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

Record Series: 30: No Man Is an Island

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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
3 - 21	1	undated	Index to folder of contracts listing the order of files, country of publication and language.	«NO MAN IS AN ISLAND 1) England (English) 2) Switzerland (German)»
3 - 21	2	1955	Contract with Hollis & Carter in England for a British edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 1.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 2nd day of May 1955 BETWEEN The Abbey of Gethsemani, c/o Curtis»
3 - 21	3	1955	Contract with Verlagsanstalt Benziger and Company in Switzerland for a German language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 2.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 13th day of May 1955 BETWEEN The Abbey of Gethsemani, c/o Curtis»
3 - 21	4	1955	Contract with Editorial Sudamericana in Argentina for a Spanish language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 3.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 26th day of May 1955 BETWEEN Abbey of Gethsemani, c/o Curtis»
3 - 21	5	1955	Contract with Messrs. Het Spectrum in the Netherlands for a Dutch language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 4.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 6th day of June 1955 BETWEEN Abbey of Gethsemani, c/o Curtis»
3 - 21	6	1955	Contract with Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Spain for a Spanish language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 5.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 26th day of May 1955 BETWEEN Abbey of Gethsemani, c/o Curtis»
3 - 21	7	1968	Addendum to 1955 contract with Aldo Garzanti in Italy for an Italian language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 6.	«ADDENDUM TO MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 16th day of November, 1955 between ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI»
3 - 21	8	1955	Contract with Aldo Garzanti in Italy for an Italian language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 6.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 16th day of November, 1955 between ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI, c/0 Curtis»
3 - 21	9	1955	Contract with Editions du Seuil in France for a French language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 7.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 16th day of June 1955 BETWEEN Abbey of Gethsemani, c/o Curtis»
3 - 21	10	1956	Contract with Messrs. Livraria Agir Editora in Brazil for a Portuguese language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 8.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT MADE THIS 18th day of June 1956 BETWEEN The Abbey of Gethsemani, c/o Curtis»
3 - 21	11	1958	Letter from Elizabeth Mowat, Translation Department of Curtis Brown, to Dom James Fox, Gethsemani Abbey, regarding Livraria Agir Editora in Brazil and the Portuguese language edition of No Man Is an Island.	«This has reference to the publication of the Portuguese edition of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND by Livraria»
3 - 21	12	1958	Amendment to contract from 1956 with Livraria Agir Editora in Brazil for a Portuguese language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 8.	«This will serve as an amendment to the original contract between you and the Abbey of Gethsemani,»
3 - 21	13	1965	Contract with Ediciones 62 in Spain for a Catalan language edition of No Man Is an Island. Index item 10.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 28th day of May, 1965. BETWEEN ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI c/o Curtis»

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