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Date [Source / Page]	Author Quoted	Title Quoted	Quotation by Merton [link to full quote]
1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5]	Evelyn Waugh	Decline and Fall	I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if ..
1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5]	Evelyn Waugh	Vile Bodies	I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if ..
1948/08/02 [Ltrs: CforT p. 5]	James Joyce	Ulysses	I have always considered you to be about the best living writer we've got. You do not need to be told that if ..
1948/09/03 [Ltrs: CforT p. 6]	Robert Graves and Alan Hodges	Reader over Your Shoulder	It has been quite humiliating for me to find out (from [Robert] Graves and [Alan] Hodge [authors of The Reader..
1949/07/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 11]	Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited	The Month has been paying me for my effusions by sending me books. One of them was The Loved One. I was having..
1949/07/30 [Ltrs: CforT p. 11]	Evelyn Waugh	Loved One	The Month has been paying me for my effusions by sending me books. One of them was The Loved One. I was having..
1950/01/28 [Ltrs: CforT p. 15]	Henri Watson Fowler	Dictionary of Modern English Usage	It is some time since I have given an account of myself. [Tom] Burns sent a copy of Fowler and I am very grate..
1950/12/15 [Ltrs: CforT p. 18]	Evelyn Waugh	Helena	This letter has two purposes: to thank you for Helena and to wish you a holy Christmas"”and even a merry one, ..
1952/02/25 [Ltrs: CforT p. 19]	Charles Journet	Dark Knowledge of God / translated from the French by James F. Anderswon	About apophatic"”although it is not in the OED it does crop up in English, though in translations of French bo..
1952/02/25 [Ltrs: CforT p. 18-19]	Ronald Knox	Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion with Special Reference to the XVII and XVIII Centuries	Many thanks for your very kind letter and for [Ronald Knox's] Enthusiasm . I entirely agree with your comment ..

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.