Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.2:

Foreign prefaces of Thomas Merton

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  The Foreign Prefaces of Thomas Merton is a small portion of the literary legacy, a bequest

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript, typescript carbon, mimeograph, and photoduplicated material with holographic corrections and additions

Date:  no-month no-day, 1978

Number of pages:  112

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (bound volume)

Item 2 - Honorable reader : reflections on my work

First Lines:  This collection is a small portion of the literary legacy Merton left the world when he died in 1968

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material with holograph corrections and additions

Date:  no-month no-day, no-year

Number of pages:  190

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  File folder 2 of 2. Corrections by publisher and/or printer.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 3 - Introductions east and west: the foreign prefaces of Thomas Merton

First Lines:  Note: So far as I can determine from old contracts, Merton retained, in nearly every case

Sub-Type:  Miscellaneous

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Typescript and photographs

Date:  no-month no-day, 1981?

Number of pages:  15

Additional authors/contributors:  Cargas, Harry James and Robert E. Daggy

Language:  English

Notes:  File folder 1 of 2. Contains information about the rights to Merton's foreign prefaces, the foreward by Harry James Cargas, and photographs of covers to foreign editions (reproduced in the pages of the published collection).

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)