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Sub-Section C.6: Contracts for books and articles by Merton, foreign and domestic

Record Series: 19: Life and Holiness

Series Description

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This manuscript has no associated subjects.

Related Information and Links

See Section A, Correspondence, "Contracts" file for more contracts related to Life and Holiness.

Arrangement and Processing Notes:

This sub-group is divided into series based on contracts for a specific title of a written work of Thomas Merton. A small number are of miscellaneous works grouped together. Each series is contained in one folder herein and arranged in their original order.

Container List

Box#-FF#Item#DateNotesFirst Lines
2 - 10 1 1962 Early draft of agreement for Life and Holiness, under the title, "Grace, Work, and Holiness." See also the "Fox, James" correspondence file, under the series titled, "Publishers' Correspondence: Herder and Herder, Inc." «AGREEMENT made this 25th day of October, 1962, between HERDER AND HERDER, Incorporated of New York»
2 - 10 2 undated Index to folder of contracts listing the order of files, country of publication and language. Note: there is an Italian edition listed but no extant contract. (It was published in 1964 by Garzanti in Italy.) «LIFE AND HOLINESS 1) U S English 2) FRANCE French 3) ENGLAND English»
2 - 10 3 1962 Contract with Herder and Herder in the United States for Life and Holiness. Index item 1. «AGREEMENT between THE ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI, INCORPORATED and HERDER AND HERDER, INCORPORATED»
2 - 10 4 1962 Addendum to United States contract for Life and Holiness in the form of a letter from Justus Lawler, Editor-in-Chief of Herder, [to Dom James Fox?]. «Addition to the Contract between the Abbey of Gethsemani, Inc., and Herder and Herder»
2 - 10 5 1962 Letter from Frank Schworer of Herder to Dom James Fox. «Thank you very much for your kind letter of December 20, with regard to our agreement for LIFE»
2 - 10 6 1962 Letter from Frank Schworer of Herder to Dom James Fox. «Thank you very much for your kind letter of December 27 which crossed ours of the day before.»
2 - 10 7 1963 Contract between Herder and Herder in the United States and Editions du Seuil in France for a French edition of Life and Holiness. Index item 2. «Contrat intervenu le 12 Mars 1963, entre HERDER and HERDER, Inc. New York, ci-dessous appelĂ©»
2 - 10 8 1963 Contract between Herder and Herder in the United States and Geoffrey Chapman in England for a British edition of Life and Holiness. Index item 3. «THIS AGREEMENT made this eight day of April 1963 between Geoffrey Chapman Ltd., 18 Wimbledon High»
2 - 10 9 1963 Contract between Herder and Herder in the United States and Uitgeverij Het Spectrum in the Netherlands for a Dutch language edition of Life and Holiness. Index item 4. «AGREEMENT made this thirty first day of May 1963, between Herder and Herder, Incorporated, of New»
2 - 10 10 1963 Contract between Herder and Herder in the United States and Editorial Herder in Spain for a Spanish language edition of Life and Holiness. Index item 6. «AGREEMENT made this twenty-fifth day of April 1963, between Herder and Herder, Incorporated, of New»
2 - 10 11 1963 Contract between Herder and Herder in the United States and Editorial Herder in Brazil for a Portuguese language edition of Life and Holiness. Index item 7. «AGREEMENT made this twenty-fifth day of April 1963, between Herder and Herder, Incorporated, of New»

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