Ltrs: SofC	The School of Charity. Letters on Religious Renewal.
Ltrs: WtoF	Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Merton in Times of Crisis.