Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1963-1967 (Creation)
Extent
1 folder, 25 items, 47 pages
Name of creator
Biographical history
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.)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
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.
System of arrangement
Records are arranged chronologically. Records are not divided into Series.
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Regulations governing use of the collection can be found here: (‹https://bellarmine.libraryhost.com/index.php/rules›).
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Related materials elements
Related archival materials
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.
Description control element
Sources used
Caption of headline photo: Photograph sent to Merton of Dame Marcella van Bruyn at Stanbrook Abbey. See letter of 1966 June 8.