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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Bettencourt, Yolanda

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1957-1959

Volume: 4 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

These four letters, all original letters from Bettencourt to Merton, concern publishing writes for Merton's books in Portuguese.

Biography

Yolanda Bettencourt writes from the editorial department of the publishing house Livaria Agir Editors in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Usage Guidelines and Restrictions

Related Information and Links

See also the "Giroux, Robert" file, Series 3, Letter 1961/03/02[2] for a letter from Bettencourt to Dom James Fox regarding Merton's book Disputed Questions.

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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.
   

Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1957/12/03 TLSto MertonThe first Portuguese edition of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND was a great success - out of stock in two months  publication of Merton's books in Brazil / Alceu Amoroso Lima / <i>Bread in the Wilderness</i> / Fr. Leonel Franca, S.J.
 1958/01/10 TLSto MertonThanks for your letter of December 19, 1957. I have already written to Curtis Brown concerning the  list of books already published in Portuguese / Alceu Amoroso Lima / Merton's interest in writing about Latin American poets
 1958/11/25 TLSto MertonWe have received through D. Timóteo Amoroso Anastácio O.S.B. translator of NO MAN IS AN ISLAND, your  <i>Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality</i>, <i>Monastic Peace</i>, <i>What Is Contemplation</i> and <i>A Balanced Life of Prayer</i> - question of publishing them in one volume in Portuguese / sending books on José Paulo Moreira da Fonseca and Dante Milano
 1959/08/13 TLSto MertonYour books are translated into so many languages, and published by so many publishers, that we  have not received translation rights for publication since <i>No Man Is an Island</i> and wants to know how best to obtain such rights before other Portuguese publishers
        

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