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Rhoda Rissin was Assistant to James Laughlin, head of New Directions publishers from Norfolk, Connecticut.
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See also the "Skillen, Edward Simeon" file.
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This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1960/10/03 |
TL[x] to Merton |
With reference to your two poems, "A Practical Program for Monks" and "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" |
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asking if two poems, both previously published in "Pax" number 7, need approval by Catholic censors
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1961/06/29 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your note of the 27th, and the proof of "A Song for Nobody," which I have dispatched |
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1961/12/06 |
TLS to Merton |
J. Laughlin has passed to me your letter about magazine placements of your poems. I have sent |
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1961/12/13 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I am glad to be able to report that the "Saturday Review" has accepted for publication your poem |
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1961/12/13 (#02) |
TLS from Skillin, Edward S. / to Merton |
We are happy to accept for publication "The Moslems' Angel of Death" and to send along herewith |
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[from Edward S. Skillin of The Commonweal in New York City, sent 1961/12/12 to James Laughlin to forward to Merton]
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1962/01/22 |
TL[x] to Merton |
The enclosed copy of letter from Gerard Piel at "Scientific American" about his article did not |
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1963/02/26 |
TL[c] from Merton |
In the front matter of EMBLEMS we ought to mention the following. Poems in this book have appeared |
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1965/01/22 |
TLS[x] from Duke, Vernon |
Your letter of January 13 received. I'm very glad to learn that you decided to le me use |
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[forwarded to Merton - from Vernon Duke of Pacific Palisades, California, to Rhoda Rissin]
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1965/01/26 |
TALS to Merton |
Thank you for your letter of January 22nd, with the interesting details of Miss Beecher-Malukov's |
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