Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Monastic vocation and modern thought

Item 1 - Insert 3 p. 24, after line 21 and substitute this insert for all the rest of section 5.

First Lines:  Yet there does remain one urgent and serious question. Does not the co [sic] called "identity

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  Insert 3

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Corrected.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 2 - Insert 3 p. 24, after line 21 and substitute this insert for all the rest of section 5.

First Lines:  Yet there does remain one urgent and serious question. Does not the co [sic] called "identity

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  Insert 3

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Uncorrected.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 3 - INSERTS. Monastic Vocation and Modern Man. INSERT 1 p. 10, after first paragraph.

First Lines:  . . and responsibility to his fellow man. The Marxian idea of human dignity is, whether we realize

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  Insert 1 and 2

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections and additions

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Title holograph page with verso notes and double-sided typed page.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 4 - INSERTS. Monastic Vocation and Modern Man. INSERT 1 p. 10, after first paragraph.

First Lines:  . . and responsibility to his fellow man. The Marxian idea of human dignity is, whether we realize

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  Insert 1 and 2

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Uncorrected double-sided typed page.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 5 - Monastic Vocation and the Background of Modern Secular Thought

First Lines:  To what extent are the vocation problems of novices and monks the result of a conflict between

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd

Copy Type:  Typescript and mimeograph with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966?

Number of pages:  36

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Merton's corrections and major additions. Page count includes inserts to 18 numbered pages.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 6 - Monastic Vocation and Modern Man. INSERT 2a p. 23, after line 24. ' .. to seek solutions'

First Lines:  certainly our life is full of real problems, some of them perhaps without solutions. It would

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  Insert 2a

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  1 double-sided page of holograph notes.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 7 - Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought

First Lines:  To what extent are the vocation problems of novices and monks the result of a conflict between

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  3rd

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  33

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Retyped from Merton's revisions with handwritten corrections (not Merton's corrections?).

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 8 - Monastic Vocation and the Background of Modern Secular Thought

First Lines:  To what extent are the problems of novices and monks the result of a conflict between "modern

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st

Copy Type:  Xerograph of typescript

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966?

Number of pages:  8

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Uncorrected version under earlier title.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6