Thomas Merton papers, 1923-2014

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Series III: Printed Material


Subseries III.1: General



Box 33 Beecher, John. "On Acquiring a Cistercian Breviary" [Poem]


Subseries III.2: Clippings


Box 33 Archibald MscLeish & Lewis Mumford


Box 33 Art Exhibit


Box 33 Gethsemani and other monasteries


Box 33 Father Irenaeus Herscher & St Bonaventure


Box 33 Merton


Box 33 Merton's death


Subseries III.3: Reviews


Box 33 Ascent to Truth


Box 33 Asian Journal


Box 33 Bread in the Wilderness


Box 33 Clement of Alexandria


Box 33 Collected Poems


Box 33 Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander


Box 33 Contemplation on a World of Action


Box 33 Disputed Questions


Box 33 Elected Silence


Box 33 Figures for an Apocalypse


Box 33 A Hidden Wholeness


Box 33 Life and Holiness


Box 33 The Living Bread


Box 33 Love and Living


Box 33 My Argument with the Gestapo


Box 33 Mystics and Zen Masters


Box 33 The New Man


Box 33 No Man is an Island


Box 33 Secular Journal


Box 33 Seeds of Contemplation


Box 33 Seeds of Destruction


Box 33 The Seven Storey Mountain


Box 33 Sign of Jonas


Box 33 The Strange Islands


Box 33 Tears of the Blind Lions


Box 33 Thomas Merton, Monk


Box 33 Thomas Merton on Peace


Box 33 Thomas Merton Reader


Box 33 Waters of Silence


Box 33 Waters of Siloe


Box 33 What Are These Wounds?


Box 33 Zen and the Birds of Appetite


Subseries III.4: Articles, Poems, etc.


Box 33 The Shakers


Box 33 Ed Rice


Box 33 Miscellaneous


Box 33 Lax, Robert "A Poem for Thomas Merton"



Box 34 Merton, Thomas Articles and essays, 3 folders


Box 34 Merton, Thomas "Five Drawings by Thomas Merton"


Box 34 Merton, Thomas "Four Freedom Songs"


Box 34 Merton, Thomas Poems


Box 34 Miscellaneous


Subseries III.5: Offprints



Box 35 The Christmas Sermons of Bl Guerric


Box 35 The Climate of Monastic Prayer


Box 35 Conversatio Morum


Box 35 Examination of Conscience


Box 35 For a Renewal of Eremitism in the Monastic State


Box 35 Liturgical Renewal


Box 35 The Pasternak Affair in Perspective


Box 35 La vida solitaria


Box 35 The Zen Koa


Subseries III.6: Offprints and Articles re. Merton


Box 35 Pamphlets: Miscellaneous, 2 folders


Box 35 Pamphlets: The Monk in the Diaspora


Box 35 Pamphlets: Thomas Merton Books, Fall 1988, Catalog


Box 35 Pamphlets: Two Articles by Thomas Merton


Box 35 Columbia Yearbook, 1937, Tearsheets


Box 35 "The Jester", Tearsheets


Box 35 Vespers Funeral Mass & Burial Mass for Thomas Merton


Subseries III.7: Books and Oral History



Box 36 Books by Merton and others


Box 36 Victor Kramer's "Thomas Merton Oral History"



Box 37 Translations of books by Thomas Merton



Box 38 Translations of books by Thomas Merton



Box 39 Translations of books by Thomas Merton



Box 40 Translations of books by Thomas Merton