Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section D.2:

Identity crisis and monastic vocation

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  The crisis of religious vocations is no secret. It is everywhere the same. The departure

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph

Date:  October no-day, 1964

Number of pages:  32

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  7 copies. One with a note, "Not for publication. Given to an Assembly of Abbots and novice masters of the Trappist-Cistercian Order of the Wester Hemisphere at Gethsemani Oct 2-9, 1964.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 2 - 

First Lines:  The crisis of religious vocations is no secret. It is everywhere the same. The departure

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph

Date:  October no-day, 1964

Number of pages:  15

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Retyped as single-space with some editorial corrections (not by Merton).

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12

Item 3 - 

First Lines:  Why not select some pertinent passages from this??

Sub-Type:  Manuscript

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Xerograph of typescript with holograph notation

Date:  October no-day, 1964

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Copy from St. Bonaventure University archives (title page only) with a holograph notation by Merton.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 12