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Merton's Correspondence with:

Bennett Cerf; Bennett Alfred Cerf; Cerf, Bennett Alfred; Cerf, Bennett A.; Bennett A. Cerf

Cerf, Bennett, 1898-1971  printer

 
 

Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967
Volume: 3 item(s); 3 pg(s)

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Biography

Humorist, editor and publisher, Bennett Cerf was Chairman of the Board and founder of Random House publishing house in New York. Prior to founding Random House, he had co-purchased the Modern Library series. He was a fellow graduate and editor of Jester at Columbia University, but many years prior to Merton's arrival. He later guest starred as a panelist on the TV show "What's My Line?". (Source: "Cerf, Bennett Alfred." Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography, Copyright Helicon Publishing Limited [2000]. Biography Reference Bank. Online. H.W. Wilson. Available: ‹http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml;jsessionid=FTJAM2QJSVQCJQA3DILSFFWADUNBIIV0?_requestid=100016› 2004/07/19.)

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1. 1967/01/27 TL[c] from Merton A friend of mine, Ed Rice, says Random House is doing a book of his pictures, for which I just wrote asking to obtain books by and about William Faulkner in hopes of putting together a book on him «detailed view»
2. 1967/01/30 TLS to Merton I enjoyed your letter of January 27th, and am particularly pleased that we are going to publish Columbia University's Jester / William Faulkner books that Merton requested are being shipped / Jay Laughlin / sending copy of book by Michael Millgate, entitled The Achievement of William Faulkner «detailed view»
3. 1967/02/22 TL[c] from Merton The shipment of Faulkner books reached me safely and I am very happy to have them around. Merton currently reading Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - has not read it before and does not think it has been fully appreciated by others / Millgate book on Faulkner «detailed view»

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