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Record Number
2593
Reference Type
Book
Year
1948
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain / Advance Review Copy Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Number of Pages
429 pages
Edition
Advance Review Copy with slip tipped in. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain / Advance Review Copy
Notes
Cloth; Advance Copy with slip tipped in. Stamped on the review slip is the release date as Oct 4, 1948 and the price of $3.00. There is no dust jacket but has origianl flaps of the dust jacket laid in with date stamped Sept 13, 1948 (presumeably the date received). Edition stated is "b-7-48" on colophon page.
Label
NUR
Record Number
2579
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1936
Title
How Time Goes; Your Night to Howl (this second essay co-authored with "Coit")
Journal
Columbia Jester - Christmas Issue
Volume
Vol. XXXVIII
Notes
Soft cover, also included are 5 peoms by Robert Lax on page 14 and a drawing on page 35. Cover art by Ad Reinhardt.
Label
NU1
Pages
How Time Goes: 26-27 Your Night to Howl: 32-33 Drawings by Merton: 21, 33 Short Title: How Time Goes; Your Night to Howl (this second essay co-authored with "Coit")
Record Number
1354
Reference Type
Book
Year
1963
Title
The Christian as Peacemaker Place Published: Nyack
Publisher
Fellowship Publications
Number of Pages
4
Edition
First Fellowship offprint soft cover edition. Short Title: The Christian as Peacemaker
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
UM
Record Number
1347
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
Waters of Silence - limited deluxe edition Place Published: London
Publisher
Theodore Brun Limited
Number of Pages
299
Edition
First hard cover limited deluxe edition - #47/50 Short Title: Waters of Silence - limited deluxe edition
Notes
Leather bound (no dust jacket as issued); as stated on the page opposite the foreword by Evelyn Waugh: "This Limited de Luxe Edition is published by special arrangement with Hollis & Carter, Ltd., London, and appears simultaneously with their first edition. One hundred and twenty copies have been printed for sale. In addition, five copies, numbered I to V, have been struck off as presentation and reference copies." Also states, "Fifty copies 1 to 50, are available to members of The Collectors Book Club only." This is copy #47 (therefore one of the 50 Collectors Book Club editions).
Label
UL
Record Number
1319
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1961
Title
Chant to Be Used in Processions Around a Site with Furnaces
Journal
Journal for the Protection of All Beings
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
PU
Pages
Pages 5-7 Short Title: Chant to Be Used in Processions Around a Site with Furnaces
Record Number
1321
Reference Type
Book
Year
1956
Title
Marthe, Marie et Lazare Place Published: Paris
Publisher
Desclee De Brower
Number of Pages
145
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Marthe, Marie et Lazare
Notes
Cloth (no jacket as issued).
Label
UF
Record Number
1288
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1978
Title
Hagia Sophia Place Published: Lexington
Publisher
Stamperia del Santuccio
Number of Pages
8
Edition
First Magnani paper cloth edition. Short Title: Hagia Sophia
Notes
Cloth (no dust jacket as issued); "When, in 1961, Merton gave the manuscript of "Hagia Sophia" to the Stamperia del Santuccio to be published under its imprint, two editions were planned: the first to be a small issue of 50 copies on Magnani paper with a frontispiece engraving, "Hagia Sophia and the Young Christ", after Victor Hammer's triptych painting, 1953-1956. The text pages for this edition were printed in 1961 but as the engraving was not yet finished, the decision was made to re-set the type and print a variant edition on Whatman paper as Opus XVll, 1962, of Stamperia del Santuccio imprints. Victor Hammer never finished the engraving. Now, a decade after his death, and the death of Thomas Merton, the pages of the text that he had printed and the unfinished engraving, printed here from the brass plate as he left it, are together in rememberance in this small volume. - C. R. H., December, 1978" - this text is taken from one of the front pages of this edition. This book is the last one to bear the imprint of Stamperia del Santuccio. Carolyn Hammer printed the frontispiece and title page for this 1978 edition.
Label
UDL
Record Number
1201
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1963
Title
The Black Revolution Place Published: Atlanta
Publisher
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Number of Pages
14 unnumbered pages (starting and ending on the inside of the front and back covers)
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Black Revolution
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
1198
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1958
Title
La Montee Vers La Lumiere / limited edition Place Published: Paris
Publisher
Editions Albin Michel
Number of Pages
234
Edition
First hard cover French limited edition.
Notes
Cloth; this is a first limited edition with the Alfama watermark but it is unclear whether it is a proof edition, or number 1 or perhaps Roman numeral I of the 310 limited editions that were printed (300 numbered and 10 Roman numerals).
Label
LUF
Translator
Tadie, Marie Short Title: La Montee Vers La Lumiere / limited edition
Record Number
1165
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1948
Title
Louteringsberg / Dutch translation of Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: Utrecht Brussel
Publisher
Het Spectrum
Number of Pages
441
Edition
First Dutch hard cover edition of Seven Storey Mountain.
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
7UF
Translator
Noorbeek, Andre Short Title: Louteringsberg / Dutch translation of Seven Storey Mountain
Original Publication
Seven Storey Mountain
Record Number
1121
Reference Type
Manuscript
Title
Notes on Art and Worship / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto only. In "The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton" (1984, page 319) Mott reports that in 1959 Merton was interested in writing a book on religeous art. Such a book was never published although some material did appear in different essays. This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Sixty-five numbered pages (not including title page and green card covers) bound in black comb binding.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Notes on Art and Worship / mimeograph
Record Number
1120
Reference Type
Manuscript
Title
An Exchange of Letters on Monastic Questions / Br. M. Louis O.C.S.O. and Ronald Roloff O.S.B. / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso. This manuscript found as part of "School of Charity". This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Thirty numbered pages (not including title page and card covers) bound in black comb binding.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: An Exchange of Letters on Monastic Questions / Br. M. Louis O.C.S.O. and Ronald Roloff O.S.B. / mimeograph
Record Number
2574
Reference Type
Book
Year
1985
Title
Clairvaux Place Published: Santa Barbara
Publisher
Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies, UCSB
Number of Pages
15 unnumered pages
Edition
First soft cover limited edition - 1/15
Notes
One of 15 copies. Slim octavo (21cm); hand-sewn wrappers, with text letterpress printed on Rives Heavyweight; [16]pp. Briefly inscribed (in pencil) on the colophon, likely by the unattributed printed. Privately printed edition of Merton's poem dedicated to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, which first appeared in The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton (New Directions, 1977). A curious and tiny production, published by students in one of the last places Merton would visit during his lifetime. Not mentioned in any of the standard Merton references, and not found in OCLC.
Label
NUL
Date
December Short Title: Clairvaux
Record Number
2567
Reference Type
Magazine Article
Year
1949
Title
Raw Lie Unraw
Volume
Volume 47 (XLVll)
Notes
Soft cover; Laughing Lion Issue. This issue of Columbia's humour magazine includes contributions by noted past graduate from Columbia University including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, and Ad Reinhardt
Label
N1U
Pages
Page 11 - drawing by Merton; page 21 - poem by Merton Short Title: Raw Lie Unraw
Magazine
Jester of Columbia
Issue Number
Number 5
Record Number
2559
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Contemplation in a World of Action (excerpt)
Journal
Bloominewman
Volume
Volume 2
Notes
Soft cover; this item is a periodical of the University of Louisville. 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
NPU
Date
April Short Title: Contemplation in a World of Action (excerpt)
Pages
Pages 1-5
Record Number
2547
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1965
Title
Schema Thirteen / An Open Letter to the American Hierarchy Place Published: Privately printed at the Abbey of Gethsemani (Trappist, KY)
Notes
Original mimeograph. 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
NUM
Date
July
Pages
8 typed pages (recto and verso) plus typed cover/title page
Type of Work
Original mimeograph Short Title: Schema Thirteen / An Open Letter to the American Hierarchy
Record Number
2544
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
[1961]
Title
Clement of Alexandria / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at the Abbey of Gethsemani (Trappist, KY)
Notes
Original mimeograph in textured blue/green card covers and bound in plastic comb binding. 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
NUM
Pages
Unpaginated, printed on rectos only.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Clement of Alexandria / mimeograph
Record Number
2489
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Seeds of Contemplation / signed Place Published: Norfolk, CT
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First cloth signed limited edition - 1/100 Short Title: Seeds of Contemplation / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket in slip case; limited edition 1/100 and signed by Merton.
Label
NLSU
Record Number
2474
Reference Type
Book Section
Year
1956
Title
The Pope and the Virgin Mary
Publisher
Typis polyglottis Vaticanis
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Pope and the Virgin Mary
Notes
Leather; this book contains articles on 34 aspects of Pope Pius XII's reign (1876-1956) and composed by "eminent scholars from the entire world to honor the eightieth birthday of the Pope" including this scarcely known article by Merton. Articles are written in Italian, French, English, German, Spanish, Latin, and Portuguese.
Pages
Pages 399-415 (553 pages total)
Book Title
Pio XII Pont. Max. - Postridie Kalendas Martias MDCCCLXXVI-MDCCCCLVI Place Published: Rome
Record Number
1111
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
The Climate of Mercy / for Albert Schweitzer / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso. This item appeared in the book "Love and Living" (1979). This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Date
April, 1964
Pages
Fifteen numbered pages (plus title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: The Climate of Mercy / for Albert Schweitzer / mimeograph
Record Number
1112
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
The Climate of Monastic Prayer / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso. This item appeared in Cistercian Studies Series, No. 1, 1981 and was expanded into the book "Contemplative Prayer" (1969) with it's progression followed by William H. Shannon in "Thomas Merton's Dark Path" (1982). This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Water of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Eighteen numbered pages (plus title page) staple removed in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
First mimeographed edition. Short Title: The Climate of Monastic Prayer / mimeograph
Record Number
1113
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1963
Title
The Name of the Lord / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso. This item was published in Seasons of Celebration (1965). This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Fourteen numbered pages (plus title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: The Name of the Lord / mimeograph
Record Number
1114
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
Honest to God / Letter to a Radical Anglican / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph (one of 2 copies in this collection - both stamped from the "Convent of Saint Helena", one from Versailles and one from Vales Gate); text on recto and verso. Merton comments on this item in "Road to Joy" (page 249) in a letter to Sister Theresa Lentfoehr and a rewrite of the letter appears in "Faith and Violence" (1968). This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Thirteen numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Honest to God / Letter to a Radical Anglican / mimeograph
Record Number
1115
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
Honest to God / Letter to a Radical Anglican / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph (one of 2 copies in this collection - both stamped from the "Convent of Saint Helena", one from Versailles and one from Vales Gate); text on recto and verso. Merton comments on this item in "Road to Joy" (page 249) in a letter to Sister Theresa Lentfoehr and a rewrite of the letter appears in "Faith and Violence" (1968). This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Thirteen numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Honest to God / Letter to a Radical Anglican / mimeograph
Record Number
1116
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
Memorandum / On Monastic Renewal / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto only. This manuscript appears in "The Monastic Journey" (1978) and may have been referred to in a journal entry in "Vow of Conversation" (1988, page 69) where he states, "I have been sending out a mimeograph memorandum on monastic reform and evidently Dom James does not like it". This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Five numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner with bottom page undone.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Memorandum / On Monastic Renewal / mimeograph
Record Number
1117
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
Flannery O'Connor -- A Prose Elegy / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto only. This manuscript appears in "Raids on the Unspeakable" (1966) and is referred to by Mary Jo Weaver in the article "Thomas Merton and Flannery O'Connor: The Urgency of Vision" published in "Thomas Merton: Pilgrim in Progress" (1983). This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Date
September, 1964
Pages
Five numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Flannery O'Connor -- A Prose Elegy / mimeograph
Record Number
1118
Reference Type
Manuscript
Title
Evagrius Ponticus / Monk of Scete / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso. This manuscript is a translation that was believed to have been made by Merton and was certainly sent by Merton to Vails Gate (Merton's name is written at the top left corner of the manuscript. Texts include: I - "Sentences to Cenobites", II - "Selected Sentences", III - "The Monastic Ascesis", IV - "Sentences to Virgins". This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Twenty numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Evagrius Ponticus / Monk of Scete / mimeograph
Record Number
1119
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1963
Title
Pre Benedictine Monachism / Series 1 / Rufinus, Cassian, St. Pachomius, St. Basil etc. / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso. This manuscript is published as "Pre-Benedictine Monasticism: Initiation into the Monastic Tradition" (2006). This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Ninety-six numbered pages (not including title page and card covers) bound in black comb binding.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Pre Benedictine Monachism / Series 1 / Rufinus, Cassian, St. Pachomius, St. Basil etc. / mimeograph
Record Number
2470
Reference Type
Book
Year
[1956]
Title
The Pope of the Virgin Mary
Publisher
The Marion Library, University of Dayton
Number of Pages
15 (1-15) pages
Edition
First soft Marion reprint edition. Short Title: The Pope of the Virgin Mary
Notes
Soft cover. This item is a separate reprint from "Pio XII Pont. Max. Postridie Kalendas Martias MDCCCLXXVI-MDCCCCLVI" (1876-1956), a book composed by "eminent scholars from the entire world to honor the eightieth birthday of the Pope". Also noted, "published with ecclesiastical approval". This format is excedingly rare with only 2 others located on the WoldCat database of libraries.
Series Title
Marion Reprint - #62 Place Published: Dayton, Ohio
Record Number
1110
Reference Type
Manuscript
Title
Eight Freedom Songs / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto only. This item is referred to in "Road to Joy" (page 62) in a letter to Aunt Kit where Merton says, "I am even now writing some songs ["Eight Freedom Songs"] for a negro singer [Robert Lawrence Williams] to sing in a concert that is supposed to help the civil rights movement". This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU3
Pages
Eleven unnumbered pages (with unpublished introduction typed on title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Eight Freedom Songs / mimeograph
Record Number
1106
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
Monastic Vocation and the Background of Modern Secular Thought / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto only (see also a 2nd copy of this mimeograph in this collection where text is on recto and verso - both original documents). This item is roughly written at times, often in point form and appears to be a typed copy of Merton's notes for a discussion. Later became "Vocation and Modern Thought" in "Contemplation in a World of Action". This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Date
October, 1964
Pages
Sixteen numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Monastic Vocation and the Background of Modern Secular Thought / mimeograph
Record Number
1107
Reference Type
Manuscript
Title
A Ruler's Examination of Conscience; Some Texts from Francois Fenelon / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso. In this mimeograph copy page 7 is missing. This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Fourteen numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: A Ruler's Examination of Conscience; Some Texts from Francois Fenelon / mimeograph
Record Number
1108
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1963
Title
The Advent Mystery / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto only. This item appeared in the December 1963 Worship Magazine and published in Seasons of Celebration (1965) as "Advent: Hope or Delusion?". This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Pages
Nine numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: The Advent Mystery / mimeograph
Record Number
1109
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
The Monk in the Diaspora / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso with rubber stamp on front cover "Not For Publication". This item got strong reaction as Merton noted when he referred to in "A Vow of Conversation" (page 70) in which he wrote, "My article "The Monk in the Diaspora" is making more noise and perhaps raising more trouble than I anticipated"; and also on page 73, "...I also had to change "The Monk in the Diaspora" for the French translation. The Abbot does not like it"; and on page 78, "All this started with the article "The MOnk in the Diaspora" which turns out to have been a kind of time bomb". A version of this manuscript was also published in Seeds of Destruction as "The Christian in the Diaspora". This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Date
January, 1964
Pages
Fifteen numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: The Monk in the Diaspora / mimeograph
Record Number
1105
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1964
Title
Monastic Vocation and the Background of Modern Secular Thought / mimeograph Place Published: Privately printed at Gethsemani (Trappist, Kentucky)
Notes
Mimeograph; text on recto and verso (see also a 2nd copy of this mimeograph in this collection where text is on recto only - both original documents). This item is roughly written at times, often in point form and appears to be a typed copy of Merton's notes for a discussion. Later became "Vocation and Modern Thought" in "Contemplation in a World of Action". This mimeograph is part of a larger set of mimeographs that was obtained from the convent of Saint Helena at Vails Gate, New York. One of the sister's there had met with Merton with a few others while she resided at a sister house at Versailles, Kentucky (this meeting was noted in "The School of Charity" on page 198 and in "Dancing in the Waters of Life - Journal #5" on page 40). From that meeting the convent was put on Merton's mailing list and received numerous mimeographs in the 1960s - some of which are housed in this collection. Some of the publication information of these mimeographs was obtained with the kind participation of Patricia Burton, noted Merton bibliographer.
Label
MU
Date
October, 1964
Pages
Sixteen numbered pages (not including title page) stapled in the upper left corner.
Type of Work
Mimeograph Short Title: Monastic Vocation and the Background of Modern Secular Thought / mimeograph
Record Number
1062
Reference Type
Book
Year
1955
Title
No Man is an Island Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
233
Edition
Hollis & Carter uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: No Man is an Island
Notes
Soft cover; uncorrected proof edition.
Label
UR
Record Number
1071
Reference Type
Magazine Article
Year
1968
Title
The Historical Consciousness / (first published in Contemplative Review Volume 1, #2, 1968).
Volume
This volume dedicated to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Merton's death. Includes articles by many who knew him.
Notes
Soft cover; in addition to Merton article contains articles on Merton by Patrick Hart, David Cooper, Wayne Teasdale, Gertrude Wilkinson, Irving Sussman, Pat O'Connell, Bonnie Thurston, Cornelia Jessey, Archbishop Rembert Weakland, Mitch and Kathy Finley and Joan Williams.
Label
U
Pages
Pages 3 - 4 Short Title: The Historical Consciousness / (first published in Contemplative Review Volume 1, #2, 1968).
Magazine
Living Prayer
Issue Number
Nov - Dec. 1988
Record Number
1073
Reference Type
Book
Year
1954
Title
The Last of the Fathers / signed Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
123
Edition
First British hard cover edition - signed by Merton. Short Title: The Last of the Fathers / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; item obtained from British admirer of Merton who made a personal pilgrimage in the 1950's to Gethsemani to meet with Merton. Four signed books resulted from that meeting and are now housed in this collection.
Label
SU
Record Number
1074
Reference Type
Book
Year
1954
Title
Bread in the Wilderness / signed Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
140
Edition
First British hard cover edition - signed by Merton. Short Title: Bread in the Wilderness / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; item obtained from British admirer of Merton who made a personal pilgrimage in the 1950's to Gethsemani to meet with Merton. Four signed books resulted from that meeting and are now housed in this collection.
Label
SU
Record Number
1075
Reference Type
Book
Year
1958
Title
Thoughts in Solitude / signed Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
101
Edition
First British hard cover edition - signed by Merton. Short Title: Thoughts in Solitude / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; item obtained from British admirer of Merton who made a personal pilgrimage in the 1950's to Gethsemani to meet with Merton. Four signed books resulted from that meeting and are now housed in this collection.
Label
SU
Record Number
1076
Reference Type
Book
Year
1949
Title
Elected Silence / signed Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
381
Edition
Third British hard cover printing - signed by Merton. Short Title: Elected Silence / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; item obtained from British admirer of Merton who made a personal pilgrimage in the 1950's to Gethsemani to meet with Merton. Four signed books resulted from that meeting and are now housed in this collection.
Label
SU
Record Number
1080
Reference Type
Book
Year
1954
Title
Elected Silence / cheap edition Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
333
Edition
Seventh hard cover edition labelled "Cheap Edition" on spine, with alternate dust jacket art work by Pagram. Short Title: Elected Silence / cheap edition
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
U
Record Number
1036
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1968
Title
Three Saviors in Camus / offprint Place Published: New York
Notes
Stapled printed wrappers; first separate soft cover issue reprinted from THOUGHT Fordham University Quarterly, vol. XLIII, no.168, Spring 1968. Item obtained from the collection of the estate of John Howard Griffin.
Label
MU
Pages
23 (The pagination of the original article from THOUGHT has been preserved).
Type of Work
First separate soft cover issue, an offprint from THOUGHT vol. XLlll, no. 168, spring 1968. Short Title: Three Saviors in Camus / offprint
Record Number
1038
Reference Type
Book
Year
1964
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain / signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.
Number of Pages
429
Edition
Later "AA.10.64" black cloth edition - Signed by Merton. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket, signed and inscribed by Merton, "To Milton ----- Cordially yours Tom Merton".
Label
7SU
Record Number
1032
Reference Type
Journal Article
Picture
Year
1963
Title
Hagia Sophia
Journal
Ramparts
Volume
1
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first time this item has appeared in a periodical.
Label
PU
Date
March Short Title: Hagia Sophia
Pages
65-72
Record Number
1025
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1964
Title
New Seeds of Contemplation Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates (Cardinal Books)
Number of Pages
230
Edition
First Burns and Oates soft cover edition. Short Title: New Seeds of Contemplation
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
1007
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1978
Title
What is Contemplation? Place Published: Springfield, Illinois
Publisher
Templegate Publishers
Number of Pages
78
Edition
First Templegate soft cover edition. Short Title: What is Contemplation?
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Record Number
974
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1965
Title
The Climate of Monastic Prayer / mimeograph Place Published: Trappist
Notes
Mimeograph; first soft cover edition. This title was first published in book form in 1969. There are major textual differences between this mimeograph and the expanded, published text. The mimeograph is much briefer and differs in sequence: the introduction and Chapters l-lV here are nearly identical to the corresponding portions of the book; Chapter V corresponds to Chapter Xl of the book; Chapter Vl to Chapter XlV of the book and Chapter Vll to Chapter XVl of the book. The mimeographed version ends after Chapter Vll.
Label
MU
Date
Revised Edition, October, 1965
Pages
31 leaves with title page. Printed on recto and verso and spiral-bound.
Type of Work
Revised mimeographed spiral-bound soft cover edition. Short Title: The Climate of Monastic Prayer / mimeograph
Record Number
970
Reference Type
Book
Picture
Year
1953
Title
Veinte Poemas (Spanish translation of twenty Merton poems) Place Published: Madrid
Publisher
Ediciones Rialp, S.A.
Number of Pages
64
Edition
First Spanish soft cover limited edition - #65 of 600 Short Title: Veinte Poemas (Spanish translation of twenty Merton poems)
Notes
Soft cover; limited edition (#65/600).
Label
LU
Record Number
960
Reference Type
Book
Year
1957
Title
The Psalms are Our Prayers
Publisher
Burns, Oates &Washbourne Ltd.
Number of Pages
42
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: The Psalms are Our Prayers
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
U
Series Title
Paternoster Series #15 Place Published: London