John Howard Griffin papers, 1920-2004

Request Box 1

Box 1 Folder 1 Biographical Sketch, 8 page t.m.s. (incomplete

Box 1 Folder 2 Bibliography of Books and Monographs, 5 page t.ms.

Box 1 Folder 3 Texas Department of Health Birth Certificate, 1 page (photocopy

Box 1 Folder 4 Coat of Arms and Genealogy, 1 page each (photocopy

Box 1 Folder 5 Moliere Les Femmes Savantes, Paris: Librairie Hachette,, 1936

[Inscribed "Howard Griffin, Lycée Descartes"

Box 1 Folder 6 American Conservatory Certificate of Attendance, [Paris], 1946, 1 page (photocopy

Box 1 Folder 7 Griffin, John Howard Handbook for Darkness, [Mansfield, TX], 1948, 34 page t.ms.

[Griffin's study "especially prepared for those who are in close contact with the blind". The text covers such areas as: "What Blindness Should Be to the Blind." "The Role of Those Who Live with the Blind." "The Role of Fear." "Potentialities for Overcoming the Handicap Ways to Financial Independence." "Marriage and Children." "The Intimate Life." "Religion." Plus notes for mini chapters on Interests, Travel, A House Guest, A Hotel Guest, Clerks in Stores, and Mechanical Aids. Unpublished. The text's last six pages contain a series of "Observations on. Blindness and Suggestions for Those Who See," which are short, compelling remarks that sum up his philosophy most effectively.

Box 1 Folder 8 Griffin, John Howard Review of Jacob Twersky's Blindness in Literature, The American Foundation for the Blind., [1948], 3 page t.ms. (carbon

[There is no record of this manuscript having been published

Box 1 Folder 9 Defense Passive Convocation, Tours, France, 30 September 1939, One 5" x 8" sheet Mimeograph document, with notes in pencil

Box 1 Folder 10 Defense Passive "Les Gaz de Combat", Two 8 1/2" x ll" sheets Mimeograph document, with notes in pencil

[Penciled notes are not in Griffin's handwriting

Box 1 Folder 11 Comite International de la Croix-Rouge To Howard Griffin, Geneva, 13 September 1939, 1 t.l., signed by Mlle. L. Odier, Membre due Comite International (and) Membre de la Commission des Oeuvres de Guerre

Box 1 Folder 12 Tours. School of Medicine Diploma awarded to John Howard Griffin, Tours,, 17 May 1946, 1 page (photostat

Box 1 Folder 13 United State of America. Army Military record and certificate of honorable discharge of John Howard Griffin, [n.p.],, 1945, 3 pages (photocopy

Box 1 Folder 14 United State of America. Department of State Passport of John Howard Griffin, Texas,, 26 June 1946, 6 page (photocopy

Box 1 Folder 15 Father Marie-Bruno, O.P. [Andre Hussar] To John Howard Griffin, [v.p.], 1 May 1945 - 19 May 1947, 10 a.l.s. 1 autograph saint card

[Monk and spiritual mentor to John Howard Griffin

Box 1 Folder 16 Casadesus, Robert To John Howard Griffin, [v.p.], 1941-1952, 18 a.l.s.

[French pianist and composer; musical mentor to John Howard Griffin. Five posted from Princeton, NJ; two on letterhead of the School of Music, American Art Schools of Fontainebleau; others posted from concert stops in St. Louis, Cleveland, and Miami; 25 pages (front and back combined); and four Autograph Envelopes

Box 1 Folder 17 Casadesus, Robert To Whom It May Concern, Palace of Fontainebleau, France,, 28 May 1964, 1 a.l.s.

[With photocopy of t.l., signed by Claude Levi-Strauss, French Ambassador and Minister of Culture, concerning Griffin's acceptance to study music; t.l., signed by Mary Crennan. on Columbia Concerts letterhead to Griffin, regarding his query as to Casadesus' concert schedule, November 30, 1945

Box 1 Folder 18 Casadesus, Jean To John Howard Griffin, New York, [17 April 1972], 1 t.n.s.

[With a carbon letter from Griffin to Jean Casadesus, July 28, 1963; form Letter of the Robert Casadesus Society to Griffin, signed by Therese Casadesus-Rawson, for the Organizing Committee; November 24, 1974 -Carbon of Typed Letter from Griffin to Therese Casadesus-Rawson, concerning his memory of her as the childhood daughter of Gaby and Robert Casadesus during which she nicknamed himle grand ours, November 30, 1974

Box 1 Folder 19 Treverton, James R. News Feature published in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 11 Nov. 1943, based on an interview with Gaby Casadesus, pianist and wife of Robert Casadesus. Anecdotes about their friend and neighbor at Princeton, Albert Einstein; St. Louis Symphony conductor Vladimir Golschmann; the musical progress of the Casadesus children -- News Photo from an unknown and undated New York newspaper, concerning a concert to be given by the Casadesus for Russian War Relief, at Carnegie Hall -- Obituaries from the New York Times and the New York Post. Casadesus died 19 September 1972, after an operation for cancer of the pancreas; he was 73,, 1943-1972, 4 clippings

Box 1 Folder 20 Casadesus, Robert Four Music Programs, including one autographed by the pianist -- Photocopies of Two other Music Programs--one of the Casadesus Family (Robert, Gaby, and Jean) and the other of a concert by Gaby Casadesus and Pierre Bernac, tenor, [n.p.],, 1941-1946, 7 items

Box 1 Folder 21 Robert Casadesus: Four sheets of promotional material and news from the Robert Casadesus Society, including envelope addressed to John Howard Griffin -- Brochure for the Jean Casadesus Memorial Fund, Department of Music, State University of New York at Binghamton -- Article in Musical America, discussing the first Ravel/Casadesus International Piano Competition, held at the Cleveland Institute of Music, August 25-31, 1975; the December 1975 piece includes a photograph of Gaby Casadesus and winner John Owings, [n.p.],, 1972-1980, 4 items

[Jean Casadesus was pianist-in-residence at SUNY, from 1965 until his death in January of 1972, in an automobile accident; he was 44

Box 1 Folder 22 Reverdy, Pierre To John Howard Griffin, [Solesmes, France], 23 November 1953, 1 page a.l.s.

[In French. French poet, close friend of Picasso, Braque, etc.; he died in 1961.

Box 1 Folder 23 Szigeti, Joseph To John Howard Griffin, Eugene, OR, 15 January 1945, 1 page a.l.s.

[World-renowned violinist

Box 1 Folder 24 Rheiny, Arthur To John Howard Griffin, Solesmes, France, 21 January 1948, 2 page a.l.s.

[In French

Box 1 Folder 25 Reynal, Maurice To John Howard Griffin, Paris, 25 April 1949, 1 page a.l.s.

[In French

Box 1 Folder 26-30 Rattner, Abraham To John Howard Griffin, New York, 1943/1944, 18 a.l.s., 1 a.n.s., 1 telegram, 6 clippings, articles, etc.

[American painter who studied in Paris where he became friends with the Cubists and Surrealists. These letters were written in 1943 and 1944 while Griffin was a Sergeant in the Air Force 424 Bomber Squadron, serving in the South Pacific. The letters written from 1945 to 1949 cover the years of Griffin's return from the war, preparations for a trip to France (where he delivered packages of clothing for Rattner to the artist's friends in France), and also Griffin's return from France to live on a farm in Mansfield, Texas (then completely blind).

Box 1 Folder 31 Gentle, Esther To John Howard Griffin, [New York], [12 May 1975], 1 a.l.s.

Box 1 Folder 32-43 Griffin, John Howard The Devil Rides Outside , [n.p.], Christmas 1949, 587 pp. t.ms. (carbon), In 12 folders

[The first draft of Griffin's first novel. Sent as a gift to Sally Gillespie. In reading the manuscript it becomes obvious that the news stories surrounding the novel's composition--stories which were promulgated by the Smith brothers who owned Smiths, Inc. of Fort Worth--were inaccurate: Griffin did not write a 900 plus page manuscript which was cut nearly one-third by the editor/publisher Gordon Smith; the novel did not begin as a non-fiction account of Griffin's experience at the Abbey of Solemes, the Benedictine motherhouse of Gregorian Chant.. The novel varies from the final Smiths published version in relatively minor ways. It does not open with the scene of the anonymous American musicologist being driven to the old monastery by the cab driver, but begins with the narrator in his monastic cell (which is the second scene of the published version). The original manuscript has a short Epilogue which was dropped from the published book. That Epilogue was Part III, whereas the book has only two parts, entitled ."The Cloister Within" and "The Devil Without". The original manuscript simply calls these first two parts, "The Monastery" and. "The Village." Otherwise, the manuscript runs closely to the published book. This does not indicate Griffin made several complete drafts from this 1947 first draft to the galley stage, in 1951. (The novel was published in 1952). It indicates that some sections were added later and some cutting was done from the original manuscript. The massive, poorly-written, obscenity-riddled typescript of 900 pages is a fiction of the publisher. Also, the press releases from The Smiths which referred to Griffin's blindness and his war heroics were considered in bad taste by the author. He preferred to use a pseudonym which he had used (several in fact) when he submitted magazines work. Several pieces were published under the name Lew Smollett and no mention of the author's blindness or war experiences were included. Griffin discusses these times in his letters to Sally Gillespie (see Series VII)

Request Box 2

Box 2 Folder 44 Daniels, Brad Background notes about the The Devil Rides Outside and its subsequent censorship case, [n.p.], [1968], 7 page (photocopy

Box 2 Folder 45 Feature articles from Texas newspapers prior to the publication of The Devil Rides Outside, Texas, 1952, 9 page (photocopy

Box 2 Folder 46 Reviews of The Devil Rides Outside in Time; Saturday Review; NY Herald Tribune; Dallas Times-Herald; Fort Worth Star-Telegram and other national publications, [v.p.], 1952, 28 page (photocopy

Box 2 Folder 47 Griffin, John Howard Article on the censorship of The Devil Rides Outside Dallas Morning News, 1954, 1 page (photocopy

Box 2 Folder 48 Fadiman, Clifton To John Howard Griffin, Mansfield, Texas, 30 Aug. [n.y.], 1 t.l. (copy

Box 2 Folder 49 Sussman, Cornelia and Irving How To Read A Dirty Book, Franciscan Herald Press, [n.d.], 1 dust jacket, 5 page (photocopy

[Pages 102 - 111 of the book [Missing after exhibit]

Box 2 Folder 50 News stories about the censorship case Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, 1954, 26 page (photocopy

Box 2 Folder 51 Gerber, Albert B. Sex, Pornography and Justice, New York: Lyle Stuart, 1965, 9 page (photocopy

[Legal discussion of the Butler vs. Michigan case (Griffin's novel was the focus of a test case put forth by Pocket Books, publisher of the paperbackDevil)

Box 2 Folder 52 Griffin, John Howard To Father Gardiner, Mansfield, Texas, 26 June 1956, 1 a.l. (carbon), 2 pages

Box 2 Folder 53 Griffin, John Howard To The Editor The Michigan Catholic, [Texas], 29 July 1954, 1 t.l. (carbon), 4 pages

Box 2 Folder 54 Griffin, John Howard To Father Maino, [Texas], 15 August 1954, 1 t.l. (carbon), 9 pages

Box 2 Folder 55 Griffin, John Howard To Father Maino, [Texas], 7 October 1954, 1 t.l. (carbon), 8 pages

Box 2 Folder 56 Griffin, John Howard To Reverend Jobert J. Dwyer, [Texas], 13 August 1956, 1 t.l. (copy), 4 pages

Box 2 Folder 57 Griffin, John Howard To Paschal Varnskuhler, [Texas], 16 August 1956, 1 t.l. (copy), 4 pages

Box 2 Folder 58 Owens, Robert To John Howard Griffin, Denver and Anderson, SC, 9 April 1965 - 17 January 1966, 3 t.l.s.

[Re. playscript ofDevil

Box 2 Folder 59 Marshall, Bruce Statement on The Devil Rides Outside, [n.p.], 14 October 1953, 1 t.l. (copy

[Re. playscript ofDevil

Box 2 Folder 60 Pocket Books, Inc. To John Howard Griffin, New York, 7 May 1964, 1 t.l.s.

[With two related letters concerning a Polish edition ofThe Devil Rides Outside

Box 2 Folder 61 Presses de la Cite & Smiths, Inc. Promotional materials for The Devil Rides Outside, [v.p.], ca. 1952, 5 items

Box 2 Folder 62 Houghton Mifflin To John Howard Griffin, Boston, 1 April & 22 July 1969, 2 t.l.s., 3 t.l. (carbon replies

Box 2 Folder 63 Smith, J. Hulbert To John Howard Griffin, Fort Worth, 1 April & 22 July 1969, 2 t.l.s., 3 t.l. (carbon replies

Box 2 Folder 64 Canadian Broadcasting Corp. To Elizabeth Bonazzi, Toronto, 1985, 1 t.l.s.

[Regarding reading fromDevil

Box 2 Folder 65 Alexandrian Press To John Howard Griffin Estate, CA, 1984, 1 t.l.s.

[Requisition to reprintDevil

Box 2 Folder 66 Southern Methodist University Press To Robert Bonazzi, Dallas, Texas, 1987, 3 t.l.s.

[ Regarding reprintingThe Devil Rides Outside

Box 2 Folder 67 Griffin, John Howard "The Cage", Mansfield, Texas, [n.d.], 21 page t.ms. (carbon

[Dedicated to Abraham Rattner

Box 2 Folder 68 Griffin, John Howard "The Peas", Mansfield, Texas, [1951?], 23 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

[About a young boy growing up blind on a farm. This is a more successful reworking of "The Cage". It was submitted to magazines 1951-1953 (unpublished)

Box 2 Folder 69 Griffin, John Howard "Scraps for a Feast" ["The Seawall"], Mansfield, Texas,, [1955?], 13 page t.ms.

[Fictional rendering of an actual trip Griffin made to Galveston (unpublished)

Box 2 Folder 70 Griffin, John Howard "The Seawall", Mansfield, Texas, [1952], 13 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

Box 2 Folder 71 Griffin, John Howard "Black Noon", Mansfield, Texas, [1952], 5 page t.ms.

[Vignette about blind man going to town (unpublished)

Box 2 Folder 72 Griffin, John Howard "Just Ask Wooly" Catholic Digest, November 1956, 7 page photocopy (incomplete

[Reprint of story that appeared originally inCatholic World.

Box 2 Folder 73 Griffin, John Howard "Blindness - what it is and what problems it entails.", [n.p.],, May 1959, 2 page t.ms.

[Lecture outline

Box 2 Folder 74 Smollett, Lew "The Big-Time Stockman" Farm and Ranch, February 1952, 2 page photocopy

[Story about blind farm boy who raises livestock. Griffin's first published short story

Box 2 Folder 75 Gantz, H. L. "Trouble is what you make it" Farm and Ranch, [n.d.], 2 page photocopy

[Profile of Griffin. Reveals that Lew Smollett is really Griffin

Box 2 Folder 76 Daniel, Bradford Notes on Griffin's short stories, [n.p.], [1967], 3 page photocopy

Box 2 Folder 77 Griffin, John Howard "Withdrawal of the Artist" The Nation, May 1953, 1 page photocopy

[On being a writing member of the Silent Generation

Box 2 Folder 78 Griffin, John Howard Review of Bonner McMillion's The Lot of Her Neighbors The Daily Times Herald, March 1953, 1 page photocopy

Box 2 Folder 79 Griffin, John Howard "Sauce for the Gander", New York: New American Library,, 1953, 10 page photocopy

Box 2 Folder 80 Griffin, John Howard Reprint of "Sauce for the Gander" , New York: Macmillan,, 1956, 8 page photocopy

Box 2 Folder 81 Griffin, John Howard "Friar Clud", [Mansfield, Texas], [1953], 10 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

[Unpublished

Box 2 Folder 82 Griffin, John Howard "Friar Clud", [Mansfield, Texas], [1953], 33 page t.ms. (incomplete, with ms. corrections

[Unpublished. Sequel to "Sauce for the Gander"

Box 2 Folder 83 Griffin, John Howard "Metamorphosis", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 11 page t.ms. (missing page 1

[ Third draft. Unpublished short story which is reminiscent ofThe Devil Rides Outsidein that it takes place in a monastery and portrays similar monk characters

Box 2 Folder 84 "Metamorphosis", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 3 page t.ms. (carbon

[2nd draft?

Box 2 Folder 85 Griffin, John Howard "Metamorphosis", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 3 page t.ms.

Box 2 Folder 86 Griffin, John Howard "Roadblock", Mansfield, Texas, [1950s], 54 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

[Short story about working in the French Underground based on Griffin's actual experience

Box 2 Folder 87 Griffin, John Howard "Roadblock", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 14 page t.ms. (playscript

Box 2 Folder 88 Griffin, John Howard "Samuel Mullins's Unfortunate Jinx", [Mansfield, Texas],, [n.d.], 29 page t.ms (carbon, with ms. corrections

Box 2 Folder 89 Griffin, John Howard "Samuel Mullins's Unfortunate Jinx", Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 28 page t.ms. (carbon

Box 2 Folder 90 Griffin, John Howard "Samuel Mullins's Unfortunate Jinx", Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 20 page t.ms.

Box 2 Folder 91 Griffin, John Howard "Samuel Mullins's Unfortunate Jinx", Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 19 page t.ms.

Box 2 Folder 92 Griffin, John Howard "The Bargain", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 8 page t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 2 Folder 93 Griffin, John Howard "Model Boy", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 14 page t.ms. (carbon)First draft(?

Box 2 Folder 94 Griffin, John Howard "The Weakling" [Model Boy], [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 14 page t.ms. (carbon

[2nd draft(?)

Box 2 Folder 95 Griffin, John Howard "Southern Dirge in Black and White" [Model Boy], Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 13 page t.ms.

[3rd draft(?)

Box 2 Folder 96 Griffin, John Howard "Miss Henrietta Briggs and Her Metamorphosis" Story Number Three, The Magazine of the Short Story in Book Form,, 1953, 16 page photocopy

Box 2 Folder 97 "Clovis's Thirst", [Mansfield, Texas], [n.d.], 10 page t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 2 Folder 98 Griffin, John Howard "Noble Vision", Mansfield, Texas, [n.d.], 20 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections

[Early draft of "The Cause" a story published inThe John Howard Griffin Reader

Request Box 3

Box 3 Folder 99 "The Whole World in His Hands", New York: New Voices 2, 1955, 12 page photocopy

Box 3 Folder 100 Griffin, John Howard "Afternoon Hooch", Mansfield, Texas, [1953], 15 page t.ms., (with autograph corrections

[Unpublished. Based on a 1953 trip to the Bowery with Clyde Holland

Box 3 Folder 101 Griffin, John Howard "Diversions", [Mansfield, Texas], [1955-1957], 12 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

[Humorous vignettes, published inThe John Howard Griffin Reader

Box 3 Folder 102 Griffin, John Howard More "Diversions", [Mansfield, Texas], [ca. 1955], 10 p, t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 3 Folder 103 Lamfamboise, Jean-Charles "Pontifical Teaching and the Christian Family". Translated from the French by Griffin, [Mansfield, Texas],, 1956, 10 page t.ms.(carbon

[Also a copy of a letter from Father Lamfamboise and an offprint of the original French text. . Besides translating his own fiction from the French, Griffin spoke both of his novels,The Devil Rides OutsideandNuni, into a wire-recorder, in French, and then transcribed the novels into English. He translated various other French texts. Few were published but he made these translations as much to keep himself bilingual and for the intrinsic value of what he translated. During this period he was also receiving tapes, in both English and French, from Jacques Maritain, Father Stanley Murphy, and Gerald Vann, the British Dominican scholar. He considered it all part of his continuing classical education in language, in philosophy, and in theology. He speaks also of translating some of Albert Camus' novelThe Strangerinto English, but none of those pages have been found. In his Journals there are various letters and short texts translated into English for his own purposes.

Box 3 Folder 104 Griffin, John Howard "Nuestra Senora de la Resurreccion", Mansfield, Texas,, [n.d.], 9 page t.ms. (carbon

[This is a piece written about the Benedictine monastery located between Mexico City and Cuernavaca . One of Griffin's abiding passions was the study of the monastic life. In the case of this piece, he did hope to publish it but was not successful. Nonetheless, in writing it, he was consistent in his ongoing interest in monasticism. Several of his short stories of this period are about characters in monasteries--both serious, like "Metamorphosis" and comic, like the Friar Clud stories. His first novel,The Devil Rides Outside, takes place in part in a monastery. Relating in general to this passion for the monastic life are his lectures on Gregorian Chant, combining the roots of monasticism with the flower of medieval music.

Box 3 Folder 105 Griffin, John Howard "Preface" to the Dallas lectures on Gregorian Chant, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 106 Griffin, John Howard Notes on music used in lecture, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page t.ms.

Request Box 13

Box 13 Folder 451 Griffin, John Howard Notes on Music Article, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page t.ms.

Request Box 3

Box 3 Folder 107 Griffin, John Howard Dallas lecture number one: "Preliminary study of Modality", [n.p.],, [n.d.], 25 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 108 Griffin, John Howard Dallas lecture number two: "Neum notation and Modality", [n.p.],, 23 Feb. [n.y.], 10 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 109 Griffin, John Howard Dallas lecture number three: "Rhythm", [n.p.], [n.d.], 8 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 110 Griffin, John Howard 18 Lectures on the History of Music. Introduction and recordings list, Forth Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 9 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 111 Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on the history of music: lecture one, Forth Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 24 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

Box 3 Folder 112 Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on the history of music: lecture two, Forth Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 113 Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on the history of music: lecture three, Forth Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 10 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 114 Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture seven, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 115 Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture for Feb. 2nd, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 3 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 116 Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture for Feb. 19th, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 3 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 117 Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture on Mozart, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 4 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 118 Griffin, John Howard 18 lectures on music: lecture 15, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 14 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 119 Griffin, John Howard 18 lecture on music: modern music, Fort Worth, Texas,, [n.d.], 5 page t.ms.

Box 3 Folder 120 Griffin, John Howard Detroit Lecture on Gregorian Chant, [Detroit], 28 Feb. 1954, 10 page t.ms.

Subseries IV.1: Nuni

Box 3 Folder 121 Griffin, John Howard Nuni , Texas, 14 December 1955, 243 page t.ms. (carbon) in, 1 volume

[The final draft of the novel, complete with the author's changes and comments in longhand.. The original manuscript, as well as the manuscripts forThe Devil Rides OutsideandLand of the High Sky(all published between 1952 and 1959) have not survived. The publishers have indicated that the original manuscripts were returned to Griffin. Yet it is the carbons he kept in his archives which reveal his working process. . The carbons reveal all of his changes. Either he used these carbons for his own purposes, to catalog the changes made on the originals or even on the galleys (for no galleys survive either), or the typesetting of the galleys was made directly from these carbons

Box 3 Folder 123 Mosely, Hardwick To Clyde P. Holland [Griffin's business manager], Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston,, 3 January 1956, 1 t.l.s.

Box 3 Folder 124 Hawkes, Wendy To Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston,, 7 December 1984

[ With photocopy of renewal document from Houghton Mifflin.

Box 3 Folder 125 News stories and book reviews of Nuni, 4 pages photocopy

Box 3 Folder 126 Eugene McNamara Offprints of articles about Nuni and Devil

[Canadian critic

Box 3 Folder 127 Griffin, John Howard To Eugene McNamara, Mansfield, Texas, 5 February 1962, 1 t.l.s. (carbon

Request Box 4

Box 4 Folder 138 Griffin, John Howard Grand Chief Vutha, 5 page t.ms., with autograph corrections

Box 4 Folder 139 Grand Chief Vutha To John Howard Griffin, Tutumu[?], 7 July 1944, 2 page a.l.s.

Box 4 Folder 140 Griffin, John Howard Floridan dialect, [n.p.], [n.d.], 6 pages t.ms. (with photocopy

[A list of words and phrases "used by the natives of a group of islands in the South Pacific".

Request Box 3

Box 3 Folder 128 Griffin, John Howard Journal entries re. Nuni, 3 pages (photocopy

Box 3 Folder 129 Daniels, Brad Notes re. Nini, 3 page (photocopy

Box 3 Folder 130 Nuni, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1956, 1 vol. Galley proofs (uncorrected

Subseries IV.2: The Street of the Seven Angels

Concerning Griffin's novels,The Street of the Seven AngelsandPassacaglia, it is necessary to outline the genesis of his creative process as regards these works begun in the mid-1950s. . Initially, all of this material was intended for one large novel, tentatively entitled "Point, Counterpoint," but when Griffin heard that Huxley had published a novel with that title, he began to rethink his concept. His journals indicate that the large novel was really made up of alternating chapters with two sets of characters (although a few characters cross from one story to the other). One, which becameStreet, focused on the character of Chez Durand, a bookshop owner, who becomes involved in an obscenity trial; this story features a large cast of characters and is comic in intent. The second novel,Passacaglia, is a serious work about a concert pianist and his illegitimate son--also a pianist. . The manuscript herein calledPassacaoliais actually the remnants of the larger novel (207 pages of typescript carbon) which was never completed. The manuscript ofStreet of the Seven Angelsis a 221 page typescript, an original he revised from portions of the carbon, from 1966-1972. He intended to publishStreetas his third novel and even though he came under contract with Houghton Mifflin for the work, it was never published. He never returned to do a revision ofPassacaglia. A reading ofStreetwill reveal that it has been revised and completed, but a reading of the carbon ofPassacaolia--which has gaps in pagination, as well as many adjustments (as many as five changes on some pages)--never received any revision.

Box 3 Folder 131 & 132 Street of the Seven Angels , Texas, 1966-1972, 221 page t.ms.

Subseries IV.3: Passacaglia

Box 3 Folder 133 & 134 Passacaglia , 207 page t.ms. (carbon

[Incomplete. Pages from an unfinished novel

Request Box 4

Box 4 Folder 135 Griffin, John Howard Precis of Street of the Seven Angels, 1960s, 8 page t.ms. (carbon

[There is also a hand-drawn map by Griffin of the quarter of Paris in which the action takes place. [missing 11/20/2000-PL]

Box 4 Folder 136 Griffin, John Howard Precis of Passacaqlia, 1950s, 8 page t.ms.

[Features two page plot outline, and three page character sketches of both the main characters.

Box 4 Folder 137 Griffin, John Howard "Chez Durand" , New World Writing, 1957, 10 page photocopy

Box 4 Folder 141 Daniel, Bradford Notes on Land of the High Sky, 2 page photocopy

Box 4 Folder 142-152 Griffin, John Howard Land of the High Sky, 366 page t.ms.

[The following are brief textual notes on the manuscript: The "Preface" was reprinted inThe John Howard Griffin Reader. It also discusses the genesis of this unique project. . "Eighteen Covered Wagons" (Chapter I of the manuscript) was cut by one-third for the published book. This book version was reprinted inThe Readerand in the anthology,A Part of Space(TCU Press).. "The Frontier Fights West" (Chapter 2 of the manuscript) was divided into four chapters in the book: "Comanche Country" (2), "Frontiersmen Move West" (3), "Struggle to Survive" (4), and "Cattle Country" (5). . "Windmill Town" (Chapter 3 of the manuscript) became Chapter 6 of the book--without any major changes, except that the final 22 mss. pages became Chapter 7 ("Cowboy") in the published version. This chapter about cowboys was reprinted inThe Reader. . "The Love Letters of Bessie Love" (pages 228-249 of the manuscript) was cut from the published book. That chapter was published for the first time inThe John Howard Griffin Reader.. "Shepherds and Bankers" (Chapter 4 of the manuscript) became Chapter 8. "No Need to Steal" (Chapter 5 of ms.) became Chapter 9 of the book. Both these chapters were published without major cuts and maintained their original titles. . "The Impossible" (Chapter 6 of the manuscript) became Chapter 10 of the book . "Three Booms and A City" (Chapter 7 of the manuscript) became Chapters 11 and 12 of the book; Chapter 12 was entitled "Today and Tomorrow."

Box 4 Folder 153 Griffin, John Howard Journal entry re. Land, 7 page photocopy

Box 4 Folder 153A Cochran, W. C. Memoir, [Palo Pinto County, TX], [n.d.], 74 page t.ms.

[With Griffin's ms. annotations

Box 4 Folder 154 First National Bank of Midland To Bradford Daniel, Midland, Texas, 16 November 1965, 1 page t.l.s.

[With related material

Box 4 Folder 155 Bloom Advertising To John Howard Griffin, Dallas, Texas, 1 September 1965, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 4 Folder 156 Butler, John To Beverly Frank, [n.p.], 23 June 1987

Box 4 Folder 157 Press release, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page t.ms.

Box 4 Folder 158 Rosenfield, John Notes on Land, [n.p.], [n.d.], 2 page t.ms.

Box 4 Folder 159 Texas Christian University Press Ten Texas writers, Fort Worth, Texas, [n.d.], 1 brochure

Box 4 Folder 160 Letters and related material sent to John Howard Griffin re. Land of the High Sky, Texas, 1960-1970, 1 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s., 1 t.l., 1 article

Box 4 Folder 161 Griffin, John Howard What happened in Mansfield: a report of the crisis situation in Mansfield, Texas, resulting from efforts to desegregate its school system, Mansfield, TX,, [1956], 17 pages t.ms. (mimeograph

[This document gives us the background in Mansfield and the historical chronology of the situation from 1948 through 1956; this portion runs for six and one-half pages, followed by one and one-half pages of personal impressions by Griffin. The remainder of the document is made up of interviews with some of the participants, as well as further analysis.

Box 4 Folder 162 Copies of the Baptism and Confirmation certificates of Griffin's conversion to Catholicism., TX,, 1951

Box 4 Folder 163 Copy of marriage certificate of John Howard Griffin, with press clipping re. marriage, Texas,, 1953, 2 pages photocopy

Box 4 Folder 164 News stories re. Griffin regaining his sight, Texas, 1957, 7 pages photocopies

Box 4 Folder 165 Milhaud, Darius To John Howard Griffin, [n.p.], [1953]

[The French composer, who was a close friend of the Casadesus family, responds to a letter from Griffin (no carbon of that Griffin letter was in the archives).

Box 4 Folder 166 Poulenc, Francis To John Howard Griffin, 1954-55, 3 pages t.ms. (translations), 4 t.l. (carbons

[There are no original Poulenc letters. Poulenc, thinking Griffin was a priest, bared his soul to the young American during the time he was composing his great religious work, "Dialogue of the Carmelites." Included in this folder is a photocopy of Griffin's article, "The Poulenc Behind the Mask," published in Ramparts, in 1964. This piece sets the letters in context and provides perspective to the relationship.

Box 4 Folder 167 Griffin, John Howard To Gerald Vann, Mansfield, Texas, 6 April 1957 - 5 May 1963, 7 t.l. (carbons

[Dominican theologian. Father Vann was an early champion of Griffin's first novel,The Devil Rides Outside, defending the book against the criticism of Catholic clergy in the United States and England (Vann was British). Griffin considered Vann to be among his spiritual mentors (along with Jacques Maritain and Thomas Merton), and he was greatly influenced by Fr. Vann's commentary on The Book of John (The Eagle's Word)

Box 4 Folder 168-171 Murphy, Father Stanley To John Howard Griffin, Windsor, Ontario, 1957-1967, 76 t.l.s. & a.l.s., In 4 folders

[Father Murphy was director of the Christian Culture Series for nearly 30 years and on the faculty of Assumption University, Windsor, Ontario. Griffin spoke in the series a half dozen times and was awarded the Christian Culture Medal (1966). These letters are vibrant, personal and intelligently opinionated. Fr. Murphy was a loyal defender of Griffin's work and was a radical critic of racism in the Catholic Church. The men were close friends, visited each other every year, and were together with Jacques Maritain and Thomas Merton when those two friends visited for the last time at the Abbey of Gethsemani, in 1966

Box 4 Folder 171 Murphy, Father Stanley "The Born, the Unborn, and the Still-Born," along with an offprint of the essay published by The Basilian Teacher (a magazine of the Basilian order)., Windsor, Ontario,, [1962], 7 page t.ms. (carbon), 1 pamphlet

[Includes promotional materials from the Christian Culture Series

Box 4 Folder 172-174 Griffin, John Howard To Father Stanley J. Murphy, Mansfield, Texas, 1957-1963, 71 t.l. (carbons), In 3 folders

[Included is a significant 8 page letter from 1957; there are 40 letters from 1962, many concerning racism andBlack Like Me

Box 4 Folder 175 Turner, Decherd To John Howard Griffin, Dallas, Texas, 1961-1966, 5 t.l.s., 2 page bibliography (carbon

[The bibliography is of Griffin's writings

Box 4 Folder 176 Griffin, John Howard To Decherd Turner, Mansfield, TX, 1954-1962, 15 t.l. (carbons

Box 4 Folder 177 Griffin, John Howard To Nelson Gonzales, [Mansfield, Texas], 12 September 1957, 1 page t.l. (carbon

[Inquiring about the possibility of writing a novel of the southwest that "will observe a picture of the daily lives and customs of the Spanish-Americans." However, nothing came of this project.

Box 4 Folder 178 Crossman, Jerome K., et al. Circular letter relating to the controversy between the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and a group known as the Dallas County Patriotic Council., Texas,, 1956, 1 page mimeographed letter, signed

Request Box 5

Box 5 Folder 179-192 Griffin, John Howard To the Gillespie sisters--Sallie, Hannah, and Mary--of Taos, New Mexico. Mansfield, TX,, 1949-1964, 276 letters in , 14 folders

[Often, his salutations simply read "Dear Girls". Griffin includes messages for many of their mutual friends in Taos during those years--the painter Andrew Dasberg and his wife, Helen; the painter Robert Ellis and his wife, Rosa, and daughter, Erendira; as well as other neighbors and friends, many of them also artists and writers. These letters are full of personal disclosures (about his publishers, famous artists, civil rights activists, mutual friends, and family); there is a lot of behind-the-scenes information about Griffin's Published books and working manuscripts, as well as remarks about photography and music. Only about 25 letters from the various Gillespie sisters survive, and these are included in the Series. All three Gillespie sisters have passed away.

Box 5 Folder 193 - 197 Sussman, Cornelia and Irving To John Howard Griffin, CA, 1963 - 1980, 240 letters in , 5 folders

[The Sussmans are both writers. Cornelia has four novels to her credit and Irving has two books of literary criticism. As a team, they published their most important books:How To Read A Dirty Book, which discusses both the censorship trials ofThe Devil Rides OutsideandBlack Like Me;Profiles in Hope, which has a chapter on Griffin; and their biography of Thomas Merton, published by MacMillan, featuring a Griffin photographic portrait of the monk as its cover. . Griffin considered the Sussmans part of his adopted literary family because they were contemporaries who were conversant with his own spiritual influences: Jacques and Raissa Maritain, Thomas Merton, Robert and Gaby Casadesus, as well as the great saints (in particular, St Thomas Aquinas). He wrote them as freely and openly as he wrote anyone and, during the 1970s, they were his most intimate friends

Request Box 6

Box 6 Folder 198-200 Griffin, John Howard To Cornelia and Irving Sussman, et al., [v.p.], 14 October 1962 - 14 February 1980, 3 volumes

[These bound volumes were given to Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi as a gift from the Sussmans.. There is a photograph of Griffin by Irving Sussman in volume 1 and original photographs throughout

Request Box Manuscript Box [Vault]

Box Manuscript Box [Vault] Griffin, John Howard Original manuscripts of Black Like Me, [n.p.], 1961, 211 page t.ms.

[This is the only typescript made by Griffin--from both hisSepiaseries, "Journey into Shame," and his journals of the aftermath--of the bestseller for which he is best known. The manuscript is in superb condition, separated by fly-sheets, and stored in a manuscript box.. This working copy of the original typescript includes all of the editor's suggestions, as well as the author's revisions

Request Box 6

Box 6 Folder 201 Addison Wesley Publishing Co., Inc. To John Howard Griffin, CA, 8 September 1967, 1 t.l.s.

Box 6 Folder 202 Bunch, Ralph To Anne Ford, New York, 22 August 1961, 1 t.l.s. (copy

Box 6 Folder 203 Cash, Noel Thomas Account of the hanging of John Howard Griffin's effigy, [n.p.],, [n.d.], 9 page a.ms. (photocopy

[Cash, a Mansfield resident, who, with several boyhood friends, claim that they are the ones who hung Griffin's effigy in downtown Mansfield after the publication ofBlack Like Me. The tale is entertaining but not quite convincing. The original manuscript is in the files of the Mansfield Historical Society

Box 6 Folder 204 The Catholic Book Store To John Howard Griffin, New Orleans, 11 August 1961, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 6 Folder 205 Citizens for Moral Responsibility Excerpts from Black Like Me, Milwaukee, WI, [n.d.], 2 page t.ms. (photocopy

Box 6 Folder Folder 206 Clippings re. Black Like Me, [n.p.], 1964-1993, 15 pieces

Box 6 Folder 207-210 Rosica Colin Agency To John Howard Griffin, London, 2 May 1961 - 30 May 1968, 44 t.l.s.

Box 6 Folder 211 William Collins Sons To John Howard Griffin, London, 28 November 1961 - 16 August 1965, 4 t.l.s.

Box 6 Folder 212 Conover, Ronald Brice To Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi, Los Angeles, CA, 15 January 1991, 1 t.l.s. (with photocopy

Box 6 Folder 213 Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. To Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi, CA, 13 July 1990, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 6 Folder 214 The Darnforth Foundation To John Howard Griffin, St. Louis, MO, 22 June 1981, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 6 Folder 215 ERIC. Columbia University To John Howard Griffin, New York, 28 October 1970, 1 page t.d.s.

Box 6 Folder 216 Letters re. foreign editions of Black Like Me, [v.p.], 5 December 1961 - 6 June 1968, 3 t.l.s.

Box 6 Folder 217 Freemantle, Anne Statement on Black Like Me in Commonweal, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page t.ms. (copy

Box 6 Folder 218 Geismar, Max Cliff Notes on Black Like Me, [n.p.], [n.d.], 8 page t.ms. (carbon

Box 6 Folder 219 Griffin, John Howard To Perry Israel, Fort Worth, TX, 4 March 1976, 1 page t.l. (copy

[With 2 page enclosure

Box 6 Folder 220 Griffin, John Howard To Superintendent Hungerford, [Texas], 30 May 1969, 1 page t.l.s. (copy

Box 6 Folder 221 Griffin, John Howard To the Editors WAY, Mansfield, Texas, 18 July 1966, 2 page t.l. (copy

Box 6 Folder 222 The Hilltop Company To John Howard Griffin, Washington, D.C., 1 Feb. 1965, 2 page a.l.s.

[With enclosures

Box 6 Folder 223 Houghton Mifflin Company To John Howard Griffin, Boston, 16 Feb. 1961 - 23 March 1977, 15 t.l.s.

[With related material

Box 6 Folder 224 Houghton Mifflin Company To John Howard Griffin, Boston, 30 Nov. 1961, 1 t.l.s.

[Re. damage to negatives

Box 6 Folder 225 Houghton Mifflin Company To John Howard Griffin, Boston, 9 Oct. 1963 - 4 May 1966, 4 t.l.s., 1 telegram

[Re. reviews

Request Box 7

Box 7 Folder 226 Interracial Review To John Howard Griffin, New York,, 27 Nov. & 3 Dec. 1961, 2 t.l.s.

[With related material

Box 7 Folder 227 Jesuit Media Associates To Robert and Elizabeth Bonazzi, Los Angeles, CA,, 26 July & 30 Nov. 1984, 2 t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 228 Johns, Pappas & Flaherty To John Howard Griffin, La Crosse, WI, 12 April 1966 - 3 May 1968, 2 t.l.s., 6 documents

[Re. the civil action brought against Griffin accusing him of injuring a 13-year-old boy by writingBlack Like Me

Box 7 Folder 229 JM To Mrs. Wilber, [n.p.], 12 Sept. 1967, 1 t.l.

[Re. Braille transcription ofBlack Like Me

Box 7 Folder 230 Landis, Judson R. To John Howard Griffin, Sacramento, CA, 18 Nov. 1970, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 231 Lee, Erik To [Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi], Pasadena, CA, 11 Feb. 1992, 2 t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 232 Litton Magazines, Inc. To John Howard Griffin, [n.p.], 16 July 1980, 1 page Check request (duplicate

Box 7 Folder 233 McNamara, Eugene To John Howard Griffin, [n.p.], 7 Sept. 1961, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 234 Man's Magazine To George Levitan, New York, 6 December 1961, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 235 NAACP To Houghton Mifflin Co., PA, 19 January 1962, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 236 The New American Library To John Howard Griffin, New York, 14 Sept. & 6 Feb. 1968, 2 t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 237 Signet To John Howard Griffin, New York, 28 March 1962, 1 telegram

[With related items

Box 7 Folder 238 The Redpath Bureau To John Howard Griffin, [v.p.], 25 March 1966 - 17 July 1970, 5 t.l.s.

[With related items

Box 7 Folder 239 Rosenfield, Borod, Fones & Bogatin To John Howard Griffin, Memphis, TN,, 11 Feb. 1970, 2 page t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 240 Rutledge, Don Biographical note, [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page photocopy

[Photographer forBlack Like Me

Box 7 Folder 241 Saad, Ted To Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi, New York, 26 Aug. 1991, 3 page t.l.s. (copy

Box 7 Folder 241 Griffin-Bonazzi, Elizabeth To Ted Saad, Mansfield, TX, 29 August 1991, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 242 The Saturday Evening Post To John Howard Griffin, Philadelphia, 8 Dec. 1961 - 8 June 1962, 3 t.l.s.

[With related material

Box 7 Folder 243 Saturday Review To John Howard Griffin, New York,, 6 March 1962 - 24 July 1963, 3 t.l.s.

[With related material

Box 7 Folder 244 Science Digest To John Howard Griffin, New York,, 10 June 1969, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 245 Sherman, Frank To John Howard Griffin, Long Island, NY, 12 Jan.1962, 3 page t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 246 Sibert, Rod To Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi, [Columbia, MD], 9 May 1989, 1 page t.l.s.

[With reply

Box 7 Folder 247 SAGA To John Howard Griffin, New York, 12 July 1963, 1 page t.l.s.

[With related items

Box 7 Folder 248 Talking Tapes To Houghton Mifflin, St. Louis, MO, 1 November 1967, 1 t.l.s.

Box 7 Folder 249 Correspondence regarding translations of Black Like Me into Japanese, Polish, etc., [v.p.], 1962-1984, ca. 11 letters

Box 7 Folder 250 University of Chicago Press To John Howard Griffin, Chicago, 1 December 1965, 1 t.d. (mimeograph

Box 7 Folder 251 Xerox Education Division To John Howard Griffin, New York, 23 January 1968, 1 t.l.s. (copy

Box 7 Folder 252 Spokane Public Library Reading list, Washington, [n.d.], 1 pamphlet

Box 7 Folder 253 Hernandez-Senter, Juan This single-spaced typescript (a photocopy) is the first Spanish translation of Black Like Me, [n.p.],, 1992, 156 page t.ms. (photocopy

[The translation was made by Dr. Juan Hernandez-Senter, at the invitation of the Griffin Estate, in 1989. This authorized translation has not been published. Translated from the New American Library Penguin paperback edition, it does not include that Signet edition's "Epilogue," which will be added, along with an introduction, if the translation is published.

Box 7 Folder 254 Uncorrected proof copy of Black Like Me, Houghton Mifflin: Boston,, 1961, 1 volume

Box 7 Folder 255 Paperback copy of Black Like Me, Signet: New York,, 1996, 1 volume

[Inscribed by Elizabeth and Robert Bonazzi, 31 March 1997

Request Box 8

Box 8 Folder 256 "Beyond Black Like Me", Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 18 pages t.ms. (carbon

[Intended forThe Saturday Evening Post, but never published

Box 8 Folder 257 "On Our Doorstep", Pio Decimo Press: St. Louis, [n.d.], 27 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 258 "Some Afterthoughts On Black Like Me", Mansfield, TX, 1962, 12 page t.ms. (carbon

[Published inTexas Observerunder the title "The Shine Boy Has His Dream"

Box 8 Folder 259 ["Martin Luther King's Moment], [Mansfield, TX], [1963], 3 pages a.ms., 2 pages t.ms., 3 pages t.ms. (carbon

Box 8 Folder 260 "Martin Luther King's Moment" Sign, April 1963, 6 page photocopy of article

Box 8 Folder 261 Review of Crisis in Black and White, by Charles E. Silberman, [Mansfield, TX],, [1964], 3 page t.ms. (carbon

[With a photocopy of the published review inThe Saturday Review

Box 8 Folder 262 "The Intrinsic Other", [n.p.], [1967], 2 page photocopy, 9 page photocopy (German

Box 8 Folder 263 "Racist Sins of Christians" Sign: Union City, NJ,, 1963, 12 page pamphlet, 11 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 264 Interview with Father August Thompson , [n.p.], [n.d.], 17 page t.ms. (carbon

Box 8 Folder 265 Interview with Father August Thompson , [n.p.], [n.d.], 9 page t.ms. (carbon, early draft

Box 8 Folder 266 Journal notes re. his interview with Father Thompson and its aftermath , [n.p.],, December 1964 - January l966, 14 page t.ms.

Box 8 Folder 267 "The Negro & The White Conscience" Ramparts, December 1963

[The published version of his interview with Father A. Thompson

Box 8 Folder 268 "Journal of A Trip South" Ramparts, December 1963, 7 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 269 "Anatomy of a Bigot", [n.p.], [n.d.], 1 page t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 8 Folder 270 "Are We on the Verge of Interracial War?", Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 11 page t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 8 Folder 271 Preface to From. Corps to CORE, by Father John P. Markoe, Fort Worth, TX,, [n.d.], 7 pages t.ms. (carbon

[With photocopy of a review of the book by Katherine Court

Box 8 Folder 272 "Speech by John Howard Griffin", The University of Iowa, 3-5 February 1969, 46 page t.ms. (photocopy, with ms. corrections

[Became both a monograph published by the University of Iowa and a text on microfiche at Columbia University--entitled "Racial Equality: Myth and Reality"

Box 8 Folder 273 "The Tip-Off" Ramparts, [n.d.], 3 page photocopy (plus Griffin's postscript

Box 8 Folder 274 Lecture notes: Racism, [n.p.], [n.d.], 28 pages t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 8 Folder 275 Lecture Notes: Racism, [n.p.], 1964, 6 page t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 8 Folder 276 Lecture Notes: Racism, [n.p.], [n.d.], 4 page t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 8 Folder 277 Griffin, John Howard "Again, Lillian Smith" [Review of Killers of the Dream, by Lillian Smith], Southwest Review, Winter 1962, 2 page Offprint

Box 8 Folder 278 Griffin, John Howard "Color Line on the Front Lines": Review of And Then We Heard the Thunder, by John Oliver Killens, Saturday Review, 26 January 1963, 3 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 279 Griffin, John Howard "On Either Side of Violence": Review of books by Daisy Bates and Sarah Patton Boyle, Saturday Review, 27 October 1962, 1 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 280 Griffin, John Howard Statement on Racism The Critic, June/July 1964, 3 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 281 & 282 "Terror in Mexico", Michoacan, Mexico, 17 April 1961, 32 page t.ms.

[Unpublished

Box 8 Folder 283 "The Watch of the Dead", [n.p.], [n.d.], 7 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

[Unpublished

Box 8 Folder 284 "The Tarascans of Michoacan", Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 4 page t.ms. (carbon

[Published in the bookletThe Singing Boys of Mexico

Box 8 Folder 285 Cultivated Mind - Guardian Genius of Democracy, University of Dallas: Irving, TX, 1961, 22 page proofs (with ms. corrections

Box 8 Folder 286 "Publish or Perish", Mexico, 1965, 18 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections), 1 t.l.s. (from Owens to Griffin

[Article by Griffin and Professor Robert T. Owens; intended forRamparts, but unpublished.

Box 8 Folder 287 Review of Constraint by Copyright, by M.S. Schnapper, Mansfield, TX,, [1960], 3 page t.ms. (carbon

[ForTeachers College Record

Box 8 Folder 288 The Little Brothers Ramparts, May 1965, 7 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 289 "The Passion of Georges Rouault" Photocopy of catalog introduction by Robert de Bolli and translated from the French by Griffin, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX,, 1962, 12 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 290 Mercadier, Fernand To John Howard Griffin, Algeria & France, July 1960 & February 1953, 2 t.l.s. 1 annotated calling card (with griffin's Carbon replies

Box 8 Folder 291 & 292 "Desert Slaves" by Fernand Mercadier. Translated from the French by John Howard Griffin, Mansfield, TX,, [n.d.], ca. 55 pages t.ms. (with ms. corrections

Box 8 Folder 293 Review of Warriors of God, by Walter Nigg, Dallas Times-Herald, April 1959, 1 page photocopy

Box 8 Folder 294 "Notes on Censorship", [n.p.], [n.d.], 7 page t.ms.

Request Box 9

Box 9 Folder 295 "Notes on Current Censorship", [n.p.], [n.d.], 11 page t.ms.

Box 9 Folder 296 Correspondence re. censorship in Texas, Mansfield, TX, 18 Sept. 1961 & 20 Feb. 1962, 3 page t.l. (carbon), 1 page t.l. (carbon

Box 9 Folder 297 "Censorship, Literature and Juvenile Corruption", Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 14 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections

[Published title "The Prude and the Lewd"

Box 9 Folder 298 "Preface to L'Opera Noir", Mansfield, TX, 7 August 1963, 10 page t.ms. (carbon

[With autograph postcard from Gabriel Cousin, 1965

Box 9 Folder 299 [The Poulenc Behind the Mask], Mansfield, TX, 10 t.ms. (first draft), 8 page t.ms. (carbon

[Published inRamparts

Box 9 Folder 300 "Arthur Lourié: A Great Composer Rediscovered" Ramparts, 1965, 13 page photocopy

Box 9 Folder 301 "The Men from the Boys" [Essay on writing published in Basilian Teacher ], [n.p.], [n.d.], 8 page photocopy

Box 9 Folder 302 "Gerhart Munch - The Exception to the Rule", [n.p.], [n.d.], 4 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

Box 9 Folder 303 Luis Berbér & The Singing Boys of Mexico, [n.p.], [n.d.], 19 page photocopy

Box 9 Folder 304 Griffin, John Howard To Arthur Lourié Mansfield, TX, 29 June & 20 Dec. 1962, 2 t.l.s. (carbons

Box 9 Folder 305 "Arthur Lourié: A Great Composer Rediscovered", [n.p.], [ca. 1964], 8 page t.ms. (with ms. corrections

Box 9 Folder 306 Valley House Gallery To John Howard Griffin, Dallas, TX, 31 July 1962, 1 page t.l.s.

[With copies of 4 Griffin letters re. Rouault'sPassionseries

Box 9 Folder 307; 319-321 The Church and the Black Man, Pflaum Press: Dayton, OH,, 1969, 109 page t.ms. (copy, with ms. corrections

[Griffin's follow-up book toBlack Like Me

Box 9 Folder 308 Ahmann, Mathew "The Church and the Urban White", [n.p.], [n.d.], 16 page t.ms. (copy, with ms. corrections

[Epilogue I toThe Church and the Black Man

Box 9 Folder 309 Black Priests' Caucus "The Position of the Catholic Church in the Black Community", [n.p.],, January 1969, 14 page t.ms. (copy, with ms. annotations

[Epilogue II toThe Church and the Black Man

Box 9 Folder 310 John J. McHale To John Howard Griffin, Pflaum Publishers: Dayton, OH, 7 Nov. 1966 - 10 Oct. 1969, 11 t.l.s.

[With a press release and memo re. publicity program for the book

Box 9 Folder 311 Correspondence regarding the French edition:     Original Typescripts of Letters by Rosica Colin, Griffin's foreign agent (3 Letters)    Typescript carbon of Griffin letter to agent    Original Typescripts of 3 Letters from Pflaum editor

Box 9 Folder 312 Permissions letters regarding materials quoted in the book

Box 9 Folder 313 Rev Emanueli Clarizio, Apostolic Delegate of Canada To John Howard Griffin, Ottawa,, 29 April 1969, 1 page t.l.s.

[With carbon of Griffin's t.l. to Clarizio

Box 9 Folder 314 William O. Broderick To John Howard Griffin, Department of State, Washington, D.C.,, 27 July 1970, 2 page t.l.s.

[Broderick, Director of Caribbean Affairs, had published a study about urban problems that was circulated to federal and Catholic organizations, as well as to such individuals as Griffin, whoseBlack Like MeandThe Church and the Black ManBroderick greatly admired

Box 9 Folder 315 R. Fentener van Vlissingen To John Howard Griffin, Rotterdam, 1 April 1970

[Dutch psychiatrist, aboutThe Church and the Black Man; letters from Thomas Merton; and Griffin's work on the Merton biography.

Box 9 Folder 316 Bishop Harold Perry To John Howard Griffin, New Orleans, 28 November 1969, 1 page t.l.s.

[Thanking Griffin for a copy ofThe Church and the Black Man, which the Bishop calls an "open, frank and dynamic treatment of the weak points and the strong points of our apostolate to integrate the Black Man into the main stream of Catholic living is excellently presented and should be productive of good results."

Box 9 Folder 317 Paul Hilsdale To John Howard Griffin, Los Angeles, 7 June 1964, 2 page t.l.

Box 9 Folder 318 Ralph Goman To Marian B. De Lollis, Union City, NJ, 14 July 1966, 1 page t.l.s. (copy

[Regarding the use of Griffin's article, "The Racist Sins of Christians".

Box 9 Folder 322 Chapter One. First Draft., Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 40 pages t.ms. (carbon, with the author's and editors ms. corrections

Box 9 Folder 323 Chapter One: Second draft, Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 22 pages t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections

Box 9 Folder 324 Chapter One: Third draft, Mansfield, TX, [n.d.], 22 pages t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections

Box 9 Folder 325 Chapter Two:- First draft, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 15 pages t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's handwritten revisions in ink

Box 9 Folder 326 Chapter Two: Second draft, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 18 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections

Box 9 Folder 327 Chapter Two: Final version, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 16 page t.ms. (carbon

Box 9 Folder 328 Chapter Three: First draft, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 16 pages t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. revisions

[Incomplete missing pp. 43-47

Box 9 Folder 329 Chapter Three: Second draft, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 22 pages t.ms. (carbon

Box 9 Folder 330 Chapter Three: Final draft, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 18 pages t.ms. (carbon

Box 9 Folder 331 Chapter Four: First draft , [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 38 pages t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 9 Folder 332 Chapter Four: Second draft , [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 30 pages t.ms. (carbon

Box 9 Folder 333 Chapter Four: Third draft , [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 29 pages t.ms. (carbon

Request Box 10

Box 10 Folder 334 Chapter Five: First draft , [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 24 pages t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 10 Folder 335 Chapter Five: Second draft , [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 16 pages t.ms. (carbon & photocopy

Box 10 Folder 336 Chapter Six: Final draft , [Mansfield, TX], 11 October 1967, 12 pages t.ms. (carbon & photocopy

Box 10 Folder 337 Chapter Seven: Three drafts in typescript carbon, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 4 page t.ms. (carbon), 4 page t.ms. (carbon), 5 page t.ms (carbon, "10/11/67"

Box 10 Folder 338 Chapter Eight: Three drafts, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 10 page t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections), 12 page t.ms. (carbon, "Superceded"), 8 page t.ms. ("Final carbon", "10/12/67"

Box 10 Folder 339 Chapter Nine: First draft & Final version, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 17 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections, "Superceded"), 22 page t.ms. (carbon

Box 10 Folder 340 & 341 Chapter Ten: First and Second drafts, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], pages t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections), pages t.ms. (carbon

Box 10 Folder 342 Chapter Eleven: First draft, [Mansfield, TX], [n.d.], 28 page t.ms. (carbon, with ms. corrections

Box 10 Folder 342A Scattered Shadows Ramparts, January 1966, 13 page photocopy

Box 10 Folder 243 The John Howard Griffin Reader, Boston: Houghton Mifflin,, 1968, 7 page photocopy

Box 10 Folder 344 Houghton, Mifflin To John Howard Griffin, Boston, 30 June 1965 - 21 February 1967, 10 t.l.s. (with carbon replies and related material

[Re.The Reader

Box 10 Folder 345 Daniel, Bradford To John Howard Griffin, Fort Worth, TX, 17 Aug.1965 & 8 Sept. 1973, 2 t.l.s. (with relater carbon letter

[Re.The Reader

Box 10 Folder 346 The John Howard Griffin Reader Notes & Photographs, Boston: Houghton Mifflin,, 1968, 9 page photocopy

[Re.The Reader

Box 10 Folder 347 The John Howard Griffin Reader Reviews Wall Street Journal; Washington Star; The Dallas Morning News, 1968, 3 page photocopy

[Re.The Reader

Sunseries XII.1: General

Box 10 Folder 348 Passport and personal effects document for several trips to Europe, [n.p.],, 1964, 3 page photocopy

Box 10 Folder 349 The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain To John Howard Griffin, London,, 29 July 1965, 1 page t.l.s., 1 t.l., 1 member's card, 1 brochure

Box 10 Folder 350 Kennedy, Robert To John Howard Griffin, Washington, DC, 20 June 1966, 1 page t.l.s.

[Re. the visit of Father Dominique Pire

Box 10 Folder 351 Kennedy, Edward To John Howard Griffin, Washington, DC, 29 March 1968, 1 page t.l.s.

[Re. revision of the copyright law

Box 10 Folder 352 J. Frank Dobie To John Howard Griffin, Austin, TX, 2 January 1962, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon reply and clipping

Box 10 Folder 353 Griffin, John Howard To Roland Hayes, [n.p.], 8 April 1969, 1 page t.l.s. (carbon), 1 article (photocopy

Box 10 Folder 354 Bok, Curtis To John Howard Griffin, Supreme Court, PA, 17 October 1961, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon reply

Box 10 Folder 355 Mays, Benjamin To John Howard Griffin, Morehouse College, Atlanta, 8 Feb. 1962, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon reply

Box 10 Folder 356 Alinsky, Saul D. To John Howard Griffin, Industrial Areas Foundation of Chicago,, 3 June 1966, 1 page t.l.s. (with related material

Box 10 Folder 357 Griffin, John Howard To Roy Wilkins, Mansfield, TX, 28 January 1965, 1 page t.l.s. (carbon

Box 10 Folder 358 Griffin, John Howard To Cardinal Richard Cushing, Mansfield, TX, 11 August 1964, 1 page t.l.s. (carbon

Box 10 Folder 359 Chaney, Fannie Lee To John Howard Griffin, [Meridian, Mississippi], 30 Nov. 1964 - 15 March 1965, 3 t.p.c.s.

[Mother of James Chaney, the black civil rights worker murdered (with Schwerner and Goodman) in Mississippi.

Box 10 Folder 360 Clyde Kennard; also one typescript page of notes on Kennard's mother, Mrs. Leona Smith; as well as one page of autograph notes by Griffin. Mansfield, TX,, [n.d.] & 1, 13 April 1963, 1 page a.ms., 1 page t.ms., 3 page t.ms. (carbon

[Griffin considered Clyde Kennard to be one of the most courageous Christians he ever knew. Kennard was a Mississippi black man falsely accused of a petty crime because he tried to enter the state University, only to be given an outrageously stiff jail term at hard labor.

Box 10 Folder 361 Smith, Leonia To John Howard Griffin, Hattiesburg, MS, 1 Dec. 1964 - 19 June 1967, 5 a.l.s., 1 t.p.c. (with related material

Box 10 Folder 362 Silver, Dr. James W. To John Howard Griffin, MI, 11 June 1963, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon reply

Box 10 Folder 363 Drummond, Dwight L. To John Howard Griffin, University of Michigan, 16 April 1962- 12 April 1966, 16 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s. (with related material

[.Historian; author ofAntislavery, the history of lynching in the south; he was professor at the University of Michigan.

Box 10 Folder 364 Smith, Lillian To John Howard Griffin, Clayton, GA, 3 Dec. 1961 - 28 July 1963, 10 t.l.s.

[Author ofStrange Fruit,Killers of the Dream,One Hour. These are among the most profound letters Griffin. He had always been a fan of her novels--Strange Fruithad a deep effect on him which he discusses inBlack Like Me--and long wanted to meet her. They visited twice at her Georgia home. During those visits and in their very personal correspondence, they discovered an uncanny resonance and deep affection. Like Griffin, she was a musician, a Southern novelist, and had high regard for everything French. Griffin says in one of his letters to her that he felt as if Lillian Smith and John Howard Griffin were twins, even though she was nearly twenty years his senior. They came from the same background, discovered their own inculcated racism in similar ways, and fought courageously against prejudice, especially in the south. Both were ostracized for their public stand and for their controversial books, both fiction and non-fiction. Also, both were ill a great deal of their lives, and speak very personally about these afflictions. Some of the strongest passages by Smith are about her own work and about the work of Griffin. Her insights into her own method and her brilliant readings of Griffin's books are highly edifying to any serious reader or scholar.

Box 10 Folder 365 Griffin, John Howard To Lillian Smith, Mansfield, TX, 1 Nov. 1961 - 10 June 1964, 19 t.l. (carbon

[In some of these long letters, Griffin reveals himself as he does nowhere else but his own journals; the discussions of her books show him to be, if not a brilliant critic, a passionately intelligent reader. Smith's books were among Griffin's favorite, and she was one of the very few contemporary writers he bothered to read (he rarely read contemporary fiction because he feared he would become unconsciously imitative of other styles). Aside from the many rich aspects of this correspondence, I discovered in Griffin's letters the most revealing discussions about his true motivations for the writing ofBlack Like Me. Also, his attitudes and fears about his own writing in general. He trusted Lillian Smith as a person and respected her writing so far above his own that he took her word as gospel as far as evaluating his writing (most of which he never reread once it was published).

Box 10 Folder 366 Smith, Esther & Paula Snelling To John Howard Griffin, Clayton, GA,, 24 Oct. 1966 - 14 March 1971, 1 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.

[Re. Lillian Smith

Box 10 Folder 367 Titus, Joan To John Howard Griffin, New York & Berkeley, 20 Nov. 1969 & 8 March 1970, 2 t.l.s. (with related material

[Re. Lillian Smith

Box 10 Folder 368 Smith, Lillian Address before the Herald Tribune Youth Foundation, New York,, 6 March 1950, 5 page t.ms. (with her ms. corrections

Box 10 Folder 369 Boyle, Sarah Patton To John Howard Griffin, Charlottesville, VA, 18 Nov. 1962 - 11 April 1978, 21 t.l.s., 8 6, t.p.c.s. 1, a.p.c.s. 1, a.n. (on card with image) 1 page, t.ms. (from her second book)

[Author ofThe Desegregated HeartandFor Humans Only; a Southerner like Lillian Smith and Griffin, she began their correspondence in 1963. Most of the letters from the 1960s, but she wrote him until 1978. Actually, her first correspondence to JHG was a postcard sent in November of 1962, thanking him for his review ofThe Desegregated Heartpublished inThe Saturday Review

Request Box 11

Box 11 Folder 370-372 East, P. D. To John Howard Griffin, 1961-1968, 43 t.l.s., 24 postcards

[East, editor ofThe Petal Paperand author ofThe Magnolia Jungle. Readers ofBlack Like Mewill remember P.D. East as the hilarious and courageous editor ofThe Petal Paper, a small Mississippi newspaper that began as part of the establishment and slowly turned into a radically satirical voice. This is without question the wackiest correspondence Griffin had with anyone. East's letters and postcards, except for a very few, are full of jokes and put-ons, even when he tells Griffin of his Mississippi miseries (which was nearly all the time!) Griffin's responses have his own brand of humor but do, in fact, carry some seriousness as well; they catalogue his involvement in the civil rights struggle during the 1960s -- ranging from anger and frustration to bawdy humor (whereas his letters to Lillian Smith reveal another aspect to Griffin's character -- more serious and thoughtful -- but all genuinely part of the man).

Box 11 Folder 373 Morris, Willie To P. D. East, New York, 10 December 1963, 2 page t.l.s.

[Editor of Harper's Magazine. This letter is an insightful critique of East's second attempt at a novel afterThe Magnolia Jungle,A Cock for Asclepius(it was never published).

Box 11 Folder 374-378 Griffin, John Howard To P. D. East., [Mansfield, TX], 1961-1970, 90 t.l. (carbon

[No doubt Griffin wrote East through 1967 or 1968 but did not keep carbons. Many of these letters are meant to poke fun at East (one begins "Dear Genius" and another "Dear Judas") but more than half contain serious discourses on racism.

Box 11 Folder 379 United States. Postal Service. Deposition of John Howard Griffin in the P.D. East postal fraud investigation, Fort Worth, TX,, 1 June 1970, 2 page photocopy (with related material

Box 11 Folder 380-382 Thompson, Father August To John Howard Griffin, LA, 1963-1980, 2 a.l.s., 46 t.l.s.

[A parish priest who, at the time of his correspondence with Griffin, was the only black priest in Louisiana. Their dialogue, published first inRampartsand reprinted inThe John Howard Griffin Reader, also appeared in the Sheed & Ward anthology,Black, White and Gray, edited by Bradford Daniel. Most of the 1963 letters from both men discuss their dialogue and the difficulty of its being published because of resistance from Fr Thompson's Bishop. Eventually, it was published--in three separate publications mentioned above--and Fr Thompson went on to assist Griffin withThe Church and the Black Man, as an active member of the Black Priests Caucus.

Box 11 Folder 383 Griffin, John Howard To Father August Thompson, Mansfield, TX, 1963, 10 t.l. (carbon

Box 11 Folder 384 Letters to Griffin and Father Thompson, [v.p.], 1963-1965, 5 t.l.s.

Box 11 Folder 385 Sheed & Ward To John Howard Griffin, New York, 17 January 1964, 1 page t.l.s., 1 page agreement (copy

[Re.Black, White and Grey

Box 11 Folder 386 Edward Keating To John Howard Griffin, CA, 1962-1966, 27 t.l.s.

[Publisher ofRamparts, published many of Griffin's essays, photographs and the autobiography,Scattered Shadows(two chapters in 1963 and again in 1965). Griffin, who eventually became a Senior Editor ofRamparts, put Keating in touch with Thomas Merton, Jacques Maritain, Father August Thompson, Penn Jones ("The Strange Deaths After Dallas") and many other writers and photographers.

Box 11 Folder 387 Ramparts To John Howard Griffin, CA, 1962/1963, 11 t.l.(signed Harry Stiehl & Reno Unger

Box 11 Folder 388 Ramparts To John Howard Griffin, CA, 1966 & 1970, 4 t.l.(signed Warren Hickle & Maureen Stock

Subseries XII.2: The Ramparts Interview

Box 11 Folder 389 McDonnell, Thomas P. Ramparts Interview [questions] for John Howard Griffin, Mattapan, MA,, [1962], 4 page t.ms.

[The Interview which ran in 1963, is one of the finest interviews with Griffin (and an opinion expressed by Griffin also). McDonnell was an excellent interviewer, who also interviewed Thomas Merton; he was, as well, the editor ofThe Thomas Merton Reader.

Box 11 Folder 390 Griffin, John Howard Responses to McDonnell's questions, [Mansfield, TX],, [1962], 17 page t.ms (carbon

Box 11 Folder 390A Ramparts Interview, Mattapan, MA, [1962], 15 page photocopy

Box 11 Folder 391 McDonnell, Thomas P. To John Howard Griffin, Mattapan, MA, 2 Aug. - 20 Sept. 1962, 4 t.l.s.

Box 11 Folder 392 Griffin, John Howard To Thomas P, McDonnell, Mansfield, TX, 6 Aug. - 4 Dec. 1962, 5 t.l. (carbon

Box 11 Folder 393 Geismar, Maxwell Postscript to: "John Howard Griffin: The Devil in Texas", Westport, NY,, 12 Aug. 1965, 8 page t.ms.

[This essay was intended as a "Postscript" to Geismar's long essay on Griffin ("The Devil in Texas"--published inAmerican Moderns, Houghton Mifflin, 1959); it was the first major criticism of Griffin's work; both the long essay and the postscript were published together as the introduction toThe Griffin Reader.

Box 11 Folder 394 Exchange of letters between its two Senior Editors, Maxwell Geismar and John Howard Griffin, concerning Geismar's essay on Griffin's work that appeared in that same issue. Ramparts, November 1965, 6 page photocopy

Box 11 Folder 395 Pire, Father Georges Dominique, O.P. To John Howard Griffin, 10 t.l.s., 1 a.p.c.s., 4 telegrams (with related material), 1 printed card (photo. of Pier with Robert Oppenheimer

[Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958 for his work in behalf of refugees and minority groups in the wake of World War II. He founded the University of Peace in Huy, Belgium and was the author of the collection,Building Peace, which featured Griffin's essay, "The Intrinsic Other".

Box 11 Folder 396 Letters to Griffin from various people in Europe concerning both the University of Peace and the "Friends of Father Pire" Organization., [v.p.],, 1965-1976, title: From Heart to Heart

Box 11 Folder 397 Father Illtud Evans, O.P. To John Howard Griffin, [v.p.], 17 March 1963 - 13 February 1970, 1 a.l.s., 8 t.l.s., 2 t.l. (carbons

[A progressive Catholic priest and writer who, like his friends Thomas Merton, Jacques Maritain, and Griffin, was critical of the Church as a slow-moving institution with regards to race relations.

Box 11 Folder 398 Cleaver, Eldridge To John Howard Griffin, Soledad, CA, 11 March 1966, 1 page t.l.s.

[A convicted felon, Cleaver was released from prison partly upon the recommendation of Griffin that he was a talented writer. Cleaver went on to become one of the leaders of The Black Panthers and wroteSoul on Ice.

Box 11 Folder 399 Axelrod, Beverly To John Howard Griffin, San Francisco, CA, 8 & 20 October 1965, 2 t.l.s.

[Eldridge Cleaver's attorney

Box 11 Folder 400 State of California. Youth & Adult Corrections Agency To John Howard Griffin, Sacramento, CA,, 29 October 1965, 1 t.l. (signed Joseph A. Spangler) (with related t.l. carbon by Griffin

[Re Eldridge Cleaver's parole

Box 11 Folder 401 Pan African Association To John Howard Griffin , Baldwinsville, NY, 3 August 1970 & 18 August 1980, 2 t.l.s. (with related material

Box 11 Folder 402 American Festival of Negro Arts To John Howard Griffin , New York, 4 March 1965 - 25 July 1970, 7 t.l.s., 1 t.l.

[Many signed by R.S. Pritchard, pianist-composer.

Request Box 12

Box 12 Folder 403 Sheed & Ward Correspondence re. Thirteen for Christ

[Re. Griffin's essay on Dr. Martin Luther King

Box 12 Folder 404 Progressive Magazine "Why They Can't Wait: An Interview with a White Negro",, July 1954, 6 page photocopy

[Interview with Bradford Daniel

Box 12 Folder 405 Dubay, Father William To John Howard Griffin, Anaheim, CA, 26 September - 22 December 1964, 2 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.

[Re. racism in Los Angeles and the attitude of Cardinal McIntyre

Box 12 Folder 406 Letters and manuscripts relating to racism in Los Angeles, CA, 1962-1964, 1 t.l.s., 1 t.l., 1 a.l.s., 1 2, t.ms.

Box 12 Folder 407 Griffin's letter to Cardinal McIntyre, Mansfield, TX, 7 July 1964, 2 page t.l. (carbon

Box 12 Folder 408 Halsell, Grace To John Howard Griffin, Washington, D.C., 8 - 30 April 1968, 3 t.l.s., 1 t.n.

[The white woman who "became" a black woman and wrote about her experiences in her book wasSoul Sister. In these letters, as well as in her book, she cites Griffin as her inspiration for the project; she sought and received his counsel and support.

Box 12 Folder 409 Penn Jones Jr., critic of the Warren Commission, author of the series of books, Forgive My Grief (4 volumes); his findings about the strange deaths after Dallas were featured in a major cover story in Ramparts; included here are photocopies of Griffin's "Preface" to the first volume of Forgive My Grief and Griffin's photographs of Jones for that book as well as H.C. Nash's biography of Jones, Citizen's Arrest (Latitudes Press); plus Ramparts feature.

Box 12 Folder 410 Palfi, Marion To John Howard Griffin, Ojai & Loa Angeles, CA,, 13 Aug. 1965 - 25 Feb. 1967, 5 t.l.s. (with related carbon

[Photographer and friend of Berenice Abbott

Box 12 Folder 411 Southwest Review To John Howard Griffin, Dallas, TX, 3 Nov. 1961 - 5 Feb. 1962, 3 t.l.s (signed Margaret Hartley

[With carbons by Griffin

Box 12 Folder 412 Bradshaw, Father J. To John Howard Griffin, Toronto, Canada, 4 Jan.1962, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon reply

[Editor ofThe Basilian Teacher, re. the publication of the essay "The Men From the Boys," a piece about writing

Box 12 Folder 413 Neslova, Zara To John Howard Griffin, New York, 22 March 1962, 2 page a.l.s. (with 3 Griffin carbons

[Nelsova was a musician Griffin had long admired, and he made arrangements to take a portrait photograph of her

Subseries XII.3: Media

Catholic magazines; Correspondences with publishers concerning the use of his photographic portraits; Newspaper features and news stories on Griffin from the 1960s; Correspondences with magazine editors regarding published (as well as unpublished) articles--on racism--by Griffin; and much more miscellaneous business mail about his work.. This section includes more than 50 letters (original typescripts on various media stationery) to Griffin, as well as many of his responses (carbon typescripts). Because ofBlack Like Meand Griffin's extensive lecture tours speaking against racism, there was a tremendous spin-off of his work in the form of magazine articles, as well as many features about his work and life.

Box 12 Folder 414 Catholic magazine articles on John Howard Griffin [photocopies], 26 folders

Box 12 Folder 415 Correspondence with magazines

Box 12 Folder 416 Doubleday & Co. To John Howard Griffin, New York, 14 June 1965, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 12 Folder 417 Harper & Brothers To John Howard Griffin, New York, 28 March 1962, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon reply

Box 12 Folder 418 University of Iowa To John Howard Griffin, Iowa City, 13 March 1969 & 16 Feb. 1970, 2 t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 12 Folder 419 Glinski, Mateo To John Howard Griffin, Ontario & Detroit, 21 Dec. 1963 - 27 Feb. 1966, 6 t.l.s. (with related material

[Polish conductor re. Chopin

Box 12 Folder 420 Show [magazine] To John Howard Griffin, New York, 29 Jan. & 8 Feb. 1962, 2 t.l.s. (with carbons

Box 12 Folder 421 National Geographic Society To John Howard Griffin, Washington, DC, 28 Nov. 1961, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 12 Folder 422 Darton, Longman & Todd To John Howard Griffin, London, 9 Nov. 1965, 1 page t.l.s. (with related material

Box 12 Folder 423 Healey, Father Augustine To John Howard Griffin, San Antonio, TX, 26 May 1965 - 7 July 1966, 6 t.l.s.

Box 12 Folder 424 Hill & Wang To John Howard Griffin, New York, 9 July 1963, 1 t.l.s. (with carbon reply

Box 12 Folder 425 Newspaper article on Griffin [photocopies]

Box 12 Folder 426 Holt, Reinhart & Winston Memorandum of agreement

Box 12 Folder 427 Miscellaneous literary business letters

Box 12 Folder 428 Teachers College Record To John Howard Griffin, New York, 16 Feb. 1962, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 12 Folder 429 Southern Methodist University To John Howard Griffin, Dallas, TX, 6 March 1962, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 12 Folder 430 Wilson Library Bulletin Biographical sketch of John Howard Griffin, New York,, May 1963, 1 page article

Subseries XII.4: Censorship

Box 12 Folder 431 Rossett, Barney To John Howard Griffin, New York, 5 April 1952, 1 t.l.s. 1, statement (with related carbons)

[Rossett, publisher of Grove Press, solicited Griffin's support on behalf of Henry Miller'sTropic of Cancer, which was cleared of the charge of pornography by the Supreme Court, on February 21, 1962; there is a carbon typescript of Griffin's reply of support, as well as related documents.

Box 12 Folder 432 Griffin's Letter to The House Committee Investigating Textbooks attacking the censorship group, Texans For America, Mansfield, TX,, 1 February 1962, 1 page t.l. (carbon

Box 12 Folder 433 Boller, Paul To John Howard Griffin, Dallas, TX, 24 Jan. 1962 - 16 Feb. 1962, 4 t.l.s. (with related carbons

[Re. Texans for America

Box 12 Folder 434 Carroll, Lucile C. To John Howard Griffin, Midland, TX, 29 Jan. 1962, 2 p[age t.l.s. (with relater material

[Concerning the removal of1984, Steinbeck, and others from the library shelves.

Box 12 Folder 435 Allison, James To John Howard Griffin, Midland, TX, 26 Jan. 1962, 1 page t.l.s. (with related carbons

Box 12 Folder 436 American Book Publishers Council To John Howard Griffin, New York, 31 Jan. 1962, 1 page t.l.s. (with related carbon

Box 12 Folder 437 Olan, Rabbi Levy A. The Harm That Good Men Do, Dallas, TX, 12 Nov. 1961, 3 page t.ms. (copy, with related carbon

Box 12 Folder 438 Wardlaw, Frank H. To John Howard Griffin, 9 Feb. 1962, 1 page, t.l.s.

Subseries XII.5: Painting & Photography

Box 12 Folder 439 Ellis, Robert C. & Rosa Ellis To John Howard Griffin, Mexico & New York,, 4 April 1963 - 28 May 1965, 7 a.l.s., 5 t.l.s.

[Robert Ellis, whom Griffin considered one of the great modern American painters, shared a long personal friendship with the writer. The Ellises and the Griffins were inseparable friends for twenty years. Ellis died in 1979, the year before Griffin. Rosa Ellis manages a gallery in Taos, NM.. All these letters are from the early 1960s. According the Elizabeth Griffin, the correspondence from 1965-1979, on both sides, was accidentally destroyed.

Box 12 Folder 440 Griffin, John Howard To Robert C. Ellis, Mansfield, TX, 25 Feb. 1962 - 7 Aug. 1963, 7 t.l. (carbon

Box 12 Folder 441 Catalogs of Ellis Shows and articles on Ellis

Box 12 Folder 442-444 Dorr, Nell To John Howard Griffin, Washington, CT, 22 Feb. 1966 - 3 Oct. 1967, 24 a.l.s., 5 a.p.c.s.

[Edward Steichen raved about inU.S. Camera(in 1939), was one of America's greatest photographers. Her magnificent books,The Bare Feet(about Mexican-peasants) andMother and Childare the most original, lyrical works we have. She worked without a light meter and with very simple cameras, learning photography by trial and error. In 1968, Griffin gave her a light meter, quite astonished that she had achieved such mastery of light without the instrument. Griffin considered Nell Dorr the supreme American photographer. He took many lovely portraits of her which have not been published.

Request Box 13

Box 13 Folder 445 Photocopies of articles on Nell Dorr

Box 13 Folder 446 Craeybeckx, A. S. H. "Of Night and Day." Article on Nell Dorr (translated from French by Griffin), Photo Tribune, Nov. 1969, 5 page t.ms. (photocopy

Box 13 Folder 447 Loache, Benjamin De To John Howard Griffin, New Haven, CT, 11 June 1967, 2 page a.l.s.

Box 13 Folder 448 Beecher, John To John Howard Griffin, Santa Clara & New Orleans,, 30 Jan. 1964 - 17 March 1966, 5 t.l.s. (with related carbon

Box 13 Folder 449 Stout, W.W. To John Howard Griffin, Hattiesburg, MI, 26 July - 1 Aug. 1963, 3 t.l.s.

[Re. Jim Whitmore

Box 13 Folder 450 Griffin, John Howard Essay on Photography, [Mexico?], [1960s], 8 page t.ms.

[Re. Jim Whitmore

Subseries XIII.1: General Correspondence

Box 13 Folder 452-456 Merton, Thomas To John Howard Griffin, Trappist, KY, & Bangkok, Thailand,, 1962 - 1968, 4 a.l.s. 8 a.p.c.s. 37 t.l.s. 5 t.p.c.s.

[Letter, dated November 9, 1968, is an Original Typescript on the letterhead of the Hotel Imperial in New Delhi. His last letter to Griffin was on the letterhead of The Oriental Hotel, Bangkok, dated December 7, 1968 (just three days before his death on Dec 10). Also, the envelope from that last letter, as well as a photographic packet Merton mailed from Thailand.

Box 13 Folder 457 Griffin, John Howard To Thomas Merton, Mansfield & Fort Worth, TX,, 1962-1967, 12 t.l. (carbon

Box 13 Folder 458 Abbey of Gethsemani Cards (8) re. Merton and Dom James Fox

Box 13 Folder 459 Dom James Fox To John Howard Griffin, Trappist, KY, 1963 - 1971, 9 t.l.s., 1 a.l.s.

[Dom James was Merton Is Abbot, with whom the monk had a long, personal, and sometimes confrontational relationship; also the Abbot who allowed Merton to live in a hermitage, beginning in 1965, as the first monk to become a hermit in the Cistercian Order since the Middle Ages

Box 13 Folder 460 Griffin, John Howard To Dom James Fox, TX, 1963-1971, 5 t.l. (carbon

[Re. the Abbot's permission for Griffin to photograph Merton in 1963 and discussion of the Fox-Merton relationship after the monk's death; out of Griffin's 1963 photo session with the monk came the 'Official Portrait'

Box 13 Folder 461 Palivic, Tom To John Howard Griffin, Louisville, KY, 19 Oct. 1975, 2 page a.l.s. (with carbon reply

Box 13 Folder 462 Three Homilies for the Funeral Mass of Abbot Fox, by Dom Flavian Burns (the succeeding Abbot), Brother Patrick Hart, and Father Matthew Kelty

Box 13 Folder 463 &464 Brother Patrick Hart To John Howard Griffin, Trappist, KY, 1966-1980

[Brother Hart was Merton's secretary in 1968; he has become the most knowledgeable Merton scholar today, publishing several anthologies by or about Merton, as well as being the General Editor for the Merton Journals (withheld from the public for 25 years after the monk's death; the first volumes will be published in 1994).

Box 13 Folder 465 Griffin, John Howard To Brother Patrick Hart, Fort Worth, TX, 1969-1973, 7 t.l. (carbon), 1 t.p.c.s., 1 t.n.

Box 13 Folder 466 Father John Eudes Bamberger To John Howard Griffin, Las Condes, Chile & Trappist, KY,, 19 Feb. & 27 May [n.y.], 2 a.l.s.

[A monk at Gethsemani for many years,. was a close friend of Merton's. He is a licensed psychiatrist, one of the most influential Merton scholars, and has become an Abbot. These-letters, as well as several deeply insightful articles about Merton, probe the psyche of the famous monk..; Father Bamberger counseled Merton-. during some of the monk's critical psychological periods of adjustment

Box 13 Folder 467 Griffin, John Howard To ten members of the Gethsemani community, TX, 1963-1973, 17 letters

[Mostly regarding their relationships with Merton, as part of Griffin's research for the Official Biography of Thomas Merton

Box 13 Folder 468-471 Houghton Mifflin Letters from various editors who worked with Griffin on the Merton projects (Austin Olney, Arabel Porter, Anne Freedgood, Richard McAdoo), Boston,, 1969-1980, ca 50 t.l.s. (with Griffin's carbon replies

Box 13 Folder 472 & 473 Laughlin, James To John Howard Griffin New Directions, New York, 5 a.l.s., 34 t.l.s.

Request Box 14

Box 14 Folder 474 Colin, Rosica To John Howard Griffin, London, 31 Dec. 1969 - 16 Nov. 1979, 9 t.l.s. (with related material

[Griffin's agent in London

Box 14 Folder 475 O'Callaghan, Tommie To John Howard Griffin, Louisville, KY, 19 Feb. - 16 Oct 1969, 6 t.l.s. 1, t.l. 1, a.l.s.

Box 14 Folder 476 Stone, Naomi Burton To John Howard Griffin, New York & York, ME,, 1963-1973, 35 t.l.s., 3 a.l.s.

Box 14 Folder 477 Ford, John L. To John Howard Griffin, Louisville, KY, 11 Feb. - 14 May 1977, 5 t.l.s. (with related material

[Legal Counsel for the Trust, and one typescript carbon reply from Griffin; this correspondence details, among other issues, the Trust's demand that Griffin complete the Official Biography of Merton. or relinquish his control of the project (which he did in 1977)

Box 14 Folder 479 Appeals for financial assistance in order to complete the biography of Thomas Merton

Box 14 Folder 480 Paulist Newman Press Re. Merton photographs

Box 14 Folder 481 Paulist Press Request from Gerald Twomey, Editor, for Griffin's essay on Merton to appear in the anthology, Monk in the Belly of Paradox

[Reprinted as the "Epilogue" toFollow the Ecstasy

Box 14 Folder 482 Herder & Herder & Continuum Re. Merton photographs and essay

Box 14 Folder 483 CBS Documentary on Merton, "The Silent Singer," featuring many of Griffin's portraits of Merton

Box 14 Folder 484 Letters from foreign language publishing houses requesting photographs

Box 14 Folder 485 Hallmark Cards request for several portraits of Merton for their book, Day of the Stranger

Box 14 Folder 486 Requests from U.S. publishers (Bantam, Paulist Press, The Pilgrim Press, Glencoe, Georgia State University, etc) for use of photographs

Box 14 Folder 487 Abbey Press and Parabola Magazine requests to use photographs

Box 14 Folder 488 Photocopies of articles on Merton featuring Griffin portraits

Subseries XIII.2: Merton's Family Members

Box 14 Folder 489 Merton, B.K. To John Howard Griffin, New Zealand, 1970 & 1971, 8 a.l.s.

[ Merton's aunt on father's side, New Zealand

Box 14 Folder 490 Jenkins, Harold Brewster To John Howard Griffin, Douglaston, NY, 1970 & 1971, 3 a.l.s.

[His uncle on mother's side, New York

Box 14 Folder 491 Casper, Alice To John Howard Griffin, Staunton VA & Louisville, KY,, 16 July & 17 Aug. 1970, 2 t.l.s. (with carbon

[Close family friend to his aunts in New Zealand.

Box 14 Folder 492 Merton, Rev J.J. To John Howard Griffin, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 1971, 2 page t.l.s. (with carbon

[Merton, Vicar in New Zealand.

Box 14 Folder 493 Trier, Mrs. G.F. Trier To John Howard Griffin, New Zealand, 4 Oct. 1972, 2 page a.l.s.

[Re. Merton's brother, John-Paul, who died in WW II

Box 14 Folder 494 John Stanley On the work of painter Owen Merton, Thomas Merton's father, New York,, 12 Feb. 1975, 1 page t.l.s. (with related material

[Accompanied by a t.l.s. from John L. Barber to griffin re. Merton at Ockham-Cambridge

Subseries XIII.3: Merton's Physicians

Box 14 Folder 495 Smith, T.J. James Wygal & Thomas Marshall To John Howard Griffin, Louisville, KY,, 1969-1971, 3 t.l.s. 1, t.n.s. (with related carbons)

Subseries XIII.4: Merton Collections

Box 14 Folder 496 Correspondences with Curators of various Merton collection of papers, [v.p.],, 1969-1976, 1 a.l.s., 13 t.l.s., 1 t.p.c. (with related carbons

Subseries XIII.5: Close Friends of Merton

Box 14 Folder 497 Walsh, Father Dan To John Howard Griffin, KY, 1967-1969, 2 a.l.s., 1 a.p.c.s., 1 t.l.s.

[Directed Merton to the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1940

Box 14 Folder 498 Mark Van Doren To John Howard Griffin, Falls Village, CT, 30 Dec. 1969 & 21 Dec. 1970, 1 a.l.s., 1 a.p.c.s.

[Pulitzer Prize poet, novelist and critic, who was one of Merton's teachers at Columbia, remaining a life-long friend. Van Doren had Merton's early poetry manuscripts and he edited and introduced Merton's Selected-Poems

Box 14 Folder 499 Cardenal, Ernesto To John Howard Griffin, Nicaragua, 18 Jan, & 5 April [1970], 2 t.l.s.

[Nicaragua's Minister of Culture, who was a novice under Merton at Gethsemani; a widely-published poet in Spanish and English, wrote long poem for Merton published by New Directions

Box 14 Folder 500 Lentfoehr, Sister Therese To John Howard Griffin, WI, 5 April 1963 & 2 Jan. 1969, 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s. (with related material

[A friend of Thomas Merton who wrote the only full-length study of the his poetry, Words and Silence

Box 14 Folder 501 Berrigan, Father Daniel To John Howard Griffin, [v.p.], 1970s, 8 a.n.s. (with related material

[Radical Jesuit and old friend of Merton. All of the notes are written on photocopies of his poems and essays.

Box 14 Folder 502 Walsh, Brother Tony To John Howard Griffin, [v.p.], 22 July 1970 - 19 Dec. 1976, 2 t.l.s., 1 a.l.s. (with related material

[Close associate of Berrigan's, and winner of the Christian Culture Award

Box 14 Folder 503 Serkin, Rudolf To John Howard Griffin, Philadelphia, PA, 23 Dec. 1971, 1 page t.l.s.

[The famed-pianist, who owned Victor Hammer's famous drawing of Merton and donated the work to the Merton Studies Center

Box 14 Folder 504 Holloway, James To John Howard Griffin, Berea, KY, 5 March 1978 & 17 Nov. 1970, 2 t.l.s.

[Professor at Berea College, KY, who published Merton's work inKattalagemagazine

Box 14 Folder 505 Campbell, Will To John Howard Griffin, [n.p.], 10 Oct. 1965, 2 page t.l.s. (with carbon

[Director of The Committee of Southern Churchmen, and a colleague of Holloway (both visited Merton several times)

Box 14 Folder 506 Niles, Rena To John Howard Griffin, Lexington, KY, 17 March 1970 & 10 Nov. 1982, 2 t.l.s. (with related material

[John Jacob Niles was the composer who set Merton's poems to music forThe Niles-Merton Song Cycle

Box 14 Folder 507 Leahy, Father Stephen To John Howard Griffin, Piffard, NY, 16 July 1970, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon

[A novice under Merton.

Box 14 Folder 507A Rice, Ed Letter from John Howard Griffin To Ed Rice, Fort Worth, TX, 23 April 1970, 1 page t.l.s. (carbon

[A novice under Merton.

Subseries XIII.6: Asian Contacts

Box 14 Folder 508 Chakravarty, Amiya To John Howard, New Paltz, NY, 26 March 1971 - 4 March 1974, 3 a.l.s.

[Philosopher, who introduced Merton's last book,Asian Journal

Box 14 Folder 509 Geyche, T. To John Howard Griffin, Himachal Pradesh [India], 22 Jan. 1969, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon

[Secretary to the Dalai Lama, whom Merton visited for thee days

Box 14 Folder 510 John Moffitt To John Howard Griffin, New York & Bangkok, 15 Aug. 1969 - 1 Nov. 1970, 4 a.l.s., 4 t.l.s. (with related material

[Editor of America magazine, who investigated the death of Merton in Asia

Box 14 Folder 511 Say, Father Celestine To John Howard Griffin, Manila, 25 June - 18 Sept. 1969, 3 t.l.s., 1 photograph, 1 negative strip (with related material)

[The first person to reach Merton after the monk's accidental death by electrocution in Bangkok; he also took the important photos of the 'death scene'--both Moffitt and Father Say made very significant contributions to the truth of Merton's death (in these letters)]

Negative strip has been removed from this file and is stored separately; see entry for Negatives (Photographs) immediately following this entry in the container list.

Request Box 46

Box 46 Negatives (Photographs), circa 1968 December , 1 negative strip

If you wish to access this item, please contact the Library in advance of your visit. Access will be provided to a digital copy of the images on a closed computer in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library's reading room.

Single copies may be requested for research purposes. Any patron requesting copies must sign a fair use statement, and acknowledge that the copies are for private study only, and not for publication in any form. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron. These images may not be published in any form without the permission of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani.

This negative strip includes two images of Merton's death scene taken by Father Celestine Say. This item was originally filed with related correspondence in Box 14 Folder 511. See Also: Box 14 Folder 511.

Request Box 14

Box 14 Folder 512 John Wu, Jr. To John Howard Griffin, NJ & VA, 7 May & 6 June 1970, 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s. (with carbon

[His father was an important teacher in Merton's fascination for Zen

Box 14 Folder 513 Chang, Father Simeon To John Howard Griffin, Hong Kong, 26 Oct. 1970, 1 page t.l.s.

[Attended the Bangkok conference with Merton

Box 14 Folder 514 Soedjatmoko To John Howard Griffin, Washington, D.C., 7 Aug. 1970, 3 page t.l.s.

Subseries XIII.7: Friends and Colleagues

Request Box 15

Box 15 Folder 515 Burden, Shirley To John Howard Griffin, CA, 28 Jan. 1970, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 15 Folder 516 Zukofsky, Louis To John Howard Griffin, New York, 9 July 1970 & 24 Jan. 1973, 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 15 Folder 517 Williams, Jonathan To John Howard Griffin, [v.p.], 16 Aug. 1970 - 23 Nov. 1976, 2 t.l.s., 1 t.p.c.s.

Box 15 Folder 518 Carruth, Hayden To John Howard Griffin, Johnson, VT, 10-29 July 1970, 2 t.l.s., 1 t.p.c.s. (with related material

Box 15 Folder 519 Williams, Emmett To John Howard Griffin, Los Angeles, CA, [n.d.], 1 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 520 Niedecker, Lorine To John Howard Griffin, Fort Atkinson, WI, 20 July 1970, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 521 Brigham, Besmilr To John Howard Griffin, Fort Worth, TX, 8 Aug. 1970, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 522 Barnes, Thomas Charles To John Howard Griffin, Pittsburgh, PA, 11 Feb. 1969 & 4 Feb. 1970, 2 t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 523 Edson, Russell To John Howard Griffin, Stamford, CT, 10 & 30 July 1970, 1 t.l.s., 1 t.p.c.s. (with carbon

Box 15 Folder 524 Jones, Gracie M. To John Howard Griffin, [n.p.], [n.d.] & 11 Nov. [n.y.], 2 a.l.s. (with article

Box 15 Folder 525 Hentoff, Nat To John Howard Griffin, New York, 8 July 1970, 1 a.n.s. (On Griffin t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 526 Roberts, Helm To John Howard Griffin, Lexington, KY, 10 & 24 Dec. 1969, 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.

[Re. photographs and Niles-Merton concerto

Box 15 Folder 527 Davenport, Guy To John Howard Griffin, Lexington, KY, 16 July 1970, 2 page t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 15 Folder 528 Paitnik, Debra To John Howard Griffin, Louisville, KY, 13 Sept. 1977 - 24 Aug. 1979, 4 t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 529 Greene, Jonathan To John Howard Griffin, Lexington, KY, 22 Nov. 1970, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 530 Seitz, Ron To John Howard Griffin, Louisville, KY, 27 March 1979, 4 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 531 Pennington, Basil To John Howard Griffin, Spencer, MA, 7 Aug. 1971, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 532 Zahn, Gordon C. To John Howard Griffin, Boston, MA, 6 Aug. 1970, 1 page a.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 533 Forest, Jim To John Howard Griffin, Holland & New York, 11 Dec. 1970 - 29 July 1980, 3 t.l.s., 1 a.p.c.s.

Box 15 Folder 534 Eliasoph, Paula To John Howard Griffin, Jamaica, NY, 28 July 1970 - 12 Jan. 1971, 7 a.l.s. (with related material

Box 15 Folder 535 Dana, Doris To John Howard Griffin, NY, 26 Oct. 1966 - 26 Dec. 1973, 2 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 536 Olmstead, Beatrice To John Howard Griffin, VT, 18 & 25 July 1970, 2 t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 15 Folder 537 Bissey, Dom Colomban To John Howard Griffin, France, 25 May & 27 Sept. 1976, 2 a.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 538 Devereux, Don To John Howard Griffin, NM, 2 & 26 July 1970, 2 t.l.s. (with carbons

Box 15 Folder 539 Kelley, Kitty To John Howard Griffin, Santa Barbara, CA, 27 July 1970, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 540 Hoyt, Robert G. To John Howard Griffin, Kansas City, MO, 30 July 1970, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 541 Dickey, W. Terrell To John Howard Griffin, Louisville, KY, 28 may 1970, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 15 Folder 542 Winandy, Dom Jacques To John Howard Griffin, Canada, 30 July 1970 - 9 March 1971, 1 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s. (with copy

Box 15 Folder 543 Sullivan, Sister Bede To John Howard Griffin, Victoria, B.C., 29 July 1976, 2 page t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 15 Folder 544 Michael, Sister Elaine To John Howard Griffin, Allegany, NY, 3 Sept. 1970, 1 page t.l.s., 10 page t.ms.

Box 15 Folder 545 Correspondence between John Howard Griffin and various monks, priests, and nuns from around the world regarding Thomas Merton, [v.p.],, 1969/1970, 26 items

Box 15 Folder 546 Oberlin College Newman Apostolate To John Howard Griffin re. Thomas Merton Festival, Elyria, OH,, 23 June 1972, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbons

Box 15 Folder 547 Correspondence between John Howard Griffin and various unidentified Catholic men and women regarding Thomas Merton, [v.p.],, 1968-1971, ca. 35 items

Box 15 Folder 548 Thomas Merton Society of Australia To John Howard Griffin, Victoria, 14 Dec. 1976, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 549 National Association For Pastoral Renewal To John Howard Griffin, CT & MO,, 1971, 1 t.l.s., 1 a.l.s. (with carbon

Box 15 Folder 550 Thomas Merton Center, Canada To John Howard Griffin, Magog, Que., 24 Nov. 1969, 1 page t.l.s. (with related carbons

Box 15 Folder 551 Ananda Meditation Retreat To John Howard Griffin, Nevada City, CA, [n.d.] & 1 Aug. 1970, 1 a.l.s., 1 t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 552 Merton Unity Center To John Howard Griffin, Isla Vista, CA, 9 Sept. 1974, 1 page t.l.s. (with related material

Box 15 Folder 553 Letters to John Howard Griffin from various contributors to Monk's Pond, [v.p.], 1970, 12 t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 554 University Press of Kentucky To Elizabeth Griffin-Bonazzi regarding Monk's Pond, 30 May 1989, 1 page, t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 555 Thomas Merton Study Center To Elizabeth Griffin & Robert Bonazzi, Louisville, KY,, 12 Jan. 1982 - 10 Nov. 1983, 3 t.l.s.

Box 15 Folder 556 International Thomas Merton Society To Robert Bonazzi & Elizabeth Griffin, Houston, TX,, 17 March - 14 July 1989, 1 a.n.s., 2 t.l.s., 1 t.p.c.s. (with related material

Subseries XIV.1: A Hidden Wholeness

A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Mertonwas published by Houghton Mifflin, in cloth and paperback-large-format editions, in 1970. An inferior cloth edition was later published by Norman Berg in 1977. The working title for the book wasThe Visual Merton, as cited in the correspondence between Griffin and publishers, as well as his correspondence with the Members of The Merton Legacy Trust. The book consists of a short text by Griffin, his photographs of Merton and the surrounding environment, and Merton's own photographs and paintings (which he called "calligraphs" or "signatures"--abstract miniatures suggesting the influences of Franz Kline, Paul Klee, and Zen calligraphy). Griffin was appointed "Official Biographer" in 1969; he worked on the "Official Biography" from 1969 until 1977.

Box 15 Folder 557 First Draft, [n.p.], 1970, 45 pages t.ms. (some photocopy, with autograph revisions by the author, plus notes by the copy editor

Box 15 Folder 558 Revisions of the manuscript, [n.p.], [1970], 12 pages t.ms. (with the author's ms. revisions

Box 15 Folder 559 Rewrites, [n.p.], March 1970, 20 page t.ms. (carbon

[Accompanied by a t.l. (carbon) to his editor and a carbon list of photographs

Box 15 Folder 560 & 561 Notes and technical correspondence in reference to the Galleys, and two (2) Complete Sets of Galleys, with extensive corrections and mark-up.

Box 15 Folder 562 Reviews of A Hidden Wholeness

Subseries XIV.2: Follow the Ecstasy: Thomas Merton, The Hemitage Years, 1965-1968

Published by Latitudes Press in 1983 in a quality paperback edition with slip-cover dust jacket. Three paperback editions (without dust jacket) followed under the Latitudes imprint. This edition was edited by Robert Bonazzi, who also wrote the Preface. A Revised edition was published by Orbis Books in 1993. This paperback includes a 16 page glossy folio of Griffin photographs and a new Foreword by the editor. The Orbis edition is entitled:Follow the Ecstasy: The Hemitage Years of Thomas Merton.. [It is important to note here thatFollow the Ecstasyrepresents only a portion of Griffin's proposed "Official Biography of Thomas Merton". The official biography was never completed. The full story, including the genesis ofFollow the Ecstasythat emerged from the unfinished biography, is documented in Robert Bonazzi's "Foreword" to the Orbis Books revised edition.]. This Series includes all of Griffin's working drafts from the unfinished "Official Biography of Thomas Merton"

Request Box 16

Box 16 Folder 563 Chapter One. "First Draft Notes", 11 page t.ms. (with Griffin's autograph revisions, as well as notes about placement of photographs

[With 1 page of notes by Robert Bonazzi.

Box 16 Folder 564 Chapter One. Final Draft, 7 page t.ms. (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 565 Chapter One. Revised Typescript Carbon, 6 page t.ms. (carbon

[This Chapter was never published; only a few have seen final draft

Box 16 Folder 566 Chapter for 1956. First Draft, 10 pages t.ms. (with Griffin's autograph revisions in red ink

[This recounts Merton's 1956 meeting with psychiatrist Gregory Zilborg, in Minnesota; this Controversial meeting of Or. Zilborg and Merton has been discussed in print by several biographers and Father John Eudes Bamberger, who actually attended the meeting. However, Griffin's chapter was never published, and only a few have seen the final draft; the drafts

Box 16 Folder 567 Chapter for 1956. Final Draft, 10 page t.ms. (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 568 Chapter for 1956. Corrected Carbon, 10 pages t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 569 Chapter for 1965. First Draft, 43 pages t.ms. (with Griffin's autograph revisions in red ink

Box 16 Folder 570 Chapter for 1965. Final Draft, 50 pages t.ms (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 571 Chapter for 1965. Corrected Carbon, 50 pages t.ms. (carbon (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 572 Chapter for 1966. First Draft, 42 pages t.ms. (with Griffin's autograph revisions in red ink

Box 16 Folder 573 Chapter for 1966. Final Draft, 74 pages t.ms (with greatly expanded text from First Draft, including revisions

Box 16 Folder 574 Chapter for 1966. Final Draft, 74 pages t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 575 Chapter for 1967. First Draft, 60 pages t.ms. (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 576 Chapter for 1967. Final Draft, 60 pages t.ms. (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 577 Chapter for 1967. Corrected Carbon, 60 pages t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 578 Chapter for 1968. First Draft, 10 pages t.ms. (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 16 Folder 579 Chapter for 1968. Final Draft, 18 pages t.ms. (expanded text

Request Box MC 14/16/02

Box MC 14/16/02 Folder 580 (oversize) Reviews of the 1983 Latitudes Press edition of Follow the Ecstasy

Request Box 16

Box 16 Folder 581 Reviews of the 1993 Orbis Books revised edition

Box 16 Folder 582 Dust Jackets (using Griffin photographs of Merton) from two biographies of Thomas Merton, by John J. Higgins and Cornelia Sussman

Subseries XV.1: General

Request Box 17

Box 17 Folder 583 Griffin's interview with Maritain, published as "Maritain Charts A Course Through Change" in The National Catholic Reporter, in 1966, Fort Worth, TX, 1966, 9 page t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 17 Folder 584 Maritain's "Preface" to the paintings of composer Arthur Lourie, Princeton, NJ,, 9 Oct. 1964, 5 page t.ms. (carbon

[Translated from the French by Griffin; the piece was published, with Griffin's photographs, inLatitudesmagazine

Box 17 Folder 585 Maritain, Jacques To John Howard Griffin, [v.p.], 1961 -1970, 3 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s., 3 Telegrams, 1 commemorative card of Raissa Maritain

Box 17 Folder 586 Maritain Secretaries To John Howard Griffin, Toulouse & Princeton,, 1962 - 1969, 6 a.l.s., 4 t.l.s.

[dictated by Maritain to various secretaries

Box 17 Folder 587 Fumet, Stanislaw To John Howard Griffin, Paris, 1961, 1 a.l.s.

[Fumet was a leading French literary critic and close friend of the Maritains and Reverdy

Subseries XV.2: Literary Matters

Box 17 Folder 588 Joseph Evans To John Howard Griffin, Notre Dame, IN, 1961-1973, 6 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s.

[Friend and biographer of Maritain, who was the Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame concerning Maritain and Griffin work

Box 17 Folder 589 Roberto Papini To John Howard Griffin, Rome, 1975-1978, 5 t.l.s. (with related material

[Director of the International Jacques Maritain Institute in Rome

Box 17 Folder 590 American Maritain Association Publications and materials

Box 17 Folder 591 Richard Rosswum To John Howard Griffin, Huntington, WV, 3 Feb. 1975, 1 page t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 17 Folder 591 John Deely To John Howard Griffin, Chicago, IL, 30 April 1973, 1 page t.l.s., 15 page essay ("To Be and To Know"

[With Griffin's replies (carbon typescripts);

Box 17 Folder 591 John M. Dunaway To John Howard Griffin, Macon, GA, 28 June 1976, 2 page t.l.s. (with carbon

[With Griffin's replies (carbon typescripts)

Box 17 Folder 592 Adler, Mortimer J. To John Howard Griffin, San Francisco CA, 21 May 1963, 1 page t.l.s.

[Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, thanking Griffin for sending "a magnificent photograph of Jacques Maritain". Dr. Adler and Maritain were friends and philosophy colleagues

Box 17 Folder 593 Encyclopaedia Britannica To John Howard Griffin, Chicago, IL, 1971, 2 t.l.s. (with carbon

[Thanking him for permission to print one of his portraits of Maritain in their Great Ideas Today series

Box 17 Folder 594 World Publishing Company To John Howard Griffin, Cleveland, OH, 1967, 4 t.l.s. (with carbon

[With Griffin reply, concerning Maritain portraits for cover of the philosopher's Challenges and Renewals; and also their interest in publishing a book of Merton portraits by Griffin; the Maritain book was published but the Merton book (by World) was not

Box 17 Folder 595 Lawler, Justus George To John Howard Griffin, New York, 1967, 2 t.l.s. (with photocopy article

[Editor of Jubilee magazine, at that time (1967) having been-taken over by Herder--and Herder Publishing; many of Griffin's portraits of Maritain, including one for the issue's cover, were published in Jubilee's homage to the philosopher, January 1968; the letters from Lawler are original typescripts; also photocopy of Jubilee

Box 17 Folder 596 John M. Dunaway To the Estate of John Howard Griffin, CT & GA,, 1991 & 1992, 4 t.l.s.

[Requesting the use of one portrait to be published in Dunaway'sExiles and Fugitivesby LSU Press; also a second letter requesting that the same photograph of Maritain be printed in the LSU Press catalogue (1992)

Subseries XV.3: The Gwen John Project

Gwen John, sister of Augustus John, was little known during her lifetime. After her death, her meticulous paintings--especially portraits--became highly regarded. As a friend of the Maritains, she left with them several paintings as gifts (watercolors and gouaches), as well as drawings.

Box 17 Folder 597 Griffin, John Howard Proposal to photograph the Gwen John pieces as an art book, with or without text, and to have the proceeds go to the Maritain Circle housed at the Chateau de Kolbsheim, France, Fort Worth, TX,, 13 Aug. 1967, 1 page t.l. (carbon

Box 17 Folder 597 Grunelius, Alexander Letter of agreement, Cercle d'Etudes Jacques et Raissa Maritain, France,, 11 Oct. 1967, 1 page a.l.s.

[Owner of Kolbsheim, the Grunelius Estate which provided space to artists at no cost, allowing a quiet and elegant setting for artistic retreats. The Maritains and Griffin made many trips there.

Box 17 Folder 598 Mary Taubman To John Howard Griffin, Strosbourg, France, 24 Aug. 1967, 1 a.l.s. 4 page, t.ms. (essay)

[Art critic who was the curator for the Gwen John exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London

Box 17 Folder 599 Antoinette Grunelius To John Howard Griffin, Kolbsheim, France, 1967-1969, 10 a.l.s., 1 a.p.c.s., 1 telegram

Subseries XV.4: The Peasant of Garonne

For an in-depth discussion of the controversial ideas in Jacques Maritain's last book, a reading of the Griffin interview with Maritain is illuminating. However, there is a story behind the book's publication in America, and this story behind the story is revealed in the correspondences that follow. This short morality play features a French publisher, several American publishers, a French literary agent based in Manhattan, a translator, concerned friends like Thomas Merton and John Howard Griffin, and the elderly layman who called himself "the peasant of Garonne" (Jacques Maritain). Georges Borchardt, a literary agent for the Paris publishing house, Declee de Brouwer (which published the original edition ofPeasant) offered both the Maritain book and French edition of Raissa Maritain'sJournalto Charles Scribner's Sons of New York. The legendary Scribner, a long-time friend of the Maritains and the publisher of many of the philosopher's books in English, was interested inPeasantbut not the poetic reflections of Raissa's Journal. Displeased with Scribner and Borchardt, Maritain wrote the publisher to say that either both books would be published by his old publisher or neither would be published under his imprint. And he turned the proceedings over to his friend, John Howard Griffin, who agreed to find an appropriate American publisher for both books, as well as translators.. However, as Griffin made contacts with publishers--and had interest from Arabel Porter at New American Library and Ralph Manheim at Harcourt--Borchardt was contacting other New York publishers with the encouragement of the original French publisher, Deciee de Brouwer. Borchardt managed to interest Joseph Cunneen, the religious editor at Holt, Rinehart and Winston, inPeasant, reaching preliminary agreement on a contract. When Maritain hear of this from Cunneen, he wrote to say that he was not against Holt publishing his book, but insisted that Griffin and not Borchardt handle the negotiations (as well as choose the translator). At the same time, Borchardt wrote Griffin to say that he had came to terms with Holt on behalf of Declee de Brouwer. Griffin, in an agony of embarrassment because this was exactly the sort of tension he wanted to avoid for Maritain, was forced to alert NAL and Harcourt of the mess, as well as correspond with Holt to make certain that the contract did not violate Maritain's wishes.. Finally, after several rounds of letters, the issue was clarified.. Holt would publishPeasant, Borchardt would be the link between Holt and Declee de Brouwer, and Griffin would select the translator. In the shuffle, there was no mention of Raissals Journal, so Griffin went elsewhere with that project, eventually landing it with Magi Books several years later. Michael Cuddihy was chosen to translate with the understanding that his English version would be examined by Griffin, Thomas Merton, and Joseph Evans of the Maritain society -- all trusted Maritain friends and translators (from French) in their own right.. All the preceding took place from November 1966 until the spring of 1967. At that point, a complete retyping of the Cuddihy translation had to be made at Holt, and Maritain became concerned about the slow progress. For some of the others there was a greater problem: No one was very impressed with the translation. So, after making changes suggested by Merton and Evans, Griffin took the translation to France, spending several weeks working it over with Maritain, who was not impressed with Cuddihy's work either. The accepted translation was dispatch by Maritain to Griffin's hands and then on to Joseph Cunneen at Holt, who made the point that not only had Cuddihy improved his work as he went along (and that his work had been further improved by Merton and Griffin especially), but that he was not pleased with Maritain's low opinion of the translation or with the philosopher's changes which he felt were neither "that extensive nor that helpful". When all the smoke of ego had cleared, the book was published by Holt with a portrait of Maritain (by Griffin) on its dust jacket. It sold well and went into a paperback-reprint by MacMillan (again with Griffin's portrait as the cover). Extensive detail is revealed by the actual documents

Box 17 Folder 600 Maritain, Jacques To Charles Scribner, [Haute-Garonne, France?], 21 Dec. 1966, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 17 Folder 601 Maritain, Jacques To Joseph Cunneen of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [Haute-Garonne, France],, 23 Nov. 1966, 1 page t.l.s.

[In English

Box 17 Folder 601 Cunneen, Jopseph To Jacques Maritain & John Howard Griffin, New York,, 17 Nov. 1966, 1 page t.l.s. (with related material

Box 17 Folder 602 Griffin, John Howard To Arabel Porter of New American Library, Fort Worth, TX,, 17 Dec. 1966, 2 page t.l. (carbon

Box 17 Folder 603 Manheim, Ralph To John Howard Griffin, [New York], 21 Nov. 1966, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 17 Folder 604 Cuddihy, Michael To John Howard Griffin, Tucson, AZ, 26 Dec. 1966, 2 page t.l.s. (with related material

Box 17 Folder 605 Borchardt, George To John Howard Griffin, New York, 14 & 19 Dec. 1966, 2 t.l.s. (with carbons

[Also two original typescript letters from Borchardt to Griffin; both men sadly lamenting the confusion and pleading innocence (although it was Borchardt who, in fact, caused all the confusion)

Box 17 Folder 606 Desclee de Brouwer To John Howard Griffin, Paris, 1966 - 1970, 5 t.l.s. (with carbon and notes

Box 17 Folder 607 Young, William To John Howard Griffin, Toronto, 21 Jan. & 15 Feb. 1969, 2 t.l.s. (with carbon

Box 17 Folder 608 Suther, Marshall To John Howard Griffin, Paris, 27 July 1971, 1 page a.l.s. (with carbon

[With JHG carbon reply

Box 17 Folder 609 Suther, Judith To John Howard Griffin, NC, 7 June 1980, 3 page t.l.s.

Box 17 Folder 610 John Coleman To John Howard Griffin, Paris, 29 March 1967, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 17 Folder 611 Bernard Berhand To John Howard Griffin, Paris, 21 March 1967, 2 page a.l.s.

Box 17 Folder 612 Parbot, Michel To John Howard Griffin, Paris, 15 Feb. 1967, 1 page t.l.s.

Box 17 Folder 613 Editions Gallimard & Edition des Derniéres To John Howard Griffin, Paris,, 3 Feb. 1967 & 8 June 1973, 2 t.l.s.

Subseries XV.5: Jacques Maritain: Homage in Words and Pictures

A 64-page large format book of photographs and texts, published by Magi Books in 1974. This is the same Albany, NY publisher who brought out Raissa'sJournaland also Maritain'sNotebooks. All three of these books are still in print. TheHomaqeconsists of an essay on Maritain by philosopher Yves Simon; this one of many written by a close friend and colleague, who illuminates Maritain's ideas and personality for the general reader. The second part of this "homage in words" is by John Howard Griffin, excerpts from journals kept while visiting with Martain in Princeton (1962), Fort Worth and Gethsemani (1966), Kolbsheim (1967) and Toulouse (1970).. The book ends with Griffin's 1973 entry about the last days of the philosopher. The book opens with a Foreword by Anthony Simon, son of Yves Simon, that reflects on the friendship of his father and Maritain. The magnificent photos throughout the book are by Griffin

Box 17 Folder 614 Griffin, John Howard Journal entries re. Jacques Maritain, [Fort Worth, TX],, [1970s], 38 page t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

[Composed from several entries in his journals; comparing these dated entries with the original versions (of the same dates) suggests some polishing but not massive revision

Box 17 Folder 615 Anthony Simon "Foreword" to Homage, South Bend, IN,, [Early 1970 & 1971], 4 page t.ms. (photocopy), 10 page t.ms. (photocopy), 9 page t.ms. (photocopy), 1 t.l.

Box 17 Folder 616 Gallagher, Thomas To John Howard Griffin, Albany, NY, 1970 - 1978, 6 t.l.s, 1 t.l.

[Publisher; these discuss developing ideas about the book's text, format, photographs, followed by plans for promotion

Box 17 Folder 617 Simon, Anthony To John Howard Griffin, South Bend, IN, 1968-1980, 3 a.l.s., 16 t.l.s.

[Also a photocopy of Maritain letter to Simon; and Maritain Symposium materials from the American Maritain Assoc. of which Simon is secretary

Box 17 Folder 618 Griffin, John Howard To Tony Simon, Fort Worth, TX, 1970-1976, 4 t.l. (carbon

[In one of these Griffin discusses his time in the French Underground and how Yves Simon understood the degree of French collaboration with the Nazis which was not realized by those at ground zero (see Simon's book about the Vichy conspiracy). (Plus review-essays and short newspaper reviews)

Box 17 Folder 619 Simon, Anthony "Foreword" & Yves R. Simon essay, [n.p.], [n.d.], 7 page proof & notes

Box 17 Folder 620 Jacques Maritain: Homage In Words and Pictures, [n.p.], [n.d.], 40 sheets page proof

Box 17 Folder 621 Simon, Paule Jacques Maritain: Homage In Words and Pictures, [n.p.], [n.d.], 159 page t.ms. (photocopy; French translation

Request Box 18

Box 18 Folder 622 MacMillan Publishing Co. Inc. To John Howard Griffin, New York, 1975-1977, 11 t.l. (signed David Reuther & Michelle Gale

[With Griffin's carbon replies

Box 18 Folder 623 Griffin, John Howard Outline of the Introduction, [Fort Worth, TX], [ca. 1975], 1 page t.ms.

Box 18 Folder 623 Griffin, John Howard List of photographs (most by JHG) to illustrate the book, [Fort Worth, TX],, [ca. 1975], 1 page t.ms.

Box 18 Folder 623 Griffin, John Howard Notes and drafts, [Forth Worth, TX], [ca. 1975], 7 page t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 18 Folder 624 First draft, [Forth Worth, TX], [ca. 1975], 73 page t.ms. (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 18 Folder 625 Second draft, [Forth Worth, TX], [ca. 1975], 82 page t.ms. (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 18 Folder 626 Second draft, [Forth Worth, TX], [ca. 1975], 80 page t.ms. (photocopy, with Griffin's ms. corrections

Box 18 Folder 627-629 Galleys, [Forth Worth, TX], [ca. 1975], 30 galley sheets (with Griffin's ms. corrections

Subseries XVII.1: General

Box 18 Folder 630 Twelve Photographic Portraits. A Chapbook published by Unicorn Press featuring portraits of Roland Hayes, Zara. Nelsova, Mark Van Doren, Lili Kraus, John Jacob Niles, Annie Fischer, Wendell Berry, Denise Levertov, Maxwell Gesmar, Thomas Merton and Brother Lavrans Nielsen, painter and monk at Gethsemani, Greensboro, NC: The Unicorn Press,, 1973, 1 volume (paperback

Box 18 Folder 631 Unicorn Press To John Howard Griffin, Santa Barbara, CA, 1969 & 1970, 1 t.l.s, 4 a.l. (signed Teo Savory

[With Griffin's carbon and photocopy of article on Merton's friendship

Box 18 Folder 632 Pilgrimage, [Fort Worth, TX], [1970s], 7 pp. t.ms. (carbon, with Griffin's ms. corrections

[Became a Latitudes Press chapbook in 1985. This was the only piece of fiction Griffin wrote after the 1950s, except for time spent on revising earlier unpublished novels (during the 196Os). With related correspondence from Renaissance Publications Co, Inc., 1973.

Box 18 Folder 633 Griffin, John Howard Review of George Woodcock's biography Thomas Merton, Monk and Poet, 3 page t.ms (carbon, with corrections

Box 18 Folder 634 Griffin, John Howard Review of Thomas Merton's Asian Journal, [Fort Worth, TX], [1973], 9 page t.ms.(carbon, with corrections

Box 18 Folder 635 Griffin, John Howard Outline for nine sessions of a seminar on Merton he gave in Toronto, [Toronto],, [1970s], 1 page t.ms.(carbon

Box 18 Folder 636 Griffin, John Howard "The Terrain of Physical Pain", Pilgrim Press, 1970, 14 page photocopy of essay

[One of Griffin's very finest essays, written from an objective point of view that masks his deeply personal involvement with physical pain, its levels of consciousness and possible adaptations to spiritual awakening; from the pages ofCreative Sufferingan- Anthology by Pilgrim Press, 1970

Box 18 Folder 637 Griffin, John Howard "My Book", Fort Worth, TX, 1973, 5 pp. t.ms.(carbon, with corrections

[A personal essay that discusses the handful of books which "have the capacity to transform one's life"--that is, books in Griffin's experience as a reader. Several books are discussed, but his focus is on the autobiography of the photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn. It was written forWaymagazine and published in a series

Box 18 Folder 637 Griffin, John Howard To The Editor of "Way" magazine, Fort Worth, TX,, 1973, t.l.(carbon)

Box 18 Folder 638 Griffin, John Howard "From Boy to Writer in One Night", Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest,, 1970, 5 page Photocopy of article

[Autobiographical anecdote about spending the night in Paris under a stairwell as a teenager which spins into some tips about turning experience into writing; one of only two Griffin pieces on the art of writing. From the anthologyHandbook of Short Story Writing, published by The Writer's Digest in 1973

Box 18 Folder 639 Griffin, John Howard "Racism 1974-1975", Huy, Belgium, October 1974, 16 page pamphlet

[An editorial on page 2, 3, 16 of the Belgian periodical "From Heart to Heart" published by the Dominique Pire Foundation

Box 18 Folder 640 Griffin, John Howard Review of Expectations 1975, an anthology of children's literature in Braille for blind. children, published by the Braille Institute of America, Fort Worth, TX,, [1975], 3 page t.ms.(carbon

[Published inThe New York Times Book Reviewin 1975; Griffin was blind for a decade

Box 18 Folder 681 Griffin, John Howard "J. Edgar Hoover's Interference With Church Leaders", [Fort Worth, TX],, 1976, 3 page t.ms.(carbon, with corrections

[An article about FBI interference with Dr. Martin Luther King and other black leaders; with a copy ofThe Continuing Inquiryin which it was published.

Subseries XVII.2: The Sepia Magazine File

Sepia, originally based in Fort Worth, moved to Chicago in the 1970s

Box 18 Folder 642 Ben Burns To John Howard Griffin, Chicago, IL, 1974, 4 t.l.s.

Box 18 Folder 643 Griffin, John Howard "Revolution in Medical Care", Fort Worth, TX, [1970s], 9 page t.ms.(carbon) and outlines

[Article about clinics for the poor, run by the poor; published with Griffin photographs

Box 18 Folder 644 Griffin, John Howard "Moore's Seafood", [Fort Worth, TX], [1970s], 7 page t.ms.(carbon, and outlines

[Article about Joe Moore, black Alabama businessman; published with JHG photos

Box 18 Folder 645 Griffin, John Howard "Paul Cuffe", Fort Worth, TX, [1970s], 16 page t.ms.(carbon

[Excellent piece of Black History about little-known sea captain and philanthropist

Box 18 Folder 646 "A Decade Later: The Unsolved Mystery of The Malcolm X Murder", Fort Worth, TX,, [1970s], 19 page t.ms.(carbon

Box 18 Folder 687 "How Wallace Has Changed on Race Relations", [Fort Worth, TX], [1970s], 10 page t.ms.(carbon, with related t.l.s. & invitation

[Article on Governor Wallace that suggests that the Alabama icon's image had been changed by a new press kit, in 1974, but black citizens of Alabama were skeptical.

Box 18 Folder 688 "Gospel Singer Kenneth Glover", Fort Worth, TX, 1973, 9 page t.ms.(carbon

[With an autograph letter from Glover to Griffin

Box 18 Folder 649 "Release of Mississippi Klansman Stirs Old Fears", Fort Worth, TX, 1973, 9 page t.ms.(carbon

[Article about the Klan's murder of Vernon Dahmer a leader in the Hattiesburg black community

Box 18 Folder 649 Griffin, John Howard To Ben Burns, Forth Worth, TX, 22 Feb. 1973, 1 t.l.s.

[Concerning later developments in the story

Subseries XVII.3: Media

Box 18 Folder 650 Articles on Griffin in Newsweek, etc.,, 1970 and 1977

Box 18 Folder 651 Krebs, A.Y. Article/Interview of Griffin in U.S. Catholic, [Fort Worth, TX], 1968, 13 page t.ms.(carbon

Box 18 Folder 651 Krebs, A.Y. To John Howard Griffin, San Francisco & Washington, DC,, 15 Sept. 1967 - 1 Sept. 1980, 3 letters

Box 18 Folder 652 Griffin, John Howard Interview from Fort Worth magazine, Fort Worth, TX, 1974, 7 page photocopy

Box 18 Folder 653 Smith, Thurston "Dying Like Me": Interview with Griffin U.S. Catholic, November 1977, 7 page photocopy

[Griffin's last interview published in U.S. Catholic; contains insights on pain, dying, and spirituality; one of his best interviews

Subseries XVII.4: Correspondence

Box 18 Folder 654 King, Coretta Scott To John Howard Griffin, Atlanta, GA, 7 September 1977, 1 telegram

Box 18 Folder 655 Kozol, Jonathan To John Howard Griffin, Boston, MA, 1972-1978, 3 a.l.s.

Box 18 Folder 656 Geismar, Maxwell To John Howard Griffin, Harrison, NY, 1970-1978, 9 t.l.s., 1 telegram

Box 18 Folder 657 Doherty, Catherine To John Howard Griffin, Ontario, 1970-1978, 17 t.l.s., 1 a.l.s.

[Old Merton friend and founder of Madonna House in Ontario, Canada; plus one carbon typescript response from Griffin

Box 18 Folder 658 Brannin, Carl To John Howard Griffin, Dallas, TX, 7 April 1978, 1 page a.l.s.

[Texas writer and regular contributor toThe Texas Observer, concerning the Observer's sending of 500 copies ofBlack Like Meto Texas colleges

Box 18 Folder 659 Upper Midwest Writers' Conference To John Howard Griffin, Bemidji, MN,, 1976, 3 t.l.s.

[With t.l. (carbon) response from Griffin

Box 18 Folder 660 Courtney, Lucille H. To John Howard Griffin, Shevlin, MN, 1976, 2 t.l.s. (with carbon replies

[About her novel

Box 18 Folder 661 John Frederick Nims To John Howard Griffin, Chicago & Lake Forest, IL,, 1976, 2 t.l.s.

[Poet, who was a colleague of Griffin's at the Upper Midwest Writing Conference [This experience was rare for Griffin, who did not "teach writing" on a professional basis.]

Box 18 Folder 662 William Shockley To John Howard Griffin, Stanford, CT, 12 July 1974, 5 page t.l.s. (with carbon reply

[Nobel Prize Laureate who invented the junction transmitter used in heart pacemakers, concerning his contention that blacks are genetically inferior to whites. In response to Griffin's July 1974 article in Sepia: "How White Intellectuals Become Racists", Dr. Shockley, surprised at Griffin's objectivity in the piece, nonetheless disagreed vigorously with Griffin's findings.

Box 18 Folder 663 Williams, Robert L. Form letter re. Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity (BITCH), St Louis, MO,, 1973, 2 page t.l. (with carbon

[A black psychologist

Box 18 Folder 664 NAACP To John Howard Griffin, New York, 30 March 1971, 1 page t.l. (signed Ruby Hurley

Box 18 Folder 665 Marycrest College Regarding Griffin's Commencement Address, Davenport, IA,, 1 page, t.l.s. (with carbon reply)

Box 18 Folder 666 Request for Griffin to write an introduction to a sociological text on black determinism, Grand Rapids, MI,, [n.d.], 1 page t.l.s.

Box 18 Folder 667 Flint Community Schools To John Howard Griffin, Flint, MI, 26 Dec. 1972, 1 page t.l.s.

[About an article following a Griffin lecture there

Box 18 Folder 668 Elizondo, Virgil To John Howard Griffin, San Antonio, TX, 29 Dec. 1978, 2 page t.l.s. (with Table of Contents, 3p.)

[President of the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio Regarding working with Griffin in a study of the effects of racism on the Hispanic community

Box 18 Folder 669 American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) To John Howard Griffin, New York,, 1971 & 1977, 2 t.l.s.

Box 18 Folder 670 The New York Times To John Howard Griffin, New York,, 22 Oct. 1970, 1 page t.l.s.

[Regarding photographs in their travel section

Box 18 Folder 671 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation To John Howard Griffin, Montréal,, 1968-1978, 3 t.l.s. (with carbon replies

[Concerning the airing of Griffin writings. The letters are in French

Box 18 Folder 672 Hargrove, Marion To John Howard Griffin, Santa Monica, CA, 9 Aug. 1976, 2 page t.l.s. (with carbon reply

Box 18 Folder 673 Rawhauser, Kurt To John Howard Griffin, San Francisco, 1970, 1 a.l.s., 2 t.l.s. (with related material

Subseries XVII.5: The Noonan File

Joe Noonan, staff cartoonist forWAYMagazine, first wrote to Griffin in 1971. Soon the two men were corresponding so regularly--and ultimately much more voluminously than Griffin corresponded with anyone in. his lifetime--that the file of Noonan letters to Griffin numbers 1,592 pieces. This is staggering when one considers that this computes to one letter every other day arriving in Griffin's mailbox for nine years (from 1971 until 1980). The pieces vary from postcards and notes to hundreds of single-spaced typed letters (totaling ever 3,000 pages). Noonan was an extremely clever cartoonist and nearly 800 of the 948 envelopes are decorated with his witty cartoons (and nearly all of these take-offs on the ongoing correspondence). Cartoons decorate the letters also; there are an estimated 4,000 original cartoons in the file.. While the accent of the correspondence is one of humor (subtle, bawd , satiric, absurd, and downright silly at times), there are also many Noonan letters that evoke seriousness--discussions of literature, politics, religion and society. Noonan's letters, however, are most notable for their wide range of humor--not only cartoons, but hundreds of loony news items and photographs that were often altered with the cartoonist's sharp pen. Noonan's primary motive was to keep a beleaguered and often very ill author cheered up, laughing, and several steps away from taking it all too seriously. Griffin loved his letters (and envelopes) and perhaps nothing else cheered him so jubilantly in his last years, (1977-1980) especially.. The little we know of Griffin's side of the correspondence (a safe estimate would be about 1,200 letters which are in Noonan's possession) is what is reflected in the Noonan letters. Also, we have an excellent article about the correspondence written by the cartoonist after Griffin's death, and published in a special issue ofWaymagazine exclusively dedicated to various aspects of the author.

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Box 19 Folder 674-693 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, 1971 & Jan.-June 1972, 20 folders

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Box 20 Folder 694-705 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, July-Nov. 1972, 12 folders

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Box 21 Folder 706-715 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, Dec. 1972-March 1973, 10 folders

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Box 22 Folder 716-722 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, April-Aug. 1973, 7 folders

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Box 23 Folder 723-728 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, Sept.-Dec. 1973, 6 folders

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Box 24 Folder 729-735 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, Jan.-May 1974, 7 folders

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Box 25 Folder 736-745 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, June-Dec. 1974, 10 folders

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Box 26 Folder 746-752 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, Jan.-July 1975, 7 folders

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Box 27 Folder 753-758 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, Aug.-Dec.1975, 6 folders

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Box 28 Folder 759-765 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, Jan.-May 1976, 7 folders

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Box 29 Folder 766-772 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, June-Dec. 1976, 7 folders

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Box 30 Folder 773-783 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, Jan.-Dec. 1977, 11 folders

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Box 31 Folder 784-804 Noonan, Joe To John Howard Griffin, Hayword, CA, Jan. 1978-Dec. 1980, 20 folders

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Box 32 Folder 805-808 Diary, Gethsemani, KY & Fort Worth, TX, 1969-1972, 297 pages t.ms. (with Griffin's ms. corrections and revisions

Box 32 Folder 809-817 Diary, Fort Worth, TX, 1970s, 355 pp. t.ms. (with Griffin's emendations and changes by editor Beasley

Box 32 Folder 818 Andrews, Jim To John Howard Griffin, Shawnee Mission, KS, 1976-1980, 3 t.l.s.

[Publisher of Andrews and McMeel. The first letter asks Griffin if he has any current projects in the works (1976); the second letter, dated April 30, 1980, is Andrews' response to a reading of Griffin's hermitage diary--he was so impressed with the manuscript that he offered to publish it and looked forward to actually editing it as well; the third letter acknowledges Griffin's return of the signed contract. [Unfortunately, Griffin and Andrews were not able to work together on the book. Both died before the book was read for production.]

Box 32 Folder 819 Martin, Donna To Elizabeth Griffin, Fairway, KS, 1981-1984, 7 t.l.s.

[Vice President of Andrews and McMeel, concerning among other issues, restoring some cuts made by the editor Beasley; also a list of the cuts that were restored

Box 32 Folder 820 Martin, Donna To Tom McKillop, Fairway, KS, 7 July 1981, 2 page t.l.s.

[Discussing the editing of the manuscript

Box 32 Folder 821 Griffin, John Howard Production marginalia for The Hermitage Journals: Manufacturing specifications; Two galley pages; Three pages of corrections; ;A list of Griffin's visits to the hermitage; Two sets of footnotes

Box 32 Folder 822 Reviews of The Hermitage Journals

[When one considersThe Hermitage Journalsin connection withBlack Like MeandScatttered Shadows, there emerges a fascinating subject for scholarship. These books form an autobiographical trilogy that is unique in subject matter and intensely original in the evocation of these experiences. How many whites have experienced being black? How many social creatures have embraced hermetic solitude? How many have lost their eyesight, endured a decade of blindness and then had vision restored? Surely, these singular realities are among the most misunderstood and nowhere in our literature are they made so understandable from the inside out. Griffin found such human conditions, however contradictory on the surface, profoundly unified in the realm of the spirit. He discovered that being blind or black or being a hermit simply meant being human--that the experience itself was far less difficult and painful than the dehumanizing perceptions of those in the majority, who did not see the individual but only that condition of appearing other than average

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Box 33 Folder 823 Volume I, Mansfield, TX, 1950/51, 1-242 pages

Box 33 Folder 824 Volume II, Mansfield, TX, 1952/53, 243-381 pages

Box 33 Folder 825 Volume III, Mansfield, TX, 1954, 382-637 pages

Box 33 Folder 826 Volume IV, Mansfield, TX, 1955, 638-758 pages

Box 33 Folder 827 Volume V, Mansfield, TX, 1956/57, 759-924 pages

Box 33 Folder 828 Volume VI, Mansfield, TX, 1958/59, 925-1001 pages

Box 33 Folder 829 Volume VII, Mansfield, TX, 1960, 1002-1065 pages

Box 33 Folder 830 Volume VIII, Mansfield, TX, 1961, 1066-1157 pages

Box 33 Folder 831 Volume IX, Mansfield, TX, 1962, 1158-1268 pages

Box 33 Folder 832 Volume X, Mansfield, TX, 1963, 1268-1337 pages

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Box 34 Folder 833 Volume XI, Mansfield, TX, 1964, 1338-1374 pages

Box 34 Folder 834 Volume XII, Mansfield, TX, 1965, 1375-1490 pages

Box 34 Folder 835 & 836 Volume XIII, Mansfield, TX, 1966, 1491-1625 pages

Box 34 Folder 837 Volume XIV, Mansfield, TX, 1967, 1740-1902 pages

Box 34 Folder 838 Volume XV, Mansfield, TX, 1968, 1093-2052 pages

Box 34 Folder 839 Volume XVI, Mansfield, TX, 1969, 2053-2623 pages

Box 34 Folder 840 Volume XVII, Mansfield, TX, 1970, 2116-2132 pages

Box 34 Folder 841 Volume XVIII, Mansfield, TX, 1971/72, 2133-2210 pages

Box 34 Folder 842 Volume XIX, Mansfield, TX, 1973, 2211-2273 pages

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Box 35 Folder 843 Volume XX, Fort Worth, TX, 1974, 2274-2338 pages

Box 35 Folder 844 & 845 Volume XXI, Fort Worth, TX, 1975, 2339-2542 pages

Box 35 Folder 846 Volume XXII, Fort Worth, TX, 1976, 2543-2609 pages

Box 35 Folder 847 Volume XXIII, Fort Worth, TX, 1977, 2610-2682 pages

Box 35 Folder 848 Volume XXIV, Fort Worth, TX, 1978/79, 2683-2749 pages

Box 35 Folder 849 Volume XXV, Fort Worth, TX, 1980, 2750-2762 pages

Box 35 Folder 850 Preface to the Journals, Fort Worth, TX, 1980, 3 page t.ms.

Box 35 Folder 851 Notebook #1, 1962-1963

[Records Griffin's first face to face visit with his mentor, Jacques Maritain, then at Princeton University (October 1962). An augmented discussion of this visit appears inHomage in Words and Pictures. A visit made in March of 1962 to Assumption Univesity in Windsor, Ontario follows; there he had dialogue with Father Stanley Murphy, founder of the Christian Culture Series, and Eugene McNamara, the Canadian literary critic who had written enthusiastically about Griffin's two novels. The third excerpt is about Griffin's first face to face meeting with Thomas Merton at the Abbey of Gethsemani. There is much more about this and other meetings with Merton inA Hidden WholenessandFollow the Ecstasy. [These handwritten first impressions of two of the thinkers he most admired--Maritain and Merton--give this notebook its rare quality.]

Box 35 Folder 852 Notebook #2, 1966

[Records Griffin's photographic experience of the ritual passion performed by the Tarascan culture in the state of Michoacan, Mexico; these are early notes for his published article, "Passion at Tzintzuntzan" (The Griffin Reader). A second section records several pages of notes about Martin Luther King that are the genesis for his piece "Martin Luther King's Moment" (first published inSignmagazine, then anthologized). The third section is a sketch of Gregory Griffin, the author's son, who, at age four began doing photography under his father's tutelage. Gregory published many of his black and white pictures of animals in major photographic journals, beginning at age five up into his teens; he was the youngest member of ASMP (American Society of Magazine Photographers) in the history of that organization--although ASMP did not know the boy was only five at the time, and Griffin kept his age secret for many years after.

Box 35 Folder 853 Lectures #3, 1966, 1 notebook

[A Calendar of Lectures for 1966, running, through May of that year. It provides one a taste of the range of places and settings (as well as fees) Griffin encountered. And there are also notations for some New York visits he had scheduled--with the legendary blues musician Josh White for a photographic session and with his close friend the literary critic Maxwell Geismar.

Box 35 Folder 854 Notebook #4, February & March 1967

[Griffin carried along this notebook on his lecture tour to California in February and on to Michigan in March of 1967. His stay in San Francisco includes some somber reflections on visiting an "adults only" bookshop. The end of his circuit in Michigan elicits great relief to be returning home to his wife and children. [A batch of pages was cut from the front of this notebook by Griffin; perhaps these had been unsatisfactory pages of writing or an early draft of a piece later developed on the typewriter.]

Box 35 Folder 855 Notebook #5, 1970

[This 1970 notebook accompanied Griffin on one of his most significant trips to Europe, researching for his biography of Thomas Merton. His seventeen year old daughter, Susan, accompanied him on the journey. The first stop was Amsterdam, on January 27, 1970, pronouncing himself "more at home here than anywhere in the states." It was a city that his close friend, pianist Robert Casadesus often performed, especially at the Concertgebow, where Griffin attended an all-Beethoven concert by pianist Annie Fischer. He took the opportunity to photograph this great musician in performance, and visited with her afterward... pronounced the recital "a real glory--one of the finest concerts I ever heard. Like Lipatti and Schnabel combined". The next morning he visited the Rijks Museum, "seeing the Rembrandts, Vermeers, etc. Tremendous. To the Van Gogh Museum this afternoon." After three days in Amsterdam, he spent three days in Brussels, staying with the psychiatrist and Merton enthusiast Dr. Vander-Elst. On February 2nd, he took the train to Strasbourg and was met by his old friends, Antoinette and Alexander Grunelius. These great friends of the Maritains drove Griffin and his daughter to their Chateau at Kolbsheim (the repository of the papers of Jacques and Raissa Maritain), where they stayed a few days.. Griffin then spent five days with Jacques Maritain in Toulouse, where the 87 year old philosopher had a tiny hermitage on the grounds where the motherhouse of the Little Brothers and Sisters Order is located. Many passaqes here about Maritain, several of the sisters who did his secretarial work (Sister Marie Pascale, in particular, who typed the philosopher's manuscripts and letters--her signature is under many of Maritain's letters on file at HRC), as well as several interesting cooking experiences with Sister Marie Emmanuel.. A week later, Griffin made several trips to Prades (Merton's birthplace), Montaubin and St. Antonin (where Merton lived as a child), and on to Paris, photographing and notetaking all the way. On February 14, he visited with the daughter of Leon Bloy, the French writer and thinker who was instrumental in converting the Maritains to Catholicism, after a search of several days. Part of this experience, though not mentioned in this notebook, laid the groundwork for his last piece of fiction--the humorous take-off upon hearing the sweet sound of a sackbutt (Pilgrimage, Latitudes Press, 1985).

Box 35 Folder 856 Notebook #6, 1974

[Lecture notes for a series on "Dominant Institutions" given during a two-week period at Loretto Heights University in Denver, Colorado. Griffin went to Loretto Heights for two weeks every year during the 1970s to lecture, teach classes and conduct seminars on various aspects of society: racism, injustice, freedom, spirituality--and how the person is thus affected by these realities. In this comfortable academic setting, he was able to develop a deeper set of ideas than one three hour lecture at a university or church could provide--especially when he was in another city by the next day. He enjoyed these times at Loretto Heights, a Catholic institution known for its progressive system which was influenced by Sister Mary Luke Tobin, a close associate of both Merton and Griffin over the years. He utilized this annual visit to Denver to develop his ongoing lectures more deeply, benefitting from the learned response of some of the faculty, as well as a pool of intelligent Catholic students, including many from foreign countries. His daughter Susan was a student at Loretto Heights and her tuition was given in exchange for Griffin's annual appearances.. The lecture notes themselves will give the scholar a clear idea of the way in which Griffin built up the background for his lectures--scholarly research to give context to speeches that were always based on personal experience and more often than not about hisBlack Like Meand subsequent civil rights work.. Here the background is separated out from the foreground; the objective set apart from the subjective while his speeches integrate both realms.

Box 35 Folder 857 Notebook #7, 1976

[Records two days of solitude at Bemidji, Minnesota on a lake surrounded by woods. He was at the time teaching writing at The Upper Midwest Writing Conference [see Series XVII for related information and correspondence]. Griffin simply records the solitary time and does not mention the conference at all. He records the birdcalls, describes the lake and woods, remarks about being awake at dawn--and then compares his sense of unity there as reminiscent of his time at Merton's hermitage four years earlier, July 1976.. The second section finds Griffin recuperating from several heart attacks after a month long tour from October 20 to November 20 (mostly in Canada). That tour ended in Rochester, New York where he was barely able to make his appearance. Returning to Fort Worth, he kept his Journal in this notebook on a bed desk his wife had purchased, because he was unable to work on his studio typewriter. Very ill, he convinced the doctor to let him remain at home instead of going to the hospital. Slowly, he begins to improve in the warm context of his family--wife and younger daughter (Amanda), as well as his mother (Lena Griffin), all helping and staying watch. Each day he received communion from his close friend, Father George Curtsinger (photographer, pianist, writer; books published by Latitudes). November 27 to December 3, 1976.

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Box 36 Folder 858 Notebook #8, Toronto, June 11-20, 1977

[The first section includes Griffin's extensive notes on writing and art in outline form and is clearly influenced by Maritain's aesthetic works. He begins with his view of writing that "creative writing cannot be taught, but we can learn to remove many of the impediments to creativity". Discussion of various elements: characterization, writer as creative filter, challenge to express the inexpressible, universality of experience ("you have to become all men at all times: leave yourself and become the other. Gamble on truth"). How keeping a journal can aid in these ventures: "This means that sometimes, for the sake of truth, you have to write things that are personally offensive to you .... This comes most most naturally from keeping an absolutely private journal." Then there is a section entitled "Essences and Accidentals" which is a five page outline of Maritain's ideas fromCreative Intuition in Art and Poetry(Griffin's aesthetic Bible). Finally, some Griffin notes on techniques, revision, things to avoid and misplaced motivations. [included herein is a folder containing one stray sheet of notes in Griffin's hand, plus a three-page carbon typescript he made from Maritain'sCreative Intuition, ("definitions of art").]. The remainder of this notebook is as profound in the personal sense as the first portion is in the artistic sense. Griffin arrived in Toronto on June 11, 1977. He was met at the airport by Dr. Viktor Frankel, a thinker Griffin had long admired and was meeting for the first time. Frankel is best known for his first book,Man's Search for Meaning. His account of enduring a Nazi concentration camp and the existential opus that begins his psychoanalytical career as the founder of logotherapy. The next day, Griffin had a long dialogue with Frankel which he called, ..a great interview. I have never in my life met a man whose thoughts and conclusions so nearly matched my own." Griffin discusses Frankel's ideas at great length and their affinity to his own, less systematic worldview.. Also at great length, Griffin discusses his depleted physical energy due to diabetes and heart-related ailments. "My problem, my physical condition obliges me to make demands on others that go against my conscience. When others through love and perception sense the needs and volunteer the aid, then the conflict ceases and is replaced by an overwhelming gratitude. It has always been profoundly repellant to me to have to ask someone for what must be given. That is the great dissonance of my life: My needs, for example, deprive my wife, Tom [Father Tom McKillop], even my children, of the peace and rest they need...no matter how willing they are to help. Because I try to hold off asking until too late, I face them with crises and fatigue. This destroys me and worsens the condition. I hold off asking (imposing) until I then grow sick and cry out for help.". In rereading the "Scattered Shadows" chapters inThe Reader, Griffin was deeply struck by the attitude (of false heroism) he had while slowly losing his sight in France thirty years earlier, in 1946. But he recognized the falsity then and overcame his own hypocrisy. "Strange indeed--my present helplessness and confusion wiped from memory the very meaning of that earlier discovery. There I could find finally objective meaning--the fragments were finally perceived as a whole. This time [with one leg amputated, with regular heart failures, constant pain and insomnia] I have been unable to do that--so meaning is too often replaced by sadness, even despair, even blackness without light but I cannot feel it too often Too often everything, even knowledge and perception seem wiped out by the heart-organ's physical inability to function--so the symbolic and real heart get clouded, desperate, fragmented, unwhole--and I know and hate-it-and beg for help.... Dr. Frankel refreshed these dim memories that have so permeated all my work."

Box 36 Folder 859 Notebook #9, June 4-7, 1978

[This is Griffin's final travel notebook, recording a visit he made to the Toronto home of Father Tom McKillop, his closest friend and spiritual advisor in the final few years. The entries reflect the desperate state of Griffin's health. Any intention of lecturing or doing interviews was cancelled. He simply spent time with his friend, made his confession, and received communion each day as they said the Mass together. Despite all the discomfort, Griffin felt "great joy to be back in this peaceful house, in the safety and security of friendship".

Box 36 Folder 860 Notebook #10, January-24 May 1980

[This final notebook postdates the last entry in his typewritten journal, which itself runs only 13 single spaced typed pages, from January until May 24, 1980 (and ending on page 2762).. From that last typed passage until the first entry in this final autograph notebook, a full month had passed without any writing.. Then, on June 23 until July 17 of 1980, he scrawled his last fifteen pages in this notebook. In addition, there are three handwritten pages toward the back of the notebook: this is a preliminary draft for an article commissioned by Litton magazines, concerning his views on changing skin color. The draft is unquestionably the very last piece Griffin wrote other than these fifteen pages that end his overall Journal.. The piece on skin color was finished in typescript (no carbon remains and perhaps he did not make one) for a June 17 deadline which he met and for which he collected a check from Litton for what would be his last published writing to appear in his lifetime

Box 36 Folder 861 Tom McKillop Funeral Mass of John Howard Griffin, [Mansfield, TX], [Sept. 1980], 8 page t.ms. (photocopy

Box 36 Folder 862 WAY magazine Special Edition devoted to John Howard Griffin, San Francisco, CA,, September 1981, 64 pages

[Includes articles by Robert Ellsberg, Irving Sussman, Joe Noonan, and Cornelia Jessey

Box 36 Folder 863 Daniel, Bradford "The Intrinsic Other: The Life and Work of John Howard Griffin." Outline for a film documentary, [n.p.],, 1980, 5 page t.ms.

Box 36 Folder 863 Daniel, Bradford To Elizabeth Griffin, [n.p.], 14 October 1980, 1 page a.l.s.

Box 36 Folder 864 Miller, Keith D. "Courageous Witness" Fellowship: Nyack, NY, March 1981, 4 page photocopy

Box 36 Folder 865 Ellsberg, Robert Article on John Howard Griffin in Cloud of Witness and Sojourners, [n.p.], 1981 & 1991, 12 page photocopy

Box 36 Folder 866 Sharp, Ernest "The Man Who Changed His Skin" American Heritage, 1989, 14 page photocopy

Box 36 Folder 867 The First Annual John Howard Griffin Festival of the Arts I, St. Joseph's College, Toronto,, 28 October 1983, 5 program and flyers

[The first festival was organized by Father Tom McKillop and sponsored by the Youth Corps of Toronto; performers included actors Michael Kramer and Jimmy Pappas, performing a scene fromScattered Shadows; musical performances by pianist Luiz de Moura Castro, Clarinetist Bridget de Moura Castro, and sopranos Caudettte LeBlanc; plus readings of Griffin's work by Elizabeth Griffin and Robert Bonazzi

Box 36 Folder 868 John Howard Griffin Festival of the Arts. Second and Third, Fort Worth, TX,, 1984 & 1985, 2 programs, 1 invitation

Box 36 Folder 869 Pilgrimage, Latitudes Press: Mansfield, TX,, 1985, 12 page booklet

[Commemorative edition of theThird Annual John Howard Griffin Festival. Limited edition, 500 copies.

Box 36 Folder 870 Certificates of death, Fort Worth, 1980, 2 page photocopies

[On one of his last days in the hospital, John Howard Griffin said to father McKillop: "It's so hard to be reduced to nothing! All of I have left now is the pure silence of love." And that was everything.

Box 36 Folder 871 Animals -- cat, rabbit & cat; deer, 3 photographs

Box 36 Folder 872 Belgium, 10 photographs

Box 36 Folder 873 Luis Berber , [n.p.], August 1965, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 874 Blacks in Mississippi, Mississippi, August 1974, 9 photographs

Box 36 Folder 875 Lola Bobesco, Susanne Genty and Jacques Genty , Huy, Belgium, December 1965, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 876 Lorenzo Bonazzi , [n.p.], 9 June 1967, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 877 Children playing, [n.p.], 12 July 1962, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 877A [Father Clayton?] Portrait, Fort Worth, texas, 1974, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 878 Earl Coverdale , Spirit Lake, Iowa, June 1964, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 879 Meade Crane , Texas, 4 June 1967, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 880 Andrew Dasberg & Robert Ellis , Taos, New Mexico, 1964, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 881 Andrew Dasberg , Taos, New Mexico, 1964/65, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 882 Madame Suzanne Dessertennes , [n.p.] & Denver, 1974, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 883 Father Godfrey Diekmann , [n.p.], August 1965, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 884 Catherine de Hueck Doherty , Combermere, Ontario, 1968, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 885 Nell Dorr , [n.p.], December 1972, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 886 Michael Dunne , [n.p.], 2 November 1974, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 887 P.D. East , [n.p.], 1962, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 888 Brother Emmanuel , Detroit, 1964, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 889 Sister Fleurette, IMS , Los Angeles, CA, 1 July 1964, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 890 Flowers, [n.p.], May 1965, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 891 France, 1960s & 1970s, 4 photograph

Box 36 Folder 892 Anne Freemantle , New York and Texas, 1965-1975, 3 photograph

Box 36 Folder 893 George Galinkin , Mansfield, Texas, 1972, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 894 Maxwell Geismar , [n.p.], 8 June 1962, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 894 Ernesto Tovar , Mexico, 1961, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 895 Maxell Geismar , [n.p.], 1965, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 896 Father George Amanda Griffith's communion mass, [Mansfield, Texas], 1972, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 896 Father Mottet Amanda Griffith's communion mass, [Mansfield, Texas], 1972, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 897 Amanda Griffin , [Mansfield, Texas], 1966-1972, 26 photographs

Box 36 Folder 898-902 Gregory Griffin , [v.p.], 1961-1965, 12 photographs

Box 36 Folder 903 John Howard Griffin Getting haircut, [v.p.], 1974, 3 photographs

Box 36 Folder 904 John Howard Griffin On various t.v. shows, [Mansfield, Texas], October 1974, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 905 John Howard Griffin Humorous mock-entry on Who's Who re sackbut player, [Mansfield, Texas],, 1973 & 1975, 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 906 John Howard Griffin & Dick Gregory , [n.p.], 1973, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 907 John Howard Griffin At Merton's hermitage, [n.p.], 1973, 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 908 John Howard Griffin Taken by Father George, [n.p.], [1967], 1 photograph

Box 36 Folder 909 John Howard Griffin & Antoinette Grunelius Working together on the Gwen John project, Kolbshein, France,, [1967], 6 photographs

Box 36 Folder 909 Chateau and chapel, Kolbshein, France, [1967], 2 photographs

Box 36 Folder 910 John Howard Griffin & Msgr. Brady , Windsor, Ontario, March 1966, 1 photograph

Request Box 37

Box 37 Folder 911 John Howard Griffin At Pacem in Terris Award, Windsor, Ontario, 1968, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 912 & 913 Griffin family (Piedy; Mother; Susan; George; Amanda; and John Howard) in groups, [Mansfield, Texas],, 1963-1966, 10 photographs

Box 37 Folder 914 & 915 Lena Mae Griffin Griffin's mother, [Mansfield, Texas], 1964, 2 photographs

Box 37 Folder 916 Piedy Griffin Griffin's wife, [Mansfield, Texas], 1966/1967, 2 photographs

Box 37 Folder 916 Susan Griffin Griffin's daughter, [Mansfield, Texas], 1967, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 917-920 Susan Griffin Griffin's daughter, [Mansfield, Texas], 1960s and 1970s, 13 photographs

Box 37 Folder 921-924 Dom Bede Griffiths Born December 17, 1906, in Walton on Thames, England; died May 13, 1993, at the small monastic ashram he had headed since 1968, in Tamil Nadu, India. Griffiths' worked to foster ecumenical relations between Christians and Hindus in India. He assisted in the foundation of Kurisumala Ashram, a monastery of the Syrian Rite of the Catholic Church which uses the Syriac language in its prayers and services. Griffiths wore the `kavi' (saffron-coloured) dress of the sannyasi (monk) and used Sanskrit and other Indian languages in the celebration of the Christian liturgy combined with the study of the mystical tradition of Hinduism., [Mansfield, Texas],, 1963/1964, 4 photographs

Box 37 Folder 925 House, interior, [Mansfield, Texas], 1966, 7 photographs

Box 37 Folder 926 Penn Jones Portrait, [Mansfield, Texas], July 1963, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 927 Lili Kraus (with Piedy and John Howard Griffin) Snapshots, [v.p.], 1970s, 4 photographs

Box 37 Folder 928 Halldor Laxness & Corneille Heymans Nobel prizewinners in literature and medicine, Huy, belgium,, December 1965, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 929 Denis Levertov Portrait, [n.p.], [1975], 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 930 Jacques Maritain Portrait and snapshots, [v.p.], 1964-1967, 4 photographs

Box 37 Folder 931 Jacques Maritain et al With Thomas Merton, Father Sullivan and John Howard Griffin, [v.p.],, 1966, 6 photographs

Box 37 Folder 932 Thomas Merton In hermitage, Trappist, KY, [n.d.], 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 933 Merton's hermitage and environment, Trappist, KY, 1972, 6 photographs

Box 37 Folder 934 Thomas Merton With camera in rail yard, KY, 1968, 5 photographs

Box 37 Folder 935 Thomas Merton Portrait, KY, 25 April 1968, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 936 Thomas Merton Reading, KY, 19 March 1963, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 937 Thomas Merton Official portrait by John Howard Griffin, KY, 20 March 1963, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 938 Thomas Merton At the hermitage with John Howard Griffin, KY, 1967, 2 photographs

Box 37 Folder 939 Mexican Joe's living room, [n.p.], February 1968, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 940 Mexico scenery (Santa Maria and Rancho Santo Domingo), [n.p.], 1965 & 1975, 5 photographs

Box 37 Folder 941 Milhaud Trio, Fort Worth, Texas, 8 September 1973, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 942 Monestary of Gethsemani, Trappist, KY, 24 January 1963, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 943 Father Stanley Murphy Portrait, [n.p.], 29 July 1962, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 944 Father Stanley Murphy Celebrating mass in studio of John Howard Griffin, Mansfield, Texas,, 11 July 1966, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 945 Zara Nelsova Zara Nelsova was born in Winnipeg in 1918. Her parents had emigrated from Russia in 1910. Zara made her solo orchestral debut, playing the Lalo Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Malcolm Sargent. After the war Nelsova was able to realize her lifelong ambition of studying with Pablo Casals. In 1955, Nelsova gave a landmark series of recitals for solo cello in London and New York and in 1966, she became the first North American cellist to tour the Soviet Union. Zara was the favorite cellist of Ernest Bloch, who wrote three Solo Suites for her and presided as conductor for her recording of his Schelomo. Samuel Barber also chose her as soloist for a recording of his Cello Concerto, with him conducting. She died in 1995., Minneapolis,, 12 March 1963, 7 photographs

Box 37 Folder 946 Philip Noel-Baker, Dominique Pire, Professor C. Heymans, and H. Laxness Four Nobel Prize Winners, Huy, Belgium,, December 1965, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 947 The Novice, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico, 1961, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 948 Rabbi Joel Orent Portrait, [n.p.], September 1969, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 949 Charles Rector Portrait, [n.p.], 25 March 1968, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 950 Pierre Reverdy Born September 11, 1889, in Narbonne, France; died June 17, 1960. His early poems, Les Epaves du ciel, in 1924, surrealists hailed Reverdy as the greatest living poet. A collection of Reverdy's poetry. Main d'ouvre, was published in 1949, and his poetic theories are explained in his Le Gant de crin, published in 1926. Solesmes, France,, 1946, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 951 Rhein archivist, Rhein, France, 3 November 1961, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 952 Scenery, [n.p.], [1966], 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 953 Don Shoemaker Snapshot with dog, Santa Maria, Morelia, Mexico, September 1965, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 954 Saint Barthelemy's Church, Liege, 1964, 2 photographs

Box 37 Folder 955 Taos Pueblo, N.M., 1964, 2 photographs

Box 37 Folder 956 Father James Thompson Portraits and snapshots, [v.p.], 1963-1975, 5 photographs

Box 37 Folder 957 Father James Thompson's church and environment, Ferriday, LA, 1963, 4 photographs

Box 37 Folder 958 Two nuns (one of Griffin's favorite photographs), [Mexico], 27 July 1963, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 959 Gregory Griffin Photograph of prairie dog, Fort Worth, texas, 18 July 1962, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 960 Gregory Griffin Photograph of harpy eagle, Fort Worth, texas, 18 July 1962, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 961 Father G. Curtsinger Sea shore, [n.p.], [1967], 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 962 Father George Trees, [n.p.], [1967], 3 photographs

Box 37 Folder 963 Joel Orent Photographs of two men, [n.p.], 1975, 2 photographs

Box 37 Folder 964 Ron Sugiyama Girl playing, [n.p.], 1972, 1 photograph

Box 37 Folder 965 Thomas Merton Rocks and water can, [n.p.], 1967, 2 photographs

Request Box 38

Box 38 Alpa Camera, in leather case, inside carrying bag, with additional lens and light meter.

Photographic Material:

8" x 10" prints and contact sheets (Group titles are taken from information written on box lids):

Photographs by Thomas Merton, Prints by Gregory Griffin:

Request Box 39

Box 39 9 Photos taken by Merton, or by others using Merton's camera, during final journey, including photo of Merton and Dalai Lama.

Photographs of Thomas Merton, by John Howard Griffin:

Box 39 35 Photos taken at different times, including photos of Merton teaching, shots made during official portrait session, and made during their excursion to old Gethsemani train station.

Portraits of Thomas Merton in Hermitage, by John Howard Griffin, 1968

Box 39 23 Photos taken during Jacques Maritain's visit to Gethsemani, including inside Hermitage, picnic near Hermitage, Merton with Alpa camera, and Mass said by Thomas Merton for Jacques Maritain

Photographs of Merton Hermitage, by John Howard Griffin:

Box 39 10 Photos labeled on box Merton Hermitage

Photographs of Jacques Maritain, by John Howard Griffin:

Box 39 8 Photos of Jacques Maritain, some including other people.

Photographs of Michoachan, Mexico, by John Howard Griffin, 1960/61 (Views of Mexico):, 1960/61

Box 39 47 Photos, including Janitzio and Velacion de los muertos, with some night scenes

Return of the Spirit, Photographs and Scripted Text, Michoachan, Mexico, by John Howard Griffin, 1961

Box 39 13 Photos mounted on board with captions on front and script on back

Contact Sheets of Merton Portraits/pictures, by John Howard Griffin:

Box 39 27 Contact Sheets and 4 partial sheets, photos made at different times

Box 39 7 Contact Sheets of Thomas Merton's own photographs

Contact Sheets, Later Visits to Gethsemani, by John Howard Griffin

Box 39 8 Contact Sheets and 10 leaves with contact strips grouped by event.

Negatives:

Box 39 14 Envelopes of Negatives, grouped by type or by event. Should be put into inert sleeves

11" x 14" prints (Group titles are taken from information written on box lids):

Photographs by Thomas Merton, Prints by Gregory Griffin

Request Box 40

Box 40 31 Photographs, including a few made on last journey and many meditation photos

Official Portrait of Thomas Merton, by John Howard Griffin, 1963

Box 40 13 Photographs, including official photo, other portraits including photo with Alpa and photo examining contact sheet, 1968 Maritain visit, and gravesite, 1968

Portraits of Jacques Maritain, by John Howard Griffin:

Box 40 19 Photographs, some of other people or including other people in photo

Photographs of Mexico, by John Howard Griffin:

Request Box 41

Box 41 14 Photographs

Photographs of Belgium/Europe '70, by John Howard Griffin:

Box 41 25 Photographs (With envelope of 10 (8 x 10) prints of Belgium photos)

Portraits of Artists and Thinkers, by John Howard Griffin:

Box 41 31 Photographs

Oversize Prints:

Griffin's Studio Portraits, Signed & Dated on Mat Boards:

Request Box 42

Box 42 14 Photographs (sized approx. 16 x 11) including

Box 42 15 Photographs (sized 20 x 16) including Dom Bede Griffith, Zara Nelsova, Lili Kraus, Roland Hayes, John Jacob Niles, Archie Moore

Request Box 43

Box 43 5 Unmounted oversize prints (17 x 14)

Correspondence:

Request Box 44

Box 44 Thomas Merton to Fr. Eudes Bamberger, 9 t.l.s.

(With tag that came back with Thomas Merton's body, and note written by Fr. Bamberger)

Box 44 Thomas Merton to John Howard Griffin, 70 photocopies of letters from, 1962-1968

Correspondence between John Howard Griffin and Brother Patrick Hart: 7 folders, 319 letters (originals, carbons, photocopies):

Box 44 1) 1966-1968 13 letters, 1966-1968

Box 44 2) 1969 62 letters, 1969

Box 44 3) 1970 53 letters, 1970

Box 44 4) 1971 51 letters, 1971

Box 44 5) 1972 40 letters, 1972

Box 44 6) 1973 48 letters, 1973

Box 44 7) 1974-1980 52 letters, 1974-1980

Books and pamphlets:

Request Box 45

Box 45 Assorted books and duplicate pamphlets

2019 Addition:

Request Box 37

Box 37 Uncommon Vison: The Life and Times of John Howard Griffin. DVD by Morgan Atkinson, 2010

(2019.2020.M068)

2023 Addition:

Request Mapcase 15-L-1

Mapcase 15-L-1 Official Portrait of Thomas Merton, KY, 20 March 1963, 1 photograph; In a 14.5" x 18" folder

Request Box 47

Box 47 Portrait of John Howard Griffin, with cigarette, by George Curtsinger, 1975

Box 47 Portraits (2) of Thomas Merton by John Howard Griffin

Box 47 Portrait of Jacques Maritain by John Howard Griffin

Box 47 Portraits (2) of Dwight Dumond by John Howard Griffin

Box 47 Black Like Me photographs (4) by Don Rutledge

Box 47 Robert Bonazzi's Introduction to John Howard Griffin's Scattered Shadows, 2004, 12 pages; Typed manuscript

Box 47 Timeline of John Howard Griffin's Life, 5 pages

Request Box 45

Box 45 Black Like Me Motion Picture lobby cards, 1964, 1 folder; (8 lobby cards)

Request Box 47

Box 47 The Merton Seasonal. Vol. 18, Nos. 3 & 4, Summer-Autumn 1993

Box 47 "Courage & racism" (article on Robert Bonazzi discussing Black Like Me)

Box 47 "Backstory: A John Howard Griffin Revival?", 2004, 5 pages

Box 47 John Howard Griffin bibliography, 5 pages

Box 47 Blurbs for Man in the Mirror by Robert Bonazzi, 3 pages

Box 47 "Vita Nuova" a profile of Robert Bonazzi, 10 pages

Box 47 Press release re. Scattered Shadows

Box 47 Two letters from Robert Bonazzi to Jennifer B. Lee, 19 & 22 February 2004

Box 47 "Encountering John Howard Griffin" by Robert Bonazzi, 6 pages

Collection Overview

Collection Contents

Series I: The Early Years, 1920-1947

Series II: The Devil Rides Outside

Series III: Shorter Writings, 1950s

Series IV: Nuni Street of the Seven Angels Passacaglia

Subseries IV.1: Nuni

Subseries IV.2: The Street of the Seven Angels

Subseries IV.3: Passacaglia

Series V: Land of the High Sky

Series VI: The Decade of the Fifties, 1950s

Series VII: General Correspondence, 1949-1980

Series VIII: Black Like Me

Series IX: Personal Essays and Journalism

Series X: The Church and the Black Man

Series XI. Scattered Shadows and The John Howard Griffin Reader

Series XII. The Decade of the Sixties, 1960s

Sunseries XII.1: General

Subseries XII.2: The Ramparts Interview

Subseries XII.3: Media

Subseries XII.4: Censorship

Subseries XII.5: Painting & Photography

Series XIII: The Thomas Merton File

Subseries XIII.1: General Correspondence

Subseries XIII.2: Merton's Family Members

Subseries XIII.3: Merton's Physicians

Subseries XIII.4: Merton Collections

Subseries XIII.5: Close Friends of Merton

Subseries XIII.6: Asian Contacts

Subseries XIII.7: Friends and Colleagues

Series XIV. A Hidden Wholeness and Follow the Ecstasy

Subseries XIV.1: A Hidden Wholeness

Subseries XIV.2: Follow the Ecstasy: Thomas Merton, The Hemitage Years, 1965-1968

Series XV. The Jacques Maritain Files

Subseries XV.1: General

Subseries XV.2: Literary Matters

Subseries XV.3: The Gwen John Project

Subseries XV.4: The Peasant of Garonne

Subseries XV.5: Jacques Maritain: Homage in Words and Pictures

Series XVI. A Time To Be Human

Series XVII.The Decade of the Seventies, 1970s

Subseries XVII.1: General

Subseries XVII.2: The Sepia Magazine File

Subseries XVII.3: Media

Subseries XVII.4: Correspondence

Subseries XVII.5: The Noonan File

Series XVIII. The Hermitage Journals

Series XIX.The Griffin Journal, 1950-1980

Series XX. Posthumous Papers

Series XXI. Photographs

Series XXII: Photographs by Others

Additions to the Papers, 2017, 2019, 2023