List of Quotes by Letter Recipient

Date [Source / Page]	Author Quoted	Title Quoted	Quotation by Merton [link to full quote]
1948/11/03 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188]	Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S.	I Sing of a Maiden	I would like to assure you that I was very glad to get that beautiful big book, I Sing of a Maiden & the only ..
1948/11/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188]	Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S.	Give Joan a Sword	It would be inhuman for a person to resist the temptation to answer such a beautiful letter as your last one, ..
1948/11/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 188]	Therese Lentfoehr S.D.S.	I Sing of a Maiden	It would be inhuman for a person to resist the temptation to answer such a beautiful letter as your last one, ..
1949/05/13 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 192]	William of St. Thierry	Golden Epistle	I am busy trying to learn how to say Mass. My health is all right, except that I have a vile cold at the momen..
1953/05/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 213]	Max Picard	Flight from God	Have you read Max Picard? I like his stuff very much and am currently in the Flight from God which is very per..
1954/12/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 218]	Rudyard Kipling	Just-So Stories	However, there is one thing which I treasure and which you also will like. It is an old magazine containing an..
1955/08/06 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 220]	Evelyn Waugh	Officers and Gentlemen	Have you read a wonderful book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell? It is perfect, in its w..
1955/08/06 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 220]	Randell Jarrell	Pictures from an Institution	Have you read a wonderful book called Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell? It is perfect, in its w..
1957/10/12 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 229]	Karl Adam	Christ of Faith	Reading"”I try to do some. A fair amount here and there. I love Karl Adams' new book, The Christ of Faith. And..
1958/09/04 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 231]	Boris Leonidovich Pasternak	docteur Jivago : roman / Boris Leonidovic Pasternak ; trad. du russe	Have you heard of the new book of the Russian poet Pasternak? Dr. Zhivago. It is a tremendous thing and a lot ..
1958/09/04 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 231]	Louis Bouyer	Newman: His Life and Spirituality	In the refectory they are reading Newman's life by Louis Bouyer, a splendid book "¦ I think it is the wisest a..
1960/01/18 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 235]	Justus George Lawler	Catholic Dimension in Higher Education	Thank you for the new Qumram book which looks solid and interesting. I hope to enjoy it. At the moment I am pl..
1960/05/30 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 236]	Richard Hughes	High Wind in Jamaica	I have lately read some Joseph Conrad and he is always a Master. Did you ever read anything of Richard Hughes,..
1960/12/05 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 237]	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	Divine Milieu	Did you mention something about Teilhard de Chardin? I have had some trouble there too. Ed [Rice] sent me a re..
1961/09/19 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 239]	Denise Levertov	With Eyes in the Backs of Their Heads	One new poet I am very happy about is Denise Levertov. New Directions has done a book of hers, With Eyes in th..
1962/09/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 242]	Hans Küng	Council, Reform and Reunion	[Hans] Kung of course I read as soon as I could get my hands on him. I thought it a noble, straight and courag..
1962/09/20 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 242]	James Farl Powers	Morte d'Urban	I finished the new Powers novel [Morte d'Urban] which got to me from the publisher, before publication. It is ..
1963/02/19 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 244]	Ignace Lepp	Christian Failure	Good job, moving up Ignace Lepp to the front of the shelf in the book mart. I did a review of the book [The Ch..
1963/02/19 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 244]	James Baldwin	Fire Next Time	One of the things I did read was a manifesto by the Negro writer James Baldwin on the race situation. It is po..
1963/05/01 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 244]	Aelred Graham	Zen Catholicism	Correspondence gets bigger all the time, and things one must answer right away, very often. For instance, this..
1963/05/01 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 244]	John Howard Griffin	Black Like Me	Have you read John Howard Griffin's books? You ought to get hold of Black Like Me. It will floor you. He is a ..
1963/10/03 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 246-47]	Morris West	Shoes of the Fisherman	I read the Shoes of the Fisherman in the hospital & thought it rather naive & after all timid & passive. Pope ..
1963/11/09 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 247]	Julien Green	Each in His Darkness	There is a new magazine starting up at the University of Iowa [Charlatan ], run by Episcopalians. I don't know..
1964/04/01 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 248]	Konstantin Paustovsky	Story of a Life	Time for a class, so I must stop. Later I will write more. There have been a lot of interesting books around, ..
1964/07/12 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 249]	John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas) Robinson	Honest to God	Honest to God is causing a bit of a stir in Protestant circles. He [John A. T. Robinson] gives the impression ..
1964/12/13 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 250]	Daniel Callahan	Honesty in the Church	You mention Daniel Callahan. I have just got through reading proofs of his book, Honesty in the Church. You mu..
1965/08/17 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 251]	John Heureux	Quick as Dandelions	Many thanks for your note from Georgetown. I am glad you had such a good time. You deserve it, and I am sure i..
1966/07/31 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 257]	Edwin Muir	Estate of Poetry	We have had some nasty weather, very hot, but lately it has been much better. I am going along with work, main..
1966/09/13 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 257]	Douglas Bush	John Milton: A Sketch of His Life and Writings	"¦ I have Douglas Bush's new book on Milton and like it. I think I will finally get back to some Milton and gi..
1967/03/23 [Ltrs: RtoJ p. 257]	William Carlos Williams	Selected Essays	"¦ I thought of you and your work on Marianne Moore the other day when I was reading some excellent stuff on h..

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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