List of Quotes by Letter Recipient

Date [Source / Page]	Author Quoted	Title Quoted	Quotation by Merton [link to full quote]
1962/01/18 [Ltrs: HGL p. 204]	W.H. [Ping] Ferry	Disarm and Parley, a Case for Unilateral Disarmament	I had not seen before the thing of yours which we are printing, the one on Disarm and Parley. This is very fin..
1962/07/13 [Ltrs: HGL p. 212]	Jules Romains	Men of Good Will	"¦ By the way, talking of books: Jules Romains. I don't care what he thinks about the Church. It is just that ..
1963/01/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 213-14]	Rachel Carson	Silent spring / by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling	I am just reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Have you read it? You must. It is very enlightening, because ..
1963/06/12 [Ltrs: HGL p. 214]	Frederick Crossfield Happold	Mysticism: A Study and an Anthology	Thanks for the letter and the packets of things. I was especially glad of the little Pelican on Mysticism [by ..
1964/07/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 218]	Michael Serafian	Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin	One book you must read if you have not already is The Pilgrim by Serafian, about Pope Paul and the Council. Th..
1964/07/01 [Ltrs: HGL p. 218]	Rolf Hochhuth	Deputy / Translation from the German Der Stellvertreter	One book you must read if you have not already is The Pilgrim by Serafian, about Pope Paul and the Council. Th..
1965/04/30 [Ltrs: HGL p. 221]	Flannnery O'Connor	Everything That Rises Must Converge	Having just finished Flannery O'Connor's new book [Everything That Rises Must Converge], I can easily believe ..
1966/10/04 [Ltrs: HGL p. 229]	Edwin Muir	Autobiography	Here is uncorrected bit on Muir, thought you would like it. His literary essays are very fine and as a poet I ..
1967/09/24 [Ltrs: HGL p. 234]	David Jones	Anathemata	The David Jones Agenda is a real event and revelation. As I told you, I did not know him at all. This has me f..
1967/09/26 [Ltrs: HGL p. 235]	David Jones	Anathemata	The books arrived yesterday. It is sheer joy to get back into Finnegans Wake again after all these years. The ..
1967/09/26 [Ltrs: HGL p. 235]	James Joyce	Finnigans Wake	The books arrived yesterday. It is sheer joy to get back into Finnegans Wake again after all these years. The ..

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.

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