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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Taplinger, Richard J., 1911-1973

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 7 item(s); 7 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Taplinger Publishing wanted Merton's comments to send to reviewers of Zen: Way to Enlightenment by Fr. Hugo M. Enomiya-Lassalle.

Biography

Richard Taplinger was head of Taplinger Publishing Company in New York.

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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
 1968/01/31 TLSto MertonThis Spring we are planning to publish an American edition of ZEN: <u>Way to Enlightenment</u>   
 1968/02/11 TL[c]from MertonI am glad to hear you are publishing Fr Enomiye's book on his experience in the Zen monastery.   
 1968/02/14 (#01)TLSto MertonI was most pleased to receive your kind letter of 11 February and am anxious to tell you how very   
 1968/02/14 (#02)otherto MertonDear Reviewer, A short while ago Father Thomas Merton wrote to us regarding ZEN: <u>Way to</u>   
 1968/03/18 (#01)TLSto MertonI am attaching herewith a notice regarding ZEN: <u>Way to Enlightenment</u> which we hope to insert  [encloses letter dated 1968/April/30 to reviewers - see 1968/March/18#2 - contains handwritten response by Merton, see 1968/March/20 below]
 1968/03/18 (#02)TLto ReviewersA short while ago Father Thomas Merton wrote to us regarding ZEN: <u>Way to Enlightenment</u>  [dated 1968/April/30 - enclosed with 1968/March/18 letter]
 1968/03/20 HNfrom MertonOk. Ma. 20.  [Merton's handwritten approval of Taplinger's proposed insert - written on 1968/March/18 letter]
        

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