Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.2:

Soldiers of peace, by Clement of Alexandria ; translation by Thomas Merton

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  Now the trumpet calls with a mighty voice calling the soldiers of the world to arms, announcing war:

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Xerograph of typescript with holograph notation

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Likely Forest's selection from Merton's translation of St. Clement's "Protreptikos". There is no separate manuscript among Merton papers, and this was copied from the Catholic Peace Fellowship papers at the University of Notre Dame Archives. There is a handwritten note by Forest, possibly another quote from the translated essay. "Soliders of Peace" as a separate item was first published in The Catholic Worker, January 1963, p. 8.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 14