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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Skillin, Edward S., 1904-2000

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1965

Volume: 12 item(s); 12 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Edward Skillin was the long-time editor of the Catholic magazine, The Commonweal, and wrote to Merton from New York. In 1967, he shifted from sole editor to publisher, a position he held until his retirement in 1998.

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Rissin, Rhoda" file for a signed original to Merton and forwarded through New Directions.

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Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/02/08 TALSto MertonSorry to bother you, but there is an enthusiastic reader who is thinking about getting up enough   
 1962/05/no? TLSto MertonThe enclosed just came out today and we are hastening to send you a copy. As the introductory note   
 1964/02/13 TLSto MertonWe are all of us most grateful to you for sending us the enclosed article; I trust that you realize   
 1964/02/27 TLSto MertonIt was awfully good of you to take up our suggestions about your article and we all like what you   
 1964/07/20 TAL[c]from MertonAs far as I can tell, there has not been much comment in Catholic magazine in the U.S.   
 1964/07/24 TLSto MertonWe are much interested in your discussion of "Honest to God" and are delighted to accept it   
 1965/03/23 TL[c]from MertonI have your letter asking me to review HONESTY IN THE CHURCH for the Commonweal.   
 1965/07/07 TL[c]from MertonHere is a piece which you might be interested in, as an article. I don't know whether it is right   
 1966/05/27 TLSto MertonWe were delighted to have your article and to be featuring it in our June 3 issue, copies of which   
 1966/06/17 TLSto MertonYour kind letter to Jim O'Gara was unhappily mislaid for awhile but we do hope the book you are   
 1966/10/28 TLSto MertonWe are very grateful to you for thinking of us and sending us that beautiful elegy-- which we are   
 1966/11/07 TLSto MertonI was happy to correct the word at the end of line 17 in your Elegy. It is interesting to hear that   
        

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