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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Martin, Frederick R.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967-1968

Volume: 14 item(s); 14 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Frederick R. Martin was Managing Editor of the publishing house New Directions. He writes from New York.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/09/15 TALSto MertonBy the time you get this note, the galleys for <u>Edifying Cables</u> should have arrived. Hope you   
 1967/09/21 TL[c]from MertonHere are the proofs. I had to make one or two author's alterations, and also some changes that   
 1967/09/25 TLSto MertonGalleys, letter, and blurb arrived this morning. Thanks for moving so quickly. You've made   
 1967/09/28 TLSto Merton<u>American Dialog</u> tells me that "Prospects of Nostradamus" will be appearing in its November   
 1967/10/18 TL[c]from MertonI've got a note that I think ought to go somewhere in the front of Cables to the Ace. It is from   
 1967/10/19 TNSto MertonThe Robbe-Grillet quote can go on page 1 along with dedication to Robert Lax. Hope this is OK   
 1967/10/24 TL[x]to Bonazzi, RobertIn early 1968, New Directions plans to publish a volume of poetry by Thomas Merton, <u>Cables</u>   
 1968/03/28 (#01)TALSto MertonI'm not sure if you had a chance to see last Sunday's Times. So I ripped out page 3 and decided   
 1968/03/28 (#02)otherto MertonTo Mr. and Mrs. Yesterday [-] SOUL ON ICE. By Eldridge Cleaver. With an introduction by Maxwell  [review of Eldrige Cleaver's <i>Soul on Ice</i> from the <u>New York Times</u>]
 1968/04/01 TL[c]from MertonI am getting back the queries on footnotes as fast as I can because if I put them off I'll forget   
 1968/04/09 TLSto MertonMany thanks for your quick answers to my fussy footnote letter. As promised, I finally had a chance   
 1968/04/21 TL[c]from MertonI have just been hunting unsuccessfully for your last letter, which I am pretty sure I have not yet   
 1968/05/01 TALSto MertonHope this finds you enjoying the weather as much as we are here in New York. Bob MacGregor says   
 1968/06/03 TL[x]to Bourne, PaulFather Thomas Merton has asked me to send a set of uncorrected galleys for his collection of essays,  [see also the "Bourne, Paul" file, Fr. Paul was one of the Trappist censors at the time of writing and was at the Abbey of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia] sending galleys of <i>Zen and the Birds of Appetite</i> for censor's approval
        

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