Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hammer, Carolyn Reading
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Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Carolyn Reading Hammer
- Carolyn Hammer
- Carolyn R. Hammer
- Hammer, Carolyn R.
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Carolyn Reading married Victor Hammer in 1955. The Hammers became good friends of Merton, who received permission to visit them in Lexington. Merton would later write to Carolyn to obtain books because of her position at the King Library at University of Kentucky. This was a bond that help University of Kentucky establish a small collection of Merton's papers.