Thomas Merton Collection, 1753-present, (bulk 1938-1968)

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Thomas Merton Collection, 1753-present, (bulk 1938-1968)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42644647

This collection contains publications (books and journal articles) written by Thomas Merton published both contemporarily and posthumously, publications written by others about Merton, plus his personal library some of the editions in this library date back to 1753, correspondence, tapes, recordings & broadcasts, typescripts, manuscripts, carbon copies, photocopies, mimeos, publishers proofs, journals & class notes, photographs, graphics, and miscellaneous materials. The bulk of the material originates from the time in which Merton was a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani (Trappist, KY). However, some of the journals that are in this collection he wrote while doing graduate work at Comumbia University and while on the faculty at St. Bonaventure University.

84 linear ft.

Saint Bonaventure University, Friedsam Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7451773

Saint Bonaventure University, Friedsam Memorial Library

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Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968

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Thomas Merton was born on January 31, 1915 in Prades, France to Owen Merton (an artist from New Zealand) and Ruth Jenkins Merton (an artist from the United States), and grew up in New York, Bermuda, France, and England. Merton studied both in Europe and America, and he received a BA and an MA in journalism from Columbia University in 1938 and 1939. In 1938, Merton converted to Catholicism. He taught for two years at St. Bonaventure College in New York before entering the Abbey of Gethsemani i...