This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Fitzsimmons, James".
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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| 1. |
1964/no/no? |
TNS to Merton |
Would be honoured if you would send us some poems, perhaps some photographs of drawings too, |
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[verso: subscription card and description of the The Lugano Review, a sister publication of Art International]
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| 2. |
1965/01/01 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for letting me know about your new LUGANO REVIEW. I will keep you in mind when I have |
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| 3. |
1965/01/09 |
TLS to Merton |
I was delighted to receive your letter and the things you sent, and shall look forward to working |
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| 4. |
1965/01/14 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter of the 9th. I am quite interested in a few books to review, just as long as |
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| 5. |
1965/01/29 |
TLS to Merton |
Things have been a bit hectic of late and I'm not sure whether I answered your letter of the 14th |
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| 6. |
1965/02/03 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Your letter just came in, and I have finally got some decent prints of the drawings which I am |
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| 7. |
1965/04/05 |
TALS to Merton |
Am wondering why I haven't heard from you lately and hope you are well. Perhaps you have been |
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| 8. |
1965/04/08 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Actually I was going to write to you today anyway if your letter had not come in. Now with many |
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| 9. |
1965/04/29 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Here is the text of the Chuang Tzu imitations I have been doing. This is not yet the whole book, |
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| 10. |
1965/05/02 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for your long and informative letter of April 8th. Would have replied before but have been |
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| 11. |
1965/05/06 |
TLS to Merton |
A hasty note (because I am buried in work) to let you know that the Chuang-Tzu "imitations" arrived |
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| 12. |
1965/05/31 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter of May 6th and the one that preceded it by a couple of days. I have done no |
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| 13. |
1965/12/17 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
You did not answer me about that Zen review article, but I have written it anyway and I think it is |
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| 14. |
1966/01/04 |
HLS to Merton |
Many thanks for the Zen article. Of course I will use it, and right away. I regret only that you |
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| 15. |
1966/02/18 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Your letter of the 4th reached me after I had mailed back the proofs, and I think you are right that |
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| 16. |
1966/02/25 |
TANS to Merton |
Thank you for your kind letter. Mine was written in the slough of despond that one finds oneself in |
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| 17. |
1966/08/17 |
TL[c] from Merton |
The new Lugano came yesterday and I am very happy with it. An excellent issue. I am most |
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| 18. |
1966/08/22 |
TLS to Merton |
The double number I had sent off to you a couple of weeks ago or so may well be the last of TLR. |
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| 19. |
1966/08/25 |
TLS to Merton |
Your very gratifying letter of the 17th to hand. Am permitting myself to quote your praise |
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| 20. |
1966/09/17 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am really very sorry indeed to hear that the LUGANO REVIEW sank and is no more. If it can surface |
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