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Record Number
2129
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1921
Title
The Tiny House
Journal
American Cookery
Volume
Volume 26
Notes
Soft cover; this is an article written by Thomas Merton's mother Ruth and published during the year of her passing in 1921. This article is the first of 2 articles of the same title published in 1921. It is continued in the November issue of the same magazine.
Label
NP2
Date
October Short Title: The Tiny House
Pages
Pages 182-185.
Record Number
2127
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1922
Title
Come into the Kitchen
Journal
American Cookery
Volume
Volume 26
Notes
Soft cover; this an article written by Thomas Merton's mother Ruth and published shortly after her passing in 1921.
Label
P2
Date
March Short Title: Come into the Kitchen
Pages
Pages 606-608.
Record Number
2128
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1921
Title
The Tiny House #2
Journal
American Cookery
Volume
Volume 26
Notes
Soft cover; this is an article written by Thomas Merton's mother Ruth, and was published during the year of her passing in 1921. This item is a continuation of the same article in the October 1921 issue if the same magazine. It also contains a poem by Ruth Merton titled, "To Make a Tiny House".
Label
NP2
Date
November Short Title: The Tiny House #2
Pages
Pages 255-257 and pages 289-291.
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
2531
Reference Type
Pamphlet
Year
1953
Title
The Sign of Jonas / Sampler of excerpts from the forthcoming book Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Edition
Promotional material for book to be released in the fall of 1953. Short Title: The Sign of Jonas / Sampler of excerpts from the forthcoming book
Notes
Softcover pamphlet. Promotional pamphlet for Merton's journal, "The Sign of Jonas." Includes an 8 page exceprt from the book, and a 2 page intro by Merton.
Label
N
Pages
Includes an 8 page exceprt from the book, and a 2 page intro by Merton. 11 pages total.
Record Number
2529
Reference Type
Book
Year
1999
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain / 50th anniversary edition.
Publisher
Harvest, Harcourt, Mariner
Number of Pages
467 pages
Edition
Merton Centenary edition, 1915-2015.
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
2521
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition - The Silent LIfe Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns and Oates
Number of Pages
134
Edition
First hard cover "Collected" edition. Short Title: Collected Edition - The Silent LIfe
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
NI
Record Number
2522
Reference Type
Book
Year
1944
Title
Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year / signed Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year / signed
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; inscribed and signed by Merton's friend Robert Lax to Daniel Hall.
Label
NYUO
Record Number
2523
Reference Type
Book
Year
1964
Title
Come to the Mountain Place Published: Snowmass, Colorado
Publisher
St. Benedict's Monastery
Edition
First soft cover edition. Short Title: Come to the Mountain
Notes
Soft cover; this item was the precurser to the Cistern Life pamphlet series.
Label
N
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
Record Number
2097
Reference Type
Book
Year
1961
Title
Collected Edition / The Silent Life Place Published: London
Publisher
Burns & Oates
Number of Pages
134
Edition
First hard cover issue of "Collected Edition". Short Title: Collected Edition / The Silent Life
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
I
Record Number
2101
Reference Type
Book
Year
1973
Title
Pasternak / Merton: Six Letters Place Published: Lexington, KY
Publisher
King Library
Number of Pages
28
Edition
First hard cover limited edition. Short Title: Pasternak / Merton: Six Letters
Notes
Cloth no dust jacket (as issued); limited edition - # 100/150.
Label
L
Record Number
2096
Reference Type
Book
Year
1951
Title
La Nuit Privee D'Etoiles / French language edition of The Seven Storey Mountain. Place Published: Paris
Publisher
Editions Albin Michel
Number of Pages
395
Edition
First French soft cover edition. Short Title: La Nuit Privee D'Etoiles / French language edition of The Seven Storey Mountain.
Notes
Soft cover, with 1/3 height publishers wrap-around band with endorsement by Graham Greene .
Label
7F
Record Number
2093
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1942
Title
Aubade/ Lake Erie
Journal
The New Yorker
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this item in a periodical.
Label
P
Date
August 1 Short Title: Aubade/ Lake Erie
Pages
Page 27.
Record Number
2094
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Thornton, Francis B.
Year
1948
Title
A Man in the Divided Sea / Poem: 1939; The Oracle; The Betrayal; The Sponge Full of Vinegar; The Evening of the Visitation
Publisher
The Bruce Publishing Company
Edition
First hard cover signed edition. Short Title: A Man in the Divided Sea / Poem: 1939; The Oracle; The Betrayal; The Sponge Full of Vinegar; The Evening of the Visitation
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket; inscribed and signed by Thornton (editor). This item is an early anthology to include Merton's writing.
Label
CUY
Pages
Pages 850-852.
Book Title
Return to Tradition / A Directive Anthology Place Published: Milwaukee
Record Number
2095
Reference Type
Book Section
Editor
Connolly, Francis X.
Year
1948
Title
The Biography; St. John Baptist; Clairvaux; Ode to the Present Century; An Argument - Of the Passion of Christ
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: The Biography; St. John Baptist; Clairvaux; Ode to the Present Century; An Argument - Of the Passion of Christ
Notes
Cloth; an early anthology to contain Merton's writing.
Label
C
Pages
Pages 702-707.
Book Title
Literature / The Channel of Culture Place Published: New York
Record Number
2091
Reference Type
Book
Year
2000
Title
A Zen Es A Falank Madarak / Hungarian translation of Zen and the Birds of Appetite Place Published: Budapest, Hungary
Publisher
Terebess
Number of Pages
128
Edition
First Hungarian hard cover edition.
Notes
Cloth.
Label
F
Translator
Antal, Eros Laszlo Short Title: A Zen Es A Falank Madarak / Hungarian translation of Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Record Number
2088
Reference Type
Book
Year
1948
Title
The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Number of Pages
429
Edition
Early "[b.7.1948]" black cloth edition. Short Title: The Seven Storey Mountain
Notes
Early black cloth edition (likely second printing) in first state jacket; page 176, line 21 Mr. Riley is noted.
Label
7
Record Number
2089
Reference Type
Book
Year
1981
Title
The Last of the Fathers Place Published: New York
Publisher
Harvest/HBJ
Number of Pages
123
Edition
Reprint Harvest/HBJ soft cover edition. Short Title: The Last of the Fathers
Notes
Soft cover.
Record Number
2090
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
La Montana de los Siete Circulos / Spanish edition of The Seven Storey Mountain Place Published: Barcelona, Buenos Aires
Publisher
E. D. H. A. S. A.
Number of Pages
543
Edition
First Spanish hard cover edition.
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Label
7F
Translator
Tur, Aquilino Short Title: La Montana de los Siete Circulos / Spanish edition of The Seven Storey Mountain
Record Number
2087
Reference Type
Book
Year
1947
Title
Figures for an Apocalypse / signed Place Published: Norfolk
Publisher
New Direction
Number of Pages
111
Edition
First hard cover printing. Short Title: Figures for an Apocalypse / signed
Notes
Black cloth and dust jacket; signed and inscribed by Merton, "In Corde Jesu, F.M. Louis OCR". Merton signed some of his books with his Monastic name "Louis" and also used the blessing "In Corde Jesu" (In the heart of Jesus) and "OCR" (Order of Cistercians - reformed - research). He used a similar method of signing, for example, in the book, "Thomas Merton and James Laughlin - Selected Letters" (see page 38). A rare and interesting find, coming originally from the significant collection of a Merton collector.
Label
SUO
Record Number
2084
Reference Type
Book
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.
Record Number
2086
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
Selected Poems of Thomas Merton Place Published: London
Publisher
Hollis & Carter
Number of Pages
113
Edition
Uncorrected proof soft cover edition. Short Title: Selected Poems of Thomas Merton
Notes
Soft cover (with no exterior markings); uncorrected proof (unstated).
Label
R
Record Number
2080
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1936
Title
Original hand-written letter (#2) by Thomas Merton with envelope Place Published: Douglaston, L.I., NY.
Notes
This is the second of two relatively early original letters from Merton, signed "Tom", to Alfred Hailparn, his co-editor of the 1937 number of THE 1937 COLUMBIAN, the Columbia University yearbook (see "Original hand written letter (#1) by Thomas Merton with envelope" for the other). This one concerns solicitations of advertisers for the yearbook: "...we are more earnest in getting prospects lined up than hopeful of getting any signatures on the dotted line as yet ... we are each going to work independently on a bunch of prospects that appear good to us ...." He inquires about the possibilities of making connections through Hailparn's father: " ... Far from being a question of advertising out of charity it would show certain advantages -- college men drink a lot of beer! ...". This letter and the other are accompanied by the 1937 edition of The Columbian yearbook which was edited by Merton and Hailpern (with two others) and prominently features Merton in text, photos and cartoons (approx. 30 appearances in all). See "Original 1937 The Columbian Yearbook" for details.
Label
USE
Date
August 20
Pages
Single hand-written sheet on personal letterhead - written on recto and verso.
Type of Work
correspondence Short Title: Original hand-written letter (#2) by Thomas Merton with envelope
Record Number
2075
Reference Type
Book
Year
1958
Title
La Montee Vers La Lumiere / French language translation of "Ascent to Truth" Place Published: Paris
Publisher
Editions Albin Michel
Number of Pages
235
Edition
First hard cover French edition (library rebound).
Notes
This item is a library rebound hard cover of the soft cover edition.
Label
F
Translator
Tadie, Marie Short Title: La Montee Vers La Lumiere / French language translation of "Ascent to Truth
Record Number
2076
Reference Type
Book
Year
1968
Title
Zen and the Birds of Appetite Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Number of Pages
141
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Zen and the Birds of Appetite
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
2077
Reference Type
Book
Year
1944
Title
Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year Place Published: New York
Publisher
New Directions
Edition
First hard cover edition. Short Title: Thirty Poems: The Poets of the Year
Notes
Cloth.
Label
O
Record Number
2078
Reference Type
Book
Year
1972
Title
Domysly Wspol Winnego Widza / Polish language edition of "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" Place Published: Warsaw, Poland
Publisher
Biblioteka "Wiezi
Number of Pages
320
Edition
First Polish soft cover edition.
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
F
Translator
Morawska, Anna Short Title: Domysly Wspol Winnego Widza / Polish language edition of "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
Record Number
2079
Reference Type
Manuscript
Year
1936
Title
Original hand-written letter (#1) by Thomas Merton with envelope Place Published: Douglaston, L.I., NY.
Notes
This is the first of two relatively early original letters from Merton, signed "Tom Merton" to Alfred Hailparn, his co-editor of the 1937 number of THE 1937 COLUMBIAN, the Columbia University yearbook (see "Original hand written letter (#2) by Thomas Merton with envelope" for the other). Intending to get a head start on yearbook production, Merton writes: "First & most important: tell Anne ____ to go to hell. It is too late now as we have signed up with White. I'm sorry you didn't get the card ... I took White's man along & got a number of swell shots around the place. Just wait until you see them! Furthermore I am going to make another trip up there with him & get a lot more: I want plenty of pictures of campus in the book & there are lots of swell old cuts too ... I am working 8 hours a day up at Radio City these days so I have not had much time to scout around myself. However - the time will come. As to engravers - they can wait ....". This letter and the other are accompanied by the 1937 edition of The Columbian yearbook which was edited by Merton and Hailpern (with two others) and prominently features Merton in text, photos and cartoons (approx. 30 appearances in all). See "Original 1937 The Columbian Yearbook" for details.
Label
USE
Date
June 18
Pages
Single hand-written sheet on personal letterhead - written on recto and verso.
Type of Work
correspondence Short Title: Original hand-written letter (#1) by Thomas Merton with envelope
Record Number
2066
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
Final Integration / Toward a "Monastic Therapy
Journal
Monastic Studies
Volume
All Saints
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 87-99. Short Title: Final Integration / Toward a "Monastic Therapy
Record Number
2067
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1968
Title
The Spiritual Father in the Desert Tradition
Journal
Monastic Studies
Volume
Easter
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 87-111. Short Title: The Spiritual Father in the Desert Tradition
Record Number
2068
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1972
Title
Origen
Journal
Monastic Studies
Volume
Spring
Notes
Soft cover.
Label
P
Pages
Page 117-118. Short Title: Origen
Record Number
2065
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1966
Title
Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought; Orthodoxy and the World
Journal
Monastic Studies
Volume
Advent
Notes
Soft cover; both articles are the first appearances in a periodical.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 17-54; 105-115. Short Title: Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought; Orthodoxy and the World
Record Number
2062
Reference Type
Book
Year
1950
Title
What Are These Wounds? Place Published: Milwaukee
Publisher
The Bruce Publishing Company
Number of Pages
191
Edition
Second hard cover printing. Short Title: What Are These Wounds?
Notes
Cloth and dust jacket.
Record Number
2064
Reference Type
Journal Article
Year
1964
Title
The Humanity of Christ in Monastic Prayer
Journal
Monastic Studies
Volume
Epiphany
Notes
Soft cover; this is the first appearance of this article in a periodical.
Label
P
Pages
Pages 1-27. Short Title: The Humanity of Christ in Monastic Prayer