| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1940/04/no | TLS[x] | from Merton | some Cuba, baby, some Cuba. Listen, I was in Havana a couple days and you never seen such a city. | |
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| | 1940/12/03 | other[x] | from Merton | | |
| [copy of envelope that Merton used to send Rice 4 poems (most currently unpublished) - see Section E.2 for copies of the poems: "The Minotaur's Picnic", "Watergap", "City's Spring" and "Lycidas"] |
| | 1941/02/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your story of how you bought finegans wake reminds me of the time lax went into the same kind | |
| [addressed "Rous", like 1941/02/24 letter] |
| | 1941/no/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have just sat in my chalet in the snow and corrected seventeen million english exams and only six | |
| [labeled Rice at Columbia, but mentions Rice in letter - addressed "Rous"] |
| | 1950/06/23 | TALS | to Merton | Lax just passed on a letter from you. I was going to write you about the magazine, but I see that | |
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| | 1957/02/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | I got permission to write to you because perhaps you can put me in touch directly or indirectly | Yes |
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| | 1959/02/09 | TLS | to Merton | Hope this reaches you before the Iron Curtain falls on Wednesday. Yes, by all means, articles | |
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| | 1959/02/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Man I go to sharpen up this typewriter and write some time in a month a profound article | |
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| | 1959/05/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | That beat generation man Lax he was down here o yes manmanman. Well and he brought back to you, | |
| [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files] sent "Boris Pasternak and the People with Watch Chains" / sending article on Mount Athos / Gethsemani cheese / Art and Worship - Robert Giroux and Farrar, Straus / James Laughlin and the desert fathers book (Wisdom of the Desert) / Robert Lax as beat and hermit |
| | 1959/05/28 | TLS | to Merton | Yes, we received Pasternak (and the insert) and Mt Athos. Many thanks for both. You have no idea | |
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| | 1959/10/26 | TALS | to Merton | I've read your books about the human spirit and I think they're peachy. My friend Hubert Larks does | |
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| | 1960/01/05 | TAL | to Merton | Yes, Eloise & I will come, will leave Jan 29 (Sunday) & arrive, I suppose, Monday night | |
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| | 1960/03/31 | TAL | from Merton | I write to you as to Mr Jubilee Ikon. Dear Mister Ikon (Jubilee). I have been imprisoned | |
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| | 1960/04/08 | TALS | to Merton | By separate mail we sent you an annunciation ikon, on paper, just like Uncle Ivan used to make. | |
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| | 1960/06/16 | TALS | to Merton | Listen , Jazzbo, you blow <u>across</u> the pipes, not into them. Never mind Swanee River. | |
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| | 1960/06/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Well I wish to declare that the Huge Book printed on ghost skins by Nestles Chocolate Inc, Vevey | |
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| | 1960/06/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The censors have passed Peter Damian and Herkleitos both. So they are ok, no corrections. | |
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| | 1960/08/25 | TL | to Merton | Laundry man say, run tzu, run three, run all nineteen pages of fortune cookie recipie. | |
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| | 1960/08/30 | TL | to Merton | By all means, an article on the monkey man (yes, my sister <u>did</u> marry one & the whole | |
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| | 1960/08/no? | TLS | to Merton | send quickly dolci. send quickly heraklitos. i will send dolci a five dollar prize even as you | |
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| | 1960/11/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Well, I now have the final supreme decision about the Teilhard de Chardin article. It is that this | |
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| | 1961/01/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Fine letter. I will be craning for the sails of the mercedes Jan 30 next day big birthday am five | |
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| | 1961/02/13 | TLS | to Merton | Some more clippings for background for the art book. The one on Janis will tell you something | |
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| | 1961/09/03 | TL[c] | from Merton | The letter will serve as an introduction for the Rt Rev. Archimandrite Basil Kazan. Providentially | Yes |
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| | 1961/10/08 | TLS | to Merton | Hah, you thought I'd never write. No the Iron Curtain hasn't been holding up my letters, | |
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| | 1961/10/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Received yesterday yours of 8th. If the image woman was here she has been and gone without | |
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| | 1961/11/02 | TLS | to Merton | So you hid from the whiskey image woman. Too bad. She had pockets full of Old Crow, Old Grandad, | |
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| | 1961/11/15 | TL | from Merton | Letters from Jim Forest at the CW have given me a pretty confused picture of what has been going on | |
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| | 1961/11/22 | TLS | to Merton | Yes, do the article on God and the H Bomb. Perhaps rather than a review it could be a take-off | |
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| | 1961/11/30 | TLS | to Merton | Whatever happed to J.P. Morgan's midget? Have you heard about Enos, first American spaceman around | |
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| | 1962/01/04 | TLS | to Merton | Went into the fallout shelter for Christmas & just came out. Why didn't they drop the bomb? | |
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| | 1962/01/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | What you need is Trappish fallup bisquix, with built in bourbon flavor and goats hair packages | |
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| | 1962/01/23 | TALS | to Merton | Receiving the Marissa M. material. Not yet decided about running it since H & H turned over | |
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| | 1962/02/10 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | The article of Fr Michael Azkoul is quite good, and it touches on the main theme of eastern | Yes |
| [handwritten annotations on xerox by William Shannon] |
| | 1962/02/10 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | The article of Fr. M.A. is quite good, and it touches on the main theme of eastern Christian | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #33 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1962/03/21 | TALS | to Merton | Enclosed are galleys of your article. Sounds like the best you've done on the subject. | |
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| | 1962/03/22 | TLS | to Merton | I sent you galleys of the article yesterday, but I see not that the Catholic Worker has already run | |
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| | 1962/03/27 | TLS | to Merton | OK, write new lead for the article. The Worker crowd is sort of irresponsible at time and I think | |
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| | 1962/04/26 | TLS | to Merton | Glad you sent in the Stein Collage. I like it & think its good, although you (down there) don't | |
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| | 1962/05/15 | TLS | to Merton | I've got cold feet about the fall-out collage (but a warm heart, if that means anything). | |
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| | 1962/07/05 | HPCS | to Merton | Ravenna, city of my dreams [-] Ed | |
| [verso: color photograph of part of one of the mosaics from San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy, depicting an imperial procession from the reign of Justinian] |
| | 1962/09/06 | TL | to Merton | You'd better take off Thataway. (Or I'd better.) Due to a complete misunderstanding of your | |
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| | 1962/09/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Never mind. Don't give it a thought, Foertg it I mean forget it. Pass it off with a wave | |
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| | 1963/08/21 | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed the LeClerq piece. Sorry it didn't work out, since I had some beautiful pictures of him. | |
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| | 1963/10/26 | TL[c] | from Merton | Long time ago I said I was going to do an article on the Shakers. Here it is . Under separate | Yes |
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| | 1963/no/no? | TLS | to Merton | the abbot of erlach (h gold's prayergeschaft) of whom was taken some pictures last spring | |
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| | 1964/08/03 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Hold everything. Stop press. Jangle jangle. terrible mistake. That piece on Gandhi was, | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/03 | TAL[c] | from Merton | I have not ceased to be sorry for my blunder about the Gandhi article. And I suppose New Directions | Yes |
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| | 1964/10/02 | TLS | to Merton | have spent the summer thinking about the nature of man. Man is the only animal that wears clothes | |
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| | 1965/07/26 | TL[c] | from Merton | First, thanks for sending the book on Zen Monasticism back when. Holy Ghost and angels must have | |
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| | 1965/08/12 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I am appalled by the things that seem to be happening around there. | Yes |
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| | 1965/09/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Ok October. I am terribly sorry about your family trouble. I suppose that is one of the most | |
| [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Accession 2, Hart Working Files] |
| | 1965/12/14 | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed a letter someone wanted forwarded to you. (Not really sure of your address at the moment | |
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| | 1966/01/05 | TLS | to Merton | your introductions just arrived this morning. I think it's excellent--just what I wanted. | |
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| | 1966/01/18 | TALS | to Merton | that was a very pleasant weekend. I feel remiss about not having come down more often, | |
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| | 1966/01/27 | TL[c] | from Merton | Got your letter yesterday at end of retreat preached by guess who Bishop Sheen. I am exempt | Yes |
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| | 1966/02/04 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed a Xerox of the article about you in our March issue. I hope it is sufficiently vague. | |
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| | 1966/02/04 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Listen man, about the anguish. There are things you can intelligently do about it. Not easy, | Yes |
| [no year listed - seemingly mislabeled 1967/02/04 in the published letters] |
| | 1966/03/16 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter from Iraq. The trip sounds interesting. I wonder if you are going to be | Yes |
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| | 1966/03/no | HLS | to Merton | have been out of the states for three weeks -- in Lebanon, Turkey & Jordan doing some stories | |
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| | 1966/07/14 | TLS | to Merton | if Cross Currents doesn't take the Buddhist article, we will. We have a nice piece by Nhat Hanh | |
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| | 1966/07/20 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks letter. I will tell you fast if Cross Currents rejects article, or you might call Cunneen | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/26 | TLS | to Merton | checked Cunneen about the Buddhist article but he tells me he has just written you that it will be | |
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| | 1966/08/29 | TL[c] | from Merton | Other day when I wrote that note I mailed it just before I picked up your envelope with the Dylan | Yes |
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| | 1966/12/05 | TLS | to Merton | By separate mail I am sending you a collection of photographs--some of yourself (the shots I took | |
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| | 1966/12/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of the 5th which I got today. And thanks for sending the pix. I will be | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | Glad the introduction is ok. Since you say there is no wild rush, I will go over it and try | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/16 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | got your compassionate note. Hope the crowd comes up with some ideas. Was in a deep depression | |
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| | 1967/01/16 (#02) | other[x] | | DEATH OF A HOLY TERROR [-] On March 11, 1966, at one-thirty in the afternoon, Jean Bourgoint, | |
| [article by Denise Van Moppès on Jean Bourgoint and the novel loosely based on his life] |
| | 1967/01/16 (#03) | other[x] | | LETTRE AUX AMIS ET COOPERATEURS [-] Merci d'abord à chacun de tous ceux auxquels | |
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| | 1967/01/20 | TLS | to Merton | I am reluctantly sending back the Camus piece because it is too long. At a rough guess it is about | |
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| | 1967/01/30 | TL[c] | from Merton | First, thanks for the book on Hinduism. I haven't touched it yet but will let you know more | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/01 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | enclosed another letter & clipping about Bourgoint. No hurry about doing the article, | |
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| | 1967/02/01 (#02) | other | to Merton | DEMAIN, SALLE DROUOT [-] LA FIN DES ENFANTS TERRIBLE [-] par le P.-P. Michel RIQUET | |
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| | 1967/02/02 | TLS | to Merton | I wonder if you could send me a copy of the Camus piece before Lent closes in. I have my own | |
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| | 1967/02/06 | TL[c] | from Merton | Here are two copies of the Camus article. On one of them I have shown how it could be cut without | |
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| | 1967/02/25 | TLS | to Merton | Received both the revised version of the article on monastic renewal and the two copies of the Camus | |
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| | 1967/03/18 | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is the article on Frere Pascal. I hope you have some good pictures, for it needs illustration. | |
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| | 1967/04/13 | TLS | to Merton | I really should have written you immediately about the Bourgoint article. It's exceptionally good | |
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| | 1967/04/15 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter: I was glad to get it. I didn't know if you were in Alaska or what. | |
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| | 1967/07/07 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Thought it was time to give you the news about Jubilee. Herder and Herder is in the midst of buying | |
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| | 1967/07/07 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the latest Jubilee. The Bro Pascal article came out nicely with the Cocteau drawings. | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/12 | TLS | to Merton | Got your letter of the seventh. Will send out the dozen June copies. I do have the Journal of My | |
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| | 1967/07/18 | TL[c] | from Merton | The Journalof [sic] my Escape has not got here yet, but I hope it will arrive safely. Expect also | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/20 | TLS | to Merton | sent off "Journal of My Escape" to you this morning. Let me know if it arrives. After this could | |
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| | 1967/07/31? | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for yours of the 20 and for the Journal of my Escape which is here and looks pretty fair | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/04 | TLS | to Merton | Glad the "Journal" arrives safely. Hadn't realized until after I mailed it that you wanted a Xerox | |
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| | 1967/08/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the latest: I am really glad you are finally off the Herder meathook. Sorry about | Yes |
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| | undated/no/no | HN | to Merton | ED RICE [-] IS ALIVE [-] AND [-] WELL IN [-] HAVANA [-] CUBA | |
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| | undated/no/no | other | | NEW & REVISED COPY---EDWARD RICE BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE | |
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