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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Angela, Rev. Mother, O.C.S.O.".
Reverend Mother Angela was abbess of the Trappist nuns at Mount St. Mary's Abbey in Wrentham, Massachusetts
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also Dom James Fox's correspondence with Abbot General Gabriel Sortais in the "Fox, James" file for related correspondence.
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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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1958/03/14 |
TLS to Merton |
The Abbot General has asked me to inform you and Father Paul of Holy Ghost Abbey that he appoints |
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claims Merton and Fr. Paul of Holy Ghost Abbey are to be censors for all Trappist and Trappistine literature in the U.S. (proves to be a misunderstanding, see "Fox, James" file) / submitting a sister's poems to be used in Christmas Carols for censorship
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1958/07/11? |
HLS to Fox, James |
A hasty note to apologize for having caused something in the nature of a minor catastrophe. |
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acknowledges that claim of Merton censoring all American Trappist works is not correct and that he is only to censor the poems of a nun of Mother Angela's community at Wrentham / asking leniency in this endeavor
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