Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Cistercian Ephemera Collection is primarily composed of nineteenth and twentieth century pamphlets, offprints, photocopies of articles and book chapters, as well as postcards, video recordings and other items relating to the history of the Cistercian order, particular abbeys, significant figures in Cistercian history or the Roman Catholic Church, in general. The subjects of the materials include histories of abbeys, sermons of religious figures, observances and constitutions of the...

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One leaf of a book jacket for Thomas Merton, The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy); Book jacket for an English publication of Thomas Merton's Secular Journal.