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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Rissin, Rhoda

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1961

Volume: 9 item(s); 9 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Rissin, Rhoda".

Biography

Rhoda Rissin was Assistant to James Laughlin, head of New Directions publishers from Norfolk, Connecticut.

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Related Information and Links

See also the "Skillen, Edward Simeon" file.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1960/10/03 TL[x]to MertonWith reference to your two poems, "A Practical Program for Monks" and "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies"  asking if two poems, both previously published in "Pax" number 7, need approval by Catholic censors
 1961/06/29 TLSto MertonThank you for your note of the 27th, and the proof of "A Song for Nobody," which I have dispatched   
 1961/12/06 TLSto MertonJ. Laughlin has passed to me your letter about magazine placements of your poems. I have sent   
 1961/12/13 (#01)TLSto MertonI am glad to be able to report that the "Saturday Review" has accepted for publication your poem   
 1961/12/13 (#02)TLS from Skillin, Edward S. / to MertonWe are happy to accept for publication "The Moslems' Angel of Death" and to send along herewith  [from Edward S. Skillin of <u>The Commonweal</u> in New York City, sent 1961/12/12 to James Laughlin to forward to Merton]
 1962/01/22 TL[x]to MertonThe enclosed copy of letter from Gerard Piel at "Scientific American" about his article did not   
 1963/02/26 TL[c]from MertonIn the front matter of EMBLEMS we ought to mention the following. Poems in this book have appeared   
 1965/01/22 TLS[x]from Duke, VernonYour letter of January 13 received. I'm very glad to learn that you decided to le me use  [forwarded to Merton - from Vernon Duke of Pacific Palisades, California, to Rhoda Rissin]
 1965/01/26 TALSto MertonThank you for your letter of January 22nd, with the interesting details of Miss Beecher-Malukov's   
        

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