The Thomas Merton Archives at St. Bonaventure University

[Manuscript]

(St. Bonaventure University ms.48)
300 p. : ill. (3 p. of drawings) ; 30.5 x 19 cm.
1939-40.

Cloth bound, ledger style notebook.
60 pages removed, 3 pages blank.
First entry dated: Tuesday, May 2, 1939.
Last entry dated: February 13 [1940].
Sometimes called: Perry Street Journal.
Subject: Written while Merton was a graduate student at Columbia University.

Provenance: Merton had sent this journal to Mark Van Doren when he was preparing to enter the Trappist Order in December of 1941. Van Doren sent it Fr. Thomas Plassmann in January of 1944.

Editions: "Perry Street, New York" in Run to the Mountain. New York: Harper, 1995. p.1-150.