Items

• TM1992-xx-01 - Photo of Merton
  Randy Browning oil painting of Thomas MertonPainting is 40" h x 30" w
• TM2003-01-01 - Photo of Merton
  Print of photo of Victor Hammer's drawing of Thomas Merton surrounded by the "shawl" of the Dalai Lama at GethsemniDonated by Michael Fitzpatrick on January 13, 2003
• 1968-04-05: Letter from Thomas Merton to Coretta Scott King after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
• 1967 film clip of Thomas Merton by Doris Dana (silent / color) at the Abbey of Gethsemani
  A portion of a longer film clip filmed October 27-28, 1967. The complete silent, color 16mm footage donated to the Merton Center in 2017.
• Merton Recordings #053 Tr-1 - Dom Colomban Bissey to novices and juniors (in French with transcripts in French and English)
• Merton Recordings #175b Tr-2 - Lecture by Dan Walsh.
• Merton Recordings #211 Tr-6 - Christmas Day mass at Merton's hermitage. Celebrant Fr. Dan Walsh.
• Merton Recordings #212 Tr-2 - Origin of philosophy in the West. Lecture by Dan Walsh.
• Merton Recordings #214 Tr-11 - Trinity Sunday high mass at Gethsemani - Dan Walsh celebrant.
• Harpo and the Clown of God: The Seven-Storied Friendship of Thomas Merton and Robert Lax, a plenary lecture by Michael N. McGregor at the 15th General Meeting of the ITMS, held at St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY, June 16, 2017.
  NB: The live presentation included a slideshow that is not included because of copyright limitations. Michael N. McGregor is the author of Pure Act: The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax (Fordham University Press, 2015). His writings on Lax and Merton have appeared in a variety of publications, including Poetry, Poets & Writers Magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, The Merton Annual, and The Merton Journal. In 2017, he retired as a Professor of Creative Writing and English at Portland State University.