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Giroux, Robert, 1914-2008


Series 3, Naomi Burton Stone, Curtis Brown, General Correspondence with Robert Giroux


Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 194-1993
Volume: 733 item(s); 889 pg(s)

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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Related Information and Links

See also "Bettencourt, Yolanda", "Gillet, Ignace", "Laughlin, James", "Maritain, Jacques" and "Stone, Naomi Burton" files. Much of the correspondence between Merton and Giroux is published in

Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal 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#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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Series 3 #1.
«All Series«		 1951/01/08 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton Here is the article which I told you Tom had sent me. I think you also should see a copy of his «detailed view»
Series 3 #2.
«All Series«		 1956/03/13 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton I have had copies of THIRTY-SEVEN MEDITATIONS made and I am sending you one herewith. ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #3.
«All Series«		 1956/05/01 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Here are the three pieces written for the Novitiate by Thomas Merton, which you wanted to see. ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #4.
«All Series«		 1956/08/no? HNS from Stone, Naomi Burton OK. Will you photograph the poem ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #5.
«All Series«		 1956/08/no? (#01) HNS from Stone, Naomi Burton OK-will you photograph that poem and return to me. Out of context maybe it's not so bad. ✓ [note concerning "The Sting of Conscience: Letter to Graham Greene", letter from Merton dated 1956/05/02 and enclosed - also enclosed with this note or at another time, letter from Merton dated 1956/07/30] «detailed view»
Series 3 #6.
«All Series«		 1956/08/no? (#02) TL[x]  from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone First of all, here are a couple of poems. Let them be as presents for the 6th. Matthew Scott is ✓ [very faint reprographic copy dated 1956/05/02] «detailed view»
Series 3 #7.
«All Series«		 1956/08/no? (#03) TL[x]  from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone First of all, here are a couple of poems. Let them be as presents for the 6th. Matthew Scott is ✓ [very faint reprographic copy dated 1956/05/02] «detailed view»
Series 3 #8.
«All Series«		 1956/08/no? (#04) TAL[x]  from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone Thanks for your letter. I went over to the Liturgical Press and checked with them and they were ✓ [very faint reprographic copy dated 1956/07/30] «detailed view»
Series 3 #9.
«All Series«		 1956/09/17 TLS from Cushman, John Herewith THIRTY SEVEN MEDITATIONS which has just come in from Merton with all the necessary ✓ [from John a. S. Cushman of Curtis Brown, Ltd., to Giroux] «detailed view»
Series 3 #10.
«All Series«		 1956/11/16 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I'm glad to tell you that the censors of the Trappists have approved THIRTY-SEVEN MEDITATIONS. ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #11.
«All Series«		 1957/08/27 TALS from Stone, Naomi Burton I had a long personal letter from Tom yesterday and I think there is one thing in it about his work ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #12.
«All Series«		 1957/10/14 TL[x]  from Fox, James / to Naomi Burton Stone Your letter of October 4 was received and forwarded to me. ✓ [very faint reprographic copy - another copy in the "Stone, Naomi Burton" file] «detailed view»
Series 3 #13.
«All Series«		 1957/10/26 (#01) TL to Stone, Naomi Burton This is an afterthought but I think it is a good one. You may receive this on the same day as my ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #14.
«All Series«		 1957/10/30 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I'm enclosing a copy of a letter from Tom dated October 26th. He has sent along this material and I ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #15.
«All Series«		 1959/08/10 (#01) TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I don't think there's any need for your to write further to Tom, but I thought you'd want to see ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #16.
«All Series«		 1959/08/10 (#02) TL[x]  from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone Sorry I have not answered your letter asking whether I would write something for the Critic. ✓ [very faint reprographic copy] «detailed view»
Series 3 #17.
«All Series«		 1959/08/10 (#03) TL[c]  from Stone, Naomi Burton / to Merton Thanks for your letter of August 5th, and I'm sorry about The Critic. Bob is going along with ART ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #18.
«All Series«		 1960/01/13 TL[c] to Knowlton, Perry I have just heard from Thomas Merton about the proposed Reader, and it is quite clear that he ✓ [to Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown, Ltd.] «detailed view»
Series 3 #19.
«All Series«		 1960/01/22 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton As you know, there's been talk of Harcourt Brace doing a Thomas Merton Reader to be edited ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #20.
«All Series«		 1960/02/18 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton As we have heard from Harcourt, Brace that they would not be willing to let Doubleday use material ✓ «detailed view»
Series 3 #21.
«All Series«		 1962/02/21 TLS from Knowlton, Perry You are aware, I know, that Tom Merton asked me to re-enter the picture on his behalf in respect ✓ [from Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown, Ltd.] «detailed view»
Series 3 #22.
«All Series«		 1962/04/03 TL[c]  from Merton to Perry Knowlton I have finally got the Farrar Straus and Cudahy side of the picture on the READER contract. ✓ [from Perry Knowlton of Curtis Brown, Ltd.] «detailed view»
Series 3 #23.
«All Series«		 1963/06/11 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton How kind of you to send me the photostat or whatever of the new Xavier Rynne piece which I shall «detailed view»
Series 3 #24.
«All Series«		 1964/01/07 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton On Thomas Merton's behalf I am very happy to send you herewith two manuscripts, as follows:- «detailed view»
Series 3 #25.
«All Series«		 1964/01/28 TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton I'm very happy to send you a revised copy of ART AND WORSHIP by Thomas Merton which has a preface «detailed view»
Series 3 #26.
«All Series«		 1964/02/05 (#01) TLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Further to our telephone conversation, here is a copy of Tom's letter of the 30th just for your «detailed view»
Series 3 #27.
«All Series«		 1964/02/05 (#02) TLS[x]  from Merton to Naomi Burton Stone About the censorship of BLACK REVOLUTION etc/ To make sure there is no equivocation about it I have [originally dated 1964/01/30 - forwarded to Giroux - see "Stone, Naomi Burton" file for another copy] «detailed view»
Series 3 #28.
«All Series«		 2006/08/08 (#03) other   Correspondence between Naomi Burton, Curtis Brown and Robert Giroux. Naomi Burton [list of letters donated in this series] «detailed view»
Series 3 #29.
«All Series«		 undated/no/no HLS from Stone, Naomi Burton Herewith Tom's prayer. I love it. He sounds in good shape. I hope very much we can come «detailed view»

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