Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.3:
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Item 1 -
First Lines: Author's Note As soon as the reader has penetrated to the substance of this book, he will understand
Sub-Type: Proof sheets
Draft:
Copy Type: Page proofs
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 215
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Includes front cover art. Accession from Gethsemani Abbey, December 2013.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 2 -
First Lines: [..] manuscript reached the publication stage in a mann totally unexpected, not because of his
Sub-Type: Proof sheets
Draft:
Copy Type: Page proofs (incomplete)
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 206
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Identical to other full set of pages proofs (215 pages), but missing cover and first nine pages of Author's Note, begins on roman numeral x. Includes front cover art. Accession from Gethsemani Abbey, December 2013.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 3 -
First Lines: [..]tions, visions, ecstasies, and other extraordinary experiences can quite easily be supernatural.
Sub-Type: Proof sheets
Draft:
Copy Type: Page proofs (fragment)
Date: no-month no-day, 1951
Number of pages: 9
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 4 -
First Lines: PART THREE THE WAY TO CONTEMPLATION. In the opening lines of his Spiritual Canticle,* St John
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 77
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Fragment of manuscript (part three) with holograph corrections by Merton and other editorial corrections. Donated in September of 2005 by Robert Giroux.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 5 -
First Lines: The Truth man needs is God Himself. But God is never really known unless He is also loved.
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft: 1st
Copy Type: Holograph and typescript
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 355
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: First draft of manuscript with Merton's corrections and other editorial changes. Donated in September of 2005 by Robert Giroux.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 6 - Biographical Note (appendix material)
First Lines: Biographical Notes (The theological writers named and quoted in the course of this volume are,
Sub-Type: Proof sheets
Draft:
Copy Type: Galley proof
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 6
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Includes galley page numbers, 103-108. Accession from Gethsemani Abbey, December 2013.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 7 - Fire cloud and darkness 2. [Fire, cloud and darkness - The Cloud and the fire]
First Lines: outline Part 1- Doctrine and Experience-- Religion must be seen as a whole-- not merely
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon and mimeograph with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 348
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Early draft of "Ascent to Truth" with minor editorial corrections not by Merton. Donated in September of 2005 by Robert Giroux.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 8 - Sources
First Lines: PROLOGUE 1. C. G. Jung,
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company
Sub-Type: Proof sheets
Draft:
Copy Type: Galley proof
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 3
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: On pink paper. Accession from Gethsemani Abbey, December 2013.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 9 - The cloud and the fire
First Lines: For a Christian, the ascent to contemplation means something more than an intense ascetic
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon and mimeograph with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, no-year
Number of pages: 121
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Early draft of "Ascent to Truth" with minor holograph corrections by Merton. Donated in September of 2005 by Robert Giroux.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)