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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Gribble, James

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1958

Volume: 5 item(s); 5 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Gribble, James".

Biography

James Gribble was Associate Director of the University of Kentucky Libraries at the time of correspondence with Thomas Merton.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1958/09/01 TLS[x]from MertonMany thanks for the Shestov which arrived safely and is remarkable. I was interested too  D.H. Lawrence preface to Lev Shestov's <i>All Things are Possible (Apotheosis of Groundlessness)</i> / Carolyn Hammer - Victor Hammer - <i>Prometheus</i> / French painter Le Douanier Rousseau
 1958/09/13 TLS[x]from MertonI would be very interesed in seeing the short article in the Library News on <u>Prometheus</u>.  Victor Hammer's uncial type - praise for <i>Prometheus</i> from Mark Van Doren, James Laughlin, and Robert MacGregor / asking for books by K. Stanislavski, F.W. Conybeare, H. Hafensbrink, J. Dutourd, and Rosenberg and White (editors, <i>Mass Culture</i>)
 1958/09/28 TLS[x]from MertonThanks for the last consignment of books. I have sent some back in the last few days,  Jean Dutourd's <i>Taxis of the Marne</i> (Jean Gwenaël Dutourd's <i>Les Taxis de la Marne</i>) / P.M. Bardi's <i>The Arts in Brazil</i>
 1958/10/16 TLS[x]from MertonI hope <u>Mass Culture</u> got back to you in plenty of time. Thaks for the Dutourd volume.  piece by Marshall McLuhan in "Mass Culture" and McLuhan's book on advertising / E.S. Turner's <i>The Shocking History of Advertising</i>
 1958/10/30 TLS[x]from MertonThis list is probably more in the nature of suggestions than requests as I expect you will not have  African novels by Chinua Aelube, Sylvester Stein, G. Lammings, Amos Tutuola / Sergei Bulgakov's <i>Orthodox Church</i>; D.T. Suzuki's <i>Zen and Japanese Culture</i>; Jung's <i>Secret of the Golden Flower</i>; Berdyaev's <i>Realm of the Spirit and Realm of Caesar</i>; Mayer's <i>Madison Avenue USA</i>
        

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