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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Bruce, Frank Milton".
Frank Bruce was head of the Bruce Publishing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Curtis Brown, Ltd." file for related items received from Gethsemani Abbey and integrated into the collection in February 2014.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1947/06/17 |
TLS[x] to Fox, James |
Enclosed is a letter which we have just written to Father Louis concerning "Exile Ends in Glory." |
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[Merton uses verso of letter for notes for a manuscript of "The Cloud and the Fire," an early draft of The Ascent to Truth, see manuscripts of "The Cloud and the Fire" for original] recommendation to reduce length of Exile Ends in Glory to reduce cost and appeal to a wider audience
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1948/07/13 |
TLS to Merton |
Thanks very much for your thoughtfulness in sending us the list of your friends to whom author's |
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Exile Ends in Glory / The Seven Storey Mountain - advantage of using Harcourt Brace, a secular publisher, rather than a Catholic publisher like Bruce to reach bigger market / likely release What Are These Wounds? in 1949 because of the other two books in 1948 / Fr. Raymond Flanagan's The Man Who Got Even with God
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1948/08/09 |
TLS to Merton |
Some years ago a Jesuit telephoned me to say that a very dear friend of ours, a Jesuit missionary in |
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death of Dom Frederic Dunne / suggestion of advertising The Seven Storey Mountain with "Another Man Who Got Even with God" (after title of Fr. Raymond's book) / Al Croft's trip to Gethsemani / possiblity of publishing biography of the life of St. Bernard of Clairvaux
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1949/06/23 |
TL to Merton |
Thank you for your letter of June 21st regarding the title for the Lutgarde manuscript. |
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[first page of the letter only - continuation not extant] title for book about St. Lutgard and her mysticism and mental prayer - Merton suggests "The Tiger Lilly" [it is published as What Are These Wounds?]
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