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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bartelme, Elizabeth

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1968

Volume: 19 item(s); 23 pg(s)

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Biography

Elizabeth Bartelme was a publishing agent for Macmillan. She seemed to know some acquaintances of Merton's, such as Philip and Dan Berrigan and Ed Rice, and keep him informed of what was happening with them.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/02/13 TLSto MertonYour articles that have recently appeared in <u>The Catholic Worker</u> and in <u>Commonweal</u> on  articles on nuclear war and fallout shelters / asking for Merton to write on Christian responsibility to atmospheric nuclear testing / offer of advance payment against royalties for such a book
 1962/02/27 TALSto MertonThank you so much for sending me your article, as well as the off-print from <u>Pax</u>. I had not  possibility of publishing a collection of Merton's prior essays / difficulty through agreement with Farrar Straus in doing a book for Macmillan / peace demonstrations in New York and other cities and the contribution of Merton's writing to the cause
 1962/03/22 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your letter of February 27th. I have of course been thinking seriously about your  creating list of peace articles for book / arrangements with Farrar Straus and Cudahy / <u>Blackfriars</u> article "Letter to Pablo Antonio Cuadra Concerning Giants" / peace book may not get imprimatur / "first strike attitude" in some Catholics - Communism will take the Church without more H-bombs
 1962/03/27 TLSto MertonThank you so much for your letter which raised my hopes very high that you will be doing the book on  possibility of publishing without an imprimatur / terms of agreement for book
 1962/06/06 TL[c]from MertonWell, I finally have an answer for you on the Peace Book. The book is finished all right, but I am  Merton not able to publish book because of controversial nature / circulating copies of sections to friends as letters (what would become known as the Cold War Letters)
 1962/08/08 TL[c]from MertonRecently I have gone over a manuscript that has been waiting for revision, and I have completed the  <i>Principles of Prayer</i> - "draws… on patristic sources and Church documents" - more formal than <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> / timetable for publishing with Macmillan
 1962/09/14 TLSto MertonI am so delighted to have your new manuscript, and I have read it very carefully and think it is a  terms of agreement for <i>Principles of Prayer</i> / division of chapters and timing in sending to the printer / Merton's hospital stay / Fr. Berrigan
 1962/09/25 TL[c]from MertonThanks for the good letter of the 14th. I see your point about making the additions before the book  chapter on "Liturgy and Social Concern" / visit from unexpected visitors like Jean Leclercq / foreign rights problems - Merton asking to handle foreign rights, except in Paris (Marie Tadié as translator and agent there) / Dagmar Henne - German agent
 1963/01/23 TALSto MertonYou must think that I have been out of the country, as it has taken me so long to get to your letter  timetable for publication / proofs to Fr. Diekmann and two Cardinals / Farrar Straus / Ed Rice / Thomas McDonnell / possibility of publishing a different collection of essays / imprimi potest and imprimatur
 1963/05/20 TLSto MertonI was most distressed to receive your letter of May 16th, and I can only say that I am very sorry  Merton in bad situation with Farrar Straus because of Macmillan contract / Naomi Burton [Stone] to serve as agent
 1963/08/12 TLSto MertonOur manufacturing department has now returned to me the manuscript  [original in Section C.2, the Setting Copy of the unpublished manuscript, "Prayer as Worship and Experience" / photocopy in correspondence file] regret over dispute concerning book and that it would not be published
 1964/10/07 TLSto MertonFather Philip Berrigan asked me to get the address of Chris McNair for you, and it is: 61 Sixth  Merton's article in the <u>New York Review</u>
 1965/02/02 TLSto MertonI am so happy to have your introduction to Father Philip Berrigan's book, and I can't thank you  introduction to Philip Berrigan's book / copyright issues
 1965/12/03 TL[c]from MertonI am sorry to see how long it is since I got your letter and Dan's proofs. Did not think the weeks  description of poems to be published by Dan [Berrigan?] - priest dealing with questions in a world of "Dachau and Hiroshima, Selma and Saigon" / whereabouts of Dan [Berrigan?]
 1965/12/08 TLS[x]to MertonThank you ever so much for your very fine remarks on Father Berrigan's poems. I am afraid it is  [filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani] Merton's remarks on Fr. Daniel Berrigan's poems / contact information for "Dan", Msgr. Ivan D. Illich in Cuernavaca / Jack English
 1967/09/13 TLSto MertonI am sending you a copy of a book that we are publishing in October by John L'Heureux, S. J. which I  John L'Heureux's book <i>Picnic in Babylon</i> - 3 years at Woodstock / Merton's letter in <u>National Catholic Reporter</u> in answer to Martin Marty / Merton, Dorothy Day, and Dan Berrigan - "white hope of the Christian radicals" / non-violence and civil rights / send-off for Ed Rice / demise of <u>Jubilee</u>
 1967/10/03 TL[c]from MertonThanks so much for your cheering letter of last month, and for John L'Heureux's book. Thanks too  Ed Rice and "troubles in Asia" / John L'Heureux's book <i>Picnic in Babylon</i> and words about his diary being prudent / Merton's statement, "My diaries aren't prudent." / book by Fr. Ciszek / Michele Murrays criticism of Merton and Ciszek
 1968/05/24 TLSto MertonI am sending you herewith a copy of the Catholic Worker Reader, <u>A Penny a Copy</u> as you are   
 1968/05/31 TL[c]from MertonThanks so much for <u>Penny a Copy</u>. Tom and Jim did a fine job of editing and I think it is a  Church in the twentieth century and the Catholic Worker / sentencing of Dan and Phil [Berrigan] for burning of draft records
        

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