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Collections in this record group are related to Thomas Merton, Merton studies, or the Merton Legacy Trust (his literary trust). Some were managed by Merton's friends, family, collectors of his works, biographers, or those in correspondence with Merton.

Collections in this record group are related to Thomas Merton, Merton studies, or the Merton Legacy Trust (his literary trust). Some were managed by Merton's friends, family, collectors of his works, biographers, or those in correspondence with Merton.

First lines: "Thomas Merton completed his newest book, The Ascent to Truth on the anniversary of his ninth year in"... Citation: Herald News Fall River Mass (11 October 1951).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's newest, "The Ascent to Truth" (Harcourt Brace) attempts to balance the difficult"... Citation: Beacon-Journal Akron Ohio (11 November 1951).

First lines: "The purpose of the world, the nature of man, the meaning of truth-"... Citation: Catholic World (November 1951) [:156-157.

First lines: "Before any reviewer opens the fire of his criticism on Thomas Merton's"... Citation: Blackfriars 33 (March 1952) 144-146.

First lines: "The popular Trappist author's latest book summarizes the mystical"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 2 (December 1951) 440-441.

First lines: "The name of Thomas Merton is already"... Citation: The Furrow, 3.4 (Apr. 1952): 223-224.

First lines: "The Asian Journal is by no means the finest work"... Citation: Panorama - Chicago Daily News (28-29 July 1973).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's growing interest in the spirituality"... Citation: The Mirror [Diocese of Springfield, MO] (July 22, 1973).

First lines: "Thomas Merton died Dec. 10, 1968, just about five years ago." Citation: RBR Reviews 4.2 (July 1973): 22.

First lines: "The Very last work of this late and great Trappist"... Citation: Long Island Catholic (December 13, 1973).

First lines: "Merton's last notes before his death in Bangkok"... Citation: TM Community Newsletter (Fall 1973).

First lines: "Merton's story is that of the wanderer, the examiner of life"... Citation: New Life (May 1974).

First lines: "This journal published five years after the death"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 9.4 (1974). Bulletin of Monastic Spirituality # 218. [130-131].

First lines: "In a journal entry made on the 19th of March, 1958, Thomas Merton recorded one of the significant events of his life"... Citation: [unpublished].

First lines: "Thomas Merton wrote a book and woke up one morning to find himself famous. "The Seven Storey"... Citation: News Malden Mass (10 March 1954).

First lines: "Anyone who undertakes to write a short book on the psalms must be prepared to face"... Citation: Blackfriars 35 (October 1954) 441-442.

First lines: "These three Merton volumes are among the initial offerings of the new Monastic"... Citation: Cross Currents 58.4 (1 December 2008): 616-620.

First lines: "Thomas Merton's Cassian and the Fathers inaugarates the new Monastic Wisdom Series"... Citation: Merton Annual 19: 400-407.

First lines: "The three books here under review are connected with Thomas Merton, one of the most stimulating"... Citation: Christian Scholars Review 10.1 (1980): 54-56. Andrew Marr OSB.

First lines: "Thomas Merton left numerous manuscripts and notes that remained unpublished at the time of his death"... Citation: Merton Annual 24: 329-331.

First lines: "The four issues of Monk's Pond, Thomas Merton's "little magazine," were one of his last projects"... Citation: Theology Digest 36.1 (Spring 1990): 75-76.

First lines: "Not a particularly good novel as a novel, nevertheless there is a"... Citation: Long Island Catholic (July 17, 1969).

First lines: "The late Thomas Merton wrote this autobiographical novel"... Citation: Portland Oregonian (July 27, 1969).

First lines: "The catch-all title embraces a wide range of essays on religious subjects: Zen Buddhism, the"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 191 (17 April 1967): 58.

First lines: "No Man is an Island is an absorbing book which achieves a very difficult task in a remarkably simple"... Citation: Blackfriars 38 (February 1957): 84-85.

First lines: "'Honestly I do not think it matters a bit"... Citation: The Merton Annual 26 (2013): 213-216.

First lines: "Two books, same size, different colours,"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 20.1 (Easter 2013): 49-51.

First lines: "In less than 250 understatements, Thomas Merton reports on the preparation"... Citation: Ave Maria (26 May 196) 26.

First lines: "This attractive volume, the seventh and final in the series of Merton's private journals, covers the"... Citation: American Benedictine Review 51.2 (June 2000) 227-230.

First lines: "I am frequently asked what I think might have happened if Thomas Merton, the Abbey of Gethsemani"... Citation: America 174.12 (13 April 1996): 28-29.

First lines: "Between 1961 and 1968, Merton increasingly focused his attention on the Vietnam War and racism"... Citation: Library Journal 120.12 (1 July 1995): 88.

First lines: "William H. Shannon, the biographer of the great American Catholic apostle of nonviolence and racial"... Citation: Booklist [Chicago] 91.17 (May 1 1995): 1535-1536.

First lines: "I am frequently asked what I think might have happened if Thomas Merton,"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 2.2 (Advent 1995): 54-56.

First lines: "In an age now dominated by headlines featuring the latest installments in the "war on"... Citation: International Journal of Practical Theology 11.2 (2007): 325-326.

First lines: "'Thank you for your kind letter telling me that you had given the"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 40.3 (2005): 344-346.

First lines: "It is good that these essays have been reprinted. The first set belongs to the 1950s, while the"... Citation: Indian Journal of Theology 27 (January-March 1978): 43-48. J.D.M. Stuart.

First lines: "In addition to the works that Thomas Merton intended for publication,"... Citation: Catholic Historical Review 96.4 (October 2010): 768-769.

First lines: "This is the fourth work of Thomas Merton's novitate classes that"... Citation: Merton Annual 23 (2010): 286-288.

First lines: "It is Saturday, September 30, 1939, a damp early autumn evening in New York City"... Citation: Merton Annual 9: 303-313 [online].

First lines: "After making only a cursory examination of the life of Saint Peter of Tarentaise, one is struck by the similarity"... Citation: Cistercian Studies Quarterly 36.3 (2001): 337-347.

First lines: "This is the third volume of Merton's collected letters which has been published." Citation: Monos 3.4 (April/May 1991): 10-11.

First lines: "It is the paradox of formation in the midst of deformation, of consonance out of dissonance that"... Citation: Commonweal 113.4 (28 February 1986): 118. Susan Annette Muto.

First lines: "The corpus of literature in this country concerning Thomas Merton continues to grow with Collins'"... Citation: Priests and People 4.10 (November 1990): 426. Paul M. Pearson.

First lines: "This volume of 669 pages provides an overview of one aspect of Thomas Merton's complex"... Citation: Cistercian Studies 21.4 (1986): 365-373.

First lines: "Daggy has collected the special prefaces written by Merton for translations of his"... Citation: Journal of Religion 70.3 (July 1990): 511.

First lines: "The title of this work derives from the celebrated preface to the Japanese edition of The Seven"... Citation: Merton Annual 3: 293-295.

First lines: "In comparison with the attention given to his essays, journals, and other prose writings, there has been"... Citation: Christianity and Literature 54.4 (Summer 2005): 627-632.

First lines: "Merton's poetry may well be"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 12.2 (Advent 2005): 44-45.

First lines: "This rather enigmatic title is typical of the strange, symbolic titles Merton"... Citation: Cithara 54.2 (May 2015): 63-64.

First lines: "Any book that arrives in print 35 years after its author's death has an unusual history." Citation: Publishers Weekly 250.21 (26 May 2003): 65.

First lines: "William Shannon in his introduction to this last full work of Merton's to be published points"... Citation: Monos 17.2 (March/April 2004): 4-5.

First lines: "'If all seven volumes of journals are the wood, The Intimate Merton is only a path through them and not"... Citation: St. Anthony Messenger 110.2 (July 2002): 51-52.

First lines: "Though Thomas Merton died in 1968, the famous spiritual writer and Trappist monk"... Citation: Tidings 108.29 (20 July 2001): 20.

First lines: "'A path through the woods' is the description Hart"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 246.45 (November 8, 1999): 61.

First lines: "As a seeker of spiritual truths, Thomas Merton headed off in the opposite direction from"... Citation: Fourth Genre 6.2 (2004): 149-150.

First lines: "The third and much-awaited volume of Thomas Merton's conference notebooks, an introductory"... Citation: Merton Annual 22: 261-265.

First lines: "Indians! What a shock to open this beautifully bound volume expecting a"... Citation: Best Sellers 36 (October 1976):223.

First lines: "In his encyclical letter Doctor Mellifluus, issued in 1953 for the eighth centenary of St. Bernard's"... Citation: Month [London] 13 (May 1955): 313-314.

First lines: "Whenever a new book comes"... Citation: Catholic Worker XX.12 (July-August 1954): 4.

First lines: "In Learning to Love, the penultimate of the seven volumes of Thomas Merton's complete"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 5.2 (Advent 1998): 52-55.

First lines: "Starting with the extraordinary and unexpected popularity of his spiritual auto- biography,"... Citation: Christianity and Literature 66.4 (2017): 720-724.

First lines: "Victor Hammer was an artist and printer; Carolyn Hammer (his"... Citation: Choice Connect 52.9 (May 2015) 1518.

First lines: "Another challenging book from the Abbey of Gethsemani"... Citation: The Furrow , 16.11 (Nov. 1965): 726.

First lines: "From October, 1955 until April, 1965 Thomas Merton gave weekly"... Citation: The Merton Annual 26 (2013): 211-213.

First lines: "The best of the essays here were written while Merton served as Abbot of the Trappist"... Citation: Kirkus Reviews (October 1, 1981).

First lines: "This book by Thomas Merton, poet and former man of the world who became a Cistercian monk, is one to"... Citation: Journal Milwaukee, WI (11 March 1956). Louise Cattoi.

First lines: "Solidly doctrinal is The Living Bread by Thomas Merton (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. $3). Dealing, as"... Citation: Our Sunday Visitor (11 March 1956). Duplicate copy crossed out on item #5. Copy on 7d.

First lines: "Detachment of any kind has become so rare that nowadays we can be refreshed by detachment of the"... Citation: New Yorker (5 Dec. 1946).

First lines: "During the past quarter of a century, Thomas Merton, a Trappist of the Cistern Order of the"... Citation: Best Sellers 25 (1 January 1966): 386.

First lines: "Another reissue is The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton. Written in 1940-1941 and first published"... Citation: Cross and Crown 29 (September 1977): 322.

First lines: "These selections from a twenty-year-old diary are advertised by the publishers as 'private thoughts"... Citation: Blackfriars 40 (June 1959) 284-285.

First lines: "This book contains a few selections taken from the diary of Thomas Merton kept when he was a"... Citation: American Ecclesiastical Review 141 (August 1959): 141-142.

First lines: "Even if he never wrote another word, Thomas Merton has attained a literary eminence by reason of"... Citation: Sign 38 (April 1959): 62-63.

First lines: "Among the previous writings of the"... Citation: The Critic XVII.4 (Feb.-Mar., 1959): 23-24.

First lines: "Thomas Merton asked New Directions if it would bind his "Seeds of Contemplation" in something"... Citation: Journal Providence RI (1 may 1949).

First lines: "Like another well-known wanderer in the 'dark wood' of doubt and waywardness, Thomas Merton"... Citation: Thought 24 (September 1949): 557-559.

First lines: "Since we have become accustomed to Merton writing about the interior life, this book may come as"... Citation: Ave Maria 101 (17 April 1965): 26.

First lines: "A collection of essays and letters written by the famous Trappist monk who, from the Abbey of"... Citation: Publishers Weekly 191 (30 January 1967): 114.

First lines: "The editor of this book brings"... Citation: The Living Church (May 9, 2004): 5-6.

First lines: "Thomas Merton, who died in 1968, was one of the great"... Citation: Spirituality and Practice: Resources for Spiritual Journeys [online]. [Accessed September25 2013].

First lines: "This new book of Thomas Merton's writings deals with his interest in the 'Shakers'"... Citation: Good Book Stall (1 January 2012).

First lines: "On December 10, 1960 Thomas"... Citation: Merton Journal [UK] 12.1 (Easter 2005): 43-45.

First lines: "For the first time this year I assigned students in my freshmen theology"... Citation: The Merton Annual 27 (2014): 215-220.

First lines: "In his introduction O'Connell quotes Merton from 1961: 'People are now"... Citation: The Merton Journal 23.2 (Advent 2016): 41-43.

First lines: "Those who are sometimes suspicious of best seller lists may be interested to know that the"... Citation: New York World-Telegram (21 December 1948).

First lines: "Catholic readers will not want to pass over Thomas Merton's "Seven Storey Mountain" (Harcourt, $3),"... Citation: Evening News Buffalo, NY (11 December 1948).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's "Seven Storey Mountain" has sold 70,000 copies to date according to J. Donald Adams"... Citation: Monitor San Francisco, CA (14 January 1949).

First lines: "As this week is Catholic Book Week it is an appropriate time to call attention to another 1948 book"... Citation: Herald Rutland, VT (22 February 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's non-fiction work, the best-selling Seven Storey Mountain, has been published in"... Citation: Chronicle Augusta, GA (2 October 1949).

First lines: "Thomas Merton's best-selling autobiography, "The Seven Storey Mountain," has recently been published"... Citation: Times Los Angeles, CA (9 January 1950).

First lines: "Few books in our day have been so eagerly awaited as this autobiography of a thirty-three-year old"... Citation: Catholic World (November 1948): 167-168.

First lines: "At first sight the two books under review might seem to be of a similar nature: they both belong to"... Citation: New Seeds 1.1 (1989): 4. Stephen J. Hotchen.

First lines: "For the religious reader there is "The Sign of Jonas," by Thomas Merton (Harcourt, Brace, Oct. 23),"... Citation: Retail Bookseller New York City (October 1952).

First lines: "Cet enorme volume de plus de mille pages contient"... Citation: Collectanea Cisterciensia 40 (1978).

First lines: "Over the years of his brief monastic life the late Thomas Merton"... Citation: The Cord (September 1978): 252-256.

First lines: "Throughout the world, spiritual"... Citation: Presence: An International Journal of Spiritual Direction 16.3 (2010): 60.