| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1952/04/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Please rush this new copy to Jay in England. I have had to rewrite the whole first section. | |
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| | 1952/04/no | TNS[x] | from Merton | Here are the galleys and ten pages of new matter. I am beginning to think I am just making | |
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| | 1952/05/01 | TL[x] | to Merton | If you will forgive my most uncertain typing, I will try to tap this out, although it is late, | |
| proofs for <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> - MacGregor expresses although he is not a Catholic, the first part of the book is "beautiful and moving" and he has "always found something attractive about the monastic life" / Laughlin's delay in finding distributors for "Perspectives" |
| | 1952/05/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Here is another new section for BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS. I enclose the galley of the matter into | |
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| | 1952/05/21 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here are the corrected galleys, all except the last two which I am keeping because I want to write | |
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| | 1952/05/30 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Here, in haste, are the last proofs and the final added copy, the Epilogue, for BREAD IN THE | |
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| | 1952/06/06 | TLS[x] | to Merton | Well, I have rewritten the prologue, and now, I think, that is everything. Looking forward | |
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| | 1952/08/26 | TL[x] | from Merton | Here are the proofs and footnotes of <u>Bread in the Wilderness</u>. Of course the censors will | |
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| | 1952/09/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This is a hasty answer to your letter, in the hope that we can catch those corrections before | |
| [verso: message (short typed note) of 1952/09/09] |
| | 1952/10/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | The enclosed came in the late mail Thursday from Monseigneur [sic] Fearns. | |
| censor reader's serious objections to certain parts of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> / MacGregor in center of a row between Naomi Burton and James Laughlin |
| | 1953/01/20 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and please forgive my delay in replying. First, about the censors: the New | |
| approval of New Mexico censor but no answer yet from Abbot General of Trappists in Rome / deleting sentence about St. Augustine and <i>Mediator Dei</i> to which New York censor Monsignor Fearns objected |
| | 1953/02/04 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter of Jan. 28th just reached me yesterday. I can understand why you and J. want to take | |
| responds to pressure to hurry release of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> to continue publicity generated by <i>The Sign of Jonas</i> - mentions troubles with <i>The Sign of Jonas</i> being release before Trappist abbot general could approve |
| | 1953/04/22 | TL[x] | to Merton | I don't believe that I have written you since we received your consent to have Dell make | |
| on <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> being picked up for thrift paperback reprint by Dell publishers - "This is certainly the first time that a devotional book of this sort will have been offered in large quantity and at a low price." / MacGregor enjoying <i>The Sign of Jonas</i> |
| | 1953/05/15 | TL[x] | to Merton | Mr. Kyrill Schabert, who is the president of Pantheon Books, the publishing house that shares | |
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| | 1953/05/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | This is the proposed cover for the twenty-five cent edition of SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION. | |
| asking Merton's approval for the cover design for the Dell paperback edition of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> by Stefan Salter |
| | 1953/05/30 | telegram[x] | from Merton | COVER OK= =MERTON= | |
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| | 1953/06/03 | telegram[x] | from Merton | CHANGE PURE LOVE TO CONTEMPLATION ON SEEDS JACKET TO COMPLY WITH NAOMI BURTONS LETTER | |
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| | 1953/06/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks very much for all the trouble you took over the cover for the twenty-five cent edition | |
| last-minute changes for paperback edition of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> - "pure love" / proofs of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> in England - consultation with a theologian and possible changes for later ediitons / Naomi Burton Stone's idea of selected writings - MacGregor's suggestions / Garcia Lorca |
| | 1953/06/20 | TLS[x] | from Merton | If there is anything important I haven't answered, please forgive me. I haven't had much time | |
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| | 1953/06/27 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Still mulling over in my mind the theological problems involved by <u>Bread in the Wilderness</u>, | |
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| | 1953/08/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | I'm sorry not to have written for so long. I was three months out in India and had a great time. | |
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| | 1953/09/02 | TALS[x] | from Merton | I was glad to hear some news of the book, sorry that you had such a time with it. | |
| harvesting tobacco / request to send some of his books to Samuel Reese on Missouri's death row |
| | 1953/10/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | This is probably an unusual request to you, and from us, but since it is in a good cause and both | |
| asking Merton to write a letter stating that he was pleased with the cover design for the paperback edition of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> in support of the designer Stefan Salter and the effort to use better cover designs on paperbacks / printing problems with the edition of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> in England |
| | 1953/10/28 | TLS[x] | from Merton | After all our telegrams, I hope everything is now settled with Mgr Fearns and that the book | |
| on not having made an original carbon for a book and the ensuing troubles <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i>? / praise for Stefan Salter - criticism from Dom James Fox for publically supporting causes / prayers in honor of St. John of the Cross written for the pastor of a parish in Pennsylvania |
| | 1953/12/21 | TLS[x] | from Merton | This letter will bring you my thanks for Bread in the Wilderness and my best wishes for Christmas | |
| praise for printed book of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i>, including design by Alvin Lustig |
| | 1953/12/31 | TL[x] | to Merton | I can't tell you how pleased your letter has made me feel. Almost everyone who has seen BREAD | |
| pre-publication orders from book clubs and book stores for <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> |
| | 1954/01/30 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your letter has lain idly by for a month during which I have been busy with a lot of things. | |
| Merton in favor of a thrift edition of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> / St. John of the Cross - Merton book on "Dark Night of the Soul" |
| | 1954/04/30 | TL[x] | to Merton | I thought you would be interested in the enclosed catalog of the "50 Books of the Year." | |
| manuscript submission from Sr. Miriam of the Holy Spirit (Jessica Powers) - asking whether Merton had recommended her |
| | 1955/08/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | I thought you would be interested to know that we have just reprinted SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION, | |
| corrections made and new jacket for reprint edition of <i>Seeds of Contemplation</i> / idea about a volume of Merton's collected poems |
| | 1955/09/23 | TL[x] | to Merton | I see by a carbon copy from yesterday that James has written you and at length, so I will content | |
| idea about a volume of Merton's selected poems - collected poems "could wait a while" / MacGregor envies Merton his fire tower |
| | 1956/12/10 | TALS | to Merton | Here are the proofs on THE STRANGE ISLAND AND OTHER POEMS, which, as you know, we are | |
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| | 1956/12/26 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I waited in order to write you to get the other set of proofs back from our copyreader, who had gone | |
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| | 1956/12/26 (#02) | other | | CORRECTIONS Page proofs, "THE STRANGE ISLANDS". [-] Preface; Insert after line 5: The "Prelude | |
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| | 1957/01/09 | TALS | to Merton | Here is a set of the page proofs of THE STRANGE ISLANDS, without the front matter, which is only | |
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| | 1957/01/17 | TALS | to Merton | Your letter with the corrections for THE STRANGE ISLANDS came in the knick of time. The proofs | |
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| | 1957/08/28 | TLS | to Merton | You will be receiving, I hope, within a very short time the signatures of the limited edition | |
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| | 1957/09/03 | TALS | to Merton | On my return from a conference in Boston, I found a letter from von Sichowsky indicating that he is | |
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| | 1957/10/28 | HLS[x] | from Merton | Forgive me for having delayed so long in answering your letter of the 6th about the New York censor. | |
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| | 1957/11/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I have not yet thanked you for the three books. The Pound will be very much treasured. | |
| thanking for books by Ezra Pound, Rimbaud and Fowlie / he and novices installing telephone poles at Gethsemani Abbey |
| | 1957/11/18 | TALS | to Merton | How very nice to hear from you and to have gratitude for the books we sent in the form of deeply | |
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| | 1957/12/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | It has taken a little time to get around to your letter of Nov. 19 which found me in the hospital | |
| thanking MacGregor for the Latin American literary anthology, "I think I am essentially a Latin poet" / Jorge de Lima, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Adolfo Bioy Casares / Ezra Pound - "For all his brilliant gifts, he is mentally ill." |
| | 1957/12/29 | TALS | to Merton | I was moved greatly by your long letter of December 11th and it [sic] many facets reflecting what | |
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| | 1958/01/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | I presume that I have you to thank for the handsome calendar with pictures of your life as a monk | |
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| | 1958/02/26 | TLS | to Merton | Along the lines of our correspondence about Latin-American poetry, I thought you might be interested | |
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| | 1958/03/06 | TLS[x] | from Merton | For a long time I have owed you and J. letters. This will have to pay you both. What I have been | Yes |
| [Cooper #69 in <i>Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters</i>] Adolfo Bioy Casares's <i>Plan de Evasión</i> / Pablo Neruda / Merton in contact with sculptor Jaime Andrade from Ecuador / Andres Bello / possible study on Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz |
| | 1958/08/08 | TALS[x] | from Merton | It is a long time since I have written you or heard from either you of J. How are all getting along? | |
| asking if there is still a photo of the art piece "Le Devot Christ" as used in <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> - Merton wants to use it for manuscript of book "Art and Worship" / translating Nicaraguan poet Pablo Antonio Cuadra's treatments of Central American Indian themes / Ecuadorian artist Jaime Andrade |
| | 1958/08/12 | TALS | to Merton | I am sorry, too, that so much time has lapsed since I have written you. Actually, I was waiting | |
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| | 1958/08/22 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your good letter, the news, and the promise of books. Thanks especially | |
| Boris Pasternak's <i>Dr. Zhivago</i> - sent letter in Cyrillic to Pasternak but sending another letter to MacGregor to forward to him through Pantheon Books / poems of Pablo Antonio Cuadra / "Letter to an Innocent Bystander" / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz / <i>Prometheus, a Meditation</i> by Merton |
| | 1958/11/13 | TLS | to Merton | I think that your last letter to me was not answered, at least by me. I had passed it on to J | |
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| | 1958/11/28 | TALS | to Merton | I am addressing you this way, because that's the way you signed your name, but I must admit that | |
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| | 1959/05/29 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | As you know I've been in Japan, so that things are a little vague in this poor mind, particularly | |
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| | 1959/05/29 (#02) | other[x] | | SUGGESTIONS FOR <u>SELECTED POEMS</u>. by Thos Merton. [-] <u>Thirty Poems</u>: 1944. | |
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| | 1959/05/29 (#03) | other | | <u>MDS.</u> Song from CPP. - p. 15. [-] Man in the Wind. 17. [-] Ariadne. 18 [-] Tropics. 21 | |
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| | 1959/06/16 | TALS | to Merton | It was good to get your letter and its various details for the paperbound "Selected Poems of Thomas | |
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| | 1959/07/10 | TALS | to Merton | In the scramble just before J Laughlin left for the West early this week - to build a ski touring | |
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| | 1959/08/10 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | The enclosed note to Mark Van Doren explains itself. As you may have heard from Naomi, | |
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| | 1959/08/10 (#02) | TL[c] | to Van Doren, Mark | I have your postcard to J. Laughlin, and was going to write you anyway. J. is on his way to Europe | |
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| | 1959/08/26 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I guess the enclosed explains itself. I've forgotten if I've sent you a carbon of my letter | |
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| | 1959/08/26 (#02) | TL[c] | to Stone, Naomi Burton | Thanks for your note about "Atlas and the Fat Man". I'm delighted that you want to offer it around, | |
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| | 1959/10/06 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | In cleaning out my files I came across this ms of a translation from Claudel which J. had left | |
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| | 1959/10/06 (#02) | HNS[x] | from Merton | As I expected, in cleaning the place out I found this ms. of the poem by Herbert Mason which I | |
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| | 1959/10/08 | TLS | to Merton | Mark Van Doren didn't indicate if he had sent you a carbon of his "foreword" for your SELECTED POEMS | |
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| | 1959/10/13 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I expect that our last letters crossed. Thanks very much for sending the translation from Claudel, | |
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| | 1959/10/13? (#02) | HNS[x] | from Merton | +These are the best - I have marked them on the back. | |
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| | 1959/10/23 | TALS | to Merton | We had already sent the introduction by Mark Van Doren, together with the proofs of your "Selected | |
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| | 1959/12/10 | TLS | to Merton | Your letter of December 2nd seemed to have gotten delayed a few days possibly because it was | |
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| | 1959/12/16 | TALS[x] | from Merton | The book came and is very fine. The picture turned out well on the cover and I am very happy | |
| <i>Selected Poems</i> - thoughts on other books of poetry / <i>Wisdom of the Desert</i> - problem of adding D.T. Suzuki material on Zen / Merton's <i>Problems and Pardons</i> (later renamed <i>The Behavior of Titans</i> / Mina Loy / Salvatore Quasimodo / Merton does not send Gethsemani calendars |
| | 1959/12/23 | TLS | to Merton | This will be brief. The Christmas activity of our world is swirling around me. I think it's a good | |
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| | 1960/01/06 | TLS | to Merton | The letter in which sometime ago you outlined the Table of Contents for WISDOM OF THE DESERT- | |
| Giovanni Mardersteig design for <i>Wisdom of the Desert</i> - typeface not available in this country / Buddhist art at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C. |
| | 1960/01/27 | TAL[x] | to Burns, T. F. | I was delighted to get your letter of 22nd January with its hint that you would perhaps be | |
| [from MacGregor to T. F. Burns of Burns & Oates publishers in London - copied to Merton with handwritten note, "Hope this is all right. In haste, but with my very best"] cooperation on publication of <i>Wisdom of the Desert</i> - help in getting it printed in Verona by Giovanni Mardersteig |
| | 1960/01/29 | TLS[x] | to Merton | It occurred to me, before I sent the manuscript of Part II of THE WISDOM OF THE DESERT | |
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| | 1960/02/05 | TLS | to Merton | J is up skiing with his daughter and he won't see your letter to him of January 29th until Monday or | |
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| | 1960/02/09 | TLS | to Merton | As you will know from my letter to you of Friday I saw your letter to J. actually before I did, | |
| <i>The Wisdom of the Desert</i> / Merton's manuscript for "Problems and Pardons" (later called <i>The Behavior of Titans</i> |
| | 1960/02/17 | TLS | to Merton | I had a note from Perry Knowlton this morning saying that things were all right for the contracts | |
| problems in making any changes for reissue of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> - typesetting by Eric Gill's print shop - Perpetua font sold to others / troubles in locating out of print book, <i>The Secret Country</i>, by Jorge Carrera de Andrade / Ananda Coomaraswamy and information about the state of publishing him |
| | 1960/02/19 | TLS | to Merton | Thanks very much for the further manuscripts for THE WISDOM OF THE DESERT. The carbon I had | |
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| | 1960/03/02 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | The dedication for PROBLEMS & PARDONS is already on its way to Peter Beilenson, | |
| manuscript of "Problems and Pardons" (<i>The Behavior of Titans</i>) / decision to make no changes to <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> / Ananda Coomaraswamy's widow, Doña Luisa Coomaraswamy, and her work in preparing some of his writings for publication / <u>Ars Islamica</u> |
| | 1960/03/02 (#02) | other[x] | | Chileans Shouted 'Bravo' When the Beats Read Poetry by Fernando Alegria | |
| [<u>San Francisco Sunday Chronicle</u> article sent by MacGregor to Merton] |
| | 1960/03/16 | TLS | to Merton | I enclose our two proposed sample pages from Peter Beilenson for PROBLEMS AND PARDONS. | |
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| | 1960/04/22 | TLS | to Merton | Unaccountably I seem to have mislaid your two short letters of about two weeks ago. | |
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| | 1960/05/24 | TLS | to Merton | I had thought from the way he referred to two letters which arrived at Norfolk that you had replied | |
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| | 1960/06/01 | TLS | to Merton | This is a hasty note to thank you both for replying to my note and then sending me the sample copy | |
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| | 1960/06/10 | TLS | to Merton | Evidently J is agreeable that we send "Letter to the Innocent Bystander" over to our friends | |
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| | 1960/06/17 | TLS | to Merton | J spoke of writing you yesterday about this, but I see that in his letter dated yesterday there is | |
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| | 1960/06/20 | TLS | to Merton | When I wrote you that hurried note on Friday I didn't have your June 13th letter at hand, but in any | |
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| | 1960/06/24 | TLS | to Merton | I find that EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHY by J.B. Burnet - I expect this is the same book as "Early Greek | |
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| | 1960/06/29 | TAL[c] | to Swanson, Albert D. | In a book by Thomas Merton which we almost have in production, to be called "The Behavior of Titans | |
| [to Albert D. Swanson of the Macmillan Company in New York City - carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1960/07/06 | TALS | to Merton | As you may have noticed from my postscript to Macmillan's on last Friday, I had just gotten your | |
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| | 1960/08/04 | TALS | to Merton | By phoning I was finally able to get things straightened out with Macmillan for the use of 149 lines | |
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| | 1960/09/09 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I have been silent only because there has been no definite news and of course because things | |
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| | 1960/09/09 (#02) | TL[c] | to Mardersteig, Hans | I thought I should let you know that there has been no sign here of the proofs of Thomas Merton's | |
| [to Hans Mardersteig of Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy - carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1960/09/12 | TL | to Merton | Here are the proofs of WISDOM OF THE DESERT just in airmail from Mardersteig. You will remember | |
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| | 1960/09/21 | TL[x] | to Merton | Sorry to have cost you an extra letter in regard to the promised proofs of WISDOM OF THE HEART | |
| proofs for book, <i>Wisdom of the Desert</i> - Mardersteig |
| | 1960/09/23 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | A quick note in my own incredible typing. The Jewish New Year has us without secretaries, | |
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| | 1960/09/23 (#02) | TL[c] | to Rice, Edward | I had missed seeing the September issue of "Jubilee," but when Thomas Merton mentioned that it | |
| [dated 1960/09/14 - to Edward Rice of <u>Jubilee</u> magazine and Merton's friend from Columbia University - carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1960/10/21 | TLS | to Merton | I've been rushed and then under the weather since I got back, or you would have heard from me | |
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| | 1960/10/24 | TLS | to Merton | Here are the page proofs of THE BEHAVIOR OF TITANS, missed the title page and the half-title page | |
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| | 1960/10/27 | TALS | to Merton | There were several odds and ends I didn't have time for the other day when I was sending you | |
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| | 1960/10/31 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks very much for the proofs of BEHAVIOR OF TITANS which came today. Thanks also for making | |
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| | 1960/10/31 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Morris, Alice S. | Thank you so much for letting me see "The Ox Mountain Parable." I have enjoyed it, but our | |
| [from Alice S. Morris, Literary Editor of <u>Harpers Bazaar</u> to MacGregor - photocopy to Merton] |
| | 1960/11/02 | TLS | to Merton | There were a couple of things I failed to comment on yesterday in my hurry to get the proof | |
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| | 1960/11/03 | TALS | to Merton | We find that Frank Zimmerman's translation of the BOOK OF TOBIT was published in 1958 by Harpers | |
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| | 1960/11/22 | TLS | to Merton | It was good to get your letter picking up various items from our correspondence. I won't try | |
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| | 1960/11/30 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | The two copies of letters that are enclosed explain themselves. I note that you feel that if one | |
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| | 1960/11/30 (#02) | TL[c] | to Kabir, Humayun | Inquiries about the rights to the writings of Gandhi led us to a Mr. Heinman, who distributes here | |
| [to the Hon. Dr. Humayun Kabir, Minister of Science and Culture, New Delhi, India - carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1960/11/30 (#03) | TAL[c] | to Lynes, Russell | I don't know who passes on poetry at your emporium these days, but I thought I'd like to send | |
| [to the Russell Lynes of <u>Harper's</u> magazine - carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1960/12/09 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I don't think I gave you all the information I. A. Richards passed on to me. He says: | |
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| | 1960/12/09 (#02) | TL[c] | to Urgoiti, Julián | Thomas Merton had already written me that I would be hearing from you in regard to BEHAVIOR | |
| [to Julián Urgoiti, publisher of Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina - carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1960/12/20 | TLS | to Merton | You did so marvelously and so quickly with the jacket flap for BEHAVIOR OF TITANS that I'm sending | |
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| | 1961/01/13 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I've been embarrassed that the mat which was coming to you at the end of December with my | |
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| | 1961/01/13 (#02) | TL[c] | to Urgoiti, Julián | We are delighted now to be able to send you a bound copy of BEHAVIOR OF TITANS without the jacket. | |
| [to Julián Urgoiti, publisher of Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires, Argentina - carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1961/01/14 | other | to Merton | NEWS FROM THE COMMITTEE FOR NON-VIOLENT ACTION [-] 158 Grand Street [-] New York, N.Y. | |
| [news release RE John Beecher] |
| | 1961/01/16 | HLS | to Merton | A propos of our Tobit translation, I thought you might be interested in this that came to me from | |
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| | 1961/01/18 | TL[c] | to O'Gara, James | As you may know, Thomas Merton's work is no longer being handled by Curtis Brown Ltd., | |
| [to James O'Gara, editor of <u>Commonweal</u> in New York City] |
| | 1961/01/19 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | The enclosed letter to Miss Mowat at Curtis Brown explains itself, by inference, at least. | |
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| | 1961/01/19 (#02) | TLS | to Mowat, Elizabeth | Perry Knowlton asked me yesterday to write you a note letting you know the details of any dealings | |
| [to Elizabeth Mowat of Curtis Brown in New York City] |
| | 1961/01/23 | TAL[c] | to Rao, Mohan | His Excellency, Dr. Humayun Kabir, wrote me on December 19th that he had made inquiries for us about | |
| [to Mohan Rao, Director of the Publication Division in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for the Government of India, New Delhi, India] |
| | 1961/01/25 (#01) | HNS | to Merton | Dear Mr. Merton - This clears it up. I can see why you decided to leave CB. In haste, Bob. | |
| [handwritten note by MacGregor to Merton on the top of Mowat's letter to MacGregor - MacGregor using Mowat's address to Merton of "Mr. Merton" facetiously] |
| | 1961/01/25 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Merton | I have your letter of January 19th regarding English and foreign rights on two Thomas Merton books, | |
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| | 1961/02/17 | TLS | to Merton | I hope you've now seen the copy of BEHAVIOR OF TITANS and like it as much as I do. It seems to me | |
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| | 1961/02/24 | TLS | to Merton | I couldn't be happier that you like BEHAVIOR OF TITANS so well. Please disregard my apologies | |
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| | 1961/03/03 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | They were asking me every day or half-day if I'd heard from you about the publication date of WISDOM | |
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| | 1961/03/03 (#02) | TANS | to Merton | Ad copy - for 5-8 magazines [-] Tom - left out of envelope [-] Bob [-] THOMAS MERTON [-] BEHAVIOR | |
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| | 1961/04/04 | TALS | to Merton | A quick note, since we are deep in royalty figuring and that annual overwhelming Labor of Hercules. | |
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| | 1961/04/14 (#01) | TAL | to Merton | I did find an opportunity to talk to Bob Giroux about their plans, and I find that they plan to have | |
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| | 1961/04/14 (#02) | TL[c] | from Rao, Mohan | Please refer to your letter dated 23.1.1961. We have now heard from Navajivan Trust who hold | |
| [to MacGregor from S/U.S. Mohan Rao of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting of the Government of India] |
| | 1961/04/14 (#03) | TL[c] | from Desai, Jivanji / to Mohan Rao | We have your letter No. DPD/61 dated 15.3.61. Thanks. We request you to write to Mr. MacGregor | |
| [on same page as 1961/04/14[2] - to Shri U.S. Mohan Rao from Shri Jivanji D. Desai, Managing Trustee of the Navajivan Trust] |
| | 1961/04/18 | TL[c] | to A. & C. Black Ltd. | Thank you very much for your note of 11th April and I am glad that the advance copy of BEHAVIOR | |
| [carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1961/04/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | I trust that the enclosed explain themselves. We are planning some advertising of WISDOM | |
| sending Marie Tadié [French translator] a copy of <i>Selected Poems</i> / attempting to find <i>Taoist Notebook</i> for Merton / Laughlin has a copy of manuscript on Gandhi / selection of aphorisms of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy for printed by Victor Hammer - permission from Doña Luisa Coomaraswamy |
| | 1961/05/10 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I very much liked your poem "The Moslem's Angel of Death". It seems to me to be both moving | |
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| | 1961/05/10 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Burns, T. F. | I have been in Canada or you would have had an answer earlier to your letter of 19th April. | |
| [to T. F. Burns of Hollis & Carter Ltd. in London - carbon copy to Merton] |
| | 1961/06/08 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I think I owe you several letters and this one will not be a proper answer to any of them. | |
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| | 1961/06/08 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Desai, Jivanji | We have your letter of April 20. Thanks. We note that we shall hear from you in the near future | |
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| | 1961/06/09 | TL[c] | to Taplinger, Richard | Thomas Merton, whom we publish as you know, and who is a Trappist Monk at Abbey of Gethsemani, | |
| [to Richard Taplinger of Taplinger Publishing in New York - copy to Merton] |
| | 1961/06/29 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I thought you would like to know that the Vedanta Society of Southern California has | |
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| | 1961/06/29 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | I am carrying on at the point at which my letter broke off to you and of course the enclosed problem | |
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| | 1961/06/29 (#03) | TL[c] | to Burns, T. F. | I don't seem to have answered your letter inquiring about NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION. | |
| [to T. F. Burns of Hollis & Carter in London - copy to Merton] |
| | 1961/07/03 | TALS | to Merton | NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION is ready to go to the compositor and there are about four points, | |
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| | 1961/07/11 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | As I said in my penned note on J.L.'s letter to you of last Friday, I of course understand about | |
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| | 1961/07/11 (#02) | TL[c] | to Sih, Paul | Thomas Merton has written us of your interest in publishing the Chuang Tsu translations he is | |
| [to Paul Sih of the Asian Institute of St. John's University in New York] |
| | 1961/07/17 | TALS | to Merton | Dr. Paul Sih of St. John's University called me up Friday and we had quite a long conversation | |
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| | 1961/07/26 | TLS | to Merton | I thought you would be greatly amused by Tashi Tshering's letter. Perhaps he wrote to you too. | |
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| | 1961/07/28 | TL[c] | to Fine, Donald | Sorry to have been slow in returning to you signed agreement to the contract between New Directions | |
| [to Donald Fine, Editor-in-Chief of Dell Books in New York] |
| | 1961/08/01 (#01) | TL[c] | to Delage, Florence | I am sorry about the confusion in regard to the Thomas Merton's THE BEHAVIOR OF TITANS and | |
| [to Florence Delage of Agence Hoffman in Paris - copy to Merton] |
| | 1961/08/01 (#02) | TL[c] | to Hoffman, Michael | It was very sweet of you to sit down and write me that long letter by hand while on holiday. | |
| [to Michael Hoffman of Agence Hoffman in Paris - copy to Merton] |
| | 1961/08/09 | TLS | to Merton | I never thought I'd become a priest by way of China and Brooklyn, but I guess there is no persuading | |
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| | 1961/08/22 | TLS | to Merton | I think I can explain the mix-up between Hoffman's office and Marie Tadié in Paris, and perhaps | |
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| | 1961/09/05 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your good letter, and I am glad that you feel that Hoffman at least is not completely | |
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| | 1961/09/08 | TALS | to Merton | J. has sent me a little note about "The Last Words of Everybody", and I think that this is just | |
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| | 1961/09/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | Gilda Kuhlman, our Production Manager, talked to me about the scheduled NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION | |
| short time frame for the publication of <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> and the need for changes to be minimal and delivered quickly |
| | 1961/10/09 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | It pleased me so that Miller was taken by the Suzuki exchange that I wanted you to see too. | |
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| | 1961/10/09 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Miller, Henry | Just got yours of Oct. 2nd with enclosures. You speak as though I had given you <u>two</u> | |
| [from Henry Miller? (signed Henry with no last name - Miller, no first name, mentioned above) - letter dated 1961/10/08 - copied and sent to Merton] |
| | 1962/01/22 (#01) | TLS | from Desai, Jivanji | Please refer to our letter of 10th May 1961 in reply to your kind letter of April 20. | |
| [to Jivanji D. Desai, Managing Trustee of the Navajivan Trust in India - originally dated 1961/12/22 - forwarded to Merton with the following note (1962/01/22[2])] |
| | 1962/01/22 (#02) | TNS | to Merton | I think that what they want is some sort of table of contents, and then we can sign a contract | |
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| | 1962/04/03 | TALS | to Merton | We are paying royalties, and the question arose as to whether or not we should pay Curtis Brown Ltd. | |
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| | 1962/04/27 | TALS | to Merton | I held up answering your good letter of April 15th till I could meet with Tom Burns of Burns | |
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| | 1962/05/22 | TLS | to Merton | As you may have heard I have had several long telephone conversations with Mr. Muller of Harcourt | |
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| | 1962/05/24 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Merton | Jovanovich, of Harcourt, wrote to me about the situation. Clearly Farrar Straus deliberately | |
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| | 1962/05/24 (#02) | transcript | from Merton | As to the Tibetan monks [who had established a monastery in New Jersey], if you have any influence | Yes |
| [Cold War Letters #75 - photocopy from published letters - listed <i>Witness to Freedom</i> as "early June 1962" but now identified with the later part of the May 24 letter] |
| | 1962/05/29 | TAL[x] | to Merton | I am glad that everything seems to be straightening itself out for the anthology. | |
| Dalai Lama's brother [Thubten Jigme Norbu] in New York and the Buddhist monks in his care / Geshe Wangyal |
| | 1962/06/26 | TL[c] | to Editorial Sudamericana | Thank you for your June 15 letter. The contracts between you and the Abbey of Gethsemani with New | |
| [to Editorial Sudamericana S.A. in Buenos Aires, Argentina - copy to Merton] |
| | 1962/06/27 | TL[c] | to Editora y Distibuidora Hispano Americana | Thank you for your letter stating that you have heard from your colleagues Editorial Sudamericana | |
| [to Editora y Distibuidora Hispano Americana S.A. in Barcelona, Spain] |
| | 1962/06/28 | TLS | to Merton | Here is a great batch of contracts: The new basic one for New Directions for NEW SEEDS OF | |
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| | 1962/06/29 | TL[x] | to Merton | Our agent in Italy, Erich Linder, of Agence Letteraria Internazionale, writes "Garzanti (Thomas | |
| Italian rights and royalties for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| | 1962/07/03 | TLS | to Merton | Here is the proposed basic agreement for NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION. It is an exact replica | |
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| | 1962/07/09 | TAL[x] | to Merton | The enclosed letter to Linder, I guess, explains itself. I will forward the contracts when they | |
| report on Geshe Wangyal and the monks of Freewood Acres, New Jersey |
| | 1962/07/20 | TL[x] | to Merton | The enclosed explains itself. Thanks very much for getting all those contracts back to us by | |
| Foreign rights in France for most books by New Directions to be handled by Michael Hoffman - asks about Marie Tadié and if she is still handling French translations and if she is interested in a French translation of "Original Child Bomb" |
| | 1962/07/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | My letters these days seem to be filled mainly with business. Well, it is all business that must be | |
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| | 1962/07/30 | other[x] | from Merton | EMBLEMS FROM A SEASON OF FURY. Contents: Prologue (to be written) Letter to an Innocent Bystander | |
| [proposed table of contents, typed with a handwritten note, by Merton, for book that would be <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i>] |
| | 1962/08/10 | TL[x] | to Merton | I think that the enclosed carbons of letters explain a couple of the points you raise in your July | |
| rejection by Editorial Sudamericana of <i>The New Man</i> and the possibility of finding another publisher in Spain or South America / <i>Emblems of a Season of Fury</i> / Tibetan monks who are learning English - odd experiences with English instructor - suggestion that they should visit Gethsemani Abbey |
| | 1962/08/29 | TL[c] | from Merton | This will have to be briefer than I would like, as I have to get a lot out of the way this morning. | |
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| | 1962/09/05 | TAL[x] | to Merton | We are sending review copies of "Breakthrough to Peace" to all the people whose names and addresses | |
| sending <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> to Doña María Luisa Bastos at <u>SUR</u> in Buenos Aires |
| | 1962/09/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | On cleaning things up after a secretary of mine left-- we had great hopes that she was going to take | |
| Spanish publishers for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> - Editorial Sudamericana - Ernesto Cardenal and a Spanish translation of <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> / "Poetry and the Contemplative Life" - old royalties statement from Edizioni Morcelliana of Brescia |
| | 1962/09/14 | TL[x] | to Merton | How is your legal Portuguese? I could probably get a full translation of this photocopy | |
| contract for Editora Vozes Limitada in Brazil for a Portuguese language edition of Merton's <i>Selected Poems</i> / "The Tower of Babel horror enough without business babble." |
| | 1962/11/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | I seem to have flubbed, in that I failed to ask you about an offer from Raeber Verlag of Luzern | |
| <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> - publishers vying for German lanugage rights in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland - Editorial Sudamericana (Spanish rights) / Portuguese <i>Selected Poems</i> / "I hope that Tower of Babel in France over Original Child Bomb got torn down." / <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> |
| | 1962/11/19 | TAL[x] | to Merton | Thanks much for your run-down of various business details. I am writing to Dagmar Henne to proceed | |
| Spanish and German rights for <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> / publication controversy regarding "Original Child Bomb" / MacGregor asks some detailed questions about the organization of a monastery and tax status in the USA because of the Tibetan monks he is helping in New Jersey / George Zournas |
| | 1962/12/11 | TAL[x] | to Merton | I finally did get to the Brazilian contract, and realized that without a complete translation | |
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| | 1962/12/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | Do you know what these black book editions look like? Would it be something that we should pursue? | |
| negative opinion of the religious book market |
| | 1962/12/24 | TL[x] | to Merton | I guess the enclosed from Tom Burns will mean that the black book possibility for NEW SEEDS | |
| George Zournas and instruction in the English language for Tibetan Buddhists |
| | 1963/01/04 | TL[x] | to Merton | I've only just been able to read JL's letter to you of December 18th, with its wonderful description | |
| plans for new paperback / Laurence Pollinger's idea about what to include in <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> / discussing Merton with a Marionist brother |
| | 1963/01/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | I evidently overlooked asking you about Dagmar Henne's letter of January 9th, a copy of which was | |
| new offer from Raber Verlag, Lucerne, Switzerland, in regard to <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> / MacGregor reading the <i>Thomas Merton Reader</i> |
| | 1963/01/16 | TL[x] | to Merton | I would gather that JL did not have time to send you a copy of this enclosed magnificent article | |
| article on <i>Breakthrough to Peace</i> by C. Rajagopalachari in India |
| | 1963/01/17 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I was glad to get your evaluation of the Macmillan picture. Sorry to hear the lady is drinking | |
| sending poem "Hagia Sophia" to <u>Ramparts</u> magazine / reading Rachel Carson's <i>Silent Spring</i> |
| | 1963/01/23 | TAL[x] | to Merton | Thanks for your January 17th letter. We will keep our fingers crossed about the MacMillan situation | |
| sending Henry Miller a copy of "Clement of Alexandria" - already has the <i>Thomas Merton Reader</i> / "Original Child Bomb" read on WBAI FM radio and announcement in <u>Cue</u> magazine |
| | 1963/02/09 | HLS | to Merton | Here is the other Tibetan "autobiography." Khanlemp did his first and then I think young Sherpa | |
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| | 1963/02/12 | TL[x] | to Merton | I evidently overlooked asking you about Dagman Henne's letter of January 9th, a copy of which was | |
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| | 1963/06/05 | TL[x] | to Merton | As you may have gathered I have been rather burned in business affairs which needed urgent attention | |
| royalties dispute over various publishers' anthology rights in <i>A Thomas Merton Reader</i> / asking about Merton's participation for an anthology of Tibetan poetry - George Woodcock and Jackson Matthews, and Lobsang Lhalungpa |
| | 1963/07/02 | TL[x] | to Merton | J tells me that you are giving your manuscripts and papers to the University of Louisville Library | |
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| | 1963/08/28 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Re: <u>THOMAS MERTON READER</u> [-] On June 5th I seem to have sent you a long and involved | |
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| | 1963/08/28 (#02) | TL[c] | to Burns, T. F. | As you know we are publishing this Fall a new volume of poems by Thomas Merton called EMBLEMS | |
| [to Thomas F. Burns of Burns & Oats in London - copy to Merton] |
| | 1963/09/13 | TL[x] | to Merton | This seems to be my week for flooding you with carbon copies of letters. Please excuse, but I hope | |
| article about ex-monk Gerald Groves and his fourteen years at Gethsemani Abbey with Merton (published in <i>Catholic Digest</i>) / on meeting Marco Pallis - Tibetan Buddhism - mutual friend George Zournas / New Jersey monastery of Dalai Lama's brother Thubten Norbu - visit of Tibetan monks to Gethsemani |
| | 1963/10/03 | TLS | to Merton | Sorry to hear about your back. I hope it is one the mend. Last Friday I had a visit from | |
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| | 1963/11/08 | TL[x] | to Merton | Enclosed explain themselves. If this doesn't work would you allow us to have our agent in London, | |
| idea of Laurence Pollinger, agent in London, could look for a place to publish some of Merton's poems / thinks Robert Giroux should send a book published by Farrar Straus to Merton, <i>The Cold War and the Income Tax</i> by Edmund Wilson |
| | 1963/11/15 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Of course I would be very glad to have your agent in London push the poems, and get his right | |
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| | 1963/12/03 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I hope the enclosed makes sense to you as I think it will to Pollinger. For years he has toiled | |
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| | 1963/12/03 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Pollinger, Laurence | As I may have told you we have been acting informally - and I guess formally in fact - for Thomas | |
| [to Laurence Pollinger in London - copy to Merton] |
| | 1964/01/14 (#01) | TL[c] | to Pollinger, Laurence | I note that your have now received copies of EMBLEMS OF A SEASON OF FURY, THE BEHAVIOR | |
| [to Laurence Pollinger in London - copy to Merton] |
| | 1964/01/14 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Editora y Distibuidora Hispano Americana | Thank you very much for your two letters of 7th and 8th January, inquiring about EMBLEMS OF A SEASON | |
| [to Editora y Distibuidora Hispano Americana S.A. in Barcelona, Spain - copy to Merton - contains note from MacGregor to Merton: "No need to comment. These for your information"] |
| | 1964/01/15 | TL[c] | to Llausás, A. López | I have just yesterday had two letters from your colleagues at Editora y Distribuidora Hispano | |
| [to A. López Llausás of Editorial Sudamericana, S.A. - copy to Merton] |
| | 1964/01/28 | TLS[x] | from Pollinger, Laurence | I am sorry Eyre & Spottiswoode don't feel he is an author for them. Distinguished though he is | |
| [from Laurence Pollinger in London - copy to Merton with brief note to Merton] |
| | 1964/02/07 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the carbons of those letters regarding foreign rights. They came at the right time | |
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| | 1964/02/11 | TALS | to Merton | Your post card came yesterday and today your good letter. Thanks very much for "Message to Poets" | |
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| | 1964/03/30 | TLS[x] | from Llausás, A. López | I thank you for your letter dated on January 15 and I apologize for having taken so long before | |
| [to A. López Llausás of Editorial Sudamericana, S.A. in Buenos Aires, Argentina] |
| | 1964/04/15 | TAL[c] | from Merton | In a way it is good that Sudamericana is not taking Emblems. I would rather see the book done | |
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| | 1964/07/30 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | It seems a long time since I have written you, but I know that you have been keeping in closer touch | |
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| | 1964/07/30 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Internal Revenue Service | We can advise you that the proposed tax treaty between the United States and India is not in effect. | |
| [from to the United States Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service] |
| | 1964/08/03 | TAL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of July 30th. I am getting down to it immediately, because I have a chance | |
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| | 1964/08/06 | TLS | to Merton | I am rushing to catch a plane for Toronto and our semi-annual sales meeting with the salesmen of our | |
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| | 1964/08/11 | TALS[c] | from Merton | In your letter of the 6th which arrived yesterday, you mention an enclosed letter evidently | |
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| | 1964/08/12 (#01) | TL[c] | to Merton | You will remember that we have corresponded, particularly in early 1961, about the rights | |
| [to Jivanji D. Desai from the Navajivan Trust of India - copy to Merton - handwritten note to Merton (1964/08/12[2]) on the same page] |
| | 1964/08/12 (#02) | HNS | to Merton | The [indecipherable words..] last week and | |
| [handwritten note to Merton on the same page as (1964/08/12[1])] |
| | 1964/09/10 (#01) | TL[c] | to Editora y Distibuidora Hispano Americana | Thank you for your August 28th letter telling us that you feel that because 80 pages out of the 150 | |
| [to Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Barcelona, Spain - copy to Merton] |
| | 1964/09/10 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Editora y Distibuidora Hispano Americana | Por la presente nos referimos a la obra EMBLEMS OF A SEASON OF FURY de T. Merton, | |
| [dated 1964/08/28, but copied and forwarded to Merton on 1964/09/10 - from Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Barcelona, Spain] |
| | 1964/09/15 (#01) | TL[c] | to Desai, T. M. | Thank you for your August 25th letter enclosing a "Letter of Authority" permitting us to publish | |
| [to T. M. Desai, Managing Trustee of the Navajivan Trust in India - copy to Merton] |
| | 1964/09/15 (#02) | other[x] | from Desai, T. M. | <u>LETTER OF AUTHORITY</u> [-] The Navajivan Trust hereby authorizes the New Directions, | |
| [originally dated 1964/08/25 - copied and forwarded to Merton - from T. M. Desai, Managing Trustee of the Navajivan Trust in India] |
| | 1964/09/16 | HNS | to Merton | I'm off to Scotland for 3 weeks and | |
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| | 1964/10/01 | HPCS | to Merton | Thought you'd enjoy this figure as much as we did. Perhaps you know him - as you know, Melrose | |
| [verso: black and white photograph from Melrose Abbey in Scotland - "Pig with bagpipes on south wall of nave."] |
| | 1964/10/16 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I have continually had problems with foreign rights, especially since I have not had a proper New | |
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| | 1964/10/16 (#02) | TL[c] | to Sanmiguel, Miguel | Thomas Merton has told me of his communications with you particularly about an anthology | |
| [to Miguel Sanmiguel, Director General of Editorial Guadarrama in Madrid, Spain] |
| | 1964/10/19 (#01) | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | Thomas Merton has written me that you have had some negotiations with Garzanti in Italy | |
| [to Marie Tadié in Paris France - copy to Merton] |
| | 1964/10/19 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks for your October 16th letter which has just come, and I hasten to answer it. | |
| problems with French translator Marie Tadié - <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> |
| | 1964/10/29 | TALS | from Tadié, Marie | I have been Father Louis' Agent in France for seven Years, and have obtained, for him, conditions | |
| [copy of letter sent to MacGregor, but original signature and annotations] |
| | 1964/11/03 | TL[c] | from Merton | Marie Tadie has sent us here a copy of her recent letter to you, stating that she remains my agent | |
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| | 1964/11/05 (#01) | TANS | to Merton | On election day when Iwas [sic] here alone, an Argentine poet name Alberto Girri turned up here | |
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| | 1964/11/05 (#02) | TALS | to Merton | I had dictated a letter to Marie Tadié, which I had hoped would mollify her and to save you getting | |
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| | 1964/11/05 (#03) | TAL[c] | to Raine, R. | Thank you for your 5th October letter which came while I was on holiday in Scotland. | |
| [to R. Raine of Editions de l'Epi in Paris, France - copy to Merton] |
| | 1964/11/18 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks much for your note and the copy of your letter to Marie Tadié. How tiresome this is for you, | |
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| | 1964/11/18 (#02) | other[x] | to Merton | Report from Laurence Pollinger, Agent, London 2nd November, 1964. [-] <u>REPORT ON NEW</u> | |
| ["Report on New Directions' Books on Offer" (page 1 of 3 only) with 3 titles by Merton - dated 1964/11/02 and copy forwarded to Merton on 1964/11/18] |
| | 1965/01/15 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I think there is no harm at all in getting started on a possible Italian edition of Gandhi. | |
| possible paperback with "Behavior of Titans", "Atlas Watches Every Evening", "Early Legend", "A Devout Meditation on Adolph Eichmann", "Notes on Art and Freedom", and "Message to Poets" / music of Marco Pallis - "Consort of Viols" |
| | 1965/01/18 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | Your letter of last Friday catapulted me to the enclosed. J. will be back here at the end of this | |
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| | 1965/01/18 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Linder, Erich | I have just had a note from Thomas Merton about the possibilities of an Italian edition | |
| [to Erich Linder in Milan, Italy - copy to Merton] |
| | 1965/02/12 | HLS | to Merton | These proofs make a particularly merry - and right - Lincoln's Birthday. I'm sure you had faith, | |
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| | 1965/03/15 | TALS | to Merton | I take delight in assisting in any way I can with the work on Schema 13. I hope your book does have | |
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| | 1965/03/22 (#02) | TLS | to Merton | We have gotten to the point in our planning of your book, GANDHI ON NON-VIOLENCE where we want | |
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| | 1965/03/22? (#01) | HLS | to Merton | This is late Friday and the exhausting hebdomadaire is closing in. (One can keep going at the old | |
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| | 1965/03/26 (#01) | TL[c] | to Leduc, Louis-B. | I think that Thomas Merton had told us something about the plans for the translation by Mr. Kigama | |
| [to Fr. Louis-B. Leduc, O.P. of Veritas-Shoin in Kyoto, Japan] |
| | 1965/03/26 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | I think the index for the Gandhi book is an excellent idea, and I do not want to get involved | |
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| | 1965/03/29 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Your March 26th letter is in just as I was about to dictate to Martin Luther King's secretary, | |
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| | 1965/03/29 (#02) | TL[c] | to MacDonald, Dora | Hermine Popper, who is an old friend of mine, thought it was all right for me to send you this set | |
| [to Dora MacDonald of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta, Georgia, regarding sending the proofs of <i>Gandhi on Non-Violence</i> with an introduction by Merton to Martin Luther King, Jr.] |
| | 1965/04/09 | TAL[x] | to Merton | I trust that the enclosed letter to Michael Hoffman reflects our understanding about the situation | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. and feedback to what MacGregor had sent on behalf of Merton - hoping for statement from King / Denise Levertov and Vietnam protest |
| | 1965/05/01 (#01) | TALS[x] | from McKinney, John F. | The Catholic Poetry Society of America, publishers of Spirit and producers of Spirit Records, | |
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| | 1965/05/01 (#02) | other[x] | to Merton | Poems of Thomas Merton [-] from <u>Selected Poems of Thomas Merton</u>, New Directions. | |
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| | 1965/05/28 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I thought best to put this question up to you, although I could suggest certain essays from BEHAVIOR | |
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| | 1965/05/28 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale | Garzanti are now prepared to purchase THE WISDOM OF THE DESERT by Father Merton, | |
| [to Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale in Milan, Italy - copy to Merton] |
| | 1965/06/01 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for the letter about Garzanti and <u>Wisdom of the Desert</u>. Frankly I don't see putting | |
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| | 1965/06/01 (#02) | TAL | from RR | Attached is copy of letter from Catholic Poetry Society of America re their project of recording | |
| [initials "RR" only, no name] |
| | 1965/06/02 | HNS | to Merton | Is this ok? Our contract for <u>Emblems</u> gives us authority to make agreement but not on | |
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| | 1965/10/02 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Yesterday I received a letter, in fact two letters, from Marie Tadié who has had offers for Chuang | |
| New Directions and the handling of foreign rights including <i>The Way of Chuang Tzu</i> |
| | 1965/10/20 (#01) | HPCS | to Merton | The farm looked pretty much like this - taken some years ago for a family Christmas card - | |
| [verso: color photograph of a landscape of a farm] |
| | 1965/10/20 (#02) | HLS | to Merton | Thought you might like to see this clipping, about happenings in this part of the world. | |
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| | 1965/11/20 | TL[c] | from Merton | An absurd complication has arisen with regard to the Japanese translation of <u>Seeds of</u> | |
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| | 1965/11/24 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Immediately on receiving your November 20th letter about the two publishers in Japan and | |
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| | 1965/11/24 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you for your letter. If I deem so important to remain Father Louis' agent, whatever his | |
| [dated 1965/10/14 - to Marie Tadié, Merton's translator and foreign agent in Paris] |
| | 1965/11/24 (#03) | TALS[x] | from Pollinger, Laurence | Thank you for your letter of November 11th. It is my suggestion that I start afresh to market | |
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| | 1966/01/27 (#01) | HLS | to Merton | These were meant to go to you long ago - before the various city madnesses (Christmas, | |
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| | 1966/01/27 (#02) | TL[c] | to Redefer, Frederick L. | I am most impressed to see that the copy of THE WAY OF CHUANG TZU by Thomas Merton which I sent | |
| [originally dated 1965/12/02 - copy sent to Merton - to Prof. Frederick L. Redefer of the School of Education at New York University] |
| | 1966/01/27 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Chu, Yu-kuang | Thank you for sending me a copy of THOMAS MERTON: THE WAY OF CHUANG TZU. It is a delightful | |
| [originally dated 1965/12/22 - copy forwarded to Merton - from Yu-kuang Chu, a professor in the Program of Asian Studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York] |
| | 1966/02/09 | TALS | to Merton | Following on J.'s letter to you of January 26, I now have prices from a remainder house for the two | |
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| | 1966/02/21 | TL[c] | from Tadié, Marie | Would you kindly note, to avoid any misunderstanding, that when I was acting as sole agent for | |
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| | 1966/03/31 | TLS[x] | from Pollinger, Laurence | Ian Parsons and his colleagues at Chatto have now read and discussed the two volumes of Merton's | |
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| | 1966/04/06 | TAL[c] | to Merton | J. has told me that you have gone to the hospital for a spinal lumbar operation, and I hope that you | |
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| | 1966/04/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | J. has told me that you have gone to the hospital for a spinal lumbar operation, and I hope that you | |
| difficulties with Marie Tadié and French rights agreements - <i>Gandhi and Non-Violence</i> |
| | 1966/04/20 | TLS | to Merton | I've checked around the office and do not believe that anyone here at least has sent you a copy | |
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| | 1966/04/21 | TL[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter of April 6th. I am glad it was a bit delayed though by the <u>6</u> | |
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| | 1966/04/26 | TL[x] | to Merton | Thanks much for your April 21st letter, and we are delighted here with the news that you are coming | |
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| | 1966/04/26 | TAL[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Without involving Michael Hoffman, writing to him or asking his side of the story, I have now I | |
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| | 1966/05/06 | TL[x] | to Merton | In answering Marie Tadié, as enclosed, and I am also enclosing a photocopy of her letter to me | |
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| | 1966/08/30 | TALS | to Merton | Your note came this morning, and we have ordered the copies of RAIDS and CHUANG TZU to be sent | |
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| | 1966/10/31 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | After a summer of a substitute secretary, I was without any secretary for a couple of weeks, | |
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| | 1966/10/31 (#02) | HLS[x] | from Tadié, Marie | Thank you for the two copies of Raids on the Unspeakable which arrived safely. However, I want you | |
| [originally dated 1966/09/30 - from Marie Tadié in Paris - copy forwarded to Merton] |
| | 1966/10/31 (#03) | telegram[x] | from Tadié, Marie | MY LETTER UNANSWERED HAVING SOLD BEHAVIOR IN 1961 CONFIRM AGREEMENT MY SELLING | |
| [originally dated 1966/10/28 - from Marie Tadié in Paris - copy forwarded to Merton] |
| | 1966/10/31 (#04) | TANS | from Br. Simeon to Merton | For your information Rev. Father sent a letter to Marie Tadie on or about Oct 26 in which he canned | |
| [from Br. Simeon of Gethsemani Abbey to Merton regarding Marie Tadié] |
| | 1966/11/03 | TALS | to Merton | Our Copyright Department requires information about the original magazine publication of the essays | |
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| | 1966/11/04 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter and the enclosures about Marie Tadie. It comes at an opportune time. | |
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| | 1966/11/07 | TLS | to Merton | I got your long, good letter of November 4th, concerned with Marie Tadie today, and although I have | |
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| | 1966/11/08 (#01) | TL[c] | from Merton | I am returning the list of essays with more or less usable information about where those essays | |
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| | 1966/11/08 (#02) | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | Please excuse our silence. We are waiting to hear from the Father Abbot James Fox who had not | |
| [to Marie Tadié, Merton's translator and former agent in France - copy to Merton] |
| | 1966/12/23 | TALS[x] | from Mattesini, Francesco | Vi saremo molto grati se vorrete farci pervenire a titolo di recensione per la nostra rivista "Vita | |
| [originally dated 1966/11/17 from Francesco Mattesini, editor of an Italian cultural journal in Milan, <u>Vita e Pensiero</u> - copy forwarded to Merton with the handwritten note from MacGregor, "What think thee? In haste but with wishes for peace on earth for more than Christmas."] |
| | 1967/01/11 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I am delighted finally to be able to enclose four copies of a proposed contract between the Abbey | |
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| | 1967/01/11 (#02) | TL[c] | to Mattesini, Francesco | Thank you for your recent letter inquiring about the possibility of a reprinting in your magazine | |
| [originally dated 1967/01/03 to Francesco Mattesini, editor of an Italian cultural journal in Milan, <u>Vita e Pensiero</u> - copy to Merton] |
| | 1967/02/01 | other | to Merton | PUBLISHER BUYS BRITISH CONCERN [-] Two Major Catholic Presses Are Involved in Sale | |
| [newspaper clipping regarding the purchase of Burns & Oates by Herder and Herder] |
| | 1967/02/03 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | The enclosed explains itself I hope. Perhaps you know if anything went wrong with the project | |
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| | 1967/02/03 (#02) | TAL[c] | to Ludovico, Fr., O.F.M. | I am delighted to enclose four copies of the proposed contract for your publication of "The Way | |
| [to Fr. Ludovico, a Franciscan priest of Editora Vozes Limitada in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - copy to Merton] |
| | 1967/02/20 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Mattesini, Francesco | We are in receipt of your letter dated February 14th inst. and we thank you. We assure you that we | |
| [see "Mattesini, Francesco" file for copy of letter] |
| | 1967/02/20 (#02) | TNS | from MacGregor, Robert / to Merton | Please be sure to let us see (borrow so's [sic ] we can copy for our files) when it comes. | |
| [see "Mattesini, Francesco" file for copy of letter - note on same page as other letter of the same date] |
| | 1967/03/20 (#01) | TALS[x] | to Fox, James | Thank you very much for your letter, and as you see, I am writing to Marie Tadié along the lines you | |
| [original letter in Sub-Section C.7 in a file labelled "French Rights"] |
| | 1967/03/20 (#02) | TL[x] | to Tadié, Marie | I have now heard from the Fr. Abbot of the Abbey of Gethsemane in regard to your proposal that since | |
| [original letter in Sub-Section C.7 in a file labelled "French Rights"] |
| | 1967/04/01 | HLS[x] | to Tadié, Marie | Before I got your letter of March 20, 1967, Dom James Fox had signed an agreement with <u>Les</u> | |
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| | 1967/04/11 (#01) | TLS | to Fox, James | I am enclosing the letter I received from Marie Tadié and my reply. It is good for us to have | |
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| | 1967/04/11 (#02) | TL[c] | to Tadié, Marie | Thank you very much for your April 1 letter enclosing a copy of the contract for "Behavior of Titans | |
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| | 1967/06/16 | TALS | to Merton | We've had a card from a James McMurray who lives near our offices at 94 Charles Street asking | |
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| | 1967/06/19 | TL[c] | from Merton | Yes, Jim McMurray is a former novice of ours. I knew him very well of course, and he spent four | |
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| | 1967/07/10 | HPCS | to Merton | It takes 2 hours, though snow and swollen streams to get in here, but it's an ideal place to recover | |
| [verso: color photograph of Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp at Yosemite National Park in California] |
| | 1967/07/13 | TL[c] | to Brilliant, Alan | Your letter addressed to Mr. Jerome Fried which arrived yesterday morning (July 12) was almost sent | |
| [to Alan Brilliant of Unicorn Press in Santa Barbara, California - copy to Merton] |
| | 1967/07/14 | TLS | to Merton | I trust you approve the enclosed to the group in Santa Barbara. I understand that Unicorn Press | |
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| | 1967/07/17 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter of the 14 re Unicorn Press. I hope it is quite clear that they are not doing | |
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| | 1967/07/19 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | The enclosed is just in from our friends in Santa Barbara, and I thought also you might like to see | |
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| | 1967/07/19 (#02) | TALS[x] | from Brilliant, Alan | Thank you indeed for the permission of slides from Merton's ORIGINAL CHILD BOMB. They shall | |
| [from Alan Brilliant of Unicorn Press in Santa Barbara, California] |
| | 1967/07/21 | TLS | to Merton | J Laughlin saw my PS to you of July 19, after it had gone off. He asked if the poems | |
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| | 1967/09/26 | TL[c] | from Merton | Your note of the 24th reached me only this morning, and I have only just had a chance to answer, | |
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| | 1967/11/22 | TALS | to Merton | I trust you approve of the enclosed "rider" to the agreement with Garzanti in Italy to permit them | |
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| | 1967/11/29 | TL[c] | to Livraria Morais Editora | Your November 13th letter to the Reverend Father Thomas Merton about the possible publication of his | |
| [to Livraria Morais Editora in Lisbon, Portugal - copy to Merton] |
| | 1967/12/01 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | Thanks much for your card, and as you see, I am writing the Portuguese publisher as enclosed. | |
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| | 1967/12/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Merton | Evidently we had not previously completed a contract for "Cables to the Ace." | |
| [see Sub-Section C.6, Contracts, for the original in Series 23, "Cables to the Ace"] |
| | 1968/03/22 | TLS | to Merton | I am enclosing a photocopy of a note we have just received from Edizioni Morcelliana at Brescia | |
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| | 1968/03/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have no objection to Morcelliana looking at <u>Cables</u> but I think that this book is really | |
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| | 1968/04/19 | TL[x] | to Merton | As you'll see from the enclosed carbon to Erich Linder I wrote him the day I received your March | |
| difficulties with Marie Tadié / responding to Merton's request for advice about difficulties with Robert Williams, the vocalist performing Merton's "Freedom Songs" including some of the racial issues involved |
| | 1968/06/18 (#01) | TLS | to Merton | I seem not to have had an answer from you approving the Garzanti offer for an Italian edition | |
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| | 1968/06/18 (#02) | TLS[x] | from Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale | very many thanks for your letter of the 29th March on Thomas Merton and CABLES TO THE ACE. | |
| [originally dated 1968/04/27 - from Agenzia Letteraria Internazionale in Milan, Italy - copy forwarded to Merton] |
| | 1968/06/18 (#03) | TLS[x] | from Armstrong, Bonnie / to Burns & Oates | We have in hand your recent royalty statement (No. B 3208) for "New Seeds of Contemplation" | |
| [from Bonnie Armstrong, Foreign Rights Manager for New Directions (with a short note by MacGregor) to Burns & Oates publishers in London, England] |
| | 1968/06/20 | TALS | to Desai, T. M. | Please excuse my not having answered earlier your letter about further royalties due you on a book | |
| [to T. M. Desai of the Navajivan Trust in India - copy to Merton] |
| | 1968/07/03 | TL[x] | to Merton | Your June 22nd letter came while I was in Kansas City for a week, but as you will see enclosed | |
| <i>New Seeds of Contemplation</i> / contract difficulties with Curtis-Brown and new parent company / attempt at making a paperback of <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> / thoughts on Kansas City, Missouri - ugliness of downtown, attempt at beautification with fountains - very good museum of Chinese art |
| | 1968/08/27 | TL[x] | from Armstrong, Bonnie / to Merton | Mr. Laughlin asked that I call the American Express here (Credit Card Department) regarding | |
| [Bonnie Armstrong was assistant to Robert MacGregor] delays in getting Merton's American Express credit card |
| | 1968/09/20 | TL[x] | to Salinas, Jaime | It is good to hear from you even in the form of a form inquiry about rights. And I am delighted | |
| [letter addressed to "Jaine Salinas" of Alianza Editorial in Madrid, but it is most certainly Jaime Salinas - from "Merton Subject Files" in the New Directions Publishing files at Harvard] |
| | 1972/10/10 | TLS | to Center from MacGregor, Robert | Please excuse my delay in answering your letter of August 7 requesting that I contribute my letters | |
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