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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Seidel, Helen Jean, Sr., S.L., d. 1994

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1961

Volume: 1 item(s); 1 pg(s)

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Biography

Sr. Helen Jean Seidel was the Mistress of Novices for the Sisters of Loretto at their motherhouse in Nerinx, Kentucky, at the time of writing.

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Related Information and Links

See also one published letter from Merton to Seidel in The School of Charity, pp. 140-141.

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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.
   

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1961/10/09 TLSfrom MertonThis morning I got a nice note from Mother Luke, and I had been intending to write to her to thankYes sending notes on mental prayer / balance between training in methods of entering meditation and the freedom to abandon structured forms / Brillet's <i>Meditations on the Old Testament</i>
        

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