Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.3:

Thoughts in solitude

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created as supremely valuable in the eyes

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript and typescript carbon with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Excerpt typescript with Merton's corrections and corrected carbon.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 2 - 

First Lines:  AUTHOR'S NOTE. These scattered paragraphs can scarcely be dignified by the name of "Meditations"

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript and typescript carbon with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Merton's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 3 - 

First Lines:  AUTHOR'S NOTE Those who have been indulgent enough to find something that interested them in Seeds

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof with holograph corrections and typescript additions

Date:  no-month no-day, 1958?

Number of pages:  41

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Printer or publisher's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 4 - 

First Lines:  AUTHOR'S NOTE Those who have been indulgent enough to find something that interested them in Seeds

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, 1958?

Number of pages:  40

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Printer or publisher's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 5 - Thirty-Seven Meditations

First Lines:  After the notebook had been written and set aside for several years, the project of its publication

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript and typescript carbon with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  One page typescript about "Thirty-Seven Meditations" with Merton's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 6 - Thirty-seven meditations

First Lines:  THIRTY-SEVEN MEDITATIONS PART TWO THE STRANGE ISLANDS [strikethrough] The Love of Solitude

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:  Title page and chapter title pages with Merton's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)