Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section C.3:

Seeds of destruction

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  Someone will doubtless ask how it happens that a monk in a contemplative monastery is attempting

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof with holograph corrections

Date:  February 18, 1964?

Number of pages:  76

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Master proof with printer's and publisher's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 2 - 

First Lines:  The contemplative life is not, and cannot be, a mere withdrawal, a pure negation, a turning of one's

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof with holograph corrections

Date:  September 09, 1964

Number of pages:  171

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Master proof with printer's and publisher's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 3 - 

First Lines:  The contemplative life is not, and cannot be, a mere withdrawal, a pure negation, a turning of one's

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof with holograph corrections

Date:  September 09, 1964

Number of pages:  171

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Master proof with printer's and publisher's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 4 - 

First Lines:  The contemplative life is not, and cannot be, a mere withdrawal, a pure negation, a turning of one's

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof with holograph corrections

Date:  September 22, 1964

Number of pages:  69

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Master proof with printer's and publisher's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 5 - 

First Lines:  Someone will doubtless ask how it happens that a monk in a contemplative monastery is attempting

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof

Date:  no-month no-day, 1964

Number of pages:  53

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 6 - 

First Lines:  The contemplative life is not, and cannot be, a mere withdrawal, a pure negation, a turning of one's

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof with holograph corrections and notations

Date:  August 15, 1964

Number of pages:  124

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Master proof with printer's and publisher's corrections; note by Merton "Checked by author TM. Aug 21. 1964".

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)

Item 7 - 

First Lines:  Someone will doubtless ask how it happens that a monk in a contemplative monastery is attempting

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Galley proof with holograph corrections and typescript additions

Date:  March 12, 1964

Number of pages:  110

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Master proof with printer's and publisher's corrections.

Location:  Archive - Stack 3 (file box)