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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Mary Margaret, Mother, C.H.C.".
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.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
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).
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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| 1. |
1963/12/12 (#01) |
TALS to Merton |
For several years now we have been publishing a series of meditations on Christian Unity, and I am |
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| 2. |
1963/12/12 (#02) |
other to Merton |
ABBÉ PAUL COUTURIER [-] APOSTLE OF UNITY |
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[card with a black and white photograph of Paul Couturier; verso: quote by Couturier - card printed by Holy Cross Convent]
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1964/01/16 (#01) |
TAL[c] from Merton |
Your letter of December 12th took rather a long time to reach us as the Christmas rush probably |
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| 4. |
1964/01/16 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Merton |
Your letter of December 12th took rather a long time to reach us as the Christmas rush probably |
✓ |
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| 5. |
1964/11/04 |
TALS to Merton |
We are sending under separate cover a few copies of the meditation taken from "New Seeds |
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1965/04/29 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
It has been a long time since we corresponded about the possibility of my doing a little ecumenical |
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1965/04/29 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Merton |
It has been a long time since we corresponded about the possibility of my doing a little ecumenical |
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| 8. |
1965/05/19 |
TLS to Merton |
Thank you very, very much for the meditation and still more for your letter. We think that |
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| 9. |
1965/06/10 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Many thanks for your kind letter of May 19th. By all means make use of the name of the author, |
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| 10. |
1965/06/10 (#02) |
TLS[x] from Merton |
Many thanks for your kind letter of May 19th. By all means make use of the name of the author, |
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| 11. |
1965/09/17 (#01) |
TLS to Merton |
This is my long-promised letter to thank you once again for your most inspiring meditation. |
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| 12. |
1965/09/17 (#02) |
HN to Merton |
Monastic Prayer [-] 1. Return to the heart [-] 2. Seeing our nothingness and |
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| 13. |
1965/09/17 (#03) |
other to Merton |
Monks and Nuns Look at To-morrow's World [-] Crows hurrying to work in Oxford last week were |
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| 14. |
1965/12/17 (#01) |
HPCS[x] from Merton |
Thank you for the extra copies of the meditation and for the letter. You suggest another - gladly. |
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| 15. |
1965/12/17 (#02) |
transcript from Merton |
Thank you for the extra copies of the meditation and for the letter. You suggest another - gladly. |
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[see 1975/01/28[2] transcripts for source of the copy of this postcard]
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| 16. |
1966/04/20 |
TLS to Merton |
Please forgive the long delay in answering your card and in thanking you for your kindness |
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| 17. |
1967/03/12 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
I am shocked to see that your last letter was almost a year ago, and it has gone so long without |
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| 18. |
1967/03/12 (#02) |
TALS[x] from Merton |
I am shocked to see that your last letter was almost a year ago, and it has gone so long without |
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1975/01/28 (#01) |
HLS from Mary Dorothea, Sr. / to Gervase Beyer |
Thank you for your letter of October 16th 1974. We are reading copies of all the letters we |
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[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
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1975/01/28 (#02) |
transcript from Mary Dorothea, Sr. / to Gervase Beyer |
Your letter of December 12th took rather a long time to reach me as the Christmas rush probably |
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[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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