MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Spaeth, Eloise, circa 1902-1998
Click here to exit print-formated view.
Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1960-1962
Volume: 25 item(s); 40 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Eloise Spaeth helped review Merton's manuscript for a proposed book entitled, Art and Worship. She advised against his publishing of the book, advice which Merton followed. Merton continued his own art, which entered a new phase of maturity during the rest of the 1960's.
Biography
Eloise Spaeth was a patroness of the arts from New York. She was major force in convincing the Smithsonian Institution to open its Archives of American Art and was a promoter of Guild Hall in East Hampton. (Source: "SPAETH, ELOISE O'MARA". New York Times [online]. 6 Sep. 1998. Accessed 22 May 2006. Bellarmine University Library. ‹http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E1DC133CF935A3575AC0A96E958260›.)
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Related Information and Links
Other Finding Aids
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1960/07/18 (#01) | TLS[x] | from Merton | Bob Giroux has been promising me for a very long time that you would help me to fill in the gaps | |
| [second page is a drawing by Merton] |
| | 1960/07/18 (#02) | TL[c] | from Merton | Bob Giroux has been promising me for a very long time that you would help me to fill in the gaps | |
| |
| | 1960/10/25 | TL[x] | from Wright, John J. | These thoughtful reflections of Father Thomas Merton and the exquisite reproductions which accompany | |
| [John J. Wright was the Bishop of Pittsburgh at the time and writes in praise of <i>Art and Worship</i>] |
| | 1960/11/07 | TL[x] | from Merton | Many thanks for your kind letter and for the photographs. I am especially taken with some of them-- | |
| |
| | 1960/11/11 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I enclose a copy of Bishop Wright's Prefatory Note to ART AND WORSHIP. I've sent him the copy | |
| |
| | 1960/11/23 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your books has arrived and I am not just being polite when I say I am delighted to have it. | |
| |
| | 1961/05/09 | TALS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter and for the catalogue of the Tate exhibit. I found the layout | |
| |
| | 1961/06/19 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Your spring must have been pretty hectic and I think mine was no less so, though I admit I am not | |
| |
| | 1961/07/25 | TLS[x] | from Merton | Thanks for your good letter of a while back. I agree with you that we have to keep going | |
| |
| | 1961/12/01 (#01) | TALS | to Merton | I should hang a mea culpa sign around my neck, fast on bread and water and stand in the corner | |
| |
| | 1961/12/01 (#02) | TLS[x] | to Merton | I should hang a mea culpa sign around my neck, fast on bread and water and stand in the corner | |
| |
| | 1962/01/21 | TAL[c] | to Merton | Have just turned off The Catholic Hour "Fire Watch". It is a beautiful and moving piece of work | |
| |
| | undated/08/21 (#01) | TL[x] | to Longley, Fr. | You may well wonder why I have the temerity to burden you with my problems but I was told by Mr. | |
| |
| | undated/08/21 (#02) | TL[x] | to Fallani, Giovanni | My husband and I were most impressed with the beautiful brochure explaining your activities which | |
| [to Msgr. Giovanni Fallani, Director, Pontifical Institute of Christian Art, Piazza della Cancelleria in Rome, Italy] |
| | undated/10/13 | TAL[x] | to Fraretti, Costantino | I am sorry to be so late in sending you the money for the four photos that you said you would have | |
| [Fr. Costantino Fraretti (sp?) from Rome, Italy] |
| | undated/no/no | other[x] | | | |
| [3 barely legible notes copied onto one page with names and addresses] |
| | undated/no/no | other[x] | to Merton | #1 Page 3 [-] The term ikon should be used as a noun. To substitute it for image is un-necessarily | |
| |
| | undated/no/no | other[x] | to Merton | <u>Notes</u> [-] In his <u>first</u> sentence of the book Merton cited examples as he went along - | |
| [handwritten notes by Spaeth on Merton's manuscript on <i>Art and Worship</i>] |
| | undated/no/no | other[c] | to Merton | A few comments on Art and Worship by Eloise Spaeth. I like the fact that the difference | |
| [typed and annotated notes by Spaeth on Merton's manuscript for <i>Art and Worship</i>] |
| | undated/no/no | TL[c] | from Getlein, Frank | I have read Merton's manuscript three times now and it is my best advice that you have nothing to do | |
| [this copy not signed (see next record) - likely art critic Frank Getlein] |
| | undated/no/no | TLS[x] | from Getlein, Frank | I have read Merton's manuscript three times now and it is my best advice that you have nothing to do | |
| [signed "Frank" - likely art critic Frank Getlein] |
| | undated/no/no | TLS | to Merton | Nice to have the old school remember one isn't it? Congratulations. I think that it is time we got | |
| |
| | undated/no/no | other[x] | to Merton | Notes on Merton Material. [-] Bad Merton: no vitality, even the usual stunning phraseology | |
| |
| | undated/no/no | HLS[x] | from Merton | One way in which we might save some time tomorrow would be to have some kind of breakfast | |
| |
| | undated/no/no | HN[x] | | Robert Giroux of Farrar Straus & Giroux asked me to colaborate [sic] on a book with the trappist | |
| [note by Spaeth on being asked to collaborate on <i>Art and Worship</i> with Merton and the outcome] |
| | | | | | | | |
|