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1967 Western datebook, The. Notes (printed material with holograph notations).
Action and contemplation in St. Bernard
Adoration of the shepherds (Merton drawing used for cover art)
Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167
Aids to mental prayer
Alaska and California schedule notes, 1968 [found in book with marginalia].
Alaska conferences. Notes.
Angel and the machine, The
Angel, The
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Answer of Minerva, The : pacifism and resistance in Simone Weil
Art and morality
Art of prayer, The : an Orthodox anthology; compiled by Igumen Chariton of Valamo. Notes.
Articles etc. in the Oakhamian (by Thomas Merton).
Asian notes: October 15 to December 7, 1968. Transcribed from holographic journals.
Attente dans le silence, L' : le père Marie-Joseph Cassant, O. Cist. S. O., by Etienne Chenevière. Preface.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Aujourd'hui le Bouddhisme, by Thich Nhât Hanh. Notes.
Auschwitz : a family camp
Bantu philosophy, by Placide Tempels. Notes.
Barthes, Roland. Notes.
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
Benedictine monasticism. Notes.
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
Blessed Angela of Foligno. Notes.
Blessed are the meek : the roots of Christian non-violence
Blessed Guerric : Easter sermons. Notes.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945. Notes.
Book list - titles
Book of pictures (preliminary plan). I. e., Gethsemani : a life of praise.
Buddhism and the modern world
Call to contemplation, The. Notes.
Camus. Notes.
Cargo : notes for a talk on Cargo [Cargo cults]
Carrera Andrade, Jorge, 1903-1978. Notes and translations.
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566
Cassian and the Fathers
Cassiodorus, Senator, ca. 487-ca. 580. Notes.
Catch of anti-letters, A; by Thomas Merton and Robert Lax
Catherine of Siena (drawing)
Catholic conscience, The. Notes.
Cells. Notes.
Centered on faith : an excerpt (from a letter of Thomas Merton to Abdul Aziz, January 2, 1966)
Chadwick, Nora K. Notes on Poetry and prophecy.
Christ lives today. Script for a film shown at the Vatican Pavilion - New York world's fair.
Christ the king. Notes.
Christ, sacrement de la rencontre de Dieu, Le; by Edward Schillebeeckx
Christian and Oriental philosophy of art, by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. Notes.
Christian humanism
Christian learning. Notes.
Christian looks at Zen, A. Introduction to The golden age of Zen, by Jingxiong Wu (John C. H. Wu).
Christianisme Russe, by Divo Barsotti. Review.
Christianity : post-Hiroshima. Outline.
Christianity and Marxism. Necessity for dialogue.
Christianity and Zen. Notes.
Christmas homily 1963
Christmas sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny, The
Church is Christ alive in the world, The. Script for a film shown at the Vatican Pavilion - New York world's fair.
Church. Notes.
Cistercian history. Notes [with other notes, see detailed view].
City in history, The; by Lewis Mumford. Notes.
Classicism in Faulkner's The bear and The wild palms. Notes.
Classicism in literature. Lecture notes.
Come to the mountain : new ways and living traditions in the monastic life
Commonweal, to the editors of the
Communist centralism. Notes.
Community. Notes.
Conference notes (various)
Contemplation and ecumenism
Contemplation et vie contemplative selon Platon, by André Marie Jean Festugière. Notes.
Contemplation. Notes.
Conversatio morum. Expanded from a talk given October 6, 1964, North American Novice Masters' Meeting.
Correspondence : note on Joyce's Ulysses (letter to the editor of the Sewanee Review)
Curriculum vitae
Days of awe, by Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Excerpts.
Death of God and the end of history, The
Death of Roger LaPorte (copies from the Catholic Peace Fellowship records)
Delp, Alfred
Dialog with Buddhism. Notes.
Dialogues I, by Anselm of Havelberg, Texte latin, note préliminaire, traduction, notes et appendice par le P. Gaston Salet, S.J. Review and notes.
Discipline. Notes.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Notes.
Drawings (various published drawings)
Early monasticism [Theoria physike / Theoria physica, "Notes and Sentences," and Return to Paradise]
East Harlem book
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373
Epictetus
Epiphany sermon - 1955
Eremitism. Comment on L'Eremetisme a la Catalunya Nova, by Eufemià Fort I Cogul.
Essence in mysticism. Notes.
Eucharist. Notes.
Evaluation of his own books. 1967.
Examination of conscience and conversatio morum
Excerpts from various thinkers: Buber, Gill, Mumford, Suzuki, Gandhi, Haessle, Jewish spirituality, etc.
Exercises to help bring the body under control of the spirit
Exile ends in glory; the life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O.C.S.O.
Exodus. Notes. 1957-1958
Faith
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715
Final conference to novices
Five drawings by Thomas Merton
Five important books for Catholic book annual. Reviews.
Five limericks for Father Raymond languishing in St. Joseph's Infirmary
Footnotes to an article [mentions John Cassian, Homilies of Gregory the Great, Leo the Great, and Bede]
For the Hibakusha. Notes.
Francis, de Sales, Saint, 1567-1622
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Franciscan eremitism
Freedom and authority. Notes.
From the Abbey of Gethsemani : letter to Lorraine Karpowich
Gallo Roman monasticism, Cassian and the background to the Rule of St. Benedict. Notes for conferences, Choir Novitiate.
Genesis. Notes.
Gethsemani customs (dormitory rules, clothing and supplies, bathing and shaving)
Gethsemani spire
Grace the seed of glory. Notes for a conference.
Guigo the Carthusian. Comment on "Le meditationes del Beato Guigo Certosino," by Maria Elena Cristofolini.
Happiness. Notes.
Hebrew thought. Notes.
Herman's ladder. Notes.
Hermits of the 11th century, The. Notes.
Hermit's preferences, A
History of the Cistercian order
Holiness of God, The. Notes.
Holy Week, 1964. Notes.
Homily on prayer and our priestly vocation. Notes.
Hope. Notes for a conference.
Hot summer of 1967, The
House of prayer, The. Notes.
Humanism and holiness. Notes.
Humanity and divinity of Christ. Notes.
In acceptance of the Pax Medal - 1963
In face of death [ABC-TV presents, Directions '63: A Catholic perspective]
Inventory of manuscripts, notebooks etc. April 1967.
Ionesco, Eugène
Irish at court of Charlemagne. Notes, based on Louis Gougaud.
Is the world a problem?
Isaac of Stella. Notes.
Isaias [notes on the Book of Isaiah]
It all goes together, by Eric Gill. Extracts.
Jacob's war
Jan van Ruysbroeck, 1293-1381. Notes.
John of the Cross, Saint, 1542-1591
John, Abbot of Ford. Notes on Wulfric of Haselbury, by John, Abbot of Ford; edited with introduction and notes by Dom Maurice Bell.
John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, d. 1180
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971
Kireevskii, Ivan Vasilevich, 1806-1856
Knowledge of God in the Old Testament. Conference notes.
Laatste dag van Thomas Merton, De ("The Last Day of Thomas Merton": script from Dutch film)
Lectures on Cassian : for Choir Novitiate, 1955-1956 (earlier version of Cassian and the Fathers, Part II)
Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich, 1870-1924
Lenten practices
Letter of St. Anselm on stability, A
Letter of Thomas Merton, A [to James Edmund Magner, Jr.]
Letter on solitude and community, A; [to Dom André Louf]
Letter to a young activist
Letter to Margaret Randall de Mondragon concerning Cuban poets, May 1967
Letters of Thomas Merton to the editors of Collectanea, 1953-1968
Life at Gethsemani
List of books by Thomas Merton
Liste de travaux. Soumise a l'approbation des RR. PP. Capitulaires, O.C.S.O., Citeaux, Mai, 1946.
Literary currents in Hispanic America, by Pedro Henríquez Ureña. Notes.
Liturgical feasts and seasons. Conferences given in the Choir Novitiate, Gethsemani Abbey.
Liturgy and social concern. Notes.
Liturgy notes (choir novitiate)
Living bread, The. Notes by Naomi Burton Stone and Rev. Wilfred Thibodeau, S. S. S.
Lookout tower agreement or lease [Fire tower]
Loretto tape. Notes.
Mabillon and Rancé. Notes.
Makhlouf, Sharbel, Saint, 1828-1898
Mallorca eremitica, by un Ermitano
Mariale of Adam of Perseigne, The : Our Lady and the hidden life
Marxism and contemplative life. Notes.
Mass communications, by Wilbur Hugh Ferry and Harry Scott Ashmore. Notes.
Material for a book of essays
Material for retreat conferences : profession, minor orders, major orders. Given at the Scholasticate, Abbey of Gethsemani, 1951-1955.
Maximus, of Turin, Saint, 4th/5th cent.
Meaning of history, The; by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdiaev. Notes.
Meeting at Gethsemani. December 4-7, 1967. [Contemplative religious women, Sr. Elaine Bane, O.S.F. and others]
Memo on chapter of faults
Memo: concerning my will and testament
Memo: ideas to be incorporated somewhere in Trust arrangements, regarding use of manuscript material
Merton on community (notes on Marshall McLuhan). Transcript of audio recording.
Merton's views on non-violence
Message of contemplatives to the modern world
Meyer, Dennis, Fr., O.C.S.O. Notes for a eulogy.
Milton. Notes. 1966.
Miscellaneous notes, 1961.
Monastic formation and novitiate programs
Monastic formation; junior professed choir monks. A memorandum.
Monastic life, The [conference]
Monastic renewal : problems and prospects (for Ed Rice)
Monastic rule. Notes.
Monastic situation, The. Notes.
Monastic spirituality. Notes.
Monastic theology of St. Aelred, The
Monasticism in a revolutionary world. Notes.
Monks pond
More volans aquilae, verbo petit astra Ioannes [woodcut of quote from C. Sedulius (5th cen.)]
Mount Olivet retreat house, a proposal for; by Arthur N. BecVar
My reasons for asking exemption from combatant duty in the army, Under Selective Service law of 1940
Mystery of the presentation. Notes.
Mystical theology of Saint Bernard, The; by Étienne Gilson. Marginalia transcribed from book.
Mystics and Zen masters
Mystique of the Soviet fatherland. Notes.
Nada [note and drawing]
Nativity gospels. Notes.
Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973
New man, The. Japanese.
New notes on art for novitiate conferences. Summer 1964.
Niles-Merton song cycles
No man is an island. Vietnamese. (Khong ai là mot hòn dáo). Translated into Vietnamese by Thanh-Bang.
Non-violence. Notes.
Note on spiritual direction in Sufism, A
Notes for a paper delivered at Calcutta, October 1968
Notes for an exhibit of drawings
Notes for Bangkok talk
Notes for essay. 1965.
Notes for projects that were not carried out
Notes for some talks on poetry
Notes on Fr. Vincent de Paul Merle and the Abbey of Petit Clairvaux, Nova Scotia
Novitiate reading list. 1963.
Nuclear war and Christian responsibility
Obedience. Notes.
Obstacles to rasa. Notes.
Official hymn of the 36th International Eucharistic Congress [Rio de Janeiro, 1955]
Oikonomia and deification
Old Testament. Notes. Gerhard von Rad.
Opening the Bible. Introduction to the Time Life Bible.
Openness and cloister
Oriental, etc. Notes.
Orientation : back to Paradise
Origin of Russian communism, The; by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Berdiaev. Excerpts.
Other side of despair, The : notes on Christian existentialism
Our monastic observances
Pachomius, Saint
Pacifism
Paraguay missions
Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978
Peace and revolution : a footnote from Ulysses (for Pax conference, Tivoli, 1968)
Peace book. Notes.
Perpetual daily adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament among the secular priests, The
Personal schedule (Fr. Louis) for hermitage, 1965; and Daily schedule (1943-1949)
Philoxenus of Mabbugh. Notes.
Photography of Thomas Merton (various articles and catalogues)
Pieces for a liturgical anthology. Notes.
Plato, The laws. Notes.
Poem written under an archway in a discontinued station, Fargo, N. D., A; by James Wright. Notes.
Poor Clares. Notes [for a conference]
Poverty. Conference notes.
Prayer from The New Man.
Prayer of youth in choosing a state of life
Prayer to the Most Holy and Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, A
Prayer, draft of a
Prayer. Notes on tape.
Prayer. Notes.
Primer of non-violence
Principia. Notes.
Progress and tradition. Points for talks.
Proposal for improving the theological curriculum, Gethsemani Seminary - 1950
Radio script based on Merton's writings
Raids on the unspeakable
Readings on the modern world : compiled for novice masters, O.C.S.O.
Remarks on silence and recollection
Renewal of hermit life within the religious state. Notes.
Responding to poverty [part of a pamphlet series by the United States Catholic Conference]
Resurrection homily
Retort (Spring 1967). Cover drawing by Thomas Merton.
Revision de vie. Conference notes.
Rhinoceros, by Eugene Ionesco. Notes.
Road ahead, The. Needlepoint kit.
Road back to God, The : Lenten reflections on the meaning of life and faith
Rule of St. Benedict, The
Run to the mountain : four more journal entries
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx and the Cistercians
Sales figures for various books
Sanctity in the epistles of St. Paul. Scriptural course, Abbey of Gethsemani.
Schedule of Fr. M. Louis. Ca. 1950.
Schedule of work days, Sundays, and feast days at Gethsemani Abbey choir noviate (ca. 1963)
Scripture and the Cistercian (scripture conference, 1951)
Seeds of destruction
Selections from the Institutes of John Cassian, Abbot of Marseilles (a Gethsemani translation)
Selections on prayer : from the writings of saints and men of prayer, fifth to the twentieth centuries. 1959.
Selections on prayer. Compiled by Thomas Merton. Gethsemani, 1961.
Seminar conferences, translations, etc.
Seraphim von Sarow, by Valentine Zander
Sermon for Dedication of Church - 1951
Sign of Jonas, The
Signatures and autographs
Silent life, The
Socialistic education in Mexico (1938-1940). Notes on Covering the Mexican front, by Betty Kirk.
Solitary life. Notes.
Some guidelines for monastic hermits
Spiritual father in Christian monastic tradition, The
Spiritual roots of protest, The. Retreat, November 1964. Notes.
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Starter questions. Notes.
State of letters, The : a letter from Thomas Merton
Statement on University of Kentucky degree
Stranger, The : poverty of an anti-hero
Sufism. Notes.
Suggestions for the prayer of the faithful
Symbolism : communication or communion?
Syrian monastic rules. Notes.
Talk of Father Louis to novices and postulants. Loretto. May 15, 1963. Transcribed from a tape.
Talks on Rilke (Fall-Winter 1965)
Technology and hope
Tetragrammaton. Notes.
Theological basis of the monastic ideal. Notes.
Theology of hope. Notes.
Theology of prayer. Notes.
This holy time (A pastorale) / Nancy Telfer; texts by Thomas Merton and Howard Thurman
Thomas Merton's New Mexico photographs
Thomas, R. S. (Ronald Stuart), 1913-2000
Thoughts in solitude. Preface to the Japanese edition. Nihon gohan e no jobun; Kodoku no naka no shisaku/ Translated into Japanese by Yasuwo Kikama.
Three prayers : written for Frank Kacmarcik [concerning the vocation of sacred artist, iconographer, or architect of religious spaces]
Three saviors in Camus : lucidity and the absurd
Time and the liturgy
Today we live. Script for a film shown at the Vatican Pavilion - New York world's fair.
Tom's book : to Granny with Tom's best love 1916
Transmission by guru. Notes.
True legendary sound, The : the poetry and criticism of Edwin Muir. Review of Collected poems, Estate of poetry, and Essays on literature and society.
Two photographs
Unpublished aphorisms
Unquiet conscience, The / by Pietro Bargellini ; translated by Thomas Merton
Upanishads. Notes.
Vatican Pavilion : New York World's Fair, 1964-1965
Vietnam : lotus in a sea of fire, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Vita monastica = vita apostolica. Conference notes.
Waning of the visual, The; by Harley Parker
What are these wounds? : The life of a Cistercian mystic, Saint Lutgarde of Aywières
Who is Nat Turner? Review of The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron.
Wild places, The. Review of Wilderness and the American mind, by Roderick Nash.
William Congdon. Notes.
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?
Windows of Bourges, The. Notes on St. William of Bourges.
Workshop given at Precious Blood Monastery in Alaska
Zen and existentialism. Notes on Zen Buddhism, selected writings of D. T. Suzuki; edited by William Barrett.
Zen and the birds of appetite
Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis, by D. T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, and Richard DeMartino
Zen. Notes.
 

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