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Fox, James, Dom, O.C.S.O., 1896-1987


Series 8, Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Marie Tadié: (see "Tadié, Marie" file for all physical holdings).


Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1948-1969
Volume: 949 item(s); 1432 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Herein is a large collection of letters spanning most of Merton's time at Gethsemani. Letters between Fox and Merton concern Merton's vocation to the monastery, his constant desires for greater solitude, thoughts about leaving Gethsemani and joining the

Biography

Dom James Fox came to Gethsemani in 1927. He was serving as guestmaster when Merton's younger brother, John Paul, visited the monastery, and Fox made arrangements for John Paul's baptism. In 1948, Fox was elected abbot after the death of Dom Frederic Du

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Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal Records
1 Correspondence from original Merton papers (some later additions): Dom James Fox with Merton, Fr. Charles Dumont, Edward Glenn Hinson, Msgr. Alfred Frederick Horrigan, Fr. Giovanni Montini, James Morrissey, Naomi Burton Stone, etc. 93
2 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with the Abbot of Melleray, Dom Louis de Gonzague Le Pennuen. 21
3 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with the Abbot of Melleray, Dom Colomban Bissey. 6
4 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Dominique Noques. 4
5 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Gabriel Sortais. 202
6 Correspondence from Gethsemani Archives: Dom James Fox with Abbot General Ignace Gillet. 38
7 Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Merton: Special Binding (Archive - Stack 5). 101
8 Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Marie Tadié: (see "Tadié, Marie" file for all physical holdings). 153
9 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Abbot General Gabriel Sortais 30
10 Special Merton File: Notes concerning Merton's relationship with "M," from folder labeled "Clyde" 1
11 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Fox and Fr. John Eudes Bamberger concerning a biography of Merton, from folder labeled "Clyde" 2
12 Special Merton File: Correspondence concerning French translator Marie Tadié's grievance with Gethsemani after Merton's death, from folder labeled "Clyde" 6
13 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and the Sacred Congregation for Religious at the Vatican, earlier with Arcadio Cardinal Larraona and then with Archbishop Paul (later Cardinal) Philippe 6
14 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Monsignor Loris Francesco Capovilla, Secretary to Pope John XXIII 5
15 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Fr. Heinrich Dumoulin, S.J., Sophia University in Japan, regarding Merton studying Zen and proposed trip to Japan 4
16 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Archbishop Giovanni Montini (later Pope Paul VI) 7
17 Special Merton File: Correspondence with Fr. Riccardo Lombardi, S.J. 18
18 Special Merton File: Correspondence between Dom James Fox and Abbot General Ignace Gillet, regarding Merton as novice master, studying Zen and proposed trip to Japan 4
19 Naomi Burton Stone, Doubleday, Inc. (earlier correspondence with Fox can be found in the "Curtis Brown, Ltd." file and in Series 1 of this file) 102
20 Publishers' Correspondence: Herder and Herder, Inc. 18
21 Publishers' Correspondence: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc.; and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. 34
22 Publishers' Correspondence: New Directions 38
23 Publishers' Correspondence: Foreign Rights 2
24 Merton Publicity File: Correspondence with film makers, book clubs, radio stations, etc. 21
25 Curtis Brown, Ltd. [See "Curtis Brown" file in Section A, correspondence from 1963 continues with Series 19 in this file] 1
26 Correspondence between Gregory Zilboorg and James Fox from Gethsemani Archives 22
27 Correspondence with Bishop Matthew A. Niedhammer, OFM Cap., Apostolic Vicar of Bluefields, Nicaragua, regarding Merton's character 3
28 Correspondence with Bishop James Peter Davis of San Juan, Puerto Rico, regarding Merton's character 3
29 Special File of Dom James on Thomas Merton, 70 Numbered Entries (click here) 1
30 Correspondence with Dom Baldwin Dworschak, O.S.B., Abbot of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota 3

Container List

Series#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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Series 8 #1.
«All Series«		 1959/07/30 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We were delighted to receive your good letter of July 24. It is a great relief to know that you «detailed view»
Series 8 #2.
«All Series«		 1960/11/19 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie Good Father Louis spoke to me about the contracts which you sent him recently in regard to SPIRITUAL «detailed view»
Series 8 #3.
«All Series«		 1962/02/15 TLS[c] to Tadié, Marie Good Father Louis received the contracts for the French rights of NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION, and «detailed view»
Series 8 #4.
«All Series«		 1962/04/09 (#01) TLS[c] to Tadié, Marie Good Father Louis received your recent communications with the enclosed contracts for THE NEW MAN «detailed view»
Series 8 #5.
«All Series«		 1962/04/09 (#02) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie Good Father Louis received your recent communications with the enclosed contracts for THE NEW MAN one of the paragraphs is underlined in red «detailed view»
Series 8 #6.
«All Series«		 1962/10/07 HLS from Tadié, Marie Dom Gabriel Sortais did not give the "Imprimi Potest" to the french translation of "Original Child «detailed view»
Series 8 #7.
«All Series«		 1962/10/18 (#01) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We received your letter of October 7th with the enclosure of the letter of the Editors de Seuil «detailed view»
Series 8 #8.
«All Series«		 1962/10/20 HALS from Tadié, Marie I am sending you the "addenda" to the following contracts: New Seeds of Contemplation, The New Man circles and underlines in red pen «detailed view»
Series 8 #9.
«All Series«		 1962/11/06 HLS from Tadié, Marie Thank you for your cable which I got this morning. I cabled, in return, asking you for a letter of «detailed view»
Series 8 #10.
«All Series«		 1962/11/07 (#01) TALS[c] to Tadié, Marie You will probably know by this time that the tempo of cloistered monastic life is not that of the «detailed view»
Series 8 #11.
«All Series«		 1962/11/07 (#02) TAL[c] to Tadié, Marie You will probably know by this time that the tempo of cloistered monastic life is not that of the «detailed view»
Series 8 #12.
«All Series«		 1962/11/07 (#03) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie You will probably know by this time that the tempo of cloistered monastic life is not that of the «detailed view»
Series 8 #13.
«All Series«		 1962/11/10 HLS from Tadié, Marie I received this morning your letter of the 7th of November. (1) I shall send you, next week, the «detailed view»
Series 8 #14.
«All Series«		 1962/11/17 (#01) TALS[x] to Flamand, Paul We received your beautiful letters of November 6 and November 10. So, at last you have received the «detailed view»
Series 8 #15.
«All Series«		 1962/11/17 (#02) TALS[x] to Flamand, Paul We received your gracious letter of November 5. Since good Madame Marie Tadie has received the «detailed view»
Series 8 #16.
«All Series«		 1962/11/21 HLS from Flamand, Paul Thank you for your very kind letter. If I have been very happy to get Dom Sortais' letter, the fact «detailed view»
Series 8 #17.
«All Series«		 1962/11/27 HALS from Tadié, Marie I am sending you the letter I got this morning from the Éditions du Seuil so that you may, as «detailed view»
Series 8 #18.
«All Series«		 1962/12/17 TL[c] to Tadié, Marie You must have thought that some nuclear bomb exploded here at Gethsemani, and sent us all into «detailed view»
Series 8 #19.
«All Series«		 1963/02/08 (#01) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie I received your gracious note of February 8, 1963. I am happy you received our letter of December «detailed view»
Series 8 #20.
«All Series«		 1963/02/08 (#02) HALS from Tadié, Marie Thank you ever so much for the kind letter you sent me on the 17th of December. I sent the 140 «detailed view»
Series 8 #21.
«All Series«		 1963/03/14 (#01) TL[c] to Tadié, Marie I received your gracious note of February 8, 1963. I am happy you received our letter of December «detailed view»
Series 8 #22.
«All Series«		 1963/03/14 (#02) TAL[x] to Tadié, Marie I received your gracious note of February 8, 1963. I am happy you received our letter of December «detailed view»
Series 8 #23.
«All Series«		 1963/04/01 (#01) TL[c] to Tadié, Marie Father Louis spoke to me about your handling of the new book that Herder & Herder has published «detailed view»
Series 8 #24.
«All Series«		 1963/04/01 (#02) HCS from Merton I think the Herder contract is such that Marie Tadié in selling French rights, [Undated, but attached to 1963/04/01 letter of Dom James Fox] «detailed view»
Series 8 #25.
«All Series«		 1963/12/11 HLS from Tadié, Marie Thank you very much for the contracts. I hope you will receive the money soon, but the «detailed view»
Series 8 #26.
«All Series«		 1964/04/10 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie Good Father Louis passed on the contracts for EMBLEMS OF A SEASON OF FURY with his approval. «detailed view»
Series 8 #27.
«All Series«		 1964/06/15 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie Father Louis passed on the contracts for the Italian rights for BLACK REVOLUTION, which meet with «detailed view»
Series 8 #28.
«All Series«		 1964/08/10 TALS[x] from Tadié, Marie Enclosed please find three copies of the Spanish and Catalan contracts for THE BLACK REVOLUTION, «detailed view»
Series 8 #29.
«All Series«		 1964/10/27? (#01) HN from Merton Did not say she was not agent in France. We can certainly ask publishers to deal with her [response by Merton to 1964/10/22 letter of Tadié to Dom James written on the envelope] «detailed view»
Series 8 #30.
«All Series«		 1964/10/28 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie I received your gracious letter of October 22. I conferred with good Father Louis in regard to the «detailed view»
Series 8 #31.
«All Series«		 1964/10/29 HLS from Tadié, Marie "New Directions" wrote to me a letter in which I am told that they are handling the rights for all «detailed view»
Series 8 #32.
«All Series«		 1964/11/01 HLS from Tadié, Marie I received your kind letter of October 28, and would like to make things clear. When Father Louis «detailed view»
Series 8 #33.
«All Series«		 1964/11/05? TL from Merton No need to answer this one of Tadié just yet. There is probably another bombshell on the way and [attached to 1964/11/01 and 1964/11/12 letters and likely written after Merton's letter from 1964/11/03] «detailed view»
Series 8 #34.
«All Series«		 1964/11/12 HLS from Tadié, Marie I include herewith a check for 750 dollars that I received to-day from Madrid, representing the «detailed view»
Series 8 #35.
«All Series«		 1964/12/30 HLS from Tadié, Marie Would you kindly sign those contracts concerning the italian rights of Seeds of Destruction. Keep «detailed view»
Series 8 #36.
«All Series«		 1965/01/11 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We received your letter of December 30th. The contracts which you have sent, in regard to the «detailed view»
Series 8 #37.
«All Series«		 1965/06/03 HLS from Tadié, Marie Would you kindly sign those contracts for a very short book of Father Louis's. (please sign also «detailed view»
Series 8 #38.
«All Series«		 1965/06/09 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie Thank you for your gracious note of June 3rd with the enclosed contracts for MONASTIC VOCATION «detailed view»
Series 8 #39.
«All Series«		 1965/10/24 HLS from Tadié, Marie On the 9th of October, Father Louis kindly wrote to say that, although he wishes me to go on being «detailed view»
Series 8 #40.
«All Series«		 1965/11/08 (#01) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We received your gracious note of October 24. I want to assure you that all of us here at «detailed view»
Series 8 #41.
«All Series«		 1965/11/08 (#02) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We received your gracious note of October 24. I want to assure you that all of us here at «detailed view»
Series 8 #42.
«All Series«		 1965/11/18 (#01) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie Good Father Louis passed on the enclosed contracts for the French translation of SEASONS OF «detailed view»
Series 8 #43.
«All Series«		 1965/11/18 (#02) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie Good Father Louis passed on the enclosed contracts for the French translation of SEASONS OF «detailed view»
Series 8 #44.
«All Series«		 1966/01/20 TAL to Tadié, Marie I'm sorry to have been so long in writing to you about the whole question of the foreign rights for «detailed view»
Series 8 #45.
«All Series«		 1966/01/24 TLS[x] to Tadié, Marie It has taken some time before I could write you in regard to the whole question of foreign rights «detailed view»
Series 8 #46.
«All Series«		 1966/02/11 HALS from Tadié, Marie Thank you very much for your letter of the 24th of January 1966. Things are now clear: I remain «detailed view»
Series 8 #47.
«All Series«		 1966/02/21 HALS from Tadié, Marie Robert MacGregor from New Directions wrote to me a letter, a copy of which has probably reached you [response to Tadié's letter in Merton's handwriting appears on second page; Merton is probably addressing Dom James Fox] «detailed view»
Series 8 #48.
«All Series«		 1966/02/24 HLS from Tadié, Marie I had accepted, to please you, to work with Hoffman (New Directions' new agent) for the books of «detailed view»
Series 8 #49.
«All Series«		 1966/02/25 (#01) telegram from Tadié, Marie HAVE RECEIVED OFFER ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS PULLS RIGHT FOR SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION IN SPAIN CONFIRM BY Verso: [handwritten and signed by Dom James Fox?] "My Dear Fr. Louis -- Quid respondendum???" «detailed view»
Series 8 #50.
«All Series«		 1966/02/25 (#02) telegram from Tadié, Marie HAVE RECEIVED OFFER 1000DOLLARS PLUS RIGHTS FOR SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION IN SPANI H [sic] CONFIRM «detailed view»
Series 8 #51.
«All Series«		 1966/02/28 HANS to Tadié, Marie We authorize acceptance offer $1,000 plus right for Seeds | Destruction -- Spain [was sent as telegram] «detailed view»
Series 8 #52.
«All Series«		 1966/03/02 (#04) TNS[x] from Merton Attached are the principal letter of mine to Marie Tadie over the period 1964 and 1965, during which "Memo: concerning Marie Tadie and foreign rights" / Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" «detailed view»
Series 8 #53.
«All Series«		 1966/03/02 (#05) TALS[x] from Merton The copies of my letters to Marie Tadie and the long memo I have attached, are intended to give you "Re file and memo on Marie Tadie" / Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" «detailed view»
Series 8 #54.
«All Series«		 1966/03/11 HLS from Tadié, Marie Those are the contracts for Seeds of Destruction. Will you kindly sign these and send them «detailed view»
Series 8 #55.
«All Series«		 1966/03/22 TL[c] to Tadié, Marie We received your cablegram of March 21, enclosed are the four copies of the contract in regard to «detailed view»
Series 8 #56.
«All Series«		 1966/04/21 HALS from Tadié, Marie Thank you for your letter of March 22 with the contracts for Spain. I sent them on immediately, but «detailed view»
Series 8 #57.
«All Series«		 1966/07/01 TAL[d] to Tadié, Marie I am sorry that we have not written to you sooner. I have been absent from Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 8 #58.
«All Series«		 1966/07/23 HLS from Tadié, Marie Would you kindly sign those contracts as soon as possible, keep one for your files, and send them «detailed view»
Series 8 #59.
«All Series«		 1966/08/04 (#01) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie In regard to good Father Louis, his health is getting along very well at present. He did have some «detailed view»
Series 8 #60.
«All Series«		 1966/08/04 (#02) TAL[d] to Tadié, Marie In regard to good Father Louis, his health is getting along very well at present. He did have some «detailed view»
Series 8 #61.
«All Series«		 1966/08/04 (#03) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We received your note of July 23. We have the copies of contract in regard to "Conjectures of a «detailed view»
Series 8 #62.
«All Series«		 1966/08/09 HLS from Tadié, Marie Thank you for the contracts and for your letters of the 4. August. (1) About article 12. It is not «detailed view»
Series 8 #63.
«All Series«		 1966/08/14 HLS from Tadié, Marie Father Louis, as you know, has given an article to a review called Hermès. Although Father [Dom James writes on envelope] "Fr. Louis" / "Quid Respondendum???" / [Merton replies to letter on envelope] «detailed view»
Series 8 #64.
«All Series«		 1966/08/19 TL[c] to Tadié, Marie We received your most charming letter of August 9. I am happy that the contracts arrived and our «detailed view»
Series 8 #65.
«All Series«		 1966/08/31 (#02) TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thanks very much for your long letter of the 20th. Oh dear, Marie Tadie really is the limit, isn't «detailed view»
Series 8 #66.
«All Series«		 1966/09/14 TLS from Aubert, F. We are interested in the French rights of : REDEEMING THE TIME by Thomas Merton and other books of «detailed view»
Series 8 #67.
«All Series«		 1966/09/26 HNS from Merton I suggest cable as follows: No problem Seeds of Destruction / mere misunderstanding [Verso of envelope from Marmion Abbey to Gethsemani community postmarked 1966/09/26 / listed date not exact] «detailed view»
Series 8 #68.
«All Series«		 1966/09/27 HNS to Tadié, Marie Cable: "Seeds Destruction not yet translated into Spanish. Gethsemani" [note of text sent as cablegram to Tadié / verso: other notes in pencil] «detailed view»
Series 8 #69.
«All Series«		 1966/10/09 HLS from Tadié, Marie May I let you know several facts which create unnecessary complications and loss of time for me, all [3 pages of Tadié's letter, plus notes on envelope from Gethsemani] «detailed view»
Series 8 #70.
«All Series«		 1966/10/19 HLS from Tadié, Marie (1) Will you kindly sign those contracts for Spain concerning The New Man and send them back «detailed view»
Series 8 #71.
«All Series«		 1966/10/26 TAL[c] to Tadié, Marie We received your letter of October 19. Enclosed are the three copies of the contract in regard to «detailed view»
Series 8 #72.
«All Series«		 1966/11/02 HLS from Tadié, Marie I received your letter of October 26, 1966. As I do not know what Dom Gillet wrote to you, I cannot «detailed view»
Series 8 #73.
«All Series«		 1966/11/04 (#06) HALS from Tadié, Marie This is the list of the works of Thomas Merton that I have sold and will translate according «detailed view»
Series 8 #74.
«All Series«		 1966/11/04? (#07) TNS[x] from Merton As regards the terms for Marie Tadie: everything is ok except that in n. 9 as it stands, the Abbey Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" «detailed view»
Series 8 #75.
«All Series«		 1966/11/04? (#08) HNS[x] from Merton In those points for M.Tadie maybe we ought to add: M. Tadie shall see to it that all books sold by Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" «detailed view»
Series 8 #76.
«All Series«		 1966/11/04? (#09) TNS[x] from Merton Many thanks for writing Tadie. I wonder if you have received a reply from her yet. Doubtless she Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" / Marie Tadié - might need to get a lawyer - let Bob McGregor from New Directions handle the matter - copy of letter to Naomi Burton Stone «detailed view»
Series 8 #77.
«All Series«		 1966/11/04? (#10) TNS[x] from Merton Best thing to do with Tadié is to say that you assure her we all personally want her to represent Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" / tell Marie Tadié that the monastery wants to have her handle French, Spanish and Italian rights, but this must be cleared with publishers in America «detailed view»
Series 8 #78.
«All Series«		 1966/11/09 HALS from Tadié, Marie I am sending you to-day 3 sets of 4 contracts each concerning (1) Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander [with typed note to Dom James on the bottom from "bs." [Brother Simeon / secretary to Dom James?]: "It looks like she is trying to keep the fires burning."] «detailed view»
Series 8 #79.
«All Series«		 1966/11/20 TNS from Simeon, Br., O.C.S.O. Good morning to you on this Thanksgiving Day - 1966. I thanked the Good Lord in a special way this verso: Merton's notes on Tadié «detailed view»
Series 8 #80.
«All Series«		 1966/11/25 (#02) TL[x] from Merton Inregard [sic] to the note of Marie Tadie dated Nov 4 and postmarked the 21st: This illustrates very Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" / drawbacks as having the same person as exclusive agent and translator - 9 books sold but not translated yet, dating back 6-7 years / she is getting more difficult to work with «detailed view»
Series 8 #81.
«All Series«		 1966/11/25 (#03) TL[c] to Tadié, Marie Please pardon my delay in answering your letter of November the 9 with the enclosed contracts. «detailed view»
Series 8 #82.
«All Series«		 1966/11/28 (#01) HLS from Tadié, Marie Thank you for the contracts you signed concerning Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander «detailed view»
Series 8 #83.
«All Series«		 1966/11/28 (#02) TLS from Griffin, John Howard The enclosed letter from Marie Tadié is self-explanatory (alas, and more, revealing) and I thought «detailed view»
Series 8 #84.
«All Series«		 1966/11/29 HLS from Tadié, Marie Several months ago, I asked you whether you have an agent in Portugal. Would you kindly «detailed view»
Series 8 #85.
«All Series«		 1966/12/01 TALS from Masui, Jacques Je ne vous ai plus écrit [...] votre bonne lettre du 14 octobre, car depuis cette époque, j'ai eu «detailed view»
Series 8 #86.
«All Series«		 1966/12/12 TLS from Griffin, John Howard Enlosed [sic] an excellent review of Tom;s [sic] book. Also it occurs to me that if you need an «detailed view»
Series 8 #87.
«All Series«		 1966/12/15 TL[c] to Tadié, Marie We have received a letter from good Pierre Malinverni. We have just written him and are sending you «detailed view»
Series 8 #88.
«All Series«		 1966/12/19 (#01) HALS from Tadié, Marie I must answer immediately your phrase to Monsieur Malinverni because, as for the whole situation, «detailed view»
Series 8 #89.
«All Series«		 1966/12/19 (#02) telegram from Tadié, Marie 1 - AM ASKED FOR MERTON'S BOOKS IN PORTUGAL MAY I SELL THEM? 2 - AM ASKED FOR REDEEMINGTIME [sic] Merton's responses on front and back of telegram in pen. «detailed view»
Series 8 #90.
«All Series«		 1966/12/21 (#01) TLS from Morson, John, Fr. Madame Tadié of Paris has written me a letter containing the following sentences: "I would like you «detailed view»
Series 8 #91.
«All Series«		 1966/12/21 (#02) TLS from Malinverni, Pierre J'ai bien reçu votre lettre du 15 décembre 1966 et je vous dis toute ma reconnaissance pour les «detailed view»
Series 8 #92.
«All Series«		 1966/12/28 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie In reply to your cable and letter of December 19-- 1) In regard to selling books in Portugal, we [second annotate copy of the letter contains bracketing in red pen] «detailed view»
Series 8 #93.
«All Series«		 1966/12/29 (#01) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie I had occasion to write to your good friend Mr Pierre Malinverni. I want to keep you "au courant" «detailed view»
Series 8 #94.
«All Series«		 1966/12/29 (#02) TL[c] to Malinverni, Pierre We received your gracious note of December 21. We appreciated the tone of your letter--it is so «detailed view»
Series 8 #95.
«All Series«		 1966/12/29 (#03) HLS from Tadié, Marie Will you find enclosed check No 383345 of 120 dollars U.S.A. first instalment [sic] due to you for «detailed view»
Series 8 #96.
«All Series«		 1967/01/02 (#01) HALS from Tadié, Marie In reply to your letter of December 28, 1966: (1) You tell me that I may sell Faith. I sold «detailed view»
Series 8 #97.
«All Series«		 1967/01/02 (#02) TALS[x] to Malinverni, Pierre We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 8 #98.
«All Series«		 1967/01/04 (#02) HALS from Malinverni, Pierre I received your letter of December 29th, 1966, and, before everything else, I must tell you that I «detailed view»
Series 8 #99.
«All Series«		 1967/01/05 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We received your note of December 29 with the enclosure due to us from the publishers in Madrid in «detailed view»
Series 8 #100.
«All Series«		 1967/01/23 HNS from Malinverni, Pierre Vous prie de bien vouloir [...] de vous adresser cette lettre en anglais, à la demande expresse «detailed view»
Series 8 #101.
«All Series«		 1967/01/24 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie It has taken some time before I could write you in regard to the whole question of foreign rights «detailed view»
Series 8 #102.
«All Series«		 1967/01/26 TALS[x] to Malinverni, Pierre We received your gracious letter of January 4. I am working on the case as fast as I can. We confidential enclosure referenced is from 1967/01/23 «detailed view»
Series 8 #103.
«All Series«		 1967/01/30 HLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Aha. I knew that poor M.T. would eventually appear in her true colors to the lawyer. Not that she Merton's response is handwritten on envelope, "Very Good! Now we are all unanimous…" «detailed view»
Series 8 #104.
«All Series«		 1967/02/03 TALS[x] to Stone, Naomi Burton I just received your wonderful letter of January 30. Since I just wrote you and sent you Father «detailed view»
Series 8 #105.
«All Series«		 1967/02/06 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thank you for both of your letters. I return Fr Louis' notes -- in case they [sic] Devil's Advocate Burton returns proposed draft of Tadié contract with Merton's handwritten notes «detailed view»
Series 8 #106.
«All Series«		 1967/02/09 TALS[x] to Malinverni, Pierre We have drawn up a tentative draft of an agreement between the Abbey of Gethsemani and good Madame «detailed view»
Series 8 #107.
«All Series«		 1967/02/19 HLS from Tadié, Marie In your letter of January 26, 1967, you wrote to my legal advisor, Monsieur Malinverni "I think you «detailed view»
Series 8 #108.
«All Series«		 1967/02/24 (#01) TLS from Malinverni, Pierre Nous avons examiné attentivement votre projet d'accord. Je suis très heureux que vous reconnaissiez «detailed view»
Series 8 #109.
«All Series«		 1967/02/24 (#02) transcript from Malinverni, Pierre We have carefully studied your suggestions for an agreement. I am very glad that you admit that our English translation of 1967/02/24 letter from its original French «detailed view»
Series 8 #110.
«All Series«		 1967/03/03 (#01) HALS from Tadié, Marie As you may know, I sold Behavior of Titans to Editions du Seuil and you signed the contract «detailed view»
Series 8 #111.
«All Series«		 1967/03/03 (#02) transcript from Tadié, Marie As you know, I sold Behavior of Titans to Editions du Seuil and you signed the contract on Typed transcript of handwritten 1967/03/03 letter. «detailed view»
Series 8 #112.
«All Series«		 1967/03/11 (#01) TALS[x] to Malinverni, Pierre I received your gracious letter of February 24. In regard to the length of time for which the «detailed view»
Series 8 #113.
«All Series«		 1967/03/11 (#02) TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We want to acknowledge your letters of February 19 and March 3. In your letter of March 3 paragraph «detailed view»
Series 8 #114.
«All Series«		 1967/03/13 HLS from Tadié, Marie Les Éditions du Seuil propose to buy two chapters of Raids which are Martin's «detailed view»
Series 8 #115.
«All Series«		 1967/03/18 HLS from Tadié, Marie Will you sign those four "addenda" to the contract for Behavior of Titans and keep one for «detailed view»
Series 8 #116.
«All Series«		 1967/03/23 TL[c] to Malinverni, Pierre Reflecting upon my last letter, I thought perhaps I could have been more specific on one point-- «detailed view»
Series 8 #117.
«All Series«		 1967/03/24 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We received your note of March 13. Evidently, our letter of March 11 crossed with yours. Now, we «detailed view»
Series 8 #118.
«All Series«		 1967/04/05 TLS from Malinverni, Pierre I thank you for your letters of March 11 and March 23, 1967; please excuse my delay in answering «detailed view»
Series 8 #119.
«All Series«		 1967/04/11 TLS from MacGregor, Robert I am enclosing the letter I received from Marie Tadié and my reply. It is good for us to have «detailed view»
Series 8 #120.
«All Series«		 1967/04/22 TLS[x] to Malinverni, Pierre I have gone to not a little trouble and inconvenience to contact leading authorities in the «detailed view»
Series 8 #121.
«All Series«		 1967/05/16 TLS from Malinverni, Pierre «detailed view»
Series 8 #122.
«All Series«		 1967/05/31 telegram from Malinverni, Pierre Prière envoyer réponse au sujet contrat Tadié avant votre départ de France. «detailed view»
Series 8 #123.
«All Series«		 1967/06/01 TALS[x] to Malinverni, Pierre We received your charming letter of May 16 only on May 26. At the present time, I am away from the «detailed view»
Series 8 #124.
«All Series«		 1967/06/19 (#01) TLS from Malinverni, Pierre A la suite de notre lettre du 16 Mai 1967 qui précisait d'une façon nette les conditions d'un accord «detailed view»
Series 8 #125.
«All Series«		 1967/06/19 (#02) other from Malinverni, Pierre Following on our letter of May 16, 1967, which clearly and precisely stated the conditions for «detailed view»
Series 8 #126.
«All Series«		 1967/07/10 (#01) TAL[d] to Malinverni, Pierre We have just returned from our trip to our monastery in Santiago Chile--Latin America. Only now annotated draft copy of 1967/07/10(2) «detailed view»
Series 8 #127.
«All Series«		 1967/07/10 (#02) TALS[x] to Malinverni, Pierre We have just returned from our trip to our monastery in Santiago Chile--Latin America. Only now «detailed view»
Series 8 #128.
«All Series«		 1967/07/30 HLS from Tadié, Marie You will find, enclosed, (1) check no 309540 of $630, for The New Man (2) check no 309541 of «detailed view»
Series 8 #129.
«All Series«		 1967/08/10 TALS[x] to Tadié, Marie We received your note of July 30, with the three checks enclosed. Yes, we know that it takes quite «detailed view»
Series 8 #130.
«All Series«		 1967/09/19 TLS from Tadié, Marie I have the pleasure to enclose check no 312458, from Spain, for Conjectures of a Guilty «detailed view»
Series 8 #131.
«All Series«		 1967/09/29 TLS from Merton No author in his right mind could accept the proposed agreement sent by Marie Tadie. 1- She «detailed view»
Series 8 #132.
«All Series«		 1967/10/04 HLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Thank you for your letters of Sept. 29 and 30 and enclosures. I do agree with Fr. Louis. The «detailed view»
Series 8 #133.
«All Series«		 1967/10/12 TL[c] to Tadié, Marie We received you letter of September 19. The check arrived for the sale of "Conjectures of a Guilty «detailed view»
Series 8 #134.
«All Series«		 1967/10/19 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Many thanks for your letter of October 12th. I don't know what to say about Marie Tadie. It is «detailed view»
Series 8 #135.
«All Series«		 1967/11/14 (#02) TANS from Merton 1. The address of the Paris lawyer is M. Pierre Kramer-Raine […] "Summary of position in regard to M Tadie." «detailed view»
Series 8 #136.
«All Series«		 1967/11/20 (#01) TAL[d]  from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani Draft 1a - different annotations on each copy «detailed view»
Series 8 #137.
«All Series«		 1967/11/20 (#02) TAL[d]  from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani Draft 1b - different annotations on each copy «detailed view»
Series 8 #138.
«All Series«		 1967/11/20 (#03) TAL[d]  from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani Draft 1c - different annotations on each copy «detailed view»
Series 8 #139.
«All Series«		 1967/12/11 (#01) TL[d]  from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani Draft 2a «detailed view»
Series 8 #140.
«All Series«		 1967/12/11 (#02) TAL[d]  from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox We have been referred to you by two good friends, both of you, and of the monks of Gethsemani Draft 2b - note from Merton "All OK with me!" «detailed view»
Series 8 #141.
«All Series«		 1968/01/05 (#01) TLS from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle We have duly received your letter of January 2, and we thank you for it. We shall be greatly «detailed view»
Series 8 #142.
«All Series«		 1968/01/05 (#02) TNS from Merton In writing to Marie Tadie there is another routine matter to be added: In the book, Foi et Violence «detailed view»
Series 8 #143.
«All Series«		 1968/01/05 (#03) TNS from Simeon, Br., O.C.S.O. Fr Louis just came in 10:10 with his whole file on your friend Marie Tadie. Have fun. I pray for «detailed view»
Series 8 #144.
«All Series«		 1968/01/29 TALS from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle I am sorry to say there is a mistake in our last letter : a "zero" was missed. … excuse us, please! «detailed view»
Series 8 #145.
«All Series«		 1969/03/21 TLS from Les Editions Albin Michel Following you cable, we hope you understand that the manuscript of "MONASTIC VOCATION AND THE MODERN «detailed view»
Series 8 #146.
«All Series«		 1969/04/01 TL[c]  from Kraemer-Raine, Pierre and Marcelle Kraemer-Bach / to James Fox Fr. Flavian Burns has asked me to reply to your kind letter of March 4 in regard to Mme. Marie Tadie «detailed view»
Series 8 #147.
«All Series«		 1969/05/20 TLS[x] from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle I beg to inform you that I had an other talk with Madame TADIE , perhaps the last one ! Madame announces that Tadié will abstain from going to court [2 copies, one light and one dark photocopy] «detailed view»
Series 8 #148.
«All Series«		 1969/06/23 HLS from Kraemer-Bach, Marcelle Thank you so much for your very kind letter and the check. Of course, the fees you sent us are Recipient could be Flavian Burns instead of James Fox. Burns was abbot at the time, but Fox continued to hand «detailed view»
Series 8 #149.
«All Series«		 undated/no/no (#01) HLS[x] from Merton As you will see by this letter, Marie Tadié is becoming impossible. In any case I do not feel I Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" «detailed view»
Series 8 #150.
«All Series«		 undated/no/no (#02) TAL[x] from Merton If you wish to continue battling Marie Tadie, then I suggest that we make a clear and strict Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" «detailed view»
Series 8 #151.
«All Series«		 undated/no/no (#03) HLS[x] from Merton About Marie Tadié- write that in her letter she lied in saying she was J H Griffin's agent. He told Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" / Tadié not John Howard Griffin's agent, but translator / no need to pay her for use of photograph - it is owned by Gethsemani «detailed view»
Series 8 #152.
«All Series«		 undated/no/no (#04) HLS[x] from Merton I would say it would be all right to compromise on time of the agreement- maybe 5 years. We should Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" «detailed view»
Series 8 #153.
«All Series«		 undated/no/no (#05) HLS[x] from Merton About Marie Tadié. More succinctly we could reply as follows[:] Since she rejects our conditions Marked in pencil: "Copy[:] Original in Dom James Binder" «detailed view»

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