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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Miriam Benedict, Sr., O.S.B.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 3 item(s); 4 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Sr. Miriam had been urged to write to Merton for some years by their mutual friend Rabbi Zalman Schachter. She writes about the monastic "identity crisis" and about the new generation of "Hippies and Tinnie-Boppers."

Biography

Sr. Miriam Benedict was a Benedictine sister of Regina Laudis Monastery in Bethlehem, Connecticut. At the time of writing, she was Postulant Mistress.

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Related Information and Links

See also published letters in The School of Charity, p. 347.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/08/21 TALSto MertonWe are reading your, Monastic Vocation and Modern Thought from the Advent 1966 issue of Monastic   
 1967/09/15 TL[c]from MertonThis is really a sort of round robin reply to all the various letters and notes, including a letter   
 1967/09/24 TALSto MertonThank you for your letter of the 15th and the envelope with the enclosures. The letter has been   
        

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