Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Attente dans le silence, L' : le père Marie-Joseph Cassant, O. Cist. S. O., by Etienne Chenevière. Preface.

Item 1 - Preface to Prière et Silence (Life of Fr. M. Joseph Cassant)

First Lines:  About the time when the obscure hero of this biography was living out his short life as a Trappist,

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections and additions

Date:  no-month no-day, 1961?

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 5

Item 2 - Preface to the American Edition of the Life of Fr. Joseph Cassant

First Lines:  It is very cold in the novitiate. The room is bare, forbidding. A few novices sit at their desks,

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  August 15, 1963?

Number of pages:  3

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  The later mimeograph copy dates that text as "Feast of the Assumption, 1963."

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 5