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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1968

Volume: 1 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

This letter from one abbess to another, regards Merton's article "Openness and the Cloister", and speaks of aggiornamento of the religious life in regard to the observance of silence.

Biography

Abbess Marie of the Assumption Marie of the Assumption was of the Portiuncula Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Poor Clares-Colettines, in Mwanza, Tanzania. She writes to the Mother Abbess of the Monastery of Saint Clare in Lowell, Massachusetts (who likely forwarded her letter to Merton).

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1968/02/28 TLSto Abbess, Monastery of Saint Clare, Lowell, MassachusettsMany thanks for your very kind letter, which reached us long ago. I hope you will forgive us  [3 pages on one sheet, an air mail letter]
        

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