The Thomas Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University

[Manuscript]

(St. Bonaventure University ms.55)
200 p. ; 24 x 19 cm.
1938.
Cloth bound, composition style notebook.
102 pages blank.
Text in pencil and ink, mainly on right-hand pages, with additional notes on facing left-hand pages.
Inside front cover: "Thomas Merton. English. Columbia Univ. Summer 1938. 548a West 114^th St."
On spine: "XVIIth CENTURY ENGLISH - 1938 T.M."
Subject: Class notes from Columbia University, English S232, English Literature and the 17^th Century, Summer 1938. Pages 185-6 contain a few notes on documentary films.

Provenance: Presumably given to Fr. Irenaeus Herscher when Merton was preparing to enter the Trappist Order in December of 1941.

Described by PJS