| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| 1 | 1940/02/07 | TNS | from Young, Stanley P. | STRAITS OF DOVER [-] by Thomas James Merton [-] One of those strange novels which seem to concern | |
| [pasted to the back of the letter of 1940/02/26 - see also message dated 1940/02/24, between Giroux and Stanley P. Young (Harcourt, Brace), handwritten at the bottom of this page] |
| 1 | 1940/02/24 | HNS | from Young, Stanley P. | Some interesting writing in here, but it wobbles around as a story and never hits a strong narrative | |
| [pasted to the back of the letter of 1940/02/26 - see also message dated 1940/02/07, between Giroux and Stanley P. Young (Harcourt, Brace), typed at the top of this page] |
| 1 | 1940/02/26 | TL[c] | from Young, Stanley P. / to Merton | We have now read STRAITS OF DOVER and I am sorry to tell you that we fee unable to make you | |
| [see also messages dated 1940/02/24 and 1940/02/07, between Giroux and Stanley P. Young (Harcourt, Brace), pasted to the back of this letter] |
| 1 | 1940/03/26 | HNS[x] | by Young, Stanley P. | <u>The Labyrinth</u> by Thomas Merton [-] This is a revised version of "The Straits of Dover" which | |
| [internal note about Merton's "The Labyrinth" with evaluation of its worth and how to repond to him] |
| 1 | 1940/03/26 (#01) | HNS | to Young, Stanley P. | I will write Merton, independently, in about a week, after you've had a chance to reflect - | |
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| 1 | 1940/03/26 (#02) | HN | from Young, Stanley P. | <u>The Labyrinth</u> by Thomas Merton [-] This is a revised version of "The Straits of Dover" which | |
| [pasted to the back of the 1940/03/29 carbon to Merton] |
| 1 | 1940/03/29 | TL[c] | from Young, Stanley P. / to Merton | As I told you over the telephone, my vote on your manuscript was no, but as this was a revision, | |
| [see 1940/03/26[2], pasted to the back of this carbon] |
| 1 | 1948/03/08 | TALS | to Merton | Please forgive my delay in replying sooner but the seasonal rush has been upon me. First of all, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1948/12/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am dazzled by the huge ad, the sales figures, the fan mail. I note that in the middle of that | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/02/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | By way of a Valentine I got some nine thousand bucks from Naomi and I am sending you six pages | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/02/21 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Mr. Giroux left on Saturday for a week's vacation, and I am writing to acknowledge your letter | |
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| 1 | 1949/03/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | I enclose herewith sample pages of WATERS OF SILOE. As you will see, we have got away from | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/03/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | Enclosed herewith are the first 59 galleys of WATERS OF SILOE. I also enlcose the original | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/03/25? | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am working on the proofs now. The book certainly looks fine and I am crazy about that Cochin. | Yes |
| [sending changes to <i>Seven Storey Mountain</i> - deletions of text] |
| 1 | 1949/03/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | The first 39 galleys arrived today. Thanks for returning them so promptly. We've now sent all | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/03/31 | TL[x] | to Merton | I enclose herewith a specially bound set of proofs for the Abbot General. Please let me know what | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/04/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the front matter. One thing I would like to add: a dedication to Evelyn Waugh. What do you | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/04/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | I like all the new ideas you list: time-table, monastic terms, and dedication. Let me have the copy | |
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| 1 | 1949/04/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are all the galleys back. I went over the end of the Prologue again and want to put in | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/04/10? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is an insert that goes in near the end of the Prologue. I marked the place in the galleys: | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/04/13 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for getting the galleys back so promptly. As I write you, the quoted material from | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/04/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the glossary. It should go to the Archbishop's censor along with the other stuff. I'll try | |
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| 1 | 1949/04/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the time-table. Does that wind up everything? In Xto, fr. M Louis. PS. Your letter just came | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/04/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | This is to acknowledge receipt of the glossary. Many thanks for getting it to us so promptly. | |
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| 1 | 1949/04/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | Happy Easter! Many thanks for the time-table and for indicating the credits required for photos. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/04/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | I think that our artists have fashioned one of the most beautiful jackets I have ever seen for | |
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| 1 | 1949/05/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is to confirm the ordination date: two weeks from today, on the 26th, Ascension Thursday. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/05/19 (#01) | TL[c] | to Merton | Jay Laughlin and I have made airplane reservations for Wednesday, 25th and will arrive in Louisville | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/05/19? (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | In haste, just before going on retreat I sent all I have finished of Waters-- meaning everything | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/06/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for the Utah monastery photographs which have just arrived. They are going to use | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/06/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am returning the index with a few perfunctory notes only. Further changes can be made in a later | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/06/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | The index changes you requested have all been made and I enclose a duplicate set of page proofs | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/07/01 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the set of page proofs and for the proofs of the pictures which certainly look nice. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/07/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am enclosing some pictures that I obtained from a French photographer-- one who did some | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/07/18 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Mr. Giroux is away this week, on an editorial trip to Denver, and I am therefore writing | |
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| 1 | 1949/07/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | THE WATERS OF SILOE has just come to my desk in sheets, which I enclose herewith. I am very much | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/07/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have the sheets of WATERS now and they look fine. I have gone over the Prologue and Note and am | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | It's a great pleasure to send you herewith two copies of THE WATERS OF SILOE. Eight additional | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | Your letter of July 20th answers mine of August 4th which crossed it. I'm sending a dozen publicity | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/06 | TL[x] | from Merton | The books just came and they are simply fine. All who have seen them here are enthusiastic | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your note of the sixth. I'm awfully glad to know that you like the looks of WATERS. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/10 | TL[x] | to Merton | The director of the School of Journalism at Fordham University, Father Alfred Barrett, S.J. - | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The big box with fourteen copies of WATERS arrived. Does this include the two you want signed? | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Father Abbot wants to order twenty copies of WATERS OF SILOE the first edition, for the monastery. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/18 | TL[x] | to Merton | We are shipping 20 copies of WATERS OF SILOE, first edition, to Father Abbot and are charging them | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have just received fifty or so more contact prints (small) of that southern French business, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/30 | TL[x] | to Merton | Invitations to talk about THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN and your work keep coming in. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/08/31 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The WATERS are being read in the refectory and one or two changes came to mind. I am enclosing | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/09/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for the further changes in the text. I will send proofs of these and see that they are | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/09/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter. I quite understand about the publicity of WATERS. I see your point all right | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/09/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I forgot all about the CLOUD AND THE FIRE. That must wait. I cannot get down to it until I am more | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/09/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | I should have caught the error regarding St. Joseph's Cathedral, Bardstown. I passed it often enough | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/09/16 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is a little something I have been keeping in reserve for you. I wanted to read it all, but have | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/09/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | I have just had a most unpleasant conversation with Mr. Manning, who took the Georgia photographs | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/10/06 | TAL[x] | to Merton | Brother Martin's story of his escape from the Nazis is an extremely interesting job, but I am afraid | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/10/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Sorry to have delayed about the Manning business. You will see from the enclosed letter that I had | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/11/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | We have had a request from the editor of the Chicago <u>Tribune</u> Book Section, Mr. Frederick | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/11/09 | TL[x] | to Merton | Naomi has written me about the book which you wrote, under obedience, sometime ago about | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/11/11? | TNS[x] | from Merton | In haste I am sending the Chicago Tribune thing hoping that you will forward it to the correct | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/11/14 | TL[x] | to Merton | This is to acknowledge receipt of the essay on "Reading As a Path to Contemplation" for the Chicago | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/12/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | It's a pleasure to send to you, by the hand of Naomi Burton, a copy of THE LAW OF HOLY MASS by | Yes |
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| 1 | 1949/12/no? | HLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and I look forward to the sheets of <u>Waters</u> - more so to | |
| [undated - placed between 1949/12/01 and 1950/01/11] |
| 1 | 1950/01/11 | TL[x] | to Merton | On January 30th the Catholic Writers' Guild of America is going to make their Golden Book Award | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/01/14 | TALS[x] | from Merton | This morning I signed the contract and am sending it off to Naomi. It was certainly a great pleasure | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/01/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter was given to me just after my other one went out the other day. I am enclosing a proper | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/02/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | The Golden Book Award Dinner was an impressive affair. Your message of acceptance was quite moving, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/03/28 | TLS | from Merton | If my calculations are right, you must be back. Thanks for the card from Lucerne. I hope you had | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/04/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | My body is back in the States, but my soul is still in Europe. What a wonderful trip it was - | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/04/20 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | My body is back in the States, but my soul is still in Europe. What a wonderful trip it was - | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/04/24 (#01) | TL[c] | to Merton | I enclose the medal and chain from Fatima and Tre Fontanne respectively. I probably made them sound | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/05/01 | TLS | from Merton | Many thanks for your letters and their enclosures, especially for the delightful Fatima medal | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/06/06 | TLS | from Merton | The other day I heard from Naomi of the death of your father, and I am writing to say that we are | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/06/16 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | The solution to the JOURNAL problem was unexpected, but I am sure that it is absolutely right, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/06/16 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | The solution to the JOURNAL problem was unexpected, but I am sure that it is absolutely right, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/07/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | Just a note to tell you how very much I enjoyed my visit to Gethsemani, and to enclose (a) | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/07/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the Dom Alexis article. I have not yet had time to go through it. Fr Jean Danielou, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/07/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | Naomi is still brooding about the Psalm book and of course I hope the decision will be favorable. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/07/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Have I thanked you yet for the paper, carbon and typewriter ribbons? If not, I am very sorry. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/07/28 | TALS | to Merton | I have read BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS, think it marvelous, and have told Naomi that we want | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/08/02 | TLS | to Merton | The big book on CLUNIAC ART OF THE ROMANESQUE PERIOD by Joan Evans has just arrived, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/08/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Naomi tells me she has been trying to contact you without success and hopes you are not sick. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/09/18 | TLS | to Merton | I have been laid up with a bad cold, and I am just beginning to feel myself again. Forgive me for | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/09/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your wire and your letter reached me at the same time. I just answered the wire and now for | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/09/25 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am relieved to learn that you want to the hospital merely for a check-up. It sounded more serious | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/10/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | I believe I've already told you about the autobiography of Dr. Karl Stern, the Montreal psychiatrist | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/11/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | They have been keeping me here in the hospital for some time, mainly to make me rest. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/12/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I suppose this will reach you too late to bring you my best Christmas wishes. In any case you will | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/12/22 | telegram[x] | to Merton | FIVE HUNDRED ADDRESSED ENVELOPES MAILED TO YOU TODAY WITH CHRISTMAS GREETINGS | |
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| 1 | 1950/12/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the Christmas card-- what an angel!-- and the book which is marvelous. And now | Yes |
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| 1 | 1950/12/no? | TNS[x] | from Merton | Anyway, I look forward to hearing your reaction. Then let's pray that things will work out. | |
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| 1 | 1951/01/20 | TL[x] | from Merton | Here is another piece of that FIRE CLOUD AND DARKNESS ms which I think Naomi gave you. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/02/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Father Abbot was happy with the big check. Naomi will give you the dope on the project about | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/02/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Good news. I am sending you the last two chapters of <u>Fire Cloud and Darkness</u> in two separate | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/02/13 | TALS | to Merton | There is so much to write about that I shall have to divide it all up into two or three letters. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/02/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I got your letter last night and I am glad you like the new book. Although I would have liked more | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/02/22 | TALS[x] | from Merton | It seems to me that the most practical thing to do is to send you this manuscript piece by piece as | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/02/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am enclosing another piece of THE ASCENT TO LIGHT. As far as I am concerning it is ready to print. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/02/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This brings me up to the end of part II[.] I will let you have the rest in a couple of days. | |
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| 1 | 1951/02/28 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I'm delighted to know that you're revising the book, and hope you'll continue sending it | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/02/28 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is the last corrected part of THE ASCENT TO LIGHT. I am surprised that I did not find much | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/03/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | Just a note to acknowledge receipt of the final section of the manuscript which arrived late Friday | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/03/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just got your letter. Glad you are typing the book there. I will get busy on the biographical notes. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/03/09 | TLS | to Merton | The jacket sketch of THE ASCENT TO TRUTH has just reached my desk and I send it along herewith | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/03/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The jacket design is really splendid. I suppose the dark left side of the design is to represent | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/03/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the biographical notes. One question remains open: do you think they would be better | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/03/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the final pages of the book-- the insert that was to complete the chapter on "False | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/05/21 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Naomi has told me the news of your wedding-present to her, and I can only say how wonderful I think | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/05/21 (#02) | other | | CORRECTIONS- THE ASCENT TO TRUTH. p 16 lines 16-17: omit "as He is in Himself" | Yes |
| [encloses Merton's corrections for <i>The Ascent to Truth</i>] |
| 1 | 1951/05/25 | TL[x] | to Merton | Have you read the edition of Walter Daniel's LIFE OF AILRED whose jacket I enclose? If not, I'll | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/05/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | Galley proofs will be here on June 8th, a Friday and I will get them to you by Monday the 10th. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/05/31 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I doubt if I can handle the proofs on such short notice. To begin with, things usually lie around | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/06/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | The first 33 galleys of THE ASCENT TO TRUTH are enclosed herewith, together with the manuscript. | |
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| 1 | 1951/06/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am returning the galleys of the ASCENT corrected. You will notice that I made a big cut on the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/06/19 | telegram[x] | from Merton | PROOFS MAILED MONDAY= FATHER LOUIS= | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/06/20 | telegram[x] | to Merton | GALLEYS HAVE ARRIVED MANY THANKS NEED MANUSCRIPT URGENTLY CAN YOU RUSH AIRMAIL | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/09 | TLS | to Merton | This is urgent; please use the enclosed airmail envelope for return. In the 25¢ edition of | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The Author's note for the Signet edition is quite all right with me. I'd prefer the signature T.M. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is a letter from Dr Thompson, the head librarian at the University of Kentucky and I think if | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/18 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I enclose front-matter proofs. No need to return these, escept [sic] if you have corrections. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/18 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | Here are the galley proofs of the footnotes, in advance of the page proofs which are due here on | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Here are the page proofs. They are, as you will note, extraordinarily clean. I hope you will not | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/20 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is the front matter with new title for Part one and corrections in the author's notes. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Do you mind adding the names of the various saints to be included in the Biographical notes? | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/23 | telegram[x] | to Merton | OK FIVE HUNDRED WORDS SAINT BERNARD PLEASE RUSH COPY WE DECIDED AGAINST INDEX | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The page proofs have come and I am working on them. Here is the stuff on St Bernard. I hope it | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/07/25 | telegram[x] | to Merton | PLEASE WIRE COLLECT WHETHER PAGE PROOFS ARRIVED SAFELY AND WHEN YOU EXPECT | |
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| 1 | 1951/07/26 | telegram[x] | from Merton | PROOF RECEIVED WILL FINISH FRIDAY MUST AWAIT CENSORS OF ORDER= FATHER LOUIS | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/08/07 | TLS | to Merton | The enclosed note of acknowledgement has just come in from Father Malloy. I am very pleased with | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/08/10 | TL[x] | to Merton | I had a splendid visit with Father Abbot yesterday. While he was here we put in a call to Father | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/08/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for the new page proofs of the biographical notes and front matter. Two small last minute | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/08/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The release has come through from our Georgia censor. It depends on one correction, in galley 62. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/08/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | The corrections have just arrived, and we are bending every effort to make them in foundry, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/08/23 | TL[x] | to Merton | Some time ago you asked me to inquire about Father Charbel. Perhaps you have the answer by now | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/08/30 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | An advance copy of the book has just come from the printer, and I have sent it along under separate | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/08/30 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is Fr Maurice's <u>nihil obstat</u>. I gather he has already communicated it to you. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/09/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and the sheets which I sent off immediately to London. I did not see the one | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/09/04 | TALS | to Merton | I have rushed through the deletion of "saints" on page 146, and changed it to read "It is possible | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/09/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Jones | In the absence of Mr Giroux I am writing to you, since I think you are his secretary. I badly need | |
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| 1 | 1951/09/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Perhaps there is still time to reach you before Thursday, to wish you a pleasant and profitable trip | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/09/14 | TALS | to Merton | Thanks for your good letter of the 10th. We shall certainly change the jacket, and in fact I have | Yes |
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| 1 | 1951/09/25 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Thank you for your letter of the 20th. Copies of your book have gone off to the twelve people | |
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| 1 | 1951/09/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Jones | Many thanks for your letter and the proofs. They were the ones I wanted but I find the corrections | |
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| 1 | 1951/09/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Jones | Many thanks for your letter and the proofs. They were the ones I wanted but I find the corrections | |
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| 1 | 1951/10/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Jones | I just became aware of a silly mistake in the ASCENT TO TRUTH that ought to be corrected because | |
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| 1 | 1951/10/10 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Proofs of the corrections for the second printing have just arrived from the printer, and I enclose | |
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| 1 | 1951/10/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Jones | Thank you for the galleys of the patches-- I am returning them with the proper adjustments. | |
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| 1 | 1951/10/19 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Thank you very much for the proofs which arrived this morning, and for the new material. | |
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| 1 | 1951/10/22 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | The printers have just called up to say that they would like to have, if possible, the proofs | |
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| 1 | 1952/01/03 | TL[x] | to Merton | I enclose plate proofs of all the pages on which you had corrections. We are also sending a set | Yes |
| [typed 1951/01/03, but a note from Patrick Samway states that it should be 1952] |
| 1 | 1952/01/07 | TALS | to Merton | I'm glad that you liked <u>Illustration</u>. It struck me as an unusually good issue, too, | Yes |
| [typed 1951/01/07, but a note states that it should be 1952] |
| 1 | 1952/03/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your card from Cuba which came in this morning. I am happy about the <u>Journal</u>. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/04/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am delighted to have the JOURNAL up to as recently as Saint Patrick's Day. I think the new | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/04/11 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Am just mailing to you under separate cover the missing material for 1948. That completes the whole | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/05/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am enclosing with this note a general editorial letter on the JOURNAL, in duplicate copies, so | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/05/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The cover design is very striking. I like the Old Testament character of the thing. The ms is still | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/05/22 | TALS | to Merton | I am happy to know that you like the cover design for THE SIGN OF JONAS. Some of the photographs | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/06/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks much for your last letter. Here are the negatives, or rather a few of them. Some are | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/06/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of June 4th. I am delighted to have the negatives, but I can't find | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/06/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | All the decent drawings I had have been given away-- to Clare Luce or to Sister Therese. Do you have | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/06/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have rwritten [sic] the outline for the beginning of section I, and I have written a prologue | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/06/19 | telegram[x] | to Merton | PLAN TO FLY DOWN WEDNESDAY THE TWENTIFIFTH ARRIVING AROUND TWO O'CLOCK PLEASE | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/06/21 | telegram[x] | from Merton | WEDNESDAY FINE EXCEPT FATHER ABBOTT AWAY UNTIL JULY 6TH COME ANY WAY UNLESS A SPECIALLY | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/06/23 | telegram[x] | to Merton | THANKS TELEGRAM WILL COME WEDNESDAY JULY NINTH INSTEAD IF AGREEABLE DUE | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/07/07 | telegram[x] | to Merton | ARRIVING WEDNESDAY AROUND ONE PLEASE WIRE COLLECT WHETHER OK YOU AND FATHER ABBOTT | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/07/11 | TLS[x] | from Fox, James / to Robert Giroux | ARRIVING WEDNESDAY AROUND ONE PLEASE WIRE COLLECT WHETHER OK YOU AND FATHER ABBOTT | |
| [from Merton's abbot to Girioux / contains a copy of the original signed letter (2 pages) and a re-typed double-spaced transcript (3 pages)] |
| 1 | 1952/07/14 | TALS | to Merton | I had a wild trip back to Louisville with the two secular priests. Since my plane didn't leave | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/07/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is another section preface-- for part four. Maybe I can finish the other two tomorrow. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/07/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the remaining introductions to the last two parts. I have only written one page for part | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/07/20? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the introduction to Part Three. The rest follows in a few days. We are all upside down with | Yes |
| [not in Samway?] |
| 1 | 1952/07/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | The last three introductions to the six parts of Jonas arrived this morning. I think some of your | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/07/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter. I was sorry to hear of your hair-raising tour of Kentucky. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/07/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am sending, separately, the galley proofs of THE SIGN OF JONAS. There are three sets - one on air | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/08/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are a few sketches. I haven't had time to really get down to work on them yet and so they are | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/08/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is just a note to tell you that the proofs all arrived safely and I have sent them out | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/08/15 (#01) | TL[c] | to Laughlin, James | Just to recapitulate our conversation at lunch today, it is understood that you are agreeable to our | |
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| 1 | 1952/08/15 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | I had a wonderful lunch with Jay Laughlin today, and all is well. He is agreeable to THE SIGN OF | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/08/27 | TL[x] | to Merton | This has been a most productive day of THE SIGN OF JONAS. Your proofs arrived this morning, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/08/28 | TL[x] | to Burns, T. F. | Could you please take care of this? It is perfectly all right with me, and I suppose with you also. | |
| [to Thomas Burns of Hollis and Carter in London] |
| 1 | 1952/08/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Jones | The Brooklyn censor sent his observations and there was one which I objected to. I returned | |
| [from Merton to a secretary of Robert Giroux] |
| 1 | 1952/08/no | telegram[x] | to Merton | MUST HAVE MANUSCRIPT JONAS IN ADDITION TO PROOFS RECEIVED MY LETTER MAILED YESTERDAY | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/09/06 | TLS[x] | from from Merton to Miss Jones | I am enclosing some galleys of <u>Jonas</u> with corrections that have been made at the suggestion | |
| [from Merton to a secretary of Robert Giroux] |
| 1 | 1952/09/09 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Thank you for your letter of the sixth, with the new corrections. It's too late for these now to be | |
| [from a secretary of Robert Giroux (Miss Jones) to Merton] |
| 1 | 1952/09/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Miss Jones | A long time ago I sent Mr Giroux a box of kodachromes which might serve as possible illustrations | |
| [from Merton to a secretary of Robert Giroux] |
| 1 | 1952/09/18 | telegram[x] | to Merton | MOST URGENT WE RECEIVE ADDITIONAL CORRECTIONS OF FATHER MAURICE FOR SIGN OF JONAS | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/09/19 (#01) | telegram[x] | from Merton | CENSORED [sic] DENIED NIHIL OBSTAT DEMANDING CHANGES BUT SENT REPORT TO ABBOTT [sic] | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/09/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Today's wire contained all the essentials about Fr Maurice, who is in the hospital, while his letter | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/09/25 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Father Maurice sent in his Nihil Obstat this morning by telegram. Needless to say I was very much | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/09/25 (#02) | telegram | to Fox, James | MANY THANKS YOU GOOD LETTER WHICH IS INDEED BOMBSHELL. FATHER MAURICE NIHIL | |
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| 1 | 1952/09/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am afraid there is very bad news from the censor's end of things-- in the Order. It is my fault | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/09/30 (#01) | transcript | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the copy of the telegram. I am glad you had all the information. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/09/30 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and for the copy of the telegram. I am glad you had all the information. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/10/02 | TALS | to Merton | I had a long talk with Father Abbot last night about THE SIGN OF JONAS and the situation, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/10/03 | TL[c] | to Maritain, Jacques | Under separate cover there has gone to you a set of bound proofs of THE SIGN OF JONAS | |
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| 1 | 1952/10/21 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Father Abbot just told me of your wire, and that Dom Albert had withdrawn his objections to the book | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/10/29 | TLS[x] | from Merton | At long last a letter has arrived from our Most Reverend Father General, in Tokyo. My letter did not | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/10/30 (#01) | telegram[x] | from Merton | GENERAL PERMITS PUBLICATION JONAS. INCLUDE DOM ALBERTS CORRECTION THANK GOD | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/10/30 (#02) | telegram[x] | to Merton | DEO GRATIAS. WHAT IS DOM ALBERT'S CORRECTION PLEASE WIRE COLLECT | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/10/31 | telegram[x] | from Merton | DON’T KNOW CORRECTIONS BETTER CABLE DOM ALBERT= FAHER [sic] LOUIS TRAPPIST KY= | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/11/03 | TLS | to Merton | I was ready to answer your letter of October 21st when the wire arrived with the news that | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/11/06 | telegram[x] | from Merton | NIHIL OBSTAT SHOULD READ EXACTLY AS IN ASCENT TO TRUTH PLUS FATHER M ALBERT DERZELLES | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/11/07 | telegram[x] | to Merton | MANY THANKS WIRE ASSUME YOU MEAN FATHER M GABRIEL SORTAIS INSTEAD OF NOGUES | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/11/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | I had lunch with Naomi yesterday and she showed me your letter about CISTERCIAN CONTEMPLATIVES. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1952/no/no? | TLS[x] | from Merton | I keep thinking that you do not have all of the Journal. Before the last piece I sent you there is | |
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| 1 | 1953/01/03 | TALS[x] | from Merton | It seems like ages since I have either written to you or heard from you. The first reason for this | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/02/05 (#01) | TL[x] | to Merton | Dan and I have just come from a fine lunch, at which we celebrated the publication of THE SIGN | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/02/05 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Graham, Aelred | Many thanks for "The Sign of Jonas" which I am reading through with interest. It seems to confirm | |
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| 1 | 1953/02/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The other day I forgot to thank you, in the letter I wrote, for the beautifully bound copy of Jonas. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/04/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It seems like a long time since I wrote to you or heard from you. How is the book going? | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/04/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am sending you a copy of a technical study of St Bernard which perhaps will form one | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/05/01 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | This is just a note to say that all is going well. I am off on a business trip to California | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/05/01 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Merton | This is just a note to say that all is going well. I am off on a business trip to California | Yes |
| [handwritten note states: "not to circulate"] |
| 1 | 1953/05/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I just got a letter from Clare Luce, written on the way to Italy to take up her diplomatic post | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/05/11 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am just back from Hollywood and doubtless none the better for it, although I did acquire a slight | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/05/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | The bindery has just delivered the presentation copies of JONAS and ASCENT. The former is bound | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/06/03 (#01) | telegram[x] | from Merton | IF YOU HAVE NOT SENT BOOKS FOR HOLY FATHER TO CLARE LUCE PLEASE SEND HERE | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/06/03 (#02) | telegram[x] | to Merton | BOOKS FOR HOLY FATHER MAILED YOU TODAY FOR AUTOGRAPH REGARDS BOB | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/06/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I haven't yet thanked you for the bound volumes of <u>Jonas</u> and the <u>Ascent</u> which are very | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/07/17 | TL[x] | to Merton | I have sent you the typed transcript of WORDS MADE OUT OF SILENCE (provisional title). | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/07/23 | TL[x] | to Merton | A few duplicate reviews of JONAS have come to my desk and I forward them in case they have not | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/07/26? | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the reviews of <u>Jonas</u>. I am glad the reviewers like the book, mostly. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/08/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the text of my introduction and commentary on the Encyclical <u>Doctor Mellifluus</u>. | Yes |
| [not certain if Loyola or Harcourt as source] |
| 1 | 1953/08/24 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is a translation of the Encyclical which has been made here and which was just read | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/09/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Before leaving for the General Chapter, Father Abbot gave me permission to try to get a copy | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/09/23 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | We want to go ahead and do a small book of THE LAST OF THE FATHERS. It's an amazing encyclical | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/09/23 (#02) | TL[x] | to Merton | We want to go ahead and do a small book of THE LAST OF THE FATHERS. It's an amazing encyclical | Yes |
| life of St. Bernard of Clairvaux / Naomi Burton Stone / British rendition of "Doctor Mellifluous" - Fr. Ronald Knox's translation / sending the Pope's address on psychotherapy / cover design of <i>Sign of Jonas</i> and review of printing by Frank Myrick |
| 1 | 1953/10/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the only copy of the Vatican translation of the Encyclical I have so far received. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/10/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here is practically all the material for the Last of the Fathers, at least all that is to be written | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/11/04 | TLS | to Merton | THE LAST OF THE FATHERS has all been retyped and copyedited, and is now being designed. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/11/27 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I have your letter of the fourth, in which you mention the possiblity of sending the LAST | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/11/30 | TALS | to Merton | You are right about not sending THE LAST OF THE FATHERS to Louisville. It certainly should have | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/12/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the picture of St Bernard I was expected from Europe. It is a mosaic, from a chapel | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/12/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | The photos arrived this morning; many thanks for getting them to us so quickly. The mosaic portrait | Yes |
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| 1 | 1953/12/11 | TLS | from Merton | Here is one picture of a St Bernard Manuscript that we have handy here. Itis [sic] a little faint, | Yes |
| [includes 1 page of letter, 1 photograph of St. Bernard manuscript, and 2 black and white photographs of St. Vorles in France] |
| 1 | 1954/01/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | The galleys of THE LAST OF THE FATHERS are all at hand, and I enclose the marked set for the printer | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/01/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have been over these proofs and everything in the main seems very satisfactory. I did not plan | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/01/20 | TLS | to Merton | In seeking a motif to illustrate THE LAST OF THE FATHERS, our designer came across the enclosed | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/02/03 | TLS | to Merton | You are too kind about the Abbot of Villers design, and it was stupid of me not to see that | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/02/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the index and bibliography-- in more of a mess than my stuff usually is, even! I did them | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/02/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | After sending off the last letter and the proofs, I suddenly thought of two other things I would | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/02/25 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for the index and bibliography and the addition to the preface, which arrived in the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/02/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Just a hasty note to ask two more favors: first as soon as the corrections are made in the FATHERS | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/03/03 | TL[x] | to Merton | Here is a file set of THE LAST OF THE FATHERS, with all the corrections but lacking the index | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/03/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | Here is a review by George Shuster in next Sunday's Herald-Tribune. Mr. Jack Adams, who is a friend | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/03/18 | telegram[x] | to Merton | ARE THE NAMES OF YOUR CENSORS FOR LAST OF FATHERS MALLOY AND BOURNE AND IS IMPRIMI | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/03/20 | telegram[x] | from Merton | CENSORS FOR NEW BOOK ARE MALLOY AND BOURNE SAME AS IN JONAS= =MERTON= | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/05/14 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Copies of the <u>Last of the Fathers</u> reached me yesterday. As I expected, it is handsomely done. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/05/28 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 14th. I'm glad the advance copies have reached you and that you | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/06/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | This is a follow-up to my letter of March 4th, a copy of which I enclose. The reason I'm writing is | |
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| 1 | 1954/06/05 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Many thank s for your letter. I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely | Yes |
| [dated "Vigil of Pentecost, 1954"] |
| 1 | 1954/06/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I remember receiving your letter about the books for Miss Howe. I set it aside and then nothing | |
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| 1 | 1954/06/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thank you for your note of June eighth about the package of books to be incscribed for Mr. John G. | |
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| 1 | 1954/07/09 | TLS | from Merton | Here finally is the manuscript of <u>Viewpoints</u>, with a new title. The prologue explains | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/07/23 | TLS | to Merton | The manuscript of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND arrived safely, and I am now reading it with pleasure. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/10/11 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the books-- Judson, Mumford and Coffin. I am already greatly enjoying the anthology. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/10/26 | TL[x] | from French, Eleanor / to Merton | Your letter of October 11th enclosing a letter from Mr. Gilson has arrived in Mr. Giroux's absence | |
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| 1 | 1954/11/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The Kafka books have all arrived-- Penal Colony, Metamorphosis, Amerika, Castle, Great Wall, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/11/08 | TLS | to Merton | I'm glad to know that the Kafka books have all safely arrived, and I am dismayed to learn that you | |
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| 1 | 1954/11/16 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The ribbons and carbon paper arrived. Alleluia. I ought to have enough to keep me quite for a few | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/11/29 | TLS | to Merton | There are only a few editorial points to make about the new book. The front matter is fine, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/12/05 | TLS | from Merton | It was good to get your letter and to learn that everything is simple and satisfactory with the new, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/12/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | Several omissions have become apparent during the copyediting of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. There are | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/12/17 | TLS | from Merton | There is no further copy coming for NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. I decided to leave those spots unfilled. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1954/no/no? | TNS | to Merton | Forgive my long silence. This is just to send you a rather large Christmas card in the form of | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/07 | TL[x] | to Merton | The jacket sketch for NO MAN IS AN ISLAND has just come in and it is one of the best yet by Arno, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/10 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The galleys came today. I am writing to say that I will get busy on them as soon as possible | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I am sending two shorts from the monastic collection from France, for the book Silence in Heaven. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/15 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have finished the galley proofs and am sending them back today. As I told you, I made a few | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/15 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | After the 8 extra pages that went off with the proofs yesterday, I am sending 3 more herewith. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/18 | TL[x] | to Best, James | We have just scheduled for Spring publication a new book by Thomas Merton entitled NO MAN IS | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/28 | TL[x] | to Merton | We have moved forward on the book with great rapidity, and the page proofs are already at hand. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/31 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Following our phone conversation just now (the closest I have been to New York for a long time!) | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/31 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Following our phone conversation just now (the closest I have been to New York for a long time!) | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/01/31 (#03) | other | | SILENCE DANS LE CIEL ICI illustrations hélios [-] 224 pages [-] format 21 x 25.5 | |
| [plan and list of illustrations for a French edition of <i>Silence in Heaven</i>, published by the Benedictine monastery of the Abbey of La Pierre Qui Vire Abbey in Yonne, France] |
| 1 | 1955/04/07 | TALS | to Merton | I deeply regret the misunderstanding which occurred during my last weeks at Harcourt, Brace | Yes |
| [writing now from Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Publishers] |
| 1 | 1955/06/23 | TALS | to Merton | This is not the long letter which I have been wanting to write you about a great number of matters, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/06/30 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for returning the jacket so promptly. I realize that you still wish to work on the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/09/14 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Naomi's office sent over your letter about the delay on THE LIVING BREAD, since she is now in Europe | Yes |
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| 1 | 1955/09/14 (#02) | other | | T. MORUS MARGARETAE ELIZABETHAE CECILIAE AC IOANNI DULCISSIMIS LIBERIS. S.P. | |
| [enclosed letter in Latin verse by Thomas More that Giroux is asking Merton to help translate] |
| 1 | 1955/11/15 | TALS | to Merton | I am very happy to be back from Europe, even though I can say that it was the best trip I have ever | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/04/12 | TLS | to Merton | The plate changes have all been made in THE LIVING BREAD and I enclose corrected plate proofs | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/05/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am awfully glad that you agreed to let us show your paper on "The Neurotic Personality" to Dr. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/05/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the other day. I wrote to Zilboorg yesterday afternoon. I would | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/06/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | One of the Zilboorg books you spoke of has arrived, <u>Mind, Medicine and Man</u>. Did you say you | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/08/04 | HPCS[x] | from Merton | My two weeks here have been immensely profitable and of course I have seen Zilboorg who has many | Yes |
| [postcard written while Merton was at a conference at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he met famed psychiatrist Gregory Zilboorg] |
| 1 | 1956/08/07 | TLS | to Merton | I want to assure you at once that there will be photographs in THE SILENT LIFE. I'm not sure | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/08/13 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Mr. Peck | I am sending off the corrected proofs today. Or rather I am giving them to the brother gatekeeper | |
| [sending proofs to a colleage of Robert Giroux] |
| 1 | 1956/08/18 | TLS[x] | from Merton | About the photos: I am absolutely certain that I sent either to you or to Naomi, a year ago, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/09/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are some excellent Carthusian photos, all from La Val Sainte in Switzerland. I think you can | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/09/05 | TLS | to Merton | This is to thank you for the Carthusian photos which arrived by special delivery today. They are | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/10/02 | TLS | to Merton | I enclose the final layout of the photographs in THE SILENT LIFE. In a few instances I had no | Yes |
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| 1 | 1956/10/04? | TLS[x] | from Merton | The pictures are very fine. I like the layouts very much and think the whole thing will be splendid | |
| [(filed in Series 7 of the "Fox, James" correspondence) enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Dom James Fox to Abbot General Gabriel Sortais] |
| 1 | 1957/12/16 | TLS | to Merton | This is my Christmas letter to you, to accompany a package containing Georges Bernanos' | Yes |
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| 1 | 1957/12/19 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | The more I have read and re-read the manuscript of THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE, which you sent me | |
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| 1 | 1957/12/28 | transcript | from Merton | It was wonderful to hear from you and to get the books. I was intrigued to hear about the [George] | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/02/14 | TALS | to Merton | The proofs of THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE have just come in, and I rush them to you at once. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/02/26 | TALS | to Merton | Thanks very much for getting the galley proofs back so quickly. I am much relieved that, having | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/03/03 (#01) | transcript | from Merton | Here are the proofs of the front matter. I have taken care to insert the <u>Nihil Obstat</u>, etc. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/03/03 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the proofs of the front matter. I have taken care to insert the <u>Nihil Obstat</u>, etc. | Yes |
| [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files] |
| 1 | 1958/03/05 | TLS | to Merton | Just a note to let you know that the proofs of the front matters arrived safely -- and very quickly, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/09/12 | TALS | to Merton | I was delighted to have your inscribed copy of the <u>Prometheus: A Meditation</u>, for many | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/10/01 | TL[c] | to Merton | I was delighted to get the proofs back from you so promptly. Mrs. Doherty had a few minor | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/10/23 | TALS[x] | from Merton | As you may remember, we have been working down here on a book about sacret art. It is called ART AND | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/11/22 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Naomi tells me you are favorably considering <u>Art and Worship</u> and I am glad. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/11/26 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your good letter of November 22nd. I like the text of ART AND WORSHIP enormously, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/12/04 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the other day. Today I have finally got back from the censors | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/12/04 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the other day. Today I have finally got back from the censors | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/12/13 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Yesterday I went in to Louisville and saw the man who was doing the layouts for ART AND WORSHIP. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1958/12/19 | TLS | to Merton | I owe you at least three letters, I am sure, but this is simply to let you know that all | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/01/03 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and for the books. It was good to hear from you and I shall look forward | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/01/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | When I wrote the other day, I forgot one important question you asked, which was about trying new | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/01/16 | TLS | to Merton | I have just learned that Eliot is arriving in New York at the end of January, in connection with his | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/01/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Good, I will be expecting you at the later date, after Easter. But meanwhile I would like | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/01/30 | TLS | to Merton | To answer your question about the type problem -- I doubt very much that it would be possible to use | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/03/18 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I wrote to Naomi the other day with the news that the Censors had finally passed <u>Art and</u> | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/04/10 | TLS | to Merton | How would the weekend of Saturday, May 2nd, work out for a visit? I'm sorry for the delay in not | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/04/10 | TL[x] | to Merton | How would the weekend of Saturday, May 2nd, work out for a visit? I'm sorry for the delay in not | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/05/09 | TLS[x] | from Merton | [..] imagine that finally the censors came through with their approval for [..] Pasternak. A little | |
| [very difficult to read / possibly a copy made from a copy made for Giroux by Merton] |
| 1 | 1959/05/26 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | The staid old Times Literary Supplement has an excellent review of SECULAR JOURNAL. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/05/26 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | The staid old Times Literary Supplement has an excellent review of SECULAR JOURNAL. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/06/20 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am finally getting around to drawing up that list of articles for the book. Forgive me from | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/06/20 (#02) | other | | Material for a Book of Essays: Part I- Early Material: (1939-40) We might draw on book reviews | |
| [enclosed with 1959/06/20 letter] |
| 1 | 1959/08/26 | TLS | from Merton | How is everything? I haven't heard from you in a long time. Have you written? Perhaps a letter | |
| [not in Samway book - note on Samway's copy states that letter was discovered after book went to proof] |
| 1 | 1959/11/25 | TLS | to Merton | I feel that I have been out of touch for decades. I do not like the feeling, and I hope to prevent | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/11/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | I wrote you a letter yesterday but it had not gone out when yours arrived toda[y] so I am going | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/12/24 | TALS | to Merton | I have been going over the manuscript with great pleasure, for I think it has some of your best | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/12/29 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | The ideas about the new book are in general perfectly acceptable to me. And they make good sense. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1959/12/29 (#02) | other | | Work Under Way- Possibilities for publication after 1960. 1- 1960 Spiritual Direction and | |
| [enclosed with 1959/12/29 letter] |
| 1 | 1960/02/12 | TLS | to Merton | I'm sorry that we are in such a pickle over the Reader. I think you are absolutely right | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/02/15 | TALS[c] | to McDonnell, Thomas P. | Many thanks for your letter of February 13th. Father Louis writes me that he can not give his | |
| [includes handwritten note from Giroux to Merton] |
| 1 | 1960/02/16 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of the 12th which I received this morning. I think it would be a good idea | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/02/17 | TLS | to Merton | I'm delighted to have your letter of February 16th and I will be down to see you next week. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/04/12 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the final and complete version of one of the essays for the new books, as it has appeared | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/04/13 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for the final version of the essay in <u>Worship</u>. Actually Father McDonnell had | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/04/22 | TALS | to Merton | Here is the sketch by the jacket artist for DISPUTED QUESTIONS. They are unusual colors, but very | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/04/30 | TLS | from Merton | Please excuse the red ribbon, I have to use it up somehow. The cover design is very fine, though it | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/05/26 | TALS | to Merton | The galley proofs of DISPUTED QUESTIONS are now here. I am not sure whether you want me to | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/06/03 | TLS | to Merton | I'm sorry I missed your phone call, and no doubt this letter will cross yours. I assumed you knew | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/06/06 | TLS | to Merton | Just a note to acknowledge receipt of the replacement for galleys 64 through 69, with the changes | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/06/08 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I have copied out the Pasternak letter, complete with the first section which is in Greek, I mean | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/06/09 | TALS | to Merton | Just a note to acknowledge receipt of the proofs, and your letter of June 7th. I like the Pasternak | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/06/17 | TALS | to Merton | I had a very good meeting with Eloise Spaeth today about ART AND WORSHIP. One of the things | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/07/13 | TLS | to Merton | Under separate cover I have sent you an information set of page proofs of DISPUTED QUESTIONS | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/09/16 | TALS | to Merton | I am finally back not only in New York but in our new offices at 19 Union Square West. (The soap | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/09/17 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The authors copies of the new book have arrived and I am very grateful. I have thought of a few more | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/09/26 | TALS[x] | from Merton | No better date than this to write about the new book since today is the day scheduled for its | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/10/25 | TLS | to Merton | I enclose some reviews of DISPUTED QUESTIONS, including (for them) an unusually intelligent | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/11/15 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I am delighted to report that Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh has written a prefatory note for | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/11/15 (#02) | TL[x] | from Wright, John J. | These thoughtful reflections of Father Thomas Merton and the exquisite reproductions which | |
| [enclosure to 1960/11/15 letter from Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh to Giroux in praise of Merton's book <i>Art and Worship</i> (book was not published)] |
| 1 | 1960/12/01 | TALS | to Merton | I am grateful for your two letter of November 28th, the first because it speaks out about things | Yes |
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| 1 | 1960/12/25 | HNS | from Merton | +for Bob - In XT - Christmas, 1960 [-] Tom. | |
| [note on printed copy of Merton's poem: "Song: If You Seek"] |
| 1 | 1961/01/25 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I hope it is true that the contract with Sudamericana limits their rights to Latin America only, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/01/25 (#02) | other | | Woman Friend of Pasternak Said to Be Imprisoned by Soviet [-] She Inspired Writing of 'Doctor | |
| [newspaper clipping from the <u>New York Times</u>, 1961/01/19] |
| 1 | 1961/02/13 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | There are hundreds of things to be said, I have to stick to the most important ones. First of all | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/02/13 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | I've been in correspondence with Mrs. Lydia Pasternak Slater, sister of Boris Pasternak who lives | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/02/23 | TAL[c] | from Murray, Anne Brooks | Mr. Giroux is in Jamaica with the Eliots, and will not be back until March 10th, but I wanted to let | |
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| 1 | 1961/02/28 | TLS | from Merton | I don't know if you are yet back from Jamaica but I have to get this letter off to avoid | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/04/14 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | This letter is long overdue and there is much to write about. To start with THE NEW MAN, which we | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/05/08 | TLS | to Merton | I think we have created a problem about the title of THE NEW MAN where one does not exit. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/05/13 | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your last good letter and for the first paragraph about the title. I have not yet worked | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/06/02 | TLS | to Merton | The proofs of A NEW MAN have just come from the printer, and I am sending them to you under | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/06/30 | TLS | to Merton | This is just to thank you for returning the galley proofs of THE NEW MAN so promptly. They are now | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/08/18 | TLS | to Merton | The alumni magazine arrived today with a picture of Mark accepting your medal at the commencement | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/09/01 | TLS | to Merton | I am stunned by that poem. Is there any reason why it could not also be published in | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/10/18 | TLS | from Merton | The new books have arrived. I am delighted to get to Leskov at last, he has long been on my list. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/10/25 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | In the last few days I have been cleaning up some work with the man who has been editing the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/10/25 (#02) | TAL[c] | from Merton | In the last few days I have been cleaning up some work with the man who has been editing the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/11/14 | TLS | from Merton | The NEW MAN has arrived and of course I am very pleased with it. The striking simplicity | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/11/20 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I'm happy to hear that you like THE NEW MAN. The only review so far - an advance notice - could | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/11/20 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | I'm happy to hear that you like THE NEW MAN. The only review so far - an advance notice - could | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/12/08 | TAL[c] | to Merton | Dr. Abraham Heschel, whose books we have published--MAN IS NOT ALONE, THE SABBATH, and GOD | Yes |
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| 1 | 1961/12/18 | TLS | from Merton | First of all I am really anxious to help in any way I can to get Abraham Heschel's books known | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/03/01 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Perry Knowlton has sent me his letter to you, and also, since I last wrote, I dug into the files | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/03/01 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Perry Knowlton has sent me his letter to you, and also, since I last wrote, I dug into the files | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/03/05 | TL[c] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Thank you very much for your letter of March 1st, which has arrived while Mr. Giroux is away | |
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| 1 | 1962/03/22 | TLS | from Merton | I hear you have been in Jamaica, and hope you had a nice vacation there. While you were away | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/03/28 | TL[c] | to Merton | My stay in Barbados (not Jamaica - that was <u>last</u> year) was a little longer than planned, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/03/30 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | You have told me so often that you don't want to get mixed up in business matters, that you don't | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/03/30 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Merton | You have told me so often that you don't want to get mixed up in business matters, that you don't | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/04/03 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Many thanks for your good letter. I certainly have been needing light on this thing, because it is | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/04/03 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your good letter. I certainly have been needing light on this thing, because it is | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/04/23 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Naturally I keep thinking about this Reader business, and also, of course, I asked for the agreement | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/04/23 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Naturally I keep thinking about this Reader business, and also, of course, I asked for the agreement | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/05/11 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | As Perry Knowlton may have told you, Roger Straus is now trying to work out with William Jovanovich | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/05/11 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | As Perry Knowlton may have told you, Roger Straus is now trying to work out with William Jovanovich | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/08/27 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter and the enclosure from the TLS which was bracing. I am glad the book | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/08/27 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter and the enclosure from the TLS which was bracing. I am glad the book | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/09/17 | TLS | from Merton | The new book on Yoga has not arrived but it sounds very interesting. I shall certainly consider | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/11/21 | TLS | to Merton | I can't tell you how glad I was to hear from you, and to read the piece you wrote as a preface | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/12/01 | TLS | from Merton | This is just a quick note to let you know that the censors came through bravely with approbation | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/12/06 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I am delighted to know that the censors have O.K.'d the preface for IN SEARCH OF A YOGI. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/12/06 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Merton | I am delighted to know that the censors have O.K.'d the preface for IN SEARCH OF A YOGI. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/12/12 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | I can't guarantee that this typing is going to be very good. I have been walking around in the zero | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/12/12 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I can't guarantee that this typing is going to be very good. I have been walking around in the zero | Yes |
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| 1 | 1962/12/17 | HLS | from Merton | Here is the preface. I look forward to the Xavier Rynne article. Actually I think the first | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/02/01 | TALS | to Merton | Ed Rice tells me that he want to use an excerpt from IN SEARCH OF A YOGI in <u>Jubilee</u>, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/02/05 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | It was good to get some news from you and to know that we can go ahead at least tentatively with | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/02/05 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | It was good to get some news from you and to know that we can go ahead at least tentatively with | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/03/16 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Maybe the Lenten fast clears the head. Maybe also a few remarks in a letter from Tom Burns helped | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/03/16 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Maybe the Lenten fast clears the head. Maybe also a few remarks in a letter from Tom Burns helped | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/03/20 | TL[c] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | I feel that I would like you to know that Mr. Giroux is at the moment away from the office | |
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| 1 | 1963/05/10 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | The Xavier Rynne book arrived this morning. Thanks very much indeed. It looks great. Is there | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/05/10 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | The Xavier Rynne book arrived this morning. Thanks very much indeed. It looks great. Is there | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/05/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I'm glad you like the looks of the Xavier Rynne book. If you've read the preface, you know that | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/05/13 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | I'm glad you like the looks of the Xavier Rynne book. If you've read the preface, you know that | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/05/29 | TALS | from Merton | It was a comfort to get your letter and I am happy at the clarity that it has brought | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/06/21 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I am getting the essays together from several sources -- my files here, at home, and in Jersey -- | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/06/21 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | I am getting the essays together from several sources -- my files here, at home, and in Jersey -- | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/07/17 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I am very much concerned about the whole Macmillan situation, following a meeting here with their | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/07/17 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | I am very much concerned about the whole Macmillan situation, following a meeting here with their | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/07/20 (#01) | TALS | from Merton | Your call yesterday was most helpful, and it has really thrown some light on the situation. I hope | Yes |
| [handwritten note by Giroux - "No" to Merton's suggestion of letter Tom Burns publish <i>Prayer as Worship and Experience</i>] |
| 1 | 1963/07/20 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your call yesterday was most helpful, and it has really thrown some light on the situation. I hope | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/07/24 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I'm most grateful to you for sending a copy of the contract, which has been of great help to our | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/07/24 (#02) | other | | Postscript to 'Zhivago' [-] While Stalin lived, world public opinion had become accustomed to | |
| [newspaper clipping enclosed with 1963/07/24 letter - source and date unknown] |
| 1 | 1963/07/24 (#03) | TL[c] | to Merton | I'm most grateful to you for sending a copy of the contract, which has been of great help to our | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/07/24 (#04) | TALS[x] | to Merton | I'm most grateful to you for sending a copy of the contract, which has been of great help to our | Yes |
| [filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani] lawyers recommend Dom James Fox sending Warren Sullivan at Macmillan a letter to explicitly state that it was both the idea of Fox and Merton to discontinue plans to publish <i>Prayer as Worship and Experience</i> |
| 1 | 1963/08/02 | telegram | to Merton | OUR LAWYERS URGENTLY NEED COPY OF YOUR LETTER MACMILLAN RETURNING ADVANCE | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/08/07 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your telegram reached me this morning. I am asking the Abbot's secretary to make the copies you | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/08/09 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I am most grateful for your letter of August 7th, enclosing Father Abbot's letter of July 27th | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/08/09 (#02) | TL[c] | to Merton | I am most grateful for your letter of August 7th, enclosing Father Abbot's letter of July 27th | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/08/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Well, thank heaven this Macmillan thing seems to have been settled. Father Abbot yesterday received | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/08/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I wonder if you have any idea what happens to mail when it arrives in a Trappist monastery, for one | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/08/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | I wonder if you have any idea what happens to mail when it arrives in a Trappist monastery, for one | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/08/28 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | In case you should wonder at receiving no reply to your letter to Mr. Giroux, I would like you | Yes |
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| 1 | 1963/09/06 | TALS[x] | from Giroux, Robert / to Merton | I always seem to be away when important letters come. This time I was brought low by a bad virus | Yes |
| [extra copy transferred from the "Fox, James" file from a series accessioned in 2015, "Publishers' Correspondence: Farrar, Straus and Giroux"] Macmillan, book rights, and conflict - Naomi Burton Stone |
| 1 | 1964/02/07 | TALS | to Merton | I was delighted that Naomi forwarded the two manuscripts, and I'm happy to report that we have | Yes |
| on changing the title of Merton's book about racial inequality and nuclear weapons from <i>The Cold War and the Black Revolution</i> to <i>Seeds of Destruction</i> / asking Eloise Spaeth if she would like to work with Merton on <i>Art and Worship</i> |
| 1 | 1964/02/10 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Your letter of the 7th reached me this morning. I am very glad you are going right ahead with | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/02/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter of the 7th reached me this morning. I am very glad you are going right ahead with | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/03/05 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | As you remember, in writing from time to time about the material in SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION I have | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/03/05 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | As you remember, in writing from time to time about the material in SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION I have | Yes |
| [copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - contains handwritten note] |
| 1 | 1964/03/06 | TLS | to Merton | Naomi phoned me yesterday and I was prepared for the shock but I do think it is awfully unjust | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/03/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter which I received thismorning [sic]. Since I last wrote to you I think I have | Yes |
| [missing last page - see item #2 of this date for full letter] |
| 1 | 1964/03/11 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter which I received thismorning [sic]. Since I last wrote to you I think I have | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/03/16 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Enclosed herewith are two sets of galleys of your book, SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION, which Mr. Giroux | |
| [from Margery Krebs, Secretary to Robert Giroux] |
| 1 | 1964/03/24 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This may not be the smartest thing to do, but I am returning the corrected galleys minus | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/05/28 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Some time ago I sent Naomi two new pieces to replace the matter that we were not able to publish | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/05/28 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Some time ago I sent Naomi two new pieces to replace the matter that we were not able to publish | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/08 | TLS[x] | from Merton | The letter from the General to Dom James is not exactly what I would call a new magna carta | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/19 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Is it agreeable to you to change the title of "The Monk in the Diaspora" to "The Christian in the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/19 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is the new material for the book (Seeds of Destruction). What I have done is really | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/22 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Today you should be receiving that long rewritten essay on peace, which I hope will get by | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/22 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Today you should be receiving that long rewritten essay on peace, which I hope will get by | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/23 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for the long essay, which arrived yesterday, and for your letter of the 22nd which has | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/25 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Your letter came this morning, many thanks. I do not expect an answer from the General for a couple | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/25 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter came this morning, many thanks. I do not expect an answer from the General for a couple | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/06/29 | TLS | to Merton | I can't imagine a better epigraph for the book than the quote from St. Paul. We'll put it either | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/01 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | First of all I am very grateful for the new books. I have started immediately on Serafian and find | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/01 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Merton | First of all I am very grateful for the new books. I have started immediately on Serafian and find | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | Too bad about <u>Commentary</u>. I enclose the note from their editor. I would now like to try | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/05? | HNS[x] | from Merton | Still now news fro the General. Meanwhile, the Civil Rights law calls for an addition | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/07 | TLS | to Merton | I thank you for your good words about the Serafian book. I wish some of the reviews had your | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/14 | telegram | from Merton | PEACE ESSAY FULLY APPROVED NO CHANGES NO FUTHER [sic] DELAY [-] TOM MERTON | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/15 | TLS | to Merton | This is just to thank you for your Bastille Day wire. I am delighted that the Abbot General has | Yes |
| [not in Samway book - note on Samway's copy states that letter was discovered after book went to proof] |
| 1 | 1964/07/27 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | This is just a note to say that the official date for the imprimi potest is July 21, 1964. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/27 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is just a note to say that the official date for the imprimi potest is July 21, 1964. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/07/30 | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for yours of the 27th with the official date for the imprimi potest. Corrected proofs | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/08/14 | TLS | to Merton | I have a number of things to report. First of all, the New York Review of Books has taken your poem | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/08/17 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | As the Production Department has felt it necessary to produce revised galley proofs before page | |
| [from Anne Brown, secretary to Robert Giroux, to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/08/20 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Page proofs for SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION just arrived and I am sending you a Master and duplicate set | |
| [from Anne Brown, secretary to Robert Giroux, to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/08/21 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | Unfortunately the wrong proofs were sent to you on August 21st (the second package you receive). | |
| [from Anne Brown, secretary to Robert Giroux, to Merton] |
| 1 | 1964/08/25 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter with the wonderful news. Congratulations! I too will be very happy and | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/08/25 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter with the wonderful news. Congratulations! I too will be very happy and | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/09/18 | TLS | to Merton | I am sending you under separate cover the first two books under the new imprint, one of which is | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/09/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | You might be interested in this "elegy" for Flannery O'Connor. I have not submitted it to anyone. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/09/24 | TLS | to Merton | I have an advance copy of <u>The New York Review of Books</u> for October 8th containing your poem. | |
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| 1 | 1964/10/09 | TLS | to Merton | We have had very good reports on LES PIERRES SAUVAGES by Fernand Pouillon, a novel about | Yes |
| [letterhead changes to "Farrar, Straus & Giroux"] |
| 1 | 1964/10/19 | TALS | to Merton | We have revised the jacket of SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION, as you requested, and I am happy to send | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/10/26 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Sorry to be a bit slow reporting on "Les Pierres Sauvages". I have been a bit tied up and have | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/11/17 | TLS | to Merton | The first copy of SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION from the printer this afternoon and I have sent it to you | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/11/21 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the first copy of SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION and for other copies which also arrived | Yes |
| [see record 1964/11/21[2] for enclosure] |
| 1 | 1964/11/21 (#02) | other | | Notes by the Artist for an Exhibit of His Drawings [-] Thomas Merton | |
| [booklet of notes on his art distributed by Merton for the 1964/11/13 exhibit of his art at Catherine Spalding College in Louisville, Kentucky] |
| 1 | 1964/11/21 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the first copy of SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION and for other copies which also arrived | Yes |
| [see record 1964/11/21[2] for enclosure] |
| 1 | 1964/11/24 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your good letter of the 21st. It is a pleasure to send review copies of SEEDS OF | Yes |
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| 1 | 1964/no/no? | TNS[x] | from Merton | Could you please take care of this? It is perfectly all right with me, and I suppose with you also. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/01/07 | TALS | to Merton | In many ways I think <u>Seasons of Celebration</u> is your best book. Certainly it is <u>one</u> | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/01/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter, and I am delighted that you want to go ahead right away with SEASONS. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/01/11 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter, and I am delighted that you want to go ahead right away with SEASONS. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/01/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | I am happy to enclose a selection from the first batch of reviews. On the whole the book is getting | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/03/13 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | A friend of mine who is very active in connection with Schema 13 has asked that we send some | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/03/13 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | A friend of mine who is very active in connection with Schema 13 has asked that we send some | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/03/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | I take delight in assisting in any way I can with the work on Schema 13. I hope your book does have | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/04/29 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for Flannery O'Connor's new book, which of course I have read immediately. It has all | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/04/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for Flannery O'Connor's new book, which of course I have read immediately. It has all | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/04/30 | TLS | to Merton | I thank you for the marvelous letter on Flannery O'Connor's new book, and I'm taking the liberty | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/03 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | The Myna Lockwood book just came in, and I want to acknowledge it. I will let you know about my | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/03 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | The Myna Lockwood book just came in, and I want to acknowledge it. I will let you know about my | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I told this man that I would pass his letter on to you, and that you could send him proofs if he | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/16 | TLS | to Merton | It isn't often that I can send you a book that I absolutely know you will <u>enjoy</u>. It's Tom | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | Naomi has sent me the manuscript of MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS, and I think it is a very good book. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/29 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | The proofs just arrived, and I want to let you know about them before I take off with them | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/07/29 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton | The proofs just arrived, and I want to let you know about them before I take off with them | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/08/06 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Here are the corrected proofs. I have also added an 'author's note' and three inserts in the last | |
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| 1 | 1965/08/07 (#01) | TLS[c] | from Sullivan, Warren / to James Fox | We have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND | |
| [dated 1963/07/27 and forwarded by Giroux to Merton in his 1965/08/07 letter] |
| 1 | 1965/08/07 (#03) | TALS[x] | from Sullivan, Warren / to James Fox | We have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND | |
| [dated 1963/07/27 and forwarded by Giroux to Merton in his 1965/08/07 letter] |
| 1 | 1965/08/10 (#01) | TAL[c] | from Merton | The enclosed essay, which I think you will like, logically belongs in the MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/08/10 (#02) | TALS | to Merton | Many thanks for returning the proofs so promptly. I am relieved to learn that you are out | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/08/17 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | This will arrive in your absence but someone can take care of it: First as regards the copyright | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/08/17 (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton | This will arrive in your absence but someone can take care of it: First as regards the copyright | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/08/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | In addition to the article on "Zen Monasticism" which I sent you recently, I think this one | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/09/02 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | I am acknowledging your letter of August 30th in Mr. Giroux's absence. He'll return from Europe | |
| [from Mary Louise Vincent, assistant to Mr. Giroux, to Merton] |
| 1 | 1965/10/21 | TALS | to Merton | I have just sent you by separate cover the first advance copy of SEASONS OF CELEBRATION to come | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/10/26 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for the new book. It is very handsome, and I am happy to get it. I think that it ought | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/12/09 | TL[c] | from Merton | Some time ago you mentioned the existentialism article in the Critic. I have rewritten it | Yes |
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| 1 | 1965/12/22 | transcript | to Merton | I couldn't agree more about adding "The Other Side of Despair" to MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS, and also | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/01/06 | TLS | from Merton | I have sent off the Existentialism piece for censorship and hope it will not be too long. If it has | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/03/11 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I hope you will understand our reasoning on the postponement of MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/03/11 (#02) | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I do not see how we can publish MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS by July. As you know, we published | |
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| 1 | 1966/03/18 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Actually, the idea ofputting [sic] off MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS until 1967 is much better, as far | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/03/18 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Actually, the idea ofputting [sic] off MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS until 1967 is much better, as far | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/03/23 | TL[c] | to Merton | I am acknowledging your letter of March 18th and the copy of "The Zen Koan" in Mr. Giroux's absence | |
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| 1 | 1966/06/03 | TLS | to Merton | I can't tell you how grateful I am for your marvelously perceptive comment on Walker Percy's | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/09/27 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | We are now planning to go to press with MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS, and the copy-editor has | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/09/27 (#02) | other | | <u>Contents</u> [-] <u>Preface</u> 1. Mystics and Zen Masters 2. Classic Chins Thought | |
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| 1 | 1966/09/30 | TL[c] | from Merton | I was happy to get your letter and to learn that MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS is now in the works. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/11/03 | transcript | to Merton | Our Copyright Department requires information about the original magazine publication of the essays | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/11/08 | transcript | from Merton | I am returning the list of essays with more or less useable information about where those essays | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/11/29 | TLS | to Merton | I am sending you proofs of MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS in duplicate. Please return one set to me | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/11/30 | TL[x] | from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton | At Mr. Giroux's request, I am sending you a list of queries from our copy-editor on MYSTICS AND ZEN | |
| [one-page letter and two-page list of copy-editor questions and corrections] |
| 1 | 1966/12/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | Here is the preface, short and sweet. Writing it has been my celebration of the twenty fifth | Yes |
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| 1 | 1966/12/15 | TLS | to Merton | I like the preface to MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS. Many thanks for delivering it so promptly. | |
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| 1 | 1966/12/16 | transcript | from Merton | I am returning the queries of your proof reader. I think I have answered everything. What is not | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/02/04 | transcript | from Merton | Since they are reading [Pie-Raymond] Régamey's book on art [<i>Religious Art in the Twentieth</i> | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/02/06 | TLS | to Merton | Many thanks for your letter of February 4th. I am enclosing the ms. of ART AND WORSHIP which, | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/02/13 | TLS | from Martel, Pierre-Albin / to Farrar, Straus, Giroux | Il nous serait agréable de recevoir sous option, dès parution, - <u>Thomas Merton : Seeds of</u> - | |
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| 1 | 1967/03/27 | TALS[x] | from Gies, Judith / to Pierre-Albin Martel | Re: SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION by Thomas Merton [-] Thank you for your interest in the <u>French</u> | |
| [from Judith Gies, office of Subsidiary Rights for Farrar, Straus & Giroux to Pierre-Albin Martel, Bureau detudes et de promotion editoriales - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1967/04/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the first copy of <u>Mystics and Zen Masters</u>, received last week. I hope it | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/06/16 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for the reviews, and I have also been meaning to thank you all for the fine ad in the NY | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/06/23 | TLS | to Merton | It was good to hear from you. I'm delighted to learn from Nancy Wilson Ross that she has done | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/06/27 | TLS | to Merton | I enclose the review by Nancy Wilson Ross in next Sunday's <u>Times</u>. They are a bit late, | |
| [not in Samway book - note on Samway's copy states that letter was discovered after book went to proof] |
| 1 | 1967/08/02 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Just a note to tell you that I've sent a batch of your mss. and proofs to Father Loftus | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/08/02 (#02) | TL[c] | to Loftus, John | Thomas Merton has asked me to send to you for Bellarmine College's special collection | |
| [to John Loftus, Dean of Bellarmine College - carbon copy to Merton] |
| 1 | 1967/08/11 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks very much indeed for sending the mss, proofs and so on to Bellarmine for their collection. | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/08/15 | TALS | to Merton | It's good to hear from you, as always. I had heard about the sale of <u>Jubilee</u> and I had hoped | Yes |
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| 1 | 1967/11/18 | TL[c] | from Merton | Quite some time ago, nearly eight weeks I think, I sent you a manuscript for your book, in answer | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/01/25 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your wire about Sy Freedgood. I also got a call from the Methodist minister out there | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/01/30 | TLS | to Merton | It's good to hear from you. I had a phone call from John Brooks, a writer-neighbor of the | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/02/07 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of the 30th ult. as the old guys used to say. Thanks even more for | Yes |
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| 1 | 1968/06/22 | TL[c] | from Merton | I can't seem to recall seeing a letter about <u>Raids</u> and Garzanti. Of course that is perfectly | Yes |
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| 1 | 2006/08/08 (#01) | other | | <b>Merton-Giroux Correspondence</b> [-] SPY to Merton. 2/26/40. (Copy) (Rejection note from | |
| [list of correspondence between Giroux and Merton donated by Giroux in 2006] |
| 1 | undated/no/no | other | | HIGH PRAISE FOR THOMAS MERTON'S SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION [-] Of all the words that have | |
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| 1 | undated/no/no | other | | SEASONS OF CELEBRATION [-] Liturgical Essays and Homilies [-] I. Liturgy of Spiritual Personalism | |
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| 2 | 1950/05/11 (#01) | TL[c] | from Abbott, Frank / to Merton | Yesterday afternoon I had a meeting with Robert Giroux. He seemed extremely interested in my | |
| [see also Series 3, Letter 1950/06/17] |
| 2 | 1950/05/11 (#02) | other[c] | from Abbott, Frank / to Merton | Thomas Merton: A Modern Augustine [-] Preface: Scope and Plan of Book [-] Chapter I: | |
| [see also Series 3, Letter 1950/06/17 - draft of table of contents for Frank Abbott's proposed biography of Merton] |
| 2 | 1950/05/11 (#03) | TL[c] | from Abbott, Frank / to Merton | A few days ago I visited with your dear friend, Daniel Walsh, up at 722 Philosophy; your old | |
| [see also Series 3, Letter 1950/06/17] |
| 2 | 1950/05/11 (#04) | other[c] | from Abbott, Frank / to Merton | Thomas Merton: A Modern Augustine [-] Preface: Scope and Plan of Book [-] Chapter I: | |
| [draft of table of contents (different than 1950/05/11[2]) for Frank Abbott's proposed biography of Merton - see also Series 3, Letter 1950/06/17] |
| 2 | 1950/06/12 (#01) | TL[c] | from Fox, James / to Frank Abbott | Good Father Louis received your two letters of May 11. You should have been there when he opened | |
| [from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey, to Frank Abbott] |
| 2 | 1950/06/12 (#02) | TL[c] | from Fox, James / to Frank Abbott | Good Father Louis received your two letters of May 11. You should have been there when he opened | |
| [from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey, to Frank Abbott] |
| 2 | 1950/06/12 (#03) | TL[c] | from Fox, James / to Frank Abbott | Good Father Louis received your two letters of May 11. You should have been there when he opened | |
| [from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey, to Frank Abbott] |
| 2 | 1950/06/14 (#01) | TLS | from Abbott, Frank | Here is the letter I received this morning from the Abbot of Our Lady of Gethsemani and also a copy | |
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| 2 | 1950/06/14 (#02) | TL[c] | from Abbott, Frank / to James Fox | I received your letter of June 12 and I am most grieved and disturbed that I have given Father Louis | |
| [from Frank Abbott to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey - see also Series 3, Letter 1950/06/17] |
| 2 | 1950/06/15 (#01) | TL[c] | to Abbott, Frank | If you have not already sent your answer to Abbot Fox -- as I hope you haven't -- I very urgently | |
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| 3 | 1951/01/08 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Here is the article which I told you Tom had sent me. I think you also should see a copy of his | |
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| 3 | 1956/03/13 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I have had copies of THIRTY-SEVEN MEDITATIONS made and I am sending you one herewith. | Yes |
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| 3 | 1956/05/01 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Here are the three pieces written for the Novitiate by Thomas Merton, which you wanted to see. | Yes |
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| 3 | 1956/08/no? | HNS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | OK. Will you photograph the poem | Yes |
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| 3 | 1956/08/no? (#01) | HNS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | OK-will you photograph that poem and return to me. Out of context maybe it's not so bad. | Yes |
| [note concerning "The Sting of Conscience: Letter to Graham Greene", letter from Merton dated 1956/05/02 and enclosed - also enclosed with this note or at another time, letter from Merton dated 1956/07/30] |
| 3 | 1956/08/no? (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone | First of all, here are a couple of poems. Let them be as presents for the 6th. Matthew Scott is | Yes |
| [very faint reprographic copy dated 1956/05/02] |
| 3 | 1956/08/no? (#03) | TL[x] | from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone | First of all, here are a couple of poems. Let them be as presents for the 6th. Matthew Scott is | Yes |
| [very faint reprographic copy dated 1956/05/02] |
| 3 | 1956/08/no? (#04) | TAL[x] | from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone | Thanks for your letter. I went over to the Liturgical Press and checked with them and they were | Yes |
| [very faint reprographic copy dated 1956/07/30] |
| 3 | 1956/09/17 | TLS | from Cushman, John | Herewith THIRTY SEVEN MEDITATIONS which has just come in from Merton with all the necessary | Yes |
| [from John a. S. Cushman of Curtis Brown, Ltd., to Giroux] |
| 3 | 1956/11/16 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I'm glad to tell you that the censors of the Trappists have approved THIRTY-SEVEN MEDITATIONS. | Yes |
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| 3 | 1957/08/27 | TALS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I had a long personal letter from Tom yesterday and I think there is one thing in it about his work | Yes |
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| 3 | 1957/10/14 | TL[x] | from Fox, James / to Naomi Burton Stone | Your letter of October 4 was received and forwarded to me. | Yes |
| [very faint reprographic copy - another copy in the "Stone, Naomi Burton" file] |
| 3 | 1957/10/26 (#01) | TL | to Stone, Naomi Burton | This is an afterthought but I think it is a good one. You may receive this on the same day as my | Yes |
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| 3 | 1957/10/30 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I'm enclosing a copy of a letter from Tom dated October 26th. He has sent along this material and I | Yes |
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| 3 | 1959/08/10 (#01) | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I don't think there's any need for your to write further to Tom, but I thought you'd want to see | Yes |
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| 3 | 1959/08/10 (#02) | TL[x] | from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone | Sorry I have not answered your letter asking whether I would write something for the <u>Critic</u>. | Yes |
| [very faint reprographic copy] |
| 3 | 1959/08/10 (#03) | TL[c] | from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Merton | Thanks for your letter of August 5th, and I'm sorry about The Critic. Bob is going along with ART | Yes |
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| 3 | 1960/01/13 | TL[c] | to Knowlton, Perry | I have just heard from Thomas Merton about the proposed <u>Reader</u>, and it is quite clear that he | Yes |
| [to Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown, Ltd.] |
| 3 | 1960/01/22 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | As you know, there's been talk of Harcourt Brace doing a Thomas Merton Reader to be edited | Yes |
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| 3 | 1960/02/18 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | As we have heard from Harcourt, Brace that they would not be willing to let Doubleday use material | Yes |
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| 3 | 1962/02/21 | TLS | from Knowlton, Perry | You are aware, I know, that Tom Merton asked me to re-enter the picture on his behalf in respect | Yes |
| [from Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown, Ltd.] |
| 3 | 1962/04/03 | TL[c] | from Merton to Perry Knowlton | I have finally got the Farrar Straus and Cudahy side of the picture on the READER contract. | Yes |
| [from Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown, Ltd.] |
| 3 | 1963/06/11 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | How kind of you to send me the photostat or whatever of the new Xavier Rynne piece which I shall | |
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| 3 | 1964/01/07 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | On Thomas Merton's behalf I am very happy to send you herewith two manuscripts, as follows:- | |
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| 3 | 1964/01/28 | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I'm very happy to send you a revised copy of ART AND WORSHIP by Thomas Merton which has a preface | |
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| 3 | 1964/02/05 (#01) | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Further to our telephone conversation, here is a copy of Tom's letter of the 30th just for your | |
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| 3 | 1964/02/05 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone | About the censorship of BLACK REVOLUTION etc/ To make sure there is no equivocation about it I have | |
| [originally dated 1964/01/30 - forwarded to Giroux - see "Stone, Naomi Burton" file for another copy] |
| 3 | 2006/08/08 (#03) | other | | <b>Correspondence between Naomi Burton, Curtis Brown and Robert Giroux.</b> Naomi Burton | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
| 3 | undated/no/no | HLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | Herewith Tom's prayer. I love it. He sounds in good shape. I hope very much we can come | |
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| 4 | 1950/04/24 (#02) | TL[c] | to Fox, James | On my pilgrimage to Rome with Cardinal Spellman, we stopped off in Portugal and there, at the shrine | |
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| 4 | 1950/04/26 (#01) | TLS | from Stone, Naomi Burton | I tried to phone you. I want you to see this in case I haven't stated your case well. Please don't | |
| [from Merton's literary agent, Naomi Burton Stone, to Robert Giroux - enclosed is letter of the same date from Stone to Merton and copied to Giroux] |
| 4 | 1950/04/26 (#02) | TL[c] | from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Merton | I was sorry to have to wire you yesterday but I received a letter from Jay saying that he had put | |
| [see "Stone, Naomi Burton" file for original, signed letter] |
| 4 | 1950/05/01 (#01) | TLS[c] | from Fox, James | I felt most delightfully surprised and happy to receive your beautiful letter and the enclosed medal | |
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| 4 | 1950/05/01 (#02) | TL[c] | from Fox, James / to Naomi Burton Stone | Having met you here, dearest Naomi, I feel I can write to you very spontaneously and, as it were, | |
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| 4 | 1950/06/15 (#02) | TL[c] | from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Merton | Many thanks for yours of June tenth. I am sure you may give those Catholic priests the rights | |
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| 4 | 1950/06/16 | TL[c] | to Fox, James | I should have written long before this, but I know that Naomi has already expressed to you my | |
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| 4 | 1950/06/17 | TALS[x] | from Fox, James | We received the enclosed letters from a certain Mr. Frank Abbott, wherein he mentions your name. | |
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| 4 | 1950/06/19 | TL[c] | to Fox, James | Many thanks for your letter of June 17th, and the enclosures, which I take it crossed my letter | |
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| 4 | 1950/06/29 (#01) | telegram | to Fox, James | ARRIVING LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON FRIEND CHARLES REILLY DRIVING DOWN WITH ME | |
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| 4 | 1950/06/29 (#02) | telegram | from Fox, James | TELEGRAM RECEIVED ARRANGEMENTS OK: =REV FATHER JAMES FOX= | |
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| 4 | 1951/no/no? | other | | <u>Weekly Sales - 1950</u> [-]<u>THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN</u> <u>WATERS OF SILOE</u> | |
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| 4 | 1952/04/25 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | For your private eye, I quote the following from a Papist monthly: "A magazine that still calls | Yes |
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| 4 | 1952/07/11 | TL[c] | from Fox, James | We are handing over to you the finished manuscript of THE SIGN OF JONAS by Thomas Merton | Yes |
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| 4 | 1954/04/26 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I'm enclosing a copy of the letter I've had today from Tom. I think you'd better have a look at all | Yes |
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| 4 | 1954/04/26 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton to Stone, Naomi Burton | As you know, the Church is having what it calls a "Marian year". The Holy Father is quite serious | Yes |
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| 4 | 1954/05/08 | TLS | from Fox, James | Several days ago the royalty statement on Father Louis' books for the last six months of 1953 | Yes |
| [first page typed letter - second page handwritten note with figures for sales from June and December of 1953] |
| 4 | 1954/06/17 | TL[c] | to Fox, James | Please forgive my delay in answering your very understandable query about the sales of THE SIGN | Yes |
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| 4 | 1960/03/04 | TLS | to Fox, James | I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the confidence you have shown in us, with regard to Father | Yes |
| [signed by Giroux, John Farrar, Roger Straus and Sheila Cudahy] |
| 4 | 1961/03/02 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | We have your letter here of February 17 as yet unanswered. We looked up our files, and we notice | Yes |
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| 4 | 1961/03/02 (#02) | TLS | from Bettencourt, Yolanda / to James Fox | We have been advised that we have to deal with you regarding the rights of Father Merton's book | Yes |
| [from Dom James Fox of Gethsemani Abbey to Yolanda Bettencourt, from the Editorial Department of Livraria Agir Editora in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] |
| 4 | 1961/03/27 | TLS | from Fox, James | We have received a letter, March 2, from Rio de Janeiro, from the publishing house of AGIR. | Yes |
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| 4 | 1961/04/14 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Fox, James | The situation on the foreign rights for the books we have under contract (DISPUTED QUESTIONS, | Yes |
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| 4 | 1961/11/20 | TLS | from Fox, James | Did I ever acknowledge your gracious letter of September 29? If not, I want to do so now. | Yes |
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| 4 | 1962/09/21 | TL[c] | to Fox, James | This is a business note to advise you that royalties in the amount of $3,312.26 have accumulated | Yes |
| [first page typed letter - second page handwritten note with royalties figures to Gethsemani Abbey and Curtis Brown for various books] |
| 4 | 1962/10/09 | TALS | from Norbert, Br., O.C.S.O. | Rev. Father has arrived back home from the trip abroad for the General Chapter and other necessary | Yes |
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| 4 | 2006/08/08 (#02) | other | | <b>Correspondence between Abbot James Fox and Robert Giroux.</b> [-] Abbot James Fox to Giroux. | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
| 4 | undated/11/22 | TLS | from Fox, James | Just a note to acknowledge your charming letter of the 2nd with the news of the recovery | |
| |
| 5 | 1952/10/12 (#01) | TL[c] | from Maritain, Jacques | Je vous remercie cordialement de m'avoir envoyé les épreuves de <u>The Sign of Jonas</u>. | Yes |
| [3 identical copies] |
| 5 | 1952/10/12 (#02) | TL[c] | from Maritain, Jacques | I thank you cordially for having sent me the proofs of THE SIGN OF JONAS. What do I think of this | Yes |
| [6 identical copies of the 1952/10/12[1] letter translated into English] |
| 5 | 2006/08/08 (#04) | other | | <b>Maritain to Giroux concerning the publication of <i>The Sign of Jonas</i></b> | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
| 6 | 1960/02/02 | TALS | from Éditions d'Histoire et d'Art / to Merton | J'ai vu, il y a quelques jours, le Père Juglar, Bénédictine de l'Abbaye de la Source à qui j'avais | Yes |
| [from Éditions d'Histoire et d'Art in Paris, to Merton, regarding <i>The Last of the Fathers</i>] |
| 6 | 1960/11/29 | TLS | from Smith, Lawrence | I have received your letter of November 11th about <u>DISPUTED QUESTIONS BY THOMAS MERTON</u> | Yes |
| [from Lawrence Smith, an authors' and publishers' representative from Buenos Aires, Argentina] |
| 6 | 1960/12/02 | TALS | from Harben, Robert / to Paula Diamond | I wrote to you on 4th November, with reference to your letter of 18th August about the book entitled | Yes |
| [from Robert Harben, literary agent from London, to Paula Diamond of Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, regarding Merton's <i>Disputed Questions</i> - Diamond notes in pen to Giroux: "Any decision on this yet or shall I keep stalling this man?"] |
| 6 | 1961/01/30 | TLS | from Editorial Juventud | Thank you for your letter of the 24th January concerning the Spanish rights in the three books | Yes |
| [from Editorial Juventud in Barcelona, Spain] |
| 6 | 1961/02/18 | TLS | from Räber-Verlag, N. / to Laurence Pollinger | We would examine if we could publish a German translation of the book DISPUTED QUESTIONS | Yes |
| [from N. Räber-Verlag of Räber and Cie AG of Switzerland, to Laurence Pollinger or London] |
| 6 | 1961/02/20 | TLS | from Laurence Polinger Ltd. / to Paula Diamond | You will see from the attached letter that Raber & Cie. of Lucerne are interested in the German | Yes |
| [see also letter of 1961/02/18 in this series - from Laurence Pollinger Limited of London, to Paula Diamond of Farrar, Straus & Giroux] |
| 6 | 1961/02/21 (#01) | TLS | from Merton | Here is the NEW MAN all released, corrected and everything. It is all set to go whenever you want | Yes |
| [in Samway] |
| 6 | 1961/02/21 (#02) | TLS | from Kerkhoff, H. v. / to Laurence Pollinger Ltd. | in order to examine the suitability of a Dutch publication of Thomas Merton: DISPUTED QUESTIONS | |
| [from H. v. Kerkhoff of Drukkerij en Uitgeverij Foreholte in the Netherlands, to Laurence Pollinger Limited in London] |
| 6 | 1961/02/22 (#01) | TLS | from Éditions de la Bonne Presse / to Laurence Pollinger Ltd. | Nous vous serions reconnaissants de nous accorder une option sur l'ouvrage suivant, si les droits | Yes |
| [from Éditions de la Bonne Presse of Paris, to Laurence Pollinger Limited of London, regarding Merton's <i>Disputed Questions</i>] |
| 6 | 1961/02/22 (#02) | other | from François, Jan / to Laurence Pollinger Ltd. | Nous aimerions prendre connaissance, en vue d'une éventuelle publication en langue néerlandaise, | Yes |
| [from Jan François from Desclée de Brouwer in Brussels, Belgium, to Laurence Pollinger Limited of London] |
| 6 | 1961/02/24 | TALS | from Laurence Pollinger Ltd. / to Paula Diamond | I send herewith a letter from Uitgeveru Foreholte from which you will see they ask for a reading | Yes |
| [from Yvonne M. of Laurence Pollinger Limited in London, to Paula Diamond of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, regarding Merton's <i>Disputed Questions</i> - contains handwritten note from Diamond to Giroux] |
| 6 | 1961/02/27 (#01) | TLS | from Laurence Pollinger Ltd. / to Paula Diamond | Desclee de Brouwer of Bruges are enquiring whether the Dutch translation rights in DISPUTED | Yes |
| [from Yvonne M. of Laurence Pollinger Limited in London, to Paula Diamond of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, regarding Merton's <i>Disputed Questions</i>] |
| 6 | 1961/02/27 (#02) | TLS | from Schwoerer, Franz | We might be interested in publishing a Portuguese language edition of Thomas Merton, Disputed | Yes |
| [from Franz Schwoerer of Herder Editora Livraria regarding a Portuguese edition of Merton's <i>Disputed Questions</i>] |
| 6 | 1961/03/01 | TL[x] | from Lacruz, Mario | We are very much interested in the books DISPUTED QUESTIONS by Thomas Merton | Yes |
| [from Mario Lacruz of Plaza & Janes of Barcelona, Spain] |
| 6 | 1961/03/06 | TL[c] | from Diamond, Paula / to Mario Lacruz | Many thanks for your letter of March 1st and your interest in DISPUTED QUESTIONS by Thomas Merton | Yes |
| [from Paula Diamond, Subsidiary Rights Director for Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, to Mario Lacruz of Plaza & Janes from Barcelona, Spain] |
| 6 | 1961/03/11 | HLS | from Tadié, Marie | Father Louis asked me to send the contracts concerning "Disputed Questions" to Gethsemani, to be | Yes |
| [from Marie Tadié, Merton's literary agent from Paris] |
| 6 | 1961/03/16 | other | from Esménard, Robert / to James Fox | Contrat intervenu le 16 Mars 1960 [sic] entre l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Gethsemani Inc., Trappist- | Yes |
| [French rights agreement for <i>Disputed Questions</i> signed by Robert Esménard of Éditions Albin Michel of Paris, and by Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 6 | 1961/05/03 (#01) | TLS | from Pasquier, N. | Madame Marie Tadié, représentante et traductrice du Rd. Père Thomas Merton, nous a fait savoir | Yes |
| [from N. Pasquier of Éditions Albin Michel regarding Merton's <i>Disputed Questions</i>] |
| 6 | 1961/05/26 | telegram | from Éditions Albin Michel | PRIÈRE REPONDRE NOTRE LETTRE TROIS MAI THOMAS MERTON REMERCIEMENTS | Yes |
| [from Éditions Albin Michel of Paris] |
| 6 | 1961/05/27 | TLS | from Schwoerer, Franz | On February 27, 1961, we requested information about Portuguese language translation rights | Yes |
| [from Franz Schwoerer of Herder Editora Livraria in São Paulo, Brazil, regarding Portuguese translation rights to <i>Disputed Questions</i>] |
| 6 | 1961/06/28 | TLS | from Pollinger, Gerald J. | <u>THE NEW MAN by Thomas Merton</u> [-] Many thanks for the proofs which have come safely to hand. | Yes |
| [from Gerald J. Pollinger, on the directorial board of Laurence Pollinger Limited of London] |
| 6 | 1961/07/10 | TLS | from Pasquier, N. | Nous apprenons que vous publierez en Janvier 1962 une nouvelle oeuvre de Thomas Merton: | Yes |
| [from N. Paquier of Éditions Albin Michel of Paris regarding Merton's <i>The New Man</i>] |
| 6 | undated/no/no | other | | PROJET DE TRAITE [-] Entre les soussignés : Le Révérend Père Thomas MERTON, demeurant | |
| [Contract for French <i>Thoughts in Solitude</i>. Signed by Merton] |
| 6 | undated/no/no | TAPCS | from de Kleeborn, H. / to Miss Olson | Your letter of February second came as a surprise, because already on December 9, I gave up | |
| [from H. de Kleeborn of Verlag Herold in Vienna, to Miss Olsen of Farrar, Straus & Cudahy - includes a handwritten note to Giroux] |
| 7 | 1969/01/21 | TLS | from Llovet, Gloria López | We are interested in MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS by Thomas Merton for an eventual Spanish version. | |
| [from Gloria López Llovet of Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishers] |
| 7 | 1969/01/30 | TL[x] | from MacGregor, Robert / to Gloria López Llovet | Your letter of December 18 to Farrar, Straus & Giroux concerned with "Mystics and Zen Masters" | |
| [from Robert MacGregor of New Directions Publishing to Gloria López Llovet of Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina] |
| 7 | 1969/02/06 | TLS | from Collin, Frances / to Gloria López Llovet | Re: MYSTIC [sic] AND ZEN MASTERS by Thomas Merton [-] Thank you for your interest in the SPANISH | |
| [from Frances Collin of the Subsidiary Rights office of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, to Gloria López Llovet of Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina] |
| 7 | 1969/02/11? | HLS[c] | from Silva, Emmanuel de Souza e / to James Laughlin | You can well imagine my feelings as I write to you now. The monks at Kentucky have been very kind. | |
| [from Sr. Emmanuel de Souza e Silva, a Brazilian, Benedictine nun of Mosteiro da Virgem in Petropolis, Brazil, to James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions] |
| 7 | 1969/02/12 (#01) | TL[x] | from Laughlin, James / to Rupert Enderle | I have before me your letter of February 1, addressed to the Abbot of Gethsemani, which has been | |
| [from James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions, to Rupert Enderle of Enderle's Bookstore in Tokyo, Japan] |
| 7 | 1969/02/12 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Enderle, Rupert / to James Fox | As the publisher of Rev. Thomas Merton's book "Holiness and life"/and of "Mystic and Zen Masters" | |
| [from Rupert Enderle of Enderle's Bookstore in Tokyo, Japan, to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 7 | 1969/02/12 (#03) | HN | | Brother Patrick [indecipherable words, name?...] will do [indecipherable word] <u>Journal</u> | |
| [Farrar, Straus & Giroux letterhead on note] |
| 7 | 1969/02/21 (#01) | other | | MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT, made this Twenty-First (21st) February, 1969 between Farrar, Straus | |
| [agreement concerning the Italian language version of <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> signed by Roger W. Straus, Jr., President of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and by Aldo Garzanti of Milan, Italy] |
| 7 | 1969/02/21 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Silva, Emmanuel de Souza e / to James Laughlin | I do hope you have not been traveling because this would mean that the note I sent you some ten | |
| [from Sr. Emmanuel de Souza e Silva, a Brazilian, Benedictine nun of Mosteiro da Virgem in Petropolis, Brazil, to James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions] |
| 7 | 1969/03/03 | TL[c] | from Laughlin, James / to Erich Linder | Bob MacGregor has asked me to write you about the contract with Garzanti for Thomas Merton's | |
| [first page letter from James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions, to Erich Linder of Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale in Milan, Italy - second page a note from Laughlin to Giroux about forwarded letter] |
| 7 | 1969/03/06 (#01) | TL[c] | from Linder, Erich / to James Laughlin | many thanks for your letter of the 3rd March. I am perfectly happy to act for Farrar Straus | |
| [from Erich Linder of Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale in Milan, Italy, to James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions] |
| 7 | 1969/03/06 (#02) | TLS | from Linder, Erich / to Roger Straus | the enclosed is self-explanatory and I hope that Lila will be sending the agreements to me shortly. | |
| [from Erich Linder of Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale in Milan, Italy, to James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions] |
| 7 | 1969/03/08 | TALS | from Enderle, Rupert / to James Laughlin | Thank you very much for your kind answer dated February 12 concerning my request for the Japanese | |
| [from Rupert Enderle of Enderle's Bookstore in Tokyo, Japan, to James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions] |
| 7 | 1969/03/10 (#01) | TAN | | I know you have had discussions with Jay on this. Have you instructed LK, or will you? | |
| |
| 7 | 1969/03/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Linder, Erich / to James Laughlin | many thanks for your letter of the 3rd March. I am perfectly happy to act for Farrar Straus | |
| [dated 1969/03/06 (see previous letter) - this copy was attached to notes from 1969/03/10] |
| 7 | 1969/03/13 | TALS | from Llovet, Gloria López | To day we had a letter from New Directions telling us that there is a change in the status | |
| [from Gloria López Llovet of Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina] |
| 7 | 1969/03/15 | TALS | from Enderle, Rupert / to Lila Karpf | On August 23, 1967, I had already written to you concerning the plan by the Japanese professor, | |
| |
| 7 | 1969/03/21 (#01) | TNS | to LK | Inquiry from Brazil for MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS. Let me have this card (other side) from Brother | |
| |
| 7 | 1969/03/21 (#02) | TLS | from Vozes (publishing) / to Patrick Hart | Nous désirions connaître et peut-être publier l'ouvrage: "MYSTICS & ZEN MASTERS" (Merton) | |
| [originally dated 1969/03/13 and later forwarded to Giroux - from the director of the publishing company, Vozes, in Petropolis, Brazil, to Br. Patrick Hart of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 7 | 1969/03/21 (#03) | HNS | from Hart, Patrick | We are enclosing a recent letter from Vozes re: <u>Mystics</u> and Zen Masters. Gratefully yours | |
| [originally dated 1969/03/19, the date Vozes letter forwarded to Giroux - from Br. Patrick Hart of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 7 | 1969/03/no | other | | Burns and Oates March 1969 | |
| [page seemingly from catalog of Burns and Oates publishers from March of 1969 with a number of title by Merton and <i>The Living Bread</i> and <i>The New Man</i> circled] |
| 7 | 1969/04/25 | TLS | from Vozes (publishing) | We are interested in obtaining the Portuguese rights of translation of the book MYSTICS AND MASTERS | |
| |
| 7 | 1969/07/16 | TNS | from JR | RE: THE NEW MAN [-] FYI - We are entering into an agreement with the Japanese publisher, Veritas | |
| [intra-office memo at Farrar, Straus and Giroux to Giroux from someone with the initials J.R.] |
| 7 | 1969/07/29 | TLS | from Laughlin, James | I hope this matter can be untangled and receive your blessing. Did you ever see those earlier | |
| [from James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions] |
| 7 | 1969/07/30 | TL[c] | from Laughlin, James / to Hildelith Cumming | Further to my letter of July 16 about your plans for doing the hand printed, limited edition of Fr. | |
| [from James Laughlin, a Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions, to Dame Hildelith Cumming, Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in Worcester, England] |
| 7 | 1970/01/14 | TLS[x] | from Linder, Erich / to Peter Hinzmann | Messrs. Garzanti have turned over to us a photostat of your letter to them of the 17th December, | |
| [from Erich Linder of Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale in Milan, Italy, to Peter Hinzmann of Farrar, Straus & Giroux] |
| 7 | 2006/08/08 (#05) | other | | <b>Miscellaneous Correspondence</b> [-] Anne Brooks Murray. List of articles for possible Merton | |
| [list of letters donated in this series (and 3 letters placed in Series 10: Miscellaneous)] |
| 7 | 2006/08/08 (#06) | other | | <b>Correspondence relating to foreign translation rights of Merton's work.</b> | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
| 7 | undated/no/no | other | | Classic Chinese Thought [-] I The Great Traditions of China | |
| [Memo on sections of Merton's essay from <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> "Classic Chinese Thought"] |
| 7 | undated/no/no | other | | CONTENTS [-] Preface (to come) [-] 1. MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS [-] 2. CLASSIC | |
| [proposed Table of Contents for <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i> with editorial changes] |
| 7 | undated/no/no | other | | Inquiries for Mystics [-] Portuguese Rts - Vozes Ltda - want option and terms [-] (forwarded | |
| [notes on foreign rights for <i>Mystics and Zen Masters</i>] |
| 7 | undated/no/no | other | | Lucky Stop 1525 | |
| [handwritten notes on Farrar, Straus and Giroux note paper] |
| 8 | 1959/10/23 | TLS | from McDonnell, Thomas P. | It was quite coincidental that I heard the other evening and yesterday that you had left HB to join | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1959/10/28 | TL[c] | to McDonnell, Thomas P. | Thank you for your letter of October 23rd, regarding an omnibus volume or anthology of Thomas | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1959/11/01 | TLS | from McDonnell, Thomas P. | Thank you for your letter of October 28th, regarding the proposed MERTON READER. Of course, | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1959/11/03 | TL[c] | to McDonnell, Thomas P. | I appreciate your letter of November first, and I think your <u>schema</u> for the Merton Reader has | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1960/02/13 | TLS | from McDonnell, Thomas P. | I'm sure you must understand my feelings in making this inquiry as to what the status may be | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1960/02/15 (#02) | TL[c] | to McDonnell, Thomas P. | Many thanks for your letter of February 13th. Father Louis writes me that he can not give his | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1961/11/18 | TALS | from McDonnell, Thomas P. | In privilege of collaboration with Thomas Merton, I have just about completed preparation | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1961/12/22 | TL[c] | to McDonnell, Thomas P. | I am most grateful for your card, and I am happy to know that you plan to be in New York in late | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1962/01/04 | TLS | from McDonnell, Thomas P. | My definite dates for New York will be the 25th and the 26th of this month, falling on Thursday | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 1962/01/08 | TL[c] | to Merton | Thank you for your letter of January 4th. May I suggest that we meet on the afternoon of Thursday, | Yes |
| |
| 8 | 2006/08/08 (#07) | other | | <b>Correspondence between Thomas McDonnell and Robert Giroux.</b> | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
| 9 | 1962/10/19 (#01) | other[x] | | This Agreement, made the 19th day of October 1962 between The Abbey of Gethsemani, Inc. of Trappist, | Yes |
| [copy of Merton's agreement with Macmillan Company for <i>Prayer as Worship and Experience</i> with Merton's handwritten underlining and annotation concerning parts of the agreement he did not understand when signing it] |
| 9 | 1963/05/21 | TL[c] | from Straus, Roger / to Warren Sullivan | We have been advised that, despite Thomas Merton's letter to one of your editors requesting that you | |
| [from Roger Straus, President of Farrar, Straus, to Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company] |
| 9 | 1963/05/24 | TLS | from Sullivan, Warren / to Roger Straus | As soon as I received your letter of May 21, I called a meeting of our editorial group in charge | |
| [from Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company, Roger Straus, President of Farrar, Straus] |
| 9 | 1963/06/24 | TL[c] | from Straus, Roger / to Warren Sullivan | I have had no further word from you regarding the matter of the Thomas Merton book, since your | |
| [from Roger Straus, President of Farrar, Straus, to Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company] |
| 9 | 1963/07/03 | TL[x] | from Merton to Warren Sullivan | This is a rather difficult letter to write, but I think it must be written. For some time I have | |
| [from Merton to Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company] |
| 9 | 1963/07/08 | TALS | from Gross, Gerald / to Roger Straus | Mr. Sullivan has sent me your most recent letter in regard to Thomas Merton. He has asked me to be | |
| [from Gerald J. Gross, Vice President, Trade Division, the Macmillan Company, to Roger Straus, President of Farrar, Straus] |
| 9 | 1963/07/11 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Sullivan, Warren / to Merton | I can well imagine how unpleasant is the situation in which you find yourself, quite innocently, | |
| [from Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company, to Merton] |
| 9 | 1963/07/11 (#02) | TL[c] | from Sullivan, Warren / to Merton | I can well imagine how unpleasant is the situation in which you find yourself, quite innocently, | |
| [from Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company, to Merton] |
| 9 | 1963/07/16 | TLS | from Kaplan, Jeremiah / to Roger Straus | Thank you for your courteous treatment this morning. I am looking forward to seeing | |
| |
| 9 | 1963/07/24 (#04) | TL[c] | from Straus, Roger / to Warren Sullivan | We claim you have induced our author Thomas Merton to breach his contract with us and we hold you | |
| [from Roger Straus, President of Farrar, Straus, to Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company] |
| 9 | 1963/07/24 (#05) | TL[d] | from Fox, James / to Warren Sullivan | We have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND EXPERIENCE | |
| [2 identical copies - draft, written by Farrar, Straus, advising a response from the Abbey of Gethsemani to Macmillan Company in order to reject their bid at publishing <i>Prayer as Worship and Experience</i>] |
| 9 | 1963/07/24 (#06) | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I enclose a draft of the letter our lawyers think Father Abbot should send to Macmillan. | |
| [to Merton's literary agent, Naomi Burton Stone] |
| 9 | 1963/07/26 | TLS | from Linden, Bella / to Roger Straus | Our client, The Macmillan Company, has referred your letter dated July 24, 1963, addressed | |
| [from Bella L. Linden, an attorney hired by the Macmillan Company, to Roger Straus, President of Farrar, Straus] |
| 9 | 1963/07/27 | TALS[x] | from Fox, James / to Warren Sullivan | We have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND EXPERIENCE | |
| [from Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani, to Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company] |
| 9 | 1963/08/08 | TLS[x] | from Sullivan, Warren / to James Fox | As you know, not long ago I wrote to Father Merton when he first offered to return the advance | |
| [from Warren Sullivan, President of the Macmillan Company, to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani] |
| 9 | 1963/08/09 | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | I enclose a letter I have just sent off to Tom, together with copies of all the correspondence | |
| [to Merton's literary agent, Naomi Burton Stone] |
| 9 | 2006/08/08 (#09) | other | | <b>Correspondence relating to "Prayer as Worship and Experience.</b> [-] Roger Straus to Warren | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
| 10 | 1960/no/no? | HN | from Straus, Roger | I am appalled - first at Naomi's tactics - second at the suggestion that <u>she</u> should edit such | Yes |
| [unsigned but likely from Roger Straus of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy] |
| 10 | 1961/02/03 | TANS | from Hal (initials H.D.V.) | Have you any material which might serve as the basis for me to use with an artist to get started | Yes |
| [from Hal (initials H. D. V.) of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy] |
| 10 | 1961/04/17 | HN | from Diamond, Paula | Thomas Merton's publishers in France are 1) Albin Michel 2) Editions du Seuil | Yes |
| [from Paula Diamond, Subsidiary Rights Director for Farrar, Straus & Cudahy] |
| 10 | 1961/12/20 | TNS | from Straus, Roger | Perry Knowlton and Phillis Brown called me yesterday to say that the Merton Reader (anthology) idea | Yes |
| |
| 10 | 1962/10/01 | HN | from R. R. | Per your instructions I withheld payment of Royalty check to "The Abbey" for Thomas Merton. | Yes |
| [from an employee of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy with the initials R. R.] |
| 10 | 1963/07/25 (#01) | HNS | from Straus, Roger | Ken Gillett will be on vacation from Aug 2nd on [-] at Norfolk Conn | |
| [signature note clear, but likely Roger Straus] |
| 10 | 1963/07/25 (#02) | HLS | from Straus, Roger | I checked out both letter from Ken Gillett. Both OK to send and I will send to MacMillan | |
| |
| 10 | 1966/03/02 | HN | | Merton contracts [-] x Disputed Questions [-] x The New Man [-] Seasons of Celebration [-] Seeds | |
| [internal memo on Merton's contracts for various books] |
| 10 | 2006/08/08 (#08) | other | | <b>Internal Memo's - Robert Giroux.</b> [-] Internal memo Roger Straus to Giroux. [1960] | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
| 10 | undated/no/no | HN | | Letter of Guigo on the Solitary Life 3 [-] Poem of Raissa Maritain and Note 10 [-] The Catholic | |
| [memo on length of various essays, mimeographs and other materials] |
| 11 | 1948/08/13 | TL[c] | from Waugh, Evelyn / to Merton | Thank you for your letter of August 2nd. As I wrote to your publishers I greatly admired your book | |
| [from author Evelyn Waugh to Merton] |
| 11 | 1950/04/28 | TL[c] | to Lax, Robert | A visit to Olean sounds attractive and I may take you up on it later. One of the many unexpected | |
| [to poet Robert Lax, a mutual friend of Merton and Giroux and fellow Columbia University alumnus] |
| 11 | 1950/04/no? | TLS | from Lax, Robert | Thanks for the good letter and for your last-minute dispatches before you left: Tom's pictures and | |
| [from poet Robert Lax, a mutual friend of Merton and Giroux and fellow Columbia University alumnus] |
| 11 | 1953/05/no? | other | | <u>THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN</u> [-] Pre-pub: 20,847 [-] 1948 Oct. 8 252 [-] 15 1,490 | Yes |
| [weekly sales figures for <i>The Seven Storey Mountain</i> and <i>The Sign of Jonas</i>] |
| 11 | 1954/10/02 | TLS | from Hilary, Fr. | One of our new counter books, containing Christmas Cards for this year and previous years has been | Yes |
| [from Fr. M. Hilary, O.C.S.O. of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 11 | 1954/10/08 | TL[c] | to Hilary, Fr. | Many thanks for your letter of October 2nd and the sample Christmas cards. Would you send me two | Yes |
| [to Fr. M. Hilary, O.C.S.O. of Gethsemani Abbey] |
| 11 | 1955/01/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton to Frank Dell'Isola | Thank you very much for <u>Thought</u> and for the bibliography. A great deal of the items were | Yes |
| [note on verso quoting Fr. Irenaeus Herscher, O.F.M., Librarian at St. Bonaventure University in New York: "We have here the original mss. from which was written <u>The Seven Storey Mountain</u>, i.e. his journal covering the years 1939 thru 1941 when he left here to enter the Trappists."] |
| 11 | 1955/02/05 | TL[c] | from Fox, James / to Frank Dell'Isola | We received your letter of January 2, and also the winter copy of Thought with the bibliography | Yes |
| [from Dom James Fox of Gethsemani Abbey, to Frank Dell'Isola, compiler of an early bibliography of Merton's writings] |
| 11 | 1955/02/11 | TL[c] | from Merton to Frank Dell'Isola | Many thanks for your letter, for the offprint of the bibliography, and for the sheets of corrections | Yes |
| [from Merton to Frank Dell'Isola, compiler of an early bibliography of Merton's writings] |
| 11 | 1955/04/04 (#01) | TL[c] | to Spaeth, Eloise | The copy of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND by Thomas Merton was by way of a swan song. I resigned | Yes |
| [to Eloise Spaeth, a patroness of the arts in New York City who helped Merton in a propose, though eventually not published, book on sacred art, <i>Art and Worship</i> - Giroux writes concerning his move to Farrar, Straus from Harcourt, Brace, and with condolences for the illness of Eloise's husband, Otto Spaeth] |
| 11 | 1955/04/04 (#02) | HLS | from Spaeth, Eloise | Thank you so much for the Merton book. Since Otto's illness I have been doing a great deal | Yes |
| [from Eloise Spaeth, a patroness of the arts in New York City who helped Merton in a propose, though eventually not published, book on sacred art, <i>Art and Worship</i> - letter undated but after 1955/04/04 letter from Giroux] |
| 11 | 1958/10/29 | TLS | from Merton to Aleksei Surkov | I am writing this letter to you today as a sincere friend of literature wherever it may be found, | Yes |
| [from Merton to Aleksei Surkov of the Soviet Writers' Union in Moscow - Merton writes to Surkov concerning the expulsion of Boris Pasternak from the Soviet Writers' Union for his negative portrayal of the brutality of the Soviet regime in its early years in the book <i>Dr. Zhivago</i>] |
| 11 | 1959/07/13 | other | | Merton [-] SELECTED ESSAYS (?) [-] 1. Review by Thomas Merton of THE WORLD'S BODY by John | Yes |
| [list of 11 essays by Merton for possible inclusion in a book of selected essays - lists the name of Anne Brooks Murray of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy] |
| 11 | 1959/07/31 | TL[c] | from Murray, Anne Brooks / to The Commonweal | Would you please send me a copy of the <u>Commonweal</u> for March 31, 1950? I enclose 52¢ | Yes |
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| 11 | 1960/03/01 | TLS | from Jovanovich, William / to Roger Straus | Recently Naomi Burton raised the question again of a <u>Thomas Merton Reader</u>. | Yes |
| [from William Jovanovich, President of Harcourt, Brace, to Roger W. Straus, President of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy] |
| 11 | 1960/03/07 | TL[c] | from Straus, Roger / to William Jovanovich | I would like nothing better than to collaborate with Harcourt, Brace on the Merton "Reader" | Yes |
| [from Roger W. Straus, President of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, to William Jovanovich, President of Harcourt, Brace] |
| 11 | 1960/03/18 | TLS | from Jovanovich, William / to Roger Straus | Your point about a woman editing and introducing a book of monastic writings is one I appreciate, | Yes |
| [from William Jovanovich, President of Harcourt, Brace, to Roger W. Straus, President of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy] |
| 11 | 1961/05/03 (#02) | TLS | from Burns, T. F. | I hear from Thomas Merton that you have a new manuscript of his called THE NEW MAN. Can you give | Yes |
| [from T. F. Burns of Hollis and Carter of London] |
| 11 | 1962/10/16 | TLS | from Burns, T. F. | I see that the idea of the <u>Merton Reader</u> has gone through, despite all our efforts. | Yes |
| [from T. F. Burns of Hollis and Carter of London] |
| 11 | 1962/10/19 (#02) | TL[c] | to Burns, T. F. | I appreciate your checking in with us on THE MERTON READER. Father Louis was determined to publish | Yes |
| [to T. F. Burns of Hollis and Carter of London] |
| 11 | 1962/10/22 | TLS | from Burns, T. F. | Many thanks for writing so promptly about THE MERTON READER. It certainly seems to me a bit of | Yes |
| [from T. F. Burns of Hollis and Carter of London] |
| 11 | 1968/12/23 | telegram[x] | to Laughlin, James | MEMORIAL MASS FOR THOMAS MERTON MONDAY DECEMBER THIRTIETH AT ELEVEN ST PATRICK'S | |
| [see also "Laughlin, James" file, Series 2] |
| 11 | 1968/12/31 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Ford, John J. / to James Laughlin | Sorry to be late in answering your letter of December 24, but I have had a rather extended bout | |
| [from John J. Ford, attorney who had worked on Merton's will in Louisville, Kentucky, to James Laughlin, Co-Trustee of the Merton Legacy Trust and publisher from New Directions] |
| 11 | 1968/12/31 (#02) | other[x] | | <u>LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT</u> [-] I, THOMAS JAMES MERTON, in religious life known as Father | |
| [copy of Merton's will, signed on 1967/11/14, and sent by John Ford to James Laughlin] |
| 11 | 1969/01/03 | TL[x] | from Laughlin, James | Many thanks for your telegrams, which has been forwarded to me out in Utah, where I'm having a bit | |
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| 11 | 1993/11/19 | TLS | from Pennoyer, Robert | Having delayed writing, I am now able to report the extraordinary outpouring of gratitude | |
| [letter of thanks regarding a speech Giroux gave to the Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation from Robert M. Pennoyer, President and a trustee of the Foundation] |
| 11 | 2006/08/08 (#10) | other | | <u>Correspondence between William Jovanovich and Roger Straus.</u> [-] William Jovanovich | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
| 11 | 2006/08/08 (#11) | other | | <b>Correspondence between Tom Burns and Robert Giroux.</b> Tom Burns to Giroux. 5/3/61. | |
| [list of letters donated in this series] |
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