| Date [Source / Page] | Author Quoted | Title Quoted | Quotation by Merton
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1946/03/01
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 9]
| James Laughlin | Some Natural Things |
Last couple of days before Ash Wednesday, just in time to write and thank you for Some Natural Things which I ..
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1948/08/04
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 39]
| James Laughlin | Poems : selections : a small book of poems / James Laughlin |
Yesterday Father Abbot gave me your package of books on St. John of the X from Paris and your small book of po..
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1948/11/22
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 44-45]
| Ezra Pound | Pisan Cantos |
I agree about nog having enough form, but I can't figure out how I am going to acquire any: but thanks for the..
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1949/11/19
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 62]
| Franz Kafka | Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 / Collected and translated from German by Max Brod |
Thanks for the Rilke. I am still entranced with Kafka's diaries [Note: Kafka's Diaries: The Diaries of Franz K..
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1949/11/19
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 62]
| Kenneth Patchen | Selected Poems |
Thanks for the Rilke. I am still entranced with Kafka's diaries [Note: Kafka's Diaries: The Diaries of Franz K..
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1950/02/25
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 68]
| Arthur Rimbaud | Season in Hell |
Bob promised me Eliot's Cocktail Party and I am eager to see it. The Novice Master would not let Season in Hel..
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1950/05/20
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 71]
| | Bhagavad Gita |
Somebody sent me the Bhagavad-Gita and I am very interested in it. I think the trouble with Hinduism is not in..
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1952/01/02
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 88]
| Grenville Clarc | Plan for Peace |
I hope you will be saying some special prayers for a man named Grenville Clark up in New Hampshire. He has wri..
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1955/08/16
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 112]
| Randell Jarrell | Pictures from an Institution |
You told me Perspectives is closing down. I thought the numbers I saw were very good. Sometimes it occurs to m..
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1956/05/07
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 114]
| | Dhammapada |
For al long time I have been meaning to write about several things. For one, I at last sent off the Dhammappad..
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1956/05/07
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 115]
| Graham Greene | Quiet American |
I sent Naomi a couple more poems, in fact three of four more. Where did I leave off with the stuff you have? D..
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1956/06/16
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 123]
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
Lax sent me Waiting for Godot which is very funny and I don't see why people are running up and down asking th..
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1958/10/16
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 134-35]
| Boris Pasternak | Doctor Zhivago |
Thanks for your letter, and for the Pasternak Selected Wrigings which came in today. I was not trying to rush ..
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1958/10/16
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 134]
| Boris Pasternak | Selected Writings |
Thanks for your letter, and for the Pasternak Selected Wrigings which came in today. I was not trying to rush ..
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1958/10/16
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 135]
| Mark Van Doren | Autobiography of Mark Van Doren |
Mark Van Doren sent his autobiography and I have been enjoying it: it is full of good things and all about eve..
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1960/05/31
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 155]
| Boris Pasternak | Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and other Writings |
I just learned of the death of poor old Pasternak... I cannot help thinking that within a few years Russia is ..
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1960/05/31
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 156]
| John Willett | Theater of Bertold Brecht |
I have been reading the ND book on Brecht's theater. It is very interesting. Have you printed any of Brecht's ..
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1960/12/17
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 160]
| James Laughlin | wild anemone & other poems |
Bob [MacGregor] sent me your Wild Anemone [& Other Poems], which I reproach you for never having told me about..
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1961/10/24
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 181]
| Henri Miller | Murder the Murderer |
Also many thanks for the books which have come not only from Ungar but also from Tuttle. All fine. And Henry M..
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1961/10/24
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 181]
| Henry Miller | Remember to remember |
Also many thanks for the books which have come not only from Ungar but also from Tuttle. All fine. And Henry M..
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1961/11/25
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 187]
| Donald Keys (editor) | God and the H Bomb |
This is certainly enough for a good solid book. Ed Rice sent me one that has been brought out just now, God an..
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1961/11/25
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 187]
| Walter Stein (ed.) | Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscience |
Furthermore I have run across an excellent small book of articles on Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscie..
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1961/12/01
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 188]
| Walter Stein (ed.) | Nuclear Weapons and the Christian Conscience |
Carey McWilliams [at The Nation] wrote suggesting I do an article for hij. I thought I would try a review arti..
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1961/12/31
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 192]
| Charles Wright Mills | Causes of World War Three |
What are we going to do about some of [C.] Wright Mills' Causes of World War III? Are you the one that had Mar..
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1962/08/16
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 210]
| Henry Miller | Wisdom of the Heart |
Yes I have the H. Miller books, they got here with a brief delay. The Wisdom of the Heart is extraordinarily g..
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1963/01/11
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 217]
| Rachel Carson | Silent spring / by Rachel Carson ; drawings by Lois and Louis Darling |
I am reading the Rachel Carson book, Silent Spring. That too is powerful. Have you seen it? You certainly shou..
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1963/01/11
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 216]
| Ralph E. Lapp | Kill and Overkill |
First of all, I am sorry for not responding more quickly about the books on peace. I suppose I wait to read th..
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1963/06/14
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 228]
| Lewis Mumford | City in History |
I am finally getting down to reading theat great big book of Mumford's the City in History, and it is great...
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1963/09/05
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 230]
| Xavier Rynne | Letters from Vatican City |
I saw the Xavier Rynne book: who hasn't? I think it is pretty good, but I think the tone of conspiracy and fan..
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1963/11/26
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 235]
| Jean Paul Sartre | Nausée : roman |
Do you have a copy of Sartre's Nausée around in French? I know you did it in English. I am workingon hum a lot..
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1963/12/07
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 236]
| Kenneth Rexroth | Natural Numbers: New and Selected Poems |
The new Rexroth is very good too. I certainly like his poems. They are clear and alive. he has a classic touch..
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1963/12/07
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 235-36]
| William Carlos Williams | Paterson |
Thanks also for [William Carlos Williams's] Patterson. It is impressive to have the whole thing in one, and I ..
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1964/02/27
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 239]
| Victor Hammer | Concern for the Art of Civilized Man |
I liked Victor's book [Concern for the Art of Civilized Man] very much and of course I agree with him. Yet at ..
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1964/03/20
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 240]
| Henry Miller | Stand Still like the Hummingbird |
Many thanks for Miller's Hummingbird which reached me and which I have begun. As usual, I am completely in agr..
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1964/10/02
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 248]
| James Purdy | Cabot Wright Begins |
The poem ["And the Children of Birmingham"] in the New York Review [Of Books] got there via Bob Giroux, it was..
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1965/03/19
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 262]
| Julio Cortazar | Winners |
Thanks also for the Cortazar novel, which I think is excellent. I have heard a lot about him. This one sounds ..
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1965/11/06
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 270]
| Charles Reznikoff | Testimony: The United States (1985-1915) |
Thanks for the Reznikoff Testimony[,] an austere and impressive book. I would like to do a statement for [Geor..
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1967/02/17
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 275]
| Kenneth Rexroth | Collected Shorter Poems |
Thanks for the Rexroth Collected [Shorter Poems] which is very nicely done. I will get into it soon and perhap..
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1967/03/19
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 314]
| Robert Eduard Duncan | Of the War: Passages |
I was particularly impressed by the Robert Duncan booklet of "passages" on the War. A really fine piece of poe..
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1967/06/05
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 322-23]
| Albert Camus | Peste |
All the way in and back I was listening to the news from Israel and Egypt, and is was just lik 1939 all over a..
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1967/07/12
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 324]
| Ronald Johnson | Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees |
I occasionally hear from Jonathan Williams and his company out in Aspen (Ron Johnson['s A line of Poetry, A Ro..
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1968/08/03
[Ltrs: Laughlin p. 352]
| | Dhammapada |
Certainly I want to meet Lal. Could I please have his address? I hope to land in Calcutta on an evening flight..
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