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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Sylvia Marie, Mother, L.S.P.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1960

Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Mother Sylvia Marie was Superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor of Louisville, Kentucky.

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Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Mother Sylvia Marie in The School of Charity, pp. 135-136 (the same letter is published in Witness to Freedom as a letter to "a woman religious superior").

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1960/10/01 (#01)TALS[x]from MertonFor a long time I have wanted to write this letter, thanking you for all the joy that was mine whenYes concern for the poor and the elderly in a culture that worships youth - Little Sisters of the Poor and their ministry
 1960/10/01 (#02)TL[c]from MertonFor a long time I have wanted to write this letter, thanking you for all the joy that was mine whenYes [previously filed as a letter to an unknown correspondent under - "a woman religious superior"]
        

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