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Record Number
2343
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1936
Title
The Chaste
Journal
The Columbia jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 26
Notes
Soft cover; this item also contains 2 drawing by Merton (pages 9 and 12), a drawing by Ad Reinhardt (page 3), and an article by Robert Lax "Summer" (page 15). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Date
January Short Title: The Chaste
Pages
Pages 18 and 22
Record Number
2344
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1938
Title
Drawing
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 38
Notes
Soft cover; this item also contains 3 articles by Merton's friend Robert Lax titled "Worlds Fair" (pg 18), "Sarter Resartus" (pg 21), "The Snarl in the Balcony" (pg 24). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Date
Medieval Issue Short Title: Drawing
Pages
Page 26
Record Number
2345
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1938
Title
Bob Lax's Small Oasis - Look Tiger and Spring for all
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 39
Notes
Soft cover; this item also contains a drawing by Merton (pg 23) and 3 by Ad Reinhardt (pg 7, 8, 9). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Date
April Short Title: Bob Lax's Small Oasis - Look Tiger and Spring for all
Pages
Page 33
Record Number
2346
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1938
Title
Bob Lax's Small Oasis - Look Tiger and Spring for all
Journal
The Columbia Jester magazine
Volume
Volume 39
Notes
Soft cover; this item also contains a drawing by Merton (pg 23) and 3 by Ad Reinhardt (pg 7, 8, 9). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Date
April Short Title: Bob Lax's Small Oasis - Look Tiger and Spring for all
Pages
Page 33
Record Number
2347
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1938
Title
Drawing
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 39
Notes
Soft cover; this item also contains an article titled "Bob Lax's Oasis / a Joke" (possibly by Merton - similar title to other Merton contributions, see vol 39, #5). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Date
February Short Title: Drawing
Pages
Page 24
Record Number
2348
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1938
Title
Window (pg 10); Voyage to Nyak (pg 12 and 26); Your Night to Howl (pg 21)
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 39
Notes
Soft cover; this item also includes a drawing by Merton (pg 12) and Ed Rice (pg 16) and an article by Merton's friend Robert Gerdy titled "As we don't See Them" (pg 9). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Date
March Short Title: Window (pg 10); Voyage to Nyak (pg 12 and 26); Your Night to Howl (pg 21)
Record Number
2349
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1938
Title
Bob Lax's Oasis / Old Glory Old Junk
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 39
Notes
Soft cover; this item also contains cover artwork by Ad Reinhardt and 2 drawings by Merton (page 12 and 13). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Pages
Pages 8 and 23 Short Title: Bob Lax's Oasis / Old Glory Old Junk
Record Number
2350
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1937
Title
Raw Lie Unraw (first line of untitled poem)
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 39
Notes
Soft cover; this item also contains an article by Merton's friend Robert Lax titled "14 Ocks" and a drawing by Ed Rice (pg 25).
Label
NUP1
Date
October Short Title: Raw Lie Unraw (first line of untitled poem)
Pages
Page 16
Record Number
2353
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1937
Title
Bob Lax's Oasis / Happy Planets Happy Beasts
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 39
Notes
Soft cover; this item also contains 4 drawings by Merton (pg 8), a drawing by Ad Renhardt (pg 27), and a drawing by Ed Rice (pg 21). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Date
December Short Title: Bob Lax's Oasis / Happy Planets Happy Beasts
Pages
Page 16
Record Number
2354
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1937
Title
Drawings (3)
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 38
Notes
Soft cover. Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Pages
Pages 9, 39, 41 Short Title: Drawings (3)
Record Number
2355
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1937
Title
Bob Lax's Oasis / Nineteen Questions for Social Blights
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 39
Notes
Soft cover; this item also includes an article by Robert Lax titled "Legend for an Ungracious Lady" (pg 24).
Label
NUP1
Date
November Short Title: Bob Lax's Oasis / Nineteen Questions for Social Blights
Pages
Page 24
Record Number
2356
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1937
Title
Drawings (3)
Journal
The Columbia Jester Magazine
Volume
Volume 37
Notes
Soft cover; This item also contains an article by Merton's friend Robert Lax titled "Snarl in the Balcony" (pg 17-19), and a drawing by ed Rice (pg 24). Note: drawings by Merton contained in the Jester magazine are not mentioned in Dell'Isola.
Label
NUP1
Date
Omnibus Issue Short Title: Drawings (3)
Pages
Pages 12, 14, 25
Record Number
2361
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1956
Title
Two Meditations for our Members / The Priest in Union with Mary Immaculate
Journal
Convivium
Volume
#1
Notes
Soft cover, this article is unique in that it has not been published elsewhere. This item was received with gratitude from Paul Turner Harris - friend of Dorothy Day and Catherine Doherty. This item also contains the preface to Merton's Living Bread.
Label
NUP
Date
First year Short Title: Two Meditations for our Members / The Priest in Union with Mary Immaculate
Pages
Pages 27-37.
Record Number
2309
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
The Death of God and the End of History
Journal
Theoria and Theory
Volume
Volume #2
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label
NP
Date
October Short Title: The Death of God and the End of History
Pages
Pages 3-16.
Record Number
2311
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1963
Title
Rise up O Men of God / Prepare for Disarmament
Journal
The New Zealand Christian Pacifist
Volume
Volume 17
Notes
Soft cover; this article was published under the title Two Articles by Thomas Merton / The Root of war; Red or Dead: The Anatomy of a Cliche, by Fellowship Publications in 1962. This is the only time it was published using the Rise up O Men of God title.
Label
NP
Date
September Short Title: Rise up O Men of God / Prepare for Disarmament
Pages
Pages 1-2.
Record Number
2289
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1950
Title
Song (When rain...)
Journal
Poetry Quarterly
Volume
Volume 12
Label
PN
Date
Summer Short Title: Song (When rain...)
Pages
Page 68
Abstract
Soft cover; this poem was first published in "Tears of the Blind Lions" (1949).
Record Number
2291
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1964
Title
Truth and Violence
Journal
Continuum
Volume
Volume 2
Notes
Soft cover, this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label
NP
Date
Summer Short Title: Truth and Violence
Pages
Pages 268-281
Record Number
2293
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1948
Title
The Gift of Understanding
Journal
The Tiger's Eye
Volume
Volume 1
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this essay in a periodical - not published again until 1961.
Label
NP
Date
December Short Title: The Gift of Understanding
Pages
Pages 41-45
Record Number
2276
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1962
Title
If You Seek a Heavenly Light
Journal
Approach / A Literary Quarterly
Notes
Soft cover; this item has not been mentioned in any bibliographic texts, and is likely the first appearance of this item in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
Spring Short Title: If You Seek a Heavenly Light Call Number: NP
Pages
Page 2
Record Number
2188
Reference Type
Pamphlet
Year
1963
Title
Comment on Erich Fromm's "War Within Man" Published Source: Beyond Deterrence
Publisher
American Friends Service Committee
Edition
Soft cover pamphlet; first appearance of this "comment" in print. Short Title: Comment on Erich Fromm's "War Within Man
Notes
Soft cover
Label
NP
Pages
Pages 44-50
Record Number
2186
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Faith and Violence (excerpt)
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 34
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label
NP
Date
November Short Title: Faith and Violence (excerpt)
Pages
Page 1
Record Number
2187
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
Ishi - A Meditation
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 33
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent. This issue contains an article by Dorothy Day.
Label
NP
Date
March-April Short Title: Ishi - A Meditation
Pages
Pages 5-6
Record Number
2181
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
The Shoshoneans (a Review Article)
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 33
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label
NP
Date
June Short Title: The Shoshoneans (a Review Article)
Pages
Pages 5-6
Record Number
2182
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
Auschwitz: A Family Camp
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 33
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label
NP
Date
November Short Title: Auschwitz: A Family Camp
Pages
Pages 4, 5, 8
Record Number
2183
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Sacred City
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Vol 34
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent.
Label
NP
Date
January Short Title: The Sacred City
Pages
Pages 4-6
Record Number
2184
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
An Ideal Society
Journal
Catholic Worker
Volume
Volume 34
Notes
Newsprint - price 1 cent. This article is not elsewhere published or mentioned in other bibliographic references.
Label
NPU
Pages
Page 4 Short Title: An Ideal Society
Record Number
2542
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1962
Title
The Root of War
Journal
Pax Bulletin
Label
NPM
Date
January Short Title: The Root of War
Pages
Pages 5-6
Abstract
Soft cover. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Record Number
2540
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Way of Chuang Tzu / offprint
Journal
The Mountain Path
Notes
Soft cover; offprint of this excerpt from Way of Chuang Tzu - unique in that it has not been previously noted by bibliographers and is the earliest addition to a periodical of this text. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPM
Date
April Short Title: The Way of Chuang Tzu / offprint
Pages
Pages 102-105
Record Number
2541
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1966
Title
The Zen Koan / offprint
Journal
The Lugano Review
Volume
Volume 1/5-6
Label
NPM
Pages
Pages 126-139 Short Title: The Zen Koan / offprint
Abstract
Soft cover; offprint of this review of The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau; first publication of this essay in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Record Number
2168
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1947-1948
Title
Contemplation in a Rocking Chair (1948); Death of a Trappist (1947)
Journal
Integrity
Volume
2
Notes
Bound volume 2 of "Integrity" containing all issues from October 1947 - September 1948. Of interest the "Contemplation in a Rocking Chair" article seems not to have been published elsewhere - an early and rare peice of Merton writing.
Label
NPU
Date
Nov 1947; August 1948 Short Title: Contemplation in a Rocking Chair (1948); Death of a Trappist (1947)
Pages
Pages 3-8 (#2); Pages 15-23 (#11).
Record Number
2169
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Great Men of Former Times / Poem - signed
Journal
Genesis Grasp
Volume
Volume 1
Notes
Soft cover; inscribed and signed by the editor Richard Meyers.
Label
NPY
Pages
Pages 16-17 Short Title: The Great Men of Former Times / Poem - signed
Record Number
2539
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Ecumenism and Monastic Renewal / offprint
Journal
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Volume
Volume 5
Notes
Soft cover; offprint and first appearance of this item in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPMU
Pages
Pages 268-283 Short Title: Ecumenism and Monastic Renewal / offprint
Record Number
2538
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
The Death of God, 1: The Death of God and the End of History / offprint
Journal
Theoria to Theory
Volume
Volume 2
Notes
Soft cover; offprint and the first appearance of this item in print. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPM
Date
October Short Title: The Death of God, 1: The Death of God and the End of History / offprint
Pages
Pages 3-16
Record Number
2121
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
Epitaph for a Public Servant (In Memoriam - Adolph Eichmann)
Journal
Motive
Volume
Volume 27
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
May Short Title: Epitaph for a Public Servant (In Memoriam - Adolph Eichmann)
Pages
Pages 16-17.
Record Number
2122
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1964
Title
To Each his Darkness, Some Paradoxes in Julian Green / Flying Signatures (title of drawings) / an essay and 4 calligraphic drawings
Journal
Charlatan - What Can this Charlatan be Trying to Say???
Volume
Volume 1
Notes
Unbound portfolio. This is the first appearance of this Merton poem and drawings in a periodical; the item includes 6 plates that are each numbered and signed by their artists, as well as the literature sections and contents page. All contents come in the original folder. Art by Robert Friemark, Clay Walker, Carole Hedges, Douglas Prince, Gerald Gedekes and Charles Cook. Literary contributions by Thomas Merton among others.
Label
P
Pages
4 pages. Epub Date: First soft cover portfolio edition. Short Title: To Each his Darkness, Some Paradoxes in Julian Green / Flying Signatures (title of drawings) / an essay and 4 calligraphic drawings
Record Number
2123
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Dialogue and Renewal in the Contemplative Life
Journal
Spiritual Life
Volume
Volume 14
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first apearance of this item in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
Spring Short Title: Dialogue and Renewal in the Contemplative Life
Pages
Pages 41-52.
Record Number
2124
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Solitude
Journal
Spiritual Life
Volume
Volume 14
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first apearance of this item in a periodical and is the expanded version of the article titled "The Cell" from the periodical Sobernost.
Label
P
Date
Fall Short Title: Solitude
Pages
Pages 171-178.
Record Number
2125
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1969
Title
Openness and Cloister
Journal
Spiritual Life
Volume
Volume 15
Notes
Soft cover; this is an early appearance of this article in a periodical - one of the last articles Merton wrote before his death.
Label
P
Date
Spring Short Title: Openness and Cloister
Pages
Pages 26-36.
Record Number
2537
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
Day of a Stranger / offprint
Journal
Hudson Review
Volume
Volume 20
Notes
Soft cover; offprint of this article and its frist appearance in a periodical. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPM
Date
Summer Short Title: Day of a Stranger / offprint
Pages
Pages 211-218
Record Number
2536
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
War and Vision / review of Two Leggings: The making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov (1967) - offprint
Journal
Theoria to Theory
Volume
Volume 2
Notes
Soft cover; this is an offprint of this article. This item is a part of a group of over 30 original mimeographs and offprints purchased from Merton bookdealer Jeannette Cantrell who received them from monk of Gethsemani Tom Zele. This group of items were obtained by Zele during the 1960s while living alongside Merton at the monastery.
Label
NPUM
Date
July Short Title: War and Vision / review of Two Leggings: The making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov (1967) - offprint
Pages
336-342
Record Number
2535
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper
Journal
The Kentucky Review
Volume
Volume 2, #1
Notes
Soft cover; first appearance of this article in published print form (perceded by mimeograph, also in Merton-artifacts collection).
Label
NP
Date
February Short Title: Rites for the Extrusion of a Leper
Pages
Pages 26-30
Record Number
2534
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1934
Title
No, We Won't Print it
Journal
Esquire / The Magazine for Men
Notes
Soft cover; an early appearance of Merton in print. This is a letter by Merton to the editor of Esquire magazine.
Label
PNU
Pages
Page 14 Short Title: No, We Won't Print it
Record Number
2518
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1949
Title
The Contemplative Life / Its Meaning and Necessity
Journal
Dublin Review
Notes
Soft cover. This item is the original 10 page article separated from the volume. This is Merton's first original periodical publication outside the United States.
Label
NPU
Date
Winter Short Title: The Contemplative Life / Its Meaning and Necessity
Pages
Pages 26-35
Record Number
2111
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1950
Title
September, 1949
Journal
The Month
Volume
Volume 3
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
February Short Title: September, 1949
Pages
Pages 107-113.
Record Number
2108
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1947
Title
The Landfall
Journal
The Tiger's Eye
Volume
Volume 1
Notes
Soft cover magazine; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical. "The Tiger's Eye" is a literary magazine featuring prose, poetry and artwork from Thomas Merton, William Stafford, Anais Nin, Marianne Moore, Herbert Cahoon, Jorge E Eielson, Emilio Adolf Westphalen, David Cornell DeJong, Allan Block, Owen Dodson, Marya Zaturenska, Van Wyck Brooks, Barnett B. Newman, Rufino Tamayo, Ian Hugo, and Aaron Siskind.
Label
P
Date
October Short Title: The Landfall
Pages
Pages 1-2.
Record Number
2103
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1966
Title
For the Spanish Poet Miguel Hernandez
Journal
The Sewanee Review
Volume
Volume LXXIV
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
Autumn Short Title: For the Spanish Poet Miguel Hernandez
Pages
Pages 897-898.
Record Number
2104
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Pearse, B. Rajan & Andrew
Year
1946
Title
Poem; Dirge for the Proud World
Publisher
Dennis Dobson Ltd
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Poem; Dirge for the Proud World
Label
P
Pages
Pages 82-83.
Book Title
Focus 2 Place Published: London
Abstract
Cloth and dust jacket; the poem titled "Poem" does not appear to be published elsewhere, and is not listed in bibliographic references. It begins with, "April, like a leopard in the windy woods...".
Record Number
2105
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1967
Title
Newscast
Journal
Free Lance
Volume
Volume 6
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first (and previously unmentioned by bibliographers) publication of this Merton poem in a periodical. Free Lance was a magazine put out of the Student Assembly of Washington University. This issue features an interview with Allen Ginsberg and contributions from Louis Lomax, David Friedman, Bob Elliott, Ray W. Frankland, Lowell Miller, John Bing, Samiron Chatterjee, Bob Gimprich, A.C. Forester, John Dressel, Mike Hudson, Gary Graff, X.J. Kennedy, Will Inman, George Abbe, Thomas Merton, Tod Gitlin and Bob Ross.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 32-33. Short Title: Newscast
Record Number
2107
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Renouveau de la Formation Monastique
Journal
Collectanea Cisterciensia
Volume
Volume 30
Notes
Soft cover; this article was published as "Renewal in Monastic Education" in Cistercian Studies Quarterly 3, 1968, and was translated by Charles Dumont OCSO. This is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 211-217. Short Title: Renouveau de la Formation Monastique
Record Number
2102
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1965
Title
And So Goodbye to Cities
Journal
The Aylesford Review
Volume
Volume VII
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this poem in a periodical (and up to now uncatalogued).
Label
P
Date
Autumn Short Title: And So Goodbye to Cities
Pages
Pages 187-188