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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1962

Volume: 1 item(s); 2 pg(s)

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Biography

Ammon Hennacy writes as the Director of the Joseph Hill House of Hospitality and St. Joseph's Refuge. The house fed the hungry and commemorated Joe Hill, who was a labor leader accused of murder (some say framed) and executed by the state of Utah in 1915. Hennacy was a pacifist and advocate for prisoners on death row. He converted to Catholicism in 1952 and shortly after served as an associate editor in New York for the Catholic Worker until moving to Salt Lake City and founding Joseph Hill House in 1961. (Source: Thomas, Joan. "Ammon Hennacy: A Brief Biography". Catholic Worker Home Page: 1994. ‹http://www.catholicworker.com/ah_bio.htm›, accessed: 2005/03/25.)

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See also reference to Hennacy in the "Day, Dorothy" file.

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SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1962/06/09 TLSto MertonI read your Seven Story [sic] Mountain years ago before I became a Catholic and didn't especially  [Feast of Sts. Primus and Felician 1962]
        

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