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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Sullivan, Warren

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963

Volume: 7 item(s); 7 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Merton writes with the desire to cease plans to publish a book entitled Prayer as Worship and Experience because of the contractual troubles he was having with Farrar, Straus and Giroux over violation of his contract.

Biography

Warren Sullivan was Chairman of the Board of the Macmillan Company Publishers. He writes from New York.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/07/03 (#01)TL[c]from MertonThis is a rather difficult letter to write, but I think it must be written. For some time I have   
 1963/07/03 (#02)TL[x]from MertonThis is a rather difficult letter to write, but I think it must be written. For some time I have  [filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani]
 1963/07/11 (#01)TLSto MertonI can well imagine how unpleasant is the situation in which you find yourself thrust quite   
 1963/07/11 (#02)TLS[x]to MertonI can well imagine how unpleasant is the situation in which you find yourself thrust quite  [filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani]
 1963/07/24 TAL[d]from Fox, JamesWe have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND EXPERIENCE  [filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani]
 1963/07/27 TLS[x]from Fox, JamesWe have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND EXPERIENCE  [filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani] terminating book contract for <i>Prayer as Worship and Experience</i> and returning $5,000 to Macmillan
 1963/08/08 TLSto Fox, JamesAs you know, not long ago I wrote to Father Merton when he first offered to return the advance for  [filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani]
        

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