| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1 | 1945/05/14? | TL[x] | to Merton | As I understand it now I may proceed with setting up the new book with Kimball, but I am to wait | |
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| 1 | 1945/05/24? | TL[x] | to Merton | I am very excited about the prospect of visiting you at the monastery. Please write me what part | |
| [1st page of letter, may be incomplete] |
| 1 | 1945/05/27? | TALS[x] | from Merton | I am delighted to hear that you really plan to come here. It is very simple to get here. | Yes |
| [Cooper #1] |
| 1 | 1945/09/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It seems to be better to save Mark a lot of bother, and deal with you directly, especially as there | Yes |
| [Cooper #2] |
| 1 | 1945/10/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here are one or two things from the liturgical book, for you to see. Right now we are all very busy | |
| liturgical book / religious anthology of Catholic poetry / Mark Van Doren and Robert Lax / <i>Journal of My Escape from the Nazis</i> - "about the best thing I had done" |
| 1 | 1945/11/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter which, I guess, crossed with the things I sent you last week-- | Yes |
| [Cooper #3] |
| 1 | 1945/11/17 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the catalogue - you have a fine list there, I think. Our library could certainly use | |
| [letter quoted in <i>The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin</i> edited by Barbara Epler and Daniel Javitch] requesting Dylan Thomas' "New Poems" - "unless there is something in them that is definitely none of our business - e.g. witchcraft" |
| 1 | 1946/01/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | In answer to your questions concerning the religious anthology. Definitely I think you ought | |
| religious anthology of Catholic poetry and an idea for another Christian volume (various denominations represented) of religious experience |
| 1 | 1946/01/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | Here at last are some proofs. I think from now on it will go quicker. This chap is a legal printer | Yes |
| [Cooper #4] |
| 1 | 1946/03/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Last couple of days before Ash Wednesday, just time to write and thank you for "Some Natural Things" | Yes |
| [Cooper #5] |
| 1 | 1946/03/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I forgot to say, the other day: please send as many copies of the "Divided Sea" to Mark and to Bob | |
| request to send <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> to Mark Van Doren and Robert Lax |
| 1 | 1946/08/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The divided sea got to me yesterday. It is fine. You have given the poems a swell presentation. | Yes |
| [Cooper #6] |
| 1 | 1947/01/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | When you were away in Paris-- I am assuming you are back-- I asked Mark to send you a ms | |
| Kafkaesque manuscript of "Journal of My Escape from the Nazis" / another 30 poems for publication |
| 1 | 1947/03/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some pictures which just arrived from Utah. We'd like to get them all in. Make a montage | |
| [dated "Spring 47"] |
| 1 | 1947/04/06? | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks very much for your letter and the check. As they both arrive in Lent I could not acknowledge | Yes |
| [Cooper #7 - dated "Easter, 1947"] |
| 1 | 1947/04/17 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Today is Easter Day and I am thinking of you particularly because of your letter came last night | |
| [sending letter from Klosters, Switzerland] upcoming elections in Italy - Communists in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia / influence of Church and pope / Creekmore - Spanish text of St. John [John of the Cross] / Robert Speaight's recordings / illness of William Carlos Williams / sending poems by Everson and Watkins |
| 1 | 1947/04/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is another poem, and <u>now</u> lets call it a day on that new book. I am anxious to hear | |
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| 1 | 1947/04/25? | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your two letters and for the poems to be added to the script of the new book. | Yes |
| [Cooper #8] |
| 1 | 1947/05/14 | TL[x] | to Merton | As I understand it now I may proceed with setting up the new book with Kimball, but I am to wait | |
| ideas for books on St. John of the Cross and a brief anthology of Catholic poetry for the New Classics series |
| 1 | 1947/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yes, that is correct. You may set up the book, although there may be one or two minor changes-- | |
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| 1 | 1947/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yes, that is correct. You may set up the book, although there may be one or two minor changes-- | |
| Catholic anthology of religious poetry / St. John of the Cross and translation of "Dark Night of the Soul" / Kenneth Rexroth / possibility of Merton being sent to Utah - more hard labor than writing |
| 1 | 1947/05/24 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am very excited about the prospect of visiting you at the monastery. Please write me what part | |
| asking directions to Gethsemani Abbey / Kenneth Rexroth as Anglo-Catholic and interested in things Roman Catholic - Gregorian chant - conscientious objector during Second World War - influenced by mystical view of sex of D. H. Lawrence |
| 1 | 1947/05/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I am delighted to hear that you really plan to come here. It is very simple to get here. | Yes |
| [Cooper #1 - Cooper dates at 1945/May/27, but seems to fit with Laughlin's 1947 visit] |
| 1 | 1947/06/17 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here are two poems I wanted to give you, with corrections. A magazine called '47 wrote asking | Yes |
| [Cooper #9] |
| 1 | 1947/07/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks so much for both your letters. About the books you send, we will send back everything that | Yes |
| [Cooper #10] |
| 1 | 1947/07/09? | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was happy that you read the article and want to reprint it: Yes, by all means do so. | |
| Jules Supervielle / departure of the monks leaving for Utah foundation |
| 1 | 1947/07/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am very pleased that you approve the idea of reprinting your essay in the next annual. | Yes |
| [Cooper #11] |
| 1 | 1947/07/17 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the proofs which I return with a few alterations, and above all things thanks for your | Yes |
| [Cooper #12] |
| 1 | 1947/08/06 | TL[x] | from Merton | I am sorry not to have written for so long. Things have gotten pretty jammed up with so many new | |
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| 1 | 1947/08/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the latour du Pin which I haven't yet had time to get into! Please let me know at once | |
| Latour du Pin (Patrice de La Tour du Pin?) |
| 1 | 1947/08/12? | TALS[x] | from Merton | It is the feast of my friend Saint Clare of Assisi so I am sending you a poem but don't put it | |
| <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i> / <i>Cistercian Contemplatives</i> / worries about "Poetry and Contemplative Life" appearing in New Directions literature alongside something "raw like some of the spots in Tropic of Cancer" [Henry Miller] / modern Carmelite book for Laughlin - <i>The Spiritual Doctrine of Elizabeth of the Trinity</i> by Fr. Philipon, O.P. |
| 1 | 1947/08/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the material for the new booklet Cistercian Contemplatives. I did not wait for your reply | |
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| 1 | 1947/08/21 | TALS[x] | from Merton | All right go ahead with the essay in the back of Figures for an Apoc. I forgot if I told you | |
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| 1 | 1947/08/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the Montecassino book. It was the first time I had seen anything of the destruction. | |
| [no year listed, estimated] book with photographs showing the destruction of Monte Cassino (World War II Allied bombing of Monte Cassino) / Jules Supervielle |
| 1 | 1947/09/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. The length is all right we'll just charge more. The corrected version | |
| sending poem to forward to Dylan Thomas also sent to magazine <u>Tiger's Eye</u> (possibly "The Gift of Understanding" by Merton) |
| 1 | 1947/09/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | How would it be if we brought out about 2500 of Cist Contemplatives in a kind of cardboard binding | |
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| 1 | 1947/09/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | How would it be if we brought out about 2500 of Cist Contemplatives in a kind of cardboard binding | |
| Latour du Pin (Patrice de La Tour du Pin?) / Claudel (Paul Claudel?) / asking for old religious verse, modernized Anglo-Saxon verse, Richard Rolle, "The Pearl," and an anthology by Carleton Brown |
| 1 | 1947/09/10? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the good newsy letter about all those people. I'll pray hard for Dylan Thomas because | Yes |
| [Cooper #13] |
| 1 | 1947/09/15 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry for the delay I only just got all this a few minutes ago nearly a week after you sent it. | |
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| 1 | 1947/09/15 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is the complete corrected copy the one to be set up. I am afraid I know nothing about | |
| responds to Laughlin's question about Eleanor Ruggles' <i>Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life</i> - Merton does not know it |
| 1 | 1947/09/16 | TALS[x] | to McHale, John J. | Thank you for your recent letter stating that you hold the American rights to the Burns & Oates | |
| [contains handwritten note by Merton on Patrice de La Tour du Pin's "Psaumes" and Jules Supervielle's "Choix De Poemes" / asking about Huntsville, Utah foundation after Laughlin's visit, Our Lady of the Holy Trinity Abbey] regarding translation of St. John of the Cross's "The Dark Night of the Soul" |
| 1 | 1947/09/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Will you please send us back the carbon copy of Cist Contemplatives as I may have to send it to one | |
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| 1 | 1947/09/24 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I have just sent to Commonweal three poems from Figures. Landscape prophet and wild dog; | |
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| 1 | 1947/10/01 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I just sent to <u>Spirit</u> the following poems from <u>Figures</u>: "Evening Zero Weather" | |
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| 1 | 1947/10/03 | TLS | to Merton | I have just retruned [sic] from a very pleasing visit to Huntsville. The site is extraordinarily | |
| [estimated date provided by Laughlin biographer Ian MacNiven - transferred from the James Laughlin Trust Papers, Merton Center Sub-Section H.9, on March 16, 2010] |
| 1 | 1947/10/08 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your interesting letter from Utah. I just got it this morning together with Mr Kunz's | |
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| 1 | 1947/10/08 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I just got a check from Sewanee Review for the poem "On the anniversary of my Baptism", but that | |
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| 1 | 1947/10/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | If it is not too late will you please replace the two air-views of the Georgia monastery by these | |
| Patrice de La Tour du Pin's <i>Une Somme De Poésie</i> |
| 1 | 1947/10/31 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the pictures: I have marked four of them which would be interesting to us if you would | |
| Leica camera used by a monk at another monastery to take photographs Merton sends / Merton makes recommendations of abbeys to visit when Laughlin visits France and remarks about monasteries about which he is curious / magazine, <u>The Tiger's Eye</u> |
| 1 | 1947/11/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the check. The Buffalo people asked permission to print a poem from Commonweal last | |
| Merton complains about being assigned "official souvenir" booklet about Trappists (<i>Guide to Cistercian Life</i>?) |
| 1 | 1947/11/26 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. Glad you are settled in the mountains. I know how you feel. Thanks also | Yes |
| [Cooper #14] |
| 1 | 1947/12/17 | TLS[x] | from Cooke, Douglas C. / to Merton | Shortly before his departure for Europe Dr. James Laughlin of New Directions Press arranged for us | |
| [from Douglas C. Cooke of the Liberty Photo-Engraving Corporation of New York] |
| 1 | 1947/no/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am returning the dedicated life since you want it back in a hurry. I am not as interested as I | |
| [no year listed, estimated] "The Dedicated Life" (<i>The Dedicated Life in Poetry</i>, Patrice de La Tour Du Pin; George Sutherland Fraser; Laurent de Cayeux?) |
| 1 | 1948/02/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the fine letter. I had been meaning to write but I have been too crowded. | Yes |
| [Cooper #15] |
| 1 | 1948/03/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I don't know where this will catch you, but anyway I hope it will find you somewhere. Cistercian | |
| release of <i>Cistercian Contemplatives: A Guide to Trappist Life</i> |
| 1 | 1948/04/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter which I was very glad to get and for the picture which is fine. | Yes |
| [Cooper #16] |
| 1 | 1948/04/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is a memo about another project. We get many requests from people who don't quite understand | |
| some ideas for what would become <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> after St. John of the Cross and "Soil and Seeds" |
| 1 | 1948/04/29 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and the copy of the one to your English agent. Burns, I take it, is Burns | |
| poems for the <u>Dublin Review</u> / monastic censors versus censors in New York / book on St. John of the Cross and "The Dark Night of the Soul" |
| 1 | 1948/05/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the card from Ascona. I must have gone through there once in a train. | Yes |
| [Cooper #17] |
| 1 | 1948/06/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all this is to say that I am about finishing the SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION and want to know | Yes |
| [Cooper #18] Vernon Watkins / Robert Lowell |
| 1 | 1948/07/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I hope this will not have to chase you to Europe and back. It is an answer to your beautiful Mont | Yes |
| [Cooper #19] |
| 1 | 1948/07/31 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Glad you are home! Here are some corrections on <u>A Man</u>. page 29 The lines No one who loves | |
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| 1 | 1948/08/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Writing you this letter today is not nearly so gay as it would have been yesterday. | Yes |
| [Cooper #20] |
| 1 | 1948/08/10 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for sending me the corrections for the new edition of A MAN IN THE DIVIDED SEA | Yes |
| [Cooper #21] |
| 1 | 1948/08/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some rewritten sections of SEEDS. There is first an Author's Note. Then I have rewritten | |
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| 1 | 1948/09/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I spoke to Father Abbot the other day about your bringing Bob Fitzgerald down here with you | |
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| 1 | 1948/09/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | Please forgive me for not having written for such a long time. Things have been in such a terrible | |
| printer's layout for <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> / on Dom James Fox's approval for Merton to continue writing / corrections for <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> / finding a place for the Carthusians in western Pennsylvania on mountain land of Laughlin's mother, but that "she would take a good deal of persuading" |
| 1 | 1948/09/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I was glad to get your letter and to know that things are going along on the book. My suggestions | Yes |
| [Cooper #22] |
| 1 | 1948/10/15 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The way to get here from Louisville is to take a bus to Bardstown or Newhaven and from there get | |
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| 1 | 1948/11/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the proofs of SEEDS. I did a little trimming and had to change a lot of commas because my | |
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| 1 | 1948/11/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | I have just posted off to you a copy of the second edition of A MAN IN THE DIVIDED SEA, and I hope | |
| asking T. S. Eliot about selecting some of Merton's poems / Evelyn Waugh's proposed visit to see Merton / Catholic poetry anthology |
| 1 | 1948/11/18 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | You may remember that we were discussing the possibility of using a little design on the cover | Yes |
| [Cooper #23] |
| 1 | 1948/11/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Naomi has sent you a copy of the letter I got from the translator of St John X. She seems to think | |
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| 1 | 1948/11/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I wonder if it wouldn't be better to skip the design, at least as far as the cloth cover | Yes |
| [Cooper #24] |
| 1 | 1948/11/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of the 18th. I can't remember whether I have written you the last step | |
| manuscript of translation of St. John of the Cross selections / binding Merton books in leather for Pope Pius XII / speaking of Merton and Eric Gill with John Shaw, a Tulsa, Oklahoma oil man |
| 1 | 1948/12/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | I now have a little more information for you about the idea of having copies of your books bound up | |
| binding books in leather for Pope Pius XII / American rights issues concerning the translation of St. John of the Cross - Allison Piers / drawings sent to Laughlin by Merton / possibly using Eric Gill drawing for cover of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> / T. S. Eliot / additional printing of <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i> |
| 1 | 1948/12/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the page proofs, with the censor's corrections made. I made every correction | Yes |
| [Cooper #25] |
| 1 | 1948/12/24? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are one or two ancient poems I dug up. Not much good except Dirge for Miami and Circe. | Yes |
| [Cooper #26 - dated "Christmas Eve"] |
| 1 | 1948/12/29 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Thank you ever so much for several letters, for returning the proofs, and for the Christmas gift | Yes |
| [Cooper #27] |
| 1 | 1948/no/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is a poem I would like to have printed opposite the picture of Our Lady in Seeds of | |
| Merton includes a poem in Latin "Memento Dei Genitrix" which appeared in <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 1 | 1949/02/03 | TL[x] | to Merton | I just received your letter of February 1st, and was very happy to hear from you again. | |
| marketing <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> to Catholic book clubs - some reject because too soon after <i>Seven Storey Mountain</i> - "Seeds" as the modern "Imitation of Christ" / poem Merton sent by Bob Blacks |
| 1 | 1949/03/15 | HPCS | to Merton | This is my last Alpine stop before coming home. It has been a pretty good trip - at least I have | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of a high altar Val D'isere in Grenoble, France] |
| 1 | 1949/03/22 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am just back yesterday from my trip to Europe and find the office in a state of pleasant | |
| the large number of orders for <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> / transcript of letter from T. S. Eliot to Laughlin turning down offer to publish a selection of Merton's poems stating that Merton "is going to write too many poems instead of making a small number perfect" - Laughlin's reaction to Eliot's criticism |
| 1 | 1949/03/no? | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter from Klosters. Today you should be back in N.Y. This is to repeat all | Yes |
| [Cooper #29 - undated, but shortly after Merton's diaconate ordination March 19, 1949] |
| 1 | 1949/04/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your letter that came in the other day. It was exciting news about your | Yes |
| [Cooper #30] |
| 1 | 1949/04/17 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Today is Easter Day and I am thinking of you particularly because your letter came last night | Yes |
| [Cooper #28 - dated "Easter Day" written at Klosters] |
| 1 | 1949/04/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This will catch you on your return from Utah. First, it is to confirm the 26th of May | |
| Paul Claudel / Robert Speaight talking to the community about "Murder in the Cathedral" |
| 1 | 1949/05/02 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your card from Aspen. This is just to confirm the date. Ordination will be May 26th | Yes |
| [Cooper #31] |
| 1 | 1949/05/02 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | I'll just put a memo on the rush reel on the dictating machine to let you know that when I got back | |
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| 1 | 1949/05/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | Bob and I have been planning our trip together down next week and he asked me to send you | |
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| 1 | 1949/05/no? | HNS[x] | from Merton | Ordination about 9:30 Thursday morning 26th - Low Mass Friday - about 6.30 - High Mass - Saturday 9. | |
| Merton informs Laughlin of his ordination day Masses and Masses the following days and that Laughlin may see him Thursday after about 2pm |
| 1 | 1949/06/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | In a big hurry I am sending you a couple of corrections for the next printing of SEEDS. | |
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| 1 | 1949/06/09 | HPCS[x] | to Merton | Hope you have had a good summer. Paris is fine still. The man who took the pictures of Le Devot | |
| Le Devot Christ / Perpetua font for typesetting by Eric Gill's old firm in England |
| 1 | 1949/06/13 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your letter with corrections for the new printing of SEEDS. They are good | |
| sales figures for <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> - listed on <u>Publisher's Weekly</u> / liturgical book |
| 1 | 1949/06/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your letter with the corrections for the new printing of SEEDS. | |
| sales rank information for <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> and number of book orders / future book on liturgy / special white leather binding of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> finished and send to Pope |
| 1 | 1949/06/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | Enclosed you will find the plate proofs of the new composition for the pages which we reset in SEEDS | |
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| 1 | 1949/06/25 | TALS[x] | from Merton | First here is a paper with a couple of prayers. One I wrote and the other is the Hail Mary | |
| sending two prayers - text of the "Hail Mary" and a prayer to the Holy Spirit written by Merton / discussion revisions for a second edition of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> / "if I am going to go on writing, I have to work out a severe discipline to cut down on correspondence" / leather-bound Merton books sent to Pope |
| 1 | 1949/07/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | This letter will come to you from the New York office, but it is being dictated from out in Aspen, | |
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| 1 | 1949/07/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Father Abbot has given the okay for you to go ahead and work the record proposition whichever way | |
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| 1 | 1949/08/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | Please forgive me for having been such a lousy correspondent in recent weeks. I had an absolutely | |
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| 1 | 1949/08/09 | TL[x] | to Merton | In my letter the other day, I forgot to ask about one thing. I think I told you that I have over | |
| mentions to Merton a printer in Verona, Italy, Hans Mardersteig - wants to collaborate with him on printing a fine or hand printed edition of "some standard Catholic devotional text" - wants to know what Merton would suggest |
| 1 | 1949/08/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | About the BLIND LIONS-- I'd like to see the script before it goes to the printer. Could you send | Yes |
| [Cooper #32] |
| 1 | 1949/08/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | Your very good letter of August 18th reached me just as I was leaving for Nantucket. | Yes |
| [Cooper #33] |
| 1 | 1949/08/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the Nantucket letter, I wish we had a monastery on one of those islands, or on some | |
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| 1 | 1949/08/no? | TALS[x] | from Merton | The new preface of SEEDS should go along with the old one. Whether the censor should see | |
| sent manuscript of <i>The Tears of the Blind Lions</i> / dropping idea of St. John of the Cross book for Blessed John of Ruysbroeck's "The Sparkling Stone", "The Golden Epistle" of William of St. Thierry or St. Bernard of Clairvaux's "Missus Est" / "I am trying to sell Fr. Abbot the idea of a hermitage in the woods" |
| 1 | 1949/09/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks eversomuch for your letter and for sending back the poems for the TEARS OF THE BLIND LIONS | Yes |
| [Cooper #34] |
| 1 | 1949/09/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Okay, cut Sports. About the censor-- you should print the date also, Sept. 27th. Spelling changes | |
| thoughts on the atomic bomb compared to "the light and heat that get generated by my Mass" - being "molded and changed by what goes on at the altar" |
| 1 | 1949/09/no | TL[x] | to Merton | I have been having fun fussing around with a pair of scissors, paste and the proofs of TEARS, and it | |
| proofs for <i>Tears of the Blind Lions</i> - permission to reorder poems for space considerations, and TM's priorities of what should be cut / Laughlin's friend's death in a plane crash / Russians having atomic bomb |
| 1 | 1949/10/14 | TL[x] | to Merton | This is not a proper letter to your last letter. But I want to answer that myself personally, | |
| cover for <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> - on Merton granting permission to cut his poem on Dylan Thomas from <i>Tears of the Blind Lions</i> / Kenneth Patchen / sending translation of Kierkegaard's journals |
| 1 | 1949/10/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | About the second edition of <u>Seeds</u>, just say that some significant revisions have been made | |
| Søren Kierkegaard / Fyodor Dostoyevsky / Franz Kafka / Kenneth Patchen |
| 1 | 1949/10/25 | HPCS[x] | to Merton | Corp. Mgt. is on the way to the vault for some careful study! I don't | |
| [copy of letter from Cooper file is cut off] |
| 1 | 1949/11/19 | TALS[x] | from Merton | <u>Tears</u> have arrived, splendidly done. Thanks again for a beautiful job. I like this as well | Yes |
| [Cooper #35] |
| 1 | 1949/11/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | I was awfully pleased to get your letter and learn that you like the appearance of <u>Tears</u>. | |
| book sales figures / Robert Speaight and plans for him to record Merton's poems / Laughlin's background in the Bible from his grandfather, "a very ardent Presbyterian" |
| 1 | 1949/12/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First, I am late with the list of poems. I don't know about order of preference. It doesn't much | |
| thoughts on Christmas and its significance in the Christian life / Naomi Burton Stone - journals of Kafka and Rilke - Rilke and Kafka as solitaries / Merton's new job of teaching / novice asking for Arthur Rimbaud's "A Season in Hell" and Charles Baudelaire |
| 1 | 1949/12/22 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your good letter of December 10th, giving the list of poems for a selection, | |
| Robert Speaight's recordings of Merton poems / plans to give New Directions a personal journal for publication / Laughlin sending Rimbaud's "Season in Hell" - Laughlin's impressions of poem / Laughlin responds about Christmas and about sending his children to Sunday school - their thoughts on religion |
| 1 | 1950/01/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Weeks behind with everything. It is so long since I have had a chance to write, and so many things | Yes |
| [Cooper #36] |
| 1 | 1950/02/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks a lot for your good letter of January 7th. Please forgive me for not answering sooner, | Yes |
| [Cooper #37] |
| 1 | 1950/02/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The Morcelliana people have written to me now that they think a hundred dollars is too high | Yes |
| [Cooper #38] |
| 1 | 1950/04/25 | TL[x] | to Merton | I'm sorry not to have written properly while I was over in Europe, but you know how it is on a trip | |
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| 1 | 1950/05/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | All that about Europe sounded wonderful, especially the part about the glaciers. I wish I had a hut | Yes |
| [Cooper #39] |
| 1 | 1950/05/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks a lot for your good letter of the first. I also had a very nice one from Father Abbot with | |
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| 1 | 1950/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and the books. I sure like the way Rexroth's is printed by your Verona friend | Yes |
| [Cooper #40] |
| 1 | 1950/06/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | I suppose it must be nearly full summer down there with you, as it is finally spring with us here | |
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| 1 | 1950/06/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was happy to get your letter. Thanks also for the Ta Hio. All that oriental stuff is very | |
| Mencius / Panjatali's yoga [Patanjali?] / Verona book - Blaise Pascal's Pensées - St. Gregory of Nyssa's "Life of Moses" - Dutch mystic Hadjewich's writings - / possible book of correspondence of advanced spiritual meditation from various spiritual traditions (Christian contemplatives to yoga masters) |
| 1 | 1950/06/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | About the annual. For you it is an aesthetic problem, for me a moral one. But I will handle it now | |
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| 1 | 1950/06/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | About the annual. For you it is an aesthetic problem, for me a moral one. But I will handle it now | Yes |
| [Cooper #41] |
| 1 | 1950/07/26 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I am horrified when I see the date on your last letter-- June 26th-- and realize that I have let | |
| Merton's Dylan Thomas poem - delay of using it due to concurrent publication of a piece by Gore Vidal regarding homosexuality in the <i>New Directions Annual</i> |
| 1 | 1950/07/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was awfully glad to get your letter because this is just the moment when it is to the interest | |
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| 1 | 1950/08/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of July 29th, but forgive me for saying that I find the contents | |
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| 1 | 1950/08/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | Following up my letter of the other day about the book on the Psalms, I have just had a very nice | |
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| 1 | 1950/08/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The reason why I have not written, as you can guess, is that I have been trying to get organized | Yes |
| [Cooper #42] |
| 1 | 1950/09/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Will you kindly take care of the enclosed request about a French anthology? | |
| Merton going to the hospital regarding ulcers (colitis) / concerning Ezra Pound sending a funny letter regarding some under ripe cheese he had received from Gethsemani |
| 1 | 1950/09/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of August 19th. My delay in answering the same is not | Yes |
| [Cooper #43] |
| 1 | 1950/09/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of September 11th, but I was indeed sorry to hear that you have to go up | |
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| 1 | 1950/10/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | No, I wrote to Bob again, and told him that the book was yours. | Yes |
| [Cooper #44] |
| 1 | 1950/10/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your good letter of October 3rd, and I am pleased to learn that you are | |
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| 1 | 1950/11/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | I was extremely sorry to learn from Naomi over the telephone today that you had gone back | |
| on Merton returning to the hospital / meeting with Naomi Burton Stone / Merton sending some of his drawings to Laughlin - concern that some of the modernist drawings will upset Catholic censors |
| 1 | 1950/11/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Being in the hospital I have come by this typewriter and dare to write letters. Here too is a poem | Yes |
| [Cooper #45] |
| 1 | 1950/11/15 (#01) | telegram[x] | from Merton | PLEASE RUSH MANUSCRIPT TO SAINT JOSEPHS INFIRMARY LOUISVILLE I CAN FINISH WORK HERE | |
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| 1 | 1950/11/15? (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | After I had sent off this morning's letter with the poem I realized that you did not have my address | |
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| 1 | 1950/11/15? (#03) | TL[x] | to Merton | Forgive me for not shooting the script down to you the day your wire came, but it reached me in New | |
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| 1 | 1950/11/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the completed ms of BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS. I only have to add some material | Yes |
| [Cooper #46] |
| 1 | 1950/12/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your letter of November 22nd, and I'm glad to know that you are making | |
| Charles Carey - visit to Gethsemani Abbey |
| 1 | 1950/12/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | The enclosed just came in, and I have sent off the book to the judges. | |
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| 1 | 1951/01/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are a bunch of drawings. I was going to send you one as a Christmas card but never got around | |
| André Gide - design by Alvin Lustig |
| 1 | 1951/01/30 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your letter of January 20th, and I am delighted with the drawings | |
| Merton's "drawings of the Greeks" and some sent for use in <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> |
| 1 | 1951/02/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Rushing these pictures of the <i>Dévot Christ</i> of Perpignan to you in case Lustig might be able | |
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| 1 | 1951/04/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was good to get your letter from the Canadian Alps. The thought of a hut that one reaches only | Yes |
| [Cooper #47] |
| 1 | 1951/04/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks very much for your letter of April 6th, which has just reached me out in Alta, whither I have | |
| on the upcoming Catholic Poetry Forum in New York - some speakers reactionary / Robert Speaight - Harvard recording of Merton's poems / T. S. Eliot lecture / book on Russian pilgrim Merton sent |
| 1 | 1951/04/25 | TL[x] | to Merton | I have just had a letter from Lustig in New York, and here is what he says: "All I need to design | |
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| 1 | 1951/05/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am awfully late in writing this but we have been busy with the regular checkup of the monastery by | |
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| 1 | 1951/05/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | Just got your little note, giving me the green light to go ahead and get the script ready for Lustig | |
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| 1 | 1951/06/25 | TL[x] | to Merton | I certainly did have a wonderful visit down there and want to thank you, and Father Abbot | |
| meeting with Alvin Lustig about <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> - Lustig opposed to using Merton drawings in book and just wants to use the photos Merton sent of le Dévôt-Christ of the Cathedral of St. John, Perpignan, France |
| 1 | 1951/06/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | By all means go ahead with the Crucifix which is called Le Devot Christ and is found at Perpignan. | |
| idea of giving the drawings to Bob Giroux for use in the journal of Merton's to be published by him |
| 1 | 1951/07/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the book of type samples. Unless Lustig has other ideas I think Perpetua would be fine | Yes |
| [Cooper #48] |
| 1 | 1951/07/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks ever so much for your good letter of June 27th and I am pleased that you are willing to go | Yes |
| [Cooper #49] |
| 1 | 1951/07/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks very much for sending along the book of the new version of the Psalms. One of the girls | |
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| 1 | 1951/07/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | Lustig has just brought in his preliminary sketches for the book and I am terribly excited about | |
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| 1 | 1951/08/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Clark | I am returning Lustigs layouts for BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS and a note for him also. | |
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| 1 | 1951/09/06 | HPCS | to Merton | Hope you have had a good summer. Paris is fine still. The man who took the pictures of Le Devot | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of l'Église Saint-Sulpice in Paris] |
| 1 | 1951/10/23? (#01) | HLS | to Merton | I'm back now and getting into the rhythm of work again. How have you been? Here are some cards | |
| [no year supplied - Cooper lists as 1951] |
| 1 | 1951/10/23? (#02) | HN | from Merton | +JHS [-] Jay | |
| [note by Merton on verso of Laughlin's 1951/10/23 letter to Merton - possible draft of letter to Laughlin] |
| 1 | 1951/10/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and cards from various parts- eagerly look forward to the stuff on Miraflores | Yes |
| [Cooper #50] |
| 1 | 1951/11/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am back in New York now, and have received the contracts for "Bread" from Naomi, and they appear | |
| ideas of places to publish Merton's poems "Early Mass" and "Sports Without Blood" |
| 1 | 1951/12/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter of November 20 has been lying around all this time. By all means let Victor Weybright | Yes |
| [Cooper #51] |
| 1 | 1952/01/02 | TLS[x] | to Merton | It was good to get your Christmas letter. Many thanks, and best to you for the coming year. | Yes |
| [Cooper #52] |
| 1 | 1952/01/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just sent off Weybright's agreement. I like the idea of his New World Writing and am glad to be | Yes |
| [Cooper #53] |
| 1 | 1952/01/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you ever so much for your fine letter of January 15th and the various business enclosures. | |
| Grenville Clark |
| 1 | 1952/03/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you for sending along the request for Italian permission. I shall check into this, | |
| <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> - Eric Gill's press / suggesting Merton for advisory board of magazine <u>Perspectives USA</u> to represent Catholic intellectual movement |
| 1 | 1952/04/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for sending me your "Introduction to Cistercian Theology." I am terribly glad | |
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| 1 | 1952/04/10 | HLS[x] | from Merton | No sign of those proofs yet. Why I write to you is this: we are now getting right into editorial | |
| <i>The Sign of Jonas</i> editorial work / proofs for <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> |
| 1 | 1952/06/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Bob MacGregor said I could reach you through American Express in Geneva. | Yes |
| [Cooper #54] |
| 1 | 1952/08/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | I feel terribly badly that I have let so much time go by this summer without writing you. | Yes |
| [Cooper #55] |
| 1 | 1952/09/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am astonished to see that it is already a month since I got your letter. Yes, the revised proofs | Yes |
| [Cooper #56] |
| 1 | 1953/08/13? | TL[x] | to Merton | I'm sorry not to have written for so long. I was three months out in India and had a great time. | Yes |
| [Cooper #57] |
| 1 | 1953/09/14 | TL[x] | to Merton | Bob McGregor has relayed to me an enquiry you sent him about your author's copies of the issue | |
| Robert MacGregor - essay on St. John of the Cross in <u>Perspectives</u> |
| 1 | 1953/09/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Glynn | The first part of the censor's approbation in <u>Bread in the Wilderness</u> should read as follows: | |
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| 1 | 1953/09/25 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the various editions of <u>Perspectives</u> which are coming in. | Yes |
| [Cooper #58] |
| 1 | 1953/10/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | Your letter was, as always, a great pleasure to me, and I am so pleased to think that you are | |
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| 1 | 1953/12/07 | TNS[x] | to Merton | I think this guy Weaver is wonderful and am very glad that you put me on to him. Hope we can print | |
| [note on a full letter from Laughlin to Professor Richard M. Weaver - Laughlin writes in praise of Weaver's <i>The Ethics of Rhetoric</i>, which Merton recommends] |
| 1 | 1953/12/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | After all the crises and difficulties the new book went through, it was wonderful to see | Yes |
| [Cooper #59] |
| 1 | 1954/01/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you so much for your good letter of December 21. Needless to say, I am very happy that you | Yes |
| [Cooper #60] |
| 1 | 1954/07/03 | | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter of June 16th, and especially for your kind wishes for Ann | Yes |
| [Cooper #61 - see 1956/July/03 - this letter is misdated on the original and published by Cooper under 1954. The events referenced in the letter happened in 1956 as does Merton's letter of June 16. The letter was typed and signed in Laughlin's name by a secretary.] |
| 1 | 1954/07/03 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter of June 16th, and especially for your kind wishes for Ann | Yes |
| [Cooper #61] |
| 1 | 1955/01/20 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I feel like seven kinds of pig not to have written you for so long. I think of you often and wonder | |
| <u>Perspectives</u> magazine - Richard M. Weaver piece - sending Merton "Perspectives in Japan" / Prioress at Regina Laudis, Bethlehem, CT, asking to do a new translation of the Spiritual Exercises of Gertrude the Great / Robert Giroux at Harcourt Brace |
| 1 | 1955/02/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was good to hear from you again and to get the Japanese Perspectives. You must have had a fine | Yes |
| [Cooper #62] |
| 1 | 1955/04/15 | TLS[x] | from Gordon, David / to Merton | I write to you again <u>in sinu Ecclesiae nostroe</u> and in profound thanks for the exhalation | |
| warning to Merton from David Gordon, a Catholic convert from New York, about publishing with James Laughlin, whom Gordon describes as "a poisoner of Catholic souls" |
| 1 | 1955/08/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Writing a letter to you these days is like writing to some Jules Verne character in an airship. | Yes |
| [Cooper #63] |
| 1 | 1955/09/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | It was good to find your fine letter of August 16th here in the New York office on my return after | |
| trip to India and Iran / yellow mosques of Isfahan, Iran - Persian culture / comparisons of Islam to the Calvinism of his childhood, "devotion and austerity" / Buddhist Dhammapada and the Tamil Kural / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz translated by C. F. MacIntyre / modern Greek poets / asking Merton to send some Trappist cheese to Ezra Pound |
| 1 | 1955/12/14 | TLS | to Merton | Once again, I'm afraid, despite the best intentions, I have fallen badly behind with correspondence. | |
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| 1 | 1956/05/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | For a long time I have been meaning to write about several things. For one, I at last sent off | Yes |
| [Cooper #64] |
| 1 | 1956/05/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I wrote you yesterday about the poems of a kid called Dan Quinn who had been here for a few weeks | |
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| 1 | 1956/05/24 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your very fine letter of May 7th. It was good to hear from you again | Yes |
| [Cooper #65 - pages 2-4 original to the Center, page one copied from Harvard] |
| 1 | 1956/06/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all, congratulations on your marriage. By all means bring her down when you come | Yes |
| [Cooper #66] |
| 1 | 1956/07/03 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your letter of June 16th, and especially for your kind wishes for Ann | Yes |
| [Cooper #61 - this letter is misdated on the original as 1954 and published by Cooper under 1954. The events referenced in the letter happened in 1956 as does Merton's letter of June 16. The letter was typed and signed in Laughlin's name by a secretary. (Information per Laughlin biographer Ian S. MacNiven.)] |
| 1 | 1956/07/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I hope you will forgive a joint letter, with carbons, but traveling around fast from place to place | |
| [addressed to "Naomi, Tom and Bob" - likely Naomi Burton (Stone), Merton and Robert Giroux] |
| 1 | 1956/07/20 (#02) | other | | <u>ITALIAN APPEALS FOR THE LIBERATION OF EZRA POUND</u> [-] On October 30th, 1955, the 70th | |
| [possibly enclosed with 1956/07/20 letter - actual date uncertain - see also the correspondence file of Florence mayor, Giorgio La Pira] |
| 1 | 1956/07/20 (#03) | TL[c] | from Duncan, Harry | Last Thursday my partner and dearest friend Paul died of injuries received in an auto accident | |
| [writing from the Cummington Press, Rowe, Massachusetts] |
| 1 | 1956/07/25 (#01) | HPCS | to Merton | Isn't this a marvelous painting? I'd never seen it before. Got your [word missing..] books about | |
| [verso: color print of the Jan Brueghel painting "Der Turmbau zu Babel" (The Tower of Babel)] |
| 1 | 1956/07/25 (#02) | TL[c] | to Duncan, Harry | I am deeply distressed to learn of the cruel blow which is has struck you -- the death of your | |
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| 1 | 1956/07/26 | HPCS | to Merton | What a lovely spot. This old Kloster of yr. order. Dare say you know all about it, but am sending | |
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| 1 | 1956/08/06 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | The Marcks [unclear word] sounds fine for <u>Tower of Babel</u> - by all means go ahead | |
| Gerhardt Marcks |
| 1 | 1956/09/25 | TL[x] | to Merton | Good news! I just had a letter from Gerhard Marcks in Cologne saying that he has read "The Tower of | |
| plans of Gerhard Marcks to create woodcuts to illustrate Merton's poem "The Tower of Babel" |
| 1 | 1957/01/02 | TLS | to Merton | Bob has passed on to me your letter of December 15th, with its kind messages for me, and I am glad | |
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| 1 | 1957/08/30 | TALS[x] | from Merton | How-- and where-- are you? There are lots of things to write to you about, if only I can remember | Yes |
| [Cooper #67] |
| 1 | 1957/09/27 | TLS | to Merton | Your letter was wonderful, a real joy, and this is not the long letter I am going to write you | |
| |
| 1 | 1957/11/08 | TLS | to Merton | What a wretch I am to have let so much time go by without answering your wonderful letter. | Yes |
| [Cooper #68] |
| 1 | 1958/08/23 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you so very much for sending me the beautiful little Prometheus, a lovely thing is a work of | |
| |
| 1 | 1958/09/23 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for sending me the intriguingly shaped "Pax." That is a very appealing tone | |
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| 1 | 1958/09/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of the 23rd. I think it would be ok to print the poems in the anthology. | |
| wanting to see his translations of the poems of Pablo Antonio Cuadra published in New Directions anthology / writing long article on Boris Pasternak / "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" |
| 1 | 1958/10/09 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am considerable attracted to the poems by Cuadra that you have translated. It is, so far, a minor | |
| Pablo Antonio Cuadra / suggests sending "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" to Ted Weeks at the <u>Atlantic</u> / Merton's ad in <u>Pantheon</u> |
| 1 | 1958/10/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter, and for the Pasternak <u>Selected Writings</u> which came in today. | Yes |
| [Cooper #70] |
| 1 | 1959/01/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The Perspective of Italy has arrived together with your copy of your letter to P.A. Cuadra. | Yes |
| [Cooper #71] |
| 1 | 1959/01/26 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your fine letter of January 17th, and I am so pleased that you enjoyed | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/02/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was good to get your letter of Jan. 26th, and I can imagine how hard it must be to get out | Yes |
| [Cooper #72] |
| 1 | 1959/02/20 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your fine letter of the 12th, which reached me down here in Florida, where I am | Yes |
| [Cooper #73] |
| 1 | 1959/03/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | Bob and I have been making some inquiries about easy-to-read Russian books which you might | |
| Russian book suggestions - Mikhail Lermontov's <i>A Hero of Our Time</i> and Alexander Pushkin's <i>Queen of Spades</i> / Russian language study |
| 1 | 1959/03/02 | TLS | to Merton | Bob and I have been making some inquiries about easy-to-read Russian books which you might like, | |
| Russian book suggestions - Mikhail Lermontov's <i>A Hero of Our Time</i> and Alexander Pushkin's <i>Queen of Spades</i> / Russian language study |
| 1 | 1959/03/11 | TL[x] | from Ohannessian, Griselda / to Merton | Mr. Laughlin asked me to follow up on a little question he had in regard to your remarks | |
| Griselda Jackson Ohannessian of New Directions asking if they can quote from a letter of Merton for a blurb for a book by Giuseppe Ungaretti |
| 1 | 1959/04/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I thought you might like to see this nice letter from Mardersteig, who is, in my book, the greatest | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/04/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Mardersteig, J. | It was very kind of you to send me a copy of your beautiful edition of Thomas Merton's "The Tower of | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/04/17 | TL[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you so much for steering Tom's translations from the Desert Fathers to me. I read them last | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/04/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I want to rush this off to you, so it may be a little incoherent. But the main thing is that | Yes |
| [Cooper #74] |
| 1 | 1959/04/23 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your letter of April 18th, with the expanded text of the "Desert Fathers" | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/04/23 (#02) | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you so much for steering Tom's translations from the Desert Fathers to me. I read them last | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/04/28? (#01) | TN[x] | from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone | Here, in haste, is the copy of my letter to J. So you have everything to date. I am expecting Bob | |
| [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - see also letter to James Laughlin (item number two of this date)] French edition of <i>Thoughts in Solitude</i> / <i>The Wisdom of the Desert</i> 2016/05/01 Hart, Patrick, Br., O.C.S.O. |
| 1 | 1959/04/28? (#02) | TN[x] | from Merton | It is good news that the Desert Fathers go to ND and that you are interested in making it a very | |
| [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - see also letter to Naomi Burton Stone (item number one of this date)] <i>The Wisdom of the Desert</i> - design of the book, archaic versus modern - Victor Hammer and American Uncial font / musical setting for ""The Tower of Babel - Vincent Persichetti |
| 1 | 1959/05/08 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your very fine letter of April 28th. First of all, let me say how excited I am | |
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| 1 | 1959/05/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | June first or second would be really fine-- or any time that week except the fifth, (Friday) which | |
| D. T. Suzuki and book on the desert fathers - hope to have a book design by Mardersteig / Victor Hammer / Brazilian poet Jorge de Lima / dropping idea of studying Russian language |
| 1 | 1959/06/17 | TL[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you so much for your good letter of June 15th, received in Norfolk, from where I am dictating | |
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| 1 | 1959/06/23 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your fine letter of the 18th. I am still enjoying the glow of my visit with you, | |
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| 1 | 1959/07/06 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | I certainly did enjoy the [indecipherable word.. ] with you. Driving through that lovely country | |
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| 1 | 1959/07/06 (#02) | other | | Progress Causes Latin Eruptions [-] By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS [-] Latin America has a fever. | |
| [newspaper clipping - enclosed with 1959/07/06 letter] |
| 1 | 1959/07/06 (#03) | other | | AMERICAS VOTE NICARAGUA STUDY [-] O.A.S. Is Expected to Send Fact-Finding Mission | |
| [newspaper clipping - enclosed with 1959/07/06 letter] |
| 1 | 1959/08/11 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Please forgive me for having been so uncommunicative while I was out west. I had a marvelous time. | |
| enclosed with 1959/08/11 letter - letter to Cuadra dated 1959/08/05 |
| 1 | 1959/08/11 (#02) | TL[c] | to Van Doren, Mark | Many thanks for your card of the 31st, about the manuscript of Tom's "Selected Poems." | |
| enclosed with 1959/08/11 letter - letter to Van Doren dated 1959/08/04 |
| 1 | 1959/08/11 (#03) | TAL[c] | to Cuadra, Pablo Antonio | I want to thank you so much for sending me the autographed copy of your beautiful little book, | |
| enclosed with 1959/08/11 letter - letter to Cuadra dated 1959/08/05 |
| 1 | 1959/10/19 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am here in the hospital for some minor repairs - will be going back to the monastery in a few days | Yes |
| [Cooper #75] |
| 1 | 1959/11/02 | TLS | to Merton | I really am getting quite potty in my old age. I dictated this whole letter to you last week, | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/11/11 | TALS | to Merton | That old Suzuki really is tremendous, isn't he? Bob has given me his piece to read, and your new | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/11/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your two letters. I'll start with the Suzuki questions. He gave me carte blanche | |
| D. T. Suzuki and book on the desert fathers - Mardersteig's Dante / Victor Hammer / Ernesto Cardenal and feedback from Octavio Paz / Mark Van Doren and the scandal of Charlie Van Doren |
| 1 | 1959/12/11 | TALS | to Merton | I have held off in writing you recently, hoping that I might arrive in person, on my way out to Utah | |
| |
| 1 | 1959/12/14 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your letter and Bob's together with one copy of the <u>Selected Poems</u> reached me today. | Yes |
| [Cooper #76] |
| 1 | 1959/12/17 | TALS | to Merton | So glad to get your good letter of December 14th and pleased that you liked the appearance of the | |
| |
| 1 | 1960/01/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for sending the specimen pages that Mardersteig has designed. They are simply splendid. | |
| Mardersteign's design / Laughlin's visit to Gethsemani January 12 / Victor Hammer and his crucifix for the Gethsemani chapel |
| 1 | 1960/01/09 | HLS | to Merton | <u>So</u> pleased that you like M's layout too. Will try to bring down script so we can work over | |
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| 1 | 1960/01/29 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | We are in an emergency. There are going to have to be drastic changes in our plan for the | Yes |
| [Cooper #77] |
| 1 | 1960/01/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | We are in an emergency. There are going to have to be drastic changes in our plan for the | Yes |
| [Cooper #77] |
| 1 | 1960/01/29 (#03) | other | | Merton - <u>Wisdom of the Desert</u> [-] TABLE OF CONTENTS [-] Part I [-] Note [-] The Wisdom | |
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| 1 | 1960/01/31 (#01) | other | | SELECTED POEMS [-] Father Merton's own selection from his five previous volumes of poetry | |
| [advertisement for Merton's <i>Selected Poems</i> - handwritten list of magazines in which the add is to appear, including <u>Jubilee</u>, <u>Commonweal</u>, <u>America</u>, <u>Catholic World</u>, and <u>Catholic Library World</u>] |
| 1 | 1960/01/31 (#02) | other | | A Selection Of Merton Poems [-] <i>A Review by William Habich</i> [-] SELECTED POEMS | |
| [news clipping - review by William Habich of Merton's <i>Selected Poems</i> from the <u>Louisville Courier-Journal</u>, 1960/01/31] |
| 1 | 1960/01/31 (#03) | other | | Selected Poems Of Thomas Merton [-] (New Directions Paperbook $1.45) [-] Quoting Thomas | |
| [news clipping - review Merton's <i>Selected Poems</i> from the <u>The Globe</u> of Sioux City, Iowa, 1960/01/07] |
| 1 | 1960/02/02 | TLS | to Merton | This morning there arrived on my desk, from an old friend in France, the writer Joseph Delteil, | |
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| 1 | 1960/02/10 | TLS | to Merton | Just back from some very pleasant skiing up in snowy Vermont with my daughter and some friends, | Yes |
| [Cooper #78] |
| 1 | 1960/02/15 | TLS | to Merton | Miss Haggard, up at Curtis Brown, has just sent the poem back to me, writing: "I am returning | |
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| 1 | 1960/02/19 | TALS[x] | from Merton | It is getting a little hard to keep up with everything that goes on, all of a sudden. | |
| Joseph Delteil / D. T. Suzuki material - silence from Abbot General / Dorothy Day and the plight of Hopi Indians in the United States / Laughlin's newborn son Henry / Bill Everson / Bob Lax / E. W. May interview / South American poets - translating Jorge Carrera Andrade / "Problems and Pardons" manuscript |
| 1 | 1960/02/23 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of February 19th. Yes, things do get busy, don't they? | |
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| 1 | 1960/03/03 | TNS[x] | from Merton | In case one of those blokes might like two instead of one, here is another poem. | |
| Merton received Delteil book - his offhand reflection |
| 1 | 1960/03/15 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of March 3rd, and that's a nice poem, the "Messenger from the Horizon", | |
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| 1 | 1960/03/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | that has been working on me for some time, of very informally discussing basic things with small | |
| [dated by Cooper as March 18, 1960 - only last page extant in this file] small group, open-ended discussions with writers and intellectuals / project to study the Shakers - correspondence with Shaker eldress from New Hampshire / suggests Laughlin visit Gethsemani with Robert Lax, Jack Kerouac and others |
| 1 | 1960/04/04 | TALS | to Merton | I feel badly to have let so many days slip by without answering your good letter of March 18th. | |
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| 1 | 1960/04/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | Last evening I spent an hour or so with your discovery, the venerable hermit, Isaac of Ninive. | |
| Isaac of Nineveh and comparisons to the Desert Fathers / "Problems and Pardons" manuscript (<i>The Behavior of Titans</i>) |
| 1 | 1960/04/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Finally the Delteil book starts back to you. I can see where Henry Miller would like it, and I like | Yes |
| [Cooper #79] |
| 1 | 1960/05/10 | TALS | to Merton | That is fine that the censors have come through with their approval on "P & P". I am shooting | |
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| 1 | 1960/05/15? | TALS[x] | from Merton | A real hasty note, to try to get it in the mail this afternoon. I have been rushing to finish | |
| [no date - mid-May from context] article on Mount Athos and Orthodox Christians / rejection by order of publishing D. T. Suzuki material / meeting of Merton with 6-7 African American Methodist ministers from Tennessee and African American artists from Louisville / Apuleius's "Amor and Psyche" commentary by E. Neumann / Ernesto Cardenal |
| 1 | 1960/05/31 | TALS[x] | from Merton | A problem has arisen. Bob Giroux thinks that <u>Problems and Pardons</u> as a title comes too close | Yes |
| [Cooper #80] |
| 1 | 1960/06/02 | TALS | to Merton | I feel very badly to have let two of your letters go unanswered so long. Let me explain that this | |
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| 1 | 1960/06/07 | TL[c] | to Merton | Just got your letter of May 31st in which you tell of Bob Giroux's objections to the title "Problems | |
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| 1 | 1960/06/12 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter(s) of recent date. I am glad that the new title is all right with you. | |
| "Problems and Pardons" manuscript re-titled <i>The Behavior of Titans</i> for publication - sending Herakleitos article for addition to book / Merton's D. T. Suzuki work for <u>New Directions Annual</u> / Latin American poets - Jorge Carrera Andrade, Octavio Paz, Esther de Caseres, Ernesto Cardenal |
| 1 | 1960/06/16 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of June 12th, with enclosure of the piece on Herakleitos, | |
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| 1 | 1960/06/16 (#02) | TL[x] | from Laughlin, James / to Dorothy Day | Father Merton writes me that you are going to print his piece, "Prometheus", in "The Catholic Worker | |
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| 1 | 1960/06/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the full Suzuki text. I have had the preface retyped with a lot of necessary changes and I | Yes |
| [Cooper #81] |
| 1 | 1960/06/21 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is another version of any concluding remarks. It should take the place of the version I sent | |
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| 1 | 1960/06/21 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is another version of any concluding remarks. It should take the place of the version I sent | |
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| 1 | 1960/06/24 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of June 20th, enclosing the text of the Merton-Suzuki interchange, | |
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| 1 | 1960/06/28 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the poems of Carrera Andrade that I have done so far, with a little introduction. They are | |
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| 1 | 1960/07/09 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of June 28th. I like the little poem "A Song for Nobody" VERY much -- | |
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| 1 | 1960/07/30 | HLS[x] | from Merton | This is just a note to say that the material on Carrera Andrade and the new poem have all been | |
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| 1 | 1960/08/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Do you know of some really good schools in Switzerland and France? I am trying to help out a kid | |
| need help finding schools in Europe for a bright high school aged student who had visited - working through Ezra Pound translations of Confucius during visit - idea of studying Chinese language / <i>Wisdom of the Desert</i> / Mencius / poet Herbert Mason |
| 1 | 1960/08/12 | TALS | to Merton | I'm sorry to have fallen silent again for so many days. Perhaps I could blame it on the summer, | |
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| 1 | 1960/08/15 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of August 8th, just received in the country, with the query about a good | |
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| 1 | 1960/08/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the letter about the schools which I relayed to the mother of the brilliant child, | |
| Herbert Mason / interested in finding material by additional Latin American poets - Miguel Angel Asturias, Carlos Pellicer, Luis Cardoza y Aragon, Raul Leyva / interested in [Bertolt] Brecht |
| 1 | 1960/08/31 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of August 25th, enclosing the, as you say, quite remarkable poems of young | |
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| 1 | 1960/09/01 | TLS | to Merton | The other evening I had dinner with Octavio Paz. He came over here unexpectedly for a week | |
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| 1 | 1960/09/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letters of Aug. 31st and Sept 1. And today I got the proofs of WISDOM in the mail | |
| poet Nels Richardson / list of books suggested by Octavio Paz - [Jorge Luis] Borges / Harper's Bazaar using material from <i>The Wisdom of the Desert</i> |
| 1 | 1960/09/26 | TLS | to Merton | The new, slightly smaller edition of "Bread" has just come in, and I think it looks very nice. | |
| Nels Richardson / Ezra Pound's translation of Mencius / Jean-Paul Sartre's <i>Nausea</i> |
| 1 | 1960/11/07 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | Your book CAN THESE BONES LIVE to Father Louis arrived, postmarked from Clifton, New Jersey. | |
| Dom James sending back Edward Dahlberg's <i>Can These Bones Live</i> - "Certain chapters and drawings really are not for monks… We have not mentioned it to Father Louis" |
| 1 | 1960/11/10 | TL[x] | to Fox, James | It was so good of you to write me at such length about the Dahlberg book, but I am so distressed to | |
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| 1 | 1960/11/17 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I have just been writing to a man in Karachi who is interested in my books- a Moslem to whom I can't | |
| afraid to send Abdul Aziz a copy of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> because of an error about the Sufis - inspiration to do <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> with this and other corrections and additions |
| 1 | 1960/11/22 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your note suggesting the possibility of a revised edition of "Seeds." I haven't | |
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| 1 | 1960/11/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | What you say about the Cuadra poems is all right with me. I would be translating only three or four | Yes |
| [Cooper #82] |
| 1 | 1960/11/30 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of November 28th. I think that is a good decision to put all | |
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| 1 | 1960/12/02 | TALS | to Merton | Does the name Ramon J. Sender ring a bell with you? He is a Spanish writer--author of several very | |
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| 1 | 1960/12/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the introduction to the Cuadra poems. I have absolutely no factual information, like dates | |
| advising to write to Ernesto Cardenal about biographical information about Pablo Antonio Cuadra / Ramon Sender book and <i>Antologia de la Poesia Negra</i> / desire for Loeb Classical Library edition of Aeschylus in Greek and Latin - Sophocles |
| 1 | 1960/12/09 | TLS | to Merton | Could you take a quick look at this copy I just wrote for the jacket of the TITANS and flash it back | |
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| 1 | 1960/12/15 | TL[c] | to Cuadra, Pablo Antonio | Thank you so much for your most kind letter of December 7th, with enclosure of the biographical | |
| [carbon copy sent to Merton] |
| 1 | 1960/12/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Well, it is pretty bold of you to let authors write their own blurbs. I did however slightly revise | Yes |
| [Cooper #83] |
| 1 | 1960/12/20 | TLS | to Merton | Bob has just brought me your rewrite of the blurb for "Titans" and I think it is great--an enormous | |
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| 1 | 1960/12/26 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your fine letter of December 17th, enclosing the two good poems-- "Advice | Yes |
| [Cooper #84] |
| 1 | 1961/01/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I got your good letter of Dec. 26th and am glad you liked the poems. | |
| [Cooper #85 - letter dated 1960/January/04 but Cooper dates it as a mistake] |
| 1 | 1961/02/09 | TALS | to Merton | Here are your proofs of all the fine and wonderful things that you have so generously given us for | |
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| 1 | 1961/02/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Proofs came and I enjoyed reading them. The Suzuki piece is wonderful. Having the footnotes | |
| idea of Laughlin and Jack Mills coming to Gethsemani |
| 1 | 1961/02/20 | TL[c] | to Thittila, Bikkhu U. | I hope you will forgive my delay in replying to your very kind letter of September last. | |
| [letter to The Rev. Bikkhu U Thittila in Rangoon, Burma - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1961/02/21 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks very much indeed for being so quick with the Suzuki proofs. And I am glad you found them | |
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| 1 | 1961/02/no? | HLS[x] | from Merton | Titans just arrived and it is very, very handsome. Congratulations on its really beautiful jacket. | |
| Merton states that Laughlin forgot to include imprimatur of the Archbishop of New York |
| 1 | 1961/03/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all the Hasegawa print certainly did arrive and I am overjoyed with it. We have given it | Yes |
| [Cooper #86] |
| 1 | 1961/03/27 | TLS | to Merton | This letter will be typed in the New York office, but I am dictating it from out in Utah, where | |
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| 1 | 1961/04/05 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Much thanks for the great long letter with the third dimension of your daughter's conversation | Yes |
| [Cooper #87] |
| 1 | 1961/04/06 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I just ran across a title of a book that would be of considerable help in any work I do on Chinese | |
| asking for help in obtaining the following books: <i>The Confucian Persuasion</i> by Arthur F. Wright and <i>Chinese Thought and Institutions</i> edited by John King Fairbank / "wrote to Doc Williams [William Carlos Williams] and sent him the solitude poem printed by Victor." [Victor Hammer] |
| 1 | 1961/04/18 | TALS | to Merton | Under separate cover I am sending you a little paperback of the "Benjamin Minor" of Richard of St. | |
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| 1 | 1961/05/01 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here it is May 1 and raining hard – but a lovely quiet morning nevertheless in the hermitage. | |
| John and Barbara Beecher / translation of Chuang Tzu |
| 1 | 1961/05/03? | TLS[x] | from Merton | One thing I forgot in my last letter was the question of the offprints. I am glad it can be | |
| William Carlos Williams recommends Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish as a "religious poem" |
| 1 | 1961/05/23 | HLS | to Merton | Sorry for silence. My dear old Aunt went to Heaven and there has been much to do. | |
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| 1 | 1961/05/24 | HLS[x] | from Merton | It happens that the censors of the order have vetoed the atomic bomb piece "because others have | |
| private printing and circulation of manuscript on nuclear war [<i>Peace in the Post-Christian Era</i>] / Gandhi essay book |
| 1 | 1961/05/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note. Yes it is all right to state the case as you put it. Dialogue on Zen | |
| "Dialogue on Zen and Christian Mysticism" / Thomas McDonnell's <i>Merton Reader</i> |
| 1 | 1961/05/31 | TLS | to Merton | Before it slips my mind, did you get that copy of the translation of Richard of St. Victor that was | |
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| 1 | 1961/06/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of May 31st. I am glad of all the news. And first of all there has been | |
| permission from abbot general to publish "Original Child Bomb" / Victor Hammer and "Hagia Sophia" |
| 1 | 1961/06/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Fitzgerald's Odyssey has come and it is a fine big handsome thing, reads very well, one | |
| Paul Sih and a English-Chinese side-by-side version of <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> / letter from Salvatore Quasimodo / Romain Rolland's journal on India - Tagore / Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| 1 | 1961/06/29 | TALS | to Merton | Here I am out in SF, staying with Rexroth in his marvelous house, a real old palace, which he can | |
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| 1 | 1961/07/01 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Good to hear from you. Lax wrote in the same mail and said Antonucci had designed something | Yes |
| [Cooper #88] |
| 1 | 1961/07/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton to Mihael Cukovecki | Nous vous donnons bien volontiers la permission de traduire les livres que vous nous avez demandée. | |
| [see also the "Cukovecki, Mihael Rudolf, Fr., O.F.M." file] responds to permission request to translate <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> and <i>No Man Is an Island</i> into Croatian |
| 1 | 1961/07/05 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your letter of June 21st, which has just reached me out in San Francisco, | |
| Paul Sih and <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> |
| 1 | 1961/07/05 (#02) | HNS | from ? / to Merton | I'm "vetting" J's letters since his secy away. Thanks a great deal for your July 5th letter which | |
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| 1 | 1961/07/05 (#03) | HLS | from Mussayassul, Melanie Nagel | how nice to hear from you, with three lovely books - I'm grateful and I thank you - | |
| [original copy forwarded to Merton - originally sent to Laughlin 1961/04/11] |
| 1 | 1961/07/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I just got through writing to Ferlinghetti about the Original Child. Yesterday I received from Bob | |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti's desire to publish and his suggestions for "Original Child Bomb" - to Robert Lax for <u>Pax</u>, layout by Emil Antonucci / "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway" |
| 1 | 1961/07/14 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of July first, which reached me out in San Francisco, from where I am | |
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| 1 | 1961/07/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is good to get your roundabout letters from the coast, and it sounds great out there. Especially | Yes |
| [Cooper #89] |
| 1 | 1961/07/24 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Emil Antonucci has just sent me his dummy of your "Bomb" book, and the lay-out for the first | |
| "Original Child Bomb" - to Robert Lax for <u>Pax</u>, layout by Emil Antonucci - Lawrence Ferlinghetti publishing poem in <u>Journal for the Protection of All Beings</u> / "An Elegy for Ernest Hemingway" - Laughlin's mixed view, genius of Hemingway vs. the "glorification of violence" - Ezra Pound on Hemingway |
| 1 | 1961/07/24 (#02) | TL[c] | to Antonucci, Emil | Thank you so much for your letter with the dummy of the proposed book for Tom's "Original Child Bomb | |
| [Emil Antonucci was designer and illustrator of a special limited edition of "Original Child Bomb"] |
| 1 | 1961/07/26 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I have just received a nice letter from Jorge Carrera Andrade who writes that he is now Ambassador | |
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| 1 | 1961/07/26 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Tshering, Tashi / to George and Bob | I am about to settle down by now and living in men's dormitory a new building which is | |
| [Tashi Tshering writes from Seattle, Washington, to "George and Bob" in New York City - mimeograph of letter sent to Merton] |
| 1 | 1961/07/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your carbon to Antonucci has not arrived but I am replying right away to the letter. | |
| Ernest Hemingway - "the cult of blood and guts was very phony… sad at his death" / Br. Antoninus (William Oliver Everson) / Victor Hammer printing "Hagia Sophia" / feedback on Allen Ginsberg's "Kaddish" |
| 1 | 1961/08/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This morning I wrote to Lawrence about the furnace poem and the censors. | |
| asking address of poet Jorge Carrera Andrade in Ecuador / Brother Antoninus / Claude Fredericks and idea for selections from 16th century mystic, Benet of Canfield |
| 1 | 1961/08/11 | TLS | to Merton | Please forgive my delay in replying to your good letter of July 27th. I have been moving about | Yes |
| [Cooper #90] |
| 1 | 1961/08/17 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of August 2nd, which reached me just as I am beginning my trip back east. | |
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| 1 | 1961/08/18 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | I'm now planning to fly from Denver to Louisville on Friday, August 25th. Will pick up rental car | |
| [Laughlin writes from the Alta Lodge in Sandy, Utah] |
| 1 | 1961/08/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter. By now, as you know, a series of accidents has led to the publication | Yes |
| [Cooper #91] |
| 1 | 1961/08/19 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Fine! Will look for you on the 25th or 26th. Come as soon as you can. Sunday is not the best | |
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| 1 | 1961/09/06 | HLS | to Merton | Just to thank you - and tell you how much I enjoyed my visit. Really the high point of my whole | |
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| 1 | 1961/09/12 | TLS | to Merton | I am sore of heart. That matter we discussed, where a friend of ours is trying to push me around, | |
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| 1 | 1961/09/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | Did Gilda send you one of these specimens of the layout for the "New Seeds"? Isn't it handsome? | |
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| 1 | 1961/09/19 | TALS[x] | from Merton | First of all the book of Denise Levertov just arrived. I think her book from Jonathan Williams was | Yes |
| [Cooper #92] |
| 1 | 1961/09/25 | TL[c] | to Antonucci, Emil | Just a line to let you know that Gilda has shown me your revised layout for the "Bomb" and I like it | |
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| 1 | 1961/09/26 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I always bless you especially when it comes jacket writing time. Those lines you sent | |
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| 1 | 1961/09/26 (#02) | HLS | to Merton | The Cuadra Giants has some fine stuff in it. I'll dictate about it tomorrow. Here is some gist for | |
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| 1 | 1961/09/30 | TL[x] | to Merton | Gosh things are madly busy these days… So this isn't the real letter answer to your last yet, | |
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| 1 | 1961/10/01 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for all the "grist." Some of it is being read in the refectory. I am returning the Ferry one. | |
| invitation for W. H. "Ping" Ferry to visit Gethsemani / asking for reaction to "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" / Henry Miller's book <i>Remember to Remember</i> |
| 1 | 1961/10/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | On the bomb piece, the only indication of censorship is, as far as I remember, this sentence: | |
| speech by Andrei Gromyko - reaction by John F. Kennedy and the United States to Soviet politics / question of whether Lawrence Ferlinghetti was blacklisted by Dom James Fox because Fox did not like <i>Journal for the Protection of All Beings</i> |
| 1 | 1961/10/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Gilda Kuhlman | I am returning the sketch for the title page. It is quite good, and I will readily go along with it | |
| Merton's concern over the title page being crowded and prefers no sketch, just title |
| 1 | 1961/10/09 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for several recent letters, but first, while it is fresh in my mind, let me say | |
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| 1 | 1961/10/18 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I was glad to hear from Gilda that you had been giving her some very helpful counsel in the matter | |
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| 1 | 1961/10/18 (#02) | TAL[x] | to Merton | The <u>ND 17</u> is finally ready, and will be officially published on November 30th, but I must | |
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| 1 | 1961/10/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This letter is overdue and there are a thousand things to say. Shooting all over the target | Yes |
| [Cooper #93] |
| 1 | 1961/10/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | An idea has occurred to me for a ND paperback for next spring, on Peace. It could be a kind | Yes |
| [Cooper #94] |
| 1 | 1961/10/31 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | My pal Walter Hasenclever in Stuttgart has sent through this dope on the Kohlhammer edition | |
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| 1 | 1961/10/31 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your good letter of October 24th, with the most interesting piece about defense | |
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| 1 | 1961/11/01 | TLS | to Merton | Yours of the 30th just reached me, and I type this homecooked, midnight-oiled line to let you know | |
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| 1 | 1961/11/03 | TLS | to Merton | As I home-typed to you last night, I'm most enthusiastic about your idea of a little paperback | Yes |
| [Cooper #95] |
| 1 | 1961/11/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | All right, here is the idea about the paperback. I already have at hand several articles which I am | |
| possible essays for paperback on peace, including those by Jerome Frank, Erich Fromm, Lewis Mumford, Ned O'Gorman, Harrison Brown and James Real, Walter Millis, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich |
| 1 | 1961/11/07 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the Clement of Alexandria. The mimeograph is unsatisfactory and the typist did not | |
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| 1 | 1961/11/08 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I agree with everything in your longer letter about the paperback. By all means get in touch | |
| book on Gandhi / peace book possibly using title of Lewis Mumford article, "Human Way Out" / Hayden Carruth book |
| 1 | 1961/11/08 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | I made a mistake this morning when I wrote you that Schocken Books had done a paperback containing | |
| use of some material on Gandhi |
| 1 | 1961/11/10 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I am sending you herewith the wonderful little book of poems written by Ernesto Cardenal | |
| "Elegy for James Thurber" - possibility of Denise Levertov publishing it in <u>The Nation</u> / Gandhi |
| 1 | 1961/11/11 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | "Armistice" Day, as they still call it here, seems a good day to get going on our Peace paperback. | |
| involving W. H. Ferry in peace paperback / Lewis Mumford - "A Human Way Out" |
| 1 | 1961/11/11 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the Lewis Mumford piece about which I spoke to you, as a possibility for the Paperback. | |
| "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" being published in Mexico and Nicaragua - still wanting to track down other Nicaraguan poets / Meister Eckhart / pamphlet by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara on United States foreign policy regarding the Soviet Union |
| 1 | 1961/11/15 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of the 8th, reporting that the Gandhi text which has been used in the | |
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| 1 | 1961/11/17 | HLS | to Merton | The Mumford is great. It is "Lincolnesque." The style gives the conviction. Ferry is back | |
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| 1 | 1961/11/21 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed is copy of a letter just received from Ferry, which is helpful, but I am distressed that he | |
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| 1 | 1961/11/21 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Ferry, W. H. | I didn't let you know about my New York visit because I didn't plan to stop over until my last day | |
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| 1 | 1961/11/22 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Very fine bibble. Have no complaints or additions or anything. I will get to the page about | |
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| 1 | 1961/11/25 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Have not yet received the dictated letter you spoke of with copy of letter from Ferry. Has it gone | Yes |
| [Cooper #96] |
| 1 | 1961/11/27 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | In a recent letter from Henry Miller to Bob, Henry speaks very warmly of you, as he always does, | |
| Laughlin quotes Henry Miller, "I feel closer to him [Merton], his way of thinking, than any American writer I know of." - Miller recommends to Merton books by Erich Gutkind, <i>The Absolute Collective</i> and <i>Choose Life</i> |
| 1 | 1961/11/27 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your letter and the copy of Ferry's letter came today. Good news: Lewis Mumford has written a very | |
| Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr / Gordon Zahn / Erich Fromm's article in <u>Liberation</u>, "Pathology of the Cold War" / C. Wright Mills / Norman Cousins |
| 1 | 1961/11/27 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your letter and the copy of Ferry's letter came today. Good news: Lewis Mumford has written a very | |
| Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr / Gordon Zahn / Erich Fromm's article in <u>Liberation</u>, "Pathology of the Cold War" / C. Wright Mills / Norman Cousins |
| 1 | 1961/12/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Carey McWilliams wrote suggesting I do an article for him. I thought I would try a review article | Yes |
| [Cooper #97] |
| 1 | 1961/12/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | Have been reading the paperback stuff most of the day, so can hardly report myself as cheerful, | |
| Ned O'Gorman / article by Roger Hagan of Harvard published in <u>The Nation</u> |
| 1 | 1961/12/06 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your good letters of November 25th and 27th. Also the little note about the | |
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| 1 | 1961/12/06 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I had not realized that I was supposed to send the copy of the Gerrard Piel article to you, | |
| [enclosed with 1961/12/06[1] letter - see "Ferry, Wilbur H." file for copy of the original] |
| 1 | 1961/12/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Great news. The Merlin Press has come through with permission for the English Book on Nuclear | |
| authors and articles to include for <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> book about nuclear war |
| 1 | 1961/12/10 | HLS | to Merton | Will write properly in the morning. Just wanted to get these into the mail to you tonight. | |
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| 1 | 1961/12/12 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for sending me your most attractive little Loretto pamphlet. It is very nicely done, | |
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| 1 | 1961/12/15 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I have two new ideas about the paperpack [sic], which I think should be called THE MORALS OF | Yes |
| [Cooper #98] |
| 1 | 1961/12/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the chapter of the book by Gordon Zahn. He is talking about the way the German Catholic | |
| censorship trouble with "Peace, Christian Duties [and Perspectives]" / predicting trouble with censorship for <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> - idea of privately mimeographing materials and distributing them - sending "Conjectures" to Ping Ferry to copy and distribute - "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" |
| 1 | 1961/12/19 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the latest items. I am still having trouble with the censor but it is possible that | |
| Dom James Fox helping to get peace article past censors / James Newman letter / "The Human Way Out" / getting <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> censored for England |
| 1 | 1961/12/21 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your good letter of December 15th, with the most interesting enclosures. | |
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| 1 | 1961/12/21 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Two new things from Ferry. Both excellent for the book. 1 "Very Improbable President" by Hallock | |
| "The Very Improbable President" by Hallock Hoffman / W. H. Ferry, February 14, 1961, "Present policies and the major powers" / War/Peace Report, December 1961 |
| 1 | 1961/12/27 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letters of December 16th and 19th, and also for the carbon of Gordon | |
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| 1 | 1961/12/31 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your last letter. I will be eagerly expecting you on the 15th, and we will go over all | Yes |
| [Cooper #99] |
| 1 | 1961/no/no? (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I just got a letter from Erich Fromm, a very good letter too. He wants to be in the book, | |
| civic defense and fallout shelters / Rollo May / Gerard Piel |
| 1 | 1961/no/no? (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am rushing this list back to you. Thanks very much for it. Thanks also for the Seven Mystics | |
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| 1 | 1962/01/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Am looking forward to seeing you next Monday. Hope everything works out. | |
| "Peace : Christian Duties and Perspectives" (or "Peace : Christian Duties and Responsibilities") / Gordon Zahn and <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> / Pablo Antonio Cuadra's reply to letter |
| 1 | 1962/01/20 | HLS[x] | from Merton | A man called Allan Forbes Jr. has sent in a hair raising essay on the arms race, it is the best yet. | |
| [second page is a handwritten, revised list of essays to include for <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i>] |
| 1 | 1962/01/22 | TL[x] | from Rissin, Rhoda / to Merton | The enclosed copy of letter from Gerard Piel at "Scientific American" about his article did not | |
| forwarding letter to Merton and Laughlin from Gerard Piel |
| 1 | 1962/01/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are two things. First the Forbes ms of which I spoke in my last letter. In this I suggest we | |
| censorship of <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> / Gandhi book |
| 1 | 1962/01/31 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here are two copies of the essay by Herbert Butterfield which I think is really excellent | |
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| 1 | 1962/02/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the Peace article revised and unfortunately quite a lot lengthened. Since it had got | |
| pieces for peace anthology from Karl Stern and Erich Fromm / Catholic Worker and civil disobedience at Atomic Energy Commission sites / Douglas Steere's visit to Gethsemani |
| 1 | 1962/02/07 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Just heard a couple of things that need to be told you right away about the Peace book and related | |
| Walter Stein / Lewis Mumford / Erich Fromm / Karl Stern - on John McCone's possible appointment as head the CIA / Claude Fredericks and "Good Samaritan" |
| 1 | 1962/02/14 | TLS | to Merton | I'm sorry to have left you hanging in the air, so to speak, so many days, while I was getting back | |
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| 1 | 1962/02/15 | TLS | to Merton | Yesterday was one of those days again, when there wasn't much steam in the old boiler, | |
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| 1 | 1962/02/19 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Here is a rather interesting piece, by Dr. Sanford Gifford up at Harvard Medical School, that caught | |
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| 1 | 1962/02/19 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | Did Ping send you a copy of the Donald N. Michael pamphlet on "Cybernation"? It is very interesting | |
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| 1 | 1962/02/20 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I will write a decent reply to your good letters when I get a chance. I'm sending this off pronto. | |
| sending letter from Sr. M. Irmã Emmanuel de Souza e Silva from Petropolis, Brazil |
| 1 | 1962/02/22 | HLS[x] | from Merton | The Fromm article is in an offprint from the Commentary which includes one by H. Kahn which I am | |
| Erich Fromm and Herman Kahn article, "A Debate on Civil Defense" |
| 1 | 1962/02/25 | HPCS | to Merton | Many thanks for revised Clement. Am shooting it right on to Mardersteig. J. | |
| [verso: color print of a painting of Dierick Bouts, "Die Anbetung Der Könige", Munich, Germany] |
| 1 | 1962/02/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | I believe that Dagmar Henne, the very good agent in Munich, sent you a copy of her letter to me | |
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| 1 | 1962/03/02 (#01) | TL[c] | to Harris, Leonard R. | Thank you so much for your letter of February 28th. I know that Father Merton will share my great | |
| [Laughlin writes to Leonard R. Harris of Channel Press in Manhasset, New York - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/03/02 (#02) | TL[c] | from Harris, Leonard R. | Thank you so much for your letter of February 28th. I know that Father Merton will share my great | |
| [from Leonard R. Harris of Channel Press in Manhasset, New York - originally dated 1962/02/28 - mimeograph sent to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/03/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am glad you got the Butterfield article straightened out and that we can use it. The censor has | Yes |
| [Cooper #100] |
| 1 | 1962/03/06 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I thought it might be a good idea to do some copyediting on the text of "Clement" before we sent it | |
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| 1 | 1962/03/06 (#02) | HLS | from Mumford, Lewis | I had meant to write you long before this and I apologize for my delay. I am delighted that you'd | |
| [mimeographed copy of Mumford's 1962/03/02 letter to Laughlin - sent to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/03/06 (#03) | TL[x] | to Merton | I'm sorry to have dropped into silence for several days again. I had rather a nasty bout of sinus, | |
| Erich Fromm's rebuttal of Herman Kahn for possible inclusion in <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> - Lewis Mumford's "Morals of Extermination" |
| 1 | 1962/03/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just a note to say that it is ok about the royalties of Bomb the way you had them lined up, for me | |
| Alan Forbes / W. H. Ferry's visit - to bring Scott Buchanan |
| 1 | 1962/03/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | This is the continuation of my reply to your good letter of March 4th. Did you received the text of | |
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| 1 | 1962/03/13 (#02) | TALS | to Merton | That is good news that the censors have passed your preface. I hope they won't tie us up by wanting | |
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| 1 | 1962/03/13 (#03) | HN | to Merton | At an average of 360 words to the page. A 256 pp book (4- 64's) = 246 *pp of text = about 88,000 | |
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| 1 | 1962/03/13 (#04) | TL[c] | to Fromm, Erich | Thank you so much for your good letter of February 22nd, and for the copies, sent both to me | |
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| 1 | 1962/03/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the lineup on the HUMAN WAY OUT. I am glad we can get moving on it and that everything | Yes |
| [Cooper #101] |
| 1 | 1962/03/28 | TLS | to Merton | I did not reply to your letters about the suggested cuts on the anthology, because just at that | Yes |
| [Cooper #102] |
| 1 | 1962/03/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | Hugh Johnston, the very able sales manager down at Lippincott, has been discussing the peace | |
| need for a better title for the book (later titled <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i>) than "The Human Way Out", should include peace |
| 1 | 1962/03/31 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I wrote to Frank Sheed, the President of Sheed and Ward, about the permissions on the Stein book. | |
| Hayden Carruth / Denise Levertov |
| 1 | 1962/03/no | other[x] | | <u>THOMAS MERTON ROYALTY REPORT</u> [-] Period Covered: 7/1/61-12/31/61. [-] BEHAVIOR | |
| [mimeographed list of Merton's books and royalties paid] |
| 1 | 1962/04/02 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I will send this to the N.Y. office in case you are there. First as I said in my letter to Norfolk, | |
| censors approval of <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> |
| 1 | 1962/04/04 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for yours of March 31st which I found on getting back to Norfolk. That's great that you | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/07 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I am shooting the essay back to you with some changes. I did not manage to shorten it much after | |
| thinks "Breakthrough for Peace" a good title |
| 1 | 1962/04/10 | TLS | to Merton | I imagine that Ferry must be down there by now and I hope it is turning out to be a very successful | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/11 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | A long phone conversation this morning with the permissions lady at Sheed & Ward. | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/11 (#02) | TL[c] | to Hammer, Victor | Father Merton kindly sent along to me your copy of the very interesting Cavalletti "Immagini | |
| [carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/04/12 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | As you can see from this letter I have just written to the sales manager at Lippincott, I am very | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/12 (#02) | TL[c] | to Johnson, Hubert A. | I am much perplexed. It is now over three weeks past the publication date of "Original Child Bomb," | |
| [carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/04/12 (#03) | TLS | to Merton | The word this morning from the lady at Sheed & Ward (Miss Wijnhausen) is that we may only use | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/12 (#04) | TLS[x] | from Stein, Walter | Thank you very much for your letter of the 27th. The news, from Sheed & Ward, is most | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/12 (#05) | TLS | to Merton | I have now had a chance to go over the list for the anthology, on the assumption that you will wish | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/12 (#06) | TLS[x] | to Eve, Martin | I have heard about Sheed & Ward's refusal to allow Anthology rights and I am taking this up | |
| [Martin Eve was with the Merlin Press in London - mimeograph sent to Merton - original letter dated 1962/03/30] |
| 1 | 1962/04/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | I've just had a very encouraging telephone conversation with Norman Cousins at the "Saturday Review. | |
| Norman Cousins - interest in running "Original Child Bomb in <u>The Saturday Review</u> |
| 1 | 1962/04/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all about the anthology. Ok if it has to be six thousand words from the Stein article | |
| Norman K. Gottwald of Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts - American Protestant perspective for <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> / Merton against high publicity for "Original Child Bomb" - praise for poem by Congressman Frank Kowalski |
| 1 | 1962/04/17 (#01) | HLS[x] | from Merton | I got your letter about Norman Cousins - and all the 4 copies too. I am sending them back | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/17 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some notes for the blurbs. They are of course very hasty and need a lot of reworking | |
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| 1 | 1962/04/24 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for several recent letters and bless you for those roughs for the blurbs. | |
| Norman K. Gottwald / politics of using "Original Child Bomb" - sent to bulletin of atomic scientists / Leo Szilard / prayer for Congressman Kowalski / W. H. Ferry's visit to Gethsemani and meeting with Laughlin |
| 1 | 1962/04/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | One thing that we need to decide very quickly now is the sub-title for "Breakthrough to Peace." | |
| subtitle for <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> |
| 1 | 1962/04/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | How does this strike you for possible copy for the ads on the "Bomb"? What YOU can do about | |
| proposed advertisement copy for "Original Child Bomb" |
| 1 | 1962/04/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am sending back the inserts sent by Stein. If we are making the cuts that were suggested, I don't | Yes |
| [Cooper #103] |
| 1 | 1962/05/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for all the letters, clippings and so on. I hope we have finally got squared away on all | Yes |
| [Cooper #104 - copied from photocopy at Dartmouth College] |
| 1 | 1962/05/02 (#01) | HNS | to Merton | Long talk with Kowalski on the phone. He sounds like a fine young man. The Conn Democratic powers | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/02 (#02) | TL[c] | to Miller, David | I enclose herewith check in the amount of $250.00 to order of "Committee for Kowalski for U. S. | |
| [to David Miller of Meriden, Connecticut - carbon copies to Merton and W. H. Ferry] |
| 1 | 1962/05/02 (#03) | HNS | to Merton | Gottwald took a week to answer. I'll report further when we get a page count from actual galleys | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/02 (#04) | TLS[x] | from Gottwald, Norman K. | Thank you for your recent letter with the proposed condensation of my lecture. I have thought | |
| [from Norman K. Gottwald of Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts - originally dated 1962/04/27 to Laughlin - mimeograph copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/05/02 (#05) | TL[c] | to Gottwald, Norman K. | Thank you so much for your good letter of April 27th. I certainly sympathize with your decision | |
| [to Norman K. Gottwald of Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/05/03 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I ran across this quote from Einstein again and want to get it to you before I forget. | Yes |
| [Cooper #105] |
| 1 | 1962/05/03 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Please rush back to me at NYC office. Your essay will come next week. Hope you can keep changes | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/03 (#02) | TL[c] | to Johnson, Hubert A. | Thank you so much for your good letter of April 30th. I know how busy you are down there | |
| [to Hubert Johnson of J. B. Lippincott - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/05/04 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your good letter of May 1st, but of course I am terribly sorry to hear about | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/04 (#02) | other | | "Reading Original Child Bomb is a chilling and a shattering experience, recalling to me the sight | |
| [quote by U.S. Representative Frank Kowalski, a former military governor of the Prefecture of Hiroshima] |
| 1 | 1962/05/09 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | The last batch of galleys on "Breakthrough" came in last night and I did a careful castoff on what | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/09 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Manager, Editorial Sudamericana | We must sincerely apologize for not having answered your letter dated January 29. | |
| [from the Manager of Editorial Sudamericana to Laughlin - mimeograph to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/05/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the proofs. I have cut a few passages, sentences here and there, in the belief that this | Yes |
| [Cooper #106] |
| 1 | 1962/05/17 | TLS | to Merton | We are just back from the sales conference with the Lippincott salesmen in Philadelphia. | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | Is this blurb for the back of "Clement" all right? It is based on the notes you were good enough | |
| "Clement of Alexandria. Selections from the Protreptikos." / radio on-air reading of Merton's poem "Original Child Bomb" on WBAI in New York |
| 1 | 1962/05/19 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Frankly I think the title "A Book for Peace" is just no good. It won't do. There has to be more | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/20 | HLS[x] | from Merton | In my letter to the office I said I did not like the title - a <u>Book for Peace</u>. And I prefer | |
| title for <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> / asking for books - C. Moore and K. Spencer's <i>Electronics</i>, Katherine Anne Porter's <i>Ship of Fools</i>, and C. Wright Mills' <i>Listen, Yankee</i> / writing to Robert MacGregor concerning seeing the Tibetan monks in New Jersey |
| 1 | 1962/05/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am sending off the blurb to Mardersteig pronto, made one change, said Clement of Alexandria is the | |
| recommends book sent by Ping Ferry, <i>Hello, Stupid!</i> by A. L. Kitselman / ideas for title for <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> |
| 1 | 1962/05/22 | TL[x] | to Merton | Do you know this wonderful "Book of Signs" drawn by Rudolph Koch? We still need a "decorative spot" | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/23 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for your letters of the 19th and the 21st, which seem to have arrived the same day. | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | Toiling on the Sabbath, but I guess it's a good cause. Here is the blurb copy for catalogue | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | The proofs of "Clement" have just come in from Mardersteig, and aren't they beautiful? He really is | |
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| 1 | 1962/05/30 | TLS | from Merton | I haven't had time to write a decent letter for the last few days but there are a few things that | Yes |
| [Cooper #107] |
| 1 | 1962/06/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the proofs from Mardersteig. You are right, they are beautiful indeed. I am very happy | |
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| 1 | 1962/06/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks so much for your letter of June 1st, with prompt return of the "Clement" proofs, and so few | |
| sent to Merton, Katherine Ann Porter's <i>Ship of Fools</i> / Merton's poem "A Picture of Lee Ying" |
| 1 | 1962/06/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | That's a fine piece that you have in the most recent number of the "Catholic Worker." | |
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| 1 | 1962/06/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | That's a fine piece that you have in the most recent number of the "Catholic Worker." | |
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| 1 | 1962/06/22 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Ok about Burns' idea for Clement as a Christmas giveaway. I wrote and told him this would be all | |
| thoughts on Katherine Anne Porter's <i>Ship of Fools</i> |
| 1 | 1962/06/22 (#02) | HPCS[x] | from Merton | As I wrote in letter to Norfolk - Burns' idea for a give away (of Clement) is ok with me. In Xt Tom | |
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| 1 | 1962/07/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | This is an idea I have had on my mind for a week or two, and I thought I would pass it along. | |
| idea for a book combining all of <i>The Behavior of Titans</i> and "A Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants", "The Tower of Babel", "Hagia Sophia", "Original Child Bomb", "Ox Mountain Parable" and selections from <i>Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander</i> |
| 1 | 1962/07/13 | TLS[x] | from Pearce, Donald J. | I have just read in <u>Library Journal</u> (1 June, page 2151) Mr. McDonald's review of Thomas | |
| [from Donald Pearce, Head Librarian of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks - mimeograph to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/07/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I just got the Texas Quarterly with the Durrenmatt in it which I will read pronto with joy. | |
| finding magazine for "Song for the Death of Averroes" / Henry Miller sent Merton a literary magazine published by English Carmelite Friars |
| 1 | 1962/07/19 (#01) | TL[c] | to Pearce, Donald J. | Thank you so much for your extremely interesting letter of July 13th about Father Merton's | |
| [to Donald Pearce, Head Librarian of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1962/07/19 (#02) | other | | ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB - Trade ed. [-] Sales Returns Free [-] March 4594 | |
| [monthly sales figures for the trade edition and limited edition of "Original Child Bomb"] |
| 1 | 1962/07/20 | TLS | to Merton | Sorry not to have gotten back to you sooner on your good letter of July 9th. Rhoda was away for her | |
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| 1 | 1962/07/30 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I just got through writing to Bob and I typed out a list of things that would be in the paperback | Yes |
| [Cooper #108] |
| 1 | 1962/07/30 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I just got through writing to Bob and I typed out a list of things that would be in the paperback | Yes |
| [Cooper #108] |
| 1 | 1962/07/30? (#03) | other[x] | from Merton | Emblems from a Season of Fury [-] Song if you seek (Accent) [-] The Moslem's Angel of Death | |
| [draft table of contents with title handwritten and source of prior publication added in parentheses) |
| 1 | 1962/07/31 | transcript | from Merton to Ping Ferry | Great letter of yours to the Sta Barbara News Press, on the Everyman I case! Very clear, | |
| "Committee for Correspondence" / sending mimeographs of "Peace in the Post-Christian Era" |
| 1 | 1962/08/09 | TL[x] | to Merton | Something pretty awful has happened--a cruel blow of fate, or is chance, so to speak. | |
| printing error will cause delay in release of <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> / gift copies of <i>Clement of Alexandria</i> / "Song for the Death of Averroes" accepted by <u>Texas Quarterly</u> / Joseph Delteil's book on St. Francis of Assisi |
| 1 | 1962/08/16 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Yes I have the H. Miller books; they got here with a brief delay. The <u>Wisdom of the Heart</u> is | Yes |
| [Cooper #109] |
| 1 | 1962/09/05 | TLS | to Merton | Victor just sent me a copy of the HAGIA SOFIA and it certainly is a beautiful thing, both book | |
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| 1 | 1962/09/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for the books. I found them perfectly all right, and I am glad we did not | |
| review copies of new book to Henry Miller, Mark Van Doren, Ed Rice, Naomi Burton, Bob Lax, and the "Catlick magazines" - <u>America</u>, <u>Jubilee</u>, <u>Ave Maria</u>, <u>Commonweal</u>, <u>Catholic World</u> / Merton reading Henry Miller's <i>Wisdom of the Heart</i> / David Lutyens, poet (David Bulwer Lutyens) |
| 1 | 1962/09/11 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your good letter of September 7th. That's wonderful news that you got such | |
| distribution of <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> - "get it around fast, and not care too much whether we take in the shekels. After all, the shekels aren't going to do any of us much good if we all get blown up." / request from Messiah College to broadcast "Original Child Bomb on radio / death of e. e. cummings |
| 1 | 1962/09/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the good letter of the 11th. I will look forward to getting the extra copies | |
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| 1 | 1962/09/21 | HLS[x] | from Merton | For a long time I have been meaning to get these translations down. I am sending them to you | |
| ideas for <i>New Directions in Prose and Poetry 18</i> - proposes biography by Merton of Alfonso Cortés with Merton's translations of some of his poems, "Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants", and "Hagia Sophia" |
| 1 | 1962/09/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your note of September 21st, enclosing the very nice translations of ten | |
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| 1 | 1962/11/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is ages since I have written and I don't know what I have not said that I ought to have said. | Yes |
| [Cooper #110] |
| 1 | 1962/11/08 | TLS | to Merton | I have just come from a little visit with the Hammers. It seems that they had a perfectly marvelous | |
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| 1 | 1962/11/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your long letter, for the promotion of Breakthrough, and everything. | |
| poem "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion" passed censors / trouble with censor for French translation of <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 1 | 1962/11/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | This is dictated from out in Utah, where I have stopped off to see our new ski lift--which really is | Yes |
| [Cooper #111] |
| 1 | 1962/12/04 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Victor and Carolyn were over yesterday and we had a fine visit, sitting up by the lake. We even | Yes |
| [Cooper #112] |
| 1 | 1962/12/04 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Victor and Carolyn were over yesterday and we had a fine visit, sitting up by the lake. We even | Yes |
| [Cooper #112] |
| 1 | 1962/12/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | Please forgive my delay in thanking you for your good letter of November 22nd. | |
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| 1 | 1962/12/08 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a poem that was on that list, but which you had not yet seen. Hope you like it – | |
| translation of fragments from the 12th century [Dialogues I, by Anselm of Havelberg?] / Cuban poet Cintio Vitier / asking for new book on the seven deadly sins |
| 1 | 1962/12/18 | TLS | to Merton | Sorry not to have gotten back to you sooner on your most interesting letter of December 4th. | |
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| 1 | 1962/no/no | TLS[x] | from Merton to Artists and Writers for Hughes | In reply to your request I am sending three small things which may be of some use in an auction | |
| [to Artists and Writers for Hughes regarding the run of H. Stuart Hughes for United States Senator of Massachusetts on an Independent ticket in 1962] |
| 1 | 1963/01/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First of all, I am sorry for not responding more quickly about the books on peace. I suppose I wait | Yes |
| [Cooper #113] |
| 1 | 1963/01/11 (#02) | other | | NEW POEMS for book, end of 1963 or early 1964 [-] ( just listed at random) [-] 1 Poems: Song, | |
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| 1 | 1963/01/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks so much for your fine letter of January 11th, which reached me down in Grenada on the 21st, | |
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| 1 | 1963/02/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | Back again from the Fabled Isles to Stern Connecticut and I must say that I prefer the brisk airs | |
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| 1 | 1963/02/04 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I thought you might like to see this letter from one of my Chinese scholar friends, about Clement. | |
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| 1 | 1963/02/08 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | About the title: I'd still like to use the EMBLEMS one. I like the word emblems in this connection | Yes |
| [Cooper #114] |
| 1 | 1963/02/08 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | About the title: I'd still like to use the EMBLEMS one. I like the word emblems in this connection | Yes |
| [Cooper #114] |
| 1 | 1963/02/08 (#03) | other | | EMBLEMS OF A SEASON OF FURY. [-] Thomas Merton has said that the twentieth century man who | |
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| 1 | 1963/02/18 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your recent letters, but, first, while I think of it, Raja Rao is in New York now, | |
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| 1 | 1963/02/19 | TLS | to Merton | David and Rhoda and I have just been going over the material that has been assembled for the new | |
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| 1 | 1963/02/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am trying to clean up a few last things about the book. Let's first settle for the title: | |
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| 1 | 1963/03/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | One thing I should have mentioned in a past letter and forgot: about Beecher and Chuang Tzu: | |
| where to publish Alfonso Cortés translations / Ernesto Cardenal material / Henry Miller's feedback on <i>A Thomas Merton Reader</i> |
| 1 | 1963/03/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you so much for your two recent letters, with enclosures. I passed along the poems to David | |
| John Beecher and expectations for book on Chuang Tzu / death of William Carlos Williams / recommends to Merton <i>Ask at the Unicorn</i> by Norman Thomas, and <i>Serpent and Rope</i> by Raja Rao |
| 1 | 1963/03/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | You and Rhoda may already have worked this out, but it occurred to me to ask you to give her | |
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| 1 | 1963/03/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the Norman Thomas book. I will read it with pleasure and tell you what I think. | Yes |
| [Cooper #115] |
| 1 | 1963/04/19 | TALS | to Merton | Sorry not to have gotten back to you sooner on your good letter of March 28th. It came in just as | |
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| 1 | 1963/04/21 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Where are you? You can't be skiing now. It is as hot as summer here, and we certainly have had | Yes |
| [Cooper #116] |
| 1 | 1963/04/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Rhoda said she sent the blurb up to you at Norfolk, so I hope you have it and that it is all right. | Yes |
| [Cooper #117] |
| 1 | 1963/04/26 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of April 21st with enclosure of the wonderful blurb for "Emblems." | |
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| 1 | 1963/05/06 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks so much for your good letter of April 26th. As you can see, I am still a bit behind, | |
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| 1 | 1963/05/09 | TL[x] | to Merton | I think that we have just found what I hope you will agree is a wonderful photograph of a piece | |
| suggests steel sculpture art , "Manes Flayed No. 2", by Elio Martinelli from New York / death of William Carlos Williams and his <i>Pictures from Brueghel</i> |
| 1 | 1963/05/11 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Boy, were you ever right in that intuition about the tormented metal. This is magnificent. Wham, | Yes |
| [Cooper #118] |
| 1 | 1963/06/01 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some copies of a new poem. In fact two new poems. The Birmingham one is not yet censored | |
| interest in sending poem "And the Children of Birmingham" to <u>Partisan Review</u> |
| 1 | 1963/06/03 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Cortes is Nicaraguan — as also Cardenal and Cuadra. Best wishes – Tom. | |
| Nicaraguan poets Alfonso Cortés, Ernesto Cardenal and Pablo Antonio Cuadra |
| 1 | 1963/06/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for the copies of the two new poems, both of which are fine, especially the one | Yes |
| [Cooper #119] |
| 1 | 1963/06/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter: you are probably right about not sending the Birmingham poem to the PR. | Yes |
| [Cooper #120] |
| 1 | 1963/06/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of June 14th. I really think it would be a coup to get | |
| sending poem "And the Children of Birmingham" to <u>New York Times Magazine</u> or <u>The Saturday Review</u> / Carolyn Hammer and meeting with Merton / Merton's honorary degree and the Pax Peace Medal / Henry Miller / Erica Gutkind |
| 1 | 1963/07/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Word has come from the censor that the Birmingham Poem is clear, so you can go right ahead with it | Yes |
| [Cooper #121] |
| 1 | 1963/07/22 | TL[x] | to Merton | A letter just in from John Ciardi, written from Milwaukee where he is vacationing, which says: | |
| John Ciardi from <u>Saturday Review</u> cites a phrase from a poem of Merton's echoed e. e. cummings - Laughlin asks if an intentional use or whether he should change it |
| 1 | 1963/07/25 | HLS[x] | from Merton | About the Bible quote: "God does not want the death of the sinner but rather that he be converted | |
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| 1 | 1963/08/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Got your letter from Virginia about the proofs, but do not have the proofs myself yet, so I will | |
| translations for publication of Ernesto Cardenal, Cesar Vallejo and Alfonso Cortés / Norman Cousin's positive feedback on poem "And the Children of Birmingham" (poem published in <u>Saturday Review</u>) / long essay on race issue for <u>Ramparts</u> magazine |
| 1 | 1963/08/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I sent the galleys back to the NY office yesterday. Some of the poems were, I found, not according | |
| add subtitle "Inscription for a child's drawing" to poem "Grace's House" for clarity / long poem in progress, "Early Legend" |
| 1 | 1963/08/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your note of August 12th, with answers to various points in the book, | |
| La Grande Chartreuse - Guiges du Pont - Dom Denys [Denys Rackley?] / <u>The Saturday Review</u> liked "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion" |
| 1 | 1963/08/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This text sounds very exciting but I do not think it is for you. Probably one of the University | |
| suggestion of switching to another work , "Guigo the Carthusian" |
| 1 | 1963/09/03 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for going over the proofs the second time. We followed up, as you requested | |
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| 1 | 1963/09/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | About those translator's royalties: yet, I think the best thing is to go ahead and make them all | Yes |
| [Cooper #122] |
| 1 | 1963/09/05 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | Because we can't get very much copy on the back of the paperback, without crowding it so it looks | |
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| 1 | 1963/09/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | Rhoda and David were just asking me about the censorship lines for "Emblems." | |
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| 1 | 1963/09/13 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | This just came in from Pauling. Any reply? Many thanks for your fine letter - I'll fix up the | |
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| 1 | 1963/09/13 (#02) | TL[x] | from Pauling, Linus | I regret that my absence from Pasadena in May 1962, when your letter arrived, and some circumstances | |
| [mimeograph to Merton - original letter to Laughlin dated 1963/09/10] |
| 1 | 1963/09/13 (#03) | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am still in the hospital but am going home today, not that everything is cured, but I will | |
| Merton's medical problem related to a cervical disk / idea for another Robert Speaight recording of Merton's poem with new material |
| 1 | 1963/09/14 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am in hospital with bad shoulder and back, maybe a disk. On the censorship thing - just put | |
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| 1 | 1963/09/25 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am not in the hospital but am going home today, not that everything is cured, but I will continue | |
| idea by Robert MacGregor for a new audio collection of poems recorded by Robert Speaight |
| 1 | 1963/09/26 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here are a couple of poems. I do not think you have seen either. Do you want to try them out | |
| sending "A Baroque Gravure (from a 17th century book of piety)" |
| 1 | 1963/10/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I don't know how well I am going to be able to type, but I can try it out. Got your letter about | |
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| 1 | 1963/10/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I don't know how well I am going to be able to type, but I can try it out. Got your letter about | |
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| 1 | 1963/10/02 | TLS | to Merton | I was sorry indeed to hear that you had been having trouble with your back, so bad that you had | |
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| 1 | 1963/10/11 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I have now managed to get caught up with those new things that you were good enough to send | Yes |
| [Cooper #123] |
| 1 | 1963/10/11 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | When I wrote yesterday, I think I forgot to acknowledge your letter of October 1st. Thanks ever so | |
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| 1 | 1963/10/15 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am shooting the contracts along to Fr Abbot. As to the Clement contract, ok whenever you are | Yes |
| [Cooper #124] |
| 1 | 1963/10/15 (#02) | HNS[x] | from Merton | I thought you might want copies of this thing. The presentation is Oct. 20, I think. A Monsignor | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/10/15 (#03) | other[x] | from Merton | First I want to thank you most sincerely for the honor you have bestowed on me in awarding me this | |
| ["In Acceptance of the Pax Medal - 1963"] |
| 1 | 1963/10/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | Rhoda reports that "Commonweal" has taken your "A Baroque Gravure" poem, and they have sent along | |
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| 1 | 1963/11/26 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Here is a copy of a letter to a Brazilian publisher who is interested in my part of Breakthrough. | Yes |
| [Cooper #125] |
| 1 | 1963/12/07 | TAL[c] | from Merton | The copy of <u>Nausee</u> reached me thismorning [sic]. Many thanks. I will get it bound here, | Yes |
| [Cooper #126] |
| 1 | 1963/12/09 | TLS | to Merton | I feel awful to have let such a long time go by without writing you. Things have just been | |
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| 1 | 1963/12/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks very much for your letter. It was good to hear from you. I hope the snow in Utah met your | |
| poems "The Early Legend" and piece on Eichmann / answers for Miguel Grinberg / Linus Pauling |
| 1 | 1963/12/30 | TLS | to Merton | Sorry not to have answered sooner your good letter of December 7th. First I was out in Alta, | |
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| 1 | 1964/01/06 (#01) | HNS | to Merton | Just for your files. Sorry I didn't get these letters written sooner. Best! J | |
| [note written on business card - 5 enclosed carbon copies of letters of the same date to different correspondents (see next records)] |
| 1 | 1964/01/06 (#02) | TL[c] | to Cardenal, Ernesto | I am pleased to report that Father Merton's new book of poems, "Emblems of a Season of Fury," | |
| [to Ernesto Cardenal at the Seminario de Cristo Sacerdote in La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/01/06 (#03) | TL[c] | to Cuadra, Pablo Antonio | Under separate cover I take pleasure in sending you two copies of Father Merton's new book of poems, | |
| [to Pablo Antonio Cuadra in Managua, Nicaragua - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/01/06 (#04) | TL[c] | to Cultural Attaché for Peru in the U.S. | Under separate cover I take pleasure in sending you a copy of a book which we have recently | |
| [to the Cultural Attaché at the Peruvian Embassy in Washington, D.C. - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/01/06 (#05) | TL[c] | to Maritain, Jacques | Under separate cover I take pleasure in sending you two copies of "Emblems of a Season of Fury" | |
| [to Jacques Maritain at the Ecole Theologique de la Fraternité in Toulouse, France - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/01/06 (#06) | TL[c] | to Andrade, Jorge Carrera | Under separate cover I take pleasure in sending you two copies of a new book by Father Merton which | |
| [to Jorge Carrera Andrade, Ecuadorian ambassador to Venezuela and living in Caracas - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/01/24 | TL[x] | to Merton | It occurred to me that you might like to see, and perhaps Father Abbot would too, some samples | |
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| 1 | 1964/02/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just a short letter. Old back acting up, lousy raw weather, can't type much. Mainly I want to send | Yes |
| [Cooper #127] |
| 1 | 1964/02/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | Sorry not to have written for so long, but I've really been up to my neck. The annual nightmare | |
| widow of Cesar Vallejo and permissions for <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i> - book on Vallejo by Xavier Abril / Gordon Zahn - Catholic Church public relations regarding the play, "The Deputy" by Rolf Hochhuth's "The Deputy" |
| 1 | 1964/02/24 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of February 13th, with all the fascinating enclosures. | |
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| 1 | 1964/02/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just a quick note. I am getting a touch of 'flu and feel a little washed out. | Yes |
| [Cooper #128] |
| 1 | 1964/03/05 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of February 27th. I'm glad to hear that your back is a little bit | |
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| 1 | 1964/03/20 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for Miller's <u>Hummingbird</u> which reached me and which I have begun. As usual | Yes |
| [Cooper #129] |
| 1 | 1964/03/20 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for Miller's <u>Hummingbird</u> which reached me and which I have begun. As usual | Yes |
| [Cooper #129] |
| 1 | 1964/03/24 | HLS[x] | from Fergesen, Max / to Miss Campbell | Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity of reading "Original Child Bomb." It arrived | |
| [Max Fergusen(sp?) writes from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)] |
| 1 | 1964/03/30 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you so much for your good letter of March 20th. I am pleased that various of the books | |
| Henry Miller's philosophy of life / book on Gandhi / Laughlin's daughter in India and meetings with Sikh poets and Vinobha Bhave / poet from Martinique, Aimé Césaire and French-speaking poets of African heritage |
| 1 | 1964/04/07 | TL[c] | to Milosz, Czeslaw | Thank you so much for your note of April 3rd. That is wonderful news that Doubleday is going to do | |
| [to Czeslaw Milosz in Berkeley, California - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/04/15 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Too bad about the Message and Sat. Review. I suppose it is logical though. Where else? Perhaps | Yes |
| [Cooper #130] |
| 1 | 1964/04/15 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Too bad about the Message and Sat. Review. I suppose it is logical though. Where else? Perhaps | Yes |
| [Cooper #130] |
| 1 | 1964/04/20 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of April 15th, but I don't like at all what you write | |
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| 1 | 1964/04/25 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | The little Gandhi book was suddenly finished and seems to have turned out quite nicely. | Yes |
| [Cooper #131 - Laughlin's name written in pen by Merton, no postscript] |
| 1 | 1964/04/25 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | The little Gandhi book was suddenly finished and seems to have turned out quite nicely. | Yes |
| [Cooper #131 - handwritten postscript] |
| 1 | 1964/04/30 | HLS | to Merton | Great to get the Gandhi in! I'll hope to read this weekend. And <u>very</u> pleased to hear your | |
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| 1 | 1964/05/06 | TLS | to Merton | I read the Gandhi stuff over the weekend and was greatly impressed with it. I think that your long | |
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| 1 | 1964/05/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First, many thanks for Aime Cesaire. I have the book now and I find it full of good things but | Yes |
| [Cooper #132] |
| 1 | 1964/06/19 | TNS[x] | from Merton | This is just a note to say that the censors have cleared the Gandhi Introduction. | |
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| 1 | 1964/06/23 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your card of June 19th. That is good news that the Gandhi introduction has passed | |
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| 1 | 1964/07/08 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the good batch of new books. I went like a bee for "The Very Thing that Happens". | Yes |
| [Cooper #133] |
| 1 | 1964/07/08 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the good batch of new books. I went like a bee for "The Very Thing that Happens". | Yes |
| [Cooper #133] |
| 1 | 1964/08/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | I'm sorry not to have written in some weeks. It has been a hard summer, with terrible heat spells | |
| asks for photograph of Merton and Miguel Grinberg for Laughlin's private photo album / John Beecher |
| 1 | 1964/08/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The French version of Pessoa arrived today. Many thanks. As soon as I get the Portuguese I hope | |
| Fernando Pessoa |
| 1 | 1964/09/17 | TLS | to Merton | I am back from my Európean trip now and trying to get into the habit of work again, which isn't too | |
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| 1 | 1964/09/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Good to hear you are back and that the European trip was a pleasant one. I guess you saw Dagmar | |
| Dagmar Henne / Japanese textbook using <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> / <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> / Henry Miller anthology by New Directions / Merton's hand rash that developed from a serious case of poison ivy and going to doctor / Bellarmine Merton collection / art show of his drawing / Fernando Pessoa |
| 1 | 1964/09/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Good to hear you are back and that the European trip was a pleasant one. I guess you saw Dagmar | |
| Dagmar Henne / Japanese textbook using <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> / <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> / Henry Miller anthology by New Directions / Merton's hand rash that developed from a serious case of poison ivy and going to doctor / Bellarmine Merton collection / art show of his drawing / Fernando Pessoa |
| 1 | 1964/09/23 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I know your Peruvian poet by name only. Would be very interested to see some more. I have got Pessoa | |
| received Fernando Pessoa poems in Portuguese, but will hold off translations because of upcoming conference of abbots at Gethsemani |
| 1 | 1964/09/23 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | Here is your royalty report and check for the half year ending June 30th, 1964, on those books where | |
| sending selection of Fernando Pessoa / news that Robert Giroux was made partner at Farrar, Straus |
| 1 | 1964/09/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thank you so much for your good letter of September 19th. But I was distressed to hear about the | |
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| 1 | 1964/09/30 | TALS | to Merton | Is it alright if we call the book "Gandhi on Non-Violence" instead of "A Primer of Non-Violence" | |
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| 1 | 1964/10/01 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Here is a terribly sad letter which has just come in from the Widow Vallejo. As you can see, she is | |
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| 1 | 1964/10/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Vallejo, Georgette de | Mon état de santé ne m'a pas permis de vous écrire dès janvier comme j'aurais dû le faire. | |
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| 1 | 1964/10/02 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | By all means go ahead with the new title GANDHI ON NONVIOLENCE. The only thing is that you | Yes |
| [Cooper #134] |
| 1 | 1964/10/02 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | By all means go ahead with the new title GANDHI ON NONVIOLENCE. The only thing is that you | Yes |
| [Cooper #134] |
| 1 | 1964/10/03 | TNS[x] | from Merton | I see what you mean about keeping in touch with people who have their hands on the rights | |
| letter from the widow of Cesar Vallejo and impact on decision to translate Fernando Pessoa |
| 1 | 1964/10/27 | TL | to Merton | This isn't the letter I owe you - things rather swampish around here lately - but just an sos from | |
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| 1 | 1964/10/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Am sending the Gandhi introduction to Lippincott. Was in town and saw the drawings on exhibit | |
| Spalding College art show of Merton's abstract drawings |
| 1 | 1964/11/03 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I thought you might like to see this Latin poem I wrote at Victor's request. He said his eyes were | |
| Latin poem for Victor Hammer |
| 1 | 1964/11/10 | HLS | to Merton | I have just been talking with nice Sebastian Salazar Bondy, the Peruvian poet, who is here at this | |
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| 1 | 1964/11/16 | TALS | to Merton | Home again, and glad to be, I didn't really like Mexico City, an inimical place somehow, (perhaps | |
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| 1 | 1964/11/21 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letters, especially the one from Yucatan. I was delighted to hear you had run | Yes |
| [Cooper #135] |
| 1 | 1964/11/21 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letters, especially the one from Yucatan. I was delighted to hear you had run | Yes |
| [Cooper #135] |
| 1 | 1964/11/25 | TLS | to Merton | Have you by any chance an extra carbon or copy of your introduction to the Gandhi which you could | |
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| 1 | 1964/12/08 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for sending me the handsome program for your show of drawings in Louisville. | |
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| 1 | 1964/12/13 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks a lot for your letter of the 8th. I am glad to hear that books of Nicanor Parra will soon be | Yes |
| [Cooper #136] |
| 1 | 1964/12/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks a lot for your letter of the 8th. I am glad to hear that books of Nicanor Parra will soon be | Yes |
| [Cooper #136] |
| 1 | 1964/12/21 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your extremely interesting letter of December 13th. I am fifty now too, and I know | Yes |
| [Cooper #137] |
| 1 | 1965/01/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter of the 21st which clears up a lot of points. I agree with the | Yes |
| [Cooper #138] |
| 1 | 1965/01/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter of the 21st which clears up a lot of points. I agree with the | Yes |
| [Cooper #138] |
| 1 | 1965/01/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | The drawings are going to New Orleans for February and will be in St Louis in April. | |
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| 1 | 1965/01/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | The drawings are going to New Orleans for February and will be in St Louis in April. | |
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| 1 | 1965/01/26 | TALS | to Merton | I am only now back from my trip in Europe, which dragged on a bit longer than I had anticipated. | |
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| 1 | 1965/02/03 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First of all here are some prints of the drawings. They are not any good for reproduction nor do | Yes |
| [Cooper #139] |
| 1 | 1965/02/03 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all here are some prints of the drawings. They are not any good for reproduction nor do | Yes |
| [Cooper #139] |
| 1 | 1965/02/09 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for sending me the autographed copy of "Seeds of Destruction," which I am | |
| sending W. H. Auden books for Merton / winter life at the hermitage / asking if Merton would consider doing a few translations of Nicanor Parra for upcoming English anthology / Naomi Burton Stone - arrangements for Merton's literary executorship / Merton's photographs or drawings for cover / Merton studying Arabic |
| 1 | 1965/02/16 | TLS[x] | from Horrigan, Alfred | I am planning to be in New York City from February 24 to March 3. If your schedule permits, I would | |
| [see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of the original - one of seven letters copied and sent to Dwyer concerning the establishment of a literary trust for Merton - letter between James Laughlin, editor of New Directions, and Msgr. Alfred Horrigan, president of Bellarmine College] |
| 1 | 1965/02/18 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Nice chat with Naomi on the phone. She is very busy now but hopes we can lunch in a while. | |
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| 1 | 1965/02/18 (#02) | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | It was great to talk with you on the 'phone the other day and I look forward to taking you to lunch | |
| [to Naomi Burton (Stone) of Doubleday in New York City] |
| 1 | 1965/02/18 (#03) | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | It was great to talk with your on the 'phone the other day and I look forward to taking you to lunch | |
| [see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of the original - one of seven letters copied and sent to Dwyer concerning the establishment of a literary trust for Merton - letter between James Laughlin, editor of New Directions, and Naomi Burton Stone, Merton's literary agent] |
| 1 | 1965/02/18 (#04) | TL[c] | to Horrigan, Alfred | It was good to hear from you again, and I do look forward to another pleasant visit with you, | |
| [to Msgr. Alfred F. Horrigan, who was president of Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky] |
| 1 | 1965/02/18 (#05) | TL[x] | to Horrigan, Alfred | It was good to hear from you again, and I do look forward to another pleasant visit with you, | |
| [see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of the original - one of seven letters copied and sent to Dwyer concerning the establishment of a literary trust for Merton - letter between James Laughlin, editor of New Directions, and Msgr. Alfred Horrigan, president of Bellarmine College] |
| 1 | 1965/02/23 | TLS[x] | from Horrigan, Alfred | Thank you so very much for your letter of February 18. In view of the interesting circumstances | |
| [see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of the original - one of seven letters copied and sent to Dwyer concerning the establishment of a literary trust for Merton - letter between James Laughlin, editor of New Directions, and Msgr. Alfred Horrigan, president of Bellarmine College] |
| 1 | 1965/02/25 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter, and thanks especially for the two Auden books which arrived yesterday. | Yes |
| [Cooper #140] |
| 1 | 1965/02/25 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter, and thanks especially for the two Auden books which arrived yesterday. | Yes |
| [Cooper #140] |
| 1 | 1965/02/25 (#03) | TL[x] | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Very good to here from you and I agree completely with you and your attitude towards Monsignor | |
| [see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of the original - one of seven letters copied and sent to Dwyer concerning the establishment of a literary trust for Merton - letter between James Laughlin, editor of New Directions, and Naomi Burton Stone, Merton's literary agent] |
| 1 | 1965/03/08 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of February 25th, to which I am somewhat late in replying, because | |
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| 1 | 1965/03/08 (#02) | TALS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you so much for your fine long letter of February 25th about Tom's affairs. Your ideas | |
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| 1 | 1965/03/08 (#03) | TLS[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Thank you so much for your fine long letter of February 25th about Tom's affairs. Your ideas | |
| [see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of the original - one of seven letters copied and sent to Dwyer concerning the establishment of a literary trust for Merton - letter between James Laughlin, editor of New Directions, and Naomi Burton Stone, Merton's literary agent] |
| 1 | 1965/03/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Before I got your letter of the 8th I had already translated a few of Parra's "Versos de Salon" | Yes |
| [Cooper #141] |
| 1 | 1965/03/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Before I got your letter of the 8th I had already translated a few of Parra's "Versos de Salon" | Yes |
| [Cooper #141] |
| 1 | 1965/04/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Dwyer, William | Yesterday I received the Merton books which you were kind enough to send to me and I am delighted | |
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| 1 | 1965/04/22 (#02) | TNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the card. I would be delighted to see you at the end of the month. I expect to be tied | |
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| 1 | 1965/04/25 | HPCS | to Merton | Great. I'll try to get down there before the 5th. Will keep you posted on dates. Nice out here. | |
| [verso: color photograph of the Germania Pass in the snow topped mountains of Alta, Utah] |
| 1 | 1965/04/26 | TL[c] | from Dwyer, William | I acknowledge receipt of and thank you for EMBLEMS OF A SEASON OF FURY and ORIGINAL CHILD | |
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| 1 | 1965/04/28 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I just heard from the people I was expecting 5 and 6th that they won't be coming so that whole week | |
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| 1 | 1965/04/no? | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here are those letters I was telling you about. There are quite a few - I hope not too many for | |
| Merton's correspondence with Robert Lax for New Directions annual |
| 1 | 1965/05/08 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | That was a very fine visit and I enjoyed it very much. Thanks for coming, and I am glad we saw | |
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| 1 | 1965/05/08 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | That was a very fine visit and I enjoyed it very much. Thanks for coming, and I am glad we saw | |
| [contains note typed on bottom of Merton's letter from someone with the initials "DF" to Laughlin regarding a suggestion for book of photographs regarding Gethsemani Abbey - Lew Falce at Algen Press (College Point, NY)] |
| 1 | 1965/05/09 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you for a wonderful visit - one of the best! It really cheered me up, so much so in fact, | |
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| 1 | 1965/05/13 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I trust your judgment about not publishing the letters to Lax. So just keep one for the file | Yes |
| [Cooper #142] |
| 1 | 1965/05/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I trust your judgment about not publishing the letters to Lax. So just keep one for the file | Yes |
| [Cooper #142] |
| 1 | 1965/05/13 (#03) | TLS | to Merton | Salesman at conf yesterday in Phila most enthusiastic about Chang Tzu. Next list's catalog must go | |
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| 1 | 1965/05/13 (#04) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some more things you might want to have on file there. I am not sure whether some or all | |
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| 1 | 1965/05/14 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I am working on the idea of "readings" rather than simply "poems" – some of them are a bit prosaic, | |
| [second page is Merton's hand corrected description of <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> using "interpretations" or "readings" rather than translations of poems] |
| 1 | 1965/06/09 | HNS[x] | from Merton | The books have all been coming in. Dahlberg, Borges, Purdy etc and today I got | |
| <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> nearly completed / doctor's visit in Lexington for severe intestinal trouble - saw Victor and Carolyn Hammer |
| 1 | 1965/06/15 | TLS | to Merton | I was sorry to hear about the troubles with your digestion, but much relieved to learn that you had | |
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| 1 | 1965/07/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for getting the enlarged Chuang Tzu to us so quickly. It looks wonderful, | |
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| 1 | 1965/07/02 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | It's awful the way I forget things sometimes. I've never answered your inquiry about an offset | |
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| 1 | 1965/07/02 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Thomas, Trevor | I am seeking permission to use one of Thomas Merton's long poems published in your | |
| [original letter dated 1965/06/30 from Thomas, of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, California - photocopied and sent to Merton] |
| 1 | 1965/07/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | I'm sorry to have been so slow in reacting to the "Irish Hermit Poems." I've been trying to clean | |
| Laughlin likes "Irish Hermit poems" but does not like the translation |
| 1 | 1965/08/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter from Wyoming. The Arab manuscript sounds interesting, but as I am just | Yes |
| [Cooper #143] |
| 1 | 1965/08/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter from Wyoming. The Arab manuscript sounds interesting, but as I am just | Yes |
| [Cooper #143] |
| 1 | 1965/08/14 | HLS[x] | from Merton | You may be interested in this poem by Albert Fowler – an oldish Quaker type and a pacifist | |
| poetry of Albert Vann Fowler |
| 1 | 1965/08/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | Just back from Wyoming, it was really beautiful out there, and I found your good letter of August | |
| Merton's poem "Man the Master" / date conflict with Farrar, Straus and Giroux regarding <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> / "Tao of Painting" book / release date for <i>Gandhi on Non-Violence</i> |
| 1 | 1965/08/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | We are moving along rapidly on the "Chuang Tzu" in order to get the books into the stores in plenty | |
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| 1 | 1965/08/22 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Okay then, let's try something like this for Chuang Tzu. I concern myself only with paragraph one: | |
| Merton's biographical statement about D.T. Suzuki |
| 1 | 1965/08/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for your good letter of August 22nd, with the wonderful paragraph on Zen | |
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| 1 | 1965/09/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | About the Paperback consisting of Behavior of Titans and other material. I realized when you spoke | Yes |
| [Cooper #144] |
| 1 | 1965/09/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I haven't heard a word from the Lugano Review people about "Man the Master" so if you want it | Yes |
| [Cooper #145] |
| 1 | 1965/09/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | Did I ever thank you for sending me the handsome pictures? I think they came out awfully well. | |
| <i>Raids on the Unspeakable</i>, <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> and "Freedom Songs" |
| 1 | 1965/09/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was delighted to get the Gandhi book at last, and it turned out nicely. | |
| Richard Eberhart's <i>Selected Poems</i> / root photograph by Merton for cover of <i>Raids on the Unspeakable</i> and calligraphies inside / news that the CIA might have had something to do with the war in Kashmir [Indo-Pakistani War of 1965] |
| 1 | 1965/09/27 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | This weekend finds me making a strenuous effort to wind up the ND19 for the printer. Various | |
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| 1 | 1965/09/27 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the list. There is no conflict between the Answers on Art and Freedom and the Art | Yes |
| [Cooper #146] |
| 1 | 1965/09/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | Further to my letter about what to represent you with in ND 19, I like very much that new poem you | |
| Merton poems "A Tune for Festive Dances in the 1960's" and "Man the Master" for possible inclusion in <u>New Directions in Prose and Poetry</u> 19 / Kashmir and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 |
| 1 | 1965/09/29 | TALS[x] | from Merton | OK about not duplicating in Raids and the Annual. Do you still intend to use Man the Master | |
| "Readings from Ibn Abbad" / Nicanor Parra translations with corrections and suggestions from Parra / Fernando Pessoa translations / likes George Oppen poetry and asks for his first book |
| 1 | 1965/09/30 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of September 27th. I think it would probably be best not | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am sorry to be slow about getting back to you on your two last letters; things have been pretty | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a copy of "The Time of the End etc". I need not hang on to it so tight as I now know | |
| [note that there is different letter from Merton to Laughlin of the same date published in Cooper] Pope Paul VI and his address to the United Nations - the charge by "right wingers" that "The Pope is misinformed by Communists in the Curia" |
| 1 | 1965/10/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | By now you must have Ibn Abbad and "The time of the end". Let me know if not. I sent them | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | By now you must have Ibn Abbad and "The time of the end". Let me know if not. I sent them | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/22 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letters of October 16th and 19th, with enclosure of "Time and the End" | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/24 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here is a copy of Seneca - could you please return as it is the only one I have? Thanks - Tom | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Chuang Tzu not here yet, but it might be down at the monastery when I go down. Nice fall weather. | Yes |
| [Cooper #147] |
| 1 | 1965/10/27 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Thanks you so much for sending me the copy of "Seneca." I have made a Xerox, and am returning yours | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/27 (#02) | other | | THOMAS MERTON [-] SENECA [-] When the torch is taken [-] And the room is dark [-] The mute wife | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/27 (#03) | TNS[x] | from Merton | Here are the notes on the drawings. I left the list of titles as that will help you with titles | |
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| 1 | 1965/10/29 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Would you please send Gandhi and Chuang Tzu to this Indian writer. N. Chatterji. 68 Chatsworth Rd | |
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| 1 | 1965/11/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | Except for your introduction, and unless I have overlooked something, I believe this envelope will | |
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| 1 | 1965/11/04 (#01) | HNS | to Dwyer, William | Bellarmine - Father John Loftus. Merton dumped stuff with him. Policy - who have access for study | |
| [see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of the original - telephone memo taken by Dwyer's secretary - also a business card from Laughlin with a handwritten note about whether Merton's <i>Way of Chuang Tzu</i> had been sent to Dwyer] |
| 1 | 1965/11/04 (#02) | TNS[x] | from Merton | The stuff for Raids came in this morning and I am just getting down to it. Here is a carbon | |
| sending drawings either for exhibit at a book store in New York or send them to Bellarmine College |
| 1 | 1965/11/06 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First will you please have review copies of Chuang Tzu sent to: J. Masui, Hermes, 48 Rue Cortambert | Yes |
| [Cooper #148] |
| 1 | 1965/11/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You know about Miguel Grinberg, I think. He is doing an anthology of US poets for Losada in Buenos | Yes |
| [Cooper #149] |
| 1 | 1965/11/11 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here is the complete revised ms of <u>Raids</u>. I hope I have not added too much. | |
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| 1 | 1965/11/22 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for getting the revised script of "Raids" back to me so promptly. I like your | |
| sending some of Merton's books to Miguel Grinberg for consideration in an anthology / sending "Manchild in the Promised Land" / how to use Merton's drawings in book / Reznikoff and Oppen / Fernando Pessoa heir, Coronel Caetano Dias from Lisbon |
| 1 | 1965/12/06 | TLS[x] | to Horrigan, Alfred | Please forgive my delay in getting back to you after your kind telephone call. This seems to have | |
| [see "Dwyer, William O." file for copy of the original] |
| 1 | 1965/12/13 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of November 27th, with the useful additional information about | |
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| 1 | 1966/01/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have many things to thank you for. First the copy of the testimony of the Italian priest, | Yes |
| [Cooper #150] |
| 1 | 1966/01/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of January 1st which I found on my return from a very pleasant | Yes |
| [Cooper #151] |
| 1 | 1966/02/16 | HLS[x] | from Merton | This looks interesting - I wonder if you could have someone get a copy for me and charge it | |
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| 1 | 1966/02/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of the sixteenth, and I will try to get that "Sanpaku" book for you, | |
| Günter Eich - warning about rights issues in translating poets writing in German, especially Paul Celan / Ed Rice and his television script on Merton - Naomi Burton Stone not happy with it / Nicanor Parra's arrival at Louisiana State University - suggestion that he could visit Merton |
| 1 | 1966/02/23 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I am returning the proofs of <u>Raids</u> - note there was no galley 2 with this set. Also enclosing | |
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| 1 | 1966/02/25 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for looking up the German poets, and send Eich along too: "I like Eich". | Yes |
| [Cooper #153] |
| 1 | 1966/03/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your fine letter of the 25th, which reached me down in Sarasota, | |
| thanks Merton for sending Clayton Eshleman's message about Georgette de Vallejo / Merton interview in the Louisville newspaper |
| 1 | 1966/03/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | Back again in Norfolk, and it is snowing again here today, and I have been looking for the French | |
| sending anthology of German poetry / Merton interview in the Louisville newspaper with photographs and statements on the Vietnam War / Nicanor Parra's desire to visit Merton - on telling Dom James about Parra's communist positions |
| 1 | 1966/03/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a surprise for you. It is the ms of a Journal that Bob Lax has been keeping on his Greek | Yes |
| [Cooper #154] |
| 1 | 1966/03/21 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Just a quick note to say I want very much to see Nicanor and will do what I can to arrange it when | |
| will arrange visit with Nicanor Parra after leaving hospital |
| 1 | 1966/03/24 | TL[x] | to Merton | I certainly was sorry to hear that the doctors had decided that you had to have the disc operation. | |
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| 1 | 1966/03/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | I imagine this will reach you in the hospital, and I certainly hope that the operation went well, | |
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| 1 | 1966/04/01 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I suggest we cut <u>Confession</u> - it is the most expendable piece. Operation ok but still painful | |
| [to "Jerry" at New Directions] |
| 1 | 1966/04/02 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Sorry you can't use Lax's book. Will you please pass it on to Naomi? Operation ok, a little rough | |
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| 1 | 1966/04/20 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Everything is going along well. No pain and no special bother - I can get around fine and go up | Yes |
| [Cooper #156] |
| 1 | 1966/04/no | HNS[x] | from Merton | The operation worked out fine. I have made a good recovery and am to go home tomorrow. | Yes |
| [Cooper #155] |
| 1 | 1966/05/12 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for returning the cover for that collar. It was not important, | Yes |
| [Cooper #157] |
| 1 | 1966/05/16 | HNS[x] | from Merton | The negative of the chairs is in the enclosed brown envelope. Make the prints you want | |
| sending photographs and poem "The Prospects of Nostradamus" |
| 1 | 1966/05/23 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks ever so much for sending me the negative or [sic] your photograph of the two chairs. | |
| the use of a photo by Merton of chairs on a cover of a New Directions book / "The Prospects of Nostradamus" / arrangements for exhibition of Merton's drawings - no venue yet / Fr. Chini - article on Merton for Vatican newspaper |
| 1 | 1966/05/27 (#01) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of May 23. <i>Nostradamus</i> can go to any magazine you like, | |
| ideas for donation of proceeds from exhibit of Merton's artwork - Civil Rights organization / photographic policies for book jackets / planning to send more "Menendez poems" [the "Menendez file"] |
| 1 | 1966/05/27 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | I think I have got a good lead now for the exhibition of the drawings. I talked on the telephone | |
| speaking with Elizabeth Sullivan of the Paraclete Book Center in New York about exhibiting Merton's drawings - asking what charity should receive proceeds from art sale - asking selling price of drawings / visit to Bellarmine College in Louisville - working with Bill Dwyer and Naomi Burton Stone on literary trust |
| 1 | 1966/05/29 | other[x] | by Merton | Evening: Long Distance Call [-] Tonight at dusk Twenty warblers | |
| [draft of poem originally titled "Long Distance Call at Night", corrected as "Evening: Long Distance Call" - xerograph of typescript containing a draft of the poem and major handwritten corrections and additions] |
| 1 | 1966/06/01 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some poems for the Menedez file. It looks as if in almost no time at all there might be | Yes |
| [Cooper #158] |
| 1 | 1966/06/01 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Here are some poems for the Menendez File. It looks as if in almost no time at all there might be | |
| [possibly a partial letter] |
| 1 | 1966/06/09 (#01) | TNS[x] | from Merton | Another one for the Menendez file. You will see it continues a part of a series I sent you last | Yes |
| [Cooper #159] |
| 1 | 1966/06/09 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Another one for the Menendez file. You will see it continues a part of a series I sent you last | |
| [on the same transcribed page as 1966/June/01 - possibly a partial letter] |
| 1 | 1966/06/16 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First of all I want to let you know that I have received three of the German poets. Pointek's Mit | Yes |
| [Cooper #160] |
| 1 | 1966/06/16 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all I want to let you know that I have received three of the German poets. Pointek's Mit | Yes |
| [Cooper #160] |
| 1 | 1966/06/17 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I finally got to hear something of Bob Dylan's and like his stuff immensely. Can you get me a copy | Yes |
| [Cooper #161] |
| 1 | 1966/06/23 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the chairs negative, now duly filed I hope in our photography dept. Glad you thought it | |
| Italian poet Eugenio Montale, "I like him better than all other Italians, though I like Quasimodo and Ungaretti very much…" / card from lunch with Nicanor Parra / approval from Dom James Fox to pay William Dwyer for legal services for literary trust |
| 1 | 1966/06/23 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | I was so distressed to hear about the bursitis. That really is a shame, on top of all you have had | Yes |
| [Cooper #162] |
| 1 | 1966/06/no? | HPCS | to Merton | Thinking of you at a poet's lunch in a Village garden restaurant. J [-] Tenemos que volver a vernos. | |
| [notes on postcard from James Laughlin, Nicanor Parra, Marianne Moore, and an unknown signatory - Merton acknowledges the postcard in his letter to Laughlin of 1966/06/23 - postcard of Patchin Place in Greenwich Village, New York] |
| 1 | 1966/07/08 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | My authors' copies of <u>Raids</u> arrived last week and I am very happy with them. Was able | Yes |
| [Cooper #163] |
| 1 | 1966/07/08 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | My authors' copies of <u>Raids</u> arrived last week and I am very happy with them. Was able | Yes |
| [Cooper #163] |
| 1 | 1966/07/11 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the copy of Planets which arrived today. It is certainly a very fine magazine and I am | |
| Albert Camus / Ping Ferry and places to publish Nostradamus poem / delay in writing Nicanor Parra / Cortisone shots for Merton's bursitis / new article on Buddhism / asking for Bob Dylan article in upcoming <u>Atlantic</u> magazine |
| 1 | 1966/07/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am sorry not to have written in some time. The heat here has been unbelievable and everything has | |
| Nostradamus poem / Nicanor Parra back in Chile but hopes to return to United States to teach / Lionel Landry from the Asia Society a Merton admirer - Laughlin asked him to send Merton good books on Buddhism |
| 1 | 1966/07/24 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the Dylan profile: very good. Will you check and see if the Pleiade edition of Camus | |
| Pleiade edition of Albert Camus book - Camus and Zen / Andrei Voznesensky / Edwin Muir |
| 1 | 1966/07/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter of the 20 arrived today. I am trying to track down the Camus books. They must have | Yes |
| [Cooper #164] |
| 1 | 1966/07/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is more material for the top secret file. First a poem. Then two other manuscripts, both | Yes |
| [Cooper #165] |
| 1 | 1966/07/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of July 25th. It sure is a mystery what has happened to those Camus | |
| Buddhist connections - Lionel Landry at the Asia Society in New York wants Merton to meet Mochtar Lubis, the Indonesian writer imprisoned by Sukarno |
| 1 | 1966/07/30 | TNS[x] | from Merton | I checked with Fr Abbot about the Camus books in French, and no books arrived, he assures me. | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Too bad there was some sort of mixup about the Camus books. Actually, to simplify it, I would say | |
| Camus books that Merton needs / Jean Grenier / Lionel Landry and Mochtar Lubis |
| 1 | 1966/08/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the tearsheets from <u>Playboy</u>. After being in <u>Life</u> last week I certainly | Yes |
| [Cooper #166] |
| 1 | 1966/08/15 | HLS | to Merton | I'm off for the ranch tomorrow. Address there: Wilson, Wyoming - till Labor Day. That was a fine | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/17 | TLS | to Merton | Just before leaving New York I got up to see Elizabeth Sullivan at the Paraclete Book Center, | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/18 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have been getting a lot out of the Camus material and it seems it will produce more. Will send | |
| Rene Char / Jacques Maritain / Merton's fear he offended Victor Hammer's traditional sensibilities in art / Bob Dylan book |
| 1 | 1966/08/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have been getting a lot out of the Camus material and it seems it will produce more. Will send | |
| Rene Char / Jacques Maritain / Merton's fear he offended Victor Hammer's traditional sensibilities in art / Bob Dylan book |
| 1 | 1966/08/18 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter which got to me just after I mailed one to you at the office this morning. | Yes |
| [Cooper #167] |
| 1 | 1966/08/19 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I am dictating this letter from the hotel in Chicago, where I have stopped on my way out | |
| [see Sub-Section C.6, Series 29, for the original of this letter] |
| 1 | 1966/08/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you so much for several recent letters which have reached me out here in Wyoming, | |
| "Menendez file" not ready for publication / Edwin Muir |
| 1 | 1966/08/30 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First of all more French books have arrived, this very promptly, so the Lipton place seems to be | |
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| 1 | 1966/08/30 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all more French books have arrived, this very promptly, so the Lipton place seems to be | |
| exhibit of drawings at Paraclete Bookshop |
| 1 | 1966/09/13 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First of all, thanks for the Record of the reading of my poems which someone sent down. | Yes |
| [Cooper #168] |
| 1 | 1966/09/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all, thanks for the Record of the reading of my poems which someone sent down. | Yes |
| [Cooper #168] |
| 1 | 1966/09/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am back in the New York office now and gradually digging through the accumulation. | |
| idea for a revised volume of "New and Selected" poems instead of current selected poem volume |
| 1 | 1966/09/17 | TALS[x] | from Merton to Ping Ferry | Thanks for the Life letters and for the latest batch of stuff, including above all your PEP. | Yes |
| [marginalia and last two full paragraphs not published] |
| 1 | 1966/09/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for yours of the 15th. I'll take up first the question of the SELECTED POEMS. | |
| Merton's ideas for poems to be included in a new selection / Laughlin's idea of Gary Snyder visiting Gethsemani |
| 1 | 1966/09/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am sorry to report that Miss Sullivan of the Paraclete Book Center and I have decided, over | |
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| 1 | 1966/09/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First, thanks for the Cendrars book which is handsome. I have not gone into it yet, though | Yes |
| [Cooper #169] |
| 1 | 1966/09/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First, thanks for the Cendrars book which is handsome. I have not gone into it yet, though | Yes |
| [Cooper #169] |
| 1 | 1966/09/27 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks of yours of the 21 which I got yesterday. It isall [sic] right with me if the SCLC | Yes |
| [Cooper #170] |
| 1 | 1966/09/27 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks of yours of the 21 which I got yesterday. It isall [sic] right with me if the SCLC | Yes |
| [Cooper #170] |
| 1 | 1966/10/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your several recent letters. Ping Ferry was in town last week and we had a very | |
| Ping Ferry / Bob Dylan - poem, his motorcycle accident / French poets Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos / poem "Nostradamus" / English poet Laurie Lee / Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez |
| 1 | 1966/10/08 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your of the 4th. First of all I want to settle the question of the <u>Selected</u> | Yes |
| [Cooper #171] |
| 1 | 1966/10/08 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your of the 4th. First of all I want to settle the question of the <u>Selected</u> | Yes |
| [Cooper #171] |
| 1 | 1966/10/12 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I am returning the note on the Artaud-Desnos books, marked as your suggested - very grateful. | |
| Antonin Artaud / Robert Desnos / Louis Zukofsky / sending "Day of a Stranger" for next New Directions Annual - "I <u>don't want</u> very high visibility" |
| 1 | 1966/10/12 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I am returning the note on the Artaud-Desnos books, marked as your suggested - very grateful. | |
| Antonin Artaud / Robert Desnos / Louis Zukofsky / sending "Day of a Stranger" for next New Directions Annual - "I <u>don't want</u> very high visibility" |
| 1 | 1966/10/16 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I know one can't judge a poem so soon after writing it but this one seems to me good. | Yes |
| [Cooper #172] |
| 1 | 1966/10/17 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed please find John Ciardi's reply about the two poems I sent him for "Saturday Review". | Yes |
| [Cooper #173] |
| 1 | 1966/10/17 (#02) | other | | WITH THE WORLD IN MY BLOOD STREAM. [-] I lie on my hospital bed [-] Water runs inside the walls | |
| [annotated typescript of 2 of Merton's poems - "With the World in My Blood Stream" and "First Lesson about Man"] |
| 1 | 1966/10/17 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Ciardi, John | Thanks as ever for these poems by Merton. He is a powerful poet and both of them speak to me | |
| [from John Ciardi, Poetry Editor of the <u>Saturday Review</u> - photocopy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1966/10/17 (#04) | TLS[x] | from Manresa, Josefina | Thank you for your letter of 4th inst. The best for you is to contact the heirs of poet Miguel | |
| [1966/10/08 letter of Josefina Manresa of Aguilar publishers regarding poetry of Miguel Hernandez - photocopy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1966/10/24 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I was sorry to hear that you had to go back into the hospital, and I trust it doesn't prove to be | |
| |
| 1 | 1966/10/24 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter with the copy of the letter of J. Ciardi and the poems. I have changed | Yes |
| [Cooper #174] |
| 1 | 1966/10/24 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter with the copy of the letter of J. Ciardi and the poems. I have changed | Yes |
| [Cooper #174] |
| 1 | 1966/10/27 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for ordering the medicine. It has not come yet but will soon. Artand books have arrived | |
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| 1 | 1966/11/01 | TALS | to Merton | Our printers have been very slow this year with the NEW DIRECTIONS 19 anthology, but the book | |
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| 1 | 1966/11/04 | TLS | to Merton | Jerry reminded me last night that I had not gotten around to making the selection from "Emblems" | |
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| 1 | 1966/11/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the little cards about the exhibit. I will send them out, and I think they are very | |
| thanking Laughling for sending linden tea and Vitamin B / writing to widow of Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez / dropping of Marie Tadié as Paris agent |
| 1 | 1966/11/05 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the little cards about the exhibit. I will send them out, and I think they are very | |
| thanking Laughlin for sending linden tea and Vitamin B / writing to widow of Spanish poet Miguel Hernandez / dropping of Marie Tadié as Paris agent |
| 1 | 1966/11/08 | HLS | to Merton | Here are the "programs" for the show. I hope you like. Will you want more if some are left over | |
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| 1 | 1966/11/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I wonder if you saw my piece in the November Harpers. It is tucked away in the front, and got | |
| asks for some rosehip tea and B vitamins for his stomach troubles - more back problems and the possibility of future surgery |
| 1 | 1966/11/11 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I wonder if you saw my piece in the November Harpers. It is tucked away in the front, and got | |
| asks for some rosehip tea and B vitamins for his stomach troubles - more back problems and the possibility of future surgery |
| 1 | 1966/11/15 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many good things in the new annual, for which many thanks. I especially like the Alberti. | Yes |
| [Cooper #175] |
| 1 | 1966/11/15 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many good things in the new annual, for which many thanks. I especially like the Alberti. | Yes |
| [Cooper #175] |
| 1 | 1966/11/16 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Does Lipton have, or can it procure: Romain Gary - Les Racines des Ciel. Paris 1958. | |
| Romain Gary / Natalie Sarraute |
| 1 | 1966/11/30 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Could someone please look up the N.Y office of SNCC and send me the address? I had it but lost it. | |
| requests address for the New York office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) |
| 1 | 1966/12/07 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I am sorry not to have written much in recent weeks. As Else may have explained to you, things have | |
| French authors Romain Gary and Nathalie Sarraute / Spanish poet Rafael Alberti / exhibition of Merton's art well-attended but few sales, possibly too high price / the problems involved in overseas printing and copyright |
| 1 | 1966/12/07 (#02) | TNS | to Merton | Thought you would be glad to see we finally heard from the Pessoa heir and that <u>he</u> is content | |
| [typed note from Laughlin to Merton on a photocopy of a letter handwritten letter of 1966/11/21 from F. Caetano Dias, brother-in-law of Fernando Pessoa] |
| 1 | 1966/12/07 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Morgan, Frederick | I recently returned from Europe and found your letter of November 2 enclosing the new essay | |
| [from Frederick Morgan of <u>The Hudson Review</u> in New York City - photocopy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1966/12/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is just to say that Edifying Cables is all typed, though I am adding a few more pieces. | Yes |
| [Cooper #176] |
| 1 | 1966/12/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is just to say that Edifying Cables is all typed, though I am adding a few more pieces. | Yes |
| [Cooper #176] |
| 1 | 1966/12/12 (#01) | TAL[c] | to Brock, Terry F. | Miss Elizabeth Sullivan at the Paraclete Book Center here in New York tells me that you might be | |
| [to Terry F. Brock, Director of Exhibits at the Center for Religious Art in Chicago, regarding Merton's drawings for exhibit - carbon copy to Merton with note by Laughlin: "Is this OK if they are interested and will pay expense?"] |
| 1 | 1966/12/12 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 7th which I received today. It crossed with the one I just sent | |
| exhibit of Merton's artwork and expenses / meeting with a non-violent activist from France / problems with French translator Marie Tadié |
| 1 | 1966/12/16 | HNS[x] | from Merton | By all means let the Chicago people have the drawings if they want them. They can send them on | |
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| 1 | 1966/12/27 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your letter about your Mother's passing away reached me just before Christmas and I have of course | Yes |
| [Cooper #177] |
| 1 | 1966/12/27 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your letter about your Mother's passing away reached me just before Christmas and I have of course | Yes |
| [Cooper #177] |
| 1 | 1967/01/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | Bless you for your prayers for my dear Mama. I know she is Heaven-bound, if not there already | |
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| 1 | 1967/01/18 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have not heard from you in an enormous long time: I certainly hope nothing is wrong. | Yes |
| [Cooper #178] |
| 1 | 1967/01/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have not heard from you in an enormous long time: I certainly hope nothing is wrong. | Yes |
| [Cooper #178] |
| 1 | 1967/01/18 (#03) | HLS[x] | from Merton to Marguerite Yourcenar | Je vous remercie de votre livre | |
| letter to French novelist Marguerite Yourcenar / labeled by Laughlin, "not answered, but <u>L'Œuvre au Noir</u> sent from Paris in May 1968" - book in Merton Center's collection of books with marginalia and includes inscription from Yourcenar to Merton |
| 1 | 1967/01/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of January 18th. I am sorry that I have been such a bad | |
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| 1 | 1967/01/20 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Dwyer, William | I feel that I have contributed so very little to yours and Naomi Burton's efforts as trustees | |
| [1967/01/16 letter from William O. Dwyer regarding his resignation as attorney for Merton's literary trust - photocopy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1967/01/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Several wrote that they liked my mimeographed Christmas letter and urged me to go on mimeographing | Yes |
| [labeled "Septuagesima Sunday 1967" - see also "Circular Letter to Friends (for mimeographing)"] |
| 1 | 1967/01/26 | TLS | to Merton | I am pleased to report that "Woody," our faithful cleaning man, has gotten the pictures all very | |
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| 1 | 1967/01/28 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many things to thank you for, and I can't remember if I have or not. Certainly thanks for the good | Yes |
| [Cooper #179] |
| 1 | 1967/01/28 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many things to thank you for, and I can't remember if I have or not. Certainly thanks for the good | Yes |
| [Cooper #179] |
| 1 | 1967/02/14 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Our mutual friend Amiya Chakravarty is anxious to publish a small book, a collection of essays | |
| Gabriel Marcel and Zen / literary trust issues / plans to go to hospital for bursitis operation / has given "With the World in My Bloodstream" to magazine at Florida University |
| 1 | 1967/02/14 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Our mutual friend Amiya Chakravarty is anxious to publish a small book, a collection of essays | |
| Gabriel Marcel and Zen / literary trust issues / plans to go to hospital for bursitis operation / has given "With the World in My Bloodstream" to magazine at Florida University |
| 1 | 1967/02/17 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | About the remaindering of <u>Bread</u> and <u>Behavior</u>. First of all, I don't mind. | Yes |
| [Cooper #152] |
| 1 | 1967/02/17 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | About the remaindering of <u>Bread</u> and <u>Behavior</u>. First of all, I don't mind. | Yes |
| [Cooper #152] |
| 1 | 1967/02/18 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I found out there is a priest who is sending books behind the Iron Curtain, Maybe he could use | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I found out there is a priest who is sending books behind the Iron Curtain, Maybe he could use | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/22 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I have given to <u>Motive</u> magazine two poems: a long one on Eichmann you have not seen – | |
| Nostradamus poem and "Epitaph for a public servant (In memoriam - Adolf Eichmann)" |
| 1 | 1967/02/27 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | This is not an answer to your recent letters, which I'll dictate soon, but just to report that | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/27 (#02) | other | | Poems from EMBLEMS to be added to SEL. POEMS [-] CONTENTS [-] Why Some Look up to Planets | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/27 (#03) | TL[c] | to Chakravarty, Amiya | Thank you so much for your very interesting letter of February 20, and the enclosure of materials | |
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| 1 | 1967/02/28 | HLS[x] | from Merton | My bursitis operation seems to have worked out nicely. Will go home today. Had a good phone | |
| [written on letterhead of St. Joseph Infirmary in Louisville] Ralph Eugene Meatyard's photographs taken at the hermitage - Merton's photos, including those of Jacques Maritain / letter from Louis Zukofsky regarding Merton's review of his poems |
| 1 | 1967/02/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | The last mimeographed letter is running out and there are still more than four weeks to go before | Yes |
| [labeled "Lent 67" - see also "Circular Letter to Friends (for mimeographing)"] |
| 1 | 1967/03/02 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Am back from the hospital operation worked ok but I can't type yet. Am perfectly in accord | |
| regarding poems to be published and lawyer to be hired for trust matters |
| 1 | 1967/03/09 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I was so glad to hear that you didn't have a bad time in the hospital, and I hope the operation will | |
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| 1 | 1967/03/09 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I ran across a good recent poem of Alberti in a South American lit. publication and translated it. | |
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| 1 | 1967/03/09 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I ran across a good recent poem of Alberti in a South American lit. publication and translated it. | |
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| 1 | 1967/03/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I dug into the files and brought out what I could in the way of pictures of Nicanor. I am sending | |
| Nicanor Parra photographs of his visit with Merton and Laughlin / contribution to Amiya Chakravarty book / "Ishi Means Man" |
| 1 | 1967/03/10 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | I dug into the files and brought out what I could in the way of pictures of Nicanor. I am sending | |
| Nicanor Parra photographs of his visit with Merton and Laughlin / contribution to Amiya Chakravarty book / "Ishi Means Man" |
| 1 | 1967/03/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First, many thanks for the big box of Bill Williams' books. I am delighted to have them and will | Yes |
| [Cooper #180] |
| 1 | 1967/03/19 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | First, many thanks for the big box of Bill Williams' books. I am delighted to have them and will | Yes |
| [Cooper #180] |
| 1 | 1967/03/21 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Here's good news! You'll like Julien. Shall I try to get him started, or would you rather wait | |
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| 1 | 1967/03/21 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Cornell, Julien | In reply to your letter of March 15, 1967, I should be glad to prepare a will for Thomas Merton | |
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| 1 | 1967/03/24 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for the copy of Julien Cornell's letter. As I wrote the other day, | |
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| 1 | 1967/03/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for the copy of Julien Cornell's letter. As I wrote the other day, | |
| John Slate / Sy Freedgood / Julien Cornell |
| 1 | 1967/03/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It has been a beautiful warm Easter here, though the most recent news from the East Coast | Yes |
| [labeled "Easter 67" - see also "Circular Letter to Friends (for mimeographing)"] |
| 1 | 1967/04/06 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Some time ago you sent me your final list of the poems from EMBLEMS to be included in the new | Yes |
| [Cooper #181] |
| 1 | 1967/04/06 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Some time ago you sent me your final list of the poems from EMBLEMS to be included in the new | Yes |
| [Cooper #181] |
| 1 | 1967/04/11 | TLS | to Merton | Sorry not to have written. IT's been really rough here, trying to do the royalties and with Jerry | |
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| 1 | 1967/04/14 | TLS | to Merton | Up at five this morning with the birds--there are still a few left in New York--in a big effort | Yes |
| [Cooper #182] |
| 1 | 1967/04/18 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 14th. I got off a letter to Julien Cornell this morning | Yes |
| [Cooper #183] |
| 1 | 1967/04/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 14th. I got off a letter to Julien Cornell this morning | Yes |
| [Cooper #183] |
| 1 | 1967/04/18 (#03) | TL[x] | from Merton to Julien Cornell | James Laughlin, our mutual friend, has been in contact with you about the problems of my literary | |
| [from Merton to Julien Cornell] |
| 1 | 1967/05/01 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of April 18, which has reached me out in Utah, where we have been | |
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| 1 | 1967/05/12 | TLS | to Merton | Hope you like the way your photo came out on Nicanor's jacket. The other one, The Beetle Leg | |
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| 1 | 1967/05/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I was very happy with the cover of Nicanor's book, and glad that the Zengarden photo came in handy. | Yes |
| [Cooper #184] |
| 1 | 1967/05/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was very happy with the cover of Nicanor's book, and glad that the Zengarden photo came in handy. | Yes |
| [Cooper #184] |
| 1 | 1967/06/02 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of May 22, though I certainly was distressed to hear that you are | |
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| 1 | 1967/06/04 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here finally is the completed ms of <u>Edifying Cables</u>. I want to get it off to you now so that | Yes |
| [Cooper #185] |
| 1 | 1967/06/04 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here finally is the completed ms of <u>Edifying Cables</u>. I want to get it off to you now so that | Yes |
| [Cooper #185] |
| 1 | 1967/06/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | It was certainly good to get your letter, and one from Else Lorsch, when I got back from town today. | Yes |
| [Cooper #186] |
| 1 | 1967/06/05 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was certainly good to get your letter, and one from Else Lorsch, when I got back from town today. | Yes |
| [Cooper #186] |
| 1 | 1967/06/09 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for the script of "Edifying Cables." What I have read so far I like very much indeed. | |
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| 1 | 1967/07/11 | HLS | to Merton | Carolyn's telegram this morning. Well, it had to be - but it's hard to take - one of the rare ones | |
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| 1 | 1967/07/12 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Do you know that Victor died on Monday, the 10th? I heard about it yesterday. He had been | Yes |
| [Cooper #187] |
| 1 | 1967/07/12 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Do you know that Victor died on Monday, the 10th? I heard about it yesterday. He had been | Yes |
| [Cooper #187] |
| 1 | 1967/07/25 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of July 12, mostly about Victor, which, I guess, crossed | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for yours of July 25th. Of course I understand about the volume of Victor's things. | Yes |
| [Cooper #188] |
| 1 | 1967/08/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for yours of July 25th. Of course I understand about the volume of Victor's things. | Yes |
| [Cooper #188] |
| 1 | 1967/08/06 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is likely to be a nuisance letter, but I will keep the nuisance part down to a minimum. | Yes |
| [Cooper #189] |
| 1 | 1967/08/06 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is likely to be a nuisance letter, but I will keep the nuisance part down to a minimum. | Yes |
| [Cooper #189] |
| 1 | 1967/08/07 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of August 1 with the interesting enclosures. I think that "Day | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/07 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have got together some possibilities for the Annual. First the essay on symbolism, which printed | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/07 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have got together some possibilities for the Annual. First the essay on symbolism, which was | |
| essay on symbolism for magazine in India / piece on Suzuki for magazine in Japan / "Day of a Stranger" for <u>Hudson Review</u> / Albert Camus "Terror and the Absurd" / "Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper" / Hernandez / Alberti's <i>Roman Nocturnes</i> |
| 1 | 1967/08/11 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you so much for your good letters of August 6 and 7, and for the fine sending of possibilities | Yes |
| [Cooper #190] |
| 1 | 1967/08/15 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks very much for your letter of the 11th. Glad you can use the "symbolism" piece. I thought | Yes |
| [Cooper #191] |
| 1 | 1967/08/15 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks very much for your letter of the 11th. Glad you can use the "symbolism" piece. I thought | Yes |
| [Cooper #191] |
| 1 | 1967/08/22 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letter of August 15. I'm glad that you approve the use of the wonderful | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/24 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This will travel out with you to the west tomorrow. Hope it finds things in Wyoming very fine. | |
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| 1 | 1967/08/24 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This will travel out with you to the west tomorrow. Hope it finds things in Wyoming very fine. | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the card. I shall be disappointed if you can't come, as I have a pile of photos | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/05 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the card. I shall be disappointed if you can't come, as I have a pile of photos | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Too bad you could not come. Anyway, here are some of the Meatyard photos. My own are not yet | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Too bad you could not come. Anyway, here are some of the Meatyard photos. My own are not yet | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | At the last minute Ezra cancelled his plans to go to Montreal, which I think, given his age and his | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/13 (#02) | other | | EDIFYING CABLES [-] by Thomas Merton [-] Father Merton the Trappist Monk lives in the Abbey | |
| [description of the book <i>Cables to the Ace</i> - typed and annotated] |
| 1 | 1967/09/16 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Most of what copy-editor queried in the Symbolism essay for ND 20 were tiny things, which I've OK'd, | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/16 (#02) | other | | Symbolism 4 [-] in man's attitude toward nature in an age of science and technology.(*) | |
| [annotated photocopy of essay from New Directions for Merton to correct] |
| 1 | 1967/09/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | The proofs of Cables have not reached me yet-- unless they are down there when I go down today. | Yes |
| [Cooper #192] |
| 1 | 1967/09/19 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | The proofs of Cables have not reached me yet-- unless they are down there when I go down today. | Yes |
| [Cooper #192] |
| 1 | 1967/09/21 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have finished the proofs and am getting them off to Fred Martin right away. Idea came for title. | Yes |
| [Cooper #193] |
| 1 | 1967/09/21 (#02) | other | | Blurb Edifying Cables [-] or CABLES TO THE ACE (preferred title!!) [-] In this animated mosaic | |
| [description of the book <i>Cables to the Ace</i> by Merton] |
| 1 | 1967/09/21 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have finished the proofs and am getting them off to Fred Martin right away. Idea came for title. | Yes |
| [Cooper #193] |
| 1 | 1967/09/21 (#04) | HLS | to Merton | How <u>sad</u>. Poor Slate. I never did meet him, but he sounded nice on the phone. Do you know - | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/22 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I was shocked to hear of Slate's death. Must have had a kind of presentiment – as I was worrying | |
| arrangements for Merton's legal matters (will and literary estate) after the death of lawyer John Slate / desire to use a different photograph for cover art and press than the John Howard Griffin photograph that had been much used |
| 1 | 1967/09/25 | HLS | to Merton | You're right - Louisville wd. be best. We were lunching when you called at the C.D. Williams. | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/26 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I just talked on the phone with Barry Garkfinkel at Slate's office and he will see you about what | |
| idea of setting up literary trust with Laughlin and Naomi Burton Stone |
| 1 | 1967/09/28 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I thought I might as well send along the core of the new collection of poems which may make a book | |
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| 1 | 1967/09/28 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I thought I might as well send along the core of the new collection of poems which may make a book | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/02 | TALS | to Merton | A bit of a crush here recently and I owe you about 5 letters ... but this is just a flash to ask | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/04 | TPCS | to Merton | Just checking a small but vital point: Do we retain "Familiar Liturgies of Misunderstanding | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/05 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Yes, I am all in favor of the Blaine montage as cover for <i>Cables to the Ace</i>. Very good – | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/06 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Finally a quiet moment--except for the new Jamaican cleaning lady pottering around with her brush | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/06 (#02) | HNS[x] | from Merton | OK to <u>keep</u> the subtitle. Best, Tom. | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/10 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I thought you might like to see this. Thanks for Nicanor's book – very fine. I am very sorry | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/12 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Further about the question of the lawyer to help you with your arrangements, I am now enclosing | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/12 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Wyatt, Wilson / to C. Dickerman Williams | I was delighted to have your letter of September 25th. Incidentally, following our winning | |
| [from Louisville attorney Wilson W. Wyatt to Laughlin's friend from New York C. Dickerman Williams regarding legal representation for Merton - photocopy from Laughlin to Merton - see also the "Williams, C. Dickerman" file] |
| 1 | 1967/10/17 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of the 12th about the question of the lawyer. I agree with you. | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/23 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of October 17, letting me know what you have done about the lawyer | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/26 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I will gladly write a letter to Mr Williams. I am grateful for what he and you did, and am sorry | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/26 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I will gladly write a letter to Mr Williams. I am grateful for what he and you did, and am sorry | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/30 (#01) | HNS | to Merton | That Bill Everson is a strange one, ain't he? If you'd like me to get the book for you, please | |
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| 1 | 1967/10/30 (#02) | other | | TO THE EDITOR: JAMES WRIGHT'S review of my book "The Rose of Solitude" (Oct. 8), was strong, | |
| [newspaper clipping from <u>The New York Times Book Review</u> - letter to the editor by Brother Antoninus (William Everson) - sent by Laughlin to Merton] |
| 1 | 1967/11/01 | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed is the way I finalized the catalogue blurb for "Cables," and I'll be grateful if you will | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/03 | TL[c] | from Merton | I am getting this back immediately, as this afternoon I am catching up with mail or trying to. | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/06 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | About the tangle over the Hudson Review piece. I wrote to Fred Morgan this morning about it, saying | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/06 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | About the tangle over the Hudson Review piece. I wrote to Fred Morgan this morning about it, saying | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/06 (#03) | TL[x] | to Merton | I wonder if the enclosed piece which Gary Snyder has just sent me, "A Passage to More Than India," | Yes |
| [Cooper #194] |
| 1 | 1967/11/16 (#01) | TL[c] | to Ford, John J. | Thank you for your letter of November 14, enclosing 5 copies of the Merton Legacy Trust indenture. | |
| [from John J. Ford, attorney for the Merton Legacy Trust - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1967/11/16 (#02) | TAL[x] | to Gay, K. C. | Mr. Edward McAlice of Warwick, Rhode Island is preparing a doctoral thesis on the work of William | |
| [to K. C. Gay, of the Lockwood Memorial Library Poetry Collection at the State University of New York in Buffalo - letter crossed through with the note "Sample", i.e., a sample copyright permissions statement] |
| 1 | 1967/11/18 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for letting me see the piece by Gary Snyder. I agree that it is very good and I think your | Yes |
| [Cooper #195] |
| 1 | 1967/11/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for letting me see the piece by Gary Snyder. I agree that it is very good and I think your | Yes |
| [Cooper #195] |
| 1 | 1967/11/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | John Ford has drawn up the final version of the trust indenture. I enclose what I have written | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/20 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Parra, Nicanor | Un saludo cordial antes de tomar el avión a Caracas, al IV Congreso de la Interamerican Foundation | |
| [letter originally dated 1967/November/03 and signed "Nick" (Nicanor Parra) to Laughlin - photocopy sent to Merton] |
| 1 | 1967/11/28 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Enclosed is a project for a paperback which could come out early in 1969 if you like the idea. | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/28 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Enclosed is a project for a paperback which could come out early in 1969 if you like the idea. | |
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| 1 | 1967/11/28 (#03) | other | | Project: [-] ND Paperback [-] LIGHT IN EMPTINESS [-] (Preface) (to come) [-] Learning to Live ms | |
| [table of contents for an early draft of <i>Zen and the Birds of Appetite</i> (originally <i>Light in Emptiness</i>), which originally contained, "Learning to Live," which Merton had earlier sent for publication in an anthology of Columbia University reflections written by alumni, <i>University on the Heights</i>, edited by Wesley First, and later included posthumously in the volume of Merton's essays <i>Love and Living</i>] |
| 1 | 1967/11/no? | TLS | to Merton | I doodled the above while listening to nice Fred Morgan's song of grief about some anthologist | |
| [includes line drawing by Laughlin] |
| 1 | 1967/12/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are a couple of letters about permissions. The one from the nun would be routine for you. | |
| Zen piece "Light in Emptiness" / visit with Carolyn Hammer in Lexington |
| 1 | 1967/12/11 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for several recent letters. I was sorry to hear that you were having trouble with your | |
| likes "Light in Emptiness" as a title but thinks the word Zen should be included |
| 1 | 1967/12/16 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Another routine permission thing. This is a Harcourt Brace book, but I assume you will have | |
| "Light in Emptiness" with a Zen subtitle / idea for using offset press for "little magazine" - now it is "doing nothing but put out cheeese ads and hymns" / John Ford and librarians of Merton's papers asking for rules of use |
| 1 | 1967/12/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Yesterday in Louisville I got together with the lawyer and the library people and I think we have | |
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| 1 | 1967/12/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yesterday in Louisville I got together with the lawyer and the library people and I think we have | |
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| 1 | 1967/12/28 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letters of December 16 and 19, and for your mimeographed circular Christmas | |
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| 1 | 1967/12/31 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is a quick answer to your letter received yesterday: before the curtain of the year falls | Yes |
| [Cooper #196] |
| 1 | 1967/12/31 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | This is a quick answer to your letter received yesterday: before the curtain of the year falls | Yes |
| [Cooper #196 - published version does not contain postscript: "I enclose a paper that received a limited circulation in the community and was then banned as subversive" - Merton refers to "My Campaign Platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse."] |
| 1 | 1967/12/31 (#03) | other[x] | from Merton | This was not altogether well received!! (Dom James has retired) MY CAMPAIGN PLATFORM for non-Abbot | |
| [handwritten note to Laughlin at the top of a copy of Merton's "My Campaign Platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse."] |
| 1 | 1967/12/31 (#04) | TANS[x] | from Merton | Should have slipped this in with the other envelope, but forgot. I seem to like almost everything | |
| asking for poet Gary Snyder's address |
| 1 | 1967/12/no? | HCS[x] | from Merton | I am very anxious to get the 4 books I have marked on the enclosed leaflet and would review them | |
| [on Christmas card] reviews for <u>Monks Pond</u> |
| 1 | 1968/01/02 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Thanks so much for the 4 beautiful photographs. They are really lovely. You are a good | |
| Merton's "My Campaign Platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse" - "a gem" - Dom James and his moving into a hermitage |
| 1 | 1968/01/15 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Your card just got in. I am now tied up also on Jan 27th as well as the 29th but other dates still | |
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| 1 | 1968/01/17 | HLS | to Merton | Lovely snow and weather here, pleasantly warm after that bitter cold in the East just before we left | |
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| 1 | 1968/01/18 | HLS[x] | from Merton | It is all right to come before the 26th but in that case you would have to stay in Bardstown - | |
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| 1 | 1968/01/20 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | What with having so much flu I can't see straight. I missed and sent yesterday's letter to Alta-- | |
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| 1 | 1968/01/20 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | What with having so much flu I can't see straight. I missed and sent yesterday's letter to Alta-- | |
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| 1 | 1968/01/22 | HLS | to Merton | Just arrived here (a pseudo Swiss village place, but nice) belatedly and found your good letter | |
| [letterhead of the Plaza hotel in Vail, Colorado] |
| 1 | 1968/01/25 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | When I scribbled my note this morning I hadn't read your letter carefully enough. I thought you | |
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| 1 | 1968/01/25 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | When I scribbled my note this morning I hadn't read your letter carefully enough. I thought you | |
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| 1 | 1968/01/25 (#03) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Fine! Everything will open - glad we won't have to rush. Guest house all set to receive you | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/01 | TLS | to Merton | Safely back in New York, and digging into the big pile of work. I hope that the dentist didn't hurt | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/04 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Just a word to say I will be looking forward to seeing you Thursday – will expect you in the late | |
| Merton suggests to Laughlin The Old House French restaurant in downtown Louisville / decided against another dental procedure |
| 1 | 1968/02/14 | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for a wonderful visit. I had a lovely time, and it was good to find you so chipper | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/20 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | About ZEN AND THE BIRDS: I expect you intend to send the whole text down with your queries don't | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | About ZEN AND THE BIRDS: I expect you intend to send the whole text down with your queries don't | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | There's a nice little girl at Vassar ought to get a review copy of CABLES (the Vassar Review). | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | There's a nice little girl at Vassar ought to get a review copy of CABLES (the Vassar Review). | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/23 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 20th. I have been swamped here these last weeks and haven't | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/25 | TNS[x] | from Merton | There's a nice little girl at Vassar ought to get a review copy of CABLES (the Vassar Review). | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/28 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I have received the material of ZEN AND THE BIRDS and have finished a radical re-editing, | |
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| 1 | 1968/02/28 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have received the material of ZEN AND THE BIRDS and have finished a radical re-editing, | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/01 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Here is the final text for ZEN AND THE BIRDS OF APPETITE. New piece at the beginning: | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/01 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is the final text for ZEN AND THE BIRDS OF APPETITE. New piece at the beginning: | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First, thanks for the copies of CABLES which arrived safely. Very happy with it. I think it is | Yes |
| [Cooper #197] |
| 1 | 1968/03/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First, thanks for the copies of CABLES which arrived safely. Very happy with it. I think it is | Yes |
| [Cooper #197] |
| 1 | 1968/03/10 (#03) | other | | Ride your horse along the edge of the sword [-] Hide yourself in the middle of the flames | |
| [Merton writes "For TBA" and copies down a zen koan] |
| 1 | 1968/03/11 | TL[c] | to Levine, Stephen | I'm afraid you will think me very rude to have let such a long time run by without thanking you | |
| [to Stephen Levine of <u>Oracle</u> in San Francisco, California - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1968/03/13 | TL[c] | to Oliver, M., Mrs. | Father Merton reminds me that I haven't sent you the wording for the permission forms. I have been | |
| [to Mrs. M. Oliver of the Bellarmine College Library in Louisville, Kentucky - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1968/03/18 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for all the good work that you did on the final editing and polishing of "Zen and the | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/21 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. This is just a quick reply to touch on the essentials as I must hurry down | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/21 (#02) | other | | ZEN AND THE BIRDS OF APPETITE. Author's Note. [-] Where there is carrion lying, meat eating birds | |
| [Merton's author's note for <i>Zen and the Birds of Appetite</i>] |
| 1 | 1968/03/21 (#03) | other | | Zen and the Birds of Appetite [-] BLURB. [-] Thomas Merton is internationally recognized as one | |
| [Merton's "blurb" for <i>Zen and the Birds of Appetite</i>] |
| 1 | 1968/03/21 (#04) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. This is just a quick reply to touch on the essentials as I must hurry down | |
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| 1 | 1968/03/25 | TLS[x] | to Merton | The NEW DIRECTIONS 20 anthology is scheduled for publication on March 31, and your complimentary | |
| [see Sub-Section C.6, Series 29, for the original of this letter] |
| 1 | 1968/04/10 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | I'm sorry to be a bit slow in thanking you for your fine letter of March 21, and also for sending me | |
| reflections on first issue of <u>Monks Pond</u> / idea for a publisher in London interested in publishing the "new" Thomas Merton / statement about Marvin Cohen's book / Nicanor Parra's plans to come back to New York |
| 1 | 1968/04/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thought you would like to see this use to which I put one of the catalogue clippings you sent. | Yes |
| [Cooper #198] |
| 1 | 1968/04/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I thought you might want to see the enclosed and perhaps file it for the Annual. It is to be in the | |
| asking to disregard Merton's earlier thought of stopping at Laughlin's Wyoming ranch on the way back from Redwoods, California (meeting of contemplative religious at Redwoods Monastery, Mother Myriam Dardenne and others) - Merton's new plan to stop at Christ in the Desert Monastery in New Mexico |
| 1 | 1968/04/25 | TN[x] | to Merton | Here are the 1967 royalty statements check (1243.51) for the books which pay to the Abbey, | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/06 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I'm sorry not to have written for so long. Things have been really hectic around here. | Yes |
| [Cooper #199] |
| 1 | 1968/05/06? (#02) | HPCS[x] | from Merton | I'm on my way out to California, to the nuns, then back via New Mexico and monastery there. | |
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| 1 | 1968/05/16 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Saw Ferlinghetti in SF. last evening and in fact slept at City Lights Pub office. Am flying to New | Yes |
| [Cooper #200] |
| 1 | 1968/05/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | When I got back here yesterday I found your nice letter with all the addresses of Rexroth etc. | Yes |
| [Cooper #201] |
| 1 | 1968/05/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | When I got back here yesterday I found your nice letter with all the addresses of Rexroth etc. | Yes |
| [Cooper #201] |
| 1 | 1968/05/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your good letters. I'm so glad that your Western trip was a success, though I'm | |
| John Ford and revised Merton Legacy Trust documents for approval / Nicanor Parra to arrive in early June / Merton's blurb for Marvin Cohen's book and Cohen's poetry for <u>Monks Pond</u> / New Directions and <i>Journal of My Escape from the Nazis</i> |
| 1 | 1968/06/01 | HLS | from Merton | First - here is that check to cover your expenses as agent. Let me know when another is needed. | |
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| 1 | 1968/06/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you so much for your good letter of June 1, with enclosures of the check for $100 to use | |
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| 1 | 1968/06/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | These photos are just cluttering up my place and getting stuck together: I thought I'd send them | |
| four months of waiting to hear from Doubleday about <i>Journal of My Escape from the Nazis</i> - Merton's opinion that they will not accept the book - manuscript pages jumbled by typist / on going to Lexington to work with John Jacob Niles on poems and Cuadra translations set to music / Carolyn Hammer - her negative opinion on Niles-Merton songs, rigidly conservative attitude |
| 1 | 1968/06/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Finally I got something on paper about M. Cohen's beautiful book. I haven't had time to do much | Yes |
| [Cooper #202] |
| 1 | 1968/06/19 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Finally I got something on paper about M. Cohen's beautiful book. I haven't had time to do | Yes |
| [Cooper #202] |
| 1 | 1968/06/20 | TLS | to Merton | Nicanor is here now, and he seems in fine form. He is eager to pay you a visit, if you would like | |
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| 1 | 1968/06/25 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Our mutual friend, Father Thomas Merton, has told me of the fine work which you are doing there | |
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| 1 | 1968/06/25 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you for the marvelous statement about Marvin. This has gladdened my heart, and I am sure | |
| Robert Lax and anthology of concrete poetry by New Directions / Nicanor Parra's trip to Texas and possibility of making it to Kentucky / Fr. Pierre Lucas (L'Abbé Lucas) and his efforts to raise money |
| 1 | 1968/06/27 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | My translation of Alberti's <u>Roman Nocturne</u> has been accepted by <u>Kayak</u> and they | Yes |
| [Cooper #203] |
| 1 | 1968/06/27 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | My translation of Alberti's <u>Roman Nocturne</u> has been accepted by <u>Kayak</u> and they | Yes |
| [Cooper #203] |
| 1 | 1968/07/15 | TLS | to Merton | Nicanor has now gone off to Texas, but he thinks he won't be able to retrace his steps to see you, | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/17 | TALS[x] | from Merton to Emmett Williams | All the things you are making happen sound good. Or helping to make happen. Yes, visual poetry. | |
| visual poetry - concrete poetry / Max Bense reader [not published] from Something Else Press catalog and Jackson Mac Low's <i>Stanzas for Iris Lezak</i> [not published until 1971] - art book of Diter Rot (Dieter Roth) |
| 1 | 1968/07/18 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | It is too bad Nicanor could not make it. However, as you say, he will be back. And this is a bad | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is too bad Nicanor could not make it. However, as you say, he will be back. And this is a bad | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is the second half of my reply to yours of the 15th. I was in a rush to get the other into the | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is the second half of my reply to yours of the 15th. I was in a rush to get the other into the | |
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| 1 | 1968/07/23 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I might as well let you in on the great news-- which remains more or less confidential. | Yes |
| [Cooper #204] |
| 1 | 1968/07/23 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I might as well let you in on the great news-- which remains more or less confidential. | Yes |
| [Cooper #204] |
| 1 | 1968/07/25 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your recent letters and sendings. That is marvelous news that Father Abbot will let | Yes |
| [Cooper #205] |
| 1 | 1968/07/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | For various reasons I was quite busy during May and June, and so for July and part of August I am | |
| [labeled "MIDSUMMER LETTER 1968" - see also "Circular Letters to Friends for Mimeographing"] |
| 1 | 1968/08/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks very much indeed for sending the forms for the credit card etc. I think it would really be | Yes |
| [Cooper #206] |
| 1 | 1968/08/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a routine permission request, which I would be grateful if you would handle. Thanks. | |
| original plan to visit Burma (Myanmar) on Asia journey, but problems with entry visa and plans to bypass Burma in favor of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) |
| 1 | 1968/08/07 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letters of August 3 and 4, which I found in the office, on getting back after | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/15 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I wonder if anything went wrong with American Express. I sent in the application about 3 weeks ago | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/18 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am sorry I was so long in forwarding the enclosed to you. Abbe Lucas was very appreciative | Yes |
| [Cooper #207] |
| 1 | 1968/08/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am sorry I was so long in forwarding the enclosed to you. Abbe Lucas was very appreciative | Yes |
| [Cooper #207] |
| 1 | 1968/08/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are a few more photos Lax took. I have no special use for them myself so you might put them | |
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| 1 | 1968/08/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is first of all the ms of the new collection of poems. I thought I might as well get it to you | Yes |
| [Cooper #208] |
| 1 | 1968/08/29 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your letters of August 15 and 18, which reached me out here on the ranch in Wyoming, | |
| delays in setting up an American Express credit card for Merton's trip to Asia / John Ford, Br. Patrick Hart and Merton Legacy Trust matters |
| 1 | 1968/08/29 (#02) | TNS[x] | from Merton to Else Lorsch | Many thanks for your reassuring letter which arrived today. Even more reassuring was the arrival, | |
| arrival of American Express credit card |
| 1 | 1968/09/05 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The American Express card came all right, but I am sure the extra call from the office helped. | Yes |
| [Cooper #209] |
| 1 | 1968/09/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | Just a hasty line before I take off for Paris to see Ezra to thank you for your various recent | |
| enclosing note by Rafael Alberti / text for a paperback version of "Day of a Stranger" / advising Merton to take pills when encountering unsafe food in Asia and to watch out for Buddhist Apsaras that can "get a country boy into trouble" |
| 1 | 1968/09/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I got your note this morning and hope you will have a good trip to Europe. Here is another ms | Yes |
| [Cooper #210] |
| 1 | 1968/09/11 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Off to the races. <u>Geography of Lograire</u> is on its way to you. Credit card ok. | Yes |
| [Cooper #211] |
| 1 | 1968/09/26 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I enclose a letter from the very efficient guy at Syracuse where there is a collection of my stuff-- | Yes |
| [Cooper #212] |
| 1 | 1968/09/26 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your various letters and manuscripts which I found in the office on my return | Yes |
| [Cooper #213] |
| 1 | 1968/10/03 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of September 26 from Anchorage. Alaska sounds wonderful, I've always | |
| regarding possible hermitage for Merton in Alaska - "I can't picture you as a hermit so far removed from human contact." / whether to mention Merton's trip to Asia in <u>New Directions in Prose and Poetry</u> 21 (Spring 1969) or whether trip is secret |
| 1 | 1968/10/03 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am returning the form for copyright on Mark's poem. Actually I shd have sent it to Bro Patrick | Yes |
| [Cooper #214] |
| 1 | 1968/10/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I'm writing this partly in order to get familiar with a borrowed Olivetti on which I am belatedly | Yes |
| [Cooper #215] |
| 1 | 1968/10/15? | HLS[x] | from Merton | Just off for Asia today. Could you possibly send me three or four paperbacks of <u>Zen and Birds</u> | |
| Merton's address in Asia at Temple of Understanding Conference until October 30 / list of addresses of people to whom should be sent a copy of <i>Zen and the Birds of Appetite</i> / contains typed interoffice note of 1968/October/17 |
| 1 | 1968/11/28 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I haven't heard anything from you since I got to Asia six weeks ago, so it seems that American | Yes |
| [Cooper #216] |
| 1 | 1968/12/04 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter from Madras. It was great to hear from you, and how well I remembered | Yes |
| [Cooper #217] |
| 1 | 1968/no/no (#03) | other | | ZEN AND THE BIRDS OF APPETITE [-] CONTENTS [-] PART ONE [-] 1. The Study of Zen | |
| [proposed "Table of Contents" for <i>Zen and the Birds of Appetite</i>] |
| 1 | 1968/no/no? | TNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the charming woodcuts from the catalogues. These are especially good for my little | |
| images of old maps for inclusion in <i>The Geography of Lograire</i> |
| 1 | 1970/12/21 | TLS[x] | to Yandell, Lunsford P. | Mrs. Lorch has passed along to me your letter of December 14, in which you inquire further about | |
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| 1 | 1986/11/27 | TLS | to Kelly, Timothy | I'm so sorry that there has been a misunderstanding about the publication of the <u>Eighteen</u> | |
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| 1 | undated/no/no (#01) | HPCS | to Merton | Greetings from Old Mexico! Am down here for a few days working with a chap who is doing some | |
| [verso: black and white photograph of a church in Jalisco, Mexico] |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#02) | HCS | to Merton | SEASON'S GREETINGS [-] to Tom from J. | |
| [verso: "Illumination from Beatus of Liebana's Commentary on the Apocalypse (M.429), Spain, 1220" from the Scriptorium in the Bell Tower of San Salvador at Tavara] |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#03) | HLS[x] | to Merton | Here are the first rough proofs. Hope you can read them soon and return to us. Tony is reading | |
| [original in Sub-Section H.7, Accession 2, Hart Working Files / verso: undated letter to Fr. Raymond Flanagan beginning, "Man if those reviewers like the book half as much as you do"..] |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#04) | other[x] | by Merton | O cross more <del>splendid</del> radiant than the stars - to the whole world [-] Published in glory! | |
| [draft of unpublished poem] |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#05) | HN[x] | from Merton | J. This is the one I suggest for the book. | |
| [handwritten note by Merton on the title page of Merton's essay, "Christian Action in World Crisis"] |
| 1 | undated/no/no (#06) | HNS[x] | from Merton | Here is a piece I have written for the Commonweal at their request. It might well go into that | |
| [handwritten note by Merton accompanying his essay, "Peace: Christian Duties and Perspectives"] |
| 2 | 1946/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Lentfoehr, Thérèse | I am writing to ask permission to include in an anthology of poems on the Blessed Virgin Mary | |
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| 2 | 1946/06/22 | TLS[x] | from Lentfoehr, Thérèse | Thank you very much for your letter of May 31st in which you stated that I might have permission | |
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| 2 | 1947/06/02 | TLS[x] | from Fearns, John | I am enclosing the official sheet bearing the "nihil obstat" and "imprimatur" for Father Louis | |
| [one page of letter and one page censorship form for <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i>] |
| 2 | 1948/06/01 | TLS[x] | from Stone, Naomi Burton | We drew up contracts, in accordance with your instructions, between yourselves, Tom Murton [sic] | |
| proposed commentary by Merton on "The Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross |
| 2 | 1948/06/16 | TLS[x] | from Giroux, Robert | Thomas Merton in his forthcoming autobiography, THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN, | |
| permission to publish "For My Brother: Reported Missing in Action, 1943" |
| 2 | 1948/06/21 | TL[x] | from McDowell, David / to Robert Giroux | In reply to your letter of June 16, 1948, we are most happy to accord you the permission to quote | |
| permission to publish "For My Brother: Reported Missing in Action, 1943" |
| 2 | 1948/08/13 | other[x] | from Rittenhouse, George | We take pleasure in offering our estimate for binding, based on the following specifications: | |
| binding fees for <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> by American Book - Stratford Press of New York |
| 2 | 1948/08/18 | other[x] | from Rosebury, Richard W. | We are pleased to quote our price for binding your book with specifications as follows, A MAN IN THE | |
| binding fees for <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> by Chas. H. Bohn and Company of New York |
| 2 | 1948/09/29 | TL[x] | from Peers, E. Allison / to Merton | Thank you for your letter of July 30, which reached me in Spain at the beginning of September. | |
| quotations from "The Dark Night of the Soul" and "The Ascent of Mount Carmel" from St. John of the Cross |
| 2 | 1948/11/03 | TLS[x] | from Pollinger, Laurence | <i>Thomas Merton</i>: After Hollis & Carter and The Falcon Press had seen and declined A MAN | |
| T. S. Eliot's interest in Merton's <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> and <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i> |
| 2 | 1948/11/05 | TLS[x] | from Kemp, Lysander | Miss Burton of Curtis Brown Ltd. has relayed to me your comments on the Lorca. | |
| Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton |
| 2 | 1948/11/05 | TLS[x] | to Berrigan, Daniel | We are planning to issue an anthology of Catholic poetry, edited by Thomas Merton, and he has asked | |
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| 2 | 1948/11/19 | TL[x] | to McHale, John J. | Thank you for your letter of November 6th. If I understand your meaning correctly, you would like | |
| proposed commentary by Merton on "The Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross |
| 2 | 1948/11/24 (#01) | TLS[x] | to Sweeney, Francis | Thank you ever so much for your kind letter of the 19th, and the excellent group of poems. | |
| Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton |
| 2 | 1948/11/24? (#02) | other[x] | | Comments -2- This is a book that has real poems in it. The poet has a penetrating and wise eye, | |
| Merton's comments on a book of poems, seemingly those of Fr. Francis Sweeney, S.J. / Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton |
| 2 | 1948/11/26 | TLS[x] | from Rosebury, Richard W. | We are pleased to quote our price for binding your book with specifications as follows, SEEDS OF | |
| book binding specifications for <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 2 | 1948/11/30 | TLS[x] | from Fearns, John | Under separate cover, I am returning to you the galley sheets for SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION | |
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| 2 | 1948/12/08 | TLS[x] | from Rittenhouse, George | We take pleasure in offering our estimate for binding, based on the following specifications: | |
| binding specifications for <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 2 | 1948/12/09 | TL[x] | to Kennedy, Leo | I am simply delighted that your will be willing to lend a hand on our Catholic verse anthology | |
| Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton |
| 2 | 1948/12/10 | TL[x] | to McHale, John J. | Thank you ever so much for your kind letter of November 23rd, in which you state that you will be | |
| rights for Pier's translation of "The Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross to be quoted by Merton |
| 2 | 1948/12/13 | TLS[x] | from Kennedy, Leo | Your letter of December 9 is very helpful. I shall start making notes on the Merton project | |
| Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton |
| 2 | 1948/12/17 | TL[x] | to Peers, E. Allison | I am writing to you at the suggestion of Thomas Merton, whom we publish. As I think you know, | |
| proposed commentary by Merton on "The Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross |
| 2 | 1949/01/11 | TLS[x] | from Burns, T. F. | Professor Peers has forwarded me your letter of December 17th. I would like to do anything | |
| proposed commentary by Merton on "The Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross |
| 2 | 1949/01/19 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Peers, E. Allison | I am sorry to have been so long answering your letter of December 17 last but it has involved | |
| proposed commentary by Merton on "The Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross |
| 2 | 1949/01/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Sweeney, Francis | You may recall that in November last I sent you several poems for possible inclusion | |
| Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton |
| 2 | 1949/01/19 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Pollinger, Laurence | Further to my letter of 3rd November about Thomas Merton's two volumes of poetry, A MAN IN THE | |
| T. S. Eliot's interest in Merton's <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> and <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i> |
| 2 | 1949/02/14 | TL[x] | to Peers, E. Allison | Thank you ever so much for your letter of January 19th. I think it is terribly decent of you to let | |
| proposed commentary by Merton on "The Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross |
| 2 | 1949/02/15 | TL[x] | to Pollinger, Laurence | Thank you so much for yours of 19th January, with your report on what Eliot said about Tom Merton. | |
| T. S. Eliot's interest in Merton's <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> and <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i> |
| 2 | 1949/03/20 | TLS[x] | from Berrigan, Daniel | My deep gratitude for the copy of "Seeds of Contemplation," which arrived Friday. | |
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| 2 | 1949/03/22 | TL[x] | to Pollinger, Laurence | I have just received a letter from T. S. Eliot with the very disturbing news that after all these | |
| T. S. Eliot deciding not to compile and anthology of some of Merton's poems from <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> and <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i> |
| 2 | 1949/04/05 | TLS[x] | from from Fox, James / to Mrs. M. A. Vickers | In regard to the poetry of Merton being used on a disc, I found that you will have to write to: New | |
| plans to make an audio recording of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1949/04/09 | TLS[x] | from Vickers, M. A., Mrs. | Recently I telephoned from Bangor, Me., to the Abbey of Gethsemani with the purpose of stimulating | |
| plans to make an audio recording of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1949/04/26 | TLS[x] | from Rittenhouse, George | At the request of your New York office, I am very happy to submit you a price for the printing | |
| binding and printing prices for <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 2 | 1949/05/06 | TL[x] | from Florio, Eleanor / to Percy Bland | This letter is to authorize you to proceed with the printing of 500 copies of our title SEEDS OF | |
| to a printing company regarding <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| 2 | 1949/05/11 | TL[x] | to Vickers, M. A., Mrs. | Please forgive our delay in answering your inquiry about recording rights on some of Father Merton's | |
| plans to make an audio recording of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1949/05/20 | TL[x] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | There is no hurry about this matter, but it just happened to pass through my head, so I thought | |
| Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton |
| 2 | 1949/06/02 (#01) | TL[x] | to Packard, Professor | Not long ago, we received a letter from a Mrs. Vickers in Bangor, Maine telling us that Harvard | |
| plans to make an audio recording of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1949/06/02 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Speaight, Robert | I was down last week to the monastery in Kentucky to see Thomas Merton get ordained, and he told me | |
| plans to make an audio recording of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1949/06/02 (#03) | TL[x] | to Vickers, M. A., Mrs. | Further to my letter of May 11th about your desire to have some of Thomas Merton's poetry recorded, | |
| plans to make an audio recording of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1949/06/06 | TLS[x] | from Lentfoehr, Thérèse | This morning I received a note from Father Louis OCR (Thomas Merton) asking me to send you | |
| proposed anthology of Catholic poetry |
| 2 | 1949/06/09 | TL[x] | to Lentfoehr, Thérèse | Thank you ever so much for sending in your fine poems for Father Merton's anthology. | |
| proposed anthology of Catholic poetry |
| 2 | 1949/06/10 | TLS[x] | from Morrissey, Una | We have read with great interest your publication SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION by Thomas Merton | |
| The Mercier Press asking permission to print an edition of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> in Ireland |
| 2 | 1949/06/15 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | Thank you for the Blessings. We need them always. You almost received six cheese. | |
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| 2 | 1949/06/17 | TL[x] | to Morrissey, Una | I agree with you that there might be a very good sale for Thomas Merton's book, SEEDS OF | |
| The Mercier Press asking permission to print an edition of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> in Ireland |
| 2 | 1949/07/07 | TLS[x] | from Pinto Alves, Carlos | I should like very much to make a translation into Portuguese of the book "Seeds of Contemplation" | |
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| 2 | 1949/07/26 | HLS[x] | from St. Elizabeth of the Cross, Sr., C.N.D. | If you have any other published works by Thomas Merton, besides Seven Storey Mt., Seeds of | |
| writing master of arts thesis on Thomas Merton, "Social Critic of Contemporary Civilization" |
| 2 | 1949/08/03 | TLS[x] | from Gordon, Eleanor | Re: SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION Sixth Printing [-] Mr. Rosebury of Charles H. Bohn has just advised | |
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| 2 | 1949/08/08 | TL[x] | to Speaight, Robert | I was awfully sorry to miss you when you were over here in this country last summer. | |
| plans to make an audio recording of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1949/08/09 | TL[x] | to St. Elizabeth of the Cross, Sr., C.N.D. | Many thanks for your interesting letter of July 26th, and I certainly appreciate your kind offer | |
| Sr. St. Elizabeth's bibliography of Merton's published articles in magazines and her master of arts thesis on Thomas Merton, "Social Critic of Contemporary Civilization" |
| 2 | 1949/08/22 | HLS[x] | from Speaight, Robert | Thank you for your letter with its very interesting proposal. I shall be in Boston, according | |
| plans to make an audio recording of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1949/08/26 | TLS[x] | from Kennedy, Leo | The enclosed five poems, in the Catholic tradition, are taken from my book, "The Shrouding," | |
| Catholic anthology of poetry compiled by Merton |
| 2 | 1949/09/06 | TALS[x] | from Pollinger, Gerald J. | As you may know, Hollis & Carter published ELECTED SILENCE by this Author over here earlier | |
| selection of Merton's <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> and <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i> for an anthology in England |
| 2 | 1949/09/08 | TLS[x] | from Burns, T. F. | I feel very ashamed at having kept you waiting for so long about the Merton poems. | |
| selection of Merton's <i>A Man in the Divided Sea</i> and <i>Figures for an Apocalypse</i> for an anthology in England / interest in airing in England some of Robert Speaight's readings of Merton's poetry |
| 2 | 1961/02/16 | TL[x] | to Donini, Filippo | I have just received a letter from Father Thomas Merton, down at the monastery in Trappist, Kentucky | |
| [to Dr. Filippo Donini of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York] quotes Merton's interest in Salvatore Quasimodo |
| 2 | 1966/10/18? | other[x] | by Laughlin, James | DF [-] URGENT [-] The Merton drawings is now definitely scheduled at Paraclete Book Center so we | |
| [verso: invitation to an exhibition of drawings by Thomas Merton at the Paraclete Press Book Center] |
| 2 | 1967/02/20 | TLS[x] | from Chakravarty, Amiya | Perhaps Fr. Thomas Merton has already written to you about the discussion that he and I had | |
| idea for a book about dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity to include work from Merton and Chakravarty - papal encyclical <i>Pacem in Terris</i> and the Buddha's affirmations |
| 2 | 1967/02/27 | TL[x] | to Chakravarty, Amiya | Thank you so much for your very interesting letter of February 20, and the enclosure of materials | |
| suggests other publishing houses that might be better for a work on interreligious dialogue between Christians and Buddhists |
| 2 | 1967/04/25 | HLS[x] | from Meatyard, Ralph Eugene | Tom Merton asked me to send these prints to you. They are his three favorites of the recent pictures | |
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| 2 | 1967/05/26 | TL[x] | to Meatyard, Ralph Eugene | Thank you so much for letting me see the pictures which you took of Father Merton. | |
| rejection of photos for cover of <i>Selected Poems</i> |
| 2 | 1968/07/05 | HLS[x] | from Lucas, Pierre | Permettez-mois de vous remercier | |
| Fr. Pierre Lucas of the Collège Sainte-Barbe in Paris, France, regarding his program to raise money for priests who have left the priesthood and were looking for employment |
| 2 | 1968/09/04 | TL[x] | to Burns, Flavian | Thank you so much for your letter authorizing that any charges on Father Louis's American Express | |
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| 2 | 1968/12/11 | TL[x] | to Burns, Flavian | I am shattered by this unbelievable event. I know it is God's will, and I know that our dear friend | |
| Laughlin's response to Dom Flavian Burns of Gethsemani Abbey at the news of Merton's death |
| 2 | 1968/12/15 | TLS[x] | from Stier, Victor / to Ferry, Wilbur Hugh "Ping" | I've seen meaning to drop you a line for a long time, mostly to tell you that I've finally finished | |
| reflections on Thomas Merton and his Asian journey after his death |
| 2 | 1968/12/16 | TLS[x] | from Baciu, Stefan | I take the liberty to write you as a friend of Thomas Merton, since you were his publisher | |
| Merton had, before his death, promised a contribution to <u>Mele</u> and Baciu asks if Laughlin can send a poem |
| 2 | 1968/12/17 | TLS[x] | from Williams, Jonathan | It was a real jolt to pick up TIME this afternoon in Westfield, Massachusetts while waiting for my | |
| contains a poem written by Williams while at Gethsemani with Guy Davenport, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Merton, "Tom Merton's Neighbor, Andy Boone, Look Up" |
| 2 | 1968/12/20 | TL[x] | to Baciu, Stefan | Thank you for your letter of December 16. Father Merton's death is a terrible loss to all of us, | |
| instructions on obtaining permissions to use previously published poems for <u>Mele</u> |
| 2 | 1968/12/23 | telegram[x] | from Giroux, Robert | MEMORIAL MASS FOR THOMAS MERTON MONDAY DECEMBER THIRTIETH AT ELEVEN ST PATRICK'S | |
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| 2 | 1969/01/03 | TL[x] | to Giroux, Robert | Many thanks for your telegrams, which has been forwarded to me out in Utah, where I'm having a bit | |
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| 2 | 1969/06/07 | TALS[x] | from Lentfoehr, Thérèse | Some time ago Naomi Burton asked if I had any knowledge of where the word "Lograire" came from, | |
| Sr. Thérèse Lentfoehr explains what she thinks is the meaning of Merton's title for his last book of poems, <i>The Geography of Lograire</i> |
| 2 | 1984/07/21 | TLS[x] | to Dennis, Rodney | Concern has been expressed by my good friends at Gethsemani Monastery in Kentucky about | |
| [to Rodney Dennis, Curator of Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard College] disposition of some of Merton's private papers |
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