This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Nivard, M., Sr., R.S.M.".
Sr. M. Nivard was a Religious Sister of Mercy from Villa Maria Convent in Christchurch, New Zealand. She sent a clipping about the Wahine disaster, a ferry that sank between two of New Zealand's islands, and which killed Merton's Aunt "Kit", Agnes Gertrude Stonehewer Merton.
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See also one published letter from Merton to Sr. Nivard in The Road to Joy, p. 85.
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1968/04/22 |
HLS to Merton |
Reading through the newspaper recently I noticed in the Obituary notices the name of Miss Agnes |
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1968/04/28 |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your letter of sympathy and above all for sending the Dominion Times supplement about |
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