MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bonazzi, Robert, 1942-2020
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1966-1968
Volume: 25 item(s); 27 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Before approaching Merton for submissions to his magazine, Robert Bonazzi had met two of Merton's friends, Mark Van Doren and John Howard Griffin. Griffin gave Bonazzi a poem about Robert Lax that he wanted to publish. The letters primarily concern publication matters. Among what was published were essays, poems, photographs and drawings (referred to as "signatures") by Merton. Also mentioned is the founding of Merton's own "little magazine" Monks Pond.
Biography
Robert Bonazzi was founder and editor of Latitudes magazine, which began in 1966.
Usage Guidelines and Restrictions
Related Information and Links
See also contributions to Monks Pond, p. 229.
Other Finding Aids
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
Series List
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Container List
| Series | Date | Type | To/From | First Lines | Pub | Full Text | Notes |
| | 1966/10/14 | TALS | to Merton | John Griffin wrote me as soon as he got back from the Abbey with you and Jacques Maritain. He said | |
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| | 1966/10/19 | TAPCS | to Merton | Thank you so much for the ok on the poem. I will of course makesome [sic] reference to the personal | |
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| | 1967/01/18 | HLS | to Merton | Congratulations on your fantastic poem, "Fall '66", in NY REVIEW (Dec. 15 issue) -- I am going to | |
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| | 1967/05/13 | TL[c] | from Merton | I have been meaning to write and thank you for the first issue of Latitudes. I liked it, especially | |
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| | 1967/05/22 | TALS | to Merton | First rule of publishing: a Monk should never allow an editor to edit out what might be considered | |
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| | 1967/09/01 | TLS | to Merton | We have decided to make #3 and #4 a DOUBLE ISSUE for many reasons: 1) to balance political material | |
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| | 1967/09/08 | TL[c] | from Merton | Perfectly ok to use the quote from "Letter to Innocent Bystander". And of course to put off "Monk" | |
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| | 1967/09/17 | TALS | to Merton | Have chosen from CABLES what could stand as individual poems. (see carbons from copies of these | |
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| | 1967/09/28 | TL[c] | from Merton | Many thanks for your letter and the returned ms. I am chacking [sic] immediately with New | |
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| | 1967/10/03 (#01) | TALS[x] | from Griffin, John Howard | Gregory and I are in a dudgeon over these Merton photos. After we mocked up a first cover. | |
| [carbon copy sent to Merton - see 1967/10/03[2] for note to Merton typed on the same page] |
| | 1967/10/03 (#02) | TNS | from Griffin, John Howard / to Merton | You will probably have the prints from E&F when you receive this. I enclose a marvelous can | |
| [note to Merton typed on the same page as 1967/10/03[1] letter to Robert Bonazzi] |
| | 1967/10/03 (#03) | TALS | to Merton | What a very moving collection of signatures. We are mulling over them now but definitely want to | |
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| | 1967/10/08? | TALS | to Merton | Since last writing you we have decided to do a little 20-page quarto to commemorate the 4th | |
| [no date - annotated "Oct. 8"] |
| | 1967/10/09 | TLS | to Merton | Just returned from Griffin's. The photographs are fantastic! We will just flip them with the | |
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| | 1967/10/10 | TL[c] | from Merton | Thanks for your letter: glad everything is working out. I am happy that you can use the signature | |
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| | 1967/10/15 | TLS | to Merton | Acknowledging your letter which clarified CABLES TO THE [sic] ACE and all news of signatures and | |
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| | 1967/12/06 | TLS | to Merton | John is genuinely frantic about your special issue of Latitudes, concerning copyright. Well I wrote | |
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| | 1967/12/10 | TL[c] | from Merton | I don't see any problems whatever about the copyrights. It seems to me everything is in apple pie | |
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| | 1967/12/26 | TLS | to Merton | Heard the long almighty & beautiful tape at John Griffin's last weekend and he made me a copy, | |
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| | 1968/01/31 | TLS | to Merton | Thank you for your note. What is this about starting a magazine of your own? I suppose you mean on | |
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| | 1968/02/29 | TL[c] | from Merton | Sorry for not letting you know sooner about the poems, pix etc. I don't want to keep a whole batch | |
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| | 1968/07/07 | TLS[x] | from Merton | I'm sorry everyone is bugging you about Latitudes 5. As a matter of fact I hadn't read the Ranieri | |
| <u>Latitudes</u> magazine 5 / manuscript of Harry Taylor / Merton discussing the relative appropriateness of his work being featured in <u>Playboy</u> magazine and the American attitude toward sex |
| | 1997/03/31 (#01) | TLS | to Grip, Robert | Thanks so much for the kindly support, the generous clarification of expenses in our (much needed | |
| plans for Robert Bonazzi and Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi to be at the June 1997 general meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) held at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL / discussion of Fr. August Thompson, also to be a guest speaker at the ITMS conference |
| | 1997/03/31 (#02) | other | to Grip, Robert | ELIZABETH GRIFFIN-BONAZZI --Widow of John Howard Griffin, wife of 27 years, mother of their four | |
| biographical sketches for Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi and Robert Bonazzi and a description of the John Howard Griffin Roundtable with Fr. August Thompson at the June 1997 general meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) held at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL |
| | 1997/04/30 | TLS | to Grip, Robert | Thanks so much for your kind letter of 21 April, as well as for the much-needed reimbursement | |
| plans for Robert Bonazzi and Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi to be at the June 1997 general meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) held at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL / discussion of Fr. August Thompson, also to be a guest speaker at the ITMS conference |
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