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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Hauck, Freida (Nanny)".
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.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
See also published letters from Merton to Hauck in The Road to Joy, pp. 57-59, 67.
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.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
Click icons for links: ✓="Published | Library Record", ✉="Scanned" | 🗷="Scanned, Viewable Only at Merton Center"
| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
| | y/m/d | Merton | | Scan ✉ | |
| 1. |
1941/12/10 |
HPCS from Merton |
Well, here's some news for you: today I am entering the Trappists, in Kentucky. From now on, |
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[no date - postmarked December 13]
«detailed view» |
| 2. |
1959/01/12 |
TALS from Merton |
It was nice to get your card. There were a lot of people I didn't hear from, but it was good |
✓ |
«detailed view» |
| 3. |
1960/12/22 |
TLS from Merton |
I got your nice card written by Mrs McCaffrey. It was good to hear from you after so long. |
✓ |
«detailed view» |
| 4. |
1964/12/28 |
TLS from Merton |
Well, how have you been? I bet you are thinking it took an awful long time for me to get around |
✓ |
«detailed view» |
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