This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "McNiff, Mary S.".
Mary S. McNiff was Assistant to the Librarian of St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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1960/04/19 |
TLS to Merton |
There are remote and proximate motives for writing this letter. (And I cannot remember whether |
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1965/04/28 |
TALS to Merton |
Do you realize, mon ami, that you have entrusted me with the makings of a fortune? Yes, I think you |
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1965/05/03 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Of course I have no power to approve the commercial reproduction of the picture, and as a matter |
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1965/05/05 |
TALS to Merton |
Let's cut the cackle. Tom McDonnell was right. We are, in a way, a crazy blend of know-how, |
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1965/05/08 |
TL[c] from Merton |
There's no cackle to cut, really. Everything is ok. I happened to see Victor H. the other day |
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1965/06/02 |
TL[c] from Merton |
The reproduction of the VH painting is certainly first class. Thank you so much for it. |
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1966/04/05 |
TLS to Merton |
Enclosed are two items which might interest you. The last term paper of Jonathan Daniels |
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1966/10/20 |
TLS to Merton |
It was just like getting a letter - opening THE CRITIC and finding the Victor Hammer portrait gazing |
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1967/05/04 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
It is very quiet today. The immediate chores are done and I have been reading (reveling in) |
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[letter completed and sent 1967/05/09]
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1967/05/04 (#02) |
TAN from Fran |
Thanks so much for Merton sheet, again the man does a good deal to keeping this frail (?) body alive |
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[a note to McNiff from Fran (no last name) and forwarded to Merton]
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1967/06/14 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Yesterday the Yuban arrived, and the notebooks too. Perfect. Those notebooks are the best, |
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1967/07/10 |
TLS to Merton |
How very kind of you to send the inscribed copy of Cassiodorus! Thank you. The book has not come |
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1967/08/30 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I must report the series of international encounters the McNiffs have been enjoying. |
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1967/08/30 (#02) |
HN[x] from ? |
Present this Japanese fan with my writing picture and Japanese poem (Woka). to Mrs. McNiff |
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1967/08/30 (#03) |
TANS to Merton |
Our good friend, Tom Coffey of Dimension Books, would dearly love to publish something of yours |
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1968/02/08 |
TLS to Merton |
It's too much. Two communications within a day. But Phil brought home the Kroeber copy. |
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1968/04/05 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
It's ironic, really. I have waited for weeks to write in reply to your pre-Lenten letter, hoping |
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1968/04/05 (#02) |
other[x] to Merton |
An exhibit of productions from Stanbrook Abbey Press will open at The Library, Saint John's Seminary |
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