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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "McLaughlin, Mary Francis Clare, Mother, O.C.S.".
Mother Mary Francis Clare McLaughlin was the Prioress of the Poor Clares of New Orleans, Louisiana. She gave Merton the "Shalom" sign for the door of his hermitage.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See one published letter from Merton to McLaughlin in The School of Charity, p. 364.
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.
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1968/01/28 |
transcript from Merton |
Thanks so much for the "Shalom" sign, which now hangs by my door. One of the first to be greeted |
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[photocopy from published letters]
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