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Merton writes with the desire to cease plans to publish a book entitled Prayer as Worship and Experience because of the contractual troubles he was having with Farrar, Straus and Giroux over violation of his contract.
Warren Sullivan was Chairman of the Board of the Macmillan Company Publishers. He writes from New York.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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| 1. |
1963/07/03 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
This is a rather difficult letter to write, but I think it must be written. For some time I have |
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1963/07/03 (#02) |
TL[x] from Merton |
This is a rather difficult letter to write, but I think it must be written. For some time I have |
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[filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani]
«detailed view» |
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1963/07/11 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
I can well imagine how unpleasant is the situation in which you find yourself thrust quite |
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1963/07/11 (#02) |
TLS[x] to Merton |
I can well imagine how unpleasant is the situation in which you find yourself thrust quite |
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[filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani]
«detailed view» |
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1963/07/24 |
TAL[d] from Fox, James |
We have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND EXPERIENCE |
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[filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani]
«detailed view» |
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1963/07/27 |
TLS[x] from Fox, James |
We have decided here at the Abbey of Gethsemani that the book PRAYER AS WORSHIP AND EXPERIENCE |
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[filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani] terminating book contract for Prayer as Worship and Experience and returning $5,000 to Macmillan
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1963/08/08 |
TLS to Fox, James |
As you know, not long ago I wrote to Father Merton when he first offered to return the advance for |
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[filed by Dom James Fox in a box of Macmillan Company files at Gethsemani]
«detailed view» |
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