Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Principia. Notes.

Item 1 - [01]

First Lines:  Basic thought- your own salvation comes first. St Bern. De Consideratione - II.3. 1. A te tua

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  January 03, 1946

Number of pages:  51

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Black notebook. Date of January 3, 1946 appears toward the end. Notes in English and Latin. A number of pages torn throughout.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 2 - [02]

First Lines:  Liturgical. S. Leo - sacramentary. S. Gelasius. PL. LXXIV. -1049. Liber

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Verso: fragment of a handwritten letter from February 26, 1943, author and recipient unknown, but mention of John Paul Merton.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 3 - [03]

First Lines:  Rev. Father [-] Feb. 2, 1906 - Sol. Prof. [-Feb] 6, -35 - Elected Abbot [-Feb] 18, -35 installed

Sub-Type:  Notes

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Chronology of the lives of Dom Frederic Dunne, Dom Robert McGann, and Dom Vital Klinski.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 4 - [04]

First Lines:  Seymour is in India. [..cut off..] see him. Says it's only a fifteen [..cut off..] Chicken-

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Loose page, torn on one side, which includes a handwritten note in pencil from "Bob," likely Robert Lax. Verso: notes regarding Jacque Paul Migne's monastic history and other notes.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6