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
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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.]
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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