Items

• Butler, Cuthbert - Western mysticism; the teachings of SS Augustine, Gregory and Bernard on contemplation and the contemplative life (Second edition, [N. Y.] : Dutton, [1951]). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
  Handwritten note in book is not in Merton's handwriting. There are very light pencil marks that may be Merton's. Copy was originally marked as belonging to the "Brothers Novitiate" library. Merton references Butler's book in a letter of April 15, 1959 to Father Mark Weidner, O.C.S.O. Accessioned from Thomas Merton's hermitage in June 2026.
• The Seven Storey Mountain Editions and Translations: Spanish language (1951) Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 2nd paperback edition
• The Seven Storey Mountain Editions and Translations: English language (1951) Garden City Books Reprint Edition
• Rilke, Rainer Maria. The life of the Virgin Mary [Das Marien-Leben] ([New York] Philosophical Library [1951]). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Pound, Ezra. Confucius: the great digest and Unwobbling pivot (New York: New Directions, 1951). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Evans-Wentz, W.Y. Tibet's great yogi, Milarepa: a biography from the Tibetan; being the Jetsün-Kahbum or biographical history of Jetsün-Milarepa (London : Oxford University Press, 1951). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.