This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Gold, Don".
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. |
1964/01/13 |
TLS to Merton |
I found your article quite fascinating. I want one or two other editors to read it. |
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«detailed view» |
| 2. |
1964/07/07 |
TLS to Merton |
Recently, I had the pleasure--and a profound one it was--of listening to a series of recordings made |
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| 3. |
1964/07/10 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Your idea sounds quite feasible and I think I would enjoy doing an article on the monastery |
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| 4. |
1964/07/13 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your pleasant letter. I'm delighted that you find my idea feasible and that you are |
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| 5. |
1964/07/18 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Since I last wrote to you I have been in touch with our Father Abbot, who has still not returned |
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Abbot will not allow article about the monastery for publication in Holiday - already turned down many others / check again in 1966 about an article about all U.S. Trappist monasteries
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| 6. |
1964/07/18 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Since I last wrote to you I have been in touch with our Father Abbot, who has still not returned |
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[same as 1964/07/18 TL[c] with signature - printed from a scanned copy]
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| 7. |
1964/07/20 |
TLS to Merton |
I won't attempt to conceal my sense of regret about the latest developments. I accept your account |
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| 8. |
1964/07/24 |
TLS to Merton |
After dispatching my modestly argumentative letter to you, I began thinking of other essays you |
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| 9. |
1964/07/28 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Your letter and the Golding piece (which I have not yet read, but will with pleasure) have arrived. |
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| 10. |
1964/07/31 |
TLS to Merton |
Your latest letter was received with considerable enthusiasm by all of us. We're delighted that |
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| 11. |
1964/12/19 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Here is the article. It ought to get to you sometime in the Christmas rush, probably the worst |
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| 12. |
1965/01/16 |
TL[c] from Merton |
About a month ago I sent off that article you asked for, aware that it might get lost |
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| 13. |
1965/01/21 |
TLS to Merton |
I did, indeed, receive your article, was fascinated by it and droped [sic] you a note about it. |
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| 14. |
1965/01/25 |
TLS to Merton |
As I indicated to you earlier, we would like you to do a couple of small things with your essay RAIN |
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| 15. |
1965/01/30 |
TL[c] from Merton |
The suggestion for revisions was, I think, a good one. I have gone through the whole piece, |
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| 16. |
1965/02/01 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for making the revisions so promptly and so effectively. I'll hold the manuscript |
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| 17. |
1965/02/11 |
TL[c] from Merton |
The censor's green light for Rain and Rhinoceros came today, so there are no further obstacles. |
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| 18. |
1966/01/25 |
TLS to Merton |
What's this I hear about you backing away from contemporary issues? It will do you no good to say |
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| 19. |
1966/02/12 |
TL[c] from Merton |
It was good to get your note. Certainly the fact that I don't want to make political noises anymore |
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| 20. |
1966/02/24 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks for your note. I'm as much in a haze as you are about subjects you might do for us. |
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| 21. |
undated/no/no (#01) |
HLS from Merton |
Congratulations on the new job. As a matter of fact my good friend Naomi Burton is an editor there |
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[would seem to be dated from 1966 through 1968 - Gold is still with Holiday at least through early 1966 / mentions "D", which is probably the publisher, Doubleday / low resolution copy] Naomi Burton [Stone] /
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| 22. |
undated/no/no (#02) |
HLS from Merton |
Glad you are still there. I am in the middle of writing my piece for Holiday and it may need |
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need for "sympathetic editing" / sending photo (not included here - photo refers to one of Merton taken by Sibylle Akers)
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