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Individual Series View, Merton's Correspondence with:

Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987


Series 19, Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday, Inc. (earlier correspondence with Fox can be found in the "Curtis Brown, Ltd." file and in Series 1 of this file)


Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1948-1969
Volume: 949 item(s); 1432 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Herein is a large collection of letters spanning most of Merton's time at Gethsemani. Letters between Fox and Merton concern Merton's vocation to the monastery, his constant desires for greater solitude, thoughts about leaving Gethsemani and joining the

Biography

Dom James Fox came to Gethsemani in 1927. He was serving as guestmaster when Merton's younger brother, John Paul, visited the monastery, and Fox made arrangements for John Paul's baptism. In 1948, Fox was elected abbot after the death of Dom Frederic Du

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Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal Records
1 Correspondence from original Merton papers (some later additions): Dom James Fox with Merton, Fr. Charles Dumont, Edward Glenn Hinson, Msgr. Alfred Frederick Horrigan, Fr. Giovanni Montini, James Morrissey, Naomi Burton Stone, etc. 93
2 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with the Abbot of Melleray, Dom Louis de Gonzague Le Pennuen. 21
3 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with the Abbot of Melleray, Dom Colomban Bissey. 6
4 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Dominique Noques. 4
5 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Gabriel Sortais. 202
6 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Ignace Gillet. 38
7 Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Merton: Special Binding (Archive - Stack 5). 101
8 Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Marie Tadié: (see "Tadié, Marie" file for all physical holdings). 153
9 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Abbot General Gabriel Sortais 30
10 Special Merton File: Notes concerning Merton's relationship with "M," from folder labeled "Clyde" 1
11 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Fox and Fr. John Eudes Bamberger concerning a biography of Merton, from folder labeled "Clyde" 2
12 Special Merton File: Correspondence concerning French translator Marie Tadié's grievance with Gethsemani after Merton's death, from folder labeled "Clyde" 6
13 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and the Sacred Congregation for Religious at the Vatican, earlier with Arcadio Cardinal Larraona and then with Archbishop Paul (later Cardinal) Philippe 6
14 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Monsignor Loris Francesco Capovilla, Secretary to Pope John XXIII 5
15 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Fr. Heinrich Dumoulin, S.J., Sophia University in Japan, regarding Merton studying Zen and proposed trip to Japan 4
16 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Archbishop Giovanni Montini (later Pope Paul VI) 7
17 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Fr. Riccardo Lombardi, S.J. 18
18 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Abbot General Ignace Gillet, regarding Merton as novice master, studying Zen and proposed trip to Japan 4
19 Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday, Inc. (earlier correspondence with Fox can be found in the "Curtis Brown, Ltd." file and in Series 1 of this file) 102
20 Publishers' Correspondence: Herder and Herder, Inc. 18
21 Publishers' Correspondence: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc.; and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. 34
22 Publishers' Correspondence: New Directions 38
23 Publishers' Correspondence: Foreign Rights 2
24 Merton Publicity File: Correspondence with film makers, book clubs, radio stations, etc. 21
25 Curtis Brown, Ltd. [See "Curtis Brown" file in Section A, correspondence from 1963 continues with Series 19 in this file] 1
26 Correspondence between Gregory Zilboorg and James Fox from Gethsemani Archives 22
27 Correspondence with Bishop Matthew A. Niedhammer, OFM Cap., Apostolic Vicar of Bluefields, Nicaragua, regarding Merton's character 3
28 Correspondence with Bishop James Peter Davis of San Juan, Puerto Rico, regarding Merton's character 3
29 Special File of Dom James on Thomas Merton, 70 Numbered Entries (click here) 1
30 Correspondence with Dom Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B., Abbot of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota 3

Container List

Series#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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Series 19 #1.
«All Series«		 1963/06/02 HLS from Stone, Naomi Burton It was such a joy to see you and I only wish we had a chance for a bit of a visit, but I know how «detailed view»
Series 19 #2.
«All Series«		 1963/06/25 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I should have answered you long before this. It was a wonderfully gracious note you wrote me June 2. «detailed view»
Series 19 #3.
«All Series«		 1963/07/25 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton You will by this time have seen from Father Louis the proposed letter that Farrar Straus' lawyers "Prayer as Worship and Experience" (published as "The Climate of Monastic Prayer" and "Contemplative Prayer") «detailed view»
Series 19 #4.
«All Series«		 1963/07/31 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton We received your gracious letter of July 25. You did not know, perhaps, but it was the Feast of St. "Prayer as Worship and Experience" (published as "The Climate of Monastic Prayer" and "Contemplative Prayer") «detailed view»
Series 19 #5.
«All Series«		 1963/08/14 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I have two nice letters to thank you for and of course particularly for the copy of the Macmillan situation resolved with Macmillan publishers «detailed view»
Series 19 #6.
«All Series«		 1963/08/23 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your gracious letter of August 14. I told Father Louis-- Tom-- that the manuscript had Macmillan situation / Merton angry about a letter of Robert Giroux that was not delivered or lost before he saw it «detailed view»
Series 19 #7.
«All Series«		 1963/08/27 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton So many thanks for your letter of August 23rd. I shall today or tomorrow be writing to Father Louis regarding Merton's anger about a letter of Robert Giroux that was not delivered or lost before he saw it «detailed view»
Series 19 #8.
«All Series«		 1963/08/no? other   Charles W. Ferguson, a senior editor of The Reader's Digest, a distinguished author, advertising Doubleday's "Religions of America" series to be launched in 1966 (filed with documents from August of 1963) «detailed view»
Series 19 #9.
«All Series«		 1963/09/09 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I want to thank you and Ned for the beautiful visit we had together recently. I have now a better Dom James and his meetings in New York - Dom James relaying remarks made by Merton «detailed view»
Series 19 #10.
«All Series«		 1963/09/16 TLS to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your letter of September 9th and trust that the one I am writing today to Tom will come Merton's health problems - difficulty of dealing with Merton because of his genius «detailed view»
Series 19 #11.
«All Series«		 1963/09/16 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I received your letter of September 9th and trust that the one I am writing today to Tom will come Merton's comments about obedience to superiors but acting like a child «detailed view»
Series 19 #12.
«All Series«		 1964/01/01 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton You are, as usual, much too good to us. Cake, cheese, bacon, calendar and your own card asking about a woman she knows wanting to join (or rejoin) the Church and if it is ok for her to spend some time at Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 19 #13.
«All Series«		 1964/01/09 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I am glad I waited to answer your January 1 letter until now. In fact, I had no choice in the matter response about a woman retreatant at Gethsemani (which would have been an exception at this time) «detailed view»
Series 19 #14.
«All Series«		 1964/01/28 TLS[x]  from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Merton Thank you very much for the final text of ART AND WORSHIP, which I am delighted to have and am Art and Worship, "The Cold War and Black Revolution" (published in modified form in the United States as Seeds of Destruction) / thinks Merton's response to a critic of his piece on Dr. Zhivago was uncharitable and should not be included in published form «detailed view»
Series 19 #15.
«All Series«		 1964/02/08? TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton I am very glad to hear from Fr Louis that you are back with us and not Abbot General. I got quite asking Merton to remove item mentioned in 1964/01/28 letter from book with Robert Giroux's approval «detailed view»
Series 19 #16.
«All Series«		 1964/02/15 TLS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your gracious note of February 8 with the enclosed offering for your dear friends. negotiations with Marie Tadié / possibility of Burton visiting in April «detailed view»
Series 19 #17.
«All Series«		 1964/03/17 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I have such a good letter for which to thank you. I am glad to say that the news of Pat and Mary possibility of Burton visiting in April but whether she should come or Robert Giroux «detailed view»
Series 19 #18.
«All Series«		 1964/03/21 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I am writing you in regard to our "friend." You will, no doubt, write to him separately yourself. travel plans for April meeting «detailed view»
Series 19 #19.
«All Series«		 1964/04/02 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your letter of March 23 and then another of March 26. We understand the situation, so regarding the cancellation of an April meeting «detailed view»
Series 19 #20.
«All Series«		 1964/10/05 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I'm terribly distressed by the current issue of THE SIGN magazine, and I hope that Father McNally is Burton's objection to the decision by The Sign magazine to use photographs of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin on the cover and in magazine «detailed view»
Series 19 #21.
«All Series«		 1964/10/12 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your copy of THE SIGN and your gracious letter of October 5. I have also shown it Fox's reaction to the decision by The Sign magazine to use photographs of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin on the cover and in magazine «detailed view»
Series 19 #22.
«All Series«		 1965/03/10 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton Holiday magazine is going to print Father Louis' "Rain and the Rhinoceros." They have sent article "Rain and the Rhinoceros" - Holiday and Sign magazines «detailed view»
Series 19 #23.
«All Series«		 1965/03/12 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for your letter of March 10th, received this morning. I am returning the form contracts and the right to limit the use of Merton's photograph - confusion over ability to use Merton materials to advertise a movie (probably not applicable) «detailed view»
Series 19 #24.
«All Series«		 1965/03/23 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your gracious letter of March 12, which should have been answered long since. contract for "Rain and the Rhinoceros" «detailed view»
Series 19 #25.
«All Series«		 1965/10/28 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton It isn't often that I write you in regard to good Father L's books. I am writing this letter just Fox expresses his ideas of what should be cut out of the manuscript of Merton's Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 19 #26.
«All Series«		 1965/11/04 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I am happy to say that things have cleared up a little bit for me in November and if it is all right planning a visit to Gethsemani in November - plans to discuss foreign rights and some things that might be cut from Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 19 #27.
«All Series«		 1965/11/13 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Just a quickie for now to say by all means come next week-- November 17th is fine for us here-- with plans for visit to Gethsemani in November «detailed view»
Series 19 #28.
«All Series«		 1965/11/29 (#01) TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton It was wonderful to have you here, if only for a little while. Remember, we promised a "not-so-long- sending back Doubleday contracts for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - notice of change of wording of contracts regarding foreign rights in Spanish, French, and Italian «detailed view»
Series 19 #29.
«All Series«		 1965/11/29 (#02) other[c] by Fox, James TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: In regard to the contracts between the Abbey of Gethsemani, Trappist, notice of change of wording of contracts regarding foreign rights in Spanish, French, and Italian «detailed view»
Series 19 #30.
«All Series«		 1965/12/07 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thanks ever so much for the contracts which I am sending back to you for signature and initialing. sending back Doubleday contracts for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 19 #31.
«All Series«		 1965/12/09 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Thanks so much for returning the contracts for CONJECTURES so promptly. We have signed them and are sending back Doubleday contracts for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 19 #32.
«All Series«		 1965/12/13 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for returning the contracts and we will indeed send one signed copy for you in due timing for the release of Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - conflict with paperback release by James Laughlin at New Directions «detailed view»
Series 19 #33.
«All Series«		 1965/12/20 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your gracious note of December 13. I am glad the contracts arrived safely. Your good timing for the release of Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - conflict with paperback release by James Laughlin at New Directions / Marie Tadié «detailed view»
Series 19 #34.
«All Series«		 1966/01/17 TLS  from Ellis, Elisabeth / to James Fox Enclosed please find a check for $5,000 as the amount due per our agreement on CONJECTURES [from Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis, Secretary to Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday] advance payment for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 19 #35.
«All Series«		 1966/01/20 (#01) TALS[x]  from Fox, James / to Elizabeth Ellis I received your gracious note of January 17 with the enclosure. We certainly are grateful for your [to Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis, Secretary to Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday] on reminding Burton to write a letter on Fox's behalf to Marie Tadié - Fox thinks he, as a man, would not be tactful with Tadié who is a "tiger in the tank" and Burton has the "feminine genius… to pick out the right words with the proper soothing or explosive effect" «detailed view»
Series 19 #36.
«All Series«		 1966/01/20 (#02) TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I seem to have had a terrible mental block about putting down something on paper to say to Marie sending Burton's draft letter to Marie Tadié (not extant) «detailed view»
Series 19 #37.
«All Series«		 1966/01/24 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I gratefully received your gracious letter of January 20 with its terrific enclosure. I took your Fox sending his version of the letter Burton drafted with some of his own modifications / retreat being held at the time of writing by Fulton J. Sheen at Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 19 #38.
«All Series«		 1966/01/27 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thank you very much for your letter of January 24. I think your letter is a masterpiece and I shall Burton's conversation with Ed Rice - Rice shocked after recent visit to Merton about his appearance and the conditions he lived in - reminded Rice that Merton chose this lifestyle and that he should not publish impromptu comments by Merton / Fr. Daniel Berrigan not "quite the friend to Father Louis that Father Louis imagines he is." «detailed view»
Series 19 #39.
«All Series«		 1966/02/02 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your gracious letter of January 27. I am glad our attempt to write to the "Eiffel Tower" Fox's reaction to commments by Ed Rice about harsh conditions under which Merton lived and Fox passing on some comments that Merton was quite satisfied with the status quo «detailed view»
Series 19 #40.
«All Series«		 1966/02/25 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I hope you're back home by now, but if not, this can just wait for your return. Thanks ever so much Ed Rice and messages about Merton's health / Cardinal Montini (at the time of writing, Pope Paul VI) quotes Merton's Sign of Jonas in a sermon published in his book, The Priest, published by Helicon Press «detailed view»
Series 19 #41.
«All Series«		 1966/03/15 HLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Have heard from Fr. Louis that he is having a back operation this week and would so much appreciate Burton on Merton's image being on the cover of Jubilee - praise for the text of the article / Burton to spend most of her time for Doubleday in Maine «detailed view»
Series 19 #42.
«All Series«		 1966/03/24 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton I owe you an acknowledgement for you charming note of February 25th, and now your "card" letter summary of Merton's back and spinal problems and hospitalization / on photographs and publicity about Merton in Jubilee magazine and the Louisville Courier-Journal / anger at Ed Rice for arranging television publicity - Fox having previously thwarted Italian press with "pontifical mandate" from getting interview «detailed view»
Series 19 #43.
«All Series«		 1966/03/30 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for your good and long letter of March 24th. I am so glad to have the straight dope serial rights for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - strict control of content led to most magazines refusing, except for Life magazine / script by National Council of Catholic Men for a television show about Merton- Burton objected to many parts including "long stupid passage about some immaterial girl out of the past" «detailed view»
Series 19 #44.
«All Series«		 1966/04/08 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton We received your gracious letter of March 30. In regard to Good Father Louis-- he will be home here Fox's thoughts on commerical media - serial rights for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - Life magazine article on Merton «detailed view»
Series 19 #45.
«All Series«		 1966/05/24 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton First of all, thanks so much for the beautiful postcard from Mepkin. I was so pleased to have it advertising for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - photographs used by the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper / Marie Tadié - asking for written authority to translate all Merton books in France - her handling of French, Spanish and Italian rights «detailed view»
Series 19 #46.
«All Series«		 1966/06/09 TALS[x]  from Br. Simeon / to Marie Tadié I know how much you must be expecting a letter from our Reverend Father. I wish I were in a position [from Br. Simeon, secretary to Dom James Fox to Marie Tadié] «detailed view»
Series 19 #47.
«All Series«		 1966/06/12 HLS  from Tadié, Marie / to Br. Simeon Thank you for your kind letter of June the 9th. However, some points must be made clear: I wrote [from Marie Tadié to Br. Simeon, secretary to Dom James Fox] saddened by the lack of returned communication from Merton and from Dom James Fox / monastic censors asking her for remuneration for their services «detailed view»
Series 19 #48.
«All Series«		 1966/07/01 (#01) TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Here is your letter of May 24 not answered yet. Would you believe it have been down in South America regarding how to respond to Marie Tadié and her demand of a written guarantee for some services / Merton's health after his surgery «detailed view»
Series 19 #49.
«All Series«		 1966/07/01 (#02) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie POSSIBLE LETTER TO MARIE T [-] I am sorry that we have not written to you sooner. But really to tell reasons for delayed response / Merton's health / how to proceed with unsigned contracts / on payment of censors (American censors have not received payment other than copies of books) / all New Directions arrangements controlled by the publisher for foreign rights - other foreign rights not controlled by American firms «detailed view»
Series 19 #50.
«All Series«		 1966/07/13 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for your letter of July 1st. I'd heard you were down in South America and that sounds Burton modifying some text of Fox's draft letter that may anger her / Burton questions whether French censors had really asked for money and if they should ask for money, or if this was a misunderstanding / Burton having delivered commencement address at St. Rose College in Albany, NY «detailed view»
Series 19 #51.
«All Series«		 1966/08/04 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton It's almost a month since your beautiful letter of July 13 came. First and above all to thank you thanking Burton for editing letter Fox was sending to Marie Tadié - her contracts sent for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander / Sr. Catherine Francis of St. Rose College asking to make retreat / church renovation at Gethsemani / on hermits not being "on public view" / Trappist foundations in Argenina and Chile «detailed view»
Series 19 #52.
«All Series«		 1966/08/16 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thanks so much for your letter of August 4th and I'm glad I was helpful about Marie Tadie. Marie Tadié / Life magazine article on Merton «detailed view»
Series 19 #53.
«All Series«		 1966/08/20 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your gracous [sic] letter of August 16. Do you believe in telepathy? Anyway, I just Gethsemani church renovations / Naomi invited to visit Gethsemani and new foundation in Santiago, Chile / Merton's bursitis / photographs in Life magazine by John Howard Griffin / Marie Tadié's demands to be the sole translator of Merton in France «detailed view»
Series 19 #54.
«All Series«		 1966/09/06 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Here is the new contract for Father Louis' next two books which we have been corresponding about. two-book contract (excluding French, Spanish, and Italian rights) with Doubleday - John Delaney «detailed view»
Series 19 #55.
«All Series«		 1966/09/12 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton Just a short note. We received the two contracts, we are forwarding them signed to Mr. John Delaney notes on Merton's hermit "or quasi-hermit life" - Fox "relieved that he comes to the monastery for his dinner and for his supper" «detailed view»
Series 19 #56.
«All Series«		 1966/10/26 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton You will please pardon the brevity of this letter. We are enclosing a carbon we have just sent plan to not deal directly with Marie Tadié and work through publishers like Doubleday / trip to monastic foundation in Santiago, Chile «detailed view»
Series 19 #57.
«All Series«		 1966/11/03 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thank you for your startling letter of October 26. Not entirely startling as Father Louis had shocked that Marie Tadié "has now attacked the Abbot General" and agrees with taking steps to resolve problems, but does not think it will be easily settled - French, Italian, and Spanish rights for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 19 #58.
«All Series«		 1966/11/04? (#01) TN[x] from Merton As regards the terms for Marie Tadie: everything is ok except that in n. 9 as it stands, the Abbey clarifications that Marie Tadié can be an agent, but not translator, for Italian and Spanish works - can translate French titles «detailed view»
Series 19 #59.
«All Series«		 1966/11/04? (#02) HN[x] from Merton In those points for M. Tadie maybe we ought to add: "M. Tadie shall see to it that all books sold by «detailed view»
Series 19 #60.
«All Series«		 1966/11/30 (#01) TL[c]  from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Marie Tadié Thank you for your letter of November 16. I don't feel I can write to Father Louis, since he does French, Spanish, and Italian rights for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 19 #61.
«All Series«		 1966/11/30 (#02) TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thanks so much for the photograph of Vina del Mar - I was a bit startled when I first looked at it writing to counter Marie Tadié's claims of having all foreign rights to Merton's works published by Doubleday «detailed view»
Series 19 #62.
«All Series«		 1966/12/12 (#01) TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Marie is at me again. She has now taken up my delinquencies with the Paris office of Doubleday too! «detailed view»
Series 19 #63.
«All Series«		 1966/12/12 (#02) TL[c]  from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Marie Tadié I hope by now you have received my letter and the two airmailed copies of CONJECTURES and that French, Spanish, and Italian rights for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 19 #64.
«All Series«		 1966/12/28 (#01) TL[c]  from Fox, James / to Naomi Burton Stone I am writing to you--first with great apologies for not answering your gracious and kind letters Marie Tadié's ultimatum to the Abbot General for all rights to Merton's books or none - when none was offered, her pleas to retain some rights / Fr. Tesson, S.J. / Tadié asking for rights in Portugal; rights to Redeeming the Time and Faith and Violence; magazine translations / drawing up legal agreement with Tadié «detailed view»
Series 19 #65.
«All Series«		 1966/12/28 (#02) other by Fox, James Terms of Contract - btwn Abb of Geth and M. M.T. 1. This contract to endure for 3 years only - [handwritten notes for a contract with Marie Tadié] «detailed view»
Series 19 #66.
«All Series«		 1967/01/10 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I thought I would enliven your New Year by starting off with a letter from our devoted friend. «detailed view»
Series 19 #67.
«All Series«		 1967/01/13 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton So many things to thankyou for. The beautiful, and beautifully inscribed book of Gethsemani; response to situation with Marie Tadié and what rights she should have or not have as a translator and foreign agent «detailed view»
Series 19 #68.
«All Series«		 1967/01/17 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton My letter and yours of January 10 will have crossed, but I should acknowledge your letter and say I setting down fixed limits on a contract with Marie Tadié «detailed view»
Series 19 #69.
«All Series«		 1967/01/26 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your gracious letter of January 13-- followed by your very kind letter of January 17. Marie Tadié and the lawyer Malinverni «detailed view»
Series 19 #70.
«All Series«		 1967/01/30 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Father Louis has checked over our temporary "agreement" and he has these suggestions that I am «detailed view»
Series 19 #71.
«All Series«		 1967/02/24 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton This request from VOZES in Brazil came to us. I asked Father Louis what to do with it, and he said forwarding request from Brazilian publisher Vozes to Doubleday «detailed view»
Series 19 #72.
«All Series«		 1967/03/01 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton Here we go again!! We had been enjoying a very peaceful "cease-fire", when just yesterday I Marie Tadié and publishing of books in France, Spain, and Italy «detailed view»
Series 19 #73.
«All Series«		 1967/03/04 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I hope this letter doesn't cross with yours, in your reply to my previous one. I thought I would Merton's response to the Marie Tadié conflict over rights as agent and translator - state terms of Tadié serving as agent and translatory - if rejected, allow her only as translator of French books «detailed view»
Series 19 #74.
«All Series«		 1967/03/05 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton I am glad you wrote me again as I now seem to have mislaid your letter with the copies of letter Burton nuances Merton's ideas about dealing with Marie Tadié - time limits imposed on conditions, etc. / ideas about legal representation «detailed view»
Series 19 #75.
«All Series«		 1967/03/07 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thanks so much for your letter of February 24 and the request from Vozes for Portuguese rights. possible visit to Gethsemani in mid-April «detailed view»
Series 19 #76.
«All Series«		 1967/03/10 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton We received your letter of March 5. We are enclosing a letter of M.T. of February 19 to us. five year time limit for contract / question about whether Tadié would continue as agent in Spain and Italy / advice about a lawyer «detailed view»
Series 19 #77.
«All Series«		 1967/03/11 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton Your letter of March 7 from New York arrived. It was in regard to those Portuguese rights for Vozes. «detailed view»
Series 19 #78.
«All Series«		 1967/03/23 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your charming letter of March 17-- I am glad that the copies of the correspondence we letter to the French lawyer, Pierre Malinverni / visit on April 19 «detailed view»
Series 19 #79.
«All Series«		 1967/04/12 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your charming letter of April 2. I'm so happy that plans have been finalized for your problem with agreement with Vozes in Brazil / letter from Pierre Malinverni in France - response to letter «detailed view»
Series 19 #80.
«All Series«		 1967/04/14 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Since I wrote you my last letter I was talking to good Father Louis. We agreed that in paragraph 5 additions and corrections to proposed agreement with Marie Tadié «detailed view»
Series 19 #81.
«All Series«		 1967/04/24 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton I dashed off a letter to Malinverni and a revised "edition" of the Agreement. Do you see any Dan Walsh and his visit - worries that Walsh and others from Louisville [Fr. John Loftus and others] disturbed Burton's visit to the monastery «detailed view»
Series 19 #82.
«All Series«		 1967/04/27 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for yours of April 24th which I received upon my return from New Orleans last night. will plan to visit people in Louisville before coming to Gethsemani on next visit - Fr. John Loftus and the Merton Room at Bellarmine College «detailed view»
Series 19 #83.
«All Series«		 1967/05/11 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your charming letter of April 27. I certainly appreciate your inscribing me to share «detailed view»
Series 19 #84.
«All Series«		 1967/06/01 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Here are photostats of the latest letter from Malinverni. You can readily see from the expressions Marie Tadié's plans to arrange meeting between Fox, Tadié, and the Abbot General - Fox's worry of being confronted with cordial letters from Fox and Merton in the past and complain that she is now being mistreated - already sent such letter to English Definitor, Dom John Morson «detailed view»
Series 19 #85.
«All Series«		 1967/06/11 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for yours of June 1st and the enclosures. I will apologise at once for my typing but I dispute over length of agreement and Marie Tadié's original demand of an exclusive contract forever «detailed view»
Series 19 #86.
«All Series«		 1967/07/03 (#01) TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton Only now am I answering your letter of June 11. We wrote you June 1 and sent you a photostat response to Fox of English Definitor, Dom John Morson, regarding Marie Tadié «detailed view»
Series 19 #87.
«All Series«		 1967/07/03 (#02) TL[d] to Malinverni, Pierre We have just returned from our trip to our monastery in Santiago Chile--Latin America. Only now have draft of letter to Marie Tadié's lawyer in France, Pierre Malinverni «detailed view»
Series 19 #88.
«All Series«		 1967/07/05 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for yours of July 3rd and the enclosures. I think your letter to Pierre is very good increase in claimed damages by Marie Tadié in short period of time «detailed view»
Series 19 #89.
«All Series«		 1967/08/19 TLS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton It was wonderful to receive the envelope from you of August 15-Feast of Our Lady's Assumption. receipt of Doubleday's payment for Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - sales of ~20,000 not counting book clubs / draft of the answer to lawyer for Marie Tadié, Pierre Malinverni / letter from Marie Tadié - asking about the book Redeeming the Time «detailed view»
Series 19 #90.
«All Series«		 1967/09/29 TLS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your note of several weeks ago. At last we have some "signs of life" from M.T. «detailed view»
Series 19 #91.
«All Series«		 1967/09/30 TLS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Father Louis has written his reactions to M. Tadie's letter and her contract. He wants to forward whether Marie Tadié's demands are within ordinary trade practices «detailed view»
Series 19 #92.
«All Series«		 1967/10/12 TLS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your letter of October 4--Feast of St. Francis indeed. I am on a trip visiting some instead of waiting for Marie Tadié to accept all terms, to proceed according to what was send as "modus agendi" - not to send any articles but to continue to send books falling under these stipulations «detailed view»
Series 19 #93.
«All Series«		 1967/11/01 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Fr Louis has suggested that I come down for a visit this month and the time that suits me best would trip in November to discuss business of the Merton Legacy Trust / Burton's speaking engagement with the novices and postulants of the Sisters of Narareth / Merton's report that Marie Tadié's lawyer now writing and attacking him «detailed view»
Series 19 #94.
«All Series«		 1967/11/06 TLS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Please pardon delay in answering letter since I had been at the Regional Conference of our Trappist agenda for visit «detailed view»
Series 19 #95.
«All Series«		 1967/11/21 (#01) TLS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton Here is the draft of a letter to the lawyer in Franch whom Father Louis recommended. Look it over «detailed view»
Series 19 #96.
«All Series«		 1967/11/21 (#02) TAL[d] to Kramer-Raine, Pierre We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani-- [letter draft dated November 20 but sent to Burton with letter dated November 21 - to Pierre Kramer-Raine in Paris] «detailed view»
Series 19 #97.
«All Series«		 1967/11/21 (#03) other[x]   Terms of agreement between Abbey of Gethsemani--Trappist Kentucky--U.S.A. And Madame Marie Tadie [agreement dated April 22, 1967, but sent to Burton with letter dated November 21] «detailed view»
Series 19 #98.
«All Series«		 1967/11/26 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for your letter of November 21st ane [sic] enclosures. I am returning the carbon advice on modifying some of the wording to Pierre Kramer-Raine in Paris (see draft dated 1967/11/21) «detailed view»
Series 19 #99.
«All Series«		 1967/12/11 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton Your letter of November 27 should have been answered long ere this. I have incorporated your abbatial elections in January of 1968 / Fox's new hermitage on "hermit's ridge" / Fox's surgery on polyp in chest «detailed view»
Series 19 #100.
«All Series«		 1967/12/26 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Business before pleasure. Many thanks for sending me the second draft of the letter to M Pierre Burton's thoughts on Fox's retirement «detailed view»
Series 19 #101.
«All Series«		 1968/01/10 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I received your gracious letter of December 26. The letter to our Paris lawyer has gone already Fox on his retirement and move to hermitage and what other monks are saying / Merton's "gripe" in the National Catholic Reporter about Fox and about [a trip to?] Japan / Merton's controversial message to community about not being abbot, "My campaign platform for non-Abbot and permanent keeper of present doghouse" / Dan Walsh's reaction to Merton portraying Gethsemani in NCR as a "prison" «detailed view»
Series 19 #102.
«All Series«		 1968/01/30 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton "Time and tide wait for no man." In other words a lot of water "has flown down the stream of time Fox's thoughts on some of Merton's circular letters [seemingly sent one of "Septuagesima Sunday 1967" that Fox marked with a red pencil] «detailed view»

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