| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1962/10/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Please forgive me for not answering your letter. Your postcard reminded me of it today, I mean | |
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| | 1963/05/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The Lord alone knows how badly I need secretarial help. But I just don't see how the correspondence | |
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| | 1963/11/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | First of all, here is the manuscript that I said I would send for you to type. Most of it is fairly | |
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| | 1963/11/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | First of all, here is the manuscript that I said I would send for you to type. Most of it is fairly | |
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| | 1964/01/16 | HLS | to Merton | Your last letter gave me great consolation during my illness. I have been shut in for a month - | |
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| | 1964/03/14 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the wonderful news. I rejoice with you and congratulate you. Lent is the right time for | |
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| | 1964/03/14 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the wonderful news. I rejoice with you and congratulate you. Lent is the right time for | |
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| | 1964/04/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have still not been able to get to work on the ms of that book but here is a small job, which | |
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| | 1964/07/20 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your notes and news. I think of you often but don't have time to write a decent letter. | |
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| | 1965/02/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your note. Here is the ms for typing. It is not much, but there will be something else | |
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| | 1965/02/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note. Here is the ms for typing. It is not much, but there will be something else | |
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| | 1966/08/17 | TANS[x] | from Merton | I am always glad to hear from you. If I don't always answer it is because I can't keep up. | |
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| | 1966/09/04 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | "After the days and the seasons..." once more she presents herself at your door - the peculiar | |
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| | 1966/09/04 (#02) | other | to Merton | A boy [-] A thief [-] An urchin [-] the bitter bells [-] hold harbor here. No heart | |
| [poem by Hocks] |
| | 1966/12/25 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Sorry, I have just had to give up any hope of answering most of my Christmas mail personally. | |
| [labeled "Christmas Morning"] |
| | 1967/01/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a ms to be typed. The usual, for publication, and with four carbons if possible. | |
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| | 1967/01/31 | other | | Abbey of Gethsemani [-] Typing of manuscript - 26 pages @ .30 ea. [-] <u>$ 7.80</u> [-] thank you. | |
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| | 1967/02/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The ms arrived yesterday. Many thanks. You did a very good job, much better than anything I could | |
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| | 1967/04/17 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I would have got this to you before but it is rather a major and delicate operation to scrounge | |
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| | 1967/04/17 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I would have got this to you before but it is rather a major and delicate operation to scrounge | |
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| | 1967/08/15 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Good to get your note. I think your decision to go on working for the University is very wise. | |
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| | 1967/09/07 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your letter arrived today, and yesterday came the indocin at which I am touched and for which I am | |
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| | 1967/09/07 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter arrived today, and yesterday came the indocin at which I am touched and for which I am | |
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| | 1968/01/no? | other | | Is it [-] your memoir [-] haunting me this summer [-] whispering lines from letters to the world, | |
| [poem by Hocks for Merton] |
| | 1968/03/16 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Good to get your note. I need help with typing, very much so, and am delighted that you want to do | |
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| | 1968/03/16 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Good to get your note. I need help with typing, very much so, and am delighted that you want to do | |
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| | 1968/04/08 | other | | STATEMENT [-] paula hocks [-] To: Abbey of Gethsemani [-] Trappist, Kentucky [-] MANUSCRIPT | |
| [handwritten annotation by Merton - "pd. April 8."] |
| | 1968/04/18 | other | | Statement [-] ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI [-] TRAPPIST, KENTUCKY [-] To type manuscript for F. Louis | |
| [handwritten annotations by Merton, including "Sent April 23."] |
| | 1968/04/23 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks again, so much. I am sending the check, with a little extra for postage, all in round | |
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| | 1968/04/23 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks again, so much. I am sending the check, with a little extra for postage, all in round | |
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| | 1968/04/no? (#01) | TL[x] | from Merton to Friends | As I write this there is snow on the ground from a blizzard we had the other day, but the sun is | |
| [labeled "EASTER LETTER 1968" - see also "Circular Letters to Friends" file] |
| | 1968/04/no? (#02) | other | | FOUND MACARONIC ANTIPOEM [-] Amicorum communia funt omnia [-] Mein | |
| [photocopy of things sent by Merton with circular letter of the same date - sending his poem from <u>Monks Pond</u>, a photograph of him and a photograph of the wooden cross in front of his hermitage] |
| | 1968/05/21 | TLS[x] | from De Ganck, Roger | Do not think that I have forgotten you. For so long I intended to write you, but the time has been | |
| [from Fr. Roger De Ganck, O.C.S.O., priest in residence at Redwoods Monastery in California] |
| | 1968/06/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the first half of the book I would like you to type. The rest will be along shortly. | |
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| | 1968/06/23 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the rest of it. Just a few more papers to come, however, in the last section. | |
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| | 1968/07/19 (#01) | TNS[x] | from Merton | I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble. Of course I don't want you to injure yourself working more | |
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| | 1968/07/19 (#02) | TANS[x] | from Merton | Here are the last two pages, the extra material on Ghost Dance that I spoke of. Hope you are | |
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| | 1968/07/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | For various reasons I was quite busy during May and June, and so for July and part of August I am | |
| [labeled "MIDSUMMER 1968"] |
| | 1968/08/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was terribly sorry to hear your trouble had got so bad that you had to be hospitalized. | |
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| | 1968/09/18 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Right now I am in the hospital but expect to be out shortly to work on the MS. I will send you. | |
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| | 1968/12/11 | TL[x] | from Trappists in Bangkok / to Flavian Burns | The news of the sudden and unexpected death of your beloved son, Father Louis, has already been | |
| [from six Trappist delegates at the conference in Bangkok to Dom Flavian Burns, Abbot of Gethsemani, in response to Merton's death - copies sent to Merton's friends] |
| | 1968/12/19 | TAL[x] | from Monks of Gethsemani / to Friends of Merton | We are deeply moved by the countless expressions of sympathy which we have been receiving | |
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| | 1968/no/no? | TLS | to Merton | think of you often. If you have any mss. for typing, I could do some if there was not too much rush | |
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| | 1992/12/15 | TLS[x] | to Robert Lax Foundation | For several years prior to his death, Tom Merton had been sending me -- at my desk in the Philosophy | |
| [copies of Merton manuscripts to go to Robert Lax Foundation] |
| | undated/04/08 | HLS | to Merton | Ms. <u>nearly</u> done. Will mail in a couple of days. I'm fine. Filled w/ joy, bent w/ sorrow | |
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| | undated/no/no | HLS[x] | from De Ganck, Roger | As you know (I assume) we do not intend to become a 'large' community, 15 (mature) persons at the | |
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| | undated/no/no | other | | CONTENTS [-] PART ONE- THE BLACK REVOLUTION [-] 1. Letters to a White Liberal [-] 2. The Legend | |
| [table of contents, handwritten by Merton - possibly send with 1963/11/22 letter which has a reference to "The Black Revolution"] |
| | undated/no/no | other | | DR. M. B. BRAHMACHARI: A PERSONAL TRIBUTE [-] It was my great good fortune to make | |
| [tribute by Merton to Hindu monk and friend Brahmachari] |
| | undated/no/no | TLS | to Merton | Long times, August days once more, the wheels turning. All you say, the emblems. Still, it will | |
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| | undated/no/no | TNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. If you have time for a little typing, I hope to send you a short and not | |
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