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Giroux, Robert, 1914-2008


Series 4, Naomi Burton Stone and Dom James Fox Correspondence with Robert Giroux Primarily Regarding The Sign of Jonas


Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 194-1993
Volume: 733 item(s); 889 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Although this correspondence mainly deals with publishing concerns, there are also some personal messages, especially concerning news about other Columbia University friends. This file also contains correspondence with: Frank Abbott, Yolanda Bettencour

Biography

Robert Giroux was one of Merton's friends from his Columbia University days. While Giroux was with Harcourt, Brace publishers, he reviewed and rejected some of Merton's early novels. After seeing The Seven Storey Mountain, he decided to take a ch

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See also "Bettencourt, Yolanda", "Gillet, Ignace", "Laughlin, James", "Maritain, Jacques" and "Stone, Naomi Burton" files. Much of the correspondence between Merton and Giroux is published in

Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal Records
1 Thomas Merton and Robert Giroux Correspondence 541
2 Frank Abbott Correspondence Regarding a Biography of Merton (Not published) 10
3 Naomi Burton Stone, Curtis Brown, General Correspondence with Robert Giroux 29
4 Naomi Burton Stone and Dom James Fox Correspondence with Robert Giroux Primarily Regarding The Sign of Jonas 28
5 Jacques Maritain Correspondence with Robert Giroux (Copies in French and English translation) regarding The Sign of Jonas 3
6 Foreign Rights to Merton's Books: Disputed Questions, The New Man and Thoughts in Solitude 24
7 Foreign Rights to Merton's Books after His Death 32
8 Thomas McDonnell Correspondence with Robert Giroux Regarding A Thomas Merton Reader 11
9 Correspondence Relating to Prayer as Worship and Experience 17
10 Internal Memo's to Robert Giroux and Giroux's Notes 10
11 Miscellaneous Correspondence 28

Container List

Series#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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Series 4 #1.
«All Series«
1950/04/24 (#02) TL[c] to Fox, James On my pilgrimage to Rome with Cardinal Spellman, we stopped off in Portugal and there, at the shrine «detailed view»
Series 4 #2.
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1950/04/26 (#01) TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I tried to phone you. I want you to see this in case I haven't stated your case well. Please don't [from Merton's literary agent, Naomi Burton Stone, to Robert Giroux - enclosed is letter of the same date from Stone to Merton and copied to Giroux] «detailed view»
Series 4 #3.
«All Series«
1950/04/26 (#02) TL[c]  from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Merton I was sorry to have to wire you yesterday but I received a letter from Jay saying that he had put [see "Stone, Naomi Burton" file for original, signed letter] «detailed view»
Series 4 #4.
«All Series«
1950/05/01 (#01) TLS[c] from Fox, James I felt most delightfully surprised and happy to receive your beautiful letter and the enclosed medal «detailed view»
Series 4 #5.
«All Series«
1950/05/01 (#02) TL[c]  from Fox, James / to Naomi Burton Stone Having met you here, dearest Naomi, I feel I can write to you very spontaneously and, as it were, «detailed view»
Series 4 #6.
«All Series«
1950/06/15 (#02) TL[c]  from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Merton Many thanks for yours of June tenth. I am sure you may give those Catholic priests the rights «detailed view»
Series 4 #7.
«All Series«
1950/06/16 TL[c] to Fox, James I should have written long before this, but I know that Naomi has already expressed to you my «detailed view»
Series 4 #8.
«All Series«
1950/06/17 TALS[x] from Fox, James We received the enclosed letters from a certain Mr. Frank Abbott, wherein he mentions your name. «detailed view»
Series 4 #9.
«All Series«
1950/06/19 TL[c] to Fox, James Many thanks for your letter of June 17th, and the enclosures, which I take it crossed my letter «detailed view»
Series 4 #10.
«All Series«
1950/06/29 (#01) telegram to Fox, James ARRIVING LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON FRIEND CHARLES REILLY DRIVING DOWN WITH ME «detailed view»
Series 4 #11.
«All Series«
1950/06/29 (#02) telegram from Fox, James TELEGRAM RECEIVED ARRANGEMENTS OK: =REV FATHER JAMES FOX= «detailed view»
Series 4 #12.
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1951/no/no? other   Weekly Sales - 1950 [-]THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN WATERS OF SILOE «detailed view»
Series 4 #13.
«All Series«
1952/04/25 TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton For your private eye, I quote the following from a Papist monthly: "A magazine that still calls «detailed view»
Series 4 #14.
«All Series«
1952/07/11 TL[c] from Fox, James We are handing over to you the finished manuscript of THE SIGN OF JONAS by Thomas Merton «detailed view»
Series 4 #15.
«All Series«
1954/04/26 (#01) TLS to Merton I'm enclosing a copy of the letter I've had today from Tom. I think you'd better have a look at all «detailed view»
Series 4 #16.
«All Series«
1954/04/26 (#02) TL[c]  from Merton to Stone, Naomi Burton As you know, the Church is having what it calls a "Marian year". The Holy Father is quite serious «detailed view»
Series 4 #17.
«All Series«
1954/05/08 TLS from Fox, James Several days ago the royalty statement on Father Louis' books for the last six months of 1953 [first page typed letter - second page handwritten note with figures for sales from June and December of 1953] «detailed view»
Series 4 #18.
«All Series«
1954/06/17 TL[c] to Fox, James Please forgive my delay in answering your very understandable query about the sales of THE SIGN «detailed view»
Series 4 #19.
«All Series«
1960/03/04 TLS to Fox, James I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the confidence you have shown in us, with regard to Father [signed by Giroux, John Farrar, Roger Straus and Sheila Cudahy] «detailed view»
Series 4 #20.
«All Series«
1961/03/02 (#01) TLS to Merton We have your letter here of February 17 as yet unanswered. We looked up our files, and we notice «detailed view»
Series 4 #21.
«All Series«
1961/03/02 (#02) TLS  from Bettencourt, Yolanda / to James Fox We have been advised that we have to deal with you regarding the rights of Father Merton's book [from Dom James Fox of Gethsemani Abbey to Yolanda Bettencourt, from the Editorial Department of Livraria Agir Editora in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] «detailed view»
Series 4 #22.
«All Series«
1961/03/27 TLS from Fox, James We have received a letter, March 2, from Rio de Janeiro, from the publishing house of AGIR. «detailed view»
Series 4 #23.
«All Series«
1961/04/14 (#02) TAL[c] to Fox, James The situation on the foreign rights for the books we have under contract (DISPUTED QUESTIONS, «detailed view»
Series 4 #24.
«All Series«
1961/11/20 TLS from Fox, James Did I ever acknowledge your gracious letter of September 29? If not, I want to do so now. «detailed view»
Series 4 #25.
«All Series«
1962/09/21 TL[c] to Fox, James This is a business note to advise you that royalties in the amount of $3,312.26 have accumulated [first page typed letter - second page handwritten note with royalties figures to Gethsemani Abbey and Curtis Brown for various books] «detailed view»
Series 4 #26.
«All Series«
1962/10/09 TALS from Norbert, Br., O.C.S.O. Rev. Father has arrived back home from the trip abroad for the General Chapter and other necessary «detailed view»
Series 4 #27.
«All Series«
2006/08/08 (#02) other   Correspondence between Abbot James Fox and Robert Giroux. [-] Abbot James Fox to Giroux. [list of letters donated in this series] «detailed view»
Series 4 #28.
«All Series«
undated/11/22 TLS from Fox, James Just a note to acknowledge your charming letter of the 2nd with the news of the recovery «detailed view»

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