The Autobiographical Manuscripts
This book is in Portuguese.
Thérèse's three notebooks as she wrote them, without the 1898 revisions: Manuscript A, the 'springtime story of a little white flower' dedicated to Mother Agnes of Jesus (1895); Manuscript B, written during her retreat of September 1896 for her sister Marie of the Sacred Heart, in which she finds her vocation in Love; and Manuscript C, addressed to Mother Marie de Gonzague in June 1897, on the little way and fraternal charity. The authentic text of the Centenary edition, from the archives of the Carmel of Lisieux.
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Source: Thérèse's text only. The editors' apparatus is left out: the 'MANUSCRIT A' label, the dating '(Septembre 1896)' over Ms B, the notes on the order of the leaves ('Ici TH rajoute un feuillet 5 r°/v°', '[4v°, suite]'), the image credits, and the bracketed date corrections in the list of graces at the end of Ms A. Words the editors supply in square brackets where Thérèse left one out are kept, bracketed. The division of Ms A follows Thérèse's own: the three periods of her life before Carmel (A 4r), then Carmel. Checked folio side by folio side against the Carmel's former site on the Wayback Machine (242 of 250 sides; A 85r, 86r, C 22v, 23v, 25v, 26r, 28v and 37r have no usable capture). Taken from that witness where the current site is defective: A 59v (printed twice), C 8r (missing; its verso stood in its place), C 26v (empty), C 27r (cut short); and six dropped or misread words. The date of the Virgin's smile in the list of graces (A 86r) is read from the facsimile: May 1883. · https://web.archive.org/web/2020/http://www.archives-carmel-lisieux.fr/carmel/index.php/02-10/02/02-recto