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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Prisca, Sr., O.S.B.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1964

Volume: 4 item(s); 9 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

Sr. Prisca was a Benedictine nun of Regina Laudis Abbey in Bethlehem, Connecticut, but was not bound to the enclosure at the time of writing. She and another sister visited the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community in New Gloucester, Maine.

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Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Sr. Prisca in The School of Charity, pp. 197-198.

Other Finding Aids

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.
   

Series List

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

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1964/01/20 (#01)TACSto MertonI read with rather sensitive interest your article on the Shakers in Jubilee. The enclosed   
 1964/02/10 TAL[c]from MertonThank you very much for sending your notes on the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community.Yes  
 undated/no/no (#02)otherto MertonSHAKER TRIP TO SABBATHDAY LAKE COMMUNITY Poland Springs, Maine (Sept. 15-20, 1962)  [transferred April 28, 2014 from Sub-Section D.7 (Periodicals used by Merton) / in file "From a Benedictine Nun" - no name but likely Sr. Prisca, O.S.B.]
 undated/no/no (#03)otherto MertonImpressions of our visit to the Shaker Village, Sabbathday Lake, Maine, with regard to similiarities  [transferred April 28, 2014 from Sub-Section D.7 (Periodicals used by Merton) / in file "From a Benedictine Nun" - no name but likely Sr. Prisca, O.S.B. / contains Merton's writing at top]
        

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