Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section E.1:

Black revolution, The : letters to a white liberal

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  If I dare to begin these letters to you, and if I am presumptuous enough to imagine that they may

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  1st Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript with holograph corrections and additions

Date:  July no-day, 1963

Number of pages:  27

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  23 numbered pages plus title page and verso inserts.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 5

Item 2 - 

First Lines:  If I dare to imagine that these letters may have some significance for both of us, it is because

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd Draft

Copy Type:  Mimeograph with holograph corrections

Date:  July no-day, 1963

Number of pages:  32

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Merton writes "Censor" on the title page and has some additions, corrections and deletions marked. Some changes followed in third draft, some not followed.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 5

Item 3 - 

First Lines:  If I dare to imagine that these letters may have some significance for both of us, it is because

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  2nd Draft

Copy Type:  Mimeograph

Date:  July no-day, 1963

Number of pages:  32

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 5

Item 4 - 

First Lines:  Two weeks have not yet elapsed since the assassination of the President of the United States, John

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  3rd Draft

Copy Type:  Typescript

Date:  December no-day, 1963

Number of pages:  65

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Preface and 53 numbered pages. Similar to corrected second draft (longer primarily because of extra spacing).

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 5

Item 5 - Introductory Note.

First Lines:  These "Letters" were written, in substance, during the early summer of 1963, and revised in the fall

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  no-month no-day, 1963?

Number of pages:  4

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Written between the fall revision and before the December typescript and revised preface.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 5

Item 6 - Preface

First Lines:  Two weeks have not yet elapsed since the assassination of the President of the United States, John

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript carbon

Date:  December no-day, 1963

Number of pages:  8

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Title page dated July 1963, preface December 1963.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 5