Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.3:
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Item 1 -
First Lines: V Sacred Simplicity
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript correspondence and list of illustrations for this section of book black and white photographs
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 55
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Letter from Marie Frost of New York's Museum of Modern Art to Eloise Spaeth, dated 2 November 1960; list of illustrations for "Sacred Simplicity" section; and 53 photos of various sizes.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 2 -
First Lines: Notes on sacred art / THOMAS MERTON The renaissance was an age of great art: an age
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Dummy mock-up with cover, illustrations and print samples (incomplete text)
Date: no-month no-day, 1959?
Number of pages: 9
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 3 -
First Lines: [..]naissance was an age of great art: an age in which the most famous of artists devoted all
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Dummy mock-up with cover, illustrations and print samples (incomplete text)
Date: no-month no-day, 1959?
Number of pages: 7
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Reduced-sized dummy edition - Merton mentions it was created by Edward Rice on first page of 17-page galley.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 4 -
First Lines: IV
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Page layout sheets for illustrations
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 4
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 5 -
First Lines: III Brazil
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Page layout sheets for illustrations and black and white photographs
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 48
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: 3 pages of layout sheets and 45 photographs, mainly 25 x 21 cm.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 6 -
First Lines: Section I
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Page layout sheets for illustrations
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 9
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 7 -
First Lines: [..]naissance was an age of great art: an age in which the most famous of artists devoted all
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Dummy mock-up with cover, illustrations and print samples (incomplete text)
Date: no-month no-day, 1959?
Number of pages: 7
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Merton mentions this dummy edition was created by Edward Rice on first page of 17-page galley.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 8 -
First Lines:
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Photographs (black and white and color art print reproductions)
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 103
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Illustrations for "Art and Worship". They range in sizes from smaller images attached to boards (36 items, boards 42 x 24 cm), photographs (34 items, roughly 26 x 20 cm), postcards and postcard sized photographs (24 items, 15 x 10 cm - includes postcard from Carolyn and Victor Hammer of 1957), and small photographs and holy cards (9 items, 12 x 7 cm).
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 9 -
First Lines: II
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Page layout sheets for illustrations
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 13
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 10 -
First Lines: PREFACE Some people may think that art matters very little. On the contrary, if we stop
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Galley proof with holograph corrections and additions
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 17
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Handwritten corrections and additions by Merton.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 11 -
First Lines: Art & Worship by Thomas Merton Much interest and much confusion have been aroused by modern
Sub-Type: Miscellaneous
Draft:
Copy Type: Printed material
Date: no-month no-day, 1959?
Number of pages: 1
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: 2 copies - advertisements and order form for the book to be published by the Abbey of Gethsemani.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 12 - Insert Galley 2, after line 11.
First Lines: Man the image of God has a vocation not only to rule and exploit the world, but to transform it
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Thermofax of typescript with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 4
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Accession from Gethsemani Abbey, December 2014.
Location: Archive - File Cabinet 8
Item 13 - Notes on art and worship by Thomas Merton
First Lines: PREFACE "There may well be Christian cobblers" says Rudolf Bultmann, "but there is no Christian
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Mimeograph of typescript with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 79
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Spiral bound with handwritten corrections by Merton, new preface, and an inserted chapter on "The Vatican Council and Sacred Art." Donated by Robert Giroux to the Thomas Merton Center in September of 2005.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 14 - Notes on art and worship by Thomas Merton
First Lines: PREFACE If we stop to consider the totalitarian movements and other forces of the new barbarism
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Mimeograph of typescript with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 67
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Spiral bound copy used by Eloise Spaeth with her handwritten corrections (see Section A: Correspondence for her biography and correspondence with Merton). Donated by Robert Giroux to the Thomas Merton Center in September of 2005.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 15 - Notes on Merton Material.
First Lines: Bad Merton; no vitality, even the usual stunning phraseology is lacking. The first two paragraphs
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 3
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Eloise Spaeth's notes on Merton's "Art and Worship" with her own corrections (see Section A: Correspondence for her biography and correspondence with Merton). Donated by Robert Giroux to the Thomas Merton Center in September of 2005.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)