This Records Subgroup contains handwritten notes on books being read by Merton contained primarily in spiral notebooks or in bound paper books. Most notes are unpublished and many are in incomplete sentences or contain direct quotes from something read. Occasionally, Merton wrote a poem in the pages of the notebook. A minority of the notebooks have been transcribed, but all have an index, but not a comprehensive one.
Review (by: Biddle, Arthur W.) in Merton Seasonal 14:4 (Fall 1989): 24-26. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/14/14-4BiddleRevMP.pdf
Sans titreFirst lines: "Forgive me, but whereas I know that Franciscans are addressed by their first names and some"...
Sans titreReview (by: O'Connell, Patrick F.) in Merton Annual 18: 352-355. http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/18/OConnellRevMontaldo352-355.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Hulburt, Patricia) in Merton Seasonal 30:1 (Spring 2005): 23-24. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/30/30-1HulburtRevMontaldo.pdf
Sans titreReview [ANNUAL] by (O'Connell, Patrick F.) of Modern Mystics: An Introduction.. in The Merton Annual 37 (2024): 248-253. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/OConnellRevMcGinn248-253.pdf
Sans titreReview in The Merton Seasonal 50.1 (Spring 2025): 41-42. https://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/50/50-1ThurstonRevPerry.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for master's degree, Universite De Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, 2001.
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, University of Bristol, Bristol, England, 2020. https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/setting-theology-free
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2018. The item makes reference to Thomas Merton without being entirely about Merton. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/89814/3/Rossini_Giovanni_A_201806_PhD_thesis.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for master's degree, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2015. https://bib.pucminas.br/teses/CiencReligiao_SilvaRMR_1.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY., 2017. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/110/
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 2021. https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/12392
Sans titreCompleted for master's degree, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, 1994.
Sans titreFirst lines: "In a paper presented before a group of western psychoanalysts interested in comparative religion.."
The third page of fourteen pages of drawings in a set created for James Laughlin.
Sans titreAn excerpt from a recording of an Easter Homily by Thomas Merton, transferred from reel-to-reel tape 187, track -2a-3.
Call for presentation proposals for the 19th General Meeting on the International Thomas Merton Society to be held at Regis University in 2025.
Sans titreFrom the introduction: "Merton Vade Mecum is designed to provide a quick-reference guide to Thomas Merton’s writing in the context of his life, in a format... useful for both researchers and general readers."
Sans titreImage taken from full website: https://merton.org/research/Mountain/06.aspx [21 November 2024].
Sans titreA list of visitors to Thomas Merton at Gethsemani Abbey sorted alphabetically by surname with the source, date, and other notes.
Sans titreA list of visitors to Thomas Merton at Gethsemani Abbey sorted chronologically with the name, source, and other notes.
Sans titreFirst lines: "This was meant to arrive in time for your feast, but even if it took off instantly, by jet plane"... Contents index: [Feast of St. Louis].
Sans titreReview (by: Pearson, Paul M.) in Merton Journal [UK] 9.2 (Advent 2002): 43. http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/Journal/09/9-2PearsonRevMerton.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Cunningham, Lawrence S.) in Merton Annual 1: 343-347. http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/1/CunninghamRevAJTM343-347.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for master's degree, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA., 2019. https://digitalservices.scranton.edu/digital/collection/p15111coll1/id/1358/rec/175
Sans titreCompleted for master's degree, University of Glasgow, 2007. https://theses.gla.ac.uk/71922/1/10396058.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada, 2020. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/107429/3/KnightMessenger_Rachel_M_202011_PhD_Thesis.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, Fordham University, New York, 2019. The item makes reference to Thomas Merton without being entirely about Merton. https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI22585222/
Sans titreCompleted for master's degree, Regis College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2013. The item makes reference to Thomas Merton without being entirely about Merton.
Sans titreCompleted for master's degree, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 2020. https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Poems_in_Interreligious_Dialogue_Searching_for_God_in_the_Poetry_of_Ku_Sang_and_Thomas_Merton/17148485
Sans titreThe first page [no drawing, only typed title page, drawings on subsequent pages] of fourteen pages of drawings in a set created for James Laughlin.
Sans titreAn interview and discussion with Tommie O'Callaghan hosted by the Chicago Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society in 2009 with an introduction by Mike Brennan and interview panelists Rev. Marilyn Hendricks and Fr. Francis Cusack, C.P.
Sans titrePatricia Burton indexed information about ITMS conferences between 1989 and 2015, including conference titles, plenary speakers and presentations, concurrent and special session speakers, session and panel titles. Further, classified presentations by subject and by title of Merton's work studied. From her division into themes, she created charts and graphs to illustrate the frequency of themes.
Sans titreCompleted for honors paper, Carroll College, Helena, MT., 1981. https://scholars.carroll.edu/handle/20.500.12647/7351
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, Divinity School of Duke University, Durham, NC., 2019. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/20218
Sans titreReview (by: Pramuk, Christopher) in The Merton Annual 37 (2024): 226-231. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/PramukRevVinski226-231.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Tuoti, Frank X.) in Merton Seasonal 24:3 (Fall 1999): 32-34. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/24/24-3TuotiRevAprille.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Bell, Ian) in Merton Annual 29: 252-254. http://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/29/BellRevArcement252-254.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Viviano, Pauline A.) in The Merton Seasonal 41.1 (Spring 2016): 26-27. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/41/41-1VivianoRevArcement.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Martin, Eric) in The Merton Annual 37 (2024): 224-226. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/MartinRevHoran224-226.pdf
Sans titreReview by Christine Bochen of An Asian Woman's Religious Journey with Thomas Merton by Jung Eun Sophia Park in The Merton Seasonal 50.1 (Summer 2025): 28-33. https://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/50/50-2BochenRevPark.pdf
Sans titreReview [SEASONAL] by Paul Dekar of Deep and Wide by Evan Howard in The Merton Seasonal 50.1 (Summer 2025): 36-37. https://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/50/50-2DekarRevHoward.pdf
Sans titreReview [SEASONAL] by Monica Weis of Thomas Merton's Tree of Life: The Growth of a Radical Ecologist by Donald P. St. John in The Merton Seasonal 50.1 (Summer 2025): 34-35. https://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/50/50-2WeisRevStJohn.pdf
Sans titreDame Marcella first contacted Merton through the encouragement of Jacques Maritain. Stanbrook Press published poems of Raïssa Maritain as well as some of Merton's works, including his translations of a prayer of Cassiodorus and a letter by Guigo the Carthusian.
Sans titreReview (by: Cechony, Therese R.) in Merton Seasonal 27:4 (Winter 2002): 27-28. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/27/27-4CechonyRevAdvent.pdf
Sans titreReview in The Merton Seasonal 50.1 (Spring 2025): 36-38. https://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/50/50-1WhalenRevMA37.pdf
Sans titreReview [The Merton Annual] by (Braun, Connie T.) of Our Heart Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir in The Merton Annual 37 (2024): 254-256. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/BraunRevLischer254-256.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Pannett, Tony) in Merton Journal [UK] 14.1 (Easter 2007): 51-53. http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/Journal/14/14-1PannettRevApel.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Fogarty, Thomas) in Merton Seasonal 26:2 (Summer 2001): 35-36. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/26/26-2FogartyRevAprille.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Savariyar, Dhinakaran) in The Journal of Social Encounters 8.2 (2024): 406. https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1311&context=social_encounters
Sans titreReview (by: Dekar, Paul R.) in The Merton Annual 37 (2024): 236-239. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/DekarRevTurley236-239.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for master's degree, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2015. https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/93/
Sans titreCompleted for honors paper, Carroll College, Helena, MT, 1959. https://scholars.carroll.edu/handle/20.500.12647/2696
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, 2000. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/10492/1/NQ54054.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, St Mary’s University, Twickenham and University of Surrey, Guildford, 2020. The item makes reference to Thomas Merton without being entirely about Merton. https://research.stmarys.ac.uk/id/eprint/4657/
Sans titreIn this clip from a longer recording, Rosemary Radford Ruether is interviewed by Paul Wilkes. It is an unused outtake from interviews for Merton, a Film Biography.
Merton's reflection on a section of Ernst Benz's book, "Evolution of Christian Hope."
Sans titreA bibliographic work featuring secondary sources about Thomas Merton from 1945-2000, including: books and reviews, articles and essays, theses and dissertations, news stories and interviews, poetry, arts, and media.
Sans titreA bibliographic work featuring secondary sources about Thomas Merton from 2000-2015 (a supplement to the 1945-2000 volume), including: books and reviews, articles and essays, theses and dissertations, news stories and interviews, poetry, arts, and media.
Sans titreThe program consists of a schedule; president's message; and a listing of plenary, current, and special sessions for the 18th General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS).
Sans titreImage taken from full website: https://merton.org/research/Mountain/03.aspx [21 November 2024].
Sans titreFirst lines: "On December 20th, 1963, twenty-two former S.S. men who had played important parts in the "final.." Contents: 2 copies. «The Catholic Worker» 33: 4-5, 8..
First lines: "About the passage in the «New Man» to which you refer: I do not have a copy of the book at"... The letter discusses the meaning of the "sin and mental illness" in Merton's book «The New Man» (specifically, the third paragraph of Section 136). Merton explains that he is not suggesting that "actual sin usually leads to mental illness", but rather that all illness and death stem from the fallen human condition.
Sans titreThis collection contains original letters from Daniel Berrigan and copies of Merton's letters to Berrigan. They discussed the peace movement and the involvement of clergy of different faiths, the nuclear arms race, Cold War politics, Vietnam, the future of Latin America, racial inequities and Civil Rights, non-violence and the justification of violence against property, the role of religious orders in the peace movement, aggiornamento in religious life, and the question of obedience to religious superiors and the Church hierarchy. Merton and Berrigan both struggled with issues of censorship of their writings on peace and nuclear war. Later, Berrigan had conflicts with both religious and secular authorities because of his acts of civil disobedience.
Sans titreThough he was not as often in contact with Merton as Daniel, Philip Berrigan influenced, and was influenced by, Merton. Philip Berrigan took an active posture of civil disobedience that did not rule out the use of violence toward property if that property were being used in service of immoral ends. Merton struggled with Philip's actions but spoke more with Daniel regarding these issues. Philip's correspondence file contains originals of his letters to Merton and copies of Merton's letters to him.
Sans titreFirst lines: "Thanks so much for your letter and the magazines. I appreciate your comments on the Cables."... Contents index: sending «Cables to the Ace» shortly - enjoyed Bredenberg's criticism / Andrea Pfeiffenberger [Andy Pfeiffenberger] / «Monks Pond» delayed - "monks are going wild printing a lot of new liturgy texts so what do they care about poetry? (And what do I care about liturgy?)".
Sans titreFirst lines: "I have been terribly remiss in not answering your fine letter and thanking you for all"...
Sans titreThis is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Anastácio, Timóteo Amoroso, Fr., O.S.B.".
Sans titreIn this letter to an artist, Merton begins by commissioning a statue, but begins to explore the possibility of founding a new monastery near Quito. The English translation of the 1958/11/16 letter is a copy from the Gethsemani Abbey Archives and was enclosed in a letter sent from Dom James Fox to Abbot General Gabriel Sortais, see "Fox, James, Dom" file.
Sans titreReview (by: Brennan, Michael) in The Merton Seasonal 42.4 (Winter 2017): 36-37. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/42/42-4BrennanRevMerton.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Hart, Patrick, Br., O.C.S.O.) in Merton Seasonal 13:3 (Summer 1988): 18-20. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/13/13-3HartRevDaggy.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for licenciate, Comillas Universidad Pontificia, Madrid, Spain, 2019. https://repositorio.comillas.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11531/37868/DEA001212.pdf
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky, 2018. https://scholarworks.bellarmine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=tdc
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, University of St. Michael's College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2001. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/10542
Sans titreCompleted for doctorate, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014. https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/27077/27077.PDF
Sans titreFirst lines: ""Why do you call me 'Sir'?" said the prison chaplain, "why don't you call me Father?".." Contents: 4 copies of «The Catholic Worker», XXXIII, No. 3 (1966): 1, 4-5, 8..
The second page of fourteen pages of drawings in a set created for James Laughlin.
Sans titreAn interview and discussion with Tommie O'Callaghan hosted by the Chicago Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society in 2009 with an introduction by Mike Brennan and interview panelists Rev. Marilyn Hendricks and Fr. Francis Cusack, C.P.
Sans titreAn interview and discussion with Tommie O'Callaghan hosted by the Chicago Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society in 2009 with an introduction by Mike Brennan and interview panelists Rev. Marilyn Hendricks and Fr. Francis Cusack, C.P.
Sans titreThis digital file contains a list of primary and secondary sources relating to Merton and Racism and a list of the presenters and themes of the annual Thomas Merton Black History Month Lecture.
Sans titreDigital file of the index.
Sans titreImage taken from full website: https://merton.org/research/Mountain/
Visitors conducting research in the archives of the Thomas Merton Center must provide biographical and identifying information about themselves and their research and publication intents by completing Thomas Merton Center Form A.
Sans titreThis subseries contains book reviews about the given Merton-related title. In a small number of cases, there are other materials such as manuscripts and proofs.
Sans titreReview (by: Pearson, Anne) in The Merton Seasonal 49.1 (Spring 2024): 49-51. https://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/49/49-1PearsonRevVinski.pdf
Sans titreReview in The Merton Seasonal 50.1 (Spring 2025): 39-40. https://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/50/50-1MontaldoRevVu.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Lyons, Heather) in Merton Journal [UK] 12.2 (Advent 2005): 48-49. http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/Journal/12/12-2LyonsRevMerton.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Pramuk, Christopher) in Merton Seasonal 32:1 (Spring 2007): 28-31. http://merton.org/ITMS/Seasonal/32/32-1PramukRevApel.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Pearson, Paul M.) in Merton Journal [UK] 7.1 (Easter 2000): 58-59. http://www.thomasmertonsociety.org/Journal/07/7-1PearsonRevAprile.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Andujar, Jose F.) in The Merton Annual 37 (2024): 241-243. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/AndujarRevCannon241-243.pdf
Sans titreReview [ANNUAL] by (Emma McDonald Kennedy.) of A Retreat with Thomas Merton: A Seven-Day Spiritual Journey in Merton Annual 37 (2024): 239-241. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/KennedyRevWaal239-241.pdf
Sans titreReview (by: Weis, Monica) in The Merton ANNUAL 37 (2024): 231-236. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/WeisRevMeegan231-236.pdf
Sans titreReview [ANNUAL] by (Tarr, Kathleen) of The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation.. in The Merton Annual 37 (2024): 243-247. https://merton.org/ITMS/Annual/37/TarrRevFinley243-247.pdf
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