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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Cunneen, Joseph E., 1923-2012

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964-1967

Volume: 15 item(s); 19 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Cunneen, Joseph E.".

Biography

Joseph E. Cunneen was Director of the Religious Department of Holt, Rinehart and Winston Publishers at the time of correspondence with Merton. He and his wife, Sally Cunneen, were the founding editors of the quarterly review, Cross Currents, which published a number of Merton's essays. He writes from New York.

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See also "Cuddihy, Michael" file for information concerning a translation of a book by Jacques Maritain.

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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
 1964/04/01 TLSto MertonThis is a long overdue letter and, as you might expect, written in terms of an immediate small favor  asks for review of Fr. Henri Perrin's <i>Priest and Worker</i> / plans to publish Gordon Zahn's book on Franz Jägerstätter
 1964/04/27 TL[c]from MertonThanks for sending me the story of Fr Perrin. I had not read it in French and was glad of a chance  Merton's review of English version of <i>Priest and Worker</i> / Archbishop Roberts and the peace movement among Catholics / Gordon Zahn's book on Franz Jägerstätter
 1964/07/08 TL[c]from MertonSome time ago as you remember I had to tell the Commonweal that I did not think I could let them  Merton's piece on Fr. Perrin and questions about publishing it in <u>Cross Currents</u>
 1964/07/17 telegramto MertonCould you please give name and address of edition of Schweitzer Festschrift to which you   
 1964/08/10 TAL[c]from MertonThis is to thank you for the four books, and especially the Stringfellow volume MY PEOPLE IS  praise for William Stringfellow's <i>My People Is the Enemy</i> - shares criticism of Jules Isaac's <i>The Teaching of Contempt</i> / Merton's ideas for an article for <u>Cross Currents</u> on some monastic values he sees in Bonhoeffer's prison letters - contrast to Bishop Robins view that he was anti-monastic
 1964/08/no? TALSto MertonThanks very much for your note of July 8; I also probably never thanked you properly for the Perrin  sending books by William Stringfellow and Jules Isaac - thinks Isaac book was unduly criticized by Msgr. Oesterrricher
 1964/11/28 TL[c]from MertonFinally I am getting around to sending you some sort of reaction to the books. First of all here  review for Gordon Zahn's book for <u>Peace News</u> / preparing review of Martin Marty's new book / Bonhoeffer article for next year
 1965/09/15 TLSto MertonThanks for your good note, and for the Schmemann review--which I gather is for someone else,  asking for review of book <i>From the Housetops</i>
 1965/09/30 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter of the 15th. First, about the Schmemann review, I wrote it for Monastic  Bonhoeffer's <i>Ethics</i> / comments on <i>From the Housetops</i> / rumors about Merton not being at Gethsemani - reaffirms that he is at the Abbey, but that he is living as a hermit
 1966/08/22 TANSfrom MertonSome weeks ago I sent you a piece on Buddhism in the Modern World. I hope you got it all right.  [includes a handwritten return note from Cunneen]
 1966/11/16 TLSto MertonThe issue with your review-article on Buddhism Today will be out tomorrow, and should be  asking if Merton knows about the publication of Raissa Maritain's journal in English
 1966/11/21 TL[c]from MertonNo, I am really not in a position to discuss books with publishers other than Doubleday and Farrar  Raissa Maritain's journal - turned down by large publishers but may come out in paperback - may not sell quickly because it is not of "the liturgy-ecumenism - line" and "is so unobtrusive and so obviously not LSD 'spirituality'"
 1967/04/14 TLSto MertonEnclosed find the translation of the first chapters of Maritain's THE PEASANT OF THE GARONNE  John Howard Griffin's plans to look at translation of <i>The Peasant of the Garonne</i>
 1967/04/24 TAL[c]from MertonI have the chapters of Maritain you sent, but have not been able to get down to them as I have been  agreed to look over manuscript for Maritain's <i>The Peasant of the Garonne</i> - finds it, in general, "satisfactory" as to correction, but that it still might not come across well to the American public - translation should work at toning down the aggressiveness
 1967/06/21 TAL[c]from MertonSorry I have not been able to get down to all those xeroxes of <u>Le Pavsan</u> until just recently.  admits more misgivings about the English version of Maritain's book - makes a few suggestions to improve translations - does not have the time to go into it further and it needs the work of an "articulate Thomist" for "the technical side of Jacques' thought"
        

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