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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Enderle, Rupert

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 8 item(s); 10 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Rupert Enderle was initially arranging to allow Professor Takashi Ikemoto translate Mystics and Zen Masters into Japanese. In a later letter, he asks Merton some questions about Zen and about some other subjects. Merton writes to briefly address some of the questions on Zen and answers another portion by sending the essay "The Contemplative and the Atheist", which he claims draws upon the work of Leslie Dewart.

Biography

Rupert Enderle was owner of the Enderle Bookstore, a Herder Agency, that dealt in publications and the import and export of books. He writes from Tokyo.

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Dewart, Leslie" and "Ikemoto, Takashi" files.

Other Finding Aids

If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
   

Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/08/23 TLSto Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.A Japanese Professor, Takashi Ikemoto, who has edited the Doubleday Anchor book "ZEN, Prayers,   
 1967/09/02 (#01)TL[c]from MertonFarrar Straus and Giroux have forwarded to me your letter of August 23rd. I am glad to hear that   
 1967/09/02 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonFarrar Straus and Giroux have forwarded to me your letter of August 23rd. I am glad to hear that   
 1967/10/14 (#01)TLSto MertonI thank you very much for your kind answer which you sent me to my letter to Farrar Straus and   
 1967/10/14 (#02)TALSto MertonWould you please allow me to use the opportunity of my business letter of today to address to you   
 1967/10/17 TALSto MertonWhen I wrote my personal letter on October 14th, it was past 5 o'clock on Saturday evening.   
 1967/10/31 TL[c]from MertonIt is not easy to give an adequate answer to such questions as yours. That is partly why my answer   
 1969/10/13 TLS[x]to Fox, JamesI refer to my letter dated February 1, 1969 to you. At that time I thought that it might be better   
        

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