The Thomas Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University

Described by Paul J. Spaeth

2 sheets ; 22 x 15 x 29.5 x 15 cm.

The poems are: Night Train, Dark Morning, Poem: 1941, a Dirge.

Edition: Poetry 60 (April 1942) p. 20-23.

[Proof sheets]

leaves 11-62; 22 x 17 cm.

Edition: "Is the contemplative Life finished?" in Monastic Studies 7 (September 1969) p. 11-62.

[Proof sheet]

[1] leaf ; 27 x 20.5 cm.

Handwritten in blue ink:

Sheet is stamped in black:

Sheet is stamped in red:

In this file is also the envelope in which the proof was sent to the magazine, and a letter to Fr. Irenaeus Herscher from "Joe W." at the magazine which accompanied the proof coming to the Archives here (dated 2/4/64).

[Proof sheets]

13 sheets ; 60.5 x 18 cm.

Edition: "The Christian in the Diaspora" in Seeds of Destruction. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1964. P. 184-220.

[Proof sheets]

6 sheets ; 60.5 x 20.5 cm.

Edition: "In Silentio" in Silence in Heaven. New York: Studio Publications, 1956. P. 17-30.

[Proof sheet]

14 sheets ; 63.5 x 15 cm.

Marked on top of each sheet in large, boldface letters: "Jubilee," along with the page numbers.

Edition: "The Tower of Babel" in Jubilee 3/6 (October 1955) p. 20-35 [later in The Strange Islands. New York: New Directions, 1957. P. 43-78].