Miss Nugent coming to Glenstal

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Monastery: Glenstal Abbey, Murroe
Subject: Monastery, Monks, Religious Life
Creator: Glenstal Abbey
Place: Murroe, Limerick, Cashel Diocese, Diocese of Cashel
Language: English
Glenstal Abbey: Morther Mary Martin Collection, Religious Sisters, Correspondence, Medical Missionaries of Mary Foundation, Foundation, Sister Novices
Glenstal Abbey: Letters, Prior, Medical Missionaries of Mary
Religious Sisters: Medical Missionaries of Mary, Mother Mary Martin, Foundation
Subject: Nuns, Sisters, Religious Congreations, Religious Life, Foundation of a Congregation, Monastic Life, Mother Superiors
Date: 1930-40, 1930's-1940's, 30's, Thirties
Place: Murroe, Monkstown, Dublin, Limerick, Cashel, Diocese of Cashel
Topic: Religious Life, Religious Formation, Spiritual guidance

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Extracted Mentions

People, places, and terms identified via handwriting recognition and named entity recognition.

People

O'Rourke(1)
May(1)
Little(1)
King(1)

Places

Nest(2)
Sack(2)

Sample passages

I am glad to hear Miss O'Rourke did fairly well during Siggie's absence. I can magnify what a difference it meant to you & it would also to me - my one desire is to have the kitche…
p1 May 1935.
Perhaps Maton will be able to help you a little more without interfering with your authority with the domestic staff.

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+ Caritas 2021-08-31/155 Premtank Norkstown p1 May 1935. Dear Father Prior Many thanks for your letter of yesterday and your card of this morning. Your first suggestion is weakly folds will as to the question of Miss August going to flustal. She had changed considerable + I could see was not ansious to go to flustal although she knew Mr King was ansious she should get in touch with M. M. M. " Her Nother opposed her going to flustal " Though she had an attraction to Medicine, M. M. M. would not be her vocation as the members might be asked to do "Gostetrics." Your before I saw her again, your letter yesterday morning gave me great peace although I should love to be able to relieve

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1 Nov 1935 you of these domestic tasks which must take up so much of your valuable time. I did not even have to consider very much your decision or did not give it to her, all was settled by her own attitude. I would as you say be very unwise to take her down purely as a secular & as there is not the skylist reason to believe she would ever consider such a vocation as M. M. there was nothing for it, but to definitely arrange she did not go to Glenster. Perhaps Maton will be able to help you a little more without interfering with your authority with the domestic staff. I am doing my lest to be fit to go back in June although I feel I am more trouble than I am worth. I am glad to hear Miss O'Rourke did fairly well during Siggie's absence. I can magnify what a difference it meant to you & it would also to me - my one desire is to have the kitchen staffed by M. M. with a good strong girl under her to do the heavier work. There is one great thing in looks favour in there has, I think, seen

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Larmond Setween new & n. m. m. - Shope Legie returned looking well & in the list of forms for her work during nest term. I did not hear from her before she left or since. I await her nest letter. Shad a letter which I enclose from Mai this morning. I wrote saying I would like her to le sack at latest the night before the logo arrived, if this met with your approval & write to you. Thank you very much for your "black letter" there are all the thoughts that occupy my mind so much during the last few months & it is deficient to see foels. Will clearly in this respect for n. m. m. I shall answer it fully when I have had more time to reflect on all you say. How helpful you will le to me, when god allows me sack Forgive me for having caused you unnecessary trouble over Miss Neymt Your child for god. S. Mary