MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Miriam Benedict, Sr., O.S.B.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967
Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Sr. Miriam had been urged to write to Merton for some years by their mutual friend Rabbi Zalman Schachter. She writes about the monastic "identity crisis" and about the new generation of "Hippies and Tinnie-Boppers."
Biography
Sr. Miriam Benedict was a Benedictine sister of Regina Laudis Monastery in Bethlehem, Connecticut. At the time of writing, she was Postulant Mistress.
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See also published letters in The School of Charity, p. 347.
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