Merton's Correspondence with:

Joseph E. Cunneen; Joseph Cunneen; Joe Cunneen; Cunneen, Joe

Cunneen, Joseph E., 1923-2012

Descriptive Summary

Record Group:	Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials:	1964-1967
Volume:	15 item(s); 19 pg(s)

Joseph E. Cunneen was Director of the Religious Department of Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishers at the time of correspondence with Merton. He and his wife, Sally Cunneen, were the founding editors of the quarterly review, Cross Currents, which published a number of Merton's essays. He writes from New York.

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#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
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1.	1964/04/01	TLS to Merton	This is a long overdue letter and, as you might expect, written in terms of an immediate small favor		asks for review of Fr. Henri Perrin's Priest and Worker / plans to publish Gordon Zahn's book on Franz Jägerstätter «detailed view»
2.	1964/04/27	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for sending me the story of Fr Perrin. I had not read it in French and was glad of a chance		Merton's review of English version of Priest and Worker / Archbishop Roberts and the peace movement among Catholics / Gordon Zahn's book on Franz Jägerstätter «detailed view»
3.	1964/07/08	TL[c] from Merton	Some time ago as you remember I had to tell the Commonweal that I did not think I could let them		Merton's piece on Fr. Perrin and questions about publishing it in Cross Currents «detailed view»
4.	1964/07/17	telegram to Merton	Could you please give name and address of edition of Schweitzer Festschrift to which you		«detailed view»
5.	1964/08/10	TAL[c] from Merton	This is to thank you for the four books, and especially the Stringfellow volume MY PEOPLE IS		praise for William Stringfellow's My People Is the Enemy - shares criticism of Jules Isaac's The Teaching of Contempt / Merton's ideas for an article for Cross Currents on some monastic values he sees in Bonhoeffer's prison letters - contrast to Bishop Robins view that he was anti-monastic «detailed view»
6.	1964/08/no?	TALS to Merton	Thanks very much for your note of July 8; I also probably never thanked you properly for the Perrin		sending books by William Stringfellow and Jules Isaac - thinks Isaac book was unduly criticized by Msgr. Oesterrricher «detailed view»
7.	1964/11/28	TL[c] from Merton	Finally I am getting around to sending you some sort of reaction to the books. First of all here		review for Gordon Zahn's book for Peace News / preparing review of Martin Marty's new book / Bonhoeffer article for next year «detailed view»
8.	1965/09/15	TLS to Merton	Thanks for your good note, and for the Schmemann review--which I gather is for someone else,		asking for review of book From the Housetops «detailed view»
9.	1965/09/30	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter of the 15th. First, about the Schmemann review, I wrote it for Monastic		Bonhoeffer's Ethics / comments on From the Housetops / rumors about Merton not being at Gethsemani - reaffirms that he is at the Abbey, but that he is living as a hermit «detailed view»
10.	1966/08/22	TANS from Merton	Some weeks ago I sent you a piece on Buddhism in the Modern World. I hope you got it all right.		[includes a handwritten return note from Cunneen] «detailed view»
11.	1966/11/16	TLS to Merton	The issue with your review-article on Buddhism Today will be out tomorrow, and should be		asking if Merton knows about the publication of Raissa Maritain's journal in English «detailed view»
12.	1966/11/21	TL[c] from Merton	No, I am really not in a position to discuss books with publishers other than Doubleday and Farrar		Raissa Maritain's journal - turned down by large publishers but may come out in paperback - may not sell quickly because it is not of "the liturgy-ecumenism - line" and "is so unobtrusive and so obviously not LSD 'spirituality'" «detailed view»
13.	1967/04/14	TLS to Merton	Enclosed find the translation of the first chapters of Maritain's THE PEASANT OF THE GARONNE		John Howard Griffin's plans to look at translation of The Peasant of the Garonne «detailed view»
14.	1967/04/24	TAL[c] from Merton	I have the chapters of Maritain you sent, but have not been able to get down to them as I have been		agreed to look over manuscript for Maritain's The Peasant of the Garonne - finds it, in general, "satisfactory" as to correction, but that it still might not come across well to the American public - translation should work at toning down the aggressiveness «detailed view»
15.	1967/06/21	TAL[c] from Merton	Sorry I have not been able to get down to all those xeroxes of Le Pavsan until just recently.		admits more misgivings about the English version of Maritain's book - makes a few suggestions to improve translations - does not have the time to go into it further and it needs the work of an "articulate Thomist" for "the technical side of Jacques' thought" «detailed view»

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