Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Monastic life at Gethsemani

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  Life is made of encounters. A true encounter implies stimulates questions and answers.

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript and printed materials with holograph corrections and additions

Date:  no-month no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  15

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Merton uses clippings from an older pamphlet on Gethsemani in places and makes changes.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 2 - 

First Lines:  Life is made of encounters. A true encounter implies questions and answers. To meet an interesting

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon with holograph notation

Date:  September no-day, 1965

Number of pages:  15

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Merton notes that it is an "uncorrected first draft" and notes the date.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6

Item 3 - 

First Lines:  Life is made of encounters. A true encounter stimulates questions and answers. When you meet an

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  September no-day, 1966

Number of pages:  18

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies. [Additional photocopy from bound set in D.5 contains handwritten corrections by Merton on page 4.]

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 6