"Bruyn, Marcella van, Dame, O.S.B." correspondence

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US US-kylobm TMC-1-B-139

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"Bruyn, Marcella van, Dame, O.S.B." correspondence

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  • 1963-1967 (Creation)

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1 folder(s), 25 item(s), 47 page(s)

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Dame Marcella van Bruyn was a Benedictine nun of Stanbrook Abbey in England. Entering the community in her forties, she spent twenty-three years in community before leaving to pursue a life of solitude. (Source: «The School of Charity», p. 160.)

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Dame Marcella first contacted Merton through the encouragement of Jacques Maritain. Stanbrook Press published poems of Raïssa Maritain as well as some of Merton's works, including his translations of a prayer of Cassiodorus and a letter by Guigo the Carthusian.

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      See published letters from Merton to van Bruyn in «The School of Charity» (‹https://bellarmine.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=no%3A26858206›), pp. 160-161, 182-183, 190-191, 205-206, 249-250, 270-271, 284-285, 298-300, 302, and 311-312.

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      Caption of headline photo: Photograph sent to Merton of Dame Marcella van Bruyn at Stanbrook Abbey. See letter of 1966 June 8.

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