List of Quotes by Letter Recipient

Date [Source / Page]	Author Quoted	Title Quoted	Quotation by Merton [link to full quote]
1958/07/04 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 51]	John Gunther	Inside Russia Today	I sent back the big Kulski book yesterday and one other. I will be sending the Current History volume as soon ..
1958/07/18 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 52]	Albert Camus	chute, recit	By now everything of the U of K. Library that I had borrowed is on its way back. Unless the unbound an unmarke..
1961/10/16 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 145]	Denise Levertov	Overland to the Islands	Did I send to your library a book of poetry called Overland to the Islands by Denise Levertov? I think I did. ..
1962/08/11 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 162]	Cassiodorus	Introduction to Divine and Human Readings by Cassiodorus Senator / Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Jones Leslie Webber	You have already sent me the book from Columbia. It is the edition of Cassiodorus's "Divine and Human Readings..
1964/11/11 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 201]	Eugène Ionesco	Poesie / ed. Renan	Many thanks for all the Ionesco. I am sending back Renan today. There are very interesting things in it but I ..
1965/02/29 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 225]	Eudo C. Mason	Rilke, Europe and the English-Speaking World	Today I am returning Peters, Rilke, Masks and the Man. As I mentioned in my card I would like if possible toe ..
1965/02/29 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 225]	H.F. Peters	Rainer Maria Rilke, Masks and the Man	Today I am returning Peters, Rilke, Masks and the Man. As I mentioned in my card I would like if possible toe ..
1965/03/10 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 212]	Johann Peter Hebel	Treasure Chest	Talking about diversion, I never said how much I liked Hebel's stories. They have a completely wonderful tone ..
1966/04/22 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 234]	Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki	Mysticism : Christian and Buddhist	Many thanks for the Pavese books. I am well into one of them and he is a marvelous writer. I returned Suzuki o..
1966/04/22 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 234]	Edwin Muir	Autobiography	Many thanks for the Pavese books. I am well into one of them and he is a marvelous writer. I returned Suzuki o..
1966/04/22 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 234]	Robert Stephen Briffault	Mothers: the Matriarchal Theory of Social Origins	Many thanks for the Pavese books. I am well into one of them and he is a marvelous writer. I returned Suzuki o..
1966/05/20 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 228]	Walker Percy	Last Gentleman	If you have in the library Walker Percy's new novel The Last Gentleman - look at pages 26-28, a very funny com..
1966/07/30 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 233]	Edwin Muir	Autobiography	Can you help me with some more books? I have to review Edwin Muir's collected poems for Sewanee Review and I w..
1966/07/30 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 233]	Edwin Muir	Collected Poems	Can you help me with some more books? I have to review Edwin Muir's collected poems for Sewanee Review and I w..
1967/07/27 [Ltrs: Hammer p. 253]	Victor Hammer	Fragments for C.R.H.	Victor's beautiful book - surelyhis most beautiful in every way - arrived this morning and I have spent the af..

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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