This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Skillin, Edward S.".
Edward Skillin was the long-time editor of the Catholic magazine, The Commonweal, and wrote to Merton from New York. In 1967, he shifted from sole editor to publisher, a position he held until his retirement in 1998.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Rissin, Rhoda" file for a signed original to Merton and forwarded through New Directions.
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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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1962/02/08 |
TALS to Merton |
Sorry to bother you, but there is an enthusiastic reader who is thinking about getting up enough |
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«detailed view» |
2. |
1962/05/no? |
TLS to Merton |
The enclosed just came out today and we are hastening to send you a copy. As the introductory note |
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«detailed view» |
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1964/02/13 |
TLS to Merton |
We are all of us most grateful to you for sending us the enclosed article; I trust that you realize |
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1964/02/27 |
TLS to Merton |
It was awfully good of you to take up our suggestions about your article and we all like what you |
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1964/07/20 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
As far as I can tell, there has not been much comment in Catholic magazine in the U.S. |
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1964/07/24 |
TLS to Merton |
We are much interested in your discussion of "Honest to God" and are delighted to accept it |
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1965/03/23 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I have your letter asking me to review HONESTY IN THE CHURCH for the Commonweal. |
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1965/07/07 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Here is a piece which you might be interested in, as an article. I don't know whether it is right |
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1966/05/27 |
TLS to Merton |
We were delighted to have your article and to be featuring it in our June 3 issue, copies of which |
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1966/06/17 |
TLS to Merton |
Your kind letter to Jim O'Gara was unhappily mislaid for awhile but we do hope the book you are |
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11. |
1966/10/28 |
TLS to Merton |
We are very grateful to you for thinking of us and sending us that beautiful elegy-- which we are |
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1966/11/07 |
TLS to Merton |
I was happy to correct the word at the end of line 17 in your Elegy. It is interesting to hear that |
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