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This Sub-Section includes Merton Legacy Trust material and correspondence. The Trust is Merton's artistic estate and was established by him a year before his death in 1967. In doing so, he named Bellarmine as the official repository for his works. The Trust handles copyright permissions for non-published works, sets restrictions on access to materials, and negotiates usage rights with publishers.
Materials from 1967 through the late 1990s were sent by Anne McCormick (primarily) and James Laughlin with the Merton Legacy Trust to the Abbey of Gethsemani. The bulk of boxes were labelled Alfred A. Knopf (McCormick's firm), others were labelled New Directions (James Laughlin's firm), and a small number from the early 2000s were files sent from McCormick to the Thomas Merton Center.
There was not a discernable original order as many envellopes and stacks of papers were stacked in boxes in a random order. The files were arranged by envellope or series of papers in a chronological sequencing.
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