Her correspondence.

Unhappily we have only fragments of it; the Bollandists, without saying whence they drew them, have inserted four of her letters in the _Acta_ of St.Agnes of Bohemia, to whom they were addressed.

(A.SS., _Martii_, t.i., pp.
506-508.) [2] Reading the Chronicle of Fra Salimbeni, which represents the average Franciscan character about 1250, one sees with what reason the Rule had multiplied minute precautions for keeping the Brothers from all relations with women.
The desire of Celano to present the facts in the life of Francis as the norm of the acts of the friars appears still more in the chapters concerning St.Clara than in all the others.

Vide 2 Cel., 3, 132: _Non credatis, charissimi (dixit Franciscus), quodeas perfecte non diligam....

Sed exemplum do vobis, ut quemadmodum ego facio, ita et vos faciatis._ Cf.ibid., 134.
[3] 2 Cel., 3, 55.