File 22-1, 22-2, 22-3 - Drafts of Downward mobility

3.2 cm of textual records : bound volume ; 29.1 x 22.2 x 1.5 cm

File consists of three draft typescripts of "Downward Mobility: Vocation, Temptation and Formation in Ministry". It is likely this typescript is based on a talk given by Nouwen at the 1980 Zabriskie Lecture at the Virginia Seminary. The paper was later published in The Virginia Seminary Journal (1980). It was also published in a three-part series in Sojourners (1981).
Folder (1) contains draft (1), which is an original typescript with a handwritten title page and other annotations by Nouwen. Folder (2) contains draft (2), which is a typescript annotated by an editor for British publication and includes typed notes from the editor to Nouwen. It appears that Nouwen was preparing to have this typescript published. Folder (3) contains a hard-bound typescript of the text.

Title based on contents of the file.
Draft (1) is from Accession 2002 86(1).
See Calendar Files, box 186, file 677, for more details about the Zabriskie Lecture.
See Publisher Files - Doubleday files, - Darton Longman & Todd Ltd. files, and - General Publisher files, for related material.
See 40. John Mogabgab fonds - Letter from Henri Nouwen to John Mogabgab and Marjorie Thompson, file 2009 12 01, item 2009 12 01 31, for a letter from Nouwen from 1982 regarding his writing and his work on a text titled "Downward Mobility," which he says he gave up on, as it is "a poor text with many repetitions of earlier themes."

Revised by L Joson, 8 November 2018