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