Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Ten poems of Alfonso Cortés. Translation.

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  -1- SPACE SONG The distance that lies from here To some star that never existed Because God has

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  3rd

Copy Type:  Xerograph of typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  5

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Typed page different from 2nd draft and matches mimeograph in Sub-Section D.2, but with holograph corrections by Merton in "Space Song" (corrections not used in published poem). Original from Harvard's Houghton Library.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 2 - Poems of Alfonso Cortes

First Lines:  1- SPACE SONG The distance that lies from here To some star that never existed Because God has

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  5

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a

Item 3 - Translations [-] Alfonso Cortes

First Lines:  Space Song. What The distance that lies from here To some star that never existed

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st

Copy Type:  Holograph

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  10

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6a