Items

• 1967-11-18: Letter from Rev. Mother Abbess Marie of the Assumption, PCC to the Abbess of the Monastery of Saint Clare, Lowell, Massachusetts
  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.]
• 1967-11-18: Letter from David Friend Aberle to Thomas Merton
  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.
• 1967-09-18 (#02): Attachment to letter to Thomas Merton from "De Roo, Remi Joseph, Bishop, 1924-2022," (recommendation to the Second Vatican Council to make changes to canon law to officially recognize hermits in monastic and religious life)
• 1967-09-18 (#01): Letter to Thomas Merton from "De Roo, Remi Joseph, Bishop, 1924-2022"
• Zukofsky, Louis. Futura. 5. A-9 ([Stuttgart] H. Mayer 1966). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
  Inscribed by the author to Thomas Merton, with minor handwritten corrections to the text by Zukofsky.
• Zilboorg, Gregory, 1890-1959. Mind, medicine, & man, with a foreword by Arthur H. Ruggles, M.D (New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company [1943]). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Zanella, Sergio, 1921-. Sangue das Searas (Sao Paulo: "L.P.M." editora, [1966?]). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Yourcenar, Marguerite. L'Œuvre au noir. (L'oeuvre au noir. ([Paris] Gallimard [1968]). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Yourcenar, Marguerite. Fleuve profond, sombre rivière: les "Negro Spirituals" : commentaires et traduction (Paris : Gallimard, ©1964). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
  Inscribed to Thomas Merton by Marguerite Yourcenar, with minor marginalia by the author.
• Yoder, John Howard. Peace without eschatology (New York : Church Peace Mission, 1961). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.