Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.2:

Barth's dream and other conjectures

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  This book might appear at first sight to be a sequel to the Sign of Jonas, a spiritual Journal

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st

Copy Type:  Holograph, typescript, typescript carbon, and printed material with holograph correct

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  368

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as: "Barth's Dream and Other Conjectures. First draft. 1965."

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 2 - Conjectures material II

First Lines:  Karl Barth had a dream about Mozart. Barth, the great Protestant theologian,

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon with holograph notations

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  117

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  6 sections (placed into folders) from an envelope labeled "Conjectures Material II." Title page has "Barth's Dream and Other Conjectures" crossed out. Incorporates changes from earlier draft. Includes essay for "Rain and the Rhinoceros", an essay published in Raids on the Unspeakable.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 3 - Conjectures of a guilty bystander

First Lines:  This book might appear at first sight to be a sequel to the Sign of Jonas, a spiritual Journal

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  3rd

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  no-month no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  432

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Title page has "Barth's Dream and other Conjectures," but each page has "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" at the top. Bound as: "Barth's Dream and Other Conjectures. Draft. 1965."

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)