| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1961/10/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | For our forthcoming Lenten issue of The Catholic Book Reporter, I am looking for an article | |
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| | 1961/11/06 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | Your kind letter of October 29 addressed to our good Father M. Louis, known to you as Thomas Merton, | |
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| | 1963/03/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | Herder and Herder has just sent me a copy of LIFE AND HOLINESS which I have found to be especially | |
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| | 1963/04/02 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Frank Dell'Isola published a bibliography (Farrar Straus & C.) which goes up to about 1956. | |
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| | 1963/04/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you very much for the copies of your works which you sent me. You were kind to take | |
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| | 1963/04/30 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thomas Merton has informed me that you are working on a Merton bibliography. I am beginning | |
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| | 1963/07/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | Sometime ago we corresponded and I told you that I would soon become editor of The Queen's Work, | |
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| | 1963/07/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | A short while ago, I wrote to you seeking a contribution to The Queen's Work. I especially | |
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| | 1963/09/26 | HLS[x] | from Merton | I have neglected your letter, but I have an excuse - I have been in the hospital and am | |
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| | 1963/10/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | You were kind to send along your new introduction to MOUNTAIN. We can be certain that so many | |
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| | 1963/12/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | Our January issue with your "Introduction to the Japanese Edition of Mountain" will be coming off | |
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| | 1965/07/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Ever since I published my first book, there has been an almost unlimited choice of rumors about me, | |
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| | 1965/09/21 | TLS | to Merton | I am the former editor of Queen's Work; you may recall you allowed us to print your introduction | |
| invitation to publish articles on John of the Cross for a new book series by Herder and Herder / Cargas will edit a volume on John Howard Griffin |
| | 1965/09/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. It was good to hear from you again. I am interested in the new series | |
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| | 1965/09/30 | TLS | to Merton | One comeback on the projected series of books, and the one I asked of you on St. John of the Cross. | |
| asking if Merton would at least choose the best 15 articles from a larger number that Cargas would send if he will not write one himself / his background of decorated combat veteran turned pacifist |
| | 1965/10/13 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have beenpondering [sic] on your letter of Sept. 30th and of course if you are so anxious to have | Yes |
| Merton may be interested but does not want to do any more on John of the Cross - suggest many other writers, many non-Catholics - "three best [...] St Anselm, Origen and Solovyov, -- with Flannery O'C. [O'Connell] in case you don't want a non-catlick." / caveat against claiming to be a complete pacifist - Pope Paul's approach |
| | 1965/10/13 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have beenpondering [sic] on your letter of Sept. 30th and of course if you are so anxious to have | Yes |
| Merton may be interested but does not want to do any more on John of the Cross - suggest many other writers, many non-Catholics - "three best [...] St Anselm, Origen and Solovyov, -- with Flannery O'C. [O'Connor] in case you don't want a non-catlick." / caveat against claiming to be a complete pacifist - Pope Paul's approach |
| | 1965/10/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thomas Merton on William Blake would be wonderfully wild for all concerned. The problem of proving | |
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| | 1965/11/10 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Will you please hold up the Xerox ext.? A new problem arose when I went to clear the book with my | |
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| | 1965/11/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | I'm awfully distressed to hear about the problems that have arisen. But I shall refrain from | |
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| | 1965/11/25 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am afraid that I did not manage to save any anthology projects with my boss. I had two of them, | |
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| | 1965/11/25 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am afraid that I did not manage to save any anthology projects with my boss. I had two of them, | |
| Merton explains that he is not allowed to do anthology projects / would have liked to do the Flannery O'Connor project |
| | 1965/12/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | Enclosed are some articles on Flannery O'Connor which may interest you. When you are through | |
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| | 1965/12/14 | TL[x] | to Merton | So you are one of America's fifteen most important Catholics. I think that was a great stroke | |
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| | 1965/12/20 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for sending these. I want to get them back before it is too late: the big rush will | |
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| | 1965/12/25? | TLS[x] | from Merton to Friends | I hate to resort to mimeographed letters, but it has now become completely impossible for me to answ | Yes |
| [labeled "A Christmas Letter - 1965" - mimeographed letter sent to Merton's friends - see "Circular Letters" file] |
| | 1966/02/10 | TALS | to Merton | I am giving a talk on Thoreau (emphasis on <u>Walden</u>) and would like to briefly discuss | |
| asks Merton for a paragraph or two about the influence that Thoreau had on him |
| | 1966/02/14 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | OK, a word about Thoreau since you ask. The only references to him in my writings are few | Yes |
| references to Thoreau by Merton - <i>Conjectures</i>, <i>Sign of Jonas</i>, mentioned "Thoreau and Emily Dickenson made me glad of being an American" in a letter to Mark Van Doren / not a Thoreau expert but living Walden-like existence at hermitage / Thoreau a "bridge builder between East and West" |
| | 1966/02/14 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | OK, a word about Thoreau since you ask. The only references to him in my writings are few | Yes |
| references to Thoreau by Merton - <i>Conjectures</i>, <i>Sign of Jonas</i>, mentioned "Thoreau and Emily Dickenson made me glad of being an American" in a letter to Mark Van Doren / not a Thoreau expert but living Walden-like existence at hermitage / Thoreau a "bridge builder between East and West" |
| | 1966/02/22 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your thoughts on Thoreau. Our diocesan paper is carrying your two-article series | |
| non-violence as "nature's developing law" |
| | 1966/03/10 | TL[x] | to Merton | Enclosed are the articles you asked for. I hope you will feel free to ask me to be of help again | |
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| | 1966/12/25 | TALS[x] | from Merton to Friends | Sorry, I have just had to give up any hope of answering most of my Christmas mail personally. | Yes |
| [labeled "Christmas Morning 1966" - mimeographed letter sent to Merton's friends - see "Circular Letters" file] |
| | 1967/01/03 | TLS | to Merton | I thought you might like to see this brief review I did on your book. It appeared in the ST. LOUIS | |
| review by Cargas of a book by Merton in the <u>St. Louis Globe-Democrat</u> |
| | 1967/01/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | I have been asked by Bruce Publishing House to edit a series on war. The idea is to get people | |
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| | 1967/01/18 | TALS | to Merton | I have been asked by Bruce Publishing House to edit a series on war. The idea is to get people | |
| asking Merton to write an article on war and respond to four other points of view / Jean-Robert Leguey Feilleux, vice-president of CAIP [Catholic Association for International Peace?] to present on view, Cargas to present pacifist point of view - looking for someone as an "articulate super hawk" / Merton's note on letter "No- Jan 26." |
| | 1967/01/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Several wrote that they liked my mimeographed Christmas letter and urged me to go on mimeographing | |
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| | 1967/01/26 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Sorry, I am so much in a bind now with my other work that I can't possibly take on the essay you ask | |
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| | 1967/02/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | Sorry you could not be with us on the book but it turns out that the editor Gary MacEoin has now | |
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| | 1968/09/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | As you know, I have been cutting down more and more on letters and now my contracts will be almost | Yes |
| [labeled "FALL 1968" - written from New Delhi, India - mimeographed letter sent to Merton's friends - see "Circular Letters" file] |
| | 1968/10/10 | TL[x] | to Merton | Greetings from St. Louis, home of the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals (I hope). | |
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| | 1968/11/09 | TL[x] | from Merton to Friends | This newsletter is not a reply to mail because I have not been getting mail on this Asian trip | Yes |
| [labeled "Asian Letter 1" - written from New Delhi, India - mimeographed letter sent to Merton's friends - see "Circular Letters" file] |
| | 1970/no/no? | TLS | from Center to Cargas, Harry | We are wring to you regarding your correspondence with the late Thomas Merton. | |
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| | undated/no/no | other[x] | | GLOSE ON THE SIN OF IXION [-] He saw her: that is, he labored. [-] He loved sweet business (Juno | |
| [photocopy of signed typescript - later called "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion" - "glose" may either be a typographical error or a use of the French word for "gloss"] |
| | undated/no/no | HNS | from Cargas, Millie / to Pauline Pearson | I think you'll find some of this material pretty interesting. Good seeing you Sunday. | |
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| | undated/no/no | other[x] | | This is the poem of Thomas Merton I mentioned when we were together a few weeks ago--the loveliest | |
| [Merton's poem "Night-Flowering Cactus" - typed note and handwritten note by Cargas or someone other than Merton, "If the poem isn't about Mary, I don't want to know it!"] |
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