Annual Report 2009 Images

W.L. Lyons Brown Library 

Thomas Merton Center

Bellarmine University


Thomas Merton Center Aquisitions

January-December 2009


     
     
 
Collins - Light Stone Collins - Thinking Machine Collins - Zen Question
     
Letter to Joseph Zarrella from Dorothy Day. 1938 June 13 Alice Zarrella visiting Dorothy Day, 1979. Card from Dorothy Day to Joe and Alice Zarrella. 1964 December 31
     
 
Thomas Merton to Carrera Andrade 1959 April 15 Thomas Merton Jester Cartoon, Summer 1936

-          Copies of correspondence between Merton and Jim Forest from the Nazareth College archives.

-          Color Photograph of Merton – Wasserman family.

-          The Center purchased twenty original watercolors by Thomas Merton’s father, Owen Merton.

 

-          Books used by Thomas Merton (from Abbey of Gethsemani) containing his marginalia:

o        Barthes, Roland. On Racine.
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Benz, Ernst. Evolution and Christian Hope: Man’s Concept of the Future, from the early Fathers to Teilhard de Chardin.
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Bree, Germaine. Camus.
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Buber, Martin. The Way of Man: According to the Teaching of Hasidism.
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Burden, Shirley. I Wonder Why.
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Camus, Albert. La Chute.
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Camus, Albert. L’Homme Revolte.
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Camus, Albert. L’Etranger.
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Camus, Albert. The Fall and Exile and the Kingdom.
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Camus, Albert. Carnets: Janvier 1942-Mars 1951.
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Carruth, Hayden. After The Stranger: Imaginary Dialogues with Camus.
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Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring.
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Chaudhuri, Haridas and Frederic Spiegelberg. The Integral Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo: A Commemorative Symposium.
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Cruickshank, John. Albert Camus and the Literature of Revolt.
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Eliade, Mircea. Myths, Dreams and Mysteries: The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities.
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Ellul, Jacques. The Presence of the Kingdom.
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Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society.
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Fromm, Erich. Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis.
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Herrigel, Eugen. Zen.
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King, Winston L. Buddhism and Christianity: Some Bridges of Understanding.
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Matsuo, Bashō. The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and other Travel Sketches.
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McLuhan, Marshall. The Medium is the Massage.
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McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
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McLuhan, Marshall. War and Peace in the Global Village.
o        Meerloo, Joost. Illness and Cure.
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Moore, Ruth. Niels Bohr: The Man, His Science, and the World They Changed.
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Nguyen-van-Huy, Pierre. La Métaphysique du Bonheur Chez Albert Camus.
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Northbourne, Lord. Religion in the Modern World.
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Ohara, Miyao. The Songs of Hiroshima: An Anthology.
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The Oxford Book of Italian Verse, XIIIth Century-XIXth Century.
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Pallis, Marco. The Way and the Mountain.
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Pasternak, Boris. Fifty Poems.
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Pasternak, Boris. Essai D'Autobiographie.
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Pasternak, Boris. The Last Summer.
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Pasternak, Boris. Poems.
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Rahula, Walpola. What the Buddha Taught.
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Reps, Paul. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Life of the Virgin Mary.
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Sartre, Jean-Paul. Les Séquestrés d'Altona.
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Scheler, Max. Man’s Place in Nature.
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Steichen, Edward. The Family of Man.
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Stern, Karl. The Third Revolution.
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Suzuki, D.T. Mysticism Christian and Buddhist: The Eastern and Western Way.
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Suzuki, D.T. Studies in Zen.
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Suzuki, D.T. Zen and Japanese Culture.
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Verwilghen, Albert Felix. Mencius: The Man and His Ideas.
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Watkin, E. I. Poets and Mystics.

-          A donation of papers from Michael Mott.

-          The Center received a gift of various materials from Mrs. Jean DeGrazia (sister of Brother Irenaeus, a formed Gethsemani monk who died in August 2009) The gift included:

o        Numerous handwritten or typed notes from Thomas Merton to Br. Irenaeus.
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Signed copy of Disputed Questions.
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A Photograph of Clare Booth Luce, signed by Luce.
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A Small Book of Poems by James Laughlin, given to Merton by Laughlin and inscribed by him: “For Tom Merton from J Laughlin.” 252 of limited printing of 500.
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Blanket used by Thomas Merton.
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A number of other items relating to monastic life at the Abbey of Gethsemani.

-          A drawing of Hagia Sophia by Victor Hammer donated by Brother Benedict Simmonds of Holy Cross Abbey.

-          A signed copy of The Christmas Sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny and other first editions donated by Richard Bizot.

-          A signed, limited edition of The Tower of Babel donated by Richard P. O’Donnell.

Paul M Pearson.
Director and Archivist.


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