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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Meyer, Catharine

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1965-1967

Volume: 21 item(s); 21 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Catherine Meyer was an editor for Harper's Magazine and writes from New York.

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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
 1965/06/11 TLSto MertonWhen I asked Lila Karpf at Farrar, Straus whether there might be any part of your new book,   
 1965/06/14 TL[c]from MertonFrankly, I don't think that there is much point in my trying to adapt anything from SEASONS   
 1965/07/06 TLSto MertonIt was good of you to send Harper's the review of Nishida Kitaro. We read it with interest --   
 1965/07/08 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter, and for the ms of the review of Nishida. If later I should turn out   
 1965/08/18 TLSto MertonWe have gone ahead and made some selections from your Journal manuscript of things that appeal   
 1965/09/08 TALSto MertonNaomi Burton thinks the title and subtitle are fine. We may work the piece into the November issue;   
 1965/09/25 TL[c]from MertonOne small point about "Few Questions..." For some time the entry about Alan Ginsburg has been   
 1965/09/28 TLSto MertonI caught the correction for Allen Ginsberg on the page proof in the nick of time. So don't worry.   
 1966/03/18 TL[c]from MertonI don't see Harper's regularly but I ran across a copy recently and noticed that you were running   
 1966/04/13 TLSto MertonIt was a good surprise to find your "Apologies to an Unbeliever" in the mail, and I have read   
 1966/04/27 TL[c]from MertonHere is the "Apologies" piece. I completely rewrote it, but it did not yet turn out to be much   
 1966/05/06 TLSto MertonI am happy to say that we are delighted with your revised manuscript, "Apologies to an Unbeliever."   
 1966/07/08 TLSto MertonI am very sorry to be returning "Day of a Stranger," which I liked very much indeed, as did other   
 1966/10/07 TALSto MertonThis is to tell you that your article did not get into the Easy Chair for November. Something else   
 1966/10/14 TL[c]from MertonThanks for yourdizzying [sic] letter of the 7th, at which I still reel: with joy and amusement   
 1966/10/25 TLSto MertonI enjoyed your letter very much, and am glad you mentioned that "Day of a Stranger" will find   
 1966/11/11 TLSto MertonI am very sorry that I must say no on your fine piece, "Love and Need"--possibly because it is just   
 1967/09/29 TLSto MertonI have just seen the summer issue of Hudson Review and enjoyed "Day of a Stranger" again.   
 1967/11/18 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your note back in September. Yes, I have been worried about Sy: two of our College   
 1967/11/28 TLSto MertonI saw your drawings, was somewhat baffled though not entirely, and was interested in how much   
 1967/12/04 TLSto MertonThis story of the Yucatan war was all news to me, and I share your feeling that it is worth telling   
        

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