File 848-1, 848-2 - Publishers: Miscellaneous

5.0 cm of textual records

File consists of business correspondence, arranged alphabetically from publishers not assigned individual files.
A.R.T. - regarding printing Heart Speaks to Heart in Dutch
Abbey Press - regarding Alive Now including copies of parts of Nouwen's talks (presented at the Scarritt-Bennett Center in 1991) titled "The Spiritual Life" and "Living Under God's Blessing"
Auf Atmen - letter from January 11, 1996, requesting permission to reprint the article "Moving from solitude to community to ministry." German magazine.
Berry Publishing Services, Inc. - letter from May 8, 1995, from Carol Schuck Scheiber, Managing Editor, Vision, requesting permission from Christian Classics to reprint a section of Clowning in Rome in the 1996 edition of Vision magazine.
Christianity Today - letter from Laurie Dieffenbach, Editorial Assistant, on behalf of Christianity Today, from November 17, 1995, forwarding Nouwen an address of a man that wished to contact him
Citadel - a brochure
Cowley Publications - regarding the foreword Nouwen wrote to the book Is God Deaf?
Creative Communications - regarding a book ordered for Nouwen
Eagle Publisher - regarding A Seven Day Retreat with Thomas Merton (removed to file 101-800a)
Fides - photocopies of a catalogue featuring advertisements for Nouwen's books in French, and books published by Bellarmin
Focus: Ireland - letter to Kathy Christie from Sr. Stanislaus Kennedy, President, Focus: Ireland (motto: "Creating responses to homelessness in Ireland"), thanking Christie's help in securing Nouwen's permission to use his writings in the upcoming Focus publication
Franz-Sales-Verlag - regarding Nouwen writing a book about Francis de Sales
Gleneida Publishing Group Inc. - correspondence with Patricia Kossman concerning Clowning in Rome
Goeringer, Howard - regarding using a prayer from A Cry for Mercy in the next issue of the Jesus Journal
Granada Television - regarding permission sought to quote from Seeds of Hope: A Henri Nouwen Reader in the religious program Meditations
Japanophile - letter from Vada L. Davis, Business Manager, Japanophile magazine (Okemos, MI), from February 23, 1995, enclosing a copy of the Fall 1994 issue of Japanophile on behalf of Olga K. Mendell of Buffalo, NY. Includes subscription information and advertisements for the publication
JEBA Literature Service - regarding permission to translate The Way of the Heart and or In the Name of Jesus into Tamil
Julie Brown - regarding printing the booklet The Peace That is Not of This World
Koechel Peterson & Associates - correspondence in 1996 regarding reprinting an excerpt from Letter of Consolation in a book by Hugh Hewitt, "Searching for God in America" (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1996, pp. 443-446)
Ligouri Publications - regarding asking Nouwen to say a few words about the book Yielding
Massachusetts Bible Society - an order form for "Seven Mountains"
Mision Abierta - letter from Bonifacio Fernandez Garcia, Director, Mision Abierta magazine, from October 25, 1995, requesting permission and information from Nouwen to reprint an excerpt from the Spanish edition of Here and Now [Aqui y Ahora. Viviendo en el Espiritu. Madrid: San Pablo Edition] in the Mision Abierta magazine in January 1996.
Rosebank Bible College - a thank you note for letting them reprint the article "Adam's Peace" in their College periodical R.B.C. Link
St. Paul Books & Media - letter from Sr. M. Lorraine, FSP, Assistant Editor, from December 1, 1994, facsimile requesting that Nouwen write an endorsement for a book "God and your Personality" by Dr. Dan Montgomery. Includes a summary of the book and a resume for Montgomery.
Signs of the Time - regarding permission granted to reprint his article about Adam in their magazine
Simon & Schuster - regarding Nouwen's comments on Wayne Muller's book
Sophia Institute Press - advertising brochure and request to write preface for a book by Romano Guardini, entitled Meditations before Mass. Included is a copy of the original English publication of the book [this was added to the file on May 21, 2010, as it was misfiled in Collected Materials series]. Nouwen did write the foreword to the book.
St. Thomas Aquinas - advertising brochures
Spiritual Life - regarding a request for Nouwen to write an article for the magazine
SPCK - regarding an endorsement for SPCK Book of Christian Prayer
The Christian Reader - regarding reprinting Nouwen's article on Adam
The Other Side - regarding a request to use Nouwen's writings
The Word Among Us - regarding a request for Nouwen to write and article
The Thomas More Association - regarding Nouwen's cassettes
The Thomas More Book Club - regarding the sale of Nouwen's book "Who will mourn, who will dance" using the Thomas More Book Club (TMBC newsletter) in March 1995.
Thomas More Book Shop -regarding Nouwen's book dealing with the mentally handicapped
Traditional Acupuncture Foundation - request to publish the lecture The Peace That is Not of This World
Triangle Books - letter from Naomi Starkey, Commissioning Editor, from December 6, 1995, asking Nouwen to write a foreword for a book "The Priesthood of the Poor"
Triumph Books (Liguorian Publications) - regarding endorsements for books
Viking Penguin - regarding Nouwen's quote on Chris de Vinck's book
Vision Magazine - regarding a check for an article
Walker and Company - letter from Theresa M. D'Orsogna, Large Print Books, from December 6, 1994, asking Nouwen if he would read a reprint edition of, "The Life of the Soul" by Samuel Miller and give a comment for the back cover
Westminster John Knox Press - regarding a foreword for Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson and an endorsement for Know My Name: A Gay Liberation Theology
World Vision Magazine - regarding Nouwen's address The Peace That is Not of This World
Xavier Society of the Blind - regarding the braille, large print and tape editions of In the Name of Jesus and Beyond the Mirror
which they produced.
Yes International Publishers - request for an endorsement of Christin Lore Weber's book Circle of Mysteries
Zajkes, Peter - request to translate A Peace that is not of this World and Circles of Love into Hungarian language
Zondervan Publishing House - endorsement for Martha Stout's Without Child: The Sorrow of Infertility
Zvon Ceske Katolicke - regarding the translation of Nouwen's Jesus: Sinn meines Lebens, Briefe an Mark into the Czech language.

No reproduction of this material without permission of the Archivist.

• English
• Dutch

See Henri Nouwen fonds - Published works - Books contributed to by Nouwen - item 2375 for copy of "Meditations Before Mass" by Romano Guardini, with forward by Nouwen (Sophia Institute Press).

No publication of this material, in whole or in part, without the permission of the Literary Executrix.

The documents are mostly in English with some Dutch.

File #1 is from A - S ; file #2 is from T - Z.

Added by L Joson, 10 September 2018