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

Record Series: 29: Miscellaneous foreign contracts

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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#	Date	Notes	First Lines
2 - 20	1	1971	Letter from Maureen Walters, Translation Rights of Curtis Brown in New York, to Br. Patrick Hart, Gethsemani Abbey.	«Here is your fully executed copy of the amendment to the agreement with Garzanti for the special»
2 - 20	2	1971	Contract with Aldo Garzanti Editore in Italy for an Italian language edition of Seeds of Contemplation.	«this letter, when signed by you, will constitute an agreement between us concerning a special»
2 - 20	3	1969	Amendment to contract of 1968 with Doubleday in the United States for world rights for Journal of My Escape from the Nazis (changed to My Argument with the Gestapo).	«This letter, when signed by both parties, will constitute an amendment to our agreement of August»
2 - 20	4	1968	Amended contract with Doubleday in the United States, amended to include world rights, for Journal of My Escape from the Nazis (changed to My Argument with the Gestapo), includes cover.	«Agreement made this 19th day of August, 1968 between Doubleday & Company, Inc., of Garden City,»
2 - 20	5	1968	Letter from James Laughlin of New Directions publishing to Merton (xeroxed form letter hand addressed and signed in pen by Laughlin).	«The NEW DIRECTIONS 20 anthology is scheduled for publication on March 31, and your complimentary»
2 - 20	6	1956	Contract with Aldo Garzanti Editore in Italy for an Italian language edition of Seeds of Contemplation.	«This letter when signed by you will constitute an agreement between us retroactive to September 1952»
2 - 20	7	1977	Letter from Robert Giroux of Farrar, Straus & Giroux to Br. Patrick Hart, Gethsemani Abbey; additional contract clause for The Living Bread noted in letter signed by Abbot Timothy Kelly.	«Thank you for your letter of June 11th. I'm glad to know that the Griffin manuscript has been»
2 - 20	8	1961	Letter from Marie Tadié, French translator for many of Merton's books, to Dom James Fox, Abbot of Gethsemani Abbey.	«Thank you very much for the contracts. I am returning you four of them : two of which are not»
2 - 20	9	1958	Contract with Albin Michel in France for a French language edition of Monastic Peace.	«Contrat intervenu le 2 juillet 1958 entre, Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Gethsemani, Trappist - Kentucky»
2 - 20	10	1966	Letter from James Laughlin of New Directions publishing to Merton. Envelope contains a handwritten note to Dom James Fox.	«I am dictating this letter from the hotel in Chicago, where I have stopped on my way»

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