The Thomas Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University
Mimeographs and Photocopies
Described by Paul J. Spaeth
Action and Contemplation – in St. Bernard
[Mimeograph]
12 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation over the title reads: "The Scholasticate. Abbey of Gethsemani. Texts from the Cistercian Fathers. n.4."
Adaptation of the Monastic Life: Some Personal Observations (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 7 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Marked: "Strictly Confidential". Dated September 1964. Another version listed in Breit/Daggy no.2.9.
Aids to Mental Prayer
[Mimeograph]
3 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (2 copies)
The Answer of Minerva: Pacifism and Resistance in Simone Weil
[Mimeograph]
[1] 9 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Anthology of Irish Poetry (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 23 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Dated September 1964.
Auschwitz: A Family Camp (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 13 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: August 1967. Notation on cover sheet: "For Peace News".
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Baptism in the Forest: Wisdom and Initiation in William Faulkner (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 27 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: January 1967. "Introductory essay to the Book Mansions of the Spirit, ed. by George Panichas". Has some corrections made in pencil.
Basic Principles of Monastic Spirituality (1955)
[Mimeograph]
[2] 18 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Handwritten inscription: "+ to Frank & [------] dell’Isola, with every blessing. fr. M Louis"
Blessed are the Meek: The Roots of Christian Non-Violence (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 22 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: January 1966.
Blessed are the Meek: The Roots of Christian Nonviolence
[Photocopy of proof sheet]
[15] p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Buddhism and the Modern World (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 7 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: July 1966. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton tone Collection (1 copy)
Camus and the Catholic Church (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 17 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: August 1966. Archives has 3 copies (one copy reproduced single-sided, two copies double-sided).
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Camus: Journals of the Plague Years (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 15 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: April 1967. Notation on cover sheet: "For Sewanee Review".
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Christian Action in World Crisis
[Mimeograph]
[1] 10 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
The Christian and the World (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 4 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Notation on cover sheet: Conferences. 1966. Abbey of Gethsemani.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Christian Humanism (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 14 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: May 1966. Notation on cover sheet: "for the Journal Do Brasil". Archives has 3 copies (two copies reproduced double-sided, one copy single-sided with some manuscript corrections).
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Christianity and Marxism. Necessity for Dialogue
[Mimeograph]
[1] 7 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Christianity and Marxism. The Gospel for Atheists
[Mimeograph]
[1] 9 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet reads: "THE CHRISTIAN & THE MODERN WORLD. IV. Christianity & Marxism - (continued.) 'The Gospel for Atheists'''. Title at head of text is just: "Christianity and Marxism". Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Christianity and Marxism. What is Marxism?
[Mimeograph]
[1] 10 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet reads: "CHRISTIANITY AND MARXISM (continued) WHAT IS MARXISM?". Title at head of text is just: What is Marxism?". Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
A Christian Looks at Zen (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 25 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: July 1966. Archives has 2 copies. Notation on cover sheet: "Introduction to The Golden Age of Zen by John C.H. Wu".
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Christian Worship and Social Reform
[Mimeograph]
[1] 14 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "not for publication".
Christianity and Race in the U.S.
[Mimeograph]
[1] 20 cm. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
The Climate of Mercy: For Albert Schweitzer (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 15 p. x 21.5 cm.
Dated on cover sheet: April 1964. Archives has 4 copies; 3 have an extra p.8, and 1 of those contains editorial markings in pencil.
Edition: "the Climate of Mercy" in The Cord 15 (April 1965) p.89-96.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
The Climate of Monastic Prayer (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 18 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "Abbey of Gethsemani Novitiate". Contains editorial markings in pencil on first few pages.
The Climate of Monastic Prayer (1965)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[59] leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"Revised edition, October, 1965". Archives has 2 copies (one with orange covers and single-sided, the other with no covers and printed double-sided).
Cold War Letters
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
6 [1] 1-18 [1] 19-42, 43/44, 45-85, 85, 87-121, 123-180 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Following 6 page preface there is a title sheet which reads: "Cold War Letters (Strictly confidential. Not for publication.)". Yellow covers.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Cold War Letters (with editorial markings)
[Mimeograph]
see above entry
There are 2 each of text pages 1-47 with heavy editorial markings on each page. Pages 48-180 have only single pages. At end is the 3 page item: "Notes for a Statement on Aid to Civilian War Victims in Vietnam". All pages have edge holes to accommodate a comb binding. On the first title page the words of the title are underlined in blue ink, along with a notation saying: "(Strictly confidential. Not for publication.)", which is crossed out in blue ink.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Come to the Mountain: New Ways and Living Traditions in the Monastic Life (1964)
[Mimeograph]
23 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Place name given: St. Benedict’s Cistercian Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado. Imprimatur at end of text by the Archbishop of Denver, and dated November 29, 1964.
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (1965)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[2] 83 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Orange covers. Archives has 2 copies.
One copy has handwritten note: "This is original material of Truth & Violence. Maybe some things you would want to use, not found elsewhere. T."
Contemplation and Ecumenism (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 13 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Notation on cover sheet: "For Season". Dated May 1965.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
The Contemplative and the Atheist (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 12 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: October 1967. Archives has 3 copies (one copy has editorial markings in pencil).
The Council and Monasticism (1965)
[Mimeograph]
22 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated March 1965.
Edition: "The Council and Religious Life" in New Blackfriars 47 (Oct. 1965) p.5-17.
Conversatio Morum (1964)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 22 p. x 28 x 21.5 cm.
"Expanded from a talk given October 6th, 1964, North American Novice Masters’ Meeting"
D. T. Suzuki: The Man and His Work (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 6 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: August 1966. On cover sheet, quote from Albert Camus in French. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Danger Signals; Points for the Examination of Conscience
[Mimeograph]
5 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
In upper left hand corner, written in Merton’s hand, it reads: Return to Fr. Master. Also written in is a subtitle after Danger Signals which reads: Or The Instruments of Bad Works. A draft version listed in Breit/Daggy no.2.244.
The Death of God and the End of History (1967)
[Mimeograph]
1] 12 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: March 1967. Notation on cover sheet: "For Theoria to Theory".
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Dialog and Renewal in the Contemplative Life
[Photocopy of typescript]
[1] 15 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "for Spiritual Life" (crossed out). Editorial markings made on original.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Dialogue about the Hidden God. Nicholas of Cusa
[Mimeograph]
7 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Translated by Merton.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection
Edition: "Dialogue about the Hidden God by Nicholas of Cusa" in Lugano Review 1
(Summer 1966) p.67-70.
Ecumenism and Monastic Renewal (1967)
[Photocopy of typescript)
[1] 17 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: November 1967. Notation on cover sheet: "For Journal of Ecumenical Studies". Editorial markings made on original.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Events and Pseudo-Events: Letter to a Southern Churchman (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 20 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "For Katallagete". Dated February 1966. Rubber stamped: "Not
for publication".
Examination of Conscience and Conversatio Morum (1963)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 25 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Yellow covers.
An Exchange of Letters on Monastic Questions: Br. M. Louis O.C.S.O., Ronald
Roloff O.S.B. (1962)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 30 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Tan covers.
Faith and Violence
[Photocopy of typescript]
30 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Contains text of the preface and first 4 chapters (missing page 7 in chapter 1).
Edition: Faith and Violence. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame, 1968.
Faulkner and His Critics (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 9 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies (one copy reproduced double-sided, one copy single-sided). Notation on cover sheet: "For The Critic". Date on cover sheet: February 1967.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
The Feast of Freedom: Monastic Formation According to Adam of Perseigne
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
21 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Light brown covers.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Five Important Books
[Photocopy]
2 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Contains a manuscript note on the second page. A listing of 5 books of the year for Catholic Book Annual with paragraph length comments on each. The books are The Future of Belief by Leslie Dewart, Nationalism and American Catholicism by Dorothy Dohen, Consequences, Truth and …by Daniel Berrigan, The Airtight Cage by Joseph Lyford, The Essays of A. J. Muste.
For a Renewal of Eremitism in the Monastic State (1965)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 39 [8] p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
February 1965. Yellow covers. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
A Foreword to Marcel and Buddha (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 7 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Date on cover sheet: January 1967.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Forty – Three Signatures: An Exhibit of Drawings
[Mimeograph]
[1] 5 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. One copy is inscribed to Fr. Irenaeus Herscher with a short note.
Franciscan Eremetism (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 9 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated June 1966. "For The Cord". Archives has 2 copies (one double sided and one sided). Single sided copy has handwritten note in red ink: "not corrected".
From Pilgrimage to Crusade (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 18 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: August 1964.
Honest to God: Letter to a Radical Anglican (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 13 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies.
Edition: "The Honest to God Debate: Demythologizing Bishop Robinson" in
Commonweal 80 (August 21, 1964) p.573-578.
The Humanity of Christ in Monastic prayer (1963)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 23, 3 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies (one copy has handwritten notation: "This has appeared in a magazine of our own which no Franciscan would [------] However it is not Franciscan at all"). Archives has 2 copies. Red covers.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Identity Crisis and Monastic Vocation (1964)
[Mimeograph, with comb binding]
[1] 32 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies (one copy has handwritten notation: "Why not select some pertinent passages from this??")
Identity Crisis and Monastic Vocation (1964)
[Photocopy of typescript]
[1] 32 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: October 1964. Editorial markings on original.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
An Introduction to Christian Mysticism: From the Apostolic Fathers to the Council of Trent (1961)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[2] 7, 170 [1] 4, 4 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"Lectures given at the Abbey of Gethsemani". Archives has 2 copies (one with brown covers and one with light green covers).
An Introduction to Cistercian Theology
[Mimeograph]
[5] 79 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"Lectures given to the Scholastics in the Cistercian Abbey of Gethsemani"
Is The Contemplative Life Finished? (1967)
[1] 64 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: October 1967. Notation on cover sheet: "Notes from Taped Conferences".
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Is the World a Problem (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 16 pages ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet with title, date (April 1966) and notation: "For The Commonweal." Archives has 3 copies. One copy has a photocopied title sheet and editorial corrections in pencil throughout.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Edition: "Is the World a Problem?: Ambiguities in the Secular" in Commonweal 84 (June
3, 1966) p.305-309.
Isaac of Stella: An Introduction
[Mimeograph]
[1] 11 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Title at the head of first page of text: "Isaac of Stella. Introduction to Selections from the Sermons of Isaac of Stella." Archives has 2 copies.
Ishi: A Meditation (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 8 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Notation on cover sheet: "For The Catholic Worker". Date on cover sheet: February 1967.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
The Jesuits in China
[Mimeograph]
10 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Contains handwritten corrections by Merton.
Edition: "The Jesuits in China: The Case of the Chinese Rites and the Vernacular" in
Jubilee 10 (September 1962) p.35-38.
Learning to Live (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 10 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: July 1967.
Lectures on Cassian (1955-1956)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 1-18a, 18b-53 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet with title and notation: "Choir Novitiate, Abbey of Gethsemani." Additional copies of pages 41-52.
A Letter of St. Anselm on Stability (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 10 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet with title and date. A draft version listed in Breit/Daggy no.2.541.
Liturgical Feasts and Seasons
[Mimeograph]
2 pts. (pt.1 [1] iv, 116 leaves ; pt.2 [1] iv, 95 leaves) ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"Conferences given in the Choir Novitiate. Abbey of Gethsemani" Archives has 3 copies of pt.1 and 1 copy of pt.2. One of the copies of pt.1 has handwritten notation: "ad usum Fr. Louis"
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Love and Need. Is Love a Package or a Message? (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 12 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated September 1966. Archives has 2 copies (one double sided, one single sided). Double sided copy has handwritten correction in red ink.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (correction copy).
Edition: "A Buyer's Market for Love?" in Ave Maria 104 (December 24, 1969) p. 7-10, 27.
Love and Solitude (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 10 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet contains title and date (March – April 1966). An earlier version was written as the preface for the Japanese version of Thoughts in Solitude (1966). Archives has 3 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Edition: "Love and Solitude" in Critic 25 (Oct.-Nov. 1966) p.31-37.
The Machine Gun in the Fallout Shelter
[Mimeograph]
5 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Inscribed in blue ink: " + cordially Fr. Louis".
A Martyr for Peace and Unity: Father Max Josef Metzger (1887-1944)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 6 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
The Mature Conscience
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
7, 5 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Light brown covers. Includes: Appendix to the Vows. The Statement of the American Bishops on the Need for Personal Responsibility (November, 1960).
The Meaning of Malcolm X (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 7 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: May 1967. Notation on cover sheet: "For Continuum".
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection
Memorandum: On Monastic Renewal (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 5 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies.
Modern Biographical Sketches of Cistercian Blessed and Saints (1954)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 317 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"Edited by a Monk of Gethsemani". At head of title: "Cistercian Studies Book IV". Inscribed to Frank dell’Isola by Merton.
Monastic Orientation [Series II] 1951
[Mimeograph]
[85] leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"Notes of conferences given to the scholastics at the Abbey of Gethsemani, during the year 1951."
Monastic Orientation. Series III. Advent 1951 – August 1952
[Mimeograph]
[2] iv, 14+8 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"These are the notes of the regualr weekly conferences given in the scholasticate of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky. Pro Manuscripto"
Monastic Orientation. Series IV. September 1952 – November 1953
[Mimeograph]
[1] iv [1] 151 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Monastic Orientation. Series V. 1953-Advent-1954. Marian Year.
[Mimeograph]
[1] iv, 152 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. One copy inscribed: "+ With best wishes. Fr. M. Louis Merton."
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Monastic Renewal: Problems and Prospects (1967)
[Photocopy of typescript]
[1] 26 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: January 1967. Corrections made on original.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Monastic Vocation and the Background of Modern Secular Thought (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 16 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies; one reproduced with single leaves and the other double sided. Cover sheet has date: October 1964.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Edition: "Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought" in Monastic Studies 4 (Advent 1966)
p.17-54.
The Monk in the Diaspora (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 15 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Title at head of text: The Monk in Rahner’s Diaspora. Date on cover sheet: January 1964. Archives has 2 copies.
One copy has handwritten note: + Naomi, I have sent this to The Commonweal – Don’t know if they will want it. Best wishes, Tom
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
The Mystery of the Church
[Mimeograph]
[1] 12 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Page 3 is blank in the Archive copy.
Edition: "Church and Bishop" in Worship 37 (January 1963) p.110-120.
The Name of the Lord (1963)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 14 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies.
A New Christian Consciousness? (1967)
[1] 11 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies. Date on cover sheet: February 1967.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
News of the Joyce Industry (1968)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 15 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: July 1968. Notation on cover sheet: "For The Sewanee Review".
No Man is an Island.
Preface to Vietnamese Translation (1966)
[Photocopy of typescript]
4 p. : 28 x 21.5 cm.
Translation was published in 1967 (Breit/Daggy no.1.67T). Archives has 2 copies.
Edition: "Preface to the Vietnamese Edition of No Man is an Island" in Introductions
East and West. Greensboro, NC: Unicorn Press, 1981. p.99-106.
Notes on Art and Worship
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] ii, 65 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Green covers.
Notes on Sacred Art (1954)
[Mimeograph]
[2] 30 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"Conferences given to the Scholastics. Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky. October and November 1954" Archives has 2 copies; one of which is inscribed by Merton to Fr. Irenaeus Herscher.
Note on Vatican II Pastoral. Const: Gaudium et Spes. Art 18.
[Mimeograph]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. At end of text it reads: "For Catholic Action Federations-720 N. Rush St.-Chicago 60611."
Notes for a Statement on Aid to Civilian War Victims in Vietnam (1967)
[Mimeograph]
3 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated at end of text: February 22, 1967.
Notes on Genesis (1956/57)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 78 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "Choir Novitiate – Gethsemani". Archives has 2 copies; one is bound, the other has handwritten note: + To Naomi – with all Good wishes & blessings – In our Lord Jesus Christ. Tom."
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Orthodoxy and the World (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 15 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet contains title, date (August 1965) and notation: "A review for Monastic Studies. Handwritten note on cover reads:
"Dear Naomi, This is one of the extra pieces I sent to Bob for Mystics & ZM. I think it is appropriate. The other, on zen will follow. Blessing in Our Lord. Tom."
Edition: "Orthodoxy and the World" in Monastic Studies 4 (Advent 1966) p.105-115.
The Other Side of Despair: Notes on Christian Existentialism (1965)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 27 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"For The Critic". July 1965. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Pasternak’s Letters to Georgian Friends (1968)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 9 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: January 1968.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection
Peace and Protest (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 5 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies. Date on cover sheet: November 1965.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Peace and Revolution (1968)
[Photocopy of typescript]
[1] 8 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
On cover sheet notation reads: "For Pax Conference, Tivoli, 1968." Subtitle on first page of text reads: "A Footnote from Ulysses." Photocopied handwritten notation at end of text reads: "Abbey of Gethsemani. July 16, 1968."
Edition: "Peace and Revolution: A Footnote from Ulysses" in Peace 3 (Fall/Winter
1968/69) p.4-10.
Peace in the Post Christian Era
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 138 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Tan covers.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
[Poem] Epitaph for a Public Servant (In Memorium – Adolf Eichmann)
[Mimeograph]
5 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
[Poem] First Lesson About Man
[Mimeograph]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
[Poem] Hopeless and Felons
[Mimeograph]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
[Poem] The Great Men of Former Times
[Photocopy of typescript]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Text in double columns.
[Poem] Man the Master (1965)
[Mimeograph]
4 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated at end of text: July 1965. Archives has 4 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
[Poem] The Night of Destiny
[Mimeograph]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies.
[Poem] Paper Cranes (The Hibakusha Come to Gethsemani)
[Mimeograph]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies.
[Poem] Prayer to Saint Anatole
[Mimeograph]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
[Poem] A Song from the Geography of Lograire
[Mimeograph]
2 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
[Poem] A Tune for Festive Dances in the Nineteen Sixties
[Mimeograph]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
[Poem] With the World in My Blood Stream (1966)
[Mimeograph]
2 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated at end of text: April 1966. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Poems of Nicanor Parra (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 8 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
After title, cover sheet reads: "Translated by Thomas Merton from Versos de Salon, by Nicanor Parra, Santiago, Chile, 1962." Dated March 1965.
The Poorer Means: A Meditation on Ways to Unity (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 8 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: April 23, 1965 (Feast of St. George). Archives has 3 copies. Copies 1 and 2 have cover sheet and are reproduced double sided. Copy 3 lacks cover sheet, is reproduced one sided and has extensive editorial markings throughout.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection
Pre Benedictine Monasticism. Series I. Rufinus, Cassian, St. Pachomius. St. Basil etc. (1963)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 96 cm. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies.Tan covers
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Pre Benedictine Monasticism. Series II. Syria, Persia, and Palestine (1964)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[2] 87 ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies (2nd copy stapled instead of bound). Green covers.
Preface to The Lotus in the Sea of Fire by T. Nhat Hanh
[Mimeograph]
6 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Preface to Regamey’s Non-Violence and Christian Conscience (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 11 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated on cover sheet: July 1965. Notation on cover sheet: "For Herder and Herder".
Prophetic Ambiguities: Milton and Camus (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 10 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "For the Saturday Review". Dated Oct. 1966. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Edition: "Can We Survive Nihilism?: Satan, Milton and Camus" in Saturday Review 50
(April 15, 1967) p.16-19.
Raphael Alberti and His Angels (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 6 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: Dec. 1966. Also on cover is notation: "For Continuum". Archives has 4 copies; one of which has a handwritten New Year greeting, another has some minor corrections in red ink.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Renewal in Monastic Education
[Photocopy of typescript]
9 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Editorial markings on original.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
A Ruler’s Examination of Conscience: Some Texts from Francois Fenelon
[Mimeograph]
[1] 14 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies; one reproduced double sided, the other in single leaves and lacking a cover sheet.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection
The Sacred City (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 17 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: October 1967.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
St. Anselm & His Argument (1963)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 18 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Red covers. "Note: This review article is occasioned by the appearance of two important books: Dom David Knowles The Evolution of Medieval Thought … and R. W. Southern St. Anselm and His Biographer …"
St. Bernard on Contemplation (1952)
[Mimeograph]
1 leaf ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation over the title reads: "The Scholasticate. Abbey of Gethsemani. Texts from the Cistercian Fathers. n.5." Date written in ink in upper left hand corner.
St. Maximus the Confessor on Non-Violence (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 10 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: July 1965. Archives has 4 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Sanctity in the Epistles of St. Paul (1954)
[Mimeograph]
[2] iv, 85, 26 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Includes copy of the Scripture exam for the text on blue paper (36 x 21.5 cm.)
Schema Thirteen: An Open Letter to the American Hierarchy (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 8 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet dated July 1965. Archives has 3 copies. One of the copies is somewhat discolored and is inscribed by Merton with a handwritten note in French.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Edition: "An Open Letter to the American Hierarchy: Schema XIII and the Modern
World" in Worldview 8 (Sept. 1965) p.4-7.
Seeds of Contemplation. Preface to the Japanese Edition (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 10 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet dated: March 1965. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
[Seeds of Destruction. British Edition]
Redeeming the Time. Preface (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 11 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: January 1965.
A Sermon of Isaac of Stella (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 16 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
The introduction (p.1-6) is by Merton, while the translation (Sermon 18: First Sermon for Sexagesima Sunday. Migne PL 149, col.1749- ) is by Sister Penelope CSMV. Notation on cover sheet: "For Monastic Studies". Dated January 1966. Rubber stamped: "Not for Publication".
The Seven Storey Mountain. Preface to the Japanese Edition
[Mimeograph]
5 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies.
Seven Words: For Ned O’Gorman (1966)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 39 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Red covers. Has handwritten note: "Naomi -- I wrote this for a friend who is editing an incomprehensible project at Random House – this is contributed to some vast collection of ‘thoughts’ by all sorts of people. You can look at it & throw away. Ok? Tom."
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
The Shoshoneans (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 9 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "For The Catholic Worker". Date on cover sheet: May 1967.
The Solitary Life (1967)
[Mimeograph]
6 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation at end of text: "Tape to Savannah Carmel".
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Some Poems of Raissa Maritan
[Typescript]
[1] 10 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Translated by Merton. Inscription on cover sheet reads: "+ with best-wishes-in Christ, T. Merton"
The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Ammonas
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
35 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Blue covers.
The Spiritual Father in the Desert Tradition (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 29 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies (one copy stamped: "Not for Publication"). Date on cover sheet: February 1966.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
The Spiritual Father in the Desert Tradition (1966)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 29 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated February 1966. Red covers. Handwritten inscription: "for Naomi - with all best wishes, Tom".
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
The Stranger: Poverty of an Anti-Hero (1968)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 15 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated on cover sheet: March 1968. Notation on cover sheet: "For Unicorn Review". Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Symbolism – Communication or Communion? (1965)
[Mimeograph, with plastic comb binding]
[1] 29 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
"For The Mountain Path – India". June 1965. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Target Equals City
[Mimeograph]
[1] 12 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies; one copy has handwritten notation on cover sheet.
Technology
[Mimeograph]
[1] 7 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Cover sheet reads: "II TECHNOLOGY". Archives has 2 copies. May go along with Christianity and Marxism titles on this list.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Teilhard's Gamble (1967)
[Photocopy of typescript]
[1] 7 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "For The Commonweal". Date on cover sheet: July 1967.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Terror and the Absurd: Violence and Non-Violence in Albert Camus (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 29 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies. Dated August 1966.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Edition: "Terror and the Absurd: Violence and Non-Violence in Albert Camus" in Motive
29 (February 1969) p.4-15.
Three Saviors (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 21 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Date on cover sheet: September 1966.
To the Editors of The Commonweal
[Mimeograph]
2 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
The Tragedy of Father Perrin (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 8 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date at end of text: April 1964.
The True Legendary Sound: The Poetry and Criticism of Edwin Muir (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 9 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 2 copies. Notation on cover sheet: "For Sewanee Review". Date on cover sheet: September 1966.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Twelve Poems of Fernando Pessoa (1965)
[Mimeograph]
8 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Translated from Portuguese. Dated February 1965.
Archives has 2 copies. Copy 1 has handwritten inscription: "Congratulations you have been unanimously appointed to lead world-wide movement for redress of work-shy element Brodsky."
Varieties of Unbelief: A Review (1964)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 5 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: December 1964. Archives has 2 copies.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
War and Vision: The Autobiography of a Crow Indian (1967)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 8 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Date on cover sheet: October 1967.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
The Way of Perfection
[Mimeograph]
13, 5 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
At the end is included a text titled: The Church’s Questionnaire on Perfection.
Who is Nat Turner
[Photocopy of typescript]
11 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
Wilderness and Paradise (1966)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 9 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Archives has 3 copies (two copies reproduced double-sided, one copy single-sided). Notation on cover sheet: "For Cistercian Studies". Date on cover sheet: November 1966.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy).
Zen Buddhist Monasticism (1965)
[Mimeograph]
[1] 28 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Dated July 1965. Archives has 2 copies.
Notation on cover sheet: "For the Collectanea". Article appeared in translation in the French journal Collectanea Cisterciensia (v.29, 1967, p.132-150).
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection (1 copy)
Edition: "Zen Buddhist Monasticism" in Mystics and Zen Masters. New York: Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 1967. p.215-234.
Zen Catholicism: Dom Aelred Graham’s Suggestion
[Mimeograph]
[1] 4 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Edition: "Zen Sense and Sensibility" in America 108 (May 25, 1963) p.752-754.
Zukofsky: The Paradise Ear (1966)
[Photocopy of typescript]
[1] 8 leaves ; 28 x 21.5 cm.
Notation on cover sheet: "A Review for the Critic". Date on cover sheet: November 1966.
Provenance: Naomi Burton Stone Collection.
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