Sir, In answer to Mr Horgan's letter of February 9th Dame Felicitas Corrigan trained under the guidance of Dame Laurentia McLachlan in Stanbrook Abbey. It was Dame Laurentia who had many years of abiding, if stormy, friendship with George Bernard Shaw, broken once only, and temporarily. Complete silence descended between Dame Laurentia and Shaw when he refused her request to withdraw The Black Girl In Search of God.
On the occasion of her golden jubilee and, acting on the advice of Archbishop Williams, she sent Shaw a jubilee card bearing on the outer corner the quotation from Scripture often applied to Saint Laurence Hilarem datorem diligit Deus.
The inner page was inscribed In Memory of Sept. 6 1884 1934 Dame Laurentia McLachlan Abbess of Stanbrook.
On receiving the nun's card, Bernard Shaw thought that it was an announcement of her death and promptly wrote a letter of condolence to the sisters in Stanbrook. Dame Laurentia replied to Shaw, thus bridging a rift in their friendship. Shaw wrote to her, and so the feud between them ended. Yours, etc., Mount Merrion, Co Dublin.