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• Akhilananda, Swami. Hindu psychology: its meaning for the west (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul [©1948]). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• Alfieri, Vittorio; a cura di Michele Scherillo. La vita, le rime e altri scritti minori (Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1917). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
  "T.F. Merton. Oct. 1933." written inside by Thomas Merton. Merton would have been beginning his first term at Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
• Cookson, William (editor). Agenda: Vol. 3, no. 2, William Carlos Williams Special Issue (October-November 1963 / London : Agenda, 1963). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
  Inscribed "Fr. Tom" [Thomas Merton], likely by W. H. "Ping" Ferry.
• Cookson, William (editor). Agenda: Vol. 2, no. 11 and 12 (March-April 1963 / London : Agenda, 1963). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
  Inscribed to Thomas Merton by W. H. "Ping" Ferry. Contents: Canto CXI / Ezra Pound -- The Tutelar of the Place / David Jones -- Two Poems / Donald Hall -- Didactic Poem / Peter Levi, S.J. -- On Peter Levi / John Bayley.
• Agadjanian, Georges. Le froid de l'enfer (Paris : Promotion et édition, ©1966). A novel from Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
  Inscribed by the author: "For Father Thomas Merton, with my most grateful and cordial esteem. Georges Agadjanian". Georges Agadjanian was a professor at Gannon College in Erie, Pennsylvania at the time of correspondence with Thomas Merton (1967). He describes himself as a French writer preparing to write for the American audience.
• Agehananda Bharati. The Tantric Tradition (London, Rider 1965 [i.e. 1966]). Thomas Merton's Marginalia Collection.
• TM1968-08-01c - Photo of Merton
  Close-up (cropped), indoors, wearing dark shirt partly open. Cropped version of a photo by Fr. August Thompson (possibly 8-14-68, per journal entry of 8-15-68).
• "The Gate of Heaven Is Everywhere"—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 28, 2019, by Robert Ellsberg.
  Robert Ellsberg is the Publisher of Orbis Books and the author, most recently, of A Living Gospel: Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives. His other award-winning books include Blessed Among Us: Saintly Lives for Every Day, All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, and The Saints’ Guide to Happiness. He served as managing editor of The Catholic Worker for two years during the last years of Dorothy Day, and he has dedicated himself to editing her work and promoting her mission. He has edited Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, and All the Way to Heaven: Selected Letters of Dorothy Day. In addition he has edited anthologies of Thich Nhat Hanh, Gandhi, Flannery O’Connor, Charles de Foucauld, and Pope Francis. For the past four years he has written a daily entry on saints for Give Us This Day.
• "Madness and Meaning: Thomas Merton and the Sixties"—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 27, 2019, by Joseph Quinn Raab.
  Joseph Quinn Raab is professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Siena Heights University. He received a Ph. D. in theology from the University of St. Michael’s College, at the University of Toronto (2000). He is co-editor of The Merton Annual: Studies in Culture, Spirituality and Social Concerns. Thomas Merton produced his most poignant social critiques in the nineteen sixties. With Foucault’s Madness and Civilization in 1961 and Hannah Arendt’s Eichman in Jerusalem in 1963, the problem of what madness means was in the public discourse.     This paper explores the problem of “madness” in the final years of Merton’s life and considers their continued relevance in our own mad world.
• “From the Inner Frontier to the Last Frontier: Thomas Merton’s 1968 Alaska Journey"—ITMS Sixteenth General Meeting at Santa Clara University in California, June 27, 2019, by Kathleen Tarr.
  Kathleen Tarr is the author of We Are All Poets Here (2018). She earned her MFA at the University of Pittsburgh and serves on the board of the Alaska Humanities Forum. In 1968, Merton spent 17 days in the land of tundra, glaciers, rain forests, and sacred and majestic mountains—Alaska. An intimate interpretation will be offered about Merton’s short, yet profound, sojourn north. New spiritual insights and physical details will deepen our understanding of this mostly overlooked aspect of Merton’s biography.