MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Hauck, Freida (Nanny), 1874-1965
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1941-1964
Volume: 4 item(s); 6 pg(s)
Scope and Content
This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Hauck, Freida (Nanny)".
Biography
Freida "Nanny" Hauck was the mother of Elsie Hauck Holahan (later Jenkins). Elsie had moved in to the home of Merton's maternal grandparents, Samuel and "Mattie" Baldwin Jenkins, to take care of Tom and his younger brother John Paul Merton after the death of their mother Ruth Jenkins in 1921. (Elsie later married Merton's uncle, Harold Jenkins). Freida Hauck lived in Great Neck, New York.
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Related Information and Links
See also published letters from Merton to Hauck in The Road to Joy, pp. 57-59, 67.
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If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
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