This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Rissin, Rhoda".
Rhoda Rissin was Assistant to James Laughlin, head of New Directions publishers from Norfolk, Connecticut.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also the "Skillen, Edward Simeon" file.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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# | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1960/10/03 |
TL[x] to Merton |
With reference to your two poems, "A Practical Program for Monks" and "An Elegy for Five Old Ladies" |
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asking if two poems, both previously published in "Pax" number 7, need approval by Catholic censors
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1961/06/29 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you for your note of the 27th, and the proof of "A Song for Nobody," which I have dispatched |
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1961/12/06 |
TLS to Merton |
J. Laughlin has passed to me your letter about magazine placements of your poems. I have sent |
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1961/12/13 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I am glad to be able to report that the "Saturday Review" has accepted for publication your poem |
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1961/12/13 (#02) |
TLS from Skillin, Edward S. / to Merton |
We are happy to accept for publication "The Moslems' Angel of Death" and to send along herewith |
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[from Edward S. Skillin of The Commonweal in New York City, sent 1961/12/12 to James Laughlin to forward to Merton]
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1962/01/22 |
TL[x] to Merton |
The enclosed copy of letter from Gerard Piel at "Scientific American" about his article did not |
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1963/02/26 |
TL[c] from Merton |
In the front matter of EMBLEMS we ought to mention the following. Poems in this book have appeared |
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1965/01/22 |
TLS[x] from Duke, Vernon |
Your letter of January 13 received. I'm very glad to learn that you decided to le me use |
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[forwarded to Merton - from Vernon Duke of Pacific Palisades, California, to Rhoda Rissin]
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1965/01/26 |
TALS to Merton |
Thank you for your letter of January 22nd, with the interesting details of Miss Beecher-Malukov's |
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