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Sub-Section C.6: Contracts for books and articles by Merton, foreign and domestic

Record Series: 23: Cables to the Ace

Subjects List

This manuscript has no associated subjects.

Arrangement and Processing Notes:

This sub-group is divided into series based on contracts for a specific title of a written work of Thomas Merton. A small number are of miscellaneous works grouped together. Each series is contained in one folder herein and arranged in their original order.

Container List

Box#-FF#	Item#	Date	Notes	First Lines
2 - 14	1	undated	Index to folder of contracts listing the order of files, country of publication and language.	«CABLES TO THE ACE 1) U.S. English 2) Italy Italian (with Lograire and Emblems)»
2 - 14	2	1967	Contract with New Directions in the United States for Cables to the Ace. Index item 1.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this 13th day of Oct. 1967, between The Abbey of Gethsemani»
2 - 14	3	1967	Letter from Robert M. MacGregor of New Directions to Thomas Merton.	«Evidently we had not previously completed a contract for "Cables to the Ace."»
2 - 14	4	1970	Contract with Aldo Garzanti Editore in Italy for an Italian language edition of Cables to the Ace and The Geography of Lograire (also mentions Emblems of a Season of Fury, which was not included in published volume). Index item 2.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT, made this Eighth (8th) day of June, 1970 between The Abbey of Gethsemani,»

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