The Thomas Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University

[Manuscript]

(St. Bonaventure University ms.60)
198 p. ; 26 x 20 cm.
[1940?]
Cloth spine, paper cover, composition style notebook ("National" brand), green cover and pages.
86 pages blank.
Text in ink, mainly on right-hand pages, with additional names on facing left-hand pages.
Inside front cover: "Thomas J. Merton. St. Bonaventure. N.Y."
On front cover: "Thomas J. Merton. English Lit. Class".
Subject: Teaching notes on English literature used by Merton for classes at St. Bonaventure College. Towards end of notebook there are 4 pages (inverted) of notes on the common good, government and justice.

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

Described by PJS