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First lines: "John Griffin wrote me as soon as he got back from the Abbey with you and Jacques Maritain. He said"...

First lines: "Thank you so much for the ok on the poem. I will of course makesome [sic] reference to the personal"...

First lines: "Congratulations on your fantastic poem, "Fall '66", in NY REVIEW (Dec. 15 issue) -- I am going to"...

First lines: "First rule of publishing: a Monk should never allow an editor to edit out what might be considered"...

First lines: "We have decided to make #3 and #4 a DOUBLE ISSUE for many reasons: 1) to balance political material"...

First lines: "Have chosen from CABLES what could stand as individual poems. (see carbons from copies of these"...

First lines: "What a very moving collection of signatures. We are mulling over them now but definitely want to"...

First lines: "Since last writing you we have decided to do a little 20-page quarto to commemorate the 4th"... Contents index: [no date - annotated "Oct. 8"].

First lines: "Just returned from Griffin's. The photographs are fantastic! We will just flip them with the"...

First lines: "Acknowledging your letter which clarified CABLES TO THE [sic] ACE and all news of signatures and"...

First lines: "John is genuinely frantic about your special issue of Latitudes, concerning copyright. Well I wrote"...

First lines: "Heard the long almighty and beautiful tape at John Griffin's last weekend and he made me a copy,"...

First lines: "Thank you for your note. What is this about starting a magazine of your own? I suppose you mean on"...

First lines: "Thanks so much for the kindly support, the generous clarification of expenses in our (much needed"... Contents index: plans for Robert Bonazzi and Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi to be at the June 1997 general meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) held at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL / discussion of Fr. August Thompson, also to be a guest speaker at the ITMS conference.

First lines: "ELIZABETH GRIFFIN-BONAZZI --Widow of John Howard Griffin, wife of 27 years, mother of their four"... Contents index: biographical sketches for Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi and Robert Bonazzi and a description of the John Howard Griffin Roundtable with Fr. August Thompson at the June 1997 general meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) held at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL.

First lines: "Thanks so much for your kind letter of 21 April, as well as for the much-needed reimbursement"... Contents index: plans for Robert Bonazzi and Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi to be at the June 1997 general meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) held at Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL / discussion of Fr. August Thompson, also to be a guest speaker at the ITMS conference.

Before approaching Merton for submissions to his magazine, Robert Bonazzi had met two of Merton's friends, Mark Van Doren and John Howard Griffin. Griffin gave Bonazzi a poem about Robert Lax that he wanted to publish. The letters primarily concern publication matters. Among what was published were essays, poems, photographs and drawings (referred to as "signatures") by Merton. Also mentioned is the founding of Merton's own "little magazine" <u>Monks Pond</u>.

Collections in this record group are related to Thomas Merton, Merton studies, or the Merton Legacy Trust (his literary trust). Some were managed by Merton's friends, family, collectors of his works, biographers, or those in correspondence with Merton.