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• 1967-03-20: Letter to Tony Boyd from Thomas Merton
  Tony Boyd was a seventh-grader writing from Ashland, Kentucky. He asked Merton for information about Kentucky music and facts. In Merton's reply, he expresses his appreciation for Kentucky, having spent half of his life in the state, and his fondness for country music and Johnny Cash (though Merton acknowledges that Cash is not from Kentucky). He writes also of Gethsemani Abbey, describing the buildings and their renovation, the Gregorian chant, and the work of the monks.
• 1968-04-05: Letter from Thomas Merton to Coretta Scott King after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
• 1965-04-03: Correspondence with Angela of the Eucharist, OCD (Angela Collins, née Viola M. Collins), letter from Merton
• 1965-04-01: Correspondence with Angela of the Eucharist, OCD (Angela Collins, née Viola M. Collins), letter to Merton
• 1965-05-15: Letter from Jacques Winandy to Thomas Merton, 1965 May 15
  Thomas Merton and Dom Winandy discuss the hermit and life Merton's essay, "For a Renewal of Eremitism."
• Letter to James H. Forest from Thomas Merton. 1962 January 29 [misprinted as 1961], published as: "Thomas Merton on the Strike".
  Thomas Merton's letter to James Forest from January 29, 1962 was published in the February 1962 issue of the Catholic Worker. The letter references the General Strike for Peace, a protest against militarism, the "war economy", and nuclear testing at the U.S. AEC (Atomic Energy Commission ). The protest was held at New York Operations Office of the Atomic Energy Commission, at Hudson and Houston Streets in New York City. The letter was distributed during the second day of the sit down strike.
• 1959-12-14: Letter to Ernesto Mejía Sánchez from Thomas Merton. 1959 December 14
  Ernesto Mejía Sánchez was born in Nicaragua and lived his later life as a poet, essayist, literary critic, anthologist, and diplomat in Mexico. He can be placed with the "Generación del 40" and noted alongside other Nicaraguan poets, like Merton's friend Ernesto Cardenal and José Coronel Urtecho.
• 1968-10-15: Letter from Jean Leclercq to Thomas Merton
  In this letter from Benedictine scholar Dom Jean Leclercq, there is a reminder that Thomas Merton's final journey was cut short and that he had planned to travel to Japan.
• 1959-12-18: Letter from Ernesto Mejía Sánchez to Thomas Merton
  Ernesto Mejía Sánchez was born in Nicaragua and lived his later life as a poet, essayist, literary critic, anthologist, and diplomat in Mexico. He can be placed with the "Generación del 40" and noted alongside other Nicaraguan poets, like Merton's friend Ernesto Cardenal and José Coronel Urtecho.
• Letter to Thomas Merton from James H. Forest. No date (undated #1)
  Correspondence with James H. Forest who was involved in the Catholic Worker movement and started the Catholic Peace Fellowship. Letter to Merton regarding an article in TIME magazine.