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• The Seven Storey Mountain Editions and Translations: English language (1948) Harcourt Brace, First Edition Black Cloth (signed)
• The Seven Storey Mountain Editions and Translations: English language ([ca 2000s]) Harcourt Brace, First Edition White Cloth (counterfeit)
• The Seven Storey Mountain Editions and Translations: English language (1948) Harcourt Brace, First Edition Black Cloth, No Dust Jacket
• The Seven Storey Mountain Editions and Translations: English language (1948) Harcourt Brace, First Edition Black Cloth
• 1965-03-09: Letter from Thomas Merton to Robert D. Crane (with handwritten annotations by Crane)
  Robert D. Crane was a Research Associate with the Center for Strategic Studies and was later with the Hudson Institute for National Security and International Order in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. He was involved in Republican Party functions and conservative-leaning think-tanks on national and international security and outer space security. He was a chief advisor to Richard Nixon from 1962-1967. In 1980, he converted to Islam and took the name Farooq Abdul Haq.
• The Rosary and Its Mysteries (October): a section from "The Liturgical Year" by Thomas Merton, conference notes for novices at Gethsemani Abbey
• Deborah Kehoe - Thomas Merton and Southern Writing. Presented for the Tuesdays with Merton Series, April 12, 2022.
  Thomas Merton’s appreciation for the work of notable literary artists of the southern United States and Global South is well-documented throughout his writing. Using the broadest of criteria, Merton, by virtue of having found his only stable earthly home in the hills of Kentucky, can also be identified as a “southern writer,” in whose works evidence of a deep affinity with the voices of the expansive South can be heard. In this talk, I hope to explore some of the classical and contemporary particulars as well as the implications of a poetic and spiritual connection between Merton and other writers of a compelling, enigmatic body of literature. Dr. Deborah Kehoe is a lifelong resident of Mississippi, born and raised in Jackson, now living in Oxford. She took a PhD in English with a concentration in twentieth-century literature from the University of Mississippi and is retired from a decades-long career of teaching rhetoric and literature in the red clay hills of her native state. She is a former member of the ITMS Board of Directors and current co-editor of The Merton Annual.
• Blessed Beatrice, Prioress of Nazareth [Abbey], Lierre, Belgium (pages 239-243, from Modern biographical sketches of Cistercian Blessed and Saints, Book IV, by a Monk of Gethsemani Abbey [Thomas Merton])
• 1962-08-09: Letter from Thomas Merton to Shinzo Hamai, Mayor of Hiroshima, Japan
• Gregory K. Hillis - What Does Thomas Merton Have to Tell Us About Catholic Identity? Presented for the Tuesdays with Merton Series, March 8, 2022.
  Since His Death in 1968, Merton’s Catholic identity has been regularly questioned, both by those who doubt the authenticity of his Catholicism given his commitment to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and by those who admire Merton because they see him as an aberration who rebelled against his Catholicism. In my presentation, I want to talk about how thoroughly immersed Merton was in his Catholic identity and to explore what we can learn today about what he can teach us about a Catholicism simultaneously rooted in tradition and open to the world and to others. Dr. Gregory K. Hillis is Professor of Theology & Religious Studies at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. His doctoral research was on early Christian theology, with a particular focus on St. Cyril of Alexandria. In the last few years he has turned his attention to the life and writings of Thomas Merton. He teaches a popular undergraduate course on Merton and has delivered lectures around the United States on Merton’s theology. He has written both academic and popular articles on Merton’s life and authored the recent book Man of Dialogue: Thomas Merton’s Catholic Identity (Liturgical Press, 2021).