The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection

The Henri J.M. Nouwen Archives and Research Collection (Archives) consists of more than 50 linear metres of material created and accumulated by Henri Nouwen in his lifetime.

The Archives includes drafts of manuscripts, more than 16 000 incoming letters, over 200 sound and video recordings, lecture notes and handouts, adminstrative files from L'Arche Daybreak, business correspondence and other material related to Nouwen's publishers, photographs, research material collected by Nouwen on Anton T. Boisen, Seward Hiltner, Vincent Van Gogh, Thomas Merton, and the Circus, as well as a complete set of his published books (including translations), and a comprehensive collection of articles published by Nouwen between 1957 and 1996.

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