This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Burns, Thomas Ferrier".
T. F. Burns was a founding director of the Tablet publishing company. He worked for, and later became chairman of Burns & Oates publishing company. Both the publisher and the publication were produced for a Catholic audience. However, Burns was not afraid to take some controversial views, such as criticizing Humanae Vitae after the Second Vatican Council. He writes to Merton from London. (Source: "The History of the Tablet - a summary of '1840-1990 A Commemorative History, The Tablet' by Michael Walsh" from The Tablet website.)
See also the "Stone, Naomi Burton" file.
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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| 1. |
1949/11/15 |
TL[x] to Merton |
I hope you got my letter of 20th October safely? We are all ready to go ahead with the printing |
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«detailed view» |
| 2. |
1956/02/01 |
TL[c] from Burns, Tom / to Graham Watson |
This is just a formal acknowledgment of your letter of the 31st January about THE LIVING BREAD, |
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[see "Stone, Naomi Burton" file for letter - to Graham Watson of Curtis Brown publishers]
«detailed view» |
| 3. |
1962/03/29 |
TALS to Merton |
At long last New Directions have sent me a finished copy of NEW SEEDS OF CONTEMPLATION. |
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«detailed view» |
| 4. |
1963/03/04 |
TLS to Merton |
Betty Bartelme, of Macmillan, tells me that they are bringing out a book of yours this Fall, PRAYER |
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forthcoming book by Merton - Prayer as Worship and Experience by Macmillan / Farrar, Straus - Bob Giroux
«detailed view» |
| 5. |
1963/03/11 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your note. I am afraid I don't have a complete typescript of PRAYER AS WORSHIP |
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complex relations with Farrar, Straus and Cudahy - Bob Giroux / dropping of Curtis Brown / The Merton Reader
«detailed view» |
| 6. |
1963/03/22 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for yours of the 11th and 13th March. I am afraid we shall just have to let the Chapman |
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suggests that Naomi Burton Stone act as Merton's literary agent / relations with Farrar, Straus - statement from Roger Straus / book published by Macmillan / The Merton Reader
«detailed view» |
| 7. |
1963/07/10 |
TL[c] from Merton |
The immediate purpose of this letter is to let you know that the Nuns of Stanbrook are printing |
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Nuns of Stanbrook printing a translation of a letter of Guido the Carthusian / dropping book published by Macmillan - Prayer as Worship and Experience - foolishness of fighting with Farrar, Straus over book on prayer / J. Laughlin publishing Emblems of a Season of Fury
«detailed view» |
| 8. |
1963/11/13 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Forgive my long delay, perhaps no longer than usual, but I have been in the hospital, so I have some |
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Merton's praise of the Ida Görres Diaries sent by Burns - Görres' response to Sign of Jonas / Görres' book on St. Thérèse of Lisieux / Görres' statement on the "ultra ultra Catholic mind, that tight, closed, prim, infallible, authoritarian, and highly aggressive mind" - death of Diem and Nhu
«detailed view» |
| 9. |
1964/03/31 |
TLS to Merton |
Many thanks for yours of March 25th. I feel very ashamed of myself for not having written to you |
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Ida Görres Diaries / Farrar, Straus - Bob Giroux - Seeds of Destruction / sending copy of Ancren Riwle
«detailed view» |
| 10. |
1964/04/18 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Glad to hear from you again, and thanks for the clippings. No we don't get the Tablet. But |
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clippings from Tablet and Ramparts magazines / Merton Reader / visit in May to Gethsemani by the Hibakusha, survivors of Hiroshima
«detailed view» |
| 11. |
1964/06/24 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
A copy of the Gorres journals arrived yesterday, and I want to thank you also for all the other |
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meeting with D. T. Suzuki on Zen and Christianity / Seeds of Destruction / Bob Giroux
«detailed view» |
| 12. |
1965/07/30 |
TALS to Merton |
Your very kind letter of July 17th only increases the sense of guilt I have had for weeks and months |
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Illtud Evans - speaking to Merton about Seeds of Destruction - Burns suggests leaving out "Religion and Race in the U.S." and "Man is a Gorilla with a Gun" for publication in England
«detailed view» |
| 13. |
1965/08/08 |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for your letter. I am not sure I agree with your idea of leaving out the article on |
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small book made in England out of "The Christian in World Crisis" and "Christian in Diaspora" / Bob Giroux has a proof of Merton's liturgy book Seasons of Celebration / New Directions - Gandhi and Chuang Tzu
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| 14. |
1965/10/08 |
TLS to Merton |
At long last I think that I have had a brainwave for a title to the book we agreed to make of the |
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idea to call "The Christian in World Crisis" and "Christian in Diaspora" book Redeeming the Time
«detailed view» |
| 15. |
1965/11/27 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I do not remember whether or not I answered your letter about writing a special preface for |
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Merton would like to see a copy of the Second Vatican Council Encyclical "Gaudium et Spes", the Church in the Modern World, before writing preface to Redeeming the Time
«detailed view» |
| 16. |
1966/02/15 |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am glad you have all the material for Redeeming the Time and happy that everything is now |
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Merton asks Burns to send his friend, the Muslim scholar Abdul Aziz in Pakistan, a copy of Zaehner's Hindu and Moslem Mysticism
«detailed view» |
| 17. |
1966/10/13 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Probably copies of REDEEMING THE TIME are on their way but I have not yet seen it. I would in any |
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asking for some extra copies of Redeeming the Time be sent to him, to Dagmar Henne in Germany and to Jose Maria Valverde
«detailed view» |
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