| Date [Source / Page] | Author Quoted | Title Quoted | Quotation by Merton
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1949/04/07
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 30]
| Louis Bouyer | Mystère Pascal: méditation sur la liturgie des trois derniers jours de la Semaine Sainte |
Have a good Holy Week and Easter. Do you know that marvelous book, "le Mystère de Pascal" by Louis Bouyer? It ..
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1950/11/22
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 79]
| Karl Stern | Pillar of Fire |
They have been keeping me here in the hospital for some time, mainly to make me rest.... Father Abbot dropped ..
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1953/04/11
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 151]
| Jacques Maritain | Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry |
Someone sent me Maritain's new book, Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, and it seems to be very fine...
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1953/04/11
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 150]
| T.S. Eliot | Four Quartets |
Thanks very much for the new complete Eliot. It is very valuable to me. I don't know when I shall ever get aro..
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1953/04/11
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 150]
| T.S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral |
Thanks very much for the new complete Eliot. It is very valuable to me. I don't know when I shall ever get aro..
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1953/06/20
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 155]
| Jean Rounault | Nightmare / pseudonym of Rainer Biemel |
Then also the book Nightmare finally got to me through the iron curtain and I have read bitds of it. Rounault,..
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1954/01/14
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 170]
| Bernardus of Clairvaux | De Consideratione |
I have been over these proofs [of Last of the Fathers]... I made two significant and rather long additions - t..
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1954/06/05
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 179]
| Karen Horney | Neurosis and human growth : the struggle toward selfrealization |
I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely glad Karl Stern is writing about the rela..
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1954/06/05
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 179]
| Karl Stern | third revolution : a study of psychiatry and religion |
I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely glad Karl Stern is writing about the rela..
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1954/10/11
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 183]
| Charles Monroe Coffin | Major Poets: English and American. |
Many thanks for the books - Judson, Mumford and Coffin. I am already greatly enjoying the anthology. Suddenly ..
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1954/11/16
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 186]
| Karl Stern | third revolution : a study of psychiatry and religion |
Many thanks for the THIRD REVOLUTION. I am half-way through it and I will comment and write to Sern when I hav..
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1959/06/20
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 232]
| Arthur Koestler | Sleepwalkers |
I have not yet thanked you either for the books that J. Laughlin brought down. The Sleepwalkers is a real acqu..
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1959/12/29
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 237]
| Robert Lax | Circus of the Sun |
Have you seen Bob Lax's wonderful Circus poem [Circus of the Sun], now in a book of its own?..
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1961/02/13
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 262]
| Jean Leclercq | Alone with God |
Happy to hear you are bringing out Leclercq's Alone with God. It will be worthwhile I believe, though I don't ..
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1961/05/13
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 269]
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | Gimpel the fool |
The Singer books have come and I am in the midst of one of them, Gimpel, which is fabulous, literally. I think..
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1961/10/18
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 272]
| Nikolai Leskov | Cathedral Clergy |
The new books have arrived. I am delighted to get to [Nicolas] Leskov at last, he has long been on my list. Ha..
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1961/10/18
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 272]
| Robert Lowell | Imitations |
The new books have arrived. I am delighted to get to [Nicolas] Leskov at last, he has long been on my list. Ha..
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1963/05/10
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 297]
| Xavier Rynne | Letters from Vatican City |
The Xavier Rynne book [Letters from Vatican City: Vatican Council I, First Season; Backgrounds and Debates] ar..
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1964/07/01
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 325]
| Michael Serafian | Pilgrim: Pope Paul VI, & the Church in Time of Decision / pseudonym of Malachi Martin |
First of all, I am very grateful for the new books. I have started immediately on [Michael] Serafian and find..
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1964/10/26
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 334]
| Fernand Pouillon | Pierres sauvages |
Sorry to be a bit slow reporting on "Les Pierres Sauvages."... I think Pouillon's book is a good one and emine..
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1965/04/29
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 341]
| Flannnery O'Connor | Everhthing That Rises Must Converge |
Thanks for Flannery O'Connor's new book [Everything That Rises Must Converge], which, of course, I have read i..
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1965/07/03
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 343]
| Karl Stern | Flight from Woman |
I like Karl Stern's new book [The Flight of Woman] very much indeed. I am finishing it now, and have enjoyed i..
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1965/07/03
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 343]
| Paul Evdokimov | femme et le salut du monde : étude d'anthropologie chrétienne sur les charismes de la femme / Paul Evdokimov |
I like Karl Stern's new book [The Flight of Woman] very much indeed. I am finishing it now, and have enjoyed i..
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1965/07/29
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 345-46]
| Tom Wolfe | Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby |
And now, finally, Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored, Tangerine-Flake Stremaline Baby. It is a magnificent book. Wh..
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1966/12/13
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 359]
| John (Jingxiong) Wu | Golden Age of Zen |
By the way, did I ever tell you John Wu has written quite a good book [The Golden Age of Zen (1966)] on Zen (t..
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1967/02/04
[Ltrs: Giroux p. 360]
| Flannnery O'Connor | Wise Blood |
I am reading Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood and am struck by the way she wrote all the essentials of the God i..
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