1: Thomas Merton and Robert Giroux Correspondence

Scope and Content

Although this correspondence mainly deals with publishing concerns, there are also some personal messages, especially concerning news about other Columbia University friends. This file also contains correspondence with: Frank Abbott, Yolanda Bettencour

Biography

Robert Giroux was one of Merton's friends from his Columbia University days. While Giroux was with Harcourt, Brace publishers, he reviewed and rejected some of Merton's early novels. After seeing The Seven Storey Mountain, he decided to take a ch

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Series List

Series Number	Series Name	Total Records
1	Thomas Merton and Robert Giroux Correspondence	541
2	Frank Abbott Correspondence Regarding a Biography of Merton (Not published)	10
3	Naomi Burton Stone, Curtis Brown, General Correspondence with Robert Giroux	29
4	Naomi Burton Stone and Dom James Fox Correspondence with Robert Giroux Primarily Regarding The Sign of Jonas	28
5	Jacques Maritain Correspondence with Robert Giroux (Copies in French and English translation) regarding The Sign of Jonas	3
6	Foreign Rights to Merton's Books: Disputed Questions, The New Man and Thoughts in Solitude	24
7	Foreign Rights to Merton's Books after His Death	32
8	Thomas McDonnell Correspondence with Robert Giroux Regarding A Thomas Merton Reader	11
9	Correspondence Relating to Prayer as Worship and Experience	17
10	Internal Memo's to Robert Giroux and Giroux's Notes	10
11	Miscellaneous Correspondence	28

Container List

Series#	Date	From/To	First Lines	Pub ✓	Notes
	y/m/d	Merton		Scan ✉
Series 1 #1. «All Series«	1940/02/07	TNS from Young, Stanley P.	STRAITS OF DOVER [-] by Thomas James Merton [-] One of those strange novels which seem to concern		[pasted to the back of the letter of 1940/02/26 - see also message dated 1940/02/24, between Giroux and Stanley P. Young (Harcourt, Brace), handwritten at the bottom of this page] «detailed view»
Series 1 #2. «All Series«	1940/02/24	HNS from Young, Stanley P.	Some interesting writing in here, but it wobbles around as a story and never hits a strong narrative		[pasted to the back of the letter of 1940/02/26 - see also message dated 1940/02/07, between Giroux and Stanley P. Young (Harcourt, Brace), typed at the top of this page] «detailed view»
Series 1 #3. «All Series«	1940/02/26	TL[c] from Young, Stanley P. / to Merton	We have now read STRAITS OF DOVER and I am sorry to tell you that we fee unable to make you		[see also messages dated 1940/02/24 and 1940/02/07, between Giroux and Stanley P. Young (Harcourt, Brace), pasted to the back of this letter] «detailed view»
Series 1 #4. «All Series«	1940/03/26	HNS[x] by Young, Stanley P.	The Labyrinth by Thomas Merton [-] This is a revised version of "The Straits of Dover" which		[internal note about Merton's "The Labyrinth" with evaluation of its worth and how to repond to him] «detailed view»
Series 1 #5. «All Series«	1940/03/26 (#01)	HNS to Young, Stanley P.	I will write Merton, independently, in about a week, after you've had a chance to reflect -		«detailed view»
Series 1 #6. «All Series«	1940/03/26 (#02)	HN from Young, Stanley P.	The Labyrinth by Thomas Merton [-] This is a revised version of "The Straits of Dover" which		[pasted to the back of the 1940/03/29 carbon to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #7. «All Series«	1940/03/29	TL[c] from Young, Stanley P. / to Merton	As I told you over the telephone, my vote on your manuscript was no, but as this was a revision,		[see 1940/03/26[2], pasted to the back of this carbon] «detailed view»
Series 1 #8. «All Series«	1948/03/08	TALS to Merton	Please forgive my delay in replying sooner but the seasonal rush has been upon me. First of all,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #9. «All Series«	1948/12/15	TLS[x] from Merton	I am dazzled by the huge ad, the sales figures, the fan mail. I note that in the middle of that	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #10. «All Series«	1949/02/14	TLS[x] from Merton	By way of a Valentine I got some nine thousand bucks from Naomi and I am sending you six pages	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #11. «All Series«	1949/02/21	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Mr. Giroux left on Saturday for a week's vacation, and I am writing to acknowledge your letter		«detailed view»
Series 1 #12. «All Series«	1949/03/18	TL[x] to Merton	I enclose herewith sample pages of WATERS OF SILOE. As you will see, we have got away from	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #13. «All Series«	1949/03/21	TL[x] to Merton	Enclosed herewith are the first 59 galleys of WATERS OF SILOE. I also enlcose the original	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #14. «All Series«	1949/03/25?	TLS[x] from Merton	I am working on the proofs now. The book certainly looks fine and I am crazy about that Cochin.	✓	[sending changes to Seven Storey Mountain - deletions of text] «detailed view»
Series 1 #15. «All Series«	1949/03/29	TL[x] to Merton	The first 39 galleys arrived today. Thanks for returning them so promptly. We've now sent all	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #16. «All Series«	1949/03/31	TL[x] to Merton	I enclose herewith a specially bound set of proofs for the Abbot General. Please let me know what	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #17. «All Series«	1949/04/02	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the front matter. One thing I would like to add: a dedication to Evelyn Waugh. What do you	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #18. «All Series«	1949/04/04	TL[x] to Merton	I like all the new ideas you list: time-table, monastic terms, and dedication. Let me have the copy		«detailed view»
Series 1 #19. «All Series«	1949/04/07	TLS[x] from Merton	Here are all the galleys back. I went over the end of the Prologue again and want to put in	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #20. «All Series«	1949/04/10?	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is an insert that goes in near the end of the Prologue. I marked the place in the galleys:	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #21. «All Series«	1949/04/13 (#01)	TL[x] to Merton	Thanks for getting the galleys back so promptly. As I write you, the quoted material from	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #22. «All Series«	1949/04/13 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the glossary. It should go to the Archbishop's censor along with the other stuff. I'll try		«detailed view»
Series 1 #23. «All Series«	1949/04/14	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the time-table. Does that wind up everything? In Xto, fr. M Louis. PS. Your letter just came	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #24. «All Series«	1949/04/15	TL[x] to Merton	This is to acknowledge receipt of the glossary. Many thanks for getting it to us so promptly.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #25. «All Series«	1949/04/18	TL[x] to Merton	Happy Easter! Many thanks for the time-table and for indicating the credits required for photos.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #26. «All Series«	1949/04/28	TL[x] to Merton	I think that our artists have fashioned one of the most beautiful jackets I have ever seen for		«detailed view»
Series 1 #27. «All Series«	1949/05/12	TLS[x] from Merton	This is to confirm the ordination date: two weeks from today, on the 26th, Ascension Thursday.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #28. «All Series«	1949/05/19 (#01)	TL[c] to Merton	Jay Laughlin and I have made airplane reservations for Wednesday, 25th and will arrive in Louisville	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #29. «All Series«	1949/05/19? (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	In haste, just before going on retreat I sent all I have finished of Waters-- meaning everything	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #30. «All Series«	1949/06/07	TL[x] to Merton	Many thanks for the Utah monastery photographs which have just arrived. They are going to use	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #31. «All Series«	1949/06/11	TLS[x] from Merton	I am returning the index with a few perfunctory notes only. Further changes can be made in a later	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #32. «All Series«	1949/06/21	TL[x] to Merton	The index changes you requested have all been made and I enclose a duplicate set of page proofs	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #33. «All Series«	1949/07/01	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for the set of page proofs and for the proofs of the pictures which certainly look nice.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #34. «All Series«	1949/07/15	TLS[x] from Merton	I am enclosing some pictures that I obtained from a French photographer-- one who did some	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #35. «All Series«	1949/07/18	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Mr. Giroux is away this week, on an editorial trip to Denver, and I am therefore writing		«detailed view»
Series 1 #36. «All Series«	1949/07/26	TL[x] to Merton	THE WATERS OF SILOE has just come to my desk in sheets, which I enclose herewith. I am very much	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #37. «All Series«	1949/07/30	TLS[x] from Merton	I have the sheets of WATERS now and they look fine. I have gone over the Prologue and Note and am	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #38. «All Series«	1949/08/04	TL[x] to Merton	It's a great pleasure to send you herewith two copies of THE WATERS OF SILOE. Eight additional	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #39. «All Series«	1949/08/05	TL[x] to Merton	Your letter of July 20th answers mine of August 4th which crossed it. I'm sending a dozen publicity	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #40. «All Series«	1949/08/06	TL[x] from Merton	The books just came and they are simply fine. All who have seen them here are enthusiastic	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #41. «All Series«	1949/08/08	TL[x] to Merton	Many thanks for your note of the sixth. I'm awfully glad to know that you like the looks of WATERS.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #42. «All Series«	1949/08/10	TL[x] to Merton	The director of the School of Journalism at Fordham University, Father Alfred Barrett, S.J. -	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #43. «All Series«	1949/08/13	TLS[x] from Merton	The big box with fourteen copies of WATERS arrived. Does this include the two you want signed?	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #44. «All Series«	1949/08/17	TLS[x] from Merton	Father Abbot wants to order twenty copies of WATERS OF SILOE the first edition, for the monastery.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #45. «All Series«	1949/08/18	TL[x] to Merton	We are shipping 20 copies of WATERS OF SILOE, first edition, to Father Abbot and are charging them	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #46. «All Series«	1949/08/23	TLS[x] from Merton	I have just received fifty or so more contact prints (small) of that southern French business,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #47. «All Series«	1949/08/30	TL[x] to Merton	Invitations to talk about THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN and your work keep coming in.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #48. «All Series«	1949/08/31	TALS[x] from Merton	The WATERS are being read in the refectory and one or two changes came to mind. I am enclosing	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #49. «All Series«	1949/09/06	TL[x] to Merton	Thanks for the further changes in the text. I will send proofs of these and see that they are	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #50. «All Series«	1949/09/07	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your letter. I quite understand about the publicity of WATERS. I see your point all right	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #51. «All Series«	1949/09/09	TALS[x] from Merton	I forgot all about the CLOUD AND THE FIRE. That must wait. I cannot get down to it until I am more	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #52. «All Series«	1949/09/12	TL[x] to Merton	I should have caught the error regarding St. Joseph's Cathedral, Bardstown. I passed it often enough	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #53. «All Series«	1949/09/16	TALS[x] from Merton	Here is a little something I have been keeping in reserve for you. I wanted to read it all, but have	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #54. «All Series«	1949/09/29	TL[x] to Merton	I have just had a most unpleasant conversation with Mr. Manning, who took the Georgia photographs	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #55. «All Series«	1949/10/06	TAL[x] to Merton	Brother Martin's story of his escape from the Nazis is an extremely interesting job, but I am afraid	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #56. «All Series«	1949/10/10	TLS[x] from Merton	Sorry to have delayed about the Manning business. You will see from the enclosed letter that I had	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #57. «All Series«	1949/11/07	TL[x] to Merton	We have had a request from the editor of the Chicago Tribune Book Section, Mr. Frederick	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #58. «All Series«	1949/11/09	TL[x] to Merton	Naomi has written me about the book which you wrote, under obedience, sometime ago about	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #59. «All Series«	1949/11/11?	TNS[x] from Merton	In haste I am sending the Chicago Tribune thing hoping that you will forward it to the correct	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #60. «All Series«	1949/11/14	TL[x] to Merton	This is to acknowledge receipt of the essay on "Reading As a Path to Contemplation" for the Chicago	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #61. «All Series«	1949/12/01	TL[x] to Merton	It's a pleasure to send to you, by the hand of Naomi Burton, a copy of THE LAW OF HOLY MASS by	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #62. «All Series«	1949/12/no?	HLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for your letter and I look forward to the sheets of Waters - more so to		[undated - placed between 1949/12/01 and 1950/01/11] «detailed view»
Series 1 #63. «All Series«	1950/01/11	TL[x] to Merton	On January 30th the Catholic Writers' Guild of America is going to make their Golden Book Award	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #64. «All Series«	1950/01/14	TALS[x] from Merton	This morning I signed the contract and am sending it off to Naomi. It was certainly a great pleasure	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #65. «All Series«	1950/01/16	TLS[x] from Merton	Your letter was given to me just after my other one went out the other day. I am enclosing a proper	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #66. «All Series«	1950/02/13	TL[x] to Merton	The Golden Book Award Dinner was an impressive affair. Your message of acceptance was quite moving,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #67. «All Series«	1950/03/28	TLS from Merton	If my calculations are right, you must be back. Thanks for the card from Lucerne. I hope you had	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #68. «All Series«	1950/04/20 (#01)	TLS to Merton	My body is back in the States, but my soul is still in Europe. What a wonderful trip it was -	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #69. «All Series«	1950/04/20 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	My body is back in the States, but my soul is still in Europe. What a wonderful trip it was -	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #70. «All Series«	1950/04/24 (#01)	TL[c] to Merton	I enclose the medal and chain from Fatima and Tre Fontanne respectively. I probably made them sound	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #71. «All Series«	1950/05/01	TLS from Merton	Many thanks for your letters and their enclosures, especially for the delightful Fatima medal	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #72. «All Series«	1950/06/06	TLS from Merton	The other day I heard from Naomi of the death of your father, and I am writing to say that we are	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #73. «All Series«	1950/06/16 (#01)	TLS to Merton	The solution to the JOURNAL problem was unexpected, but I am sure that it is absolutely right,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #74. «All Series«	1950/06/16 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	The solution to the JOURNAL problem was unexpected, but I am sure that it is absolutely right,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #75. «All Series«	1950/07/05	TL[x] to Merton	Just a note to tell you how very much I enjoyed my visit to Gethsemani, and to enclose (a)	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #76. «All Series«	1950/07/14	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for the Dom Alexis article. I have not yet had time to go through it. Fr Jean Danielou,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #77. «All Series«	1950/07/20	TL[x] to Merton	Naomi is still brooding about the Psalm book and of course I hope the decision will be favorable.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #78. «All Series«	1950/07/27	TLS[x] from Merton	Have I thanked you yet for the paper, carbon and typewriter ribbons? If not, I am very sorry.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #79. «All Series«	1950/07/28	TALS to Merton	I have read BREAD IN THE WILDERNESS, think it marvelous, and have told Naomi that we want	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #80. «All Series«	1950/08/02	TLS to Merton	The big book on CLUNIAC ART OF THE ROMANESQUE PERIOD by Joan Evans has just arrived,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #81. «All Series«	1950/08/19	TLS[x] from Merton	Naomi tells me she has been trying to contact you without success and hopes you are not sick.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #82. «All Series«	1950/09/18	TLS to Merton	I have been laid up with a bad cold, and I am just beginning to feel myself again. Forgive me for	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #83. «All Series«	1950/09/21	TLS[x] from Merton	Your wire and your letter reached me at the same time. I just answered the wire and now for	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #84. «All Series«	1950/09/25	TL[x] to Merton	I am relieved to learn that you want to the hospital merely for a check-up. It sounded more serious	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #85. «All Series«	1950/10/27	TL[x] to Merton	I believe I've already told you about the autobiography of Dr. Karl Stern, the Montreal psychiatrist	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #86. «All Series«	1950/11/22	TLS[x] from Merton	They have been keeping me here in the hospital for some time, mainly to make me rest.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #87. «All Series«	1950/12/21	TLS[x] from Merton	I suppose this will reach you too late to bring you my best Christmas wishes. In any case you will	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #88. «All Series«	1950/12/22	telegram[x] to Merton	FIVE HUNDRED ADDRESSED ENVELOPES MAILED TO YOU TODAY WITH CHRISTMAS GREETINGS		«detailed view»
Series 1 #89. «All Series«	1950/12/30	TLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for the Christmas card-- what an angel!-- and the book which is marvelous. And now	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #90. «All Series«	1950/12/no?	TNS[x] from Merton	Anyway, I look forward to hearing your reaction. Then let's pray that things will work out.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #91. «All Series«	1951/01/20	TL[x] from Merton	Here is another piece of that FIRE CLOUD AND DARKNESS ms which I think Naomi gave you.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #92. «All Series«	1951/02/04	TLS[x] from Merton	Father Abbot was happy with the big check. Naomi will give you the dope on the project about	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #93. «All Series«	1951/02/11	TLS[x] from Merton	Good news. I am sending you the last two chapters of Fire Cloud and Darkness in two separate	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #94. «All Series«	1951/02/13	TALS to Merton	There is so much to write about that I shall have to divide it all up into two or three letters.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #95. «All Series«	1951/02/15	TLS[x] from Merton	I got your letter last night and I am glad you like the new book. Although I would have liked more	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #96. «All Series«	1951/02/22	TALS[x] from Merton	It seems to me that the most practical thing to do is to send you this manuscript piece by piece as	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #97. «All Series«	1951/02/24	TLS[x] from Merton	I am enclosing another piece of THE ASCENT TO LIGHT. As far as I am concerning it is ready to print.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #98. «All Series«	1951/02/27	TLS[x] from Merton	This brings me up to the end of part II[.] I will let you have the rest in a couple of days.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #99. «All Series«	1951/02/28 (#01)	TLS to Merton	I'm delighted to know that you're revising the book, and hope you'll continue sending it	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #100. «All Series«	1951/02/28 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	Here is the last corrected part of THE ASCENT TO LIGHT. I am surprised that I did not find much	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #101. «All Series«	1951/03/02	TL[x] to Merton	Just a note to acknowledge receipt of the final section of the manuscript which arrived late Friday	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #102. «All Series«	1951/03/03	TLS[x] from Merton	Just got your letter. Glad you are typing the book there. I will get busy on the biographical notes.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #103. «All Series«	1951/03/09	TLS to Merton	The jacket sketch of THE ASCENT TO TRUTH has just reached my desk and I send it along herewith	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #104. «All Series«	1951/03/15	TLS[x] from Merton	The jacket design is really splendid. I suppose the dark left side of the design is to represent	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #105. «All Series«	1951/03/19	TLS[x] from Merton	Here are the biographical notes. One question remains open: do you think they would be better	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #106. «All Series«	1951/03/29	TLS[x] from Merton	Here are the final pages of the book-- the insert that was to complete the chapter on "False	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #107. «All Series«	1951/05/21 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Naomi has told me the news of your wedding-present to her, and I can only say how wonderful I think	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #108. «All Series«	1951/05/21 (#02)	other	CORRECTIONS- THE ASCENT TO TRUTH. p 16 lines 16-17: omit "as He is in Himself"	✓	[encloses Merton's corrections for The Ascent to Truth] «detailed view»
Series 1 #109. «All Series«	1951/05/25	TL[x] to Merton	Have you read the edition of Walter Daniel's LIFE OF AILRED whose jacket I enclose? If not, I'll	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #110. «All Series«	1951/05/29	TL[x] to Merton	Galley proofs will be here on June 8th, a Friday and I will get them to you by Monday the 10th.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #111. «All Series«	1951/05/31	TALS[x] from Merton	I doubt if I can handle the proofs on such short notice. To begin with, things usually lie around	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #112. «All Series«	1951/06/01	TL[x] to Merton	The first 33 galleys of THE ASCENT TO TRUTH are enclosed herewith, together with the manuscript.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #113. «All Series«	1951/06/17	TLS[x] from Merton	I am returning the galleys of the ASCENT corrected. You will notice that I made a big cut on the	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #114. «All Series«	1951/06/19	telegram[x] from Merton	PROOFS MAILED MONDAY= FATHER LOUIS=	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #115. «All Series«	1951/06/20	telegram[x] to Merton	GALLEYS HAVE ARRIVED MANY THANKS NEED MANUSCRIPT URGENTLY CAN YOU RUSH AIRMAIL	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #116. «All Series«	1951/07/09	TLS to Merton	This is urgent; please use the enclosed airmail envelope for return. In the 25¢ edition of	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #117. «All Series«	1951/07/10	TLS[x] from Merton	The Author's note for the Signet edition is quite all right with me. I'd prefer the signature T.M.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #118. «All Series«	1951/07/13	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is a letter from Dr Thompson, the head librarian at the University of Kentucky and I think if	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #119. «All Series«	1951/07/18 (#01)	TLS to Merton	I enclose front-matter proofs. No need to return these, escept [sic] if you have corrections.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #120. «All Series«	1951/07/18 (#02)	TLS to Merton	Here are the galley proofs of the footnotes, in advance of the page proofs which are due here on	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #121. «All Series«	1951/07/20 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Here are the page proofs. They are, as you will note, extraordinarily clean. I hope you will not	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #122. «All Series«	1951/07/20 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	Here is the front matter with new title for Part one and corrections in the author's notes.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #123. «All Series«	1951/07/22	TLS[x] from Merton	Do you mind adding the names of the various saints to be included in the Biographical notes?	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #124. «All Series«	1951/07/23	telegram[x] to Merton	OK FIVE HUNDRED WORDS SAINT BERNARD PLEASE RUSH COPY WE DECIDED AGAINST INDEX	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #125. «All Series«	1951/07/24	TLS[x] from Merton	The page proofs have come and I am working on them. Here is the stuff on St Bernard. I hope it	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #126. «All Series«	1951/07/25	telegram[x] to Merton	PLEASE WIRE COLLECT WHETHER PAGE PROOFS ARRIVED SAFELY AND WHEN YOU EXPECT		«detailed view»
Series 1 #127. «All Series«	1951/07/26	telegram[x] from Merton	PROOF RECEIVED WILL FINISH FRIDAY MUST AWAIT CENSORS OF ORDER= FATHER LOUIS	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #128. «All Series«	1951/08/07	TLS to Merton	The enclosed note of acknowledgement has just come in from Father Malloy. I am very pleased with	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #129. «All Series«	1951/08/10	TL[x] to Merton	I had a splendid visit with Father Abbot yesterday. While he was here we put in a call to Father	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #130. «All Series«	1951/08/11	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for the new page proofs of the biographical notes and front matter. Two small last minute	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #131. «All Series«	1951/08/16	TLS[x] from Merton	The release has come through from our Georgia censor. It depends on one correction, in galley 62.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #132. «All Series«	1951/08/20	TL[x] to Merton	The corrections have just arrived, and we are bending every effort to make them in foundry,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #133. «All Series«	1951/08/23	TL[x] to Merton	Some time ago you asked me to inquire about Father Charbel. Perhaps you have the answer by now	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #134. «All Series«	1951/08/30 (#01)	TLS to Merton	An advance copy of the book has just come from the printer, and I have sent it along under separate	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #135. «All Series«	1951/08/30 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is Fr Maurice's nihil obstat. I gather he has already communicated it to you.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #136. «All Series«	1951/09/03	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your letter and the sheets which I sent off immediately to London. I did not see the one	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #137. «All Series«	1951/09/04	TALS to Merton	I have rushed through the deletion of "saints" on page 146, and changed it to read "It is possible	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #138. «All Series«	1951/09/10	TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Jones	In the absence of Mr Giroux I am writing to you, since I think you are his secretary. I badly need		«detailed view»
Series 1 #139. «All Series«	1951/09/10	TLS[x] from Merton	Perhaps there is still time to reach you before Thursday, to wish you a pleasant and profitable trip	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #140. «All Series«	1951/09/14	TALS to Merton	Thanks for your good letter of the 10th. We shall certainly change the jacket, and in fact I have	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #141. «All Series«	1951/09/25	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Thank you for your letter of the 20th. Copies of your book have gone off to the twelve people		«detailed view»
Series 1 #142. «All Series«	1951/09/28	TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Jones	Many thanks for your letter and the proofs. They were the ones I wanted but I find the corrections		«detailed view»
Series 1 #143. «All Series«	1951/09/28	TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Jones	Many thanks for your letter and the proofs. They were the ones I wanted but I find the corrections		«detailed view»
Series 1 #144. «All Series«	1951/10/09	TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Jones	I just became aware of a silly mistake in the ASCENT TO TRUTH that ought to be corrected because		«detailed view»
Series 1 #145. «All Series«	1951/10/10	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Proofs of the corrections for the second printing have just arrived from the printer, and I enclose		«detailed view»
Series 1 #146. «All Series«	1951/10/15	TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Jones	Thank you for the galleys of the patches-- I am returning them with the proper adjustments.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #147. «All Series«	1951/10/19	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Thank you very much for the proofs which arrived this morning, and for the new material.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #148. «All Series«	1951/10/22	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	The printers have just called up to say that they would like to have, if possible, the proofs		«detailed view»
Series 1 #149. «All Series«	1952/01/03	TL[x] to Merton	I enclose plate proofs of all the pages on which you had corrections. We are also sending a set	✓	[typed 1951/01/03, but a note from Patrick Samway states that it should be 1952] «detailed view»
Series 1 #150. «All Series«	1952/01/07	TALS to Merton	I'm glad that you liked Illustration. It struck me as an unusually good issue, too,	✓	[typed 1951/01/07, but a note states that it should be 1952] «detailed view»
Series 1 #151. «All Series«	1952/03/29	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your card from Cuba which came in this morning. I am happy about the Journal.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #152. «All Series«	1952/04/07	TL[x] to Merton	I am delighted to have the JOURNAL up to as recently as Saint Patrick's Day. I think the new	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #153. «All Series«	1952/04/11	HLS[x] from Merton	Am just mailing to you under separate cover the missing material for 1948. That completes the whole	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #154. «All Series«	1952/05/16	TL[x] to Merton	I am enclosing with this note a general editorial letter on the JOURNAL, in duplicate copies, so	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #155. «All Series«	1952/05/20	TLS[x] from Merton	The cover design is very striking. I like the Old Testament character of the thing. The ms is still	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #156. «All Series«	1952/05/22	TALS to Merton	I am happy to know that you like the cover design for THE SIGN OF JONAS. Some of the photographs	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #157. «All Series«	1952/06/04	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks much for your last letter. Here are the negatives, or rather a few of them. Some are	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #158. «All Series«	1952/06/06	TL[x] to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of June 4th. I am delighted to have the negatives, but I can't find	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #159. «All Series«	1952/06/10	TLS[x] from Merton	All the decent drawings I had have been given away-- to Clare Luce or to Sister Therese. Do you have	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #160. «All Series«	1952/06/17	TLS[x] from Merton	I have rwritten [sic] the outline for the beginning of section I, and I have written a prologue	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #161. «All Series«	1952/06/19	telegram[x] to Merton	PLAN TO FLY DOWN WEDNESDAY THE TWENTIFIFTH ARRIVING AROUND TWO O'CLOCK PLEASE	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #162. «All Series«	1952/06/21	telegram[x] from Merton	WEDNESDAY FINE EXCEPT FATHER ABBOTT AWAY UNTIL JULY 6TH COME ANY WAY UNLESS A SPECIALLY	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #163. «All Series«	1952/06/23	telegram[x] to Merton	THANKS TELEGRAM WILL COME WEDNESDAY JULY NINTH INSTEAD IF AGREEABLE DUE	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #164. «All Series«	1952/07/07	telegram[x] to Merton	ARRIVING WEDNESDAY AROUND ONE PLEASE WIRE COLLECT WHETHER OK YOU AND FATHER ABBOTT	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #165. «All Series«	1952/07/11	TLS[x] from Fox, James / to Robert Giroux	ARRIVING WEDNESDAY AROUND ONE PLEASE WIRE COLLECT WHETHER OK YOU AND FATHER ABBOTT		[from Merton's abbot to Girioux / contains a copy of the original signed letter (2 pages) and a re-typed double-spaced transcript (3 pages)] «detailed view»
Series 1 #166. «All Series«	1952/07/14	TALS to Merton	I had a wild trip back to Louisville with the two secular priests. Since my plane didn't leave	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #167. «All Series«	1952/07/17	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is another section preface-- for part four. Maybe I can finish the other two tomorrow.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #168. «All Series«	1952/07/18	TLS[x] from Merton	Here are the remaining introductions to the last two parts. I have only written one page for part	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #169. «All Series«	1952/07/20?	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the introduction to Part Three. The rest follows in a few days. We are all upside down with	✓	[not in Samway?] «detailed view»
Series 1 #170. «All Series«	1952/07/21	TL[x] to Merton	The last three introductions to the six parts of Jonas arrived this morning. I think some of your	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #171. «All Series«	1952/07/23	TLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for your letter. I was sorry to hear of your hair-raising tour of Kentucky.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #172. «All Series«	1952/07/29	TL[x] to Merton	I am sending, separately, the galley proofs of THE SIGN OF JONAS. There are three sets - one on air	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #173. «All Series«	1952/08/07	TLS[x] from Merton	Here are a few sketches. I haven't had time to really get down to work on them yet and so they are	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #174. «All Series«	1952/08/11	TLS[x] from Merton	This is just a note to tell you that the proofs all arrived safely and I have sent them out	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #175. «All Series«	1952/08/15 (#01)	TL[c] to Laughlin, James	Just to recapitulate our conversation at lunch today, it is understood that you are agreeable to our		«detailed view»
Series 1 #176. «All Series«	1952/08/15 (#02)	TL[x] to Merton	I had a wonderful lunch with Jay Laughlin today, and all is well. He is agreeable to THE SIGN OF	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #177. «All Series«	1952/08/27	TL[x] to Merton	This has been a most productive day of THE SIGN OF JONAS. Your proofs arrived this morning,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #178. «All Series«	1952/08/28	TL[x] to Burns, T. F.	Could you please take care of this? It is perfectly all right with me, and I suppose with you also.		[to Thomas Burns of Hollis and Carter in London] «detailed view»
Series 1 #179. «All Series«	1952/08/30	TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Jones	The Brooklyn censor sent his observations and there was one which I objected to. I returned		[from Merton to a secretary of Robert Giroux] «detailed view»
Series 1 #180. «All Series«	1952/08/no	telegram[x] to Merton	MUST HAVE MANUSCRIPT JONAS IN ADDITION TO PROOFS RECEIVED MY LETTER MAILED YESTERDAY	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #181. «All Series«	1952/09/06	TLS[x] from from Merton to Miss Jones	I am enclosing some galleys of Jonas with corrections that have been made at the suggestion		[from Merton to a secretary of Robert Giroux] «detailed view»
Series 1 #182. «All Series«	1952/09/09	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Thank you for your letter of the sixth, with the new corrections. It's too late for these now to be		[from a secretary of Robert Giroux (Miss Jones) to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #183. «All Series«	1952/09/12	TLS[x] from Merton to Miss Jones	A long time ago I sent Mr Giroux a box of kodachromes which might serve as possible illustrations		[from Merton to a secretary of Robert Giroux] «detailed view»
Series 1 #184. «All Series«	1952/09/18	telegram[x] to Merton	MOST URGENT WE RECEIVE ADDITIONAL CORRECTIONS OF FATHER MAURICE FOR SIGN OF JONAS	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #185. «All Series«	1952/09/19 (#01)	telegram[x] from Merton	CENSORED [sic] DENIED NIHIL OBSTAT DEMANDING CHANGES BUT SENT REPORT TO ABBOTT [sic]	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #186. «All Series«	1952/09/19 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Today's wire contained all the essentials about Fr Maurice, who is in the hospital, while his letter	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #187. «All Series«	1952/09/25 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Father Maurice sent in his Nihil Obstat this morning by telegram. Needless to say I was very much	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #188. «All Series«	1952/09/25 (#02)	telegram to Fox, James	MANY THANKS YOU GOOD LETTER WHICH IS INDEED BOMBSHELL. FATHER MAURICE NIHIL		«detailed view»
Series 1 #189. «All Series«	1952/09/26	TLS[x] from Merton	I am afraid there is very bad news from the censor's end of things-- in the Order. It is my fault	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #190. «All Series«	1952/09/30 (#01)	transcript from Merton	Thanks for your letter and for the copy of the telegram. I am glad you had all the information.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #191. «All Series«	1952/09/30 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your letter and for the copy of the telegram. I am glad you had all the information.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #192. «All Series«	1952/10/02	TALS to Merton	I had a long talk with Father Abbot last night about THE SIGN OF JONAS and the situation,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #193. «All Series«	1952/10/03	TL[c] to Maritain, Jacques	Under separate cover there has gone to you a set of bound proofs of THE SIGN OF JONAS		«detailed view»
Series 1 #194. «All Series«	1952/10/21	TALS[x] from Merton	Father Abbot just told me of your wire, and that Dom Albert had withdrawn his objections to the book	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #195. «All Series«	1952/10/29	TLS[x] from Merton	At long last a letter has arrived from our Most Reverend Father General, in Tokyo. My letter did not	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #196. «All Series«	1952/10/30 (#01)	telegram[x] from Merton	GENERAL PERMITS PUBLICATION JONAS. INCLUDE DOM ALBERTS CORRECTION THANK GOD	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #197. «All Series«	1952/10/30 (#02)	telegram[x] to Merton	DEO GRATIAS. WHAT IS DOM ALBERT'S CORRECTION PLEASE WIRE COLLECT	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #198. «All Series«	1952/10/31	telegram[x] from Merton	DON’T KNOW CORRECTIONS BETTER CABLE DOM ALBERT= FAHER [sic] LOUIS TRAPPIST KY=	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #199. «All Series«	1952/11/03	TLS to Merton	I was ready to answer your letter of October 21st when the wire arrived with the news that	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #200. «All Series«	1952/11/06	telegram[x] from Merton	NIHIL OBSTAT SHOULD READ EXACTLY AS IN ASCENT TO TRUTH PLUS FATHER M ALBERT DERZELLES	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #201. «All Series«	1952/11/07	telegram[x] to Merton	MANY THANKS WIRE ASSUME YOU MEAN FATHER M GABRIEL SORTAIS INSTEAD OF NOGUES	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #202. «All Series«	1952/11/12	TL[x] to Merton	I had lunch with Naomi yesterday and she showed me your letter about CISTERCIAN CONTEMPLATIVES.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #203. «All Series«	1952/no/no?	TLS[x] from Merton	I keep thinking that you do not have all of the Journal. Before the last piece I sent you there is		«detailed view»
Series 1 #204. «All Series«	1953/01/03	TALS[x] from Merton	It seems like ages since I have either written to you or heard from you. The first reason for this	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #205. «All Series«	1953/02/05 (#01)	TL[x] to Merton	Dan and I have just come from a fine lunch, at which we celebrated the publication of THE SIGN	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #206. «All Series«	1953/02/05 (#02)	HLS[x] from Graham, Aelred	Many thanks for "The Sign of Jonas" which I am reading through with interest. It seems to confirm		«detailed view»
Series 1 #207. «All Series«	1953/02/16	TLS[x] from Merton	The other day I forgot to thank you, in the letter I wrote, for the beautifully bound copy of Jonas.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #208. «All Series«	1953/04/11	TLS[x] from Merton	It seems like a long time since I wrote to you or heard from you. How is the book going?	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #209. «All Series«	1953/04/30	TLS[x] from Merton	I am sending you a copy of a technical study of St Bernard which perhaps will form one	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #210. «All Series«	1953/05/01 (#01)	TALS to Merton	This is just a note to say that all is going well. I am off on a business trip to California	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #211. «All Series«	1953/05/01 (#02)	TAL[c] to Merton	This is just a note to say that all is going well. I am off on a business trip to California	✓	[handwritten note states: "not to circulate"] «detailed view»
Series 1 #212. «All Series«	1953/05/04	TLS[x] from Merton	I just got a letter from Clare Luce, written on the way to Italy to take up her diplomatic post	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #213. «All Series«	1953/05/11	TL[x] to Merton	I am just back from Hollywood and doubtless none the better for it, although I did acquire a slight	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #214. «All Series«	1953/05/19	TL[x] to Merton	The bindery has just delivered the presentation copies of JONAS and ASCENT. The former is bound	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #215. «All Series«	1953/06/03 (#01)	telegram[x] from Merton	IF YOU HAVE NOT SENT BOOKS FOR HOLY FATHER TO CLARE LUCE PLEASE SEND HERE	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #216. «All Series«	1953/06/03 (#02)	telegram[x] to Merton	BOOKS FOR HOLY FATHER MAILED YOU TODAY FOR AUTOGRAPH REGARDS BOB	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #217. «All Series«	1953/06/20	TLS[x] from Merton	I haven't yet thanked you for the bound volumes of Jonas and the Ascent which are very	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #218. «All Series«	1953/07/17	TL[x] to Merton	I have sent you the typed transcript of WORDS MADE OUT OF SILENCE (provisional title).	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #219. «All Series«	1953/07/23	TL[x] to Merton	A few duplicate reviews of JONAS have come to my desk and I forward them in case they have not	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #220. «All Series«	1953/07/26?	TLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for the reviews of Jonas. I am glad the reviewers like the book, mostly.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #221. «All Series«	1953/08/12	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the text of my introduction and commentary on the Encyclical Doctor Mellifluus.	✓	[not certain if Loyola or Harcourt as source] «detailed view»
Series 1 #222. «All Series«	1953/08/24	TALS[x] from Merton	Here is a translation of the Encyclical which has been made here and which was just read	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #223. «All Series«	1953/09/12	TLS[x] from Merton	Before leaving for the General Chapter, Father Abbot gave me permission to try to get a copy	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #224. «All Series«	1953/09/23 (#01)	TALS to Merton	We want to go ahead and do a small book of THE LAST OF THE FATHERS. It's an amazing encyclical	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #225. «All Series«	1953/09/23 (#02)	TL[x] to Merton	We want to go ahead and do a small book of THE LAST OF THE FATHERS. It's an amazing encyclical	✓	life of St. Bernard of Clairvaux / Naomi Burton Stone / British rendition of "Doctor Mellifluous" - Fr. Ronald Knox's translation / sending the Pope's address on psychotherapy / cover design of Sign of Jonas and review of printing by Frank Myrick «detailed view»
Series 1 #226. «All Series«	1953/10/03	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the only copy of the Vatican translation of the Encyclical I have so far received.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #227. «All Series«	1953/10/09	TALS[x] from Merton	Here is practically all the material for the Last of the Fathers, at least all that is to be written	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #228. «All Series«	1953/11/04	TLS to Merton	THE LAST OF THE FATHERS has all been retyped and copyedited, and is now being designed.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #229. «All Series«	1953/11/27	TALS[x] from Merton	I have your letter of the fourth, in which you mention the possiblity of sending the LAST	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #230. «All Series«	1953/11/30	TALS to Merton	You are right about not sending THE LAST OF THE FATHERS to Louisville. It certainly should have	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #231. «All Series«	1953/12/03	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the picture of St Bernard I was expected from Europe. It is a mosaic, from a chapel	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #232. «All Series«	1953/12/07	TL[x] to Merton	The photos arrived this morning; many thanks for getting them to us so quickly. The mosaic portrait	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #233. «All Series«	1953/12/11	TLS from Merton	Here is one picture of a St Bernard Manuscript that we have handy here. Itis [sic] a little faint,	✓	[includes 1 page of letter, 1 photograph of St. Bernard manuscript, and 2 black and white photographs of St. Vorles in France] «detailed view»
Series 1 #234. «All Series«	1954/01/08	TL[x] to Merton	The galleys of THE LAST OF THE FATHERS are all at hand, and I enclose the marked set for the printer	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #235. «All Series«	1954/01/14	TLS[x] from Merton	I have been over these proofs and everything in the main seems very satisfactory. I did not plan	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #236. «All Series«	1954/01/20	TLS to Merton	In seeking a motif to illustrate THE LAST OF THE FATHERS, our designer came across the enclosed	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #237. «All Series«	1954/02/03	TLS to Merton	You are too kind about the Abbot of Villers design, and it was stupid of me not to see that	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #238. «All Series«	1954/02/16	TLS[x] from Merton	Here are the index and bibliography-- in more of a mess than my stuff usually is, even! I did them	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #239. «All Series«	1954/02/19	TLS[x] from Merton	After sending off the last letter and the proofs, I suddenly thought of two other things I would	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #240. «All Series«	1954/02/25	TLS to Merton	Many thanks for the index and bibliography and the addition to the preface, which arrived in the	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #241. «All Series«	1954/02/27	TLS[x] from Merton	Just a hasty note to ask two more favors: first as soon as the corrections are made in the FATHERS	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #242. «All Series«	1954/03/03	TL[x] to Merton	Here is a file set of THE LAST OF THE FATHERS, with all the corrections but lacking the index	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #243. «All Series«	1954/03/04	TL[x] to Merton	Here is a review by George Shuster in next Sunday's Herald-Tribune. Mr. Jack Adams, who is a friend	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #244. «All Series«	1954/03/18	telegram[x] to Merton	ARE THE NAMES OF YOUR CENSORS FOR LAST OF FATHERS MALLOY AND BOURNE AND IS IMPRIMI	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #245. «All Series«	1954/03/20	telegram[x] from Merton	CENSORS FOR NEW BOOK ARE MALLOY AND BOURNE SAME AS IN JONAS= =MERTON=	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #246. «All Series«	1954/05/14	TLS[x] from Merton	Copies of the Last of the Fathers reached me yesterday. As I expected, it is handsomely done.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #247. «All Series«	1954/05/28	TLS to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of the 14th. I'm glad the advance copies have reached you and that you	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #248. «All Series«	1954/06/02	TL[x] to Merton	This is a follow-up to my letter of March 4th, a copy of which I enclose. The reason I'm writing is		«detailed view»
Series 1 #249. «All Series«	1954/06/05	HLS[x] from Merton	Many thank s for your letter. I received the Menninger book but not Fromm's as yet. I am extremely	✓	[dated "Vigil of Pentecost, 1954"] «detailed view»
Series 1 #250. «All Series«	1954/06/08	TLS[x] from Merton	I remember receiving your letter about the books for Miss Howe. I set it aside and then nothing		«detailed view»
Series 1 #251. «All Series«	1954/06/16	TL[x] to Merton	Thank you for your note of June eighth about the package of books to be incscribed for Mr. John G.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #252. «All Series«	1954/07/09	TLS from Merton	Here finally is the manuscript of Viewpoints, with a new title. The prologue explains	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #253. «All Series«	1954/07/23	TLS to Merton	The manuscript of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND arrived safely, and I am now reading it with pleasure.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #254. «All Series«	1954/10/11	TALS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for the books-- Judson, Mumford and Coffin. I am already greatly enjoying the anthology.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #255. «All Series«	1954/10/26	TL[x] from French, Eleanor / to Merton	Your letter of October 11th enclosing a letter from Mr. Gilson has arrived in Mr. Giroux's absence		«detailed view»
Series 1 #256. «All Series«	1954/11/04	TLS[x] from Merton	The Kafka books have all arrived-- Penal Colony, Metamorphosis, Amerika, Castle, Great Wall,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #257. «All Series«	1954/11/08	TLS to Merton	I'm glad to know that the Kafka books have all safely arrived, and I am dismayed to learn that you		«detailed view»
Series 1 #258. «All Series«	1954/11/16	TLS[x] from Merton	The ribbons and carbon paper arrived. Alleluia. I ought to have enough to keep me quite for a few	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #259. «All Series«	1954/11/29	TLS to Merton	There are only a few editorial points to make about the new book. The front matter is fine,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #260. «All Series«	1954/12/05	TLS from Merton	It was good to get your letter and to learn that everything is simple and satisfactory with the new,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #261. «All Series«	1954/12/13	TL[x] to Merton	Several omissions have become apparent during the copyediting of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. There are	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #262. «All Series«	1954/12/17	TLS from Merton	There is no further copy coming for NO MAN IS AN ISLAND. I decided to leave those spots unfilled.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #263. «All Series«	1954/no/no?	TNS to Merton	Forgive my long silence. This is just to send you a rather large Christmas card in the form of	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #264. «All Series«	1955/01/07	TL[x] to Merton	The jacket sketch for NO MAN IS AN ISLAND has just come in and it is one of the best yet by Arno,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #265. «All Series«	1955/01/10	TLS[x] from Merton	The galleys came today. I am writing to say that I will get busy on them as soon as possible	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #266. «All Series«	1955/01/12	TLS[x] from Merton	I am sending two shorts from the monastic collection from France, for the book Silence in Heaven.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #267. «All Series«	1955/01/15 (#01)	TLS[x] from Merton	I have finished the galley proofs and am sending them back today. As I told you, I made a few	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #268. «All Series«	1955/01/15 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	After the 8 extra pages that went off with the proofs yesterday, I am sending 3 more herewith.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #269. «All Series«	1955/01/18	TL[x] to Best, James	We have just scheduled for Spring publication a new book by Thomas Merton entitled NO MAN IS	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #270. «All Series«	1955/01/28	TL[x] to Merton	We have moved forward on the book with great rapidity, and the page proofs are already at hand.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #271. «All Series«	1955/01/31 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Following our phone conversation just now (the closest I have been to New York for a long time!)	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #272. «All Series«	1955/01/31 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Following our phone conversation just now (the closest I have been to New York for a long time!)	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #273. «All Series«	1955/01/31 (#03)	other	SILENCE DANS LE CIEL ICI illustrations hélios [-] 224 pages [-] format 21 x 25.5		[plan and list of illustrations for a French edition of Silence in Heaven, published by the Benedictine monastery of the Abbey of La Pierre Qui Vire Abbey in Yonne, France] «detailed view»
Series 1 #274. «All Series«	1955/04/07	TALS to Merton	I deeply regret the misunderstanding which occurred during my last weeks at Harcourt, Brace	✓	[writing now from Farrar, Straus and Cudahy Publishers] «detailed view»
Series 1 #275. «All Series«	1955/06/23	TALS to Merton	This is not the long letter which I have been wanting to write you about a great number of matters,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #276. «All Series«	1955/06/30	TLS to Merton	Many thanks for returning the jacket so promptly. I realize that you still wish to work on the	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #277. «All Series«	1955/09/14 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Naomi's office sent over your letter about the delay on THE LIVING BREAD, since she is now in Europe	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #278. «All Series«	1955/09/14 (#02)	other	T. MORUS MARGARETAE ELIZABETHAE CECILIAE AC IOANNI DULCISSIMIS LIBERIS. S.P.		[enclosed letter in Latin verse by Thomas More that Giroux is asking Merton to help translate] «detailed view»
Series 1 #279. «All Series«	1955/11/15	TALS to Merton	I am very happy to be back from Europe, even though I can say that it was the best trip I have ever	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #280. «All Series«	1956/04/12	TLS to Merton	The plate changes have all been made in THE LIVING BREAD and I enclose corrected plate proofs	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #281. «All Series«	1956/05/16	TL[x] to Merton	I am awfully glad that you agreed to let us show your paper on "The Neurotic Personality" to Dr.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #282. «All Series«	1956/05/26	TLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for your letter of the other day. I wrote to Zilboorg yesterday afternoon. I would	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #283. «All Series«	1956/06/23	TLS[x] from Merton	One of the Zilboorg books you spoke of has arrived, Mind, Medicine and Man. Did you say you	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #284. «All Series«	1956/08/04	HPCS[x] from Merton	My two weeks here have been immensely profitable and of course I have seen Zilboorg who has many	✓	[postcard written while Merton was at a conference at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he met famed psychiatrist Gregory Zilboorg] «detailed view»
Series 1 #285. «All Series«	1956/08/07	TLS to Merton	I want to assure you at once that there will be photographs in THE SILENT LIFE. I'm not sure	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #286. «All Series«	1956/08/13	TLS[x] from Merton to Mr. Peck	I am sending off the corrected proofs today. Or rather I am giving them to the brother gatekeeper		[sending proofs to a colleage of Robert Giroux] «detailed view»
Series 1 #287. «All Series«	1956/08/18	TLS[x] from Merton	About the photos: I am absolutely certain that I sent either to you or to Naomi, a year ago,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #288. «All Series«	1956/09/03	TLS[x] from Merton	Here are some excellent Carthusian photos, all from La Val Sainte in Switzerland. I think you can	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #289. «All Series«	1956/09/05	TLS to Merton	This is to thank you for the Carthusian photos which arrived by special delivery today. They are	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #290. «All Series«	1956/10/02	TLS to Merton	I enclose the final layout of the photographs in THE SILENT LIFE. In a few instances I had no	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #291. «All Series«	1956/10/04?	TLS[x] from Merton	The pictures are very fine. I like the layouts very much and think the whole thing will be splendid		[(filed in Series 7 of the "Fox, James" correspondence) enclosed with 1956/November/07 letter from Dom James Fox to Abbot General Gabriel Sortais] «detailed view»
Series 1 #292. «All Series«	1957/12/16	TLS to Merton	This is my Christmas letter to you, to accompany a package containing Georges Bernanos'	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #293. «All Series«	1957/12/19	TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton	The more I have read and re-read the manuscript of THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE, which you sent me		«detailed view»
Series 1 #294. «All Series«	1957/12/28	transcript from Merton	It was wonderful to hear from you and to get the books. I was intrigued to hear about the [George]	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #295. «All Series«	1958/02/14	TALS to Merton	The proofs of THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE have just come in, and I rush them to you at once.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #296. «All Series«	1958/02/26	TALS to Merton	Thanks very much for getting the galley proofs back so quickly. I am much relieved that, having	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #297. «All Series«	1958/03/03 (#01)	transcript from Merton	Here are the proofs of the front matter. I have taken care to insert the Nihil Obstat, etc.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #298. «All Series«	1958/03/03 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Here are the proofs of the front matter. I have taken care to insert the Nihil Obstat, etc.	✓	[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files] «detailed view»
Series 1 #299. «All Series«	1958/03/05	TLS to Merton	Just a note to let you know that the proofs of the front matters arrived safely -- and very quickly,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #300. «All Series«	1958/09/12	TALS to Merton	I was delighted to have your inscribed copy of the Prometheus: A Meditation, for many	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #301. «All Series«	1958/10/01	TL[c] to Merton	I was delighted to get the proofs back from you so promptly. Mrs. Doherty had a few minor	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #302. «All Series«	1958/10/23	TALS[x] from Merton	As you may remember, we have been working down here on a book about sacret art. It is called ART AND	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #303. «All Series«	1958/11/22	TLS[x] from Merton	Naomi tells me you are favorably considering Art and Worship and I am glad.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #304. «All Series«	1958/11/26	TLS to Merton	Thank you for your good letter of November 22nd. I like the text of ART AND WORSHIP enormously,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #305. «All Series«	1958/12/04 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Many thanks for your letter of the other day. Today I have finally got back from the censors	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #306. «All Series«	1958/12/04 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for your letter of the other day. Today I have finally got back from the censors	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #307. «All Series«	1958/12/13	TALS[x] from Merton	Yesterday I went in to Louisville and saw the man who was doing the layouts for ART AND WORSHIP.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #308. «All Series«	1958/12/19	TLS to Merton	I owe you at least three letters, I am sure, but this is simply to let you know that all	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #309. «All Series«	1959/01/03	TLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for your letter and for the books. It was good to hear from you and I shall look forward	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #310. «All Series«	1959/01/08	TLS[x] from Merton	When I wrote the other day, I forgot one important question you asked, which was about trying new	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #311. «All Series«	1959/01/16	TLS to Merton	I have just learned that Eliot is arriving in New York at the end of January, in connection with his	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #312. «All Series«	1959/01/24	TLS[x] from Merton	Good, I will be expecting you at the later date, after Easter. But meanwhile I would like	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #313. «All Series«	1959/01/30	TLS to Merton	To answer your question about the type problem -- I doubt very much that it would be possible to use	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #314. «All Series«	1959/03/18	TALS[x] from Merton	I wrote to Naomi the other day with the news that the Censors had finally passed Art and	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #315. «All Series«	1959/04/10	TLS to Merton	How would the weekend of Saturday, May 2nd, work out for a visit? I'm sorry for the delay in not	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #316. «All Series«	1959/04/10	TL[x] to Merton	How would the weekend of Saturday, May 2nd, work out for a visit? I'm sorry for the delay in not	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #317. «All Series«	1959/05/09	TLS[x] from Merton	[..] imagine that finally the censors came through with their approval for [..] Pasternak. A little		[very difficult to read / possibly a copy made from a copy made for Giroux by Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #318. «All Series«	1959/05/26 (#01)	TLS to Merton	The staid old Times Literary Supplement has an excellent review of SECULAR JOURNAL.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #319. «All Series«	1959/05/26 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	The staid old Times Literary Supplement has an excellent review of SECULAR JOURNAL.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #320. «All Series«	1959/06/20 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	I am finally getting around to drawing up that list of articles for the book. Forgive me from	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #321. «All Series«	1959/06/20 (#02)	other	Material for a Book of Essays: Part I- Early Material: (1939-40) We might draw on book reviews		[enclosed with 1959/06/20 letter] «detailed view»
Series 1 #322. «All Series«	1959/08/26	TLS from Merton	How is everything? I haven't heard from you in a long time. Have you written? Perhaps a letter		[not in Samway book - note on Samway's copy states that letter was discovered after book went to proof] «detailed view»
Series 1 #323. «All Series«	1959/11/25	TLS to Merton	I feel that I have been out of touch for decades. I do not like the feeling, and I hope to prevent	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #324. «All Series«	1959/11/28	TL[c] from Merton	I wrote you a letter yesterday but it had not gone out when yours arrived toda[y] so I am going	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #325. «All Series«	1959/12/24	TALS to Merton	I have been going over the manuscript with great pleasure, for I think it has some of your best	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #326. «All Series«	1959/12/29 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	The ideas about the new book are in general perfectly acceptable to me. And they make good sense.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #327. «All Series«	1959/12/29 (#02)	other	Work Under Way- Possibilities for publication after 1960. 1- 1960 Spiritual Direction and		[enclosed with 1959/12/29 letter] «detailed view»
Series 1 #328. «All Series«	1960/02/12	TLS to Merton	I'm sorry that we are in such a pickle over the Reader. I think you are absolutely right	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #329. «All Series«	1960/02/15	TALS[c] to McDonnell, Thomas P.	Many thanks for your letter of February 13th. Father Louis writes me that he can not give his		[includes handwritten note from Giroux to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #330. «All Series«	1960/02/16	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter of the 12th which I received this morning. I think it would be a good idea	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #331. «All Series«	1960/02/17	TLS to Merton	I'm delighted to have your letter of February 16th and I will be down to see you next week.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #332. «All Series«	1960/04/12	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the final and complete version of one of the essays for the new books, as it has appeared	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #333. «All Series«	1960/04/13	TLS to Merton	Many thanks for the final version of the essay in Worship. Actually Father McDonnell had	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #334. «All Series«	1960/04/22	TALS to Merton	Here is the sketch by the jacket artist for DISPUTED QUESTIONS. They are unusual colors, but very	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #335. «All Series«	1960/04/30	TLS from Merton	Please excuse the red ribbon, I have to use it up somehow. The cover design is very fine, though it	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #336. «All Series«	1960/05/26	TALS to Merton	The galley proofs of DISPUTED QUESTIONS are now here. I am not sure whether you want me to	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #337. «All Series«	1960/06/03	TLS to Merton	I'm sorry I missed your phone call, and no doubt this letter will cross yours. I assumed you knew	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #338. «All Series«	1960/06/06	TLS to Merton	Just a note to acknowledge receipt of the replacement for galleys 64 through 69, with the changes	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #339. «All Series«	1960/06/08	TALS[x] from Merton	I have copied out the Pasternak letter, complete with the first section which is in Greek, I mean	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #340. «All Series«	1960/06/09	TALS to Merton	Just a note to acknowledge receipt of the proofs, and your letter of June 7th. I like the Pasternak	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #341. «All Series«	1960/06/17	TALS to Merton	I had a very good meeting with Eloise Spaeth today about ART AND WORSHIP. One of the things	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #342. «All Series«	1960/07/13	TLS to Merton	Under separate cover I have sent you an information set of page proofs of DISPUTED QUESTIONS	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #343. «All Series«	1960/09/16	TALS to Merton	I am finally back not only in New York but in our new offices at 19 Union Square West. (The soap	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #344. «All Series«	1960/09/17	TALS[x] from Merton	The authors copies of the new book have arrived and I am very grateful. I have thought of a few more	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #345. «All Series«	1960/09/26	TALS[x] from Merton	No better date than this to write about the new book since today is the day scheduled for its	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #346. «All Series«	1960/10/25	TLS to Merton	I enclose some reviews of DISPUTED QUESTIONS, including (for them) an unusually intelligent	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #347. «All Series«	1960/11/15 (#01)	TALS to Merton	I am delighted to report that Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh has written a prefatory note for	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #348. «All Series«	1960/11/15 (#02)	TL[x] from Wright, John J.	These thoughtful reflections of Father Thomas Merton and the exquisite reproductions which		[enclosure to 1960/11/15 letter from Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh to Giroux in praise of Merton's book Art and Worship (book was not published)] «detailed view»
Series 1 #349. «All Series«	1960/12/01	TALS to Merton	I am grateful for your two letter of November 28th, the first because it speaks out about things	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #350. «All Series«	1960/12/25	HNS from Merton	+for Bob - In XT - Christmas, 1960 [-] Tom.		[note on printed copy of Merton's poem: "Song: If You Seek"] «detailed view»
Series 1 #351. «All Series«	1961/01/25 (#01)	TALS to Merton	I hope it is true that the contract with Sudamericana limits their rights to Latin America only,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #352. «All Series«	1961/01/25 (#02)	other	Woman Friend of Pasternak Said to Be Imprisoned by Soviet [-] She Inspired Writing of 'Doctor		[newspaper clipping from the New York Times, 1961/01/19] «detailed view»
Series 1 #353. «All Series«	1961/02/13 (#01)	TLS from Merton	There are hundreds of things to be said, I have to stick to the most important ones. First of all	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #354. «All Series«	1961/02/13 (#02)	TLS to Merton	I've been in correspondence with Mrs. Lydia Pasternak Slater, sister of Boris Pasternak who lives	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #355. «All Series«	1961/02/23	TAL[c] from Murray, Anne Brooks	Mr. Giroux is in Jamaica with the Eliots, and will not be back until March 10th, but I wanted to let		«detailed view»
Series 1 #356. «All Series«	1961/02/28	TLS from Merton	I don't know if you are yet back from Jamaica but I have to get this letter off to avoid	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #357. «All Series«	1961/04/14 (#01)	TALS to Merton	This letter is long overdue and there is much to write about. To start with THE NEW MAN, which we	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #358. «All Series«	1961/05/08	TLS to Merton	I think we have created a problem about the title of THE NEW MAN where one does not exit.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #359. «All Series«	1961/05/13	TLS from Merton	Thanks for your last good letter and for the first paragraph about the title. I have not yet worked	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #360. «All Series«	1961/06/02	TLS to Merton	The proofs of A NEW MAN have just come from the printer, and I am sending them to you under	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #361. «All Series«	1961/06/30	TLS to Merton	This is just to thank you for returning the galley proofs of THE NEW MAN so promptly. They are now	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #362. «All Series«	1961/08/18	TLS to Merton	The alumni magazine arrived today with a picture of Mark accepting your medal at the commencement	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #363. «All Series«	1961/09/01	TLS to Merton	I am stunned by that poem. Is there any reason why it could not also be published in	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #364. «All Series«	1961/10/18	TLS from Merton	The new books have arrived. I am delighted to get to Leskov at last, he has long been on my list.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #365. «All Series«	1961/10/25 (#01)	TALS from Merton	In the last few days I have been cleaning up some work with the man who has been editing the	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #366. «All Series«	1961/10/25 (#02)	TAL[c] from Merton	In the last few days I have been cleaning up some work with the man who has been editing the	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #367. «All Series«	1961/11/14	TLS from Merton	The NEW MAN has arrived and of course I am very pleased with it. The striking simplicity	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #368. «All Series«	1961/11/20 (#01)	TLS to Merton	I'm happy to hear that you like THE NEW MAN. The only review so far - an advance notice - could	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #369. «All Series«	1961/11/20 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	I'm happy to hear that you like THE NEW MAN. The only review so far - an advance notice - could	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #370. «All Series«	1961/12/08	TAL[c] to Merton	Dr. Abraham Heschel, whose books we have published--MAN IS NOT ALONE, THE SABBATH, and GOD	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #371. «All Series«	1961/12/18	TLS from Merton	First of all I am really anxious to help in any way I can to get Abraham Heschel's books known	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #372. «All Series«	1962/03/01 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Perry Knowlton has sent me his letter to you, and also, since I last wrote, I dug into the files	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #373. «All Series«	1962/03/01 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Perry Knowlton has sent me his letter to you, and also, since I last wrote, I dug into the files	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #374. «All Series«	1962/03/05	TL[c] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Thank you very much for your letter of March 1st, which has arrived while Mr. Giroux is away		«detailed view»
Series 1 #375. «All Series«	1962/03/22	TLS from Merton	I hear you have been in Jamaica, and hope you had a nice vacation there. While you were away	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #376. «All Series«	1962/03/28	TL[c] to Merton	My stay in Barbados (not Jamaica - that was last year) was a little longer than planned,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #377. «All Series«	1962/03/30 (#01)	TALS to Merton	You have told me so often that you don't want to get mixed up in business matters, that you don't	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #378. «All Series«	1962/03/30 (#02)	TAL[c] to Merton	You have told me so often that you don't want to get mixed up in business matters, that you don't	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #379. «All Series«	1962/04/03 (#01)	TALS from Merton	Many thanks for your good letter. I certainly have been needing light on this thing, because it is	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #380. «All Series«	1962/04/03 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for your good letter. I certainly have been needing light on this thing, because it is	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #381. «All Series«	1962/04/23 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Naturally I keep thinking about this Reader business, and also, of course, I asked for the agreement	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #382. «All Series«	1962/04/23 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Naturally I keep thinking about this Reader business, and also, of course, I asked for the agreement	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #383. «All Series«	1962/05/11 (#01)	TALS to Merton	As Perry Knowlton may have told you, Roger Straus is now trying to work out with William Jovanovich	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #384. «All Series«	1962/05/11 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	As Perry Knowlton may have told you, Roger Straus is now trying to work out with William Jovanovich	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #385. «All Series«	1962/08/27 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Thanks for your good letter and the enclosure from the TLS which was bracing. I am glad the book	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #386. «All Series«	1962/08/27 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your good letter and the enclosure from the TLS which was bracing. I am glad the book	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #387. «All Series«	1962/09/17	TLS from Merton	The new book on Yoga has not arrived but it sounds very interesting. I shall certainly consider	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #388. «All Series«	1962/11/21	TLS to Merton	I can't tell you how glad I was to hear from you, and to read the piece you wrote as a preface	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #389. «All Series«	1962/12/01	TLS from Merton	This is just a quick note to let you know that the censors came through bravely with approbation	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #390. «All Series«	1962/12/06 (#01)	TALS to Merton	I am delighted to know that the censors have O.K.'d the preface for IN SEARCH OF A YOGI.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #391. «All Series«	1962/12/06 (#02)	TAL[c] to Merton	I am delighted to know that the censors have O.K.'d the preface for IN SEARCH OF A YOGI.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #392. «All Series«	1962/12/12 (#01)	TLS from Merton	I can't guarantee that this typing is going to be very good. I have been walking around in the zero	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #393. «All Series«	1962/12/12 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	I can't guarantee that this typing is going to be very good. I have been walking around in the zero	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #394. «All Series«	1962/12/17	HLS from Merton	Here is the preface. I look forward to the Xavier Rynne article. Actually I think the first	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #395. «All Series«	1963/02/01	TALS to Merton	Ed Rice tells me that he want to use an excerpt from IN SEARCH OF A YOGI in Jubilee,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #396. «All Series«	1963/02/05 (#01)	TALS from Merton	It was good to get some news from you and to know that we can go ahead at least tentatively with	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #397. «All Series«	1963/02/05 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	It was good to get some news from you and to know that we can go ahead at least tentatively with	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #398. «All Series«	1963/03/16 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Maybe the Lenten fast clears the head. Maybe also a few remarks in a letter from Tom Burns helped	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #399. «All Series«	1963/03/16 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Maybe the Lenten fast clears the head. Maybe also a few remarks in a letter from Tom Burns helped	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #400. «All Series«	1963/03/20	TL[c] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	I feel that I would like you to know that Mr. Giroux is at the moment away from the office		«detailed view»
Series 1 #401. «All Series«	1963/05/10 (#01)	TLS from Merton	The Xavier Rynne book arrived this morning. Thanks very much indeed. It looks great. Is there	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #402. «All Series«	1963/05/10 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	The Xavier Rynne book arrived this morning. Thanks very much indeed. It looks great. Is there	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #403. «All Series«	1963/05/13 (#01)	TLS to Merton	I'm glad you like the looks of the Xavier Rynne book. If you've read the preface, you know that	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #404. «All Series«	1963/05/13 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	I'm glad you like the looks of the Xavier Rynne book. If you've read the preface, you know that	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #405. «All Series«	1963/05/29	TALS from Merton	It was a comfort to get your letter and I am happy at the clarity that it has brought	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #406. «All Series«	1963/06/21 (#01)	TALS to Merton	I am getting the essays together from several sources -- my files here, at home, and in Jersey --	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #407. «All Series«	1963/06/21 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	I am getting the essays together from several sources -- my files here, at home, and in Jersey --	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #408. «All Series«	1963/07/17 (#01)	TALS to Merton	I am very much concerned about the whole Macmillan situation, following a meeting here with their	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #409. «All Series«	1963/07/17 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	I am very much concerned about the whole Macmillan situation, following a meeting here with their	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #410. «All Series«	1963/07/20 (#01)	TALS from Merton	Your call yesterday was most helpful, and it has really thrown some light on the situation. I hope	✓	[handwritten note by Giroux - "No" to Merton's suggestion of letter Tom Burns publish Prayer as Worship and Experience] «detailed view»
Series 1 #411. «All Series«	1963/07/20 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Your call yesterday was most helpful, and it has really thrown some light on the situation. I hope	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #412. «All Series«	1963/07/24 (#01)	TALS to Merton	I'm most grateful to you for sending a copy of the contract, which has been of great help to our	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #413. «All Series«	1963/07/24 (#02)	other	Postscript to 'Zhivago' [-] While Stalin lived, world public opinion had become accustomed to		[newspaper clipping enclosed with 1963/07/24 letter - source and date unknown] «detailed view»
Series 1 #414. «All Series«	1963/07/24 (#03)	TL[c] to Merton	I'm most grateful to you for sending a copy of the contract, which has been of great help to our	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #415. «All Series«	1963/07/24 (#04)	TALS[x] to Merton	I'm most grateful to you for sending a copy of the contract, which has been of great help to our	✓	[filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani] lawyers recommend Dom James Fox sending Warren Sullivan at Macmillan a letter to explicitly state that it was both the idea of Fox and Merton to discontinue plans to publish Prayer as Worship and Experience «detailed view»
Series 1 #416. «All Series«	1963/08/02	telegram to Merton	OUR LAWYERS URGENTLY NEED COPY OF YOUR LETTER MACMILLAN RETURNING ADVANCE	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #417. «All Series«	1963/08/07 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Your telegram reached me this morning. I am asking the Abbot's secretary to make the copies you	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #418. «All Series«	1963/08/09 (#01)	TLS to Merton	I am most grateful for your letter of August 7th, enclosing Father Abbot's letter of July 27th	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #419. «All Series«	1963/08/09 (#02)	TL[c] to Merton	I am most grateful for your letter of August 7th, enclosing Father Abbot's letter of July 27th	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #420. «All Series«	1963/08/11	TLS[x] from Merton	Well, thank heaven this Macmillan thing seems to have been settled. Father Abbot yesterday received	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #421. «All Series«	1963/08/22 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	I wonder if you have any idea what happens to mail when it arrives in a Trappist monastery, for one	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #422. «All Series«	1963/08/22 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	I wonder if you have any idea what happens to mail when it arrives in a Trappist monastery, for one	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #423. «All Series«	1963/08/28	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	In case you should wonder at receiving no reply to your letter to Mr. Giroux, I would like you	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #424. «All Series«	1963/09/06	TALS[x] from Giroux, Robert / to Merton	I always seem to be away when important letters come. This time I was brought low by a bad virus	✓	[extra copy transferred from the "Fox, James" file from a series accessioned in 2015, "Publishers' Correspondence: Farrar, Straus and Giroux"] Macmillan, book rights, and conflict - Naomi Burton Stone «detailed view»
Series 1 #425. «All Series«	1964/02/07	TALS to Merton	I was delighted that Naomi forwarded the two manuscripts, and I'm happy to report that we have	✓	on changing the title of Merton's book about racial inequality and nuclear weapons from The Cold War and the Black Revolution to Seeds of Destruction / asking Eloise Spaeth if she would like to work with Merton on Art and Worship «detailed view»
Series 1 #426. «All Series«	1964/02/10 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Your letter of the 7th reached me this morning. I am very glad you are going right ahead with	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #427. «All Series«	1964/02/10 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Your letter of the 7th reached me this morning. I am very glad you are going right ahead with	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #428. «All Series«	1964/03/05 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	As you remember, in writing from time to time about the material in SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION I have	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #429. «All Series«	1964/03/05 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	As you remember, in writing from time to time about the material in SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION I have	✓	[copied from Sub-Section H.7, Hart Working Files - contains handwritten note] «detailed view»
Series 1 #430. «All Series«	1964/03/06	TLS to Merton	Naomi phoned me yesterday and I was prepared for the shock but I do think it is awfully unjust	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #431. «All Series«	1964/03/11 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter which I received thismorning [sic]. Since I last wrote to you I think I have	✓	[missing last page - see item #2 of this date for full letter] «detailed view»
Series 1 #432. «All Series«	1964/03/11 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your letter which I received thismorning [sic]. Since I last wrote to you I think I have	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #433. «All Series«	1964/03/16	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Enclosed herewith are two sets of galleys of your book, SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION, which Mr. Giroux		[from Margery Krebs, Secretary to Robert Giroux] «detailed view»
Series 1 #434. «All Series«	1964/03/24	TLS[x] from Merton	This may not be the smartest thing to do, but I am returning the corrected galleys minus	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #435. «All Series«	1964/05/28 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	Some time ago I sent Naomi two new pieces to replace the matter that we were not able to publish	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #436. «All Series«	1964/05/28 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Some time ago I sent Naomi two new pieces to replace the matter that we were not able to publish	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #437. «All Series«	1964/06/08	TLS[x] from Merton	The letter from the General to Dom James is not exactly what I would call a new magna carta	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #438. «All Series«	1964/06/19 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Is it agreeable to you to change the title of "The Monk in the Diaspora" to "The Christian in the	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #439. «All Series«	1964/06/19 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Here is the new material for the book (Seeds of Destruction). What I have done is really	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #440. «All Series«	1964/06/22 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Today you should be receiving that long rewritten essay on peace, which I hope will get by	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #441. «All Series«	1964/06/22 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Today you should be receiving that long rewritten essay on peace, which I hope will get by	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #442. «All Series«	1964/06/23	TALS to Merton	Many thanks for the long essay, which arrived yesterday, and for your letter of the 22nd which has	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #443. «All Series«	1964/06/25 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	Your letter came this morning, many thanks. I do not expect an answer from the General for a couple	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #444. «All Series«	1964/06/25 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Your letter came this morning, many thanks. I do not expect an answer from the General for a couple	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #445. «All Series«	1964/06/29	TLS to Merton	I can't imagine a better epigraph for the book than the quote from St. Paul. We'll put it either	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #446. «All Series«	1964/07/01 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	First of all I am very grateful for the new books. I have started immediately on Serafian and find	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #447. «All Series«	1964/07/01 (#02)	TALS[x] from Merton	First of all I am very grateful for the new books. I have started immediately on Serafian and find	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #448. «All Series«	1964/07/02	TL[x] to Merton	Too bad about Commentary. I enclose the note from their editor. I would now like to try	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #449. «All Series«	1964/07/05?	HNS[x] from Merton	Still now news fro the General. Meanwhile, the Civil Rights law calls for an addition	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #450. «All Series«	1964/07/07	TLS to Merton	I thank you for your good words about the Serafian book. I wish some of the reviews had your	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #451. «All Series«	1964/07/14	telegram from Merton	PEACE ESSAY FULLY APPROVED NO CHANGES NO FUTHER [sic] DELAY [-] TOM MERTON	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #452. «All Series«	1964/07/15	TLS to Merton	This is just to thank you for your Bastille Day wire. I am delighted that the Abbot General has	✓	[not in Samway book - note on Samway's copy states that letter was discovered after book went to proof] «detailed view»
Series 1 #453. «All Series«	1964/07/27 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	This is just a note to say that the official date for the imprimi potest is July 21, 1964.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #454. «All Series«	1964/07/27 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	This is just a note to say that the official date for the imprimi potest is July 21, 1964.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #455. «All Series«	1964/07/30	TALS to Merton	Many thanks for yours of the 27th with the official date for the imprimi potest. Corrected proofs	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #456. «All Series«	1964/08/14	TLS to Merton	I have a number of things to report. First of all, the New York Review of Books has taken your poem	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #457. «All Series«	1964/08/17	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	As the Production Department has felt it necessary to produce revised galley proofs before page		[from Anne Brown, secretary to Robert Giroux, to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #458. «All Series«	1964/08/20	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Page proofs for SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION just arrived and I am sending you a Master and duplicate set		[from Anne Brown, secretary to Robert Giroux, to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #459. «All Series«	1964/08/21	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	Unfortunately the wrong proofs were sent to you on August 21st (the second package you receive).		[from Anne Brown, secretary to Robert Giroux, to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #460. «All Series«	1964/08/25 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter with the wonderful news. Congratulations! I too will be very happy and	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #461. «All Series«	1964/08/25 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your letter with the wonderful news. Congratulations! I too will be very happy and	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #462. «All Series«	1964/09/18	TLS to Merton	I am sending you under separate cover the first two books under the new imprint, one of which is	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #463. «All Series«	1964/09/21	TLS[x] from Merton	You might be interested in this "elegy" for Flannery O'Connor. I have not submitted it to anyone.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #464. «All Series«	1964/09/24	TLS to Merton	I have an advance copy of The New York Review of Books for October 8th containing your poem.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #465. «All Series«	1964/10/09	TLS to Merton	We have had very good reports on LES PIERRES SAUVAGES by Fernand Pouillon, a novel about	✓	[letterhead changes to "Farrar, Straus & Giroux"] «detailed view»
Series 1 #466. «All Series«	1964/10/19	TALS to Merton	We have revised the jacket of SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION, as you requested, and I am happy to send	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #467. «All Series«	1964/10/26	TAL[c] from Merton	Sorry to be a bit slow reporting on "Les Pierres Sauvages". I have been a bit tied up and have	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #468. «All Series«	1964/11/17	TLS to Merton	The first copy of SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION from the printer this afternoon and I have sent it to you	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #469. «All Series«	1964/11/21 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	Many thanks for the first copy of SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION and for other copies which also arrived	✓	[see record 1964/11/21[2] for enclosure] «detailed view»
Series 1 #470. «All Series«	1964/11/21 (#02)	other	Notes by the Artist for an Exhibit of His Drawings [-] Thomas Merton		[booklet of notes on his art distributed by Merton for the 1964/11/13 exhibit of his art at Catherine Spalding College in Louisville, Kentucky] «detailed view»
Series 1 #471. «All Series«	1964/11/21 (#03)	TLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for the first copy of SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION and for other copies which also arrived	✓	[see record 1964/11/21[2] for enclosure] «detailed view»
Series 1 #472. «All Series«	1964/11/24	TLS to Merton	Thank you for your good letter of the 21st. It is a pleasure to send review copies of SEEDS OF	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #473. «All Series«	1964/no/no?	TNS[x] from Merton	Could you please take care of this? It is perfectly all right with me, and I suppose with you also.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #474. «All Series«	1965/01/07	TALS to Merton	In many ways I think Seasons of Celebration is your best book. Certainly it is one	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #475. «All Series«	1965/01/11 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your letter, and I am delighted that you want to go ahead right away with SEASONS.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #476. «All Series«	1965/01/11 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for your letter, and I am delighted that you want to go ahead right away with SEASONS.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #477. «All Series«	1965/01/15	TL[x] to Merton	I am happy to enclose a selection from the first batch of reviews. On the whole the book is getting	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #478. «All Series«	1965/03/13 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	A friend of mine who is very active in connection with Schema 13 has asked that we send some	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #479. «All Series«	1965/03/13 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	A friend of mine who is very active in connection with Schema 13 has asked that we send some	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #480. «All Series«	1965/03/15	TL[x] to Merton	I take delight in assisting in any way I can with the work on Schema 13. I hope your book does have	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #481. «All Series«	1965/04/29 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks for Flannery O'Connor's new book, which of course I have read immediately. It has all	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #482. «All Series«	1965/04/29 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	Thanks for Flannery O'Connor's new book, which of course I have read immediately. It has all	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #483. «All Series«	1965/04/30	TLS to Merton	I thank you for the marvelous letter on Flannery O'Connor's new book, and I'm taking the liberty	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #484. «All Series«	1965/07/03 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	The Myna Lockwood book just came in, and I want to acknowledge it. I will let you know about my	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #485. «All Series«	1965/07/03 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	The Myna Lockwood book just came in, and I want to acknowledge it. I will let you know about my	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #486. «All Series«	1965/07/15	TLS[x] from Merton	I told this man that I would pass his letter on to you, and that you could send him proofs if he	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #487. «All Series«	1965/07/16	TLS to Merton	It isn't often that I can send you a book that I absolutely know you will enjoy. It's Tom	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #488. «All Series«	1965/07/26	TL[x] to Merton	Naomi has sent me the manuscript of MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS, and I think it is a very good book.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #489. «All Series«	1965/07/29 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	The proofs just arrived, and I want to let you know about them before I take off with them	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #490. «All Series«	1965/07/29 (#02)	TLS[x] from Merton	The proofs just arrived, and I want to let you know about them before I take off with them	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #491. «All Series«	1965/08/06	HLS[x] from Merton	Here are the corrected proofs. I have also added an 'author's note' and three inserts in the last		«detailed view»
Series 1 #492. «All Series«	1965/08/07 (#01)	TLS[c] from Sullivan, Warren / to James Fox	We have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND		[dated 1963/07/27 and forwarded by Giroux to Merton in his 1965/08/07 letter] «detailed view»
Series 1 #493. «All Series«	1965/08/07 (#03)	TALS[x] from Sullivan, Warren / to James Fox	We have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND		[dated 1963/07/27 and forwarded by Giroux to Merton in his 1965/08/07 letter] «detailed view»
Series 1 #494. «All Series«	1965/08/10 (#01)	TAL[c] from Merton	The enclosed essay, which I think you will like, logically belongs in the MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #495. «All Series«	1965/08/10 (#02)	TALS to Merton	Many thanks for returning the proofs so promptly. I am relieved to learn that you are out	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #496. «All Series«	1965/08/17 (#01)	TL[c] from Merton	This will arrive in your absence but someone can take care of it: First as regards the copyright	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #497. «All Series«	1965/08/17 (#02)	TL[x] from Merton	This will arrive in your absence but someone can take care of it: First as regards the copyright	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #498. «All Series«	1965/08/30	TLS[x] from Merton	In addition to the article on "Zen Monasticism" which I sent you recently, I think this one	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #499. «All Series«	1965/09/02	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	I am acknowledging your letter of August 30th in Mr. Giroux's absence. He'll return from Europe		[from Mary Louise Vincent, assistant to Mr. Giroux, to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #500. «All Series«	1965/10/21	TALS to Merton	I have just sent you by separate cover the first advance copy of SEASONS OF CELEBRATION to come	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #501. «All Series«	1965/10/26	TLS[x] from Merton	Many thanks for the new book. It is very handsome, and I am happy to get it. I think that it ought	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #502. «All Series«	1965/12/09	TL[c] from Merton	Some time ago you mentioned the existentialism article in the Critic. I have rewritten it	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #503. «All Series«	1965/12/22	transcript to Merton	I couldn't agree more about adding "The Other Side of Despair" to MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS, and also	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #504. «All Series«	1966/01/06	TLS from Merton	I have sent off the Existentialism piece for censorship and hope it will not be too long. If it has	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #505. «All Series«	1966/03/11 (#01)	TLS to Merton	I hope you will understand our reasoning on the postponement of MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #506. «All Series«	1966/03/11 (#02)	TL[c] to Stone, Naomi Burton	I do not see how we can publish MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS by July. As you know, we published		«detailed view»
Series 1 #507. «All Series«	1966/03/18 (#01)	TLS from Merton	Actually, the idea ofputting [sic] off MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS until 1967 is much better, as far	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #508. «All Series«	1966/03/18 (#02)	TL[c] from Merton	Actually, the idea ofputting [sic] off MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS until 1967 is much better, as far	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #509. «All Series«	1966/03/23	TL[c] to Merton	I am acknowledging your letter of March 18th and the copy of "The Zen Koan" in Mr. Giroux's absence		«detailed view»
Series 1 #510. «All Series«	1966/06/03	TLS to Merton	I can't tell you how grateful I am for your marvelously perceptive comment on Walker Percy's	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #511. «All Series«	1966/09/27 (#01)	TLS to Merton	We are now planning to go to press with MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS, and the copy-editor has	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #512. «All Series«	1966/09/27 (#02)	other	Contents [-] Preface 1. Mystics and Zen Masters 2. Classic Chins Thought		«detailed view»
Series 1 #513. «All Series«	1966/09/30	TL[c] from Merton	I was happy to get your letter and to learn that MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS is now in the works.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #514. «All Series«	1966/11/03	transcript to Merton	Our Copyright Department requires information about the original magazine publication of the essays	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #515. «All Series«	1966/11/08	transcript from Merton	I am returning the list of essays with more or less useable information about where those essays	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #516. «All Series«	1966/11/29	TLS to Merton	I am sending you proofs of MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS in duplicate. Please return one set to me	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #517. «All Series«	1966/11/30	TL[x] from Secretary to Robert Giroux to Merton	At Mr. Giroux's request, I am sending you a list of queries from our copy-editor on MYSTICS AND ZEN		[one-page letter and two-page list of copy-editor questions and corrections] «detailed view»
Series 1 #518. «All Series«	1966/12/13	TL[c] from Merton	Here is the preface, short and sweet. Writing it has been my celebration of the twenty fifth	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #519. «All Series«	1966/12/15	TLS to Merton	I like the preface to MYSTICS AND ZEN MASTERS. Many thanks for delivering it so promptly.		«detailed view»
Series 1 #520. «All Series«	1966/12/16	transcript from Merton	I am returning the queries of your proof reader. I think I have answered everything. What is not	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #521. «All Series«	1967/02/04	transcript from Merton	Since they are reading [Pie-Raymond] Régamey's book on art [Religious Art in the Twentieth	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #522. «All Series«	1967/02/06	TLS to Merton	Many thanks for your letter of February 4th. I am enclosing the ms. of ART AND WORSHIP which,	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #523. «All Series«	1967/02/13	TLS from Martel, Pierre-Albin / to Farrar, Straus, Giroux	Il nous serait agréable de recevoir sous option, dès parution, - Thomas Merton : Seeds of -		«detailed view»
Series 1 #524. «All Series«	1967/03/27	TALS[x] from Gies, Judith / to Pierre-Albin Martel	Re: SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION by Thomas Merton [-] Thank you for your interest in the French		[from Judith Gies, office of Subsidiary Rights for Farrar, Straus & Giroux to Pierre-Albin Martel, Bureau detudes et de promotion editoriales - carbon copy to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #525. «All Series«	1967/04/13	TL[c] from Merton	Many thanks for the first copy of Mystics and Zen Masters, received last week. I hope it	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #526. «All Series«	1967/06/16	TL[c] from Merton	Many thanks for the reviews, and I have also been meaning to thank you all for the fine ad in the NY	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #527. «All Series«	1967/06/23	TLS to Merton	It was good to hear from you. I'm delighted to learn from Nancy Wilson Ross that she has done	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #528. «All Series«	1967/06/27	TLS to Merton	I enclose the review by Nancy Wilson Ross in next Sunday's Times. They are a bit late,		[not in Samway book - note on Samway's copy states that letter was discovered after book went to proof] «detailed view»
Series 1 #529. «All Series«	1967/08/02 (#01)	TLS to Merton	Just a note to tell you that I've sent a batch of your mss. and proofs to Father Loftus	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #530. «All Series«	1967/08/02 (#02)	TL[c] to Loftus, John	Thomas Merton has asked me to send to you for Bellarmine College's special collection		[to John Loftus, Dean of Bellarmine College - carbon copy to Merton] «detailed view»
Series 1 #531. «All Series«	1967/08/11	TL[c] from Merton	Thanks very much indeed for sending the mss, proofs and so on to Bellarmine for their collection.	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #532. «All Series«	1967/08/15	TALS to Merton	It's good to hear from you, as always. I had heard about the sale of Jubilee and I had hoped	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #533. «All Series«	1967/11/18	TL[c] from Merton	Quite some time ago, nearly eight weeks I think, I sent you a manuscript for your book, in answer	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #534. «All Series«	1968/01/25	TAL[c] from Merton	Thanks for your wire about Sy Freedgood. I also got a call from the Methodist minister out there	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #535. «All Series«	1968/01/30	TLS to Merton	It's good to hear from you. I had a phone call from John Brooks, a writer-neighbor of the	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #536. «All Series«	1968/02/07	TL[c] from Merton	Many thanks for your letter of the 30th ult. as the old guys used to say. Thanks even more for	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #537. «All Series«	1968/06/22	TL[c] from Merton	I can't seem to recall seeing a letter about Raids and Garzanti. Of course that is perfectly	✓	«detailed view»
Series 1 #538. «All Series«	2006/08/08 (#01)	other	Merton-Giroux Correspondence [-] SPY to Merton. 2/26/40. (Copy) (Rejection note from		[list of correspondence between Giroux and Merton donated by Giroux in 2006] «detailed view»
Series 1 #539. «All Series«	undated/no/no	other	HIGH PRAISE FOR THOMAS MERTON'S SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION [-] Of all the words that have		«detailed view»
Series 1 #540. «All Series«	undated/no/no	other	SEASONS OF CELEBRATION [-] Liturgical Essays and Homilies [-] I. Liturgy of Spiritual Personalism		«detailed view»

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