Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.2:

Inner experience, The

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  I A Preliminary Warning. Man in our time, menaced on all sides with ruin, is at the same time

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  125

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as "The inner experience. Second draft. Unpublished." A later draft has subsequently been published.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 2 - 

First Lines:  I A Preliminary Warning. Man in our time, menaced on all sides with ruin, is at the same time

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  3rd Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  151

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as "The inner experience. Third draft. Unpublished." A later draft has subsequently been published.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 3 - 

First Lines:  I A Preliminary Warning. Man in our day, menaced on all sides with ruin, is at the same time beset

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  4th Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  151

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  This draft has now been published. Contains one page of parallel book sections between "The Inner Experience" and "What is Contemplation?".

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 4 - 

First Lines:  I A Preliminary Warning. Man in our day, menaced on all sides with ruin, is at the same time beset

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  4th Draft

Copy Type:  Xerox of typescript with holograph corrections

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  150

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as "The inner experience. Fourth draft. Unpublished." This draft has now been published. (This is a photocopy-- see version in C.2 file box for original.)

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 5 - The dark path

First Lines:  I A Preliminary Warning. Man in our time, menaced on all sides with ruin, is at the same time

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections and additions

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  84

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Bound as "The inner experience. First draft. Unpublished." A later draft has subsequently been published.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)