The Theosophical Quarterly (periodical)
The Theosophical Quarterly was the journal of the Theosophical Society in America (later renamed Theosophical Society) headed by Ernest Temple Hargrove. The editor was Clement Acton Griscom, Jr. It was published in New York from 1903 to 1938. Each year, beginning in 1929, the July issue reported about the annual convention of the organization. This is the mission of the journal, printed in each issue:
The THEOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY is the official organ of the original Theosophical Society founded in New York by H. P Blavatsky, W. Q. Judge and others, in 1875.
We have no connection whatsoever with any other organization calling itself Theosophical, headed by Mrs. Besant or others, nor with similar bodies, the purposes and methods of which are wholly foreign to our own.
Contributors to the periodical often signed their articles with initials or pseudonyms, or remained anonymous. Among the most frequent contributors were Charles Johnston, Henry Bedinger Mitchell, Archibald Keightley, Clement Acton Griscom, Jr., Katharine Hillard, John Scofield, Spencer Montague, John Charlton, John Blake, Jr., and Julia Chickering.
Availability online
- Volumes 1-20 (1903-1922)- high-quality PDFs available at UniversalTheosophy.com.
- Volumes 1-20 (1903-1922) - high-quality PDFs available at IAPSOP.com.
- Volume 1 not available at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 2 not available at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 3 not available at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 4 not available at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 5 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 6 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 7 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 8 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 9 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 10 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 11 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 12 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 13 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 14 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 15 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 16 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 17 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 18 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 19 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 20 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 21 at Google Books.
- Volume 22 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 23 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 24 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 25 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 26 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 27 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 28 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 29 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 30 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 31 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 32 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 33 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 34 at the Internet Archive.
- Volume 35 at the Internet Archive.
Index to the periodical
The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals[2] provides an index to most of this periodical online, listing article titles and authors in chronological sequence, with a search feature. The index is not quite complete.
A Cumulative Index to Theosophical Quarterly for Volume I - XXXV (July 1903 - October 1938) is available in print, and now online.[1] In a posting on Theos-talk, Jake Benson provided this additional information:
The index was anonymously compiled and published in 1966 by the late Joseph Politella, Professor of Religion at Kent State University. http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/faculty/polit.html. He in turn drew upon earlier unpublished attempts to create an authors index by the late John Kirkpatrick, a professor of Music for many years at Cornell and Yale. A copy of this unpublished index are among the Kirkpatrick papers at the Gilmore Music Library at Yale. [That link is broken.] Kirkpatrick in turn utilized an unpublished index compiled anonymously by several TS members.[2]
Jake Benson posted the index at Scribd,com.