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

Record Series: 42: Disputed Questions

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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
3 - 10	1	undated	Index to folder of contracts listing the order of files, country of publication and language.	«DISPUTED QUESTIONS 1) S.America (Spanish) 2) S.America (Portuguese) 3) Spain (Spanish)»
3 - 10	2	1961	Contract with Editorial Sudamericana in Argentina for a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 1.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT MADE THIS day of BETWEEN: THE ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI (hereafter called the»
3 - 10	3	1963	Author's fee statement from Editorial Sudamericana in Argentina for a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 1.	«Regarding the contract dated for the work "DISPUTED QUESTIONS" as of January 1961, we enclose»
3 - 10	4	1963	Author's fee statement from Editorial Sudamericana in Argentina for a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 1.	«We are writing in collaboration with Editorial Sudamericana of Bs. As. We are happy to say that»
3 - 10	5	1961	Letter from Julián Urgoiti, Manager of Editorial Sudamericana in Argentina, to Dom James Fox of Gethsemani Abbey regarding a Spanish language edition (for Latin America) of Disputed Questions. Index item 1.	«We are pleased to enclose for your files one copy of the contract of "DISPUTED QUESTIONS" by Thomas»
3 - 10	6	1962	Letter from Affonso D. Faveret, Livraria Agir Editora in Brasil, to Dom James Fox of Gethsemani Abbey regarding a Portuguese language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 2.	«Thank you for your kind letter of May 9, about the book "DISPUTED QUESTIONS". We would propose»
3 - 10	7	1963	Author's fee statement from Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Spain for a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 3.	«Tenemos el agrado de formular seguidamente la liqudación de DERECHOS DE AUTOR correspondiente»
3 - 10	8	1963	Letter from Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Spain regarding a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 3.	«Con relación al contrato de fecha, por la obra "DISPUTED QUESTIONS" (CUESTIONES DISCUTIDAS), Enero»
3 - 10	9	1963	Author's fee statement from Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Spain regarding a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 3.	«Tenemos el agrado de formular seguidamente la liquidación de DERECHOS DE AUTOR correspondiente»
3 - 10	10	1961	Letter from Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Spain regarding a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 3.	«Por la presente nos permitimos dirigirnos a usted de acuerdo con la Editorial Sudamericana de Buenos»
3 - 10	11	1961	Letter from Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Spain regarding a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 3.	«Nos es grato adjuntale cheque nº 41.927 del Banco de Santander contra el The Hanover Bank por 200,»
3 - 10	12	1961	Contract with Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana in Spain for a Spanish language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 3.	«MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT MADE THIS Twenty-eighth day of January 1961 BETWEEN: THE ABBEY OF GETHSEMANI»
3 - 10	13	1961	Contract with Albin Michel in France for a French language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 4.	«Contrat intervenu le 16 Mars 1960 entre l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Gethsemani Inc., Trappist-Kentucky»
3 - 10	14	1961	Addendum to contract with Albin Michel in France for a French language edition of Disputed Questions. Index item 4.	«ADDITIF AU CONTAT INTERVENU LE 16 MARS 1961 ENTRE L'ABBAYE DE N.D. DE GETHSEMANI, INC., Trappist»
3 - 10	15	1961	Letter from Dom James Fox, Gethsemani Abbey, to Marie Tadié, a French translator for Merton, regarding contracts for Disputed Questions. Index item 4.	«Good Father Louis received your recent letter with the enclosed contracts for DISPUTED QUESTIONS»
3 - 10	16	no-year	[See Series 26, "The New Man" for original letter] Copy of letter from Robert Giroux or Farrar, Straus and Giroux, to Br. Patrick Hart, Gethsemani Abbey. In reference to paperback rights and royalties for: The New Man, Disputed Questions, Mystics and Zen Masters, Seasons of Celebration, and Seeds of Destruction.	«Thank you for your letter of June 11th. I'm glad to know that the Griffin manuscript has been turned in. No, we have not contracted for Monica»

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