| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1964/05/13 | TLS | to Merton | You may be surprised to get a letter from Japan. Let me explain. In connection with my work as | |
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| | 1964/05/29 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of the 13th. Your project on the Cloud and Zen sounds interesting, and so, | Yes |
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| | 1964/05/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of the 13th. Your project on the Cloud and Zen sounds interesting, and so, | Yes |
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| | 1964/05/29 (#03) | transcript | from Merton | <u>School of the Spirit</u> (unpublished ms.) p. 22 spiritual senses are not really senses at all, | Yes |
| [color photocopy filed in Sub-Section E.1 - handwritten notes for unpublished manuscript sent to Johnston with letter of 1964/May/29] |
| | 1964/09/19 | TLS | to Merton | Together with this letter I am sending you by air-mail a copy of the MS I told you about. I will be | |
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| | 1965/01/25 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | A long time has elapsed since I received your ms on the <u>Cloud</u>. I should have sent you some | Yes |
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| | 1965/01/25 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | A long time has elapsed since I received your ms on the <u>Cloud</u>. I should have sent you some | Yes |
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| | 1965/02/28 | TLS | to Merton | It was very kind of you to go to so much trouble to read my poor MS and I am glad that you found | |
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| | 1965/11/10 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I did not know if Monumenta Nipponica came from you or Fr. Dumoulin. Thanks very much indeed | Yes |
| [last sentence of original not published] |
| | 1966/01/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I was surprised and delighted to get the Shinzinger book on Nishida the other day, and am already | Yes |
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| | 1966/01/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was surprised and delighted to get the Shinzinger book on Nishida the other day, and am already | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/29 | HPCS | to Merton | I have just finished a five day "sesshin" with nine of the others under the direction of Fr. Lasalle | |
| [verso: colorized photograph of the "Atomic Dome and Peace Memorial Park" in Hiroshima, Japan] |
| | 1966/11/30 | TLS | to Merton | It is already more than a year since we met, though to me it doesn't seem like that - with Augustine | |
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| | 1966/12/01 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Just a word to say that Desclee have sent the proofs of your book and I am well into them. | Yes |
| [last sentence of original not published] |
| | 1966/12/20 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your fine article on Zen and Christian mysticism. If you will give me the exact | Yes |
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| | 1966/12/24 | HCS[x] | from Merton | hope you have your preface by now. best always T.M. | |
| [verso of card: woodcut of the Virgin and child Jesus] |
| | 1967/01/13 | TLS | to Merton | Please excuse my delay in writing to say thanks for the very fine preface which you so kindly wrote. | |
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| | 1967/06/14 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for <u>Mystics and Zen Masters</u> which I found excellent. I will review it | |
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| | 1967/07/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter of June 14. Interested to hear about the Zen retreat. Honestly I do | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/05 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter of June 14. Interested to hear about the Zen retreat. Honestly I do | Yes |
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| | 1971/03/03 | TL[x] | to Center from Johnston, William | Many thanks for your letter referring to the Thomas Merton Studies Center. I was delighted to know | |
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| | 1971/03/15 | TL[c] | from Center to Johnston, William | Thank you for your letter of March 3, and for the xerox of Merton's letter to you. I read both with | |
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| | 1983/05/08 | TLS | to Shannon, William | I was glad to hear that you are editing Thomas Merton's letters. I am sending you everything I have. | |
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| | 1983/07/04 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William | I am most grateful to you for sending me the Merton letters to you. Do you wish me to return them? | |
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| | 1983/07/25 (#01) | HPCS | to Shannon, William | Many thanks for your letter. By all means send the Merton letters to the Center in Louisville. | |
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| | 1983/07/25 (#02) | HPCS | to Shannon, William | I tried to get Mihoko Okamura's address on to my last card but there was no room. | |
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