John Howard Griffin to Nell Dorr. March 2, 1971.
Nell Dorr Papers
Object Details
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Date
March 2, 1971
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Genre/Form
Letters
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Accession Number
A2008.045.01.01.01.030.004
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Description
Typed letter signed. Tells Dorr he is sending a photo of Mandy and Susan [his two daughters]. Tells of going into a very conservative Catholic church to pray between two doctor’s appointments and finding “noxious right-wing” literature in the vestibule which he didn’t want others to see, so he wrote a” nasty, nasty” word on the front of each of them and took them to the priest. He told the priest he was shocked to see such trash in the vestibule of his church. The priest took them and thanked him. Griffin went to confession, but his priest gave him no penance because it was “an inspiration of the Holy Spirit.”
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Credit Line
Nell Dorr Papers, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Archives, Fort Worth, Texas
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Preferred Citation
Nell Dorr Papers, Amon Carter Museum of American Art Archives, Fort Worth, Texas.
Additional details
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This object is part of the Carter Archives and is available for research.
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