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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Conway, M. Angela, Sr., O.P.

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1967

Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)

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Biography

Sr. Angela Conway was a Dominican sister living in England at the time of writing.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1967/05/15 TL[c]from MertonI am sorry for the long delay in answering your letter. I am not able to keep up with  Dom Walter Helstetter might be the "retired Cistercian Abbot" referred to by Conway / suggests contacting Dom Jacques Winandy in Courtenay, British Columbia - possibly Anglican nuns of Faircres, Oxford, would take a Catholic anchoress at Staplehurst, Kent hermitage / Oriental Rite contemplative nuns in France
 1967/no/no? HLSto MertonIn the Lord Jesus Christ when we both love and try to follow, I write to ask you for your help  asking for advice - her convent was closed - thinks she has a vocation as a hermit but wants advice about what to do or with whom to talk / retired Cistercian abbot founding an eremitical settlement
        

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