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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Freedgood, Anne

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1951-1967

Volume: 15 item(s); 15 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This correspondence is a mix of personal details about Anne and Sy Freedgood and publishing matters.

Biography

Anne Freedgood was editor in the Anchor Books division of Doubleday publishing in New York. She was also the wife of Merton's Columbia friend Seymour Freedgood.

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Related Information and Links

See also "Freedgood, Seymour" file.

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Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1951/11/12 TLS[x]from MertonI am so far gone that I cannot even remember whether or not I answered your letter of a month ago  [addressed "Dear Anne," unclear if Freedgood - Giroux notes "Please return to A.F." - Merton notes, "best wishes to both of you" (maybe a reference to Seymore Freedgood)]
 1964/02/06 TAL[c]from MertonThanks very much for the package of books, all of them very welcome. And thank Seymour also for his   
 1964/08/19 TAL[c]from MertonI am returning this form for your permissions editor, for the CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS,   
 1964/09/23 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your good letter. I am sure everything is all right with Cappy. He does not write to me   
 1964/09/28 TALSto MertonI have just finished talking long distance to Czeslaw Milosz in California who tells me he has just   
 1964/10/10 TAL[c]from MertonYes, I was talking to Milosz about his anthology. It has wonderful stuff in it, and I think I would   
 1964/10/13 TALSto MertonThanks very much for agreeing to give us a comment on the Polish poems. I have ordered a set   
 1964/11/29 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter. It was good to have some sort of news. It shows however that much has   
 1964/12/15 TL[c]from MertonSorry I have taken so long to write back about the galleys of Czeslaw Milosz's anthology, POSTWAR   
 1964/12/21 TLSto MertonThank you so much for that splendid quote on POSTWAR POLISH POETRY. We will be able to make   
 1965/05/03 TL[c]from MertonRapid fire answer as I must make sure you don't send quotations with the typing errors of our   
 1966/11/16 TLSto MertonI have had Mr. Todd, who is arranging Yevtushenko's tour, alerted that you would like to meet him,   
 1967/01/17 TLSto MertonSy appears to have answered you at length, if not decisively, so I will be brief. I was horrified   
 1967/01/29 TL[c]from MertonThanks for your letter of the 17th. Of the things which you announce in it I have so far received   
 1967/04/12 TL[c]from MertonI have a couple of poets you might be interested in. First there is a Japanese poet called Kusano   
        

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