The Thomas Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University

[Manuscript]

(St. Bonaventure University ms.53)
198 p. ; 26 x 20 cm.
[1938]
Cloth spine, paper cover, composition style notebook ("National" brand).
83 pages blank.
Text in pencil and ink (a few small sketches), mainly on right-hand pages, with additional notes on facing left-hand pages.
Inside front cover: "Tom Merton. Eighteenth Century (1^st Half)"
On front cover: "Virginia 3-9093"
Subject: Class notes from Columbia University, English 234, English Literature in the 18^th Century, Spring 1938.

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

Described by PJS