Box 1
Contains 41 Results:
Thomas Merton to Dorothy Day, 1960-1961
Includes typed letters to Jim Forest as well as photocopied correspondence to and from Dorothy Day, Pope Paul VI, Tom Cornell, John Heidbrink, Shonzo Hamai (Mayor of Hiroshima), and A.J. Muste.
Collection is open for research.
Thomas Merton and Jim Forest, 1961-1967
Includes typed letters to Jim Forest as well as photocopied correspondence to and from Dorothy Day, Pope Paul VI, Tom Cornell, John Heidbrink, Shonzo Hamai (Mayor of Hiroshima), and A.J. Muste.
Collection is open for research.
Thomas Merton to Jim Forest, 1962-1968
Includes typed letters to Jim Forest as well as photocopied correspondence to and from Dorothy Day, Pope Paul VI, Tom Cornell, John Heidbrink, Shonzo Hamai (Mayor of Hiroshima), and A.J. Muste.
Collection is open for research.
Albi, Tarn, France, approximately 1980
Includes images of Merton's childhood, his family and acquaintances, monastic life, and Gethsemani Abbey. Many of the photographs were used in Forest's Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton and Thomas Merton: A Pictorial Biography.
Collection is open for research.
Catherine de Hueck Doherty, approximately 1930
Includes images of Merton's childhood, his family and acquaintances, monastic life, and Gethsemani Abbey. Many of the photographs were used in Forest's Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton and Thomas Merton: A Pictorial Biography.
Collection is open for research.
Clare College, Cambridge, approximately 1975
Includes images of Merton's childhood, his family and acquaintances, monastic life, and Gethsemani Abbey. Many of the photographs were used in Forest's Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton and Thomas Merton: A Pictorial Biography.
Slides require use of a light box provided by the Burns Library Reading Room.
Friendship House, Harlem, New York, approximately 1930
Includes images of Merton's childhood, his family and acquaintances, monastic life, and Gethsemani Abbey. Many of the photographs were used in Forest's Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton and Thomas Merton: A Pictorial Biography.
Collection is open for research.
Gethsemani Abbey, approximately 1970
Photographs by Patrick Hart, Ron Seitz, and Jim Forest.
Collection is open for research.
Jim Forest, approximately 1980
Includes a photograph of Forest meeting Pope John Paul II.
Collection is open for research.
Mass card featuring Thomas Merton, 1979
Photograph by John Howard Griffin.
Collection is open for research.
Merton at his hermitage, contact sheets, approximately 1965
Photographs by Jim Forest.
Collection is open for research.
Merton's belongings, approximately 1965
Merton's sandals, a stole worn by Pope John XXIII and given to Merton, and a bronze cross given to Merton by Pope Paul VI
Collection is open for research.
Merton's hermitage, approximately 1965
Photographs by Jim Forest and Ron Seitz.
Negatives in shared box 1274 are not an access medium and are not available for use; print photographs in box 1 are available for access.
Merton's wake, funeral, and grave, 1968
Photographs by Dom Cees Tholens and Patrick Hart.
Content notice
Includes images of Merton's dead body lying in state.
Negatives in shared box 1274 are not an access medium and are not available for use; print photographs in box 1 are available for access.
Merton with others, 1939-1968
Merton with Daniel Berrigan, SJ, Bob Cumare, the Dalai Lama, Miguel Grinberg, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Patrick Hart, Robert Lax, Jean Leclercq, John Harvard Yoder, and others
Collection is open for research.
Owen and Ruth Jenkins Merton, approximately 1920
Thomas Merton's parents. Also includes a photograph of "Old Curiosity Shop," a painting by Owen Merton.
Collection is open for research.
Tom Cornell, approximately 1965
Includes images of Merton's childhood, his family and acquaintances, monastic life, and Gethsemani Abbey. Many of the photographs were used in Forest's Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton and Thomas Merton: A Pictorial Biography.
Negatives in shared box 1274 are not an access medium and are not available for use; print photographs in box 1 are available for access.
Thomas Merton, 1915-1968
Photographs by Jim Forest, Tenzin Geshe, John Howard Griffin, Ruth Merton, Ed Rice, Philip Stark, and Dom Cees Tholens.
Negatives in shared box 1274 are not an access medium and are not available for use; print photographs in box 1 are available for access.
"The Advent Mystery", 1963
Primarily prose works written by Merton between 1963 and 1968, as well as some poetry, translations, and Merton's MA thesis. Some manuscripts feature editorial comments by Merton and Forest. Subjects addressed include philosophy (Western and Eastern), Catholic theology and practice (primarily monasticism, prayer, and social awareness), contemporary social and political issues, and literature.
Collection is open for research.
"Aids to Mental Prayer", undated
Primarily prose works written by Merton between 1963 and 1968, as well as some poetry, translations, and Merton's MA thesis. Some manuscripts feature editorial comments by Merton and Forest. Subjects addressed include philosophy (Western and Eastern), Catholic theology and practice (primarily monasticism, prayer, and social awareness), contemporary social and political issues, and literature.
Collection is open for research.
"And the Children of Birmingham", poem, approximately 1963
Primarily prose works written by Merton between 1963 and 1968, as well as some poetry, translations, and Merton's MA thesis. Some manuscripts feature editorial comments by Merton and Forest. Subjects addressed include philosophy (Western and Eastern), Catholic theology and practice (primarily monasticism, prayer, and social awareness), contemporary social and political issues, and literature.
Collection is open for research.
"The Answer of Minerva: Pacifism and Resistance in Simone Weil", before 1965 March
Primarily prose works written by Merton between 1963 and 1968, as well as some poetry, translations, and Merton's MA thesis. Some manuscripts feature editorial comments by Merton and Forest. Subjects addressed include philosophy (Western and Eastern), Catholic theology and practice (primarily monasticism, prayer, and social awareness), contemporary social and political issues, and literature.
Collection is open for research.
"Answers on Art and Freedom", before 1963 October
Primarily prose works written by Merton between 1963 and 1968, as well as some poetry, translations, and Merton's MA thesis. Some manuscripts feature editorial comments by Merton and Forest. Subjects addressed include philosophy (Western and Eastern), Catholic theology and practice (primarily monasticism, prayer, and social awareness), contemporary social and political issues, and literature.
Collection is open for research.
"Anthology of Irish Poetry", 1964 September
Primarily prose works written by Merton between 1963 and 1968, as well as some poetry, translations, and Merton's MA thesis. Some manuscripts feature editorial comments by Merton and Forest. Subjects addressed include philosophy (Western and Eastern), Catholic theology and practice (primarily monasticism, prayer, and social awareness), contemporary social and political issues, and literature.
Collection is open for research.
"Apologies to an Unbeliever", 1966 April
Primarily prose works written by Merton between 1963 and 1968, as well as some poetry, translations, and Merton's MA thesis. Some manuscripts feature editorial comments by Merton and Forest. Subjects addressed include philosophy (Western and Eastern), Catholic theology and practice (primarily monasticism, prayer, and social awareness), contemporary social and political issues, and literature.
Collection is open for research.