Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C."

Title: Thomas Merton Correspondence with "Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C."
Creator: Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C.
Scope and Content: This letter from one abbess to another, regards Merton's article "Openness and the Cloister", and speaks of aggiornamento of the religious life in regard to the observance of silence.
Biographical Text: Abbess Marie of the Assumption Marie of the Assumption was of the Portiuncula Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Poor Clares-Colettines, in Mwanza, Tanzania. She writes to the Mother Abbess of the Monastery of Saint Clare in Lowell, Massachusetts (who likely forwarded her letter to Merton).
Date: 1968
Item: 1 item(s)
Folder: 1 folder(s)
Level: Record Group: Section A, Correspondence; Sub-Group/sub-section by person in correspondence with Merton. Records arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
Identifier: Section A (Correspondence), File folder: "Marie of the Assumption, Rev. Mother Abbess, P.C.C."
Other Finding Aids: http://www.merton.org/Research/Correspondence/y1.aspx?id=1258
Page: 3 page(s)
Tag: Correspondence

1967-11-18: Letter from Rev. Mother Abbess Marie of the Assumption, PCC to the Abbess of the Monastery of Saint Clare, Lowell, Massachusetts
This letter from one abbess to another, regards Merton's article "Openness and the Cloister", and speaks of aggiornamento of the religious life in regard to the observance of silence. [3 pages on one sheet, an air mail letter.]