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  The Secular Bookhouse by Thomas Merton, a manuscript originally drafted as "Me and the Secular Bookhouse" and published with revisions as "My Visits to the Secular Bookhouse"

  This draft of a piece later published as "My Visits to the Secular Bookhouse" was contributed by Merton to the Staff Log, an employee publication of the Louisville Free Public Library. Merton writes in gratitude for Louisville's library and librarians and in praise of librarians in general, also giving insights into some of his varied interests in literature and music.