This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Martin, Frederick R.".
Frederick R. Martin was Managing Editor of the publishing house New Directions. He writes from New York.
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1967/09/15 |
TALS to Merton |
By the time you get this note, the galleys for Edifying Cables should have arrived. Hope you |
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1967/09/21 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Here are the proofs. I had to make one or two author's alterations, and also some changes that |
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1967/09/25 |
TLS to Merton |
Galleys, letter, and blurb arrived this morning. Thanks for moving so quickly. You've made |
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1967/09/28 |
TLS to Merton |
American Dialog tells me that "Prospects of Nostradamus" will be appearing in its November |
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1967/10/18 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I've got a note that I think ought to go somewhere in the front of Cables to the Ace. It is from |
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1967/10/19 |
TNS to Merton |
The Robbe-Grillet quote can go on page 1 along with dedication to Robert Lax. Hope this is OK |
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1967/10/24 |
TL[x] to Bonazzi, Robert |
In early 1968, New Directions plans to publish a volume of poetry by Thomas Merton, Cables |
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1968/03/28 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
I'm not sure if you had a chance to see last Sunday's Times. So I ripped out page 3 and decided |
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1968/03/28 (#02) |
other to Merton |
To Mr. and Mrs. Yesterday [-] SOUL ON ICE. By Eldridge Cleaver. With an introduction by Maxwell |
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[review of Eldrige Cleaver's Soul on Ice from the New York Times]
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1968/04/01 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am getting back the queries on footnotes as fast as I can because if I put them off I'll forget |
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1968/04/09 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for your quick answers to my fussy footnote letter. As promised, I finally had a chance |
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1968/04/21 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I have just been hunting unsuccessfully for your last letter, which I am pretty sure I have not yet |
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1968/05/01 |
TALS to Merton |
Hope this finds you enjoying the weather as much as we are here in New York. Bob MacGregor says |
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1968/06/03 |
TL[x] to Bourne, Paul |
Father Thomas Merton has asked me to send a set of uncorrected galleys for his collection of essays, |
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[see also the "Bourne, Paul" file, Fr. Paul was one of the Trappist censors at the time of writing and was at the Abbey of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia] sending galleys of Zen and the Birds of Appetite for censor's approval
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