MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Luces, Maureen
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1948
Volume: 1 item(s); 2 pg(s)
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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Luces, Maureen".
Biography
Maureen Luces, a 19-year old from Brooklyn, New York, wrote to Merton asking advice about whether to become a cloistered Carmelite nun or to enter a missionary order. Merton's answer to her letter is the only extant piece of correspondence. According to her daughter, Luces was later prevented from entering a convent based on racial exclusion, but became a Fullbright Scholar in France and attended the Georgetown School of Foreign Service. She later married and became a member of the Third Order Carmelites.
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