Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Love and need : is love a package or a message?

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  We speak of "falling in love" as though love were something like water that collects in pools, lakes

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd

Copy Type:  Mimeograph with holograph corrections

Date:  September no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  12

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Contains a number of sections crossed out in pencil. There are a number of notes in pen but not discernably in Merton's handwriting, including a note to ignore pencil marks, a dubious change of date from 1966 (when published) to 1967, and a note that this copy was for Dan Walsh.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 2 - 

First Lines:  We speak of "falling in love" as though love were something like water that collects in pools, lakes

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd

Copy Type:  Xerograph of typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  September no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  12

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Copy from St. Bonaventure University archives.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 3 - 

First Lines:  We speak of "falling in love" as though love were something like water that collects in pools, lakes

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd

Copy Type:  Mimeograph with holograph corrections

Date:  September no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  12

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Contains a number of sections crossed out in pencil. There are a number of notes in pen but not discernably in Merton's handwriting, including a note to ignore pencil marks, a dubious change of date from 1966 (when published) to 1967, and a note that this copy was for Dan Walsh.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 4 - Is Love a Package or a Message?

First Lines:  We speak of falling in love as though love were something like water that can be localized in pools,

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections and additions

Date:  September no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  7

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6