| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1962/12/18 | TALS | from Merton | We have a brand new Scripture man here just back from Rome: Fr Romanus. Why shouldn't he do | |
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| | 1963/01/12 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Here is <u>a</u> review for Monastic Studies - not the Knowles book I promised, but another by him, | |
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| | 1963/01/12 (#02) | other | from Merton | David Knowles, O.S.B., <u>The Benedictines</u>, A Digest for Moderns (St. Leo, Florida: St. Leo | |
| [book review sent to Collins and enclosed with 1963/January/12 letter] |
| | 1963/05/27 | TALS | from Merton | <u>Studies</u> came in this morning. You are really to be congratulated. It is a very fine job | |
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| | 1963/08/05 | HLS | from Merton | Here is the article I was promising (or threatening) to send for <u>Monastic Studies</u>. | |
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| | 1963/08/06 | HLS | from Merton | If you can get me a copy of the Sources Chrétiennes <u>Cur Deus Homo</u> (St Anselm) | |
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| | 1963/08/08? | HNS | from Merton | I would like to try the Turbessi book (will you send one??) and perhaps Theologie de la V.M. | |
| [no year on letter - Collins estimates 1964, but seemingly 1963 from contents of 1963/August/24 letter] |
| | 1963/08/15? | TNS | from Merton | Jubilee asked me to translate this article of Dom Leclercq and then said they could not publish. | |
| [no year on letter - Collins estimates 1964, but seemingly 1963 from contents of 1963/August/24 letter] |
| | 1963/08/24 | HLS | from Merton | Here is the Leclercq piece fit to print, more or less. Will you please send your carbon copy to him? | |
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| | 1963/09/11 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | As you may or may not know, the censors have approved "The Humanity of Christ and Monastic Prayer". | |
| notes in pen that enclosed poem is not for publication |
| | 1963/09/11 (#02) | other | from Merton | SENECA. When the torch is taken And the room is dark The mute wife Knowing Seneca's ways | |
| [mimeograph with a handwritten correction (striken punctuation mark) of Merton's poem "Seneca", enclosed with 1963/September/11 letter] |
| | 1963/09/11 (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton | As you may or may not know, the censors have approved "The Humanity of Christ and Monastic Prayer". | |
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| | 1963/10/09 | HPCS | from Merton | Sorry - I have been in hospital and busy after getting back. No Turbessi. But I will get our Denis | |
| [verso of postcard, calligraphy and image by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN: "Where one finds the Church, one finds the Spirit of God and where the Spirit abides, every kind of grace and blessing is present"] |
| | 1963/10/13 | HLS | from Merton | Our Bro Denis - young professed still in novitiate - has done his review of the Knowles book | |
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| | 1963/10/21 | HLS | from Merton | Do you think Rahner's <u>The Christian Commitment</u> would furnish material for a review relevant | |
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| | 1963/10/25 | TANS | to Merton | I'd love to have some reflections on Rahner's Christian Commitment, especially if they're slanted to | |
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| | 1963/10/30 | HPCS | from Merton | Glad the translation came in handy. You must always try to have a fair amount of extra stuff | |
| [verso of postcard, calligraphy and image by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN: "True beauty is yours O Mary! The stain of original sin has never marred you+"] |
| | 1963/12/09 | TALS | from Merton | Here are two things for the Studies. The Turbessi review and the piece on Cur Deus Homo, | |
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| | 1963/12/18 | HCS | from Merton | I have seen the Happold book on mysticism - it is nothing special. I would prefer to review | |
| [card from Maria Laach, Germany] F. Crossfield Happold's <i>Mysticism: A Study and an Anthology</i> / Fr Irenée Valery-Radot on St. Bernard of Clairvaux / Karl Rahner |
| | 1963/no/no? | HNS | from Merton | Here is the Rahner review. It turned out a little longer than I anticipated - I hope it is not too | |
| [no date, but likely late 1963 or January or February of 1964] |
| | 1964/02/28? | HNS | from Merton | Here is another review for our Bro Denis - I hope you can use it - he worked very hard at it | |
| [year not on note card but provided by Collins] |
| | 1964/03/07 | TALS | to Merton | Thanks very much for that fine review of Rahner. I'll be glad to use it for Monastic Studies, but | |
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| | 1964/03/13 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I know what you mean about the Rahner review: as a matter of fact I did work a first draft of it | |
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| | 1964/03/13 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | I know what you mean about the Rahner review: as a matter of fact I did work a first draft of it | |
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| | 1964/03/24 | HNS | from Merton | I just ran across a reference to a new book by P. Evdokimov. 'La Vie Spirituelle et la foi au XXe | |
| [year not on note card but provided by Collins] |
| | 1964/04/23 | TLS | from Merton | The review of Rahner has been accepted by Ramparts, so that takes care of that. I was sorry | |
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| | 1964/05/02 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I know of Fr Claude's book but I regret I can't take it on now. Have proofs of a book of my own | |
| [year not on note card but provided by Collins - also contains a copy of a transcript of the letter] |
| | 1964/10/18 | HLS | to Merton | Greetings from Oregon! It is a great joy to be here with Dom Hugh and with Dom Columban's fine | |
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| | 1964/10/26 | TALS | from Merton to Hugh McKiernan and Bernard Collins | I am very glad to hear about the resumption of Monastic Studies and glad that you are working | |
| [to Dom Hugh McKiernan (see also the "McKiernan, Hugh" file) and to Fr. Brendan Collins - no date, but seemingly a followup to the 1964/October/18 letter of Collins] |
| | 1964/no/no? | HNS | from Merton | Sorry for holding this up. It really reads better than the other translation. I don't know what to | |
| [year not on note but estimated year provided by Collins] |
| | 1965/03/04 | TLS | to Merton | Would you be interested in reviewing Philipp Dessauer's <u>Natural Meditation</u> ? The next issue | |
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| | 1965/03/09 | HNS | from Merton | I am afraid I had better not take on any more reviews from now until end of summer. | |
| [both sides of a note card used - copied onto one page] |
| | 1965/03/19 | TLS | to Merton | It was good to hear from you again. Many thanks for your note and the various articles; I liked the | |
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| | 1965/03/23 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter. If you want to print "Renewal of Eremitism" that is just fine with me. | |
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| | 1965/03/23 (#02) | other | by Merton | Julian Green creates a world of closely enmeshed contradictions: the young man who is regarded | |
| [Merton sent Collins "To Each His Darkness: Some Paradoxes in Julian Green - an essay and four calligraphic drawings ('Flying Signatures')," a by-fold offprint from the journal <u>Charlatan</u> 1 (Spring 1964)] |
| | 1965/03/23 (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter. If you want to print "Renewal of Eremitism" that is just fine with me. | |
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| | 1965/03/27 | TALS | to Merton | May [sic] thanks for your letter and for the article. I like "The Monastic Vocation and Modern | |
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| | 1965/04/03 (#01) | HNS | from Merton | Here are some of the "calligraphies" - qui potest capere capiat! Hope no one is scandalized. | |
| [see #2-4 for enclosures of the same date] |
| | 1965/04/03 (#02) | other | from Merton | | |
| [3 photographs of Merton's calligraphic drawings from the exhibit "Forty-Three Signatures"] |
| | 1965/04/03 (#03) | other | from Merton | Forty - Three Signatures an exhibit of Drawings by Thomas Merton | |
| [mimeographed copy of artist's statement accompanying Merton's calligraphic drawings for the exhibit "Forty-Three Signatures"] |
| | 1965/04/03 (#04) | other | from Merton | Catholic Herald Citizen, Milwaukee, Wisconsin March 13, 1965 Dancer II That's the title of this | |
| [thermofax copy of newpaper announcement for an exhibit of Merton's calligraphic drawings, "Forty-Three Signatures", with a reproduction of Merton's caligraphy titled "Dancer II"] |
| | 1965/04/09 | HLS | from Merton | I find I must send my only copy of <u>Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought</u> to France | |
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| | 1965/04/14 | TLS | to Merton | Here is the carbon you sent me of "Monastic Vocation & Modern Thought". I've made a photocopy | |
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| | 1965/04/15 | HLS | to Merton | Your drawings really speak to me; I like them <u>very</u> much. Many thanks for sending the repros. | |
| [dated "Holy Thursday 1965" - verso: woodcut in red with the Latin "Resurrexi"] |
| | 1965/05/05 | HLS | to Merton | Thank you <u>very</u> much for the drawings! I like them am delighted to have them. There is | |
| [verso: woodcut in black of Christ] |
| | 1965/05/22 | TLS | from Merton | I know you probably have too much material but I am nevretheless [sic] sending you this piece | |
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| | 1965/06/03 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your paper on obedience. It is fine as far as it goes, but I don't think it goes | |
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| | 1965/06/06 | HLS | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the clarifications. I am glad in fact that you put off "eremitism" | |
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| | 1965/06/12 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for your note and inserts for "Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought". I think this is | |
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| | 1965/07/21 | TLS | to Merton | Would you please review Alexander Schmemann's <u>Sacraments and Orthodoxy</u> for us? | |
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| | 1965/07/24 | TLS | from Merton | Sure I will try a review of the Schmeeman book. It will take time for me to get around to it though | |
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| | 1965/08/28 | HLS | from Merton | Here is your review. In fact I make it a Double-header. How is everything? Is Bro Basil ok? | |
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| | 1965/09/10 | TLS | from Merton | Several times you have mentioned to me a translation of Cassian that has been done there. | |
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| | 1965/09/15 (#01) | TL | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of 10 September. The Cassian translation we would like to see published | |
| [letter is ripped at the bottom and incomplete] |
| | 1965/09/15 (#02) | HNS | from Merton | No problem at all about showing the drawings. Go ahead. Incidentally I have been invited to send | |
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| | 1965/09/16 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for the Schmemann reviews (and for your note) which just came in. It's a great review | |
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| | 1965/09/18 | TALS | from Merton | I can't understand why you never got the Schmemann article, but here is another copy. | |
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| | 1965/09/21 | TLS | from Merton | Your letter arrived yesterday after I had sent off another copy of the Schmemann piece. | |
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| | 1965/09/27 | TLS | from Merton | I presumed to write to Milan for a copy of a book containing conferences on the eremitical life | |
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| | 1965/10/25 | HLS | from Merton | I am working with an Anglican nun who is translating Isaac of Stella. Would you like her | |
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| | 1965/no/no (#01) | HNS | from Merton | When I wrote to you yesterday I forgot I had this longer version of an article that comes exactly | |
| [date not on note but estimated year provided by Collins] |
| | 1965/no/no (#02) | HNS[x] | from Merton | Congratulations on your most excellent issue of MS. A really fine one. Keep it up. I will have | |
| [date not on note but estimated year provided by Collins - Collins notes that original seems to be on handmade paper, possibly made and printed by Victor Hammer with a Merton poem on verso: "One light / one ray and it will be the angels' spring.."] |
| | 1966/01/10 | TLS | from Merton | I am told you have written several letters to me recently. I have received nothing from you since | |
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| | 1966/01/11 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | It is certainly a long time since I have heard from you. I want to clear up two small points: | |
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| | 1966/01/11 (#02) | other[x] | from Merton | A Tune for Festive Dances in the Nineteen Sixties Now strike up a concert of action in the electric | |
| [poem enclosed with 1966/January/11 letter] |
| | 1966/02/12 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for the sermon of Isaac and your good introduction; I am glad to have it for Monastic | |
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| | 1966/02/14 | TLS | from Merton | It was good to hear from you. Dom James is absent at an Abbots' meeting in Rome, and this made me | |
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| | 1966/03/09 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Here is the best copy of "Mon. vocation and Mod. Thought". I am glad you reminded me. This has all | |
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| | 1966/03/09 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is the best copy of "Mon. vocation and Mod. Thought". I am glad you reminded me. This has all | |
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| | 1966/03/12 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for the good version of "Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought". I have just gone | |
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| | 1966/12/no? | HCS | to Merton | Thanks for all your help and interest in Monastic Studies. I hope you have received the fourth vol. | |
| [verso: a quote by John Henry Newman and the note "Printed by Thomas Barry for the monks of Mount Saviour"] |
| | 1967/01/26 | TNS | from Merton | I hope you'll enjoy Collegeville. Glad you see so much of Jim, Tom, Dan and all. Would you send | |
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| | 2022/04/23 | TLS | to Center from Matthews, Christopher A. | While going through my priest-friend's belongings during his placement in memory care at our local | |
| [donation of undated, handwritten note from Merton: "This is someone you perhaps ought to know about." |
| | undated/no/no | HNS | from Merton | This is someone you perhaps ought to know about. What happened to the summer issue of Monastic | |
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