Thomas Merton papers, 1923-2014

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Series I: Cataloged Material


Subseries I.1: Correspondence



Box 1 Berrigan, Daniel


Box 1 Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980


Box 1 Huxley, Aldous


Box 1 Laughlin, James


Box 1 Lax, Robert


Box 1 McDonell, Tom


Box 1 Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973


Box 1 Merton, Thomas:


To Edward Rice, Cuba & St. Bonaventure, NY , April 1940 - 24 Feb. 1941 , 3 t.l.s.


To Joe, St. Bonaventure, NY, 10 Sept. 1941, 1 t.l.s.; (Carbon copy)


To Robert Lax, St. Bonaventure College & Trappist, KY , n.d. & 24 Sept. 1941 - 27 Nov. 1949 , 3 t.l.s.


To Francis Sweeney, Trappist, KY, 3 Dec. 1946 - 28 Oct. 1953 , I a.l.s.; 5 t.l.s.; (photocopies)


To Sr. Therese Lentfoehr, Trappist KY & Darjeeling, India 1 t.p.c.s. 18 a.l.s. 20 a.n.s. 1 a.n. 9 a.p.c.s. , 1948-1968 & nd , 170 t.l.s.; 11 postcards; 18 a.l.s.; 20 a.n.s.



Box 3 Ocampo, Victoria, 1891-


Box 3 Rice, Edward E.1918-


Box 3 Shannon, William H.


Box 3 Smith, Grover Cleveland, 1923-


Box 3 Somoza, Luis A.


Box 3 Van Doren, Mark


Box 3 Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966


Subseries I.2: Manuscripts



Box 4 Berrigan, Daniel


Box 4 Cortes, Alfonso


Box 4 Lax, Robert


Box 4 Lentfoehr, Sister Thérèse


Box 4 MA Political Action for Peace


Thomas Merton Manuscripts:


Box 4 A:


Box 4 Abelard (Gethsemani, KY, n.d.] a.ms., 13 p. (notes)


Box 4 Absurdity in sacred decoration [Gethsemani, KY, n.d.] t.ms., 7p. (with autograph corrections)


Box 4 Adam of Perseigne [Gethsemani, KY, n.d.] t.ms., lp. (notes)


Box 4 Adaptation of the Monastic Life: Some Personal Observations Trappist, KY, Sept. 1964 t.ms., 8p. Mimeograph copy.


Box 4 Admonitio quadragesimalis, ad delectum... (Gethsemani, KY, ca. 1954] t.ms.,s., lp. (Latin admonition)


Box 4 [Advent] [Trappist, KY], 1963 a.ms., 6p. (notes)



Box 5 B-Ch



Box 6 Ci-Conj.



Box 7 Conj.-E



Box 8 F-I



Box 9 J-L



Box 10 Ma-Mystic



Box 11 Mystics-Ne



Box 12 Ni-Notes of



Box 13 Notes on-Po



Box 14 Poo-Re



Box 15 Ri-Sec



Box 16 See-Sign



Box 17 Signed-Third



Box 18 Thirty-War



Box 19 Wat-Z


Box 19 Pennington, Basil


Box 19 Pessoa, Fernando


Subseries I.3: Documents


Box 19 Artists and Writers for Hughes


Subseries I.4: Photographs



Box 20 Berrigan, Daniel


Box 20 Dalai Lama


Box 20 Griffin, John Howard


Box 20 Lax, Robert


Box 20 Maritain, Jacques


Box 20 Merton, Thomas


Box 20 Rice, Edward E.


Box 20 Sheen, Fulton John, 1895-


Box 20 Van Doren, Mark


Box 20 Walsh, Daniel


Subseries I.5: Art



Mapcase 13/8/6 Antonucci, Emil


Mapcase 13/8/6 Hammer, Victor Photograph of his portrait of Merton


Mapcase 13/8/6 Merton, Owen Art, 4 oversize watercolors

[Three shelved in the Map Case, the fourth is hanging in the Vault ]


Subseries I.6: Audio-Visual


Mapcase 13/8/6 Gray, Richard The Poems of Thomas Merton Read by Richard Grey , New York: Spirit Records, [n.d.], 1record album



Box 20 Stewart, Bruce Me and My Shadow, [Bristol], 1989, 1 Audio cassette

[Radio play on the life of Thomas Merton; accompanying t.l.s. from John Stanley]