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Series 5, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander


Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1948-1966
Volume: 69 item(s); 156 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

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See also Listing of contracts for books by Thomas Merton at the Merton Center in Sub-Section C.6; and see also the "Curtis Brown, Ltd." file for information ab

Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal Records
1 Art and Worship, Book of Feast Days, Collected Essays, Disputed Questions (US) and The New Man 1
2 The Behavior of Titans 2
3 The Black Revolution 4
4 Clement of Alexandria 1
5 Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander 6
6 Copyright Registration Forms 7
7 Disputed Questions (foreign) 6
8 Elected Silence (UK version of The Seven Storey Mountain) 1
9 Emblems of a Season of Fury 3
10 Gandhi on Non-Violence 1
11 Life and Holiness 9
12 Monastic Peace 1
13 Monastic Vocation and the Modern Mentality 1
14 The New Man 4
15 New Seeds of Contemplation 9
16 Original Child Bomb 1
17 Poems 2
18 Seeds of Destruction 3
19 Selected Poems 1
20 Soul of the Apostolate (by Dom J. B. Chautard, intro. by Merton) 1
21 Spiritual Direction and Meditation 2
22 Thoughts in Solitude (French) 1
23 The Wisdom of the Desert 2

Container List

Series#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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Series 5 #1.
«All Series«
1966/04/19 TNS  from Krieger, Ellen E. / to Lisa Ray The attached list of acknowledgments should appear on the copyright page of the above book. [to Lisa Ray (carbon copy to Gay Ellis) from Ellen E. Krieger regarding the acknowledgements to be included on the copyright page of Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - the list of acknowledgements comprises her attached page] «detailed view»
Series 5 #2.
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1966/04/27 TNS  from Krieger, Ellen E. / to Lisa Ray Further to the acknowledgements we sent you on April 19th, we have just received word from New [to Lisa Ray (carbon copy to Gay Ellis) from Ellen E. Krieger regarding a correction to the acknowledgements to be included on the copyright page of Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander] «detailed view»
Series 5 #3.
«All Series«
1966/06/29 telegram  from Delaney, John / to John A. Goodwine URGENT WE HAVE NEWS OF MERTON'S CONJECTURES OF A GUILTY BYSTANDER [Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander] «detailed view»
Series 5 #4.
«All Series«
1966/07/01 (#01) TNS  from Goodwine, John A. / to John Delaney Just received this today. Galleys will follow under separate cover. I know you have been anxious [first page is note to John Delaney of Doubleday from John A . Goodwine, Censor Librorum for the Archdiocese of New York - second page is the Nihil obstat and Imprimatur from the Archdiocese of New York for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander] «detailed view»
Series 5 #5.
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1966/07/01 (#02) TL  from Pavincich, Irene / to Lisa Ray Below is copy for the imprimatur and nihil obstat that is to appear on the copyright page [Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - Nihil obstat and Imprimatur] «detailed view»
Series 5 #6.
«All Series«
1966/07/12 TL  from Stone, Naomi Burton / to John Delaney I have talked to Dan Levant and have loaned him some pictures which we can't permission to LIFE [from Merton's literary agent, Naomi Burton Stone to John Delaney of Doubleday - Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander photos] «detailed view»

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