| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1961/09/18 | TLS | from Merton | For a long time I have been meaning to write this letter to you, ever since my friend and publisher, | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/18 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | J. Laughlin is probably writing to you about our idea of a paperback of articles on peace. | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/18 (#02) | other | | J. Laughlin is probably writing to you about our idea of a paperback of articles on peace. | |
| transcription of hand written letter from Merton to Dr. Ferry |
| | 1961/11/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | Doubtless you saw Jim Newman's now-famous letter to Washington <u>Post</u>: "Let Our Children Go." | |
| [another letter appears at the bottom of this letter with reference to Merton "Dear Hiram: I enclose all of the items..."] |
| | 1961/12/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am having a copy of the Fall issue of <u>Cross Currents</u> sent to you under separate cover. | |
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| | 1961/12/06 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for yours of November 30th which only reached me yesterday. If I had got to it sooner | Yes |
| [letter to J. Laughlin enclosed with this letter] |
| | 1961/12/06 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton to James Laughlin | I had not realized that I was supposed to send the copy of the Gerard Piel article to you, | |
| [enclosed with 1961/12/06[1] letter to Ferry] |
| | 1961/12/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | Mumford told me he was sending you "The Morals of Extermination." It's a far better piece than | |
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| | 1961/12/11 | TL[x] | to Merton | Sir Robert Wason-Watt can be reached at Maple Brook, Tuxedo, New York. Don't hesitate to ask him | |
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| | 1961/12/21 | HLS | from Merton | I have received both your five minute bit of the taped discussion and Hallock Hoffman's UP. | Yes |
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| | 1961/12/26 | TL[c] | to Merton | Please let me edge up this way to first names. I am a genuine black-American in my dislike of the | |
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| | 1961/12/29 | HLS | from Merton | I have none of the Leo Szilard articles to which you refer as we do not get the <u>Bulletin</u> | |
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| | 1962/01/18 | TLS | from Merton | You will probably be hearing soon from J. who left here yesterday for Florida and for some amazing | Yes |
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| | 1962/01/30 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I have just received your two letters and the other items. I have just read the article you | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #26] |
| | 1962/01/30 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I have just received your two letters and the other items. I have just read the article you | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #26 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1962/02/17 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I envy you the sunny, dusty lanes, but why go spoil it with Jules Romains? Anyway I hope you are | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #39] |
| | 1962/02/17 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I envy you the sunny, dusty lanes, but why go spoil it with Jules Romains? Anyway I hope you are | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #39 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1962/02/20 | TL[x] | from Hoffman, Hallock / to Paul P. Harbrecht | Even in Ping's absence, the office machinery works so well that I have seen your letter of February | |
| [Hallock Hoffman with the Center for Democratic Institutions writes to Fr. Paul P. Harbrecht, S.J. was with the Twentieth Century Fund at Georgetown University Law Center] |
| | 1962/02/22 | HPCS | to Merton | [...] thanks for lovely Hagia Sophia and Averroes; both warm and enlarge and awake the soul | |
| [verso: color photo of the parish church at Alamos, Sonora, Mexico] |
| | 1962/03/06 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter from Mexico and the one sent on returning, with its enclosures. | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #48] |
| | 1962/03/06 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter from Mexico and the one sent on returning, with its enclosures. | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #48 - transcript from bound set] |
| | 1962/03/16 | TLS | from Merton | The article mailed March 13 with your note on the top arrived today. I am surprised you did not get | Yes |
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| | 1962/04/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | My plan is to arrive at Louisville around 6:00 or 7:00 on Tuesday evening next, April 10. | |
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| | 1962/04/18 | TL[x] | to I. F. Stone's Weekly (editors) | Please send a one year subscription to the <u>Weekly</u> to Father Thomas Merton, Abbey of Our Lady | |
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| | 1962/04/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | There is so much to report that I shall have to give it to you in installments. But first I owe you | |
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| | 1962/05/04 | TLS | from Merton | This may perhaps just get you before you take off for Geneva. Thanks much for all the hippie stuff | |
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| | 1962/05/07 | TLS | to Merton | Under separate cover I sent Dom James a Last Supper* done by a friend of mine here in Santa | |
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| | 1962/05/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | How long is it since you were here? I forget, must be almost a month already.There [sic] have been | Yes |
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| | 1962/05/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | Please put this check in the account that pays for mimeographing and printing of your materials. | |
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| | 1962/05/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all you should not have sent the check. But since you did, thanks. It will pay for some | Yes |
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| | 1962/06/04 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Today two big packets arrived, and secreted in the midst of one of them was Zuckernandl. I was very | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #77] |
| | 1962/06/04 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Today two big packets arrived, and secreted in the midst of one of them was Zuckernandl. I was very | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #77 - transcript of bound set] |
| | 1962/06/14 | TL[c] | to Merton | I've had a pleasant letter from Dom James, saying that the triptych is being admired by all in your | |
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| | 1962/07/13 | TALS | from Merton | I am finishing the Alan Harrington book about the "Crystal Palace". This is really a good book. | Yes |
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| | 1962/07/16 (#01) | TL[c] | to Merton | I haven't been writing because I haven't had much to say. This weekend I read a great deal | |
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| | 1962/07/16 (#02) | other | from Riesman, David | My secretary will send on the piece about San Francisco State if she hasn't already -- I'm sorry it | |
| [David Rieman from the Harvard University Department of Social Relations writes to Ferry on 1962/07/16 - enclosed with 1962/07/16 letter to Merton] |
| | 1962/07/16 (#03) | HNS | to Merton | The quest for the common good goes out[.] Can I be of any help in getting the book under way? | |
| [note written on article entitled "Science in Washington" from the 1962/05/04 issue of <u>Science Week</u> detailing the US military's operations to develop biological weapons of mass destruction - enclosed with 1962/07/16 letter to Merton] |
| | 1962/07/31 | transcript | from Merton | Great letter of yours to the Sta Barbara News Press, on the Everyman I case! Very clear, | |
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| | 1962/08/17 | HLS | from Merton | Just found Zuckernandl while cleaning up - thought I had sent him months ago - so sorry. | |
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| | 1962/08/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I thought the speech about the FBI and the rest was tremendous and am glad that it got around though | |
| Ferry's remarks on the FBI and the Stock Exchange in his speech to the Western States Democratic Conference entitled "Myths, Clichés and Stereotypes" - nature of true freedom and attachment to economic systems / Daniel Berrigan / Gordon Zahn / <u>The Merton Reader</u> |
| | 1962/08/30 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Am in the hospital for some tests -- nothing special. Brought Everett Gendler's MS of Rabbi | |
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| | 1962/08/30 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Am in the hospital for some tests -- nothing special. Brought Everett Gendler's MS of Rabbi | |
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| | 1962/09/12 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | I am just going away for a couple of weeks, and I wanted to thank you for your nice note before | |
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| | 1962/09/12 (#02) | TL[x] | to Braden, Joan | Here's a first class book to edit and review. It is the best collection of essays I have seen on | |
| [Joan Braden was book editor for the <u>Oceanside Blade-Tribune</u>] |
| | 1962/09/12 (#03) | TL[x] | to Meiklejohn, Alexander | Here's a first class bunch of essays. It's all for you. Do you know anyone for whom you might | |
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| | 1962/10/16 | HLS | from Merton | This stuff they have been sending to Zahn is pretty grim, isn't it! He's got himself set up as | |
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| | 1962/10/30 | TL[c] | to Merton | Your mailings, especially the copies of the Powers review, are most welcome. They are being sent | |
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| | 1962/12/31 | TLS | from Merton | Good to hear from you. Thanks for the stuff. Just been reading that fantastic James Baldwin | Yes |
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| | 1963/01/12 | TALS | from Merton | The best way to get the Lax book is to write to Emil Antonucci, | Yes |
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| | 1963/01/31 | TL[x] | to Merton | Just back from Convocation, which was a triumph in all ways except the important one. Financially | |
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| | 1963/03/20 | TLS | from Merton | I sent Mary Weick a copy of the letter, and also Cold War Letters. I think I sent you more of these | Yes |
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| | 1963/04/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The books are on the way out. The bookstore is not carrying them, but I happened to have three. | |
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| | 1963/06/12 | TALS | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and the packets of things. I was especially glad of the little Pelican | Yes |
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| | 1963/07/09 | TALS | from Merton | Thanks for your great talk on Colleges in Detroit. Clear as crystal, right on the point. How did | |
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| | 1963/07/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am renewing your subscription with Izzy Stone. Enclosed the last couple of items from him. | |
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| | 1963/07/31 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Great letter of yours to the Sta Barbara New Press, on the Everyman I case! Very clear, | |
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| | 1963/07/31 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Great letter of yours to the Sta Barbara News Press, on the Everyman I case! Very clear, | |
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| | 1963/08/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | We have just made final plans for a meeting on the enclosed Proposal: Princeton, October 9-12. | |
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| | 1963/09/05 | TLS | from Merton | I keep thinking I have told you to come in October about the middle. If I have not, this | |
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| | 1963/09/11 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for everything you have sent lately, especially the book from Ross in N.Z. | Yes |
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| | 1963/09/20 | TL[c] | to Merton | And now bursitis! If you were out in the world you'd be making a discovery right now; | |
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| | 1963/10/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was awfully sorry you did not get here. Hope everything is all right and that all is calming down | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/06 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Sorry for the long silence. I just can't keep up. Bad back and arm really slows me down a lot of | |
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| | 1964/02/06 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Sorry for the long silence. I just can't keep up. Bad back and arm really slows me down a lot of | |
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| | 1964/03/23 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Your latest consignment contains many good things. Triple Revolution is urgent and clear | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/23 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Your latest consignment contains many good things. Triple Revolution is urgent and clear | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/24 | TL[x] | to I. F. Stone's Weekly (editors) | Please renew Father Thomas Merton's subscription to the Bi-Weekly, address below: Father Thomas | |
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| | 1964/04/04 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for everything, especially for renewing IFS. By the way I assumed that you sent that card | Yes |
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| | 1964/04/04 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for everything, especially for renewing IFS. By the way I assumed that you sent that card | Yes |
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| | 1964/05/27 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Today or tomorrow I will be sending back some of the books I have borrowed from you, in fact all of | Yes |
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| | 1964/05/27 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Today or tomorrow I will be sending back some of the books I have borrowed from you, in fact all of | Yes |
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| | 1964/06/03 | TALS | to Merton | 1. Please don't send back any books, least of all Izzy Stone's. If there's a place for them at the | |
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| | 1964/06/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is a rush note, to say that unfortunately I am tied up on the 18th. Too bad. | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/01 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Bob Giroux at Farrar Straus says it is ok for the Center to publish part of that peace essay but he | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/01 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Bob Giroux at Farrar Straus says it is ok for the Center to publish part of that peace essay but he | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/04 | HPCS | to Merton | I am having a solitary time and in a way, enjoying it. This is a strict Calvinist section | |
| [verso: photo of Gruinard Bay in Scotland] |
| | 1964/07/14 | TLS | from Merton | Have you ever heard of P.D. East who runs a little newspaper of his own in Mississippi, | |
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| | 1964/08/14 | HLS | from Merton | Thanks for suggesting the Wienphal [sic] Zen book. I would like to see it and possibly review | |
| [should be Zen book by Paul Wienpahl] |
| | 1964/08/31 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for many things, including the picture of St Francis which I probably did not acknowledge yet | Yes |
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| | 1964/08/31 (#02) | TALS | from Merton | Thanks for many things, including the picture of St Francis which I probably did not acknowledge yet | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/04 | HLS | from Merton | Sorry I forgot to return Michael's letter. Here it is. Everything goes well. Hope to be sending | |
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| | 1964/10/15 | TLS | to Merton | I wd. like to take part in the FOR thing at Gethsemani, though I am not worthy. When is it? | |
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| | 1964/10/17 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Your note and packet just came in. The FOR group is supposed to come here for November 18 to 20, | Yes |
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| | 1964/10/17 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Your note and packet just came in. The FOR group is supposed to come here for November 18 to 20, | Yes |
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| | 1964/10/20 | TL[c] | to Merton | I'm planning to be with you on November 18-19, but I fear not the 20th, for I must get back here | |
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| | 1964/11/04 | TALS | to Merton | 1. Anything I shd. read in preparation for meetings 18-19? 2. Did Zahn send you galleys or proofs | |
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| | 1964/11/17? | HNS[x] | from Merton | By the time you get here we will all be in bed - so relax and get a good sleep. I will see you | |
| [photocopied on same sheet as note from 1968/07/28 - Ferry notes that "This is undated and was handed to me when I arrived on my first visit to Gethsemani - likely the night before the November 18-20, 1964 meeting] |
| | 1964/12/05 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Yes, I am long overdue with these scribbles. It took time to get back on the rails | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/05 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Yes, I am long overdue with these scribbles. It took time to get back on the rails | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/14 | TALS | to Merton | I can use another 15-20 copies of the <u>Mississippi Witness</u> and thanks for the offer. My blood | |
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| | 1965/01/11 | TALS | to Merton | In describing to P. Jacobs and me last night the kind of analysis the US 'almost never gets', Milton | |
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| | 1965/03/19 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | I have just written to Mr Leavitt at the Museum saying I would be dlighted [sic] to send | Yes |
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| | 1965/03/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have just written to Mr Leavitt at the Museum saying I would be dlighted [sic] to send | |
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| | 1965/04/03 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Once again, thanks for a whole pile of things. The extra copies of "Therefore Choose..." | |
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| | 1965/04/03 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Once again, thanks for a whole pile of things. The extra copies of "Therefore Choose..." | |
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| | 1965/04/30 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for forwarding the note from Palo Alto about the Sterling Galleries there. | Yes |
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| | 1965/04/30 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and for forwarding the note from Palo Alto about the Sterling Galleries there. | Yes |
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| | 1965/07/20 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the latest consignment which came this morning. I will go through it at leisure and | Yes |
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| | 1965/07/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the latest consignment which came this morning. I will go through it at leisure and | Yes |
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| | 1965/09/20 | TLS | from Merton | First, thanks for all the paper. One of these days I know I will suddenly begin getting | Yes |
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| | 1965/10/19 | TL[x] | from Merton | I am really very sorry to have done nothing about these drawings-- I mean about getting them out | |
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| | 1965/11/11 | TLS | from Merton | Here is a copy of a letter I had to send to Jim Forest tod[ay.] I may be wrong in my judgment of | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/30 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for all the things that have been coming in. I hope you have not been worried about | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/30 (#02) | other | | <u>PEACE AND PROTEST</u> [-] Thomas Merton [-] November 1965 | |
| [enclosed with Merton's 1965/11/30 letter to Ferry] |
| | 1965/12/21 | HLS | to Merton | I am sending the admirable <u>Chuang Tzu</u> to a good many people, including Marshall McLuhan. | |
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| | 1966/01/26 | TL[c] | from Merton | I had dropped that preface in the mail this morning before I got your two notes and the new bunch of | Yes |
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| | 1966/01/29 | TLS | from Merton | I forgot to reply to query about subscriptions: do so now. In the new setup Fr Abbot is rather | |
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| | 1966/03/01 | HLS | from Merton | I sent a lot more of them. Hope you got them all right. Thanks for | |
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| | 1966/03/11 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the info about Fr DuBay. I am afraid that the kind of collision course with authority | Yes |
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| | 1966/03/11 (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the info about Fr DuBay. I am afraid that the kind of collision course with authority | Yes |
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| | 1966/03/17 | HNS | from Merton | This is "Redeeming the Time" - actually it is only part of a book coming out in England, | |
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| | 1966/06/16 | HLS | from Merton | J. Laughlin said he would try to place the <u>Nostradamus</u> poem. If you get a good lead, consult | |
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| | 1966/06/28 | HLS | from Merton | Thanks for your very good visit today - most enjoyable and most helpful. Come again soon. Suzuki's | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/05 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | Fine few hours, exhilarating in fact. Many thanks. I'll call again in a year or so for more of | |
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| | 1966/07/05 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Nichols, William I. | Thanks for your latest sharing of Thomas Merton. The more I see the "level" of his present writing, | |
| [publisher of <u>This Week Magazine</u> in New York City - sent to Ferry on 1966/06/29 and enclosed with letter from Ferry to Merton] |
| | 1966/07/15 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for notes and so on about "This Week". As you say, no surprise. About sending Nostradamus | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/15 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for notes and so on about "This Week". As you say, no surprise. About sending Nostradamus | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/19 | TLS | to Merton | Yes, I've kept in touch with J. about NOSTRADAMUS in a sort of way. I think we agree that it will | |
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| | 1966/07/23 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Returning herewith the interesting Ross letter. He is a bit wild but still there is something to it | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/23 (#02) | other | | YORUBA INCANTATION TO OBTAIN MONEY [-] There is no day when the sun does not rise. | |
| [mimeograph of subscription/contribution request for literary magazine, <u>MELE</u>, by Stefan Baciu of Honolulu, Hawaii (see correspondence file for Baciu)] |
| | 1966/07/23 (#03) | other | | MELE [-] Carta Internacional de Poesía [-] International Poetry Letter [-] Marzo 1966 [-] 2 | |
| [March 1962 copy of <u>MELE</u>, edited and published by Stefan Baciu of Honolulu, Hawaii (see correspondence file for Baciu), with a contribution from Merton] |
| | 1966/07/27 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Here are a couple extra copies of Buddhism. I will have more sent along if you need them, just say | Yes |
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| | 1966/07/27 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Here are a couple extra copies of Buddhism. I will have more sent along if you need them, just say | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/01 | TLS | to Merton | I've a copy of Muir's Collected Poems at home; and I think there's a preface by someone or other. | |
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| | 1966/08/06 | HLS[c] | from Carlson, Dorris | So far as I know, only a brief notice of Suzuki's death has appeared in various publications/ | |
| [see "Carlson, Dorris" correspondence file] |
| | 1966/08/10 | TLS[x] | from James, M / to W. H. Ferry | Your letter of July 11 deserved an answer long, long ago. I did finally get back from the "Wooly | |
| letter from Pong (fr. M James O.C.S.O. Abbot0 to Ping / sends thanks for invitation to Ferry's center in CA / discussed the situation of Father L (Merton?) |
| | 1966/08/18 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Very impressed with Joseph [illegible] 's piece in | |
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| | 1966/08/18 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Very impressed with Joseph Lyford's (?) piece in Center January 13 - is there any chance | |
| William Shannon's transcription with copy of letter |
| | 1966/08/20 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the latest consignment. I am enclosing a couple of copies of my piece on Suzuki written | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the latest consignment. I am enclosing a couple of copies of my piece on Suzuki written | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/21 | TLS | from Merton | I keep thinking of the DuBay case, and just in order to help a little I thought I might write him | Yes |
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| | 1966/08/25 | TLS | from Merton | McDonald essay on DuBay just came in. I am afraid that when I read the dossier (which should have | Yes |
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| | 1966/09/04 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Yes I would appreciate seeing the letters that were in Life about my piece. Have not seen them. | |
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| | 1966/09/04 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Yes, I would appreciate seeing the letters that were in Life about my piece. Have not seen them. | |
| William Shannon transcription with copy of letter |
| | 1966/09/17 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the Life letters and for the latest batch of stuff, including above all your PEP. | Yes |
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| | 1966/09/17 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | 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] |
| | 1966/09/25 | HLS | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. Bursitis clearing up but I also have a cervical disk, and this will take | |
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| | 1966/10/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Glad to get the latest batch. The Fortune article will be welcome. Have not got into it yet | |
| [copied from photocopy at Dartmouth College] |
| | 1966/10/04 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks, thanks. Three or four packs of things. And your letter, last of all instead of first. | Yes |
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| | 1966/10/04 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks, thanks. Three or four packs of things. And your letter, last of all instead of first. | Yes |
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| | 1966/11/04 | TLS | from Merton | Too bad you could not make it, but anyway, any time is fine. Hope you can drop in next time East-- | |
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| | 1966/11/24 | other | | The Commentary of MARSHALL WINDMILLER [-] THE RISE OF GERMAN NATIONALISM | |
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| | 1966/12/01 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Joan Baez & Ira Sandperl have just left. I talked this morning to the Abbot about | |
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| | 1966/12/01 (#02) | other | | SCLC DIRECTION [-] S.C.L.C. must take the following, new direction if it is to continue as a vehicle | |
| [Ira Sandperl's comments on the direction of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) - dated 1966/11/17, and enclosed with Ferry's letter to Merton] |
| | 1966/12/02 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for the generous supply of <u>Prefaces</u> to T. Naht [sic] Hahn's book. I have already | |
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| | 1966/12/07 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Many thanks for sending Joan and Ira - wire says they'll be here tomorrow - will report afterward. | |
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| | 1966/12/07 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for sending Joan and Ira. Wire says they'll be here tomorrow. Will report | |
| William Shannon transcript with copy of letter |
| | 1966/12/08 | TL[x] | to Kennedy, Jacqueline | Father Richard McSorley encourages me to write to you directly with the following suggestion, which | |
| [carbon copies sent to Fr. Richard McSorley, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Ira Sandperl, and Fr. Daniel Berrigan] |
| | 1966/12/09 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Joan and Ira were here yesterday-- got here late and had all too little time, but it was wonderful | Yes |
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| | 1966/12/09 (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton | Joan and Ira were here yesterday-- got here late and had all too little time, but it was wonderful | Yes |
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| | 1966/12/13 | HLS | to Merton | Joan and Ira called immediately on return to say they'd had a splendid day. She is the élan of that | |
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| | 1966/12/30 | HNS | from Merton | I have just discovered that the annual retreat here will be from Feb 4-11 or thereabouts and that | |
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| | 1967/01/04 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your animadversions on the Zukofsky bit. I hadn't realized: and of course that is what | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/11 | TLS | to Merton | Still worrying around my schedule for next few mos., and looks like April at the earliest. | |
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| | 1967/01/19 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | OK April or any time. What is this about you not liking stuff you are putting out? To me it is | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/19 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | OK April or any time. What is this about you not liking stuff you are putting out? To me it is | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/15 | TLS | from Merton | What, you too! I just saw your secretary's letter of Jan 27th which got stuck in the envelope from | |
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| | 1967/02/17 | TLS | to Merton | I had first my left shoulder & then my right operated on for bursitis - in 1949 and 1951. | |
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| | 1967/02/28 | TLS | to Merton | Called the infirmary just after you'd left - sorry not to have had a chat. Faulkner & Critics | |
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| | 1967/03/05 | TALS[x] | to Friends | The last mimeographed letter is running out and there are still more than four weeks to go before | Yes |
| [labeled "Lent 67" - circular letter mimeographed an send to many of Merton's friends - contains handwritten note by Merton to Ferry (note portion unpublished) - copied from photocopy at Dartmouth College] |
| | 1967/03/14 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Many thanks for the chapter from Jim Douglass: Bonhoeffer-Gandhi. Very fine indeed. He is now | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/14 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the chapter from Jim Douglass: Bonhoeffer-Gandhi. Very fine indeed. He is now | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/22 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I keep forgetting to send off Seven Storey Mnt to Izzy Stone but will do it today. Thanks for | |
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| | 1967/03/22 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I keep forgetting to send off Seven Storey Mnt to Izzy Stone but will do it today. Thanks for | |
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| | 1967/03/24 | TLS | to Merton | Three dozen thanks for the pictures just here; which I shall use in just the charitable way you | |
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| | 1967/03/28 | TLS | to Merton | I'm having pictures made of your new concise zenpix & will send them in a week at latest. | |
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| | 1967/04/01 | TLS | to Merton | I'm trying for a visit some time around Monday 24 April. Would that fit your schedule? I'm leaving | |
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| | 1967/04/10 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Got your note the other day. I have midweek visitors this week and next, and will be taken up | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/10 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Got your note the other day. I have midweek visitors this week and next, and will be taken up | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/10 (#03) | other | from Merton | <u>STATEMENT ON CLERICAL CELIBACY</u> I am happy to accept the invitation to become an Advisor | |
| [Merton's "Statement on Clerical Celibacy" for National Association for Pastoral Renewal - enclosed with 1967/04/10[1] letter] |
| | 1967/04/11 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Another letter: I just finished your excellent piece on Corporations (in the Hamilton Alumni Mag). | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/11 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Another letter: I just finished your excellent piece on Corporations (in the Hamilton Alumni Mag). | Yes |
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| | 1967/04/12 | TLS | to Merton | I cannot come as planned on April 24-25. It now looks, however, as if I can count on getting | |
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| | 1967/04/13 | TALS | to Merton | Your note of 10 April about not coming to Kentucky until May 7 or thereafter arrived an hour or so | |
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| | 1967/04/14 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for warming words about the Hamilton piece. Thought it a bit mushy myself. The Steiner | |
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| | 1967/04/15 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here are copies of a new poem. More if you like. And I am sending a special printing of a piece of | |
| William Shannon transcription and copy of letter |
| | 1967/04/15 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Here are copies of a new poem. More if you like. And I am sending a special printing of a piece | |
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| | 1967/04/15 (#02) | other | from Merton | A ROUND AND A HOPE FOR SMITHGIRLS [-] Children the time of angry Fathers [-] Is torn off the | |
| [poem by Merton - enclosed with 1967/04/15[1] letter] |
| | 1967/04/17 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Certainly May 9th fine. Will expect you. Let me know when - and shall I arrange for you to spend | |
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| | 1967/04/17 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Certainly May 9th fine. Will expect you. Let me know when-& shall I arrange for you to spend the | |
| William Shannon transcription and copy of letter |
| | 1967/06/no? | HPCS | to Merton | We have Archb. Camera Helder [sic] on final program | |
| [verso: color photo - view from the window of the Hotel Intercontinental in Geneva, Switzerland] |
| | 1967/07/18 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your note: I was relieved, I thought something might have happened to you. It was | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/18 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your note: I was relieved, I thought something might have happened to you. It was | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/11 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for the two recent letters and all the stuff, Ramparts etc. I was charmed with the little | |
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| | 1967/08/21 | TALS | to Merton | Your bonbons are getting more varied & nutritious & full of crunchy goodness than ever. | |
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| | 1967/08/22 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | A couple of hasty things. First I appreciate the fine article of Scheer from Ramparts on Egypt. | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/22 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | A couple of hasty things. First I appreciate the fine article of Scheer from Ramparts on Egypt. | Yes |
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| | 1967/08/24 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Many thanks for the latest batch and the note. Sometime I'll give a detailed rundown on what I like | |
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| | 1967/08/24 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the latest batch and the note. Sometime I'll give a detailed rundown on what I like | |
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| | 1967/09/01 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Yes, I'm a sponsor of NCNP thing in Chicago & have been called coupla [sic] times to ask whether | |
| [National Conference for New Politics (NCNP)] |
| | 1967/09/01 (#02) | other | | Delegates Open Battle at New Politics Parley [-] 2,000 From Diverse Radical Groups Hold Debates | |
| [<u>Los Angeles Times</u> article from 1967/08/31 discussing National Conference for New Politics (NCNP) - enclosed with 1967/09/01 letter] |
| | 1967/09/05 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your comments on Hot Summer. I have incorporated them or will incorporate them in new | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/14 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | The David Jones <u>Agenda</u> is a real event and revelation. As I told you, I did not know him | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/14 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | The David Jones <u>Agenda</u> is a real event and revelation. As I told you, I did not know him | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/18 | TL | to Merton | The tape is marvelous! I have sinned & taken a copy without your permission but will not let it | |
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| | 1967/09/24 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | I am so glad you liked the tape. Perfectly ok for you to make copy. Right now I don't have | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/24 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am so glad you liked the tape. Perfectly ok for you to make copy. Right now I don't have | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/26 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | The books arrived yesterday. It is sheer joy to get back into Finnegan's Wake again after all these | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/26 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | The books arrived yesterday. It is sheer joy to get back into Finnegan's Wake again after all these | Yes |
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| | 1967/09/27 | HLS | from Merton | Got a bright idea. As I go on with the <u>Geography of Lograire</u> I could make tapes while it is | Yes |
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| | 1967/10/05 | TAL | to Merton | Several matters before I take off for a short vacation in New Mexico: First, could I visit you Nov. | |
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| | 1967/10/19 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Fine. Nov. 10. I will be expecting you - let me know the time in due course. | |
| [copied from photocopy at Dartmouth College] |
| | 1967/10/20 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | The Stanford talk is simply terrific. Best thing on the subject I have seen anywhere. I agree | |
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| | 1967/10/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | The Stanford talk is simply terrific. Best thing on the subject I have seen anywhere. I agree | |
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| | 1967/10/23? | TALS[x] | from Merton | Just finished a possible discussion piece. About the Zapotec civilization of Mexico, 1400 yrs | |
| [copied from photocopy at Dartmouth College] |
| | 1967/11/06 | TLS | to Merton | Herewith the check for your contribution to our Convocation pamphlet on PIT. Should it have been | |
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| | 1967/11/27 | TLS | to Merton | Check as promised enclosed. Pls. send, mentioning no names. Did you get H. Welch's | |
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| | 1967/11/30 | TALS | to Merton | Just getting off to another day of lecturing in Los Angeles. Wrong description, wrong word. | |
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| | 1967/12/01 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I am just sending off the benefaction to Bob Lax. He will be very happy. Did I say he is coming | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/01 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am just sending off the benefaction to Bob Lax. He will be very happy. Did I say he is coming | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/21 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Just a quick note in the massive confusion of Christmas when I no longer know which end is up. | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/21 (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton | MY CAMPAIGN PLATFORM [-] for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse. | Yes |
| [enclosed with 1967/12/21[1] letter from Merton to Ferry - see Section E.1 of the classification under "My campaign platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse" for a carbon and annotated mimeograph of this statement] |
| | 1967/12/26 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Christmas rush: I hope over. Nice bright sun, I want to get out into the woods, just a few hasty | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/26 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Christmas rush: I hope over. Nice bright sun, I want to get out into the woods, just a few hasty | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/10 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | I forget if I answered your note about possibility of coming later - I'm free during month of | |
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| | 1968/01/10 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | I forget if I answered your note about possibility of coming later - I'm free during most of | |
| William Shannon transcription and copy of letter |
| | 1968/01/25 | TALS | from Merton | Thanks for letter from plane: good rundown on Black self determination. I agree-- and I for one am | Yes |
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| | 1968/01/29 | TALS | to Merton | Glad to have the good report on the Carlson shipment: first report I've had from A Subscriber yet. | |
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| | 1968/02/21 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | J. Laughlin was down lately and we had a good visit, got a lot done with the Literary Trust and with | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/21 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | J. Laughlin was down lately and we had a good visit, got a lot done with the Literary Trust and with | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/21 (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton | Enclosed is a file of documents about a young man that I believe you will be interested in knowing | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/28 | TALS | to Merton | I'm prodding Teo & Brilliant on Lax*Merton, glad that you sent a Xerox to support all my blurbs | |
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| | 1968/03/05 | TL | to Merton | i. Your Goulet package here & sent to our Competent Authorities. I'll let you or him know | |
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| | 1968/03/12 | TALS | to Merton | I realize that you may be more or less out of business for a few weeks. But I just wanted you | |
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| | 1968/03/14 | TLS | from Merton | Your letter says "Friday or Saturday April 22 or 23" but when I look at my executive datebook | |
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| | 1968/03/20 | TLS | from Merton | Fine, April is great. I'll put down April 27th as Saturday is best for me. I'll hope Jim can bring | Yes |
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| | 1968/03/22 | TLS | to Merton | MONKS POND IS GREAT. MAY I HAVE 15 COPIES? I ALREADY REQUESTED THAT NUMBER, | |
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| | 1968/03/23 | TALS | to Merton | This is the anniversary of The Triple Revolution. I can't think what shd. be made of it. So I'm | |
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| | 1968/03/25 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Fine to come April 26. Look forward to seeing you some time in the AM and Jim can get you following | |
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| | 1968/03/25 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Fine to come April 26. Look forward to seeing you some time in the A.M. and Jim can get you | |
| William Shannon transcription and copy of letter |
| | 1968/04/08 | TALS | from Merton | Please let me know if you don't get a total of 15 MPOND along the way. I have sent them out in bits | |
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| | 1968/05/06 | HPCS | from Merton | I must admit that drinking champagne over an entirely invisible South Dakota is something I find | Yes |
| [verso: color photo of a United Air Lines jet in air over a city] |
| | 1968/05/24 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | New Monks Pond just out. Here (over) is a spot on the Cal. shore I am in love with. | Yes |
| [letter written on the back of a black and white photo of a beach on the California coast - another photo depicts a piece of drift wood] |
| | 1968/05/24 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | New Monks Pond just out. Here is a spot on the Cal. Shore I was in love with certainly do hope to | |
| copies of Merton handwritten note with William Shannon's notes / also copy of postcard (1968/05/06) and typed note (1968/04/03) |
| | 1968/05/29 | HLS | to Merton | Can I get an extra supply of Monks Pond II? I'll send some cash if need be. | |
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| | 1968/06/01 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | 8 copies of the new Pond are on their way. I'm also sending to Dan Devereux. I miss Cal. and New | Yes |
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| | 1968/06/01 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | 8 copies of the new Pond are on their way. I'm also sending to Jon Devereax. I miss Cal and New | |
| copies of 06/01 and 06/0 letters with William Shannon's notes |
| | 1968/06/03 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | You were nice enough to send me 15 copies of MPOND I. Not I have a single copy of II. I relayed | |
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| | 1968/06/03 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Golovin, N. E. | Thank you for your note of 5/14 and the attached paper by Thomas Merton, "The Wild Places". | |
| N. E. Golovin was from the Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology in Washington, D.C. |
| | 1968/06/04 | HLS | to Merton | Don't bother to answer my letter of yesterday, about MP II, who got and didn't - | |
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| | 1968/06/06 | HLS | from Merton | The first (single) Mpond was because I had only sorted a few. Then I sent 5, and am now sending 5 | Yes |
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| | 1968/06/16 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Well, I really do take seriously the idea of exploring the Pacific Coast with you. There is no | Yes |
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| | 1968/06/16 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Well, I really do take seriously the idea of exploring the Pacific Coast with you. | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/02 | TLS | from Merton | Who's this great not over 12 poet Rod McKuen? I'd like to use his two poems in either iii or iv, | |
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| | 1968/07/08 (#01) | HPCS | to Merton | Spent the day yesterday with Aelred and his group and am going over again | |
| [verso: color photo of "Ghost Ranch [-] Abiquiu, New Mexico [-] Owned and Operated by THE BOARD OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION [-] UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, U.S.A.] |
| | 1968/07/08 (#02) | HLS | from Merton | Thinking of you at Ghost Ranch. Plans are maturing for my Asian Trip - Japan, Indonesia, Thailand. | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/08 (#03) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thinking of you at Ghost Ranch. Plans are maturing for my Asian Trip - Japan, Indonesia, | |
| copy of letter with notes by William Shannon |
| | 1968/07/11 | TLS | from Merton | Many thanks for the card from Ghost Ranch. You probably by now have my scrawl that I will go sooner | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/16 | TLS | to Merton | Just back, busy time but full of pleasant interludes, at Trappist Snowmass, Aelred's retreat, etc. | |
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| | 1968/07/20 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Fine, I think things are clear enough now to begin to plan something for October. Let's suppose | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Fine, I think things are clear enough now to begin to plan something for October. Let's suppose | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/22 (#01) | HLS | from Merton | Here we go again - moving it up another couple of weeks. I have to fly to Asia Oct 17 | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/22 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here we go again - moving it up another couple of weeks. I have to fly to Asia Oct 17- & participate | |
| copy of letter with William Shannon's notes |
| | 1968/07/24 | TLS | to Merton | Yrs. of 20th and 22d arrived same mail just now. Yes, all set. October 1-11 or 12 will be fine, | |
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| | 1968/07/28 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Great! Will fly to Santa Barbara I hope on Sept 30 and will let you know when my flying saucer | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/28 (#02) | TNS[x] | from Merton | Here is the Geo. ms which I hope to have typed by the time I leave for Asia. Need one carbon, | Yes |
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| | 1968/08/02 | TLS | to Merton | Our Mrs. Karam has engaged to type Logr., beginning this weekend, and will have for you by the end | |
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| | 1968/08/06 | TLS | from Merton | Very glad Jo will come and I think Rogue River is a great idea. The further north we get the better | Yes |
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| | 1968/09/04 | TLS | from Merton | Good idea about having people in for a drink. I sure wouldn't want to trek around all those houses. | Yes |
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| | 1968/09/06 | TLS | from Merton | There will come some mail for me there probably between now and 30th. This will include | Yes |
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| | 1968/09/11 | HPCS | from Merton | Off to the races! First stop New Mexico - | |
| [verso: color photo of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) jet in the air] |
| | 1968/09/25 | HLS | from Merton | I am due to arrive in Santa Barbara on United flight 899 at <u>10 a.m. October 3rd</u>. All set. | Yes |
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| | 1968/09/26 | TALS | from Merton | Your note of the 24 just reached me here in the Chancery Office of the Archdiocese of Anchorage | Yes |
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| | 1968/09/no? | TCS | from Merton | thanks for everything recent. OK false deceptive twelve yr old Rod McKuen is out (now that I think | |
| [verso: black and white photo of the wooden cross outside Merton's hermitage] |
| | 1968/10/15 | HPCS | from Merton | Am all ready to take off. Recommend a fine French restaurant - <u>La Mirabelle</u> around corner | |
| [postcard of the "Edelweiss Bathroom" - "Sound of Music" themed bathroom at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, California] |
| | 1968/10/28 | HPCS | from Merton | Calcutta was busy- depressing- starved. Everybody should have to see that city! Delhi much better. | Yes |
| [verso: color photo of the Jama Masjid, Delhi, "mosque built by Shah Jahan"] |
| | 1968/11/11 | HLS | from Merton | Hastily sending back the manuscript which I only received today. Hope changes are OK. | Yes |
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| | 1968/12/05 (#01) | HPCS | from Merton | Money OK - no need of loan. Thanks for letter and clips that were waiting here today. I am setting | Yes |
| [verso: color picture of Haw Par Villa - Singapore - Tiger Balm Gardens] |
| | 1968/12/05 (#02) | HCS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for letter [ . .] That were waiting here today. [ . .] Sitting down with a fine big bottle | |
| copy of post card with notes by William Shannon |
| | 1968/12/11 | TN[x] | to Staff - Center for the Study of Dem. Inst. | We have just learned through Mr. Ferry, who heard of it from the Abbot of Gethsemani, | |
| announcement of Merton's death from Ferry to staff of Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions |
| | 1968/12/15 | TALS[x] | from Stier, Victor | I've been meaning to drop you a line for a long time, mostly to tell you that I've finally finished | |
| [from Victor Stier of the American Embassy in Colombo, Ceylon, to W. H. Ferry] reflections on Thomas Merton and his Asian journey after his death |
| | 1969/01/30 | TL[x] | to Hart, Patrick | Again gratitude in large portions for your kind letter and especially for the marvelous picture of | |
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| | 1969/04/16? | TLS[x] | to Harding, Vincent | After these admiring months or maybe years, a pleasure to meet you. The admiration has been directed | |
| [received date by Harding is April 16, 1969, but no send date recorded / enclosed with a November 1968 photograph of Merton and the Dalai Lama] |
| | 1972/06/02 | TLS[x] | from Genns, W. T. | I have examined and checked the letters and cards of Father Thomas Merton to Dr. W. H. Ferry which | |
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| | 1972/06/03 | TLS[x] | to Ford, John J. | Thank you for your kind letters. As you know from his communication of 22 May, Mr. Laughlin and I | |
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| | 1972/06/06 | TLS[x] | to Ford, John J. | I am making by means of this letter a gift to the Merton Literary Trust of all the holograph letters | |
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| | 1974/11/09 | TLS | to Center from Ferry, W. H. | Some time ago I sent all the holographic letters I had from Tom to the Merton Collection, I guess | |
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| | 1983/08/20 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to W. H. Ferry | I am sure you will not mind my addressing you as "Ping". After all the "Dear Ping" letters of | |
| seeking contacts in England, etc. |
| | 1983/08/26 | TLS | from Ferry, W. H. / to William H. Shannon | I'm responding to your pleasant note at once because I'm just back from philosophizing at Montreal & | |
| sharing addresses with W. H. Shannon |
| | 1984/01/10 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to W.H. Ferry | IT'S GREAT! I just love your LETTERS FROM TOM. Everything about it - the layout, the type, the | |
| seeking information |
| | 1984/05/15 | TLS[x] | from Shannon, William / to W.H. Ferry | Many thanks for sending on the article about Cardenal which I had not seen and also the 2nd volume | |
| wrapping up the letters project / Ferry correspondence is 2nd longest (85 pgs.) / Jim Forest is longest (102 pgs.) |
| | 2001/06/25 | TLS | to Center from Weeren, John S. | Thank you for your inquiry concerning the Wilbur Hugh Ferry Papers. We hold a small collection of | |
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| | undated/04/13 | HNS | from Merton | If you <u>cannot</u> come later in the summer, then lets make it April 24. But if you foresee | |
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| | undated/05/28 | HNS | from Merton | I forget which of these poems has been sent to you and which not. Copies available of any you may | |
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| | undated/10/05 | HNS | from Merton | I am appalled at the price of | |
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| | undated/10/15 | HNS | from Merton | This is what I was referring to in the Wells [sp?] Newsletter. I forgot to use the real title. | |
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| | undated/10/24 | HNS | from Merton | It would be fine if you came Oct 31 and stayed through the 1st. Hope you will be able to make it - | |
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| | undated/12/no? | HNS | from Merton | I am just getting to the part of Ellul where he speaks of the controlled "ecstatic" quality of | |
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| | undated/no/no | other | | Associated Press [-] POINT OF NO RETURN-Lee Ying, only 19, has to go home again. That's Red China | |
| [undated news clipping - photo of crying Chinese refugee in Hong Kong] |
| | undated/no/no | other | | I visited Wilbur H. Ferry at his home in Scarsdale, New York on the 11th of August, 1983. Though my | |
| brief biography and thoughts on the friendship between Merton and W.H. Ferry / also footnote to letter of 1964/03/23 |
| | undated/no/no | other | | One of the most important books of our troubled times [-] A perfect manual for everyone working for | |
| [pamphlet for the book <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> with introduction by Merton] |
| | undated/no/no | HNS | from Merton | Thanks Ping - good book, but we can't keep it here - not space. Tom | |
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| | undated/no/no | HNS | from Merton | Very sorry to hear of your trouble. Come if and when you can - we will expect you until it is clear | |
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