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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Muller, Julian P.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962-1967

Volume: 33 item(s); 44 pg(s)

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See also the "Wolff, Helen" file.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/04/14 TLS[x]from McDonnell, Thomas P.In looking over the New Directions material, my present thinking is this: the prose pieces appear  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1962/07/08 TLS[x]from MertonI want to thank you for your kindness in sending me the new book of Milovan Djilas. I had heard  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1962/07/17 TL[x]to MertonThis letter, which should be mercifully brief and concerned solely with a few items about the READER  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1962/07/19 TLS[x]from MertonThanks for the fine letter. I am happy to know who you are, and in general very pleased that the dim  [part of Samway's copy of the letter are cut off - from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1962/07/31 TALS[x]from MertonDon't worry about timing on the proofs. I will read what I can and get any changes to you in time,   
 1962/08/29 HLS[x]from MertonThis, from the Times Literary Supplement, might provide a few useful quotes for the packet  [one page letter and one page selection from <i>The New Man</i> under the title "Release from Despair" - from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1962/10/08 TLS[x]from MertonThe READER surprised me four days ago. I had no idea it would come that fast. Thank you for sending  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/01/11 TLS[x]from MertonThanks for your good letter of December 28th. Yes, it would certainly have been very encouraging  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/02/05 TLS[x]from MertonI thought you would be interested in these two cards from Henry Miller. Please return them when you  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/02/26 TAL[x]to MertonMany thanks for the two cards from Henry Miller, which I am returning herewith; I've made   
 1963/04/19 TL[c]from MertonI am horrified to see that your last letter, which I have been thinking about all along, is dated   
 1963/04/22 TL[x] from Larkin, Rose Ann / to MertonIn Mr. Muller's absence from the office on a business trip I am acknowledging your letter of April  [from Rose Ann Larkin, secretary to Julian P. Muller - from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/05/13 TAL[x]to MertonHere is the preface, but this is not the best copy. It is only sketchily proofread and in the copy   
 1963/06/27 TL[x]to MertonAs you know, Helen and Kurt Wolff were with us for a month, and I made the very most of their  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/08/01 TLS[x]from MertonI have been meaning to thank you for your kindness in sending the generous check for the preface  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/08/08 TL[x]to MertonIt was very good to get your letter and to know that you are well. I, of course, hope very much that  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/09/13 TL[x]to MertonAs you may or may not have noted, I have never sent you a book with the intention, expressed or  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/10/29 (#01)TAL[c]from MertonThanks so much for the admirable Thorwald book which has just arrived. I have looked through it,   
 1963/10/29 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonThanks so much for the admirable Thorwald book which has just arrived. I have looked through it,  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1963/11/05 TL[x] from Larkin, Rose Ann / to MertonIn Mr. Muller's absence from the office on a business trip to London, I am acknowledging your letter  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1964/02/05 TL[x]to MertonSo long since I've written and now hardly time for more than a note. But not another day shall pass  [from Rose Ann Larkin, secretary to Julian P. Muller - from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1964/02/07? (#01)TL[x]to MertonSo long since I've written and now hardly time for more than a note. But not another day shall pass  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1964/02/07? (#02)other[x]by MertonMESSAGE TO POETS [-] Brothers, I speak to you from a distance as one who should be there.  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1964/06/27 TAL[c]from MertonThis is about the splendid book of James W. Silver, MISSISSIPPI THE CLOSED SOCIETY.   
 1964/08/07 TL[x]to MertonI just thought I'd drop you a note to let you know that we have signed a renewal agreement with Dell  [from donation of material by Patrick Samway regarding the Robert Giroux correspondence - see also Samway papers]
 1967/03/20 TLSto MertonIt is some time since I have written to you and I am a trifle embarrassed that this occasion is one   
 1967/03/23 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your letter of the 20th. I have the ms of SHADOW OF GOD here and at least I will   
 1967/03/30 TLS[x]from MertonThank you for sending me copy of Frank Rooney's manuscript, SHADOW OF GOD, which gave me one   
 1967/05/26 TL[c]from MertonI have finally managed to get around to the ms of <u>Shadow of God</u>. Not having read it in its   
 1967/06/09 TLSto MertonI was out of town when your letter of May 26th arrived, but I hasten to acknowledge it now.   
 1967/06/16 TAL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your good letter. I am sorry, really, that my judgment of Frank Rooney's book was   
 1967/07/07 TLSto MertonI have just returned from a business trip to the West Coast and so can only now write to you.   
 1967/08/11 TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your letter of July 10. The Byzantium book came in the other day and reminded me   
        

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