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Merton mentions that Archbishop Helder Câmara stated Dohen's book to be "prophetic."
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Br. René Richie asks Merton if he plans to include Epictetus in his upcoming lecture on freedom given Epictetus's interest in the subject having once been a slave.
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John Mills was a painter, print-maker, and essayist of art history. He knew Merton's friend in publishing, James Laughlin, and sends Merton an autobiographical poem (not extant with letter).
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This letter from one abbess to another, regards Merton's article "Openness and the Cloister", and speaks of aggiornamento of the religious life in regard to the observance of silence. [3 pages on one sheet, an air mail letter.]
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W. H. "Ping" Ferry had asked David Aberle, an anthropologist, to write to Merton about the Sioux (Lakota) and about Sitting Bull. Though not an expert on the Lakota, Aberle offers some resources and advice. Merton responds that he is most interested in background on the Ghost Dance.
David F. Aberle was a professor of anthropology at University of British Columbia whose specialty was the study of the Navajos.
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on Bredenberg's thoughts of transferring from Vassar to Berkeley / Andrea Pfeiffenberger / poems by Pfeiffenberger and Bredenberg / suggested revisions to Bredenberg's poem / David Ignatow and Russel Edson
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[mentions sending poem - poem not included with letter] plans of transfer to Berkeley
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spring vacation hitchhiking to San Francisco / presidential election - Kennedy and McCarthy
