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Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987


Series 5, Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Gabriel Sortais.


Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1948-1969
Volume: 949 item(s); 1432 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Herein is a large collection of letters spanning most of Merton's time at Gethsemani. Letters between Fox and Merton concern Merton's vocation to the monastery, his constant desires for greater solitude, thoughts about leaving Gethsemani and joining the

Biography

Dom James Fox came to Gethsemani in 1927. He was serving as guestmaster when Merton's younger brother, John Paul, visited the monastery, and Fox made arrangements for John Paul's baptism. In 1948, Fox was elected abbot after the death of Dom Frederic Du

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Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal Records
1 Correspondence from original Merton papers (some later additions): Dom James Fox with Merton, Fr. Charles Dumont, Edward Glenn Hinson, Msgr. Alfred Frederick Horrigan, Fr. Giovanni Montini, James Morrissey, Naomi Burton Stone, etc. 93
2 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with the Abbot of Melleray, Dom Louis de Gonzague Le Pennuen. 21
3 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with the Abbot of Melleray, Dom Colomban Bissey. 6
4 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Dominique Noques. 4
5 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Gabriel Sortais. 202
6 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Ignace Gillet. 38
7 Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Merton: Special Binding (Archive - Stack 5). 101
8 Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Marie Tadié: (see "Tadié, Marie" file for all physical holdings). 153
9 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Abbot General Gabriel Sortais 30
10 Special Merton File: Notes concerning Merton's relationship with "M," from folder labeled "Clyde" 1
11 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Fox and Fr. John Eudes Bamberger concerning a biography of Merton, from folder labeled "Clyde" 2
12 Special Merton File: Correspondence concerning French translator Marie Tadié's grievance with Gethsemani after Merton's death, from folder labeled "Clyde" 6
13 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and the Sacred Congregation for Religious at the Vatican, earlier with Arcadio Cardinal Larraona and then with Archbishop Paul (later Cardinal) Philippe 6
14 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Monsignor Loris Francesco Capovilla, Secretary to Pope John XXIII 5
15 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Fr. Heinrich Dumoulin, S.J., Sophia University in Japan, regarding Merton studying Zen and proposed trip to Japan 4
16 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Archbishop Giovanni Montini (later Pope Paul VI) 7
17 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Fr. Riccardo Lombardi, S.J. 18
18 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Abbot General Ignace Gillet, regarding Merton as novice master, studying Zen and proposed trip to Japan 4
19 Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday, Inc. (earlier correspondence with Fox can be found in the "Curtis Brown, Ltd." file and in Series 1 of this file) 102
20 Publishers' Correspondence: Herder and Herder, Inc. 18
21 Publishers' Correspondence: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc.; and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. 34
22 Publishers' Correspondence: New Directions 38
23 Publishers' Correspondence: Foreign Rights 2
24 Merton Publicity File: Correspondence with film makers, book clubs, radio stations, etc. 21
25 Curtis Brown, Ltd. [See "Curtis Brown" file in Section A, correspondence from 1963 continues with Series 19 in this file] 1
26 Correspondence between Gregory Zilboorg and James Fox from Gethsemani Archives 22
27 Correspondence with Bishop Matthew A. Niedhammer, OFM Cap., Apostolic Vicar of Bluefields, Nicaragua, regarding Merton's character 3
28 Correspondence with Bishop James Peter Davis of San Juan, Puerto Rico, regarding Merton's character 3
29 Special File of Dom James on Thomas Merton, 70 Numbered Entries (click here) 1
30 Correspondence with Dom Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B., Abbot of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota 3

Container List

Series#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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Series 5 #1.
«All Series«		 1951/11/22 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel […] of P. Thomas Merton "Seeds of contemplation" est en cours. Nous avons la traduction "La nuit «detailed view»
Series 5 #2.
«All Series«		 1951/12/01 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We just received the package of the manuscripts of "God Goes to Murderers' Row". Did it appear as a Fr. Raymond's God Goes to Murderers' Row / asking how Dom Gabriel want to handle future Imprimatur requests - by sending the manuscript or simply the Nihil Obstat from various censors to receive Imprimi Potest «detailed view»
Series 5 #3.
«All Series«		 1951/12/12 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel En ce qui concerne l'Imprimi potest, je vous dis en toute simplicité que je voudrais recevoir, submission requirements that Dom Gabriel requires for Merton and Fr. Raymond's books «detailed view»
Series 5 #4.
«All Series«		 1952/08/26 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel As regards the Master of Scholastics, Father Raymond proclaimed Father Louis for over-stepping the Fr. Raymond accuses Merton of "over-stepping the boundary of what the Master of Scholastics should be" and asks Dom Gabriel for suggestions of what the role should be since it is not clearly spelled out in Trappist Constitution or Regulations «detailed view»
Series 5 #5.
«All Series«		 1952/09/22 TNS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Imprimi potest f.M.Gabriel SORTAIS Abbas Generalis die 22a Septembris 1952. [no indication of what the Imprimi potest is for - see 1952/09/23 letter - for "The Contemplative Life in the United States"?] «detailed view»
Series 5 #6.
«All Series«		 1952/09/23 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel C'est avec plaisir que je vous ai revu à notre Chapitre Général et j'espère que votre voyage de Imprimi potest for article, "The Contemplative Life in the United States" «detailed view»
Series 5 #7.
«All Series«		 1952/10/23 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We are hoping that this letter reaches you at N.D. des Prairies, because we do not know your Merton's editor Bob Giroux gave Sign of Jonas manuscript to Jacques Maritain / suggests letting Dom Albert cut parts out of book / book is not a "heavier spirituality" but geared to those "less spiritually minded" / humility in Merton's acceptance of the censorship or editing «detailed view»
Series 5 #8.
«All Series«		 1952/12/22 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Good Father Louis has quite recovered from the shock of the book episode. It certainly unnerved him Merton working out a plan to be a hermit within Cistercian Order / in the end, Sign of Jonas printed without many changes / good for Merton to have been humbled before the release of the book «detailed view»
Series 5 #9.
«All Series«		 1953/01/12 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel In regard to the statute on publication of books in the Order, paragraph 2 means that books are questions about publication of books in the Order - only for the benefit of the Order? Can books be sent to printer before the censors see it to see if there are needed changes? / Fr. Raymond and book on life of Dom Frederic «detailed view»
Series 5 #10.
«All Series«		 1953/01/13 TNS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Nous, Frère Marie-Gabriel SORTAIS, Abbé de Citeaux et Père Général des Cisterciens de la Stricte giving Imprimi Potest for Bread in the Wilderness: Or Contemplation in the Liturgy «detailed view»
Series 5 #11.
«All Series«		 1953/02/02 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous me parlez aussi du P.Louis et de ses désirs de solitude. Le Bon Dieu est certainement libre de Merton's questions of changes to monastic lifestyle and being a hermit / how Merton handles the notoriety of his books «detailed view»
Series 5 #12.
«All Series«		 1953/02/16 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel As regards Father Louis, his friends are telling him to keep on writing diaries and journals, friends encouraging journaling due to expected success of The Sign of Jonas / Fox asks Sortais to write and tell Merton to stop journaling - does not want another published journal / Merton a contradiction - for solitude but always looking to publish / Imprimi Potest for Bread in the Wilderness «detailed view»
Series 5 #13.
«All Series«		 1953/03/16 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We were so happy to have seen you progressing and well on the road to recovery. We have not had a recounting how Merton received Sortais' letter about not writing a journal - thought Sortais meant to not write books either - Fox tells him to "continue moderately" with books, no journal [Merton ceases journal 1953-1956] / Fr. Raymond's new book on Dom Frederic / new rules for censorship «detailed view»
Series 5 #14.
«All Series«		 1953/05/23 TALS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel En revenant de voyage, j'ai trouvé à Paris Dom Procureur qui, entre autres affaires, m'a remis une book on life of St. Lutgard and "Postulant's Guide «detailed view»
Series 5 #15.
«All Series«		 1953/06/11 (#02) TAL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre Père Louis me demande de lui désigner les deux Censeurs auxquels il faut envoyer son nouveau Chapter General designated 3 censors for the English language / Fox not to tell Merton the names of the censors / Fr. Thomas d'Aquin of Holy Trinity and Fr. Augustin de Genese «detailed view»
Series 5 #16.
«All Series«		 1953/06/16 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your kind letter from Citeaux. We have just received word from Dom Jean that you have received Imprimi Potest for "Postulant's Guide" «detailed view»
Series 5 #17.
«All Series«		 1953/10/01 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Father Louis is restless at times. Last Fall he wrote to the Carthusians, in Vermont. They invited Merton's plans to join the Carthusians or be a Camaldolese or Carmelite hermit - still plans to be a quasi-hermit at Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 5 #18.
«All Series«		 1953/10/15 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel There was a little confusion in the minds of some at Gethsemani about our grange proposition. Merton "gets exited easily" and wrote Fox (who went to Europe) about newly acquired grange in California «detailed view»
Series 5 #19.
«All Series«		 1953/10/28 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your charming letter. No doubt you have seen the Apostolic Brief which the Office of Genesee raised to the rank of Abbey / grange in California - Merton quite in favor of it «detailed view»
Series 5 #20.
«All Series«		 1953/11/26 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel And now again, dear R'mme, to other matters. In regard to the books… I have read your post-script Merton interested in Camaldolese Order (Fox met their Dom Anselmo Giabbani in Italy) and wants to spread information about them in America / Fox thinks it strange for Trappist to write about another order, especially after restlessness expressed in Seven Storey Mountain and Sign of Jonas «detailed view»
Series 5 #21.
«All Series«		 1953/12/04 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ci-joint une lettre pour votre Père Louis ainsi que le dossier de remarques des censors and the French translation of Ascent to Truth - troubles with the way it was translated rather than the content and is returning it to the censors before giving it his Imprimi Potest / French editor is Albin Michel «detailed view»
Series 5 #22.
«All Series«		 1953/12/16 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Nous, frère Marie Gabriel SORTAIS, Abbé de Cîteaux et Père Général des Cisterciens de la Stricte Imprimi Potest for a translation of Fr. Raymond's Trappists, the Reds and You: Persecution of the Trappists in China «detailed view»
Series 5 #23.
«All Series«		 1954/01/02 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous voudrez bien considérer cette lettre comme un IMPRIMI POTEST pour le "Prologue" que P. Louis a Dutch translation of Sign of Jonas and Dom Vincent «detailed view»
Series 5 #24.
«All Series«		 1954/06/12 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Good Father Louis seems more settled as the days go by. Although I know that he hopes, perhaps Merton's hopes to live as a hermit at Gethsemani - needs permission of the General Chapter / neuroses in young novices - Fr. Urban's proposal of a house on the new farm for novices could have a "vacation" wherein they could talk more freely under guidance of a superior - Fox dislikes idea «detailed view»
Series 5 #25.
«All Series«		 1954/06/21 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel […] matter that has arisen. Father Louis, before the new censorship regulations were promulgated Merton's script for an oratorio in five parts The Tower of Babel / asking for second censor for project «detailed view»
Series 5 #26.
«All Series«		 1954/07/02 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Merci de vos lettres du 9 et du 21 juin et des nouvelles qu'elles me donnaient sur Gethsemani, Holy designates Fr. Thomas d'Aquin of Holy Trinity as second censor for Tower of Babel / French translations of Bread in the Wilderness, Last of the Fathers, Ascent to Truth and Sign of Jonas - not to assume translation rights for books / trouble with Marie Tadié «detailed view»
Series 5 #27.
«All Series«		 1954/08/03 (#01) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your charming letter of July 2 from Rome, and also your letter of July 14. As regards Tower of Babel sent to second censor / Fr. Raymond's Seven Sorrows / Jean Leclercq liked Last of the Fathers / compensation for Marie Tadié for not being able to translate Ascent / Sortais reconsidering Jonas translation «detailed view»
Series 5 #28.
«All Series«		 1954/08/03 (#02) TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Quelques lignes seulement pour vous expliquer l'envoi de la lettre ci-jointe. La Maison d'édition Curtis Brown publishers / translations of Ascent to Truth and Sign of Jonas «detailed view»
Series 5 #29.
«All Series«		 1954/08/03 (#03) TLS[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your charming letter of July 2 from Rome, and also your letter of July 14. [note that this letter was not with original files but was later added from the archives of the Abbot General of the Trappists] «detailed view»
Series 5 #30.
«All Series«		 1954/08/04 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letter of July 27 from Angers. We told Father Louis about the favorable reception French translation of Bread in the Wilderness well received «detailed view»
Series 5 #31.
«All Series«		 1954/08/07 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Le second compte-rendu des Censeurs sur "Tower of Babel" vient de m'arriver et je m'empresse de vous Imprimi Potest for Tower of Babel «detailed view»
Series 5 #32.
«All Series«		 1954/08/12 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letter of August 3 in regard to your letter for Curtis Brown Publishing Company. Curtis Brown Publishing and Naomi Burton [Stone] / Japanese translation of The Seven Storey Mountain - censorship rules for Japanese version «detailed view»
Series 5 #33.
«All Series«		 1954/08/14 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vos deux lettres du 3 et du 5 août me sont parvenues ici et je vous en remercie. Je suis heureux de Merton's sentiments on the censorship of his translations - does not doubt that Merton will look to avoid future problems in this area «detailed view»
Series 5 #34.
«All Series«		 1954/08/23 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Au même courrier me sont parvenues votre lettre du 12 août, celle de mon Père Louis du 6 et celle de Japanese translation of The Seven Storey Mountain / appointing of censors to this and other translations «detailed view»
Series 5 #35.
«All Series«		 1954/10/07 TAL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Our Most Reverend Abbot General wrote us in regard to your literary labor. We have consulted with [sending two copies letters to Sortais - one from Fox to a priest from Abbaye Nôtre-Dame-de-Grâce (Bricquebec Trappists) and one from Merton to Fox] refusal to translate work into English because the community is already too busy with its two authors «detailed view»
Series 5 #36.
«All Series«		 1955/02/19 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel C'est une question de Censure qui me donne l'occasion de vous écrire aujourd'hui. Après avoir reçu Imprimi Potest for book called, Viewpoints by Merton / insertion of a chapter called "Vocation" and the approval by censors «detailed view»
Series 5 #37.
«All Series«		 1955/02/21 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel 1-) In regard to some new books that are being written here: I do not know whether you know or not, Silence in Heaven text by Merton with photos of monastic life by Benedictine Monastery of Pierre qui Vire - French and American editions - Italian edition with help of Dom Anselmo Giabbani of the Camaldolese Order / Dom Claude Jean Nesmy and Editions Braun de Mulhouse «detailed view»
Series 5 #38.
«All Series«		 1955/02/28 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letter of February 19, and also of the 21st. We thought that the agents in this informed Curtis-Brown that they must contact Sortais to determine censors before publication of Merton's books / addition of 11 pages to book Viewpoints and trouble between the publishers going ahead with printing and the approval of censors «detailed view»
Series 5 #39.
«All Series«		 1955/03/16 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Monsignor Larraona wrote a reply to Father Louis' letter, in which the first paragraph was in letter from Monsignor Larraona to Merton in response to "forged letters which might be sent to the Sacred Congregation of Religious" / Merton and the Camaldolese «detailed view»
Series 5 #40.
«All Series«		 1955/04/01 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vos lettres du 16 et du 22 mars me sont bien arrivées, et je vous remercie des voeux et des prières Merton's thoughts on leaving the Order - praise of Merton's books by the sole bishop of Denmark, the good reception it has received in this largely Protestant nation, and the negative effect that his leaving the Order would have on this initial good impression «detailed view»
Series 5 #41.
«All Series«		 1955/04/06 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 28 mars m'est arrivée ici et je vous remercie de me tenir au courant des send Merton's latest poems to the same censors as Silence in Heaven «detailed view»
Series 5 #42.
«All Series«		 1955/04/15 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 2 avril m'est parvenue hier et je vous remercie vivement de m'avoir donné Sortais reinforces that Imprimi Potest to publish in one language does not assume permission in others / difficulty in getting translators or editors from outside the Order to understand the proper procedures required / Silence in Heaven / Merton's attitude in obeying these rules «detailed view»
Series 5 #43.
«All Series«		 1955/05/18 (#01) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel In our conversations, Father Louis and I, a few questions came up to which I do not know the answers questions posed to Sortais: if confessor has told Merton that he should be Carthusian and Abbot disagrees, whose authority should be followed? / would Merton's changing orders cause scandal? - Merton thinks the Holy See should be asked / correspondence with Fr. Ford, S.J., to undermine Fox «detailed view»
Series 5 #44.
«All Series«		 1955/05/28 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vos lettres du 17 et 18 mai viennent de m'arriver, avec les copies que vous y avez jointes, et je Merton's recent letters to Sortais asking for a transfer of monasteries / thoughts on Abbot's authority on matters of a transfer of Orders / possibility of scandal and poor example to novices / Abbot can refuse to allow correspondence / Merton's desire for an eremitical life - possibility of transfer to Mepkin Abbey «detailed view»
Series 5 #45.
«All Series«		 1955/06/07 TNS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel PAN EN EL DESIERTO Traduction espagnole de BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS, du P. Louis MERTON. NIHIL Imprimi Potest for Spanish translation of Bread in the Wilderness «detailed view»
Series 5 #46.
«All Series«		 1955/06/08 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Si je n'ai pas répondu tout de suite à votre lettre du 25 mai, c'est que j'ai pensé que dans comments on Imprimi Potest for Spanish translation of Bread in the Wilderness «detailed view»
Series 5 #47.
«All Series«		 1955/06/13 (#03) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel As regards books, Father Louis has finished his book, "The Living Bread," which is the one he was The Living Bread - writing for Archbishop Carinci and the Priests' Eucharistic League / Silence in Heaven - Merton wants to wait for approval of French censors regarding Camaldolese chapter and whether it should remain in English addition «detailed view»
Series 5 #48.
«All Series«		 1955/06/13 (#04) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your very kind and considerate letter of May 28, from RoseCre, and now we have just Merton possibly fears changing Orders now, but still hopes for transitus / Dom Jean Leclercq recommends Merton stop writing for at least two years - Fox doubt he can do it / transitus - Dom Anselmo Giabbani and Archbishop Montini's involvement / fire tower and forester duty for Merton «detailed view»
Series 5 #49.
«All Series«		 1955/06/27 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 13 juin m'est arrivée il y a quelques jours déjà, mais le déplacement de Nunraw à send The Living Bread to censors / censors for Merton's poems / idea of Dom Jean Leclercq for Merton to cease writing for a given period of time - warnings to that effect «detailed view»
Series 5 #50.
«All Series«		 1955/07/09 (#01) TNS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel PRAYING THE PSALMS, par le P. Louis Merton. NIHIL OBSTAT : fr. M. Augustin, O.L. of the Genesee, Imprimi Potest for Praying the Psalms «detailed view»
Series 5 #51.
«All Series«		 1955/07/09 (#02) TALS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour le petit ouvrage de P. Louis "Praying the Psalms". Imprimi Potest for French translation of Silence in Heaven - Merton must make changes required by censors / refusing Imprimi Potest for French translation of "The Less Traveled Road" - too long / did not receive accompanying poem to "Tower or Babel" / questions about religious staying in California «detailed view»
Series 5 #52.
«All Series«		 1955/07/15 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour "Tower of Babel", de Père Louis. La maison d'éditions publishers "Editorial Sudamericana" want Imprimi Potest for Bread in the Wilderness - includes a page of Spanish editorial notes for this work and Imprimi Potest for "Tower of Babel" «detailed view»
Series 5 #53.
«All Series«		 1955/07/19 (#01) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your several letters, dear R'mme. Yours of June 27 gave us the two censors for "The The Living Bread and Praying the Psalms / necessary corrections for Silence in Heaven «detailed view»
Series 5 #54.
«All Series«		 1955/07/19 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel In regard to good Father Louis himself, and his eremitical fancies, we are enclosing some letters enclosing letters about Merton and his "eremitical fancies" - letter from Dom Maurizio, novice master of Camaldolese at Frascati - from Dom J. Bapt. Poirion of the Carthusians - to and from Naomi Burton [Stone] who thinks challenges at Gethsemani Merton's cross to bear - not heard from Dom Giabbani «detailed view»
Series 5 #55.
«All Series«		 1955/08/13 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ci-inclus l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour "The living Bread", du P. Louis, avec quelques attached is Imprimi Potest for The Living Bread (scan of it is cut off and does not show complete image) / Silence in Heaven - must balance solitary life of the Camaldolese and cenobitic life or will be sent back to the censors «detailed view»
Series 5 #56.
«All Series«		 1955/11/17 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel le 7 juin dernier je vous envoyais un IMPRIMI POTEST pour la traduction espagnole de "Bread in the received letter from the Spanish editors of Bread in the Wilderness saying that Fox had not forwarded Imprimi Potest to them «detailed view»
Series 5 #57.
«All Series«		 1955/11/29 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your last several letters. I especially appreciated your cable of Dom Walter's being duties as forester replacing Merton's need for a hermitage / Merton first wanting to sleep alone in attic instead of in dormitory but choosing to sleep in dorm - wanting to eat in infirmary but choosing to manage in regular refectory / Imprimi Potest for Bread in the Wilderness in Spanish «detailed view»
Series 5 #58.
«All Series«		 1956/01/09 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Good Father Louis has some notes: "Basic Principles of Monastic Life" and several other little copy of Merton's letter to Dom Jean Leclercq / letter from Carthusian who had about Merton's temptations in his books writes to Fox - says that Trappist vocation is ideal for Merton and that he is not fit to be a hermit «detailed view»
Series 5 #59.
«All Series«		 1956/03/04 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Deux des censeurs américains viennent de m'adresser un compte-rendu pour des ouvrages différents du asking for information on new works by Merton of which Sortais had not been informed - two new poems for "Tower of Babel", "Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality", "Neurotic personality", and "Poetry and Contemplation" «detailed view»
Series 5 #60.
«All Series«		 1956/04/18 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Les comptes-rendus des Censeurs sur différents petits travaux de Père Louis viennent de me parvenir. Sortais is happy to have received additional information on these short works of Merton and wants to comment before they go to an editor - "Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality", "Time and the Liturgy", "Poetry and the Contemplative Life", "Your Will and Your Vocation", "Neurotic Personality in the Monastic Life" «detailed view»
Series 5 #61.
«All Series«		 1956/05/07 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letters of April 3 from Latron and April 18 from Uganda. I have not answered them explanation of why Fox had not been able to reply to previous letters about Merton's other small articles / acknowledgement that in the future he will specify exact titles even for the smaller works «detailed view»
Series 5 #62.
«All Series«		 1956/06/06 TLS[x]  from De Bourbon, Clément / to James Fox The Abbot General desires me to answer your letter of May 22. I am afraid that we are not exactly [sent by Abbot-General Gabriel Sortais' secretary] still more clarification necessary on some of Merton's essays / asks to send all manuscripts in short order «detailed view»
Series 5 #63.
«All Series«		 1956/06/11 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We are sending two copies of a little prayer to the Sacred Heart that Father Louis composted. He hopes to publish prayer this month and asking to skip all some of the censorship and approval process for a one-page piece / asking to appoint censors for "Notes on Sacred Art" «detailed view»
Series 5 #64.
«All Series«		 1956/06/16 (#01) TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 11 m'est bien parvenue, avec les deux exemplaires de la prière composée par P. Louis letter from M. le Chanoine Berrar from the Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français / Merton's writings on silence and solitude «detailed view»
Series 5 #65.
«All Series«		 1956/06/16 (#02) TL[x]  from Sortais, Gabriel / to M. le Chanoine E. Berrar Votre lettre du 8 juin, accompagnée des pièces que vous y aviez jointes, m'est parvenue hier soir et [copy of letter sent to Fox] refusal to allow Merton to travel to Paris - not in keeping with his life of silence and solitude - would be neglectful of his duties as novice master «detailed view»
Series 5 #66.
«All Series«		 1956/06/18 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received a letter from the Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français in regard to good Father Chanoine Berrar from Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français «detailed view»
Series 5 #67.
«All Series«		 1956/06/26 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Les manuscrits de P. Louis nous sont bien arrivés et je vous en remercie. J'aurai besoin de les Chanoine Berrar from Centre Catholique des Intellectuels Français «detailed view»
Series 5 #68.
«All Series«		 1956/07/14 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel 3/ La copie d'une partie de la lettre que j'ai reçue d'un Père Dominicain, Professeur à l'Angelicum, Dominican professor asking to see Merton's manuscripts for four short essays - make corrections of the censors to these essays but there is only a need to send it back to one censor and Imprimi Potest can be assumed when he approves / Merton thinks some censors' suggestions "picayunish" «detailed view»
Series 5 #69.
«All Series«		 1956/08/02 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Un mot seulement pour vous accuser réception de vos deux enveloppes du 23 et du 24 Juillet. Vous Merton's Secular Journal should be submitted to censors though written prior to entering Gethsemani - it should note explicitly that it was done prior to monastic life «detailed view»
Series 5 #70.
«All Series«		 1956/08/17 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe les remarques des censeurs relatives aux derniers ouvrages du P. "Thoughts in Solitude" [book, under draft title, "Thirty-Seven Meditations"] and "Notes on Sacred Art" [essay} «detailed view»
Series 5 #71.
«All Series«		 1956/08/24 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel En vous envoyant le 17 de ce mois mon IMPRIMI POTEST pour "Thirty-seven Meditations", je vous "Thoughts in Solitude" [book, under draft title, "Thirty Seven Meditations"] and "The Ascent to Truth" [book] «detailed view»
Series 5 #72.
«All Series«		 1956/09/03 TAL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We owe you several letters and answers, dear R'mme. We received yours from Maubec, of August 2, in Cuban Journal [published as Merton's Secular Journal] / corrections made to "Thirty-Seven Meditations" and "Notes on Sacred Art" / French rights to Ascent to Truth - Fr. François, Marie Tadié - publishers Curtis Brown and Albin Michel / "A Kerygma for the Nativity" / refusal for Merton to give sermon in Louisville «detailed view»
Series 5 #73.
«All Series«		 1956/10/01 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Une lettre du Père Thomas d'Aquin, de Holy Trinity, m'arrive pour me dire que Père Louis a bien "Thoughts in Solitude" [book, under draft title, "Thirty Seven Meditations"] «detailed view»
Series 5 #74.
«All Series«		 1956/10/03 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel As regards Father Louis, he is doing very well as Father Master. However, he still has his nervous sending copies of some of Merton's letters / Merton resigned to staying at Gethsemani but still hope for a hermitage after job as Father Master is completed «detailed view»
Series 5 #75.
«All Series«		 1956/10/31 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Quelques lignes seulement pour vous transmettre les avis des Censeurs concernant un petit article «detailed view»
Series 5 #76.
«All Series«		 1956/10/31 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vos lettres du 2 Mars m'ont été renvoyées de Rome en France, ou je suis actuellment en voyage. "The Secular Journal" [book, under draft title, "The Cuban Journal" (or in French "Journal Cubain")] «detailed view»
Series 5 #77.
«All Series«		 1956/12/03 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel J'ai bien reçu aussi votre lettre du 7 Novembre, avec toutes les copies que vous me communiquiez. happy that Merton did not have to undergo further psychological analysis - in his opinion this leads to more trouble than it solves «detailed view»
Series 5 #78.
«All Series«		 1957/01/02 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Ces derniers jours nous avons remarqué en librairie la traduction d'un ouvrage de votre cher P. Vita nel silenzio - Italian version of The Silent Life «detailed view»
Series 5 #79.
«All Series«		 1957/01/14 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Regarding the book of Father Louis, the one you mention VITA NEL SILENZIO had its original title confusion over similar titles of books - Vita Nel Silenzio, originally titled in English as Living in Silence and later called The Silent Life, confused with different book entitled Silence in Heaven «detailed view»
Series 5 #80.
«All Series«		 1957/02/04 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your good letter of January 8--and also a copy of VITA NEL SILENZIO translated and Vita Nel Silenzio sponsored by Dom Anselmo Giabbani - needs censorship - lacks pictures of Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 5 #81.
«All Series«		 1957/03/02 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel I am writing you in regard to the so-called "CUBAN JOURNAL" which Father Louis had written before he asks Sortais to appoint censors to The Secular Journal «detailed view»
Series 5 #82.
«All Series«		 1957/03/15 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel As regards Fr. Louis' "CUBAN JOURNAL", we thank you for the names of the two Censors. We certainly Dom Anselmo Giabbani in the United States looking for a place for new foundation of the Camaldolese and wanted to visit Gethsemani and Merton / Morcelliana-Editrice letter «detailed view»
Series 5 #83.
«All Series«		 1957/04/18 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Une dame française, Mme Loring-Rheims, d'origine américaine, a traduit en notre langue les oeuvres Mrs. Loring-Rheims' French translations of Merton's poems / Naomi Burton [Stone] has turned down this translation for publication «detailed view»
Series 5 #84.
«All Series«		 1957/04/27 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your charming letter of April 18 from Mariafrieden in regard to Mme. Loring-Rheims' Merton does not like Loring-Rheims' translation and does not think his poems would be successful in a French translation «detailed view»
Series 5 #85.
«All Series«		 1957/06/03 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your charming letter of May 14. I would like to ask a question which Father Louis Merton's article on Adam of Perseigne - translated into French and published in Collectanea - should original English version go to censors if already published in French? «detailed view»
Series 5 #86.
«All Series«		 1957/06/15 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 3 m'est arrivée il y a quelque temps déjà et, étant donné les questions que vous m'y as long as Merton does not change anything from French to English, he can publish English version of Adam of Perseigne article «detailed view»
Series 5 #87.
«All Series«		 1957/07/01 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Also, good Father Louis as Master of the Choir Novices, is writing what might be called a Merton's "Postulant's Guide" «detailed view»
Series 5 #88.
«All Series«		 1957/07/22 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Pour le "Postulant's Guide" de P.Louis, veuillez le soumettre à P.Paul de Holy Ghost et P.Gabriel de censors for "Postulant's Guide" / asking status of Cuban Journal (The Secular Journal) «detailed view»
Series 5 #89.
«All Series«		 1957/08/13 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Le deuxième compte-rendu de la censure concernant "A Secular Journal" de Thomas Merton qui n'était "The Secular Journal" [book, under draft title, "The Cuban Journal"] «detailed view»
Series 5 #90.
«All Series«		 1957/08/17 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 7 m'est arrivée juste après le départ de celle par laquelle je vous demandais Cuban Journal (The Secular Journal) «detailed view»
Series 5 #91.
«All Series«		 1957/08/21 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letter of August 13 from Westmalle in regard to sending manuscript of A SECULAR Secular Journal - held by Catherine DeHueck Doherty for many years, who now wants to publish it with proceeds going to the poor «detailed view»
Series 5 #92.
«All Series«		 1957/09/17 (#01) TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour "MONASTIC PEACE". Je vous le donne bien "Monastic Peace" [essay / brief stand-alone volume] «detailed view»
Series 5 #93.
«All Series«		 1957/09/17 (#02) other by Sortais, Gabriel MONASTIC PEACE par le P. Louis MERTON [-] Nihil Obstat: fr. M. Gabriel O'CONNELL, 20 Aout 1957 "Monastic Peace" [essay / brief stand-alone volume] / Nihil Obstat, Fr. Gabriel O'Connell and Fr. Paul Bourne; Imprimi Potest, Dom Gabriel Sortais «detailed view»
Series 5 #94.
«All Series«		 1958/01/25 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your charming letter of January 17 in answer to ours of the 7th in regard to the sending confidential psychological analysis of Merton by Dr. Gregory Zilboorg / sending copy of letter by Catherine DeHueck Doherty «detailed view»
Series 5 #95.
«All Series«		 1958/01/27 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We are enclosing Father Louis' letter. He did not know your address, so he asked me to enclose it sending a letter by Merton «detailed view»
Series 5 #96.
«All Series«		 1958/02/05 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous m'excuserez certainement de vous répondre brièvement, car le travail recommence déjà à me Secular Journal ("Cuban Journal") - Merton to correct based on censors corrections and resubmit «detailed view»
Series 5 #97.
«All Series«		 1958/02/15 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We are answering your kind letter of February 5, and also dear Father Clement's of February 8. Catherine DeHueck Doherty letter to Merton - Fox did not tell Merton that he sent his letter to Sortais / Merton to correct Secular Journal ("Cuban Journal"), write a new preface and resubmit it to censors «detailed view»
Series 5 #98.
«All Series«		 1958/03/17 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel There is one curious matter that has come up which leaves me in a rather bewildered state of mind. Rev. Mother Abbess Angela of Wrentham letter - claims that Merton and Fr. Paul of Holy Ghost have been appointed the censors for all Trappist publications in the United States - Fox believes she is wrong (or "not in her right mind") and seeks confirmation «detailed view»
Series 5 #99.
«All Series«		 1958/03/20 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 17 m'est arrivée hier, et j'y réponds rapidement avant de prendre l'avion qui va me confirms that he had suggested Merton to give his advice on some poems by Rev. Mother Abbess Angela de Wrenthem, but assures Fox that this appointment is exceptional and that Merton will not be in the future distracted in his role as Novice Master «detailed view»
Series 5 #100.
«All Series«		 1958/04/08 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe l'IMPRIMI POTEST que j'ai le plaisir de vous envoyer pour "Secular Journal" [book / formerly under the title "Cuban Journal"] «detailed view»
Series 5 #101.
«All Series«		 1958/04/14 TALS[x] to Sortais, Gabriel I believe Fr. Louis has written to you his appreciation of the poem. Privately, he said to me, Merton said poem of Abbess Angela was "Nothin special-- rather ordinary" / asking for censors for Merton's notes on "Art and Worship" «detailed view»
Series 5 #102.
«All Series«		 1958/04/20 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Votre letter du 14 m'est parvenue il y a quelques jours. Je n'ai pu y répondre tout de suite, car "Art and Worship" [unpublished book] «detailed view»
Series 5 #103.
«All Series«		 1958/06/22 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour "Art and Worship", du P. Louis, avec les suggestions Imprimi Potest for "Art and Worship" with suggestions of the censors «detailed view»
Series 5 #104.
«All Series«		 1958/07/26 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Le cahier ronéotypé de "Liturgical Feasts and Seasons, Part I" m'est bien arrivé il y a quelques model program for the novitiate / foundation of Spencer in Argentina «detailed view»
Series 5 #105.
«All Series«		 1958/08/01 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel As regards the "Cuban Journal", you have Father Louis' answer now. I knew he had received a letter situation of rejection of Cuban Journal / Secular Journal / Catherine De Hueck Doherty to keep $500 advance on the book «detailed view»
Series 5 #106.
«All Series«		 1958/08/13 (#01) TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 5 m'est parvenue avant-hier. Vous comprendrez aisément porquoi il m'a fallu deux collaboration between Merton and Fr. Lombardi «detailed view»
Series 5 #107.
«All Series«		 1958/08/13 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Mlle Marie Tadie, I believe, has translated one of Father Louis' small articles, LETTER TO AN "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" - translated into French by Marie Tadié and approved for French publication - can it be printed in US? / Merton's "newest dream-project" «detailed view»
Series 5 #108.
«All Series«		 1958/08/18 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 13 m'est arrivée ce matin. Vous m'y demandiez s'il fallait ou non soumettre à la need to resubmit "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" for an independent review by American censors «detailed view»
Series 5 #109.
«All Series«		 1958/08/25 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We also received your letter of August 18 which acknowledges ours of the 13th. One part dealt with Merton trying to make arrangements in Fox's absence - his "South American dream" - Fr. Lombardi «detailed view»
Series 5 #110.
«All Series«		 1958/10/06 TALS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe deux Imprimi Potest. L'autre Imprimi Potest concerne une regarding a Spanish translation of one of Merton's works / message from Brazil about a Portuguese translation of What Are These Wounds and 5 later books - questions of rights with Bruce Publishing «detailed view»
Series 5 #111.
«All Series«		 1958/10/08 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Ce matin, j'ai reçu un compte-rendu de censure concernant l'article du P.Louis, qui a déjà paru en censors and "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" «detailed view»
Series 5 #112.
«All Series«		 1958/10/21 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We hasten to acknowledge your three very kind letters-- October 6, 8 and 10 with the various informed Naomi Burton [Stone] to notify publishing agents to follow censorship policy for all books and translations / letter from Holy Father to Fr. Lombardi - new Pope's reaction to Lombardi's work and to religious communities of men / Merton writing only short pieces - his emotions have swung back to normal «detailed view»
Series 5 #113.
«All Series«		 1958/11/17 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We wish to acknowledge your letter of October 29. It is a difficult job trying to keep these [translation of 1958/11/16 letter from Jaime Andrade to Merton and a letter from Merton to Fox near the same date enclosed] Portuguese translation of "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" / Art and Worship / Boris Pasternak letter / Fr. Gerald's writings / new Camaldolese foundation in California «detailed view»
Series 5 #114.
«All Series«		 1958/12/14 TLS from de Bourbon, Clément It is an appreciated privilege to write to you, especially when having to thank you- with some delay "Art and Worship" [unpublished book] / "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" [poem] «detailed view»
Series 5 #115.
«All Series«		 1959/01/19 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 12 Janvier m'est parvenue avant-hier. N'ayez pas de rancune contre P.Clément qui, Rev. Fr. Lombardi / curious contradictions of Merton - life of solitude and desiring to play a role in the public scene / the Pasternak affair / letter of Merton to Gregory Zilboorg and Merton's desire to play a part on the world scene / Imprimi Potest for six of Merton's articles «detailed view»
Series 5 #116.
«All Series«		 1959/02/10 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel I do not believe we have acknowledged your kind letter of January 19. Good Father Louis has already Merton has written to Sortais about Pasternak article / Merton's poems in Spanish sent to censors / Imprimi Potest for Sayings of the Desert Fathers / Merton dubious of Rev. Fr. Lombardi's movement but Fox thinks he sees "path to international fame" through it «detailed view»
Series 5 #117.
«All Series«		 1959/02/15 TLS from de Bourbon, Clément I have but good things to tell you to-day. It is really most pleasant to write under such conditions «detailed view»
Series 5 #118.
«All Series«		 1959/02/28 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 10 m'est bien arrivée, avec les quatre copies que vous y aviez jointes. Je vous "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" [poem] «detailed view»
Series 5 #119.
«All Series«		 1959/03/11 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Père Louis m'a écrit pour me dire les raisons qui le present d'écrire un nouvel article, plus "A Tribute to greatness. Comment on Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak." [review essay] «detailed view»
Series 5 #120.
«All Series«		 1959/03/18 other by Sortais, Gabriel THE POWER AND MEANING OF LOVE by Thomas Merton, O.L. of Gethsemani Abbey [-] NIHIL OBSTAT: "The Power and Meaning of Love" [book / similar in content to Disputed Questions] «detailed view»
Series 5 #121.
«All Series«		 1959/03/20 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letter of February 28 and also of March 11. We were very happy to learn that the "Five Old Ladies" and Art and Worship approved / Romano Guardini thinks Merton should stop writing withdraw from activity in order to write "truly great book" / foundations in India, S. America, Rocky Mountains / letter to Pope John XXIII / "neurotic person", formerly at Gethsemani, and foundation in Nevada «detailed view»
Series 5 #122.
«All Series«		 1959/04/20 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Enclosed is a little extract from one of good Father Louis' letter to M. Marie Tadie in Paris, who Merton's article on the meaning of Easter which appeared in US and in the April issue of the French publication La Vie Spirituelle «detailed view»
Series 5 #123.
«All Series«		 1959/05/02 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour le double article écrit par P. Louis sur "A Tribute to greatness. Comment on Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak." [review essay] and "Boris Pasternak and the People with Watch Chains" [essay] «detailed view»
Series 5 #124.
«All Series«		 1959/05/25 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel No doubt you are busy with the General Chapter of all the Abbesses-- or at least most all-- of the photographer friend interested in Gethsemani - asking exception be granted in allowing him to photograph the Abbey - not interested in making a profit - good PR for monasticism - prohibition in showing faces of monks or naming Abbey - Merton's preface / America "a pagan country" «detailed view»
Series 5 #125.
«All Series«		 1959/06/01 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vos deux lettres du 19 et du 25 Mai me sont bien parvenues, la dernière trouvée ici hier matin, à preface written by Merton / allowing secular photographers to take pictures at Gethsemani / General Chapter of all Trappistine Abbesses «detailed view»
Series 5 #126.
«All Series«		 1959/06/02 TLS[x]  from Fox, James / to Clément De Bourbon I will write a longer letter later, but I will say now only a few words-- namely, that our good [Fr. Clément De Bourbon, Secretary to Abbot General Gabriel Sortais] Fr. Ricardo Lombardi not visiting Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 5 #127.
«All Series«		 1959/06/05 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letter of the 1st of June. We were not a little surprised, because of the "Douane problem with customs duty on manuscript sent [book of photographs?] / Merton's publishers in New York exited about photograph book «detailed view»
Series 5 #128.
«All Series«		 1959/06/25 (#01) TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel […] développée dans l'Église, sous l'influence du Saint-Esprit. C'est pourquoi cette publication publication of the photograph book would be detrimental and cannot be authorized / appointing different censors for a translation of the Rule of Saint Benedict because the other two censors are busy with Merton's short articles «detailed view»
Series 5 #129.
«All Series«		 1959/06/25 (#02) TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Avant de quitter Cîteaux, il y a maintenant une semaine, j'ai confié au bon frère Paul, le portier a long explanation of why Sortais cannot permit the publication of the book of photos - acknowledges their artistic value but considers it vanity and ostentation, and a mockery of a lifestyle of solitude and retreat from the world «detailed view»
Series 5 #130.
«All Series«		 1959/06/29 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel La dernière fois que je vous écrivais, je vous annonçais une lettre sur des questions de censure. Imprimi Potest for 3 shorts essays by Merton / remarks of the censors concerning "Poemas" - differences in South American Spanish from that which is spoken in Spain - must be independently viewed / Merton's popularity in Spain - El Pane Vivo / Spanish translation by Ernesto Cardenal «detailed view»
Series 5 #131.
«All Series«		 1959/07/02 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Juste un mot pour vous envoyer l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour un nouveau petit article de Père Louis, ATLAS Merton's article "Atlas Watches Every Evening" / critique of a censor who thinks that Merton has abandoned charity in response to the pressure of appealing to a certain community / Sortais will not respond to it out of context, but cautions Fox «detailed view»
Series 5 #132.
«All Series«		 1959/07/13 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We owe you for three letters-- your beautiful one of June 25, the one of June 29 and the one of July photographer, Shirley Burden, visited Sortais at the Generalice in Rome - Dom Eugene Boylan and obtaining permission to bring television cameras to the monastery / Spanish translations of Merton's works by Gethsemani Choir Novice, Ernesto Cardenal from Central America / "Atlas" article - Hitler and Stalin «detailed view»
Series 5 #133.
«All Series«		 1959/07/24 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Pour plus de commodité je répondrai séparément aux deux parties de votre lettre du 13 Juillet. Je renouncing certain photographs of Gethsemani for Shirley Burden's book / customs fee for sending of book / Merton's preface for Burden's book and Sortais' consent to publish without a formal Imprimi Potest «detailed view»
Series 5 #134.
«All Series«		 1959/08/05 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel There were several questions I did not reply to yet in our last letter. I appreciate what you had Sortais' opinion on letters marked "PERSONAL" or "MATTER OF CONSCIENCE" / Shirley Burden's book God Is My Life: the Story of Our Lady of Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 5 #135.
«All Series«		 1959/08/14 TLS[x]  from De Bourbon, Clément / to James Fox I think I must apologize for the delay of the IMPRIMI POTEST the Abbot General has signed today. apology in not sending Imprimi Potest by Abbot General Gabriel Sortais' secretary «detailed view»
Series 5 #136.
«All Series«		 1959/08/31 (#01) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Father Louis mentioned to me in regard to that book of photos, which we sent to you, and which good Merton's question Shirley Burden's photo book - can face pictures of monks no longer at Gethsemani included? / final outcome of Merton's trial / Fr. Jean Danielou «detailed view»
Series 5 #137.
«All Series«		 1959/09/28 TLS[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Père Clément m'a montré aussi les images que vous lui avez laissées, extraites d'une publication sur Fr. Clément De Bourbon showed Sortais a book published by the monastery at Tilburg that Fox had sent showing faces of monks - it had not received the Imprimi Potest and Sortais does not think this is a precedent to follow / Merton's "conscience matter" letters - Fox's right to control abuse by Merton of system «detailed view»
Series 5 #138.
«All Series«		 1959/10/24 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Si j'ai attendu deux jours pour vous envoyer l'IMPRIMI POTEST ci-joint, c'est que je comptais voir "A Tribute to greatness. Comment on Dr. Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak." [review essay] and "Boris Pasternak and the People with Watch Chains" [essay] «detailed view»
Series 5 #139.
«All Series«		 1959/12/12 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Ceci est seulement un petit mot pour accompagner l'envoi de l'IMPRIMI POTEST ci-joint. Comme vous delay in approving manuscript and giving Imprimi Potest for short work on John Climacus «detailed view»
Series 5 #140.
«All Series«		 1959/12/15 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 9 m'est arrivée hier. Quand celle-ci vous parviendra, vous serez revenu sain et designating to censors for The Christian Life of Prayer / Sortais thinks a strange idea that Merton sending photos and manuscripts to University of Kentucky «detailed view»
Series 5 #141.
«All Series«		 1959/12/23 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel On our return home from our trip to the Abbatial Blessing for the First Abbot of New Clairvaux, we Shirley Burden - hopes that Sortais will visit him in Beverly Hills - no faces in shots, book to be released around Easter / what to do without official Imprimi Potest «detailed view»
Series 5 #142.
«All Series«		 1960/01/15 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel C'est avec beaucoup de retard que je réponds à vos lettres du 14 et du 23 Décembre. Je vous Merton's may be attempting to make efforts to be humble and tranquil but is failing «detailed view»
Series 5 #143.
«All Series«		 1960/02/16 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Father Louis has rewritten some old ancient manuscripts and put them in the form of a book to be The New Man - requesting censors for this book «detailed view»
Series 5 #144.
«All Series«		 1960/02/22 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Voici l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour un article de Père Louis. J'y ajoute la lettre de l'un des censeurs "Vocation to Solitude" - always precautions to take regarding Merton and he needs to seriously revise his article / unfavorable review of Spanish translation of Exile Ends in Glory / editor José Zanartu «detailed view»
Series 5 #145.
«All Series«		 1960/03/01 (#01) TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Je vous remercie de me tenir au courant de l'état de Père Louis. Le cher Père fait certainement des Cardinal Valerio Valeri and Rev. Father Paul Philippe from the Sacred Congregation of Religious - Merton's desires to leave Gethsemani / Marie Tadié and hermit, "Soeur Ex" «detailed view»
Series 5 #146.
«All Series«		 1960/03/01 (#02) TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Questions de CENSURE Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour un poème de P. Louis : Imprimi Potest for "Love Winter when the Plant Says Nothing" / Vocation to Solitude - negative review of a censor and is turned down in present form / "The Primitive Carmelite Ideal" / rejection of a dialogue with D.T. Suzuki - resubmission of Wisdom of the Desert to censors «detailed view»
Series 5 #147.
«All Series«		 1960/03/08 TLS from de Bourbon, Clément Once again I have to say: MEA CULPA!! As I am keeping in hand the censorship's files, I was "The New Man" [book] «detailed view»
Series 5 #148.
«All Series«		 1960/03/23 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel Good Father Louis seems to be in good spirits at the moment. He has entirely rewritten VOCATION TO Merton rewrote Vocation to Solitude and resubmitted to censors «detailed view»
Series 5 #149.
«All Series«		 1960/04/02 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Il me faut tout d'abord vous remercier de votre lettre du 23 Mars, qui contenaint, à l'occasion de the censor who objected to the D.T. Suzuki related pages of Wisdom of the Desert approves of the book if these are removed / Merton wants to incorporate Suzuki segment in a book in collaboration with a psychoanalyst and a Protestant theologian - Sortais refuses but may allow article from New Directions «detailed view»
Series 5 #150.
«All Series«		 1960/04/06 (#01) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel You must be thinking that I have died from the flu and no one has told you about it or have Vocation to Solitude - in original draft, Merton going through personal crisis and projecting problems on others / new article - "Notes on a Philosophy of Solitude" / Spanish translation of Exile Ends in Glory / vocational trouble at Gethsemani / Merton's remarks about keeping vows «detailed view»
Series 5 #151.
«All Series«		 1960/04/06 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel In regard to VOCATION TO SOLITUDE, Father Louis has rewritten the whole article, and is now calling Vocation to Solitude revised and renamed to Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude / one censor had objections to article "Primitive Carmelite Ideal" / book with article by D.T. Suzuki and Merton's response with articles by Eric Fromm and Paul Tillich / Fox's defense of and examples of Suzuki published by Catholic Press «detailed view»
Series 5 #152.
«All Series«		 1960/04/08 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We just received your letter of April 2 before my letter has gone out, so I hasten to include a Erich Fromm and Paul Tillich might not be willing to contribute to Merton's proposed book with Suzuki - Fox defense Merton writing along with a Zen Buddhist, a Jewish psychoanalyst, and a Lutheran minister - the Pope and interfaith dialog - advice from Jacques Maritain or Fr. Danielou / Marie Tadié and Hermit Sister X «detailed view»
Series 5 #153.
«All Series«		 1960/04/18 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 6/8 Avril m'est bien parvenue. Je n'ai absolument pas le temps de vous répondre Sortais spoke with Rev. Fr. Paul Philippe and there is no way that he can approve a book in collaboration with D.T. Suzuki - an article might be accepted / respects the opinion of Jacques Maritain, but he is in less a position to advise as a layman than Rev. Fr. Paul Philippe of the Sacred Congregation of Religious «detailed view»
Series 5 #154.
«All Series«		 1960/04/25 (#01) TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Je traiterai séparément des diverses questions concernant la censure. Au sujet de P. Louis. Merton and the study of psychiatry for use as a Novice Master / no time to copy the letter of Cardinal Valerio Valeri to Merton for Fox / publishing of works with photos of the community before having obtained permission «detailed view»
Series 5 #155.
«All Series«		 1960/04/25 (#02) TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Au sujet du dialogue de P. Louis avec le Dr SUZUKI je vous ai déjà répondu dans ma lettre du 18, et D.T. Suzuki / South American Spanish translations raising questions of literary value among censors in Madrid / Imprimi Potest for "Prometheus" and "A Signed Confession" / "Notes for a Philosophy of Solitude" still some censor's reservations / Jubilee / "The Primitive Carmel Ideal" / Vocation to Solitude «detailed view»
Series 5 #156.
«All Series«		 1960/04/30 TALS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Un mot seulement pour accompagner l'envoi des deux IMPRIMI POTEST ci-joints, et surtout pour vous "un ermite de la Renaissance" / "La Préface de Seul avec Dieu" / "Préface à la Doctrine du Bx Paul Giustiniani" «detailed view»
Series 5 #157.
«All Series«		 1960/05/02 (#01) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your very kind letter of April 18. It dealt principally with the question of Father Merton writing an article with D.T. Suzuki but not a book / enclosing Jacques Maritain letter of 1960/04/18 / Msgr. Loris Capovilla, Private Secretary to the Pope, sent stole to Merton through architect and friend, Dr. Barbato - Merton asking for blessings in the "Ecumenical Year" for conferences with non-Catholics «detailed view»
Series 5 #158.
«All Series«		 1960/05/02 (#02) transcript  from Maritain, Jacques / to Merton I've carefully considered the advice you wanted of me. I think that in itself, a dialogue like that [translation of Maritain's letter written 1960/04/18 attached to May 2 letter from Fox to Sortais] interfaith discussion necessary as long as it is not proposing "One Religion is as good as another" / prefers book to article / Erich Fromm good but Paul Tillich not so much Protestantism as "philosophic jumble" «detailed view»
Series 5 #159.
«All Series«		 1960/05/05 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel As regards the censors for the book of Father Raymond, we are happy that you appointed good Father articles "Philosophy of Solitude", "Primitive Carmelite Ideal", "A Renaissance Hermit", and "Carmelite Sanctity" - Fox says, "censor came to the same conclusions that we have been exchanging for the last several years" «detailed view»
Series 5 #160.
«All Series«		 1960/05/11 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Merci pour votre lettre. P. Louis […] déjà communiqué la réponse originale de M. Maritain, que je Jacques Maritain's response does not change Sortais' point of view that a book in collaboration with Suzuki is not acceptable, but an article is acceptable «detailed view»
Series 5 #161.
«All Series«		 1960/05/30 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel J'ai reçu également ces jours-ci une lettre de P.Paul, de Holy Ghost, qui a dû vous parler de la Fr. Paul of Holy Ghost wants to quit as a censor of Merton's many small articles / censors for "The Christian Life of Prayer", Disputed Questions and The New Man / more censors requested to protect anonymity and share burden «detailed view»
Series 5 #162.
«All Series«		 1960/06/07 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your charming note of May 30 from Tilburg. We are enclosing our report in regard to Our Fr. Paul of Holy Ghost and his desires to quit as censor of Merton's works «detailed view»
Series 5 #163.
«All Series«		 1960/06/11 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Sous cette enveloppe, vous trouverez l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour THE NEW MAN. L'un des censeurs a joint à censor brings suggested corrections for Merton on The New Man, but does not require these for publication - Merton's contact with censor «detailed view»
Series 5 #164.
«All Series«		 1960/06/22 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel C'est en arrivant à Cîteaux, hier, que j'ai trouvé votre lettre du 25 Mai, qui m'est ainsi arrivé article "Christian Perfection" (earlier titled "Christian Sanctity") given Imprimi Potest / Spanish translations of Exile Ends in Glory and What Are These Wounds «detailed view»
Series 5 #165.
«All Series«		 1960/07/03 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Cette fois-ci je n'ai à vous envoyer ni IMPRIMI POTEST ni remarques de censeurs. Je vous écris praise for Shirley Burden's God Is My Life with Merton's introduction / French translation of Merton's "Mount Athos" «detailed view»
Series 5 #166.
«All Series«		 1960/07/27 (#01) TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Voici un nouvel IMPRIMI POTEST pour notre cher Père Louis. L'un de ses censeurs me paraît presque Imprimi Potest for "The Final Judgment" with suggestions from the censor «detailed view»
Series 5 #167.
«All Series«		 1960/07/27 (#02) TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel would be talking to you about the possibilities, you would know the situation here. I do not have tracking down Shirley Burden about removing photos that Sortais does not want published / Merton's poems "Song for Nobody" and "Song: If You Seek…" sent to censors with 6 poems of Jorge Carrera Andrade translated by Merton / Merton's moodiness and visits to psychiatrist Dr. James Wygal «detailed view»
Series 5 #168.
«All Series«		 1960/10/13 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letter of September 28 with the two Imprimi Potests for good Father Louis. Of Merton awaiting Imprimi Potest for Chardin article / enclosing letter from Merton to friend Herbert Mason containing Merton's negative views on censorship / Merton's correspondence with Fr. Bruno James and Dorothy Day / Fox on Merton - "he is a sick person, and his emotions carry him away" «detailed view»
Series 5 #169.
«All Series«		 1960/10/30 TALS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe l'opinion d'un professeur d'Université sur l'article que le Père University professor's opinion of Merton's article on Teilhard de Chardin and refusal to give Imprimi Potest until Merton's article goes through theological scrutiny / Magisterium asking Catholic publications to be silent on works of Teilhard de Chardin / Merton and response to authority «detailed view»
Series 5 #170.
«All Series«		 1960/11/16 TL[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your gracious letter of November 8, and we thank you for the Imprimi Potest for PRISON "Prison Meditations of Father Delp" - approval for Merton's introduction contingent on approval of Bishop of local diocese / Marie Tadié and her constant letter writing and trouble - Fox hopes permission to translate the five books of Merton will give her some peace - must still go through censors and Sortais' approval «detailed view»
Series 5 #171.
«All Series«		 1960/11/30 TL[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Quand cette lettre parviendra à Gethsémani, vous ne serez sans doute pas encore rentré du voyage Nihil Obstat for Merton's poetry «detailed view»
Series 5 #172.
«All Series«		 1961/01/10 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ci-joint le rapport que je vous ai annoncé sur ma visite à Spencer. Cette visite, sending Imprimi Potest for three short works «detailed view»
Series 5 #173.
«All Series«		 1961/12/11 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ci-joint l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour un poème de Père Louis : "Elegy for James Thurber". Imprimi Potest and Nihil Obstat for "Elegy for James Thurber" [poem / "Imprimi Potest" statement not extant] «detailed view»
Series 5 #174.
«All Series«		 1962/01/02 (#01) TLS from Sortais, Gabriel En premier lieu je dois vous accuser réception de vos lettres du 11 et du 14 Décembre, si cela n'a "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" - reservations about approval, one of three censors refused "Nihil Obstat" «detailed view»
Series 5 #175.
«All Series«		 1962/01/02 (#02) HN by Fox, James 1 censor - ok [-] 3rd c. - ok- no condition. A. G. "I do not hesitate" x no restrictions of not "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" - Fox's notes about the letter from Sortais «detailed view»
Series 5 #176.
«All Series«		 1962/01/02 (#03) other[x] by Sortais, Gabriel Thomas Merton [-] PEACE, CHRISTIAN DUTIES AND PERSPECTIVES [-] NIHIL OBSTAT: fr. M. Bellarmine "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" [essay] / Nihil Obstat, Fr. Bellarmine McQuiston and Fr. Paul Bourne; Imprimi Potest, Dom Gabriel Sortais «detailed view»
Series 5 #177.
«All Series«		 1962/01/02 (#04) other[x] by Censor (anonymous) Censor's report for Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives, cont'd. -3- [-] NATO defense last page fragment of censor's report for "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" «detailed view»
Series 5 #178.
«All Series«		 1962/01/09 TL[c] to Sortais, Gabriel We want to acknowledge your note of December 11 which gave the IMPRIMI POTEST for Father Louis' receipt of Imprimi Potest statements for "Elegy for James Thurber" and for "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" / on Merton's writing, its relation to be a Trappist, and Merton's uniqueness «detailed view»
Series 5 #179.
«All Series«		 1962/01/13 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Ceci est seulement une courte note pour accompagner l'IMPRIMI POTEST que vous trouverez ci-joint. "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / "First and Last Thoughts" [preface to A Merton Reader] and "Clement of Alexandria" [book / essay] / [see "Clement of Alexandria" file] «detailed view»
Series 5 #180.
«All Series«		 1962/01/30 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 9 Janvier m'est parvenue il y a quelques jours seulement. Quelques points "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" and "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives" - items specific to these essays and other issues regarding censorship «detailed view»
Series 5 #181.
«All Series«		 1962/01/31 (#01) TLS from Sortais, Gabriel En ce qui concerne les traductions en espagnol, pour l'Amérique du Sud, Des oeuvres de Père Louis, censorship of book Disputed Questions and essay "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" «detailed view»
Series 5 #182.
«All Series«		 1962/01/31 (#02) TL[x]  from Censor (anonymous) / to Gabriel Sortais Father Clement will explain to you the procedure I followed in censoring the article of Father [copied onto same paper as letter of February 12, 1962 from Sortais] "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / see also "Censor's Reports, "Christian Ethics.." for reproduction in Fox's file «detailed view»
Series 5 #183.
«All Series«		 1962/02/12 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Father Clement will explain to you the procedure I followed in censoring the article of Father [copied onto same paper as letter of January 31, 1962 from censor to Sortais] "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" / see also "Censor's Reports, "Christian Ethics.." for reproduction in Fox's file / "Monastic Peace" «detailed view»
Series 5 #184.
«All Series«		 1962/02/14 TLS[x] to Sortais, Gabriel First, to acknowledge your letter of January 13 with the Imprimi Potest for the manuscript of "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" [essay, one of the chapters cut from the manuscript of "Black Revolution and Cold War," parts of which became Seeds of Destruction] / acknowledges receipt of Imprimi Potest for "Clement of Alexandria" «detailed view»
Series 5 #185.
«All Series«		 1962/02/20 TLS[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We received your letter postmarked February 12 at Burgos in Spain. We were very happy to receive "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" [essay, one of the chapters cut from the manuscript of "Black Revolution and Cold War," parts of which became Seeds of Destruction] «detailed view»
Series 5 #186.
«All Series«		 1962/03/07 (#01) TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Il me faut d'abord accuser réception de vos deux dernières lettres: celle du 14 Février, avec copie "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War" [essay, one of the chapters cut from the manuscript of "Black Revolution and Cold War," parts of which became Seeds of Destruction] «detailed view»
Series 5 #187.
«All Series«		 1962/03/07 (#02) TNS[x] by Sortais, Gabriel Thomas Merton [-] CHRISTIAN ACTION IN WORLD CRISIS [-] NIHIL OBSTAT: fr. M. Peter Logue, February 13 "Christian Action in World Crisis" / Nihil Obstat, Fr. Peter Logue and Fr. Columban Heaney; Imprimi Potest, Dom Gabriel Sortais «detailed view»
Series 5 #188.
«All Series«		 1962/03/07 (#03) other[x] by Censor (anonymous) I've had a long tussle, Father, with this sentence on p.9: "While it may be all very well "Christian Action in World Crisis" / a censor's report «detailed view»
Series 5 #189.
«All Series«		 1962/03/07 (#04) other[x] by Censor (anonymous) Je viens de lire l'article de Thomas Merton, "Christian Action in World Crisis". Ci-inclus le Nihil "Christian Action in World Crisis" / a censor's report «detailed view»
Series 5 #190.
«All Series«		 1962/03/26 (#01) TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Voice un IMPRIMI POTEST pour Père Louis, que je vous envoie bien en retard, l'un des censeurs ayant "Song for the Death of Averroës" [poem], (see "Censor's Reports" for Imprimi Potest sent the same date) / censor's objections to "Target Equals City" «detailed view»
Series 5 #191.
«All Series«		 1962/03/26 (#02) TNS from Censor (anonymous) Article: Target Equals City by Thomas Merton [-] It is my opinion that permission should not "Target Equals City" [essay] - censor's criticism - censor believes this essay should not be published, nor any other essays by Merton on the subject of war [this essay was not published in Merton's lifetime and appeared in The Passion for Peace: The Social Essays, edited by William H. Shannon, in 1995] «detailed view»
Series 5 #192.
«All Series«		 1962/04/17 (#01) TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Le troisième censeur de "Target equals City" vient seulement de m'envoyer son rapport. "Target Equals City" [essay, one of the chapters from the posthumously published manuscript of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era"] «detailed view»
Series 5 #193.
«All Series«		 1962/04/17 (#02) other from Censor (anonymous) Comments: I reject the article "in globo" for the following three reasons: 1) Statue [sic] of "Target Equals City" [essay, rejected, one of the chapters from the posthumously published manuscript of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era"] and "Song for the Death of Averroes" [poem, approved] «detailed view»
Series 5 #194.
«All Series«		 1962/10/18 (#02) TLS[x] to Sortais, Gabriel We enclose, also, a note in regard to the publication of "Original Child Bomb" in France. Meanwhile Marie Tadié and the prohibition of the publication of "Original Child Bomb" in France / Paul Flammand's letter - odd notion that "Child Bomb" can be published in English and not in French - and already likely in circulation among the Japanese «detailed view»
Series 5 #195.
«All Series«		 1962/11/08 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ici l'IMPRIMI POTEST pour l'Introduction que Père Louis destine à un ouvrage intitulé Merton's introduction to "The Prison Meditations of Father Delp" / Marie Tadié [attached letter of the same date to Marie Tadié from Sortais discussing translation into French of Disputed Questions, Secular Journal, Wisdom of the Desert, New Man, and Behavior of Titans] «detailed view»
Series 5 #196.
«All Series«		 1962/11/26 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez ici un IMPRIMI POTEST your une Préface écrite par P. Louis à un ouvrage intitulé "In Search of a Yogi" [document incorrectly states, "Yoga"] by Denys Rutledge [preface by Merton] / [see "Censor's Reports" for "Imprimi Potest" statement] «detailed view»
Series 5 #197.
«All Series«		 1963/04/24 TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Votre lettre du 9 m'est arrivée ici, à Belval, où je me trouve depuis le soir du mercredi saint. "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" «detailed view»
Series 5 #198.
«All Series«		 1963/05/07 (#01) transcript  from Sortais, Gabriel / to Merton Votre lettre était datée du jour de Pâques. Mais je constate qu'elle n'a été postée que le 20 Avril. "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" [see "Sortais" file for the original letter] / Encyclical "Pacem in Terris" by Pope John XXIII «detailed view»
Series 5 #199.
«All Series«		 1963/05/07 (#02) TLS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe une lettre que P. Louis m'a adressée à la date de Pâques "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" «detailed view»
Series 5 #200.
«All Series«		 1963/05/14 TALS from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe un IMPRIMI POTEST pour Père Louis. Désirant que ce document "Baroque Gravure" - "And So Goodbye to Cities" [poems] «detailed view»
Series 5 #201.
«All Series«		 1963/06/07 TLS[x] to Sortais, Gabriel It has been some time since I have written you. I never knew your exact address. April 2 I had "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" / see "Censor's Reports" for Fox's carbon of letter «detailed view»
Series 5 #202.
«All Series«		 1963/08/10 TLS[x] from Sortais, Gabriel Vous trouverez sous cette enveloppe cinq IMPPRIMI POTEST pour Père Louis. Le cher Père va, "Black Revolution: Letters to a White Liberal" [essay / section of book - published in Seeds of Destruction] / "The Name of the Lord," "On Remembering Monsieur Delmas," "Advent Mystery," and "The Early Legend" [labelled "4 essays" but "Early Legend" is a poem / original in "Advent Mystery" file] / see also "Censor's Reports" «detailed view»

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