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1946 memorandum to Capitular Fathers
1967 Western datebook, The. Notes (printed material with holograph notations).


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A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupFada, 1896-1977
Abbaye Sainte-Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire (Saint-Léger-Vauban, France)
About contemplative life today. Transcription of tape made for the Savannah Carmel.
Action and contemplation in St. Bernard
Action and contemplation in St. Bernard
Action and contemplation in the Mystery of Christ
Adam, of Perseigne, 1145-1221
Adaptation of the monastic life : some personal observations
Advent
Advent : hope or delusion
Advent mystery, The
Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167
Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167
Aestheticism : the "Highbrow" problem. Fragment on Eric Gill.
African genesis
After Chuang Tzu
Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 1888-1970
Airtight cage, The; by Joseph P. Lyford
Alaska conferences. Notes.
Alawi, Ahmad ibn Mustafa, 1869-1934
Alberic, Saint, d. 1109
Alberti, Rafael, 1902-1999
Alfonso Cortés [biographical comment]
All the collected short poems, 1956-1964
All theology is a kind of birthday . . .
Alvarez Arroyo, Jesus
Amadeus, of Hauterive, "The Elder," 1144-1159
Amadeus, Saint, Bishop of Lausanne, 1110-1159
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, d. 397
Ame de tout apostolat, L. English.
Ammonas, Saint, 4th cent.
Ancient Oaxaca : discoveries in Mexican archeology and history ; edited by John Paddock with contributions by Ignacio Bernal [and others]
Andrews, Edward Deming, 1894-1964
Andrews, Faith Elizabeth (Young)
Angel and the machine, The
Angel and the machine, The
Angel, The
Angela, of Foligno, 1248?-1309
Anglican Devotion, by Charles James Stranks
Anglicanisme. Review of English Spirituality, by Martin Thorton.
Anselm, Bishop of Havelberg, d. 1158
Anselm, Fr., O.C.S.O.
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
Anson, Peter Frederick, 1889-
Answer of Minerva, The : pacifism and resistance in Simone Weil
Answer of Minerva, The : pacifism and resistance in Simone Weil
Answers for Hernan Lavin Cerda
Answers on art and freedom
Answers on clerical celibacy
Answers on non-violence : answers to World Campus on Non-violence
Answers on prayer and action.
Answers to T. McDonnell.
Anthology of Islamic literature : from the rise of Islam to modern times
Anthony, of Egypt, Saint, ca. 250-355 or 6
Anti-poem, An : Plessy vs. Ferguson : theme and variations
Apel, William D.
Aphorisms for a contemplative, by John Carmody, S. J. American Benedictine Review 17 (1966).
Aphraates, the Persian sage, fl. 337-345
Apologies to an unbeliever.
Appendix: Is Buddhism life-denying?
Approach to creativity, An
Arasteh, A. Reza, 1927-
Ardrey, Robert
Argument of Minerva, The
Ariadne
Arias Reyero, Maximino
Arnold, Eberhard, 1883-1935
Arsen'ev, Nikolai Sergeevich, 1888-
Art
Art and morality
Art and worship
Art irlandais, L'; by Françoise Henry. Review.
Art of prayer, The : an Orthodox anthology; compiled by Igumen Chariton of Valamo. Notes.
Articles etc. in the Oakhamian (by Thomas Merton).
Ascent to truth, The
Ascetical and mystical theology
Ascetismo e monachesimo prebenedittino
Ash Wednesday
Ashmore, Harry S.
Asian journal of Thomas Merton, The
Asian notes: October 15 to December 7, 1968. Transcribed from holographic journals.
Asín Palacios, Miguel, 1871-1944
Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, d. 373
Attente dans le silence, L' : le père Marie-Joseph Cassant, O. Cist. S. O., by Etienne Chenevière. Preface.
Aubade on a cloudy morning
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Aujourd'hui le Bouddhisme, by Thich Nhât Hanh. Notes.
Auschwitz : a family camp
Authors take sides on Vietnam
Avant garde in the arts, The ; by Henry Winthrop and Gerald Sykes
Averroës, 1126-1198
Awakening of a new consciousness in Zen, The; by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Review.


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Back to Paradise
Baker, Augustine, 1575-1641
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905-1988
Bangkok talk, notes for
Bantu philosophy, by Placied Tempels. Notes.
Baptism in the forest : wisdom and initiation in William Faulkner
Baroque monasticism
Barsotti, Divo
Barth, Karl
Barthes, Roland
Barthes, Roland. Notes.
Barth's dream and other conjectures
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-
Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 329-379
Basis of Christian non-violence, The
BecVar, Arthur N.
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
Benedictine monasticism. Notes.
Benedictine rule and active presence in the world, by Jean Leclercq. Translated from the Italian by Thomas Merton.
Berchmans, M., Mother, O.C.S.O.
Berdiaev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, 1874-1948
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153
Berrigan, Daniel J., Fr., S.J., 1921-
Berrigan, Philip Francis, 1923-2002
Bhagavad Gita as it is, by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupFada, The
Bhaktivedanta Swami, A. C. Prabhupada, 1896-1977
Biblical man (conferences). Notes.
Biot, François
Black magazines, The
Black revolution, The : letters to a white liberal
Black revolution, The : letters to a white liberal
Blake and the new theology. Review of The new apocalypse : the radical Christian vision of William Blake, by Thomas J. Altizer.
Blecker, Michael Paulin, 1931-
Blessed Angela of Foligno. Notes.
Blessed are the meek : the roots of Christian non-violence
Blessed are the meek : the roots of Christian non-violence
Blessed are the meek : the roots of Christian non-violence
Blessed Christian O'Conarchy of Mellifont, Ireland
Blessed Guerric : Easter sermons. Notes.
Blessed Waltheof of Melrose, Scotland
Blessed William of Saint-Thierry, monk of Signy
Blind lions, The
Bolshakoff, Serge (Sergius) Nikolaevich, Dr., 1901-1990
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945. Notes.
Book of pictures (preliminary plan). I. e., Gethsemani : a life of praise.
Books by Thomas Merton. As of 1966 [with places of composition].
Boom!!! Poema de Ludovico Silva. Prólogo de Thomas Merton.
Bourgoint, Jean, 1905-1966
Bowen, E. G. (Emrys George), 1900-
Brahmachari, Mahanambrata, 1904-1999
Breakthrough to peace : twelve views on the threat of thermonuclear extermination. Edited with an introduction by Thomas Merton.
Breit, Marquita, 1942-
Brendan, Saint, the Voyager, ca. 483-577
Brothers and aggiornamento
Bruno, Saint, 1030 (ca.)-1101
Bryant, Jennifer
Buddhism
Buddhism and the modern world
Buddhism and the modern world
Buhler, Charlotte Malachowski, 1893-1974
Bulletin for Collectanea
Butler, Edward Cuthbert, 1858-1934
Cabaud, Jacques
Cairo 1326 (Polish translation)
Call of the desert, The; by Peter Frederick Anson
Call to contemplation, The. Notes.
Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564
Camus : journals of the Plague years
Camus and the Catholic church
Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
Camus. Notes.
Can we survive nihilism? : Satan, Milton, and Camus.
Cancer blues
Canto bilingue
Cardenal, Ernesto, 1925-
Cargo : notes for a talk on Cargo [Cargo cults]
Cargo cults of the South Pacific.
Cargo movements and their implications
Carmody, John, 1939-
Carrera Andrade, Jorge, 1903-1978
Carrera Andrade, Jorge, 1903-1978. Notes and translations.
Carrera Andrade, Jorge, 1903-1978. Notes and translations.
Carta a un poeta sobre Vallejo : commentarios y poemas
Casas, Bartolome´ de las, 1474-1566
Case for a renewal of eremitism in the monastic state, The
Cassant, Marie Joseph, 1878-1903
Cassian, John, ca. 360-ca. 435
Cassiodorus, Senator, ca. 487-ca. 580
Cassiodorus, Senator, ca. 487-ca. 580. Notes.
Caste war of Yucatán, The
Catalonia
Catch of anti-letters, A; by Thomas Merton and Robert Lax
Catholic conscience, The. Notes.
Catholic encyclopedia for school and home, The
Celibacy, statement on clerical
Cell, The
Cells. Notes.
Celtic monasticism. Comment on Les chrétiennes celtiques, by Olivier Loyer.
Certain proverbs arise out of dreams
Cesar Vallejo. Comment.
Chadwick, Nora K. Notes on Poetry and prophecy.
Chadwick, Nora K. (Nora Kershaw), 1891-1972
Challenge of responsibility, The
Ch'an of Shen Hui, The. Introduction.
Chan, Wing-tsit, 1901-
Character and spirit of St. Benedict from St. Gregory's Dialogue II, The
Chariton, Abbot of Valamo
Chautard, J. B. (Jean Baptiste), 1858-1935
Chenevière, Marie E´tienne
Cherokee park
Chi, Richard Hu See-Yee, 1918-
Chrétiennes celtiques, Les; by Olivier Loyer
Christ in der Welt, Der
Christ in the wilderness
Christ lives today
Christ of the desert
Christ the king. Notes.
Christ, sacrement de la rencontre de Dieu, Le; by Edward Schillebeeckx
Christian action in world crisis
Christian and Oriental philosophy of art, by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy. Notes.
Christian commitment, The ; by Karl Rahner. Review.
Christian contemplation. Edited with an introduction by Robert E. Daggy.
Christian culture needs Oriental wisdom
Christian humanism
Christian humanism in the nuclear era
Christian in time of change, The
Christian learning. Notes.
Christian looks at Zen, A. Introduction to The golden age of Zen, by Jingxiong Wu (John C. H. Wu).
Christian looks at Zen, A. Introduction to The golden age of Zen, by Jingxiong Wu (John C. H. Wu).
Christian message in a changing world, The
Christian morality and nuclear war
Christian O'Conarchy, Bl., ca. 1100-1186
Christian perfection. Insert.
Christian perspective in world crisis
Christian self-denial
Christian solitude : notes on an experiment
Christianisme Russe, by Divo Barsotti. Review
Christianisme Russe, by Divo Barsotti. Review
Christianity : post-Hiroshima. Outline.
Christianity and defense in the nuclear age : notes for a conference to an ecumenical group
Christianity and Marxism. Necessity for dialogue.
Christianity and Zen. Notes.
Christmas homily 1963
Christmas night. Excerpt from The seven storey mountain (removed).
Christmas sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny, The
Christmas sermons of Bl. Guerric of Igny, The
Christusontmoeting als Sacrament Van de Godsontmoeting
Chuang Tzu : two rendering
Church in a disillusioned world, The
Church is Christ alive in the world, The. Script for Vatican Pavilion movie at the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Church. Notes.
Cistercian history. Notes.
City in history, The; by Lewis Mumford. Notes.
Civil rights of the monk in Roman and canon law, by Michael Paulin Blecker, O.S.B. American Benedictine Review 17 (1966).
Clark, Walter Houston, 1902-
Classic Chinese thought
Classicism in Faulkner's The bear. Notes.
Classicism in literature. Lecture notes.
Clergy and negativism : passivity and obedience
Climate of mercy, The; for Albert Schweitzer
Climate of monastic prayer, The
Cloud and the fire, The
Cohen, Marvin
Collected poems, The estate of poetry, and Essays on literature and society, by Edwin Muir
Collected works of Ramana Maharshi, The; edited by Arthur Osborne. Review.
Columban, Saint, 543-615
Columbás, García M.
Come to the mountain : new ways and living traditions in the monastic life
Comedy card for a serious case
Comment : re FORUM vol 1 n.1 [1968]
Comment : re FORUM vol 1 n.1 [1968]
Comment on Charlotte Buhler, Tom Stonier, Walter A. Weisskopf
Comments about the religious life today : transcript of a recording made by and edited by Father Louis Merton for Special General Chapter Sister of Loretto, 1967
Comments on article 79 of Constitution on church in modern world
Commonweal, to the editors of the
Commonweal, to the editors of the
Commonweal, to the editors of the
Commonweal, to the editors of the
Communism
Communism, Russian
Communist centralism. Notes.
Community
Community : a monastic witness, by Sr. Agnes Shaw, O.S.B. American Benedictine Review 17 (1966).
Community. Notes.
Concept of acedia, The. Review of The sin of sloth : acedia in medieval thought and literature, by Siegfried Wenzel.
Concept of monastic service, The : its implications for modern society; by Daniel W. Kucera, O.S.B. American Benedictine Review 17 (1966).
Concerning the Catholic Peace Fellowship : three letters and a statement
Concerning the collection in Bellarmine College Library
Conference notes (various)
Conference Notes by Thomas Merton: Mary Our Sister; Resonare Christum; The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe: Notes on a Poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins; Psalm 62
Confessions of Nat Turner, The
Conflict without violence, by Jerome Frank. Comments by Ira Sandperl (corrections and comments by Thomas Merton).
Congdon, William G., 1912-1998
Conjectures of a guilty bystander
Conjectures of a guilty bystander
Consequences, truth and..., by Daniel Berrigan
Constitutions of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance
Consuetudines, The. Edited with a commentary by Thomas Merton.
Contemplation and dialogue
Contemplation and ecumenism
Contemplation and ecumenism
Contemplation and the priesthood
Contemplation et vie contemplative selon Platon, by André Marie Jean Festugière. Notes.
Contemplation in a rocking chair
Contemplation in a world of action
Contemplation. Notes.
Contemplative and the atheist, The
Contemplative life in the modern world, The
Contemplative life today, The. Transcription of tape made for the Savannah Carmel.
Contemplative life, The : its meaning and its necessity
Contemplative life. Transcription from tapes.
Contents of book provisionally called Worldly essays
Continuum, to the Editor of
Conversatio morum. Expanded from a talk given October 6, 1964, North American Novice Masters' Meeting.
Conversatio morum. Expanded from a talk given October 6, 1964, North American Novice Masters' Meeting.
Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
Cooper, David D.
Cooper, John Sherman, 1901-1991
Correspondence : note on Joyce's Ulysses (letter to the editor of the Sewanee Review)
Cortés, Alfonso, 1893-1969
Cortés, Alfonso, 1893-1969
Council and monasticism, The
Council and the Bomb, The [article from Commonweal, Vol. 081 Issue 023 (March 5 1965)].
Covering the Mexican front, by Betty Kirk
Creative silence
Cristofolini, Maria Elena
Critic's choice. Five reviews.
Critique of war, The ; contemporary philosophical explorations. Edited by Robert Ginsberg.
Cross fighters, The : notes on a race war
Cross in our lives, The
Crossportion's Pastoral
Crow, John Armstrong
Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine), 1852-1936
Cur Deus homo and other Anselmiana
Curns, Eileen
Curriculum vitae
Cuttat, Jacques Albert


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D. T. Suzuki : the man and his work
Daggy, Robert E.
Darío, Rube´n, 1867-1916
Darjeeling talk
Dark path, The
Day of a stranger
Day of a stranger and Woods, Shore, Desert
Days of awe, by Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Excerpts.
De contemplando Deo, by William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry
De divinis moribus
de Las Casas, Bartolome´, 1474-1566
De Lubac on Teilhard
De Lubac, Henri, 1896-1991
De Martino, Richard
De moribus divinis
de Osuna, Francisco, d. ca. 1540
Death of a holy terror, The : the strange story of Frère Pascal
Death of God and the end of history, The
Death of God and the end of history, The
Decision and fugue in grey minor
Deification
Delaporte, Théophile, 1900-1998
Delp, Alfred
Demythologizing Bishop Robinson : the Honest to God debate
Deputy, The (Der Stellvertreter), by Rolf Hochhuth
Devout meditation in memory of Adolf Eichmann, A
Dewart, Leslie, 1922-
Dialog with Buddhism. Notes.
Dialogue and renewal in the contemplative life
Dialogues I, by Anselm of Havelberg, Texte latin, note préliminaire, traduction, notes et appendice par le P. Gaston Salet, S.J. Review and notes.
Different drummer, A
Discipline. Notes.
Doctor M. B. Bramachari : a personal tribute
Doctrine spirituelle de Théophane le Reclus, La : le coeur et l'ecrit, by Thomas Spidlik, S. J.
Dohen, Dorothy
Donnelly, Sally
Dorn, Edward
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. Notes.
Drawings (various published drawings)
Drawings of Thomas Merton, The : a note by the artist
Dream of the rood and Anglo-Saxon monasticism, The; by John Fleming
Dry place, The (Polish translation)
Dry place, The (Polish translation)
Dumoulin, Heinrich, Fr., S.J., 1905-1995
Duperray, Edouard


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Early blizzard
Early essay by Thomas Merton written at Oakham School for the Bailey English Prize
Early monasticism
East Harlem book
East with Ibn Battuta (Polish translation)
Easter : the new life
Easter homily
Easter sermons of Blessed Guerric of Igny
Ecological conscience, The
Ecological conscience, The ; values for survival, edited by Robert Disch
Ecrits spirituels, by Jules Monchanin, présentation d'Edouard Duperray. Review.
Ecumenism and monastic renewal
Ecumenism and renewal
Eichmann, Adolf
Elegy for a Trappist
Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
Ellul, Jacques
Encounter : Thomas Merton and D. T. Suzuki
Endless inscription, The
English mystics, The
English Spirituality
Enomiya-Lassalle, Hugo M. (Hugo Makibi), 1898-
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373
Ephraem, Syrus, Saint, 303-373
Epic of Latin America, The; by John Armstrong Crow
Epictetus
Epiphany sermon - 1955
Eremitism in Mallorca. Review of Mallorca eremitica, by un Ermitano.
Eremitism. Comment on L'Eremetisme a la Catalunya Nova, by Eufemià Fort I Cogul.
Eremitism. Comment on L'Eremetisme a la Catalunya Nova, by Eufemià Fort I Cogul.
Eremitisme a la catalunya nova, L'; by Eufemià Fort i Cogul. Studia Monastica 7 (1965) 63-126.
Eric Gill on art
Eros and prayer
Essays of A. J. Muste, The; edited by Nat Hentoff
Essays on literature and society, by Edwin Muir
Essence in mysticism. Notes.
Estate of poetry, The ; by Edwin Muir
Ethelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167
Ethiopian monasticism
Eucharist. Notes.
Eugene III, Pope, d. 1153
Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, ca. 260-ca. 340
Evaluation of his own books. 1967.
Evening: Long distance call
Evolution of medieval thought, The; by David Knowles
Examination of conscience and conversatio morum
Examination of conscience and conversatio morum
Excess, An
Exile ends in glory; the life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O.C.S.O.
Exile ends in glory; the life of a Trappistine, Mother M. Berchmans, O.C.S.O.
Existentialism
Exodus. Notes. 1957-1958
Exordium parvum
Faith
Faith
Faith and violence : Christian teaching and Christian practice
Familiar liturgies of misunderstanding
Father Joseph Cassant, O.C.S.O., by Thomas Merton
Faulkner : a collection of critical essays, edited by Robert Penn Warren
Faulkner and his critics
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
Fenelon : letters of love and counsel, by Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon; selected and tr. from the French by John McEwen
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715
Feofan, Saint, Bishop of Tambov and Shatsk, 1815-1894
Ferry, Wilbur Hugh "Ping", 1910-1995
Festugie`re, A. J. (Andre´ Jean), 1898-1982
Final conference to novices
Final integration : toward a monastic therapy
Final integration in the adult personality, by A. Reza Arasteh. American Journal of Psychoanalysis 25 (1965) 61-73.
Final integration in the adult personality, by A. Reza Arasteh. American Journal of Psychoanalysis 25 (1965) 61-73.
Five important books for Catholic book annual. Reviews.
Five important books for Catholic book annual. Reviews.
Five limericks for Father Raymond languishing in St. Joseph's Infirmary
Flannery O'Connor : a prose elegy. September 1964
Fleming, John
Florence, 1966.
Footnotes to an article
For a renewal of eremitism in the monastic state
For M. in October
For M. on a cold grey morning
For the Edward Dahlberg festschrift
For the Hibakusha. Notes.
For the Union dead
Fort i Cogul, Eufemià, 1908-1979
Forty-three signatures : an exhibit of drawings
Forty-three signatures : an exhibit of drawings
Forum (International Center for Integrative Studies)
Francis, de Sales, Saint, 1567-1622
Francis, of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226
Franciscan eremitism
Franciscan eremitism
François de Sainte-Marie, O.C.D., 1910-1961
François de Sainte-Marie, O.C.D., 1910-1961
Frank, Jerome D. (Jerome David), 1909-
Freedom and authority. Notes.
Frere Pascal : death of a "holy terror"
From pilgrimage to crusade
From primitives to Zen, by Mircea Eliade
Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980
Function of a monastic review, The
Furlong, Monica
Future of belief, The : Theism in a world come of age; by Leslie Dewart