Item sets

• Correspondence: Letters to and from Thomas Merton
• Thomas Merton and The Catholic Worker
  A selection of articles written by Thomas Merton for The Catholic Worker between 1954 and 1968. Also included are reviews of books by Thomas Merton, and a reflections on his impact after his death in 1968.
• Mother Teresa and Lou Torok Collection
  This collection includes papers collected by Lou Torok of his correspondence and friendship with Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Saint Teresa of Calcutta, M.C.). While serving a prison sentence in Kentucky the last decade of his life, Lou Torok petitioned a number of United States governors to proclaim October 7 (some chose another day) as Love Day. October 7 was the anniversary of the day Mother Teresa received permission to establish the congregation that would later be known as the Missionaries of Charity. The Missionaries of Charity observe October 7 as a special day of prayer for those who were hungry, suffering, or abandoned. The collection contains mostly original copies of the gubernatorial proclamations of Love Day in the mid-1990's from various states. There are also writings by and about Lou Torok and information about Mother Teresa receiving the Bellarmine Medal from Bellarmine College (now Bellarmine University).
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Carey, Arthur Graham, 1892-1984"
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Cornell, Thomas Charles, 1934-2022"
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Douglass, James Wilson, 1937-"
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Egan, Eileen Mary Rita, 1911-2000"
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Forest, James H., 1941-2022"
• Audio Recordings by Thomas Merton and Friends
  Audio recorded by Thomas Merton including lectures given as Master of Novices, weekly talks to the community after his move to the Hermitage, and some conferences recorded for religious communities and other groups at conferences or recorded and submitted.
• Photographs by Thomas Merton
  Photographs taken by Thomas Merton during the 1960's.
• Thomas Merton's Manuscripts
• Drawings by Thomas Merton
  This Sub-Section includes art work created by Merton. The Center contains around nine hundred of his drawings. Most of his drawings and calligraphies are in black ink on paper (the quality of the paper varies from art media to scraps of notebook paper). Early items in this collection tend to be more concrete images of religious motifs, such as Christ or the Virgin Mary. His later art becomes increasingly abstract, some of which Merton refers to as "graffiti".
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Collins, Angela of the Eucharist, Mother, O.C.D., 1917-2003"
  NOTE: Most scans are only viewable at the Thomas Merton Center.
• Thomas Merton Correspondence, Miscellaneous
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Winandy, Jacques, Dom, O.S.B., 1907-2002"
• Video recordings related to Merton
• Photographs of Thomas Merton
  Physical holdings processed, finding aid created, and digitized by Barbara Quigley in March 2002. Finding aid transfer to database by Mark Meade in 2010. Added to Omeka in 2018.
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1919-2021"
• Merton Family Photographs
  Collection original contents from box labeled “Baby pictures of Thomas Merton” and “Pictures of Thomas Merton’s Family”. It includes Merton’s relatives and some pre-monastic friends. Physical holdings processed, finding aid created, and digitized by Barbara Quigley in June 2002. Finding aid transfer to database by Mark Meade in 2010. Added to Omeka in 2018.
• Photographs with No Negatives
  The photographs, many by Thomas Merton, a smaller number of Merton, and some by other photographers, were kept in a box of photographs lacking negatives. See also Oversize Photographs with No Negatives (n.o. collection). Physical holdings processed, finding aid created, and digitized by Ethne Evans in 2012. Added to Omeka in 2018 by Mark Meade.
• Photographs with No Negatives (Oversize)
  The photographs, many by Thomas Merton, a smaller number of Merton, and some by other photographers, were kept in a box of photographs lacking negatives. See also Photographs with No Negatives (n.n. collection). Physical holdings processed, finding aid created, and digitized by Ethne Evans in 2012. Added to Omeka in 2018 by Mark Meade.
• Friends and Associates of Thomas Merton Photographs
  Physical holdings processed, finding aid created, and digitized by Barbara Quigley, in December 2001, with additions by Paul M Pearson and Mark Meade. Finding aid transfer to database by Mark Meade in 2010 and added to Omeka in 2018.
• Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Mumford, Lewis, 1895-1990"
• Robert Giroux Collection of Photographs
  Photographs to be used in some of Thomas Merton's books published by Harcourt Brace and edited by Robert Giroux, including The Seven Storey Mountain and The Waters of Siloe. The photographs were not by Thomas Merton, and no photographer is cited. The orignals are prints except the last nine with an "n" in its call number.
• Thomas Merton's Marginalia in Books
  Sub-Section B.5 in the Merton Center Collection includes books owned and read by Thomas Merton with annotations in the margins, inscriptions to him, or sections underlined by him. Books that he had read but that have no such marginalia are in Section B.4.
• Griffin Collection of Merton Photos
• Thérèse Lentfoehr Collection of Merton-Related Photographs
• Audio recordings of lectures about Thomas Merton
• Published Essays by Thomas Merton