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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Mary Margaret, Mother, C.H.C.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963-1967, 1975

Volume: 20 item(s); 28 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Mother Mary Margaret was the Anglican abbess of Holy Cross Convent in Sussex, England. She discusses ecumenical dialogue between Catholics and Anglicans and broader topics of ecumenism.

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Related Information and Links

See also published letters from Merton to Mother Mary Margaret in The School of Charity, pp. 197, 279, 283-284; and see also the archives of the Holy Cross Convent in Sussex, England for originals of Merton's signed letters (carbon copies and photocopies of all but one letter [see transcript and photocopy dated 1965/12/17] are in the Merton Center collection).

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/12/12 (#01)TALSto MertonFor several years now we have been publishing a series of meditations on Christian Unity, and I am   
 1963/12/12 (#02)otherto MertonABBÉ PAUL COUTURIER [-] APOSTLE OF UNITY  [card with a black and white photograph of Paul Couturier; verso: quote by Couturier - card printed by Holy Cross Convent]
 1964/01/16 (#01)TAL[c]from MertonYour letter of December 12th took rather a long time to reach us as the Christmas rush probablyYes  
 1964/01/16 (#02)TALS[x]from MertonYour letter of December 12th took rather a long time to reach us as the Christmas rush probablyYes  
 1964/11/04 TALSto MertonWe are sending under separate cover a few copies of the meditation taken from "New Seeds   
 1965/04/29 (#01)TL[c]from MertonIt has been a long time since we corresponded about the possibility of my doing a little ecumenicalYes  
 1965/04/29 (#02)TALS[x]from MertonIt has been a long time since we corresponded about the possibility of my doing a little ecumenicalYes  
 1965/05/19 TLSto MertonThank you very, very much for the meditation and still more for your letter. We think that   
 1965/06/10 (#01)TL[c]from MertonMany thanks for your kind letter of May 19th. By all means make use of the name of the author,Yes  
 1965/06/10 (#02)TLS[x]from MertonMany thanks for your kind letter of May 19th. By all means make use of the name of the author,Yes  
 1965/09/17 (#01)TLSto MertonThis is my long-promised letter to thank you once again for your most inspiring meditation.   
 1965/09/17 (#02)HNto MertonMonastic Prayer [-] 1. Return to the heart [-] 2. Seeing our nothingness and   
 1965/09/17 (#03)otherto MertonMonks and Nuns Look at To-morrow's World [-] Crows hurrying to work in Oxford last week were   
 1965/12/17 (#01)HPCS[x]from MertonThank you for the extra copies of the meditation and for the letter. You suggest another - gladly.   
 1965/12/17 (#02)transcriptfrom MertonThank you for the extra copies of the meditation and for the letter. You suggest another - gladly.  [see 1975/01/28[2] transcripts for source of the copy of this postcard]
 1966/04/20 TLSto MertonPlease forgive the long delay in answering your card and in thanking you for your kindness   
 1967/03/12 (#01)TL[c]from MertonI am shocked to see that your last letter was almost a year ago, and it has gone so long without   
 1967/03/12 (#02)TALS[x]from MertonI am shocked to see that your last letter was almost a year ago, and it has gone so long without   
 1975/01/28 (#01)HLS from Mary Dorothea, Sr. / to Gervase BeyerThank you for your letter of October 16th 1974. We are reading copies of all the letters we  [from Sr. Mary Dorothea, C.H.C. of Holy Cross Convent in Sussex, England, to Fr. Gervase Beyer, O.F.M.] sending copies of Merton's letters to Mother Mary Margaret
 1975/01/28 (#02)transcript from Mary Dorothea, Sr. / to Gervase BeyerYour letter of December 12th took rather a long time to reach me as the Christmas rush probably  [from Sr. Mary Dorothea, C.H.C. of Holy Cross Convent in Sussex, England, to Fr. Gervase Beyer, O.F.M. - typed transcript of Merton's letters to Mother Mary Margaret - contains the text of a postcard without a copy at the Merton Center (see 1965/12/17 postcard)]
        

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