Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.2:
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Item 1 - [Folder 01-01] The Supereminent Life by Benet of Canfield [-] Selections from the Third Part
First Lines: 1. The Essential will of God is all spirit and life, clear, abstract and pure of itself, divided
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 22
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 2 - [Folder 02-01] Benet of Canfield on the Supereminent Life (Selections from Part III of his Rule of
First Lines: This Essential will is all spirit and life, clear, abstract and pure of itself, divided
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 42
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 3 - [Folder 03-01] THE RULE OF PERFECTION Containing A BRIEF AND PERSPICUOUS ABRIDGMENT
First Lines: Having well considered the diversity of ways, and multitudes of exercises found out and practised by
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 133
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 4 - [Folder 04-01] The Rules of Perfection of the Interior (Will of God) Containing The Contemplative
First Lines: The Second Part [-] What is the Interior Will of God and wherein it differenth from the Exterior.
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 40
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 5 - [Folder 05-01]
First Lines: To the devout religious English women of the convent of S. Ursul at Lovayn, and of S.Benet
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 2
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 6 - [Folder 05-02] To the Devout Religious English-women of the Convent of St. Ursula at Louvain,
First Lines: Devout sisters in Christ, and dear cousins. Many years have passed since this book was dedicated
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 2
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 7 - [Folder 05-03] To the Reader.
First Lines: Gentle Reader, there is a certaine book intitled the Method to serve God in Latin, French and
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 1
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Text cuts off / incomplete.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 8 - [Folder 05-04] Approbations of this Rule of Perfection
First Lines: As well in Latin by the very words wherein they were written, as also in English that so it may pass
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 5
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 9 - [Folder 06-01] THE THIRD PART OF THE RULE OF PERFECTION OF THE ESSENTIAL WILL OF GOD
First Lines: Now having finished what we had to say of the first two parts, Exterior and Interior, comprising
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 164
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 10 - [Folder 07-01] Benoit de Canfield - Rule of Perfection - Texts - 2 versions A and B
First Lines: A. shorter, without references, before 1593. Parts I and II in A were touched up in 1608
Sub-Type: Notes
Draft:
Copy Type: Holograph
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 8
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 11 - [Folder 08-01] PART II. INTERIOR WILL OF GOD.
First Lines: The sould has prepared itself for the contemplative life or interior life by the active life with
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 12
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 12 - [Folder 08-02]
First Lines: Dear Fr. Louis, with some trepidation I send you my introductory section on the "Active Life."
Sub-Type: Correspondence
Draft:
Copy Type: Xerograph of holograph and printed material
Date: September 15, 1961
Number of pages: 2
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Original letter from Etta Gullick to Merton transferred to Gullick correspondence file. Also contains the contents page from
Blackfriars, October 1959 (Vol. 60, No. 475).
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 13 - [Folder 08-03] PART I. THE ACTIVE LIFE.
First Lines: The first part of the Rule of Perfection sets forth a thorough-going ascetic programme
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 8
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 14 - [Folder 09-01] BENET OF CANFIELD ON THE SUPEREMINENT LIFE (Selections from Part III
First Lines: This Essential will is all spirit and life, clear, abstract and pure of itself, divided
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon with holograph corrections
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 39
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 15 - [Folder 10-01] The Supereminent Life by Benet of Canfield [-] Selections from the Third Part
First Lines: 1. The Essential will of God is all spirit and life, clear, abstract and pure of itself, divided
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 22
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Carbon identical to typescript in Folder 1.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 16 - [Folder 11-01] The Supereminent Life by Benet of Canfield [-] Type - 1 top copy w. 2 carbons
First Lines: The
This Essential will of God is all spirit and life, clear, abstract and pure of itself
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript with holograph corrections and additions
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 39
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Typescript is like Folder 9 with handwritten corrections making it like folders 1 and 10.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 17 - [Folder 12-01]
First Lines: Brousse on whom we depend for the account of Canfield's noviciate belongs to a school of thought
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon with holograph corrections and additions
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 5
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Biographical information on Benet Canfield.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 18 - [Folder 12-02]
First Lines: Dear Fr. Louis, I am afraid that the typescript of Canfield's life has not been very well checked.
Sub-Type: Correspondence
Draft:
Copy Type: Xerograph of holograph
Date: June 02, 1961
Number of pages: 3
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Original letter from Etta Gullick to Merton transferred to Gullick correspondence file. Also contains some notes by Merton.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 19 - [Folder 12-03] Life of Fr. Benet of Canfield
First Lines: William Fitch, known to most as Fr. Benet of Canfield, was born in 1562 in the small village
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript carbon with holograph corrections and additions
Date: no-month no-day, 1961
Number of pages: 42
Additional authors/contributors:
Language: English
Notes: Biographical information on Benet Canfield.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 20 - [Folder 13-01]
First Lines: Dear Father Louis, I think it will be better if I put my very minor points about the selection from
Sub-Type: Correspondence
Draft:
Copy Type: Holograph
Date: July 01, 1961
Number of pages: 5
Additional authors/contributors: Gullitck, Etta
Language: English
Notes: Letter from Etta Gullick to Merton regarding her footnotes and notes related to her footnotes.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 21 - [Folder 14-01]
First Lines: Division 1.
divided. The French (Troyes version which is the oldest) has
Sub-Type: Notes
Draft:
Copy Type: Holograph
Date: July 01, 1961
Number of pages: 4
Additional authors/contributors: Gullitck, Etta
Language: English
Notes: Notes on footnotes.
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)
Item 22 - [Folder 15-01 - Footnotes]
First Lines: FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER 1 1. R. has "differs nothing from God, and the difference betwixt it
Sub-Type: Manuscript
Draft:
Copy Type: Typescript
Date: July 01, 1961
Number of pages: 81
Additional authors/contributors: Gullitck, Etta
Language: English
Notes:
Location: Archive - Stack 3 (file box)