| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1961/07/31 | HLS | to Merton | Dorothy showed us the poem you sent - which she said you described as "gruesome" - and we formed | |
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| | 1961/08/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | There are complications about that Auschwitz Poem. First of all if it is to get published at all | Yes |
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| | 1961/08/11 | TALS | to Merton | I am at a loss for words, I'm afraid, as eight days ago we went to press and, as you no doubt know | |
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| | 1961/10/21 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Your letter of the 17th or rather 18th reached me today. I had not received the previous one | Yes |
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| | 1961/10/29 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I want to get this text to you so that you can at least read it. I am trying to get it through the | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/02 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the enclosure. I will make good use of it, as the article I sent you | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/05 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the revised article. It is a little longer. I have beefed it up quite a lot. I will let | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/08 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and all the enclosures. Pax bulletin is fine. Today Father Abbot will | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/08 (#02) | telegram[x] | from Merton | NO FINAL APPROVAL RECEIVED YET BUT EXPECT NO MAJOR REVISION. [-] MERTON | |
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| | 1961/11/13 | telegram[x] | from Merton | ARTICLE FULLY APPROVED GO AHEAD = [-] MERTON == | |
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| | 1961/11/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The telegram announcing the censors' approval of the article was sent the other day. We made it | Yes |
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| | 1961/11/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letters, the copies of the paper, and all the other clippings etc. You have been | Yes |
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| | 1961/12/20 | HNS[x] | from Merton | This is being sent to Jubilee, and they will possibly want to print it. If CW wants it also, ok | Yes |
| [note on title page of Merton's essay "Christian Ethics and Nuclear War"] |
| | 1962/01/05 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Are there still one or two copies left of the October issue of CW with the Roots of War? | Yes |
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| | 1962/01/29 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is really quite providential that the Peace article I wrote for the Commonweal Christmas issue | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #25] |
| | 1962/01/29 (#02) | other | from Merton | It is really quite providential that the Peace article I wrote for the Commonweal Christmas issue | Yes |
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| [Cold War Letters #25 - printed in the Catholic Worker newspaper, February 1962] |
| | 1962/01/29 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | It is really quite providential that the Peace article I wrote for the Commonweal Christmas issue | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #25 - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/02/05 | HLS[x] | from Merton | The poem by Walter Kerrell is a good one. It perhaps needs more working over. It gives me the | Yes |
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| | 1962/02/06 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Today is Dorothy's feast and I am remembering her in a special way. Do please give her my | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #31] |
| | 1962/02/06 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | I was very moved by your account of the civil disobedience at the AEC. It must have been very | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #31 - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/02/27 | TL[x] | from Merton | I have no class today, so don't come over. But I will be over here in the guesthouse around ten | |
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| | 1962/03/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I oweyou [sic] a lot of letters, and I want to get this one off in a hurry to say I will at least be | Yes |
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| | 1962/03/28 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your note just arrived and put an end to my wondering about the sentence. I too had hoped it would | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #61] |
| | 1962/03/28 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Your note just arrived and put an end to my wondering about the sentence. I too had hoped it would | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #61 - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/04/29 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | First of all I ought to have congratulated you and Jean long ago. The reason why I didn't was | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #69 - copy of 1st and 2nd page by William Shannon with his notes made during publication - includes 2nd copy of page 2 with his notes and transcriptions - another clear copy from Swarthmore was made to present a letter without annotations] |
| | 1962/04/29 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | First of all I ought to have congratulated you and Jean long ago. The reason why I didn't was | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #69 - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/05/15 | TLS | to Merton | Hot weather, moving, painting, work - all things working together have kept me from answering you. | |
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| | 1962/05/17 (#01) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Yesterday I received a very moving letter from Hal Stalling telling me about Everyman | Yes |
| [copy of original] |
| | 1962/05/17 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Yesterday I received a very moving letter from Hal Stalling telling me about <u>Everyman</u> | Yes |
| [William Shannon's transcript - no extant copy of original] |
| | 1962/05/23 | TALS | to Merton | I have just finished reading over your long Low Sunday letter (on the axe), reading over it for the | |
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| | 1962/06/14 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for all your letters and for the enclosures, particularly theBulletin [sic], and George's | Yes |
| [letter's date typed as "June 14, 1892 (more or less)"] |
| | 1962/06/14 (#02) | TALS | to Merton | This note must be typed in a hurry as I have some reading to do before I get back to work this | |
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| | 1962/06/14 (#03) | other | by Watkin, E.I. | Whatever the anarchist's amiable dreams, the government of human society, of sinners and fools, | |
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| [typed transcript of a section of E. I. Watkin's <i>The Church in Council</i> - Forest encloses with his letter of June 14, 1962] |
| | 1962/06/30 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Those mimeographed things are finally on the way. Hope it is not too hot there. John Wu was here, | |
| [verso of postcard contains an icon of the Angel Gabriel from Maria Laach, Germany] |
| | 1962/07/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your long letter, and the remarks on the book. That just goes to show what a mess one | Yes |
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| | 1962/07/17 | TLS[x] | to Merton | I had just gotten off the phone with CNVA when Jean called to let me know that there was a letter | |
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| | 1962/08/01 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Sorry I have not written — I have written to almost no one. Have had retreats to give and work | |
| [verso of postcard: religious art from Maria Laach, Germany] |
| | 1962/08/07 | HLS[x] | from Merton | The leaflet for "Individuals for Peace" is excellent. Could you send me a few more? | |
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| | 1962/08/16 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James | You have a long memory-- and I appreciate your gracious note of August 8 with the enclosed copy | |
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| | 1962/08/27 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for all the letters, poems etc. I will comment on the latter when I have more time. | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #101] |
| | 1962/08/27 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for all the letters, poems etc. I will comment on the latter when I have more time. | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #101 - copy from bound set] |
| | 1962/08/no? | HLS | to Merton | Tom Cornell, a long standing friend of Jean's and mine, one of the "founding fathers" of CNVA's | |
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| [no date but likely between 1962/08/16 and 1962/09/22 letters - CNVA (Committee for Nonviolent Action)] |
| | 1962/09/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for letting me know that the people at SANE are mimeographing my book. | Yes |
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| | 1962/11/07 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I was happy to hear about your visit to Regina Laudis. I have never met Mother Benedicta but | Yes |
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| | 1962/11/07 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was happy to hear about your visit to Regina Laudis. I have never met Mother Benedicta but | Yes |
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| | 1962/11/19 | other[x] | from Merton | Very good letter - I'll answer later. This is not for publication. Am sending more copies under | |
| [handwritten note (to Forest?) sent with copy of essay "Passivity and Abuse of Authority" published in the <u>Catholic Worker</u> under the name "Benedict Monk"] |
| | 1962/12/08 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry I am so late, as usual, in answering. First of all, I don't trust my own judgment on any | Yes |
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| | 1962/12/08 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry I am so late, as usual, in answering. First of all, I don't trust my own judgment on any | Yes |
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| | 1962/12/08 (#03) | other | from Merton | Letters .. . Cuba Project [-] Dear Editors: I don't trust my own judgment on any Cuba project, as I | |
| [published verson of letter sent to Jim Forest and published in <i>Liberation</i> (New York), VIII #2, April 1963, p. 30] |
| | 1962/12/no (#01) | HCS[x] | from Merton | THIS GIFT FROM: Uncle Louie and the Novices. | Yes |
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| | 1962/12/no? (#02) | HCS | to Merton | Thanks for your prayers- May your Christmas be filled with peace | |
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| [verso: woodcut by Forest of Mary and Jesus with a quote from a hymn at Lauds on the Feast of the Nativity - addressed to "Tom and Novices" and signed by "Jim Forest, Jean Forest and the Forest to be" - no date but seemingly precedes Merton's January 17, 1963 letter] |
| | 1963/01/17 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | How many letters of yours haven't I answered? First I must get in my congratulations and blessings | Yes |
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| | 1963/01/17 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | How many letters of yours haven't I answered? First I must get in my congratulations and blessings | Yes |
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| | 1963/03/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am again behind any thought of schedule in answering letters, late with everyone. | Yes |
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| | 1963/04/17 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | Here is a poem which you can perhaps use in <u>Liberation</u> -only wait for the censors please! | Yes |
| [verso of postcard: religious art from Maria Laach, Germany] |
| | 1963/04/23 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Your letter and the stuff came today (April 23) [-] I was waiting around for the poem to be | Yes |
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| | 1963/04/26 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Quick note. Here is the letter I spoke of in my last note to you, the one with the poem. | Yes |
| [the enclosed piece with the letter seems to be Merton's letter-essay, "Neither Caliban nor Uncle Tom"] |
| | 1963/04/26 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | The Caliban piece is deeply disturbing. It is another reaction to the terribly explosive situation | |
| [letter/article on James Baldwin's <i>The Fire Next Time</i> - three copies, one with "Caliban" handwritten by Merton - see also Merton's letter-essay, "Neither Caliban nor Uncle Tom" / see also Item #03 of this date] |
| | 1963/04/26 (#03) | other[x] | | The Caliban piece is deeply disturbing. It is another reaction to the terribly explosive situation | |
| [copy of the published version of "Neither Caliban nor Uncle Tom" by Thomas Merton from <u>Liberation</u>, June 1963 - Merton comments on a review, also included, of David Lytton's <i>The Goddam White Man</i>, "Let's Along and Do the Murder First" by Wallace Hamiton] |
| | 1963/06/07 | TAL[c] | from Merton | About the paragraph on Danish Non-Violence. Let's recast it as follows: "The whole Eichmann story | Yes |
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| | 1963/06/10 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the terrific Rustin piece. Clear and definite and saying what is what. I am glad this | Yes |
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| | 1963/06/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the last two letters and enclosures. About the business in Miss. the murder of Evers | Yes |
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| | 1963/06/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and the Libs, also for the Cuban book. I always like to see good stuff | Yes |
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| | 1963/07/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Did I send back that copy of Dellinger's piece? It was terrific, and Barbara Deming's also, | Yes |
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| | 1963/07/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some copies of Letter to Papal Volunteer. Thanks for the Hazard stuff, in case I didn't | Yes |
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| | 1963/10/19 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | The main reason why I have not been answering is that I was for some time in the hospital, and if I | Yes |
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| | 1963/10/19 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | The main reason why I have not been answering is that I was for some time in the hospital, and if I | Yes |
| [note verso contains list of eight essays and prefaces Merton sent to Forest with letter] |
| | 1963/12/19 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | As usual I have been very bad about writing and cannot promise to get better. Next year it is going | Yes |
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| | 1963/12/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | As usual I have been very bad about writing and cannot promise to get better. Next year it is going | Yes |
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| | 1963/no/no | HNS[x] | from Muste, A.J. | Found this in my file. It is affecting to one who knows Birmngh but I don't think it's good enough | |
| rejecting Merton's poem "And the Children of Birmingham" for "LIB" - likely <i>Liberation</i> magazine |
| | 1964/01/15 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I am glad thw [sic] calligraphies were acceptable. I will try to send more | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/15 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I am glad thw [sic] calligraphies were acceptable. I will try to send more | Yes |
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| | 1964/01/29 (#01) | TL[x] | from Merton to Michigan Local Board n. 90 | This letter is written in support of Mr Robert Kachnowski who is hoping to be classified | |
| [from Merton to Local Draft Board 90 of Detroit, Michigan in support of Robert Kachnowski's petition for conscientious objector classification - Forest asked Merton to write to them] |
| | 1964/01/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Kachnowski, Robert | it is wild, but controlled. havn't [sic] copied lax stuff yet but am hunting for nimble-fingered | |
| [letter from Robert Kachnowski to James Forest thanking Forest for asking Merton to write to the draft board on Kachnowski's behalf] |
| | 1964/02/07 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Good to get letter and copy of letter from Bob which fitted his description wild but controlled. | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/07 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Good to get letter and copy of letter from Bob which fitted his description wild but controlled. | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/27 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Already a long time since your letter of the 16th, which took a while to get through in any case. | Yes |
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| | 1964/02/27 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Already a long time since your letter of the 16th, which took a while to get through in any case. | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/16 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Certainly you can use the material fro [sic] that preface. Really no need to ask permission | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/16 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Certainly you can use the material fro [sic] that preface. Really no need to ask permission | Yes |
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| | 1964/03/30 | TLS | to Merton | After over a year of patient saving of store stamps - we get one every time we spend a dime, | |
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| | 1964/05/20 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks letters and everything, all the good things and the not so good ones like that nerve gas deal | Yes |
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| | 1964/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks letters and everything, all the good things and the not so good ones like that nerve gas deal | |
| recent visit of the Hibakusa - gift of paper crane / Ernesto Cardenal / Miguel Grinberg / readings on Islam by Louis Massignon - reviewing Buddhist and Hindu books - Walpola Rahula / Robert Lax "Impossible to edit" / Sister Prisca and the Shakers |
| | 1964/06/14 | TL[x] | to Merton | These are the hurried last days before we leave on the FOR journey. My head is responding | |
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| | 1964/07/20 | TALS | to Merton | We have been back a week--and I am conscious that four weeks ago at this moment we were on the brink | |
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| | 1964/07/22 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter. Glad to hear the trip was a success. Time moves fast and you have covered | Yes |
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| | 1964/07/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter. Glad to hear the trip was a success. Time moves fast and you have covered | Yes |
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| | 1964/08/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | Lord, these are unpleasant times. We have Vietnam, we have Goldwater, we are stuck with Johnson, | |
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| | 1964/08/27 | TALS | to Merton | Enclosed is my semi-annual grab bag, sent to you without rhyme not reason as things which I somehow | |
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| | 1964/09/01 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and the big packet of things. I am very grateful as always. I need this kind | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and the big packet of things. I am very grateful as always. I need this kind | Yes |
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| | 1964/09/10 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Thank you for your letter and thoughts both on Vietnam and the Vietnam article I had written. | |
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| | 1964/09/10 (#02) | TCS | to Merton | One important item which isn't mentioned in the attached letter. We are currently in the process | |
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| [verso: "Joy is the most infallible sign of the presents of GOD. - leon bloy"] |
| | 1964/10/02 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the letters and all the things sent. I am sorry I forgot about the name business. | Yes |
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| | 1964/10/02 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letters and all the things sent. I am sorry I forgot about the name business. | Yes |
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| | 1964/10/05 | TALS | to Merton | How I sympathize with your hesitancies concerning name use; ever since the Pax experience I have had | |
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| | 1964/10/09 | TLS[x] | to Deming, Barbara | I am writing to you in haste, wanting to do little more than share with you a paragraph | |
| [in the Deming papers at Radcliffe, in Merton's correspondence file - Jim Forest quotes to Deming a recent letter of Merton's in which he mentions something she wrote] |
| | 1964/10/16 | TALS | to Merton | Let me bother you momentarily with a few requests for some recent articles. Could you send as many | |
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| | 1964/10/21 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the latest. I am sending back Jean's review of Perrin which is very good. For the CW? | Yes |
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| | 1964/10/21 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the latest. I am sending back Jean's review of Perrin which is very good. For the CW? | Yes |
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| | 1964/12/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for letters and clippings. The stuff on the bomb was hallucinating. And all the rest too. | Yes |
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| | 1965/01/09 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the "to whom it may concern". You are right about the prejudices of the draft law. | |
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| | 1965/01/09 (#02) | TL[x] | by Merton | To Whom it may concern: I have examined the reasons advanced by Stephen Spiro in his claim | |
| [see also the "Spiro, Stephen" file] |
| | 1965/02/26 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I am sorry I have not been able to type up the November talk yet. Have been very busy and still | |
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| | 1965/03/08 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I thought you would like to see this letter to the <u>Commonweal</u> which they may or may not print | Yes |
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| | 1965/03/13 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for sending along the clippings about Selma. There does not seem to be much hope of very | Yes |
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| | 1965/03/13 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for sending along the clippings about Selma. There does not seem to be much hope of very | Yes |
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| | 1965/03/18 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for clippings on Selma. The other day I sent some stuff to you at the old Staten Island Box | |
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| | 1965/04/03 | TNS[x] | from Merton | Do you know Dave Kirk's address in Pittsburgh? He wrote from B'ham that he wanted to see me | |
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| | 1965/04/09 | HNS[x] | from Merton | This is just to say that I will offer my Palm Sunday Mass for the CPF and all your needs. Very busy. | |
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| | 1965/05/16 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a first draft of a letter I am hoping to send off to Paul VI tomorrow. I was shocked but | Yes |
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| | 1965/05/16 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | Here is a first draft of a letter I am hoping to send off to Paul VI tomorrow. I was shocked but | Yes |
| [photocopy from published letters] |
| | 1965/05/no? | TNS[x] | from Merton | Here are copies of another letter I sent to the CWL. Yours was good. Dan's article on Selma was | |
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| | 1965/06/14 | HNS[x] | from Merton | I hope I am not too late with these signatures, all from the monks. Don't put them on your mailing | |
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| | 1965/08/02 | TLS[x] | from Schworer, Frank | Please find enclosed our check #3838 for $125.00 which Father Thomas Merton asked us to send you | |
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| | 1965/08/20 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and for letting me see the statement, which is very good. Is it too long? | Yes |
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| | 1965/09/04 | TL[c] | to Merton | There are about seven lbs. of correspondence here waiting to be answered, some going back as far | |
| Catholic Peace Fellowship statement on Vietnam (was enclosed not extant) by Herbert Burke, Leslie Dewart, Gordon Zahn, Jim Douglass, and Dan Berrigan / Merton's permission to live as a hermit and Forest's reaction / requests Merton's "Schema XIII: An Open Letter to the American Hierarchy" |
| | 1965/11/11 (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | Just heard about suicide of Robert Laport [sic] While I do not hold Catholic Peace Fellowship | Yes |
| [handwritten note to be sent as telegram - original note on back of 1965/08/24 letter from Howard B. Gotlieb - suicide (self-immolation) of Roger Laporte] |
| | 1965/11/11 (#02) | telegram | from Merton | Just heard about suicide of Roger Laport [sic] While I do not hold Catholic Peace Fellowship | Yes |
| [transcript of telegram concerning suicide (self-immolation) of Roger Laporte] |
| | 1965/11/11 (#03) | TAL[d] | from Merton | This morning, shocked to hear of the suicide of Roger Laport [sic], I sent you a telegram in which I | |
| [Merton's handwritten note - "1st draft. Not sent."] |
| | 1965/11/11 (#04) | TAL[d] | from Merton | This morning, shocked to hear of the suicide of Roger Laport [sic], I sent you a telegram in which I | |
| [Merton's handwritten note - "1st draft. Not sent."] |
| | 1965/11/11 (#05) | TAL[d] | from Merton | This morning, shocked to hear of the suicide of Roger Laport [sic], I sent you a telegram in which I | |
| [Merton's handwritten note - "To James Forest - First draft - rev note is shorter and clearer. Please return."] |
| | 1965/11/11 (#06) | TAL[c] | from Merton | This is a bitter letter to have to write. This morning, after receiving the news of the suicide of | Yes |
| [Merton's handwritten note - "Copy of 2nd draft. <u>Sent</u>." In file is a separate photocopy of the signed and sent letter from Nazareth College] |
| | 1965/11/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | This is not going to be a totally adequate response to your letter. It will most likely run a few | |
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| | 1965/11/19 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am really grateful for your long letter. Also for the enclosures. The whole package was a very | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am really grateful for your long letter. Also for the enclosures. The whole package was a very | Yes |
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| | 1965/11/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | My original intention was to write this letter out myself, but after starting it I found that my | |
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| | 1965/12/03 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I was glad to get your letter of Nov. 26. Before I received it I had reached the conclusion that | Yes |
| [see Section E.1 of the classification (Manuscript Essays) under the title "Concerning the Catholic Peace Fellowship" - annotated carbon copy of this letter is included in file for this unpublished essay - also included are letters of December 4 and 5 from Merton to John Heidbrink and Tom Cornell (respectively)] |
| | 1965/12/22 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Merry Christmas, good monk, from all of us here. It has been a tough year, much good has happened, | |
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| | 1965/12/22 (#02) | other | | Thomas Merton, a founding sponsor of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, has asked that we release | |
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| [2 signed copies] |
| | 1965/12/22 (#03) | other | | STATEMENT [-] For many years, idle rumours have claimed that I was leaving the monastery | |
| [2 copies - see also "Circular letters to friends (for mimeographing)" file in Section A under item labeled "Statement to Friends 66"; and see also Sub-Section E.1, "Statement for Catholic Peace Fellowship (CPF)"] |
| | 1965/12/29 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your letter, statement, Christmas wishes and all reached me yesterday, no doubt held up while | Yes |
| [2 copies - an abridged copy of the letter published in The Hidden Ground of Love with an unabridged version published in Signs of Hope] |
| | 1965/12/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter, statement, Christmas wishes and all reached me yesterday, no doubt held up while | Yes |
| [an abridged copy of the letter published in The Hidden Ground of Love with an unabridged version published in Signs of Hope] |
| | 1966/01/06 | TALS | to Merton | Here it is, the new year has actually arrived. And with it it [sic] your long and exciting letter. | |
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| | 1966/01/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I want to get this off to you before our retreat starts tomorrow. The pamphlet for objectors | Yes |
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| | 1966/02/15 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Valentine's Day has passed: no let up to the war in Vietnam, however. Love continued to find its | |
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| | 1966/02/15 (#02) | other | | Vietnam Peasants Are Victims of War By NEIL SHEEHAN [-] Special to the New York Times [-] GIAHUU, | |
| [enclosed with 1966/02/15 letter - from the 1966/02/15 edition of <u>The New York Times</u>] |
| | 1966/02/21 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and for the awful, and illuminating, enclosure I can well understand your | Yes |
| [parts also published as "Letter to a Young Activist"] |
| | 1966/02/21 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter and for the awful, and illuminating, enclosure I can well understand your | Yes |
| [parts also published as "Letter to a Young Activist" / this copy sent to John Heidbrink with a note from Forest to Heidbrink / enclosure an article from the <u>New York Times</u>, Febraury 15, 1966, by Neil Sheehan, "Vietnam Peasants are Victims of War"] |
| | 1966/04/25 | HNS[x] | from Merton | OK - on the feast of San Mario how could Marco Frisbee refuse? Print it - and send me 2 dozen copies | Yes |
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| | 1966/05/23 | TLS | to Merton | Perhaps you will remember in your masses the soul of Addison Wilkins, a young non-Catholic CO whose | |
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| | 1966/05/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am shocked to hear of the violent death of Addison Wilkins but from your account he is a martyr | Yes |
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| | 1966/09/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It was rather an eerie experience a few weeks ago to receive a Vietnamese translation of | Yes |
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| | 1966/10/01 | TLS | to Merton | A chilly, in fact icy, day here at 5 Beekman Street. We have a floor heater laboring, as it has | |
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| | 1966/11/11 | TLS | to Merton | I'm out of CPF stationary at the moment, hence the above. This letter comes out of just having read | |
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| | 1966/11/16 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I have letters from both of you and both are important so I want to make sure I get answers out | Yes |
| [to James Forest and Tom Cornell] |
| | 1966/11/21 | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is a collection of shapes, powers, flying beasts, cave animals, bloodstains, angelic mistakes | Yes |
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| | 1967/01/25 | TALS | to Merton | The appearance this morning of the new issue of Fellowship prompts me at last to write, sending | |
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| | 1967/01/28 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter-- and for the others I owe you too. I have not been writing because I was | |
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| | 1967/01/28 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter-- and for the others I owe you too. I have not been writing because I was | |
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| | 1967/02/08 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | This is really nothing more than a note of thanks to you and the abbot for the $500 check which | |
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| | 1967/02/08 (#02) | other[x] | | The Mystical West Puzzles the Practical East By F. M. ESFANDIARY [-] An American couple recently | |
| [article from <u>The New York Times Magazine</u>, Feb. 5 ,1967 (pp. 22, 23, 28, 30, 32, 33) - article mentioned by Merton in Feb. 13 letter and likely sent by Forest to Merton in Forest's Feb. 8 letter] |
| | 1967/02/13 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | It is true, I do have files and I do keep copies of letters. But I can never find anything in the | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | It is true, I do have files and I do keep copies of letters. But I can never find anything in the | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/16 | TNS | from Merton | This bit in IF Stone says pretty much the kind of thing I am trying to sound off about in connection | |
| [includes a copy of <u>I.F. Stone's Weekly</u> of February 13, 1967 with a mark next to the front page article entitled, "More Than Steel and Chrome Can Bear"] technology / absurdity of technological society and war / Ping Ferry's bursitis and Merton's bursitis |
| | 1967/02/17 | TLS | to Merton | On this day some years ago (my calenar [sic] assures me) the Daughters of the American Revolution | |
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| | 1967/02/22 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is mere raw material for a statement, nothing more. It is a hasty first draft, not even | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/22 (#02) | other[x] | from Merton | NOTES FOR A STATEMENT ON AID TO CIVILIAN WAR VICTIMS IN VIET NAM. 1. Most of the war victims | Yes |
| [sent by Merton to Forest with letter of 1967/February/22] |
| | 1967/02/23 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | One more note before I take off for the hospital. I have been through (rapidly) the dossier you | Yes |
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| | 1967/02/23 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | One more note before I take off for the hospital. I have been through (rapidly) the dossier you | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | I have sent a copy of your statement regarding assistance to civilian victims of the Vietnamese war | |
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| | 1967/03/03 | HNS[x] | from Merton | Don't have your last letter right at hand here - left it in the monastery infirmary - | |
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| | 1967/03/21 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your letter about Dorothy's offer to resign as sponsor has waited ten days for an answer. | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/21 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter about Dorothy's offer to resign as sponsor has waited ten days for an answer. | Yes |
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| | 1967/03/21 (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton | This morning I am sending out an airmail special delivery letter to you regarding the personal | |
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| | 1967/03/22 | TLS | to Merton | First of all, thanks from all of us here for your Katzenbach letter and the three page statement | |
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| | 1967/03/31 | TLS | to Merton | I expect to write a longer and more personal letter in the next few days, but did want | |
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| | 1967/05/02 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I have put off writing so that I would have time for a reply to your long and predictably thoughtful | |
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| | 1967/05/02 (#02) | TL | to Merton (et al.) | The Executive Secretary of Movimiento de Reconciliacion, Earl Smith, wrote to the FOR recently | |
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| [memo concerning enclosed letter by Earl Smith to Merton, Daniel Berrigan, Claire Hutchet Bishop, James Douglass, Hermene Evans, Msgr. Furfey, Edward Keating, Justus George Lawler, Fr. Richard McSorely, Ned O'Gorman, Edward Rice, Archbishop Roberts, Karl Stern, Marguerite Tjader, Gordon Zahn and others] |
| | 1967/05/02 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Smith, Earl / to ? | I wrote Nevin hurriedly yesterday, but now I want to write you both about something that may be both | |
| [1967/04/21 letter to "Nevin and Hildegard" - possibly John Nevin Sayre and Hildegard Goss-Mayr - enclosed with 1967/05/02 letter from Forest to Merton] |
| | 1967/06/17 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I just got Gary Gagner's letter. Thanks for taking such good care of him and for being so helpful | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/17 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton to To whom it may concern | Gary Gagner is well known to me because he was under my care and spiritual direction during more | |
| [enclosed with 1967/06/17 letter to Forest] |
| | 1967/06/23 | TLS | to Merton | I just thought you would be pleased to see (in black and white, sadly) the cover of your forthcoming | |
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| | 1967/06/26 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the proof of the cover. Very handsome indeed: wonderful structural quality, very | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/26 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the proof of the cover. Very handsome indeed: wonderful structural quality, very | Yes |
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| | 1967/06/28 | TLS | to Merton | Enclosed is a small batch of letterhead which Linda and I give to you as a small thank-you for the | |
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| | 1967/07/10 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks to you and particularly Linda for the letterheads. Lots of friends I can use them on. | Yes |
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| | 1967/07/22 | HLS[x] | from Gagner, Gary | I talked to Tom Cornell at the beginning of the week concerning the press release. He also told me | |
| [see "Gagner, Gary A." file for a copy of the letter] |
| | 1967/07/26 | TLS | to Merton | The enclosed story was written a month or two ago by a friend of ours, Paul Velde; I have profited | |
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| | 1967/07/27 | TLS | to Merton | A very hurried note, just to send you a copy of a document I thought you would find of interest | |
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| | 1967/08/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your note and the letter of Lillian Marcks. I am sending a carbon of my reply to her. | |
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| | 1967/08/08 | TLS[x] | from Douglass, James | Thanks for your letter. I'm enclosing the essay, retitled for your purposes, "War, Conscience, | |
| [from Jim Douglass writing from Hedley, British Columbia, to "Jim" (likely Jim Forest)] article by Douglass, "War, Conscience, and the Gospel" / Paul Ramsey and Just War theory / Betty Bartelme / Thomas Merton pamphlet / Joan Baez |
| | 1967/08/15 | TNS[x] | from Hudson Review | We are pleased to inform you that a one-year gift subscription to THE HUDSON REVIEW has been | |
| note to Forest that a one-year subscription had been purchased in his name by Merton |
| | 1967/09/05 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Just a thank you for the gift sub to The Hudson Review, which I've always admired from afar | |
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| | 1967/09/05 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Harabo, T. | Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the kindness and guidance you accorded me. | |
| [originally dated 1967/08/29 - forwarded to Merton on 1967/09/05] |
| | 1967/09/20 | TALS | to Merton | It was good to get your signature this morning for the Peace or Politics statement; the response | |
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| | 1967/09/24 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This is just a quick answer on the proposal that I should write an article on the CRS involvement | |
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| | 1967/09/24 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is just a quick answer on the proposal that I should write an article on the CRS involvement | |
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| | 1967/09/27 | TL[x] | to O'Gara, James | Thought I haven't as yet heard from Merton myself (perhaps you have), we did get the letter out | |
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| | 1967/10/10 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for the September 24 letter--and, on Linda's behalf, for your encouraging words about her art | |
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| | 1967/11/02 (#01) | TL[x] | from Forest, Jim; and Tom Cornell / to CPF Board | Enclosed is a statement that has been released in the name of the American members of the CPF Board | |
| [from Jim Forest and Tom Cornell to American members of the Catholic Peace Fellowship Board of Sponsors with enclosed statement "Politics or Peace?" and a list of signatures endorsing the statement] |
| | 1967/11/02 (#02) | other[x] | | POLITICS OR PEACE? "…this Council lays stress on reverence for man; everyone must consider his every | |
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| | 1967/11/02 (#03) | other[x] | | The following signatures have been offered for use in connection with the Peace & Politics | |
| [list of "Peace and Politics" signatories includes "Thomas Merton [-] Author, Trappist Monk"] |
| | 1967/11/09 (#01) | HLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the two xeroxes. I was very happy with the letter from Japan. | |
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| | 1967/11/09 (#02) | other[x] | from Merton | COMMENTS ON ART. 79 OF CONSTITUTION ON CHURCH IN THE MODERN WORLD | |
| [copy of Merton's typescript with (also copied) handwritten corrections and minor inserts] |
| | 1967/11/13 | TLS | to Merton | Grateful for the comment on the <u>Constitution on Church and the Modern World</u>, which is so | |
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| | 1967/11/18 | transcript | from Merton | Many thanks for the letter and the cards. The cards are handsome and stark, and I'll probably shout | Yes |
| [photocopy of published letter] |
| | 1967/12/05 | TLS | to Merton | After turning my book shelves, at home and office, upside down in the search for my copy | |
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| | 1967/12/09 | HNS | to Merton | Just to wish you a good Christmas and to thank you so much for the years of friendship which have | |
| [see 1967/12/09 letter from Linda Forest for original note written by James Forest on Linda' letter to Merton] |
| | 1967/12/20 | TL[c] | from Merton | I can't find a copy of <u>Peace in the Post Christian Era.</u> If I do I'll send one. | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/25? | TALS | to Merton | An ice-cold day here. Looks like Nyack was transported during the night to the northern reaches | |
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| | 1967/12/31 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Just a hasty note. I have written a letter for Gary, enclosed. Edit it as you see fit. I think | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/31 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Just a hasty note. I have written a letter for Gary, enclosed. Edit it as you see fit. I think | Yes |
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| | 1967/12/31 (#03) | TL[c] | from Merton | Gary Gagner was a novice here at Gethsemani when I was novice master. He was an exemplary novice | |
| [enclosed with 1967/12/31 letter - labeled "Re-the case of Gary Gagner"] |
| | 1967/12/31 (#04) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Gary Gagner was a novice here at Gethsemani when I was novice master. He was an exemplary novice | |
| [enclosed with 1967/12/31 letter - labeled "Re-the case of Gary Gagner"] |
| | 1968/02/24 | telegram | to Merton | Thich Nhat Hanh wishes to see you could we be picked up Louisville Airport 1103 AM February 29 be | |
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| | 1968/02/25 | telegram | to Merton | Sad news wont be able to come must go to Washington Wednesday for press conference on recent Saigon | |
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| | 1968/02/27 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I received your two telegrams. Funny part of it was that I got the second one first. They phoned | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/27 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I received your two telegrams. Funny part of it was that I got the second one first. They phoned | Yes |
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| | 1968/02/27 (#03) | other | | THOMAS MERTON BACKS RESISTER IN PLEA FOR C.O. STATUS [-] By Religious News Service (2-27-68) | |
| [article concerning conscientious objector, Joseph Mulloy] |
| | 1968/04/06 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry I didn't send Monks Pond before. Am doing so now. I have had to put it together myself | Yes |
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| | 1968/04/06 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry I didn't send Monks Pond before. Am doing so now. I have had to put it together myself | Yes |
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| | 1968/04/15? (#01) | HNS[x] | from Merton | I liked your piece in <u>Critic</u>. Blessings and love to you and Linda. Happy Easter [-] Tom | |
| [(date from stamp of received date) handwritten note accompanying "Easter 1968" circular letter - seems to be "To Jim" and mentions "Linda" so likely sent to James Forest (A.J. Flogge had photocopies of many of Forest's letters)] |
| | 1968/04/15? (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton | As I write this there is snow on the ground from a blizzard we had the other day, but the sun is | |
| ["Easter 1968" circular letter] |
| | 1968/07/11 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Understand from Dan that you're on the road this summer but hopefully this'll catch up with you | |
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| | 1968/07/11? (#02) | TAL | to Merton | Because 1969 is the 100th anniversary of Gandhi's birth, the annual WRL calendar for that year will | |
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| | 1968/07/20 | TL[c] | from Merton | Well, I was on the road for a while and will be on the road again a while. Right now I'm trying | Yes |
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| | 1968/07/22 | TLS | to Merton | Very good to hear from you, and to see your new Monks Pond letterhead. I am reminded I never told | |
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| | 1968/08/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Steamy hot here now, and I have to try to catch up on some mail. All will have to be brief. | Yes |
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| | 1968/08/05 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Steamy hot here now, and I have to try to catch up on some mail. All will have to be brief. | Yes |
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| | 1968/09/no? | HNS[x] | from Merton | We are at the meeting at Redwoods in an atmosphere of love and peace. Thinking much of you | Yes |
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| | 1970/12/29 | TLS[x] | from Laughlin, James | It was good indeed to hear from you, your letter of December 11, and I am especially grateful | |
| publication of <i>The Asian Journal</i> / Ed Rice's <i>The Man in the Sycamore Tree</i> - Laughlin hoping Forest will refute Rice's charactarizations in the book of Merton being "a communist, and finally a Buddhist" |
| | 1971/03/10 | TL[x] | to Laughlin, James | I notice I never thanked you for the December letter re the Griffin and Rice books. No doubt you've | |
| publication of <i>The Asian Journal</i> / Ed Rice's <i>The Man in the Sycamore Tree</i> - Laughlin hoping Forest will refute Rice's charactarizations in the book of Merton being "a communist, and finally a Buddhist" |
| | 1973/03/20 | TL[x] | to Laughlin, James | Just back from a Merton-dominated pilgrimage that included about a week in Louisville. | |
| idea of a collection of letters from Merton regarding peacemaking |
| | 1973/03/20 | TL[x] | to Laughlin, James | Just back from a Merton-dominated pilgrimage that included about a week in Louisville. | |
| idea of a collection of letters from Merton regarding peacemaking |
| | undated/no/no (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thought you would like to see the attached piece, which appeared last Sunday in the <u>Times</u> | |
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| | undated/no/no (#02) | other | | Prayer for Peace [-] Almighty and merciful God, Father of all men, Creator and Ruler of the Universe | |
| [photocopy - note from verso: "This Prayer, written by T. Merton, was read in the House of Representatives by Congressman Frank Kowalski (D. Connecticut) on April 12, 1962. (Wednesday in Holy Week.)"] |
| | undated/no/no (#03) | other | | A PRACTICAL PROGRAM FOR MONKS [-] 1) Each one shall sit at table with his own cup and spoon, | |
| [photocopy - note at bottom: poem by Merton - "PAX Number 7 --- Bob Lax's"] |
| | undated/no/no (#04) | other | | If you seek a heavenly light [-] I Solitude, am your professor! [-] I go before you into emptiness, | |
| [photocopy of poem by Merton with copied signature] |
| | undated/no/no (#05) | other[x] | from Merton | Holy Family Hermitage McConnelsville, Ohio (near Pittsburgh) Dom Maurice (Prior) | |
| [note pad entry by Merton in his handwriting with addresses of a Camaldolese hermitage in Ohio and Dom Gregorio Lemercier in Cuernavaca, Mexico] |
| | undated/no/no (#06) | other | | MERTON-FOREST CORRESPONDENCE [-] July 31, 1961 F. to M. from 175 Chrystie St. | |
| [William Shannon's notes for the preparation of the published letters - lists dates of letters between Merton and Forest but only transcribes or summarizes letters by Forest in this listing] |
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