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Individual Series View, Merton's Correspondence with:

Collins, Angela of the Eucharist, Mother, O.C.D., 1917-2003


Series 3, Notes kept by Mother Angela during Meeting with Thomas Merton on the Future of Contemplative Life, May 1968.


Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1960-1968, 1970-1974
Volume: 114 item(s); 224 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Herein is a highly personal and lively correspondence between good friends and fellow religious. The extant file does not seem to be a complete set of their correspondence. Early letters, such as an original of what became the Cold War Letter, are not i

Biography

Early in their correspondence, Sr. Angela of the Eucharist (née Viola M. Collins) was a Carmelite Prioress in Louisville, Kentucky. Between 1965 and 1966, she would became Mother Angela of the Eucharist, appointed superior of the Carmelite monastery in S

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Related Information and Links

See also: Cold War Letter #42, published in Witness to Freedom; letters from Merton to Mother Angela in <

Series List

Series NumberSeries NameTotal Records
1 Correspondence between Sr. Angela and Thomas Merton. 64
2 Correspondence between Sr. Angela and John Howard Griffin. 29
3 Notes kept by Mother Angela during Meeting with Thomas Merton on the Future of Contemplative Life, May 1968. 2
4 Materials Related to Merton's Death and Funeral. 9
5 Other Materials Related to Published Correspondence and Conference on Contemplative Life. 10

Container List

Series#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
 y/m/dMerton Scan ✉ 
Series 3 #1.
«All Series«
1968/05/no (#01) other   Organization - preforably not under Sacred Congreg. 5 points of critical needs of contemplation. [spiral notebook with handwritten notes from conferences with Merton on the contemplative life] «detailed view»
Series 3 #2.
«All Series«
1968/05/no (#02) other   Areas of concern to be presented to Bishop Breiterbeck:- 1. For contemplative life to survive [handwritten page of notes for a bishop written on Gethsemani letterhead] «detailed view»

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