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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-B-014-#01
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1968-02-22, HLS Baptist to Merton, 'Thanks for the letter and photograph. I had no idea you were so husky looking. '
Date(s)
- 1968 February 22 (Creation)
Extent
2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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Biographical history
Sr. Mary Baptist is writing from the Incarnate Word Convent in Bellaire, Texas.
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First lines: "Thanks for the letter and photograph. I had no idea you were so husky looking. Thanks above all"... Contents index: list changes, "experimentation", that is going on in community of which she and others disapprove - fewer Mass times, confession; no organized mental prayer, Rosary, Stations; Vatican II outdated; corporal works stressed, contemplation passé.
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- English
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Senders and recipients—
to Thomas Merton from: Baptist, Mary, Sr.