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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Cerf, Bennett".
Humorist, editor and publisher, Bennett Cerf was Chairman of the Board and founder of Random House publishing house in New York. Prior to founding Random House, he had co-purchased the Modern Library series. He was a fellow graduate and editor of Jester at Columbia University, but many years prior to Merton's arrival. He later guest starred as a panelist on the TV show "What's My Line?". (Source: "Cerf, Bennett Alfred." Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography, Copyright Helicon Publishing Limited [2000]. Biography Reference Bank. Online. H.W. Wilson. Available: ‹http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml;jsessionid=FTJAM2QJSVQCJQA3DILSFFWADUNBIIV0?_requestid=100016› 2004/07/19.)
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1967/01/27 |
TL[c] from Merton |
A friend of mine, Ed Rice, says Random House is doing a book of his pictures, for which I just wrote |
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asking to obtain books by and about William Faulkner in hopes of putting together a book on him
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1967/01/30 |
TLS to Merton |
I enjoyed your letter of January 27th, and am particularly pleased that we are going to publish |
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Columbia University's Jester / William Faulkner books that Merton requested are being shipped / Jay Laughlin / sending copy of book by Michael Millgate, entitled The Achievement of William Faulkner
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1967/02/22 |
TL[c] from Merton |
The shipment of Faulkner books reached me safely and I am very happy to have them around. |
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Merton currently reading Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - has not read it before and does not think it has been fully appreciated by others / Millgate book on Faulkner
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