Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection
Peter King Papers, 2016-2022
Biographical History
Peter King joined the Unity Kitchen Catholic Worker community in the early 1970's, where he met his wife, Ann O'Connor. The couple took over the majority of day-to-day operations within a few years of joining the community. King maintained an interest throughout his life in becoming an ordained Jesuit priest, and following the death of his wife in 2015, focused more on theological writings and communication. King and the community at large decided to close the Catholic Worker house in 2021.
Scope & Content
This collection is largely comprised of King's theological work and related correspondence, which he worked on more frequently following the death of his wife, Ann O' Connor, in 2015.
Because of the nature of the collection, when researching Peter King's correspondence, one should also refer to labeled folders 3 and 4 of box 2, which contain additional correspondence related to Unity Kitchen's newsletter, The Unity Grapevine
A separate collection exists for Unity Kitchen under series number W-47.
| Series | Box | Folder | Folder Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| W-93 | 1 | 1 | Correspondence, A-I |
| W-93 | - | - | Paul Byrne- April 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Cardinal Dolan- May 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Roy Durgin- June 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Jack & Felcie Cohen-Joppa- January 2020 |
| W-93 | - | - | Amberations Inc.- September 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | Todd Caputo- March 2022 |
| W-93 | - | - | Sr. Josephine Garrett- March 2022 |
| W-93 | 1 | 2 | Correspondence, J-R |
| W-93 | - | - | Michael G. King- Fall 2017 |
| W-93 | - | - | Nicholas & Christine Lund-Molfese- January & February 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | John J. King- March 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | Jo Massarelli- May 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | Daniel Marshall- May 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | David Lebedoff- December 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Timothy King- August 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Bishop Doug Lucia- 2020- 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | Michael [unknown]- April 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | Madonna House Apostolate- August 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | Patrick Klay- October 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | Mary Keough- January 2022 |
| W-93 | - | - | Nancy Murray- March 2022 |
| W-93 | 1 | 3 | Correspondence, S-Z |
| W-93 | - | - | Mayor Walsh- July 2020 |
| W-93 | - | - | Joe Whiteside- June 2018 |
| W-93 | 1 | 4 | Correspondence, misc. |
| W-93 | - | - | Unity Kitchen Community Clarification of Thought & Letter to Bishop Moynihan- July 2002 |
| W-93 | - | - | Krystna & Steven [unknown]- May 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | "To whom it may concern"- undated |
| W-93 | 1 | 5 | Correspondence, Letters to the Editor |
| W-93 | - | - | Joanne Kennedy, The Catholic Worker- July 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | Our Sunday Visitor- September 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | Our Sunday Visitor- March 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Joanne Kennedy, The Catholic Worker- September 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Post-Standard- April 2021 |
| W-93 | 1 | 6 | "'It's the Resources': Work, Governance, and the Institutionalization of an Emergency Food Network" A Dissertation by Stephanie Crist, 2011 |
| W-93 | 1 | 7 | PASS (Program Analysis of Service Systems) Handbook, Third Ed., 1975 |
| W-93 | 1 | 8 | PASS (Program Analysis of Service Systems) Reports, 1976- 1979, 1981 |
| W-93 | 2 | 1 | Unity Grapevine, 2016 |
| W-93 | 2 | 2 | Unity Grapevine, 2017 |
| W-93 | 2 | 3 | Unity Grapevine, Program for Talk by Peter King at the University of St. Francis, Related Correspondence, 2018 |
| W-93 | 2 | 4 | Unity Grapevine, Related Correspondence,2019 |
| W-93 | 2 | 5 | Unity Grapevine, 2020 |
| W-93 | 2 | 6 | Unity Grapevine, 2021 |
| W-93 | 2 | 7 | Writings by Peter King, 2016- 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | "Education," 2016 |
| W-93 | - | - | "Satch Makes a Statement," 2017 |
| W-93 | - | - | "Woman, Thy Name is Temptation," 2017 |
| W-93 | - | - | "Reflections of Civil Rights," 2018 |
| W-93 | - | - | "Pride and the Second Coming," 2018 |
| W-93 | 2 | 8 | Writings by Peter King, 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | "Sunrise Over Manhatten," 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | "How do we Forgive Jean Vanier?" 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Eulogy for Willie Daniel, 2019 |
| W-93 | - | - | Review of Michael D. O'Brien's Plague Journal (1999;) Sophia House (2005;) Apocalypse, Warning, Hope, and Consolation (2018) |
| W-93 | - | - | Review of The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff |
| W-93 | - | - | "Youth and the Youthful People," 2019 |
| W-93 | 2 | 9 | Writings by Peter King, 2020- 2022, undated |
| W-93 | - | - | "Creation vs. Eradication," 2020 |
| W-93 | - | - | "The Fight," 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | "What Happened to Me on the Day I Went to the Doctor," 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | "The Salvation of Souls," 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | "The Forgiveness of the Scapegoat," 2021 |
| W-93 | - | - | Untitled, 2022 |
| W-93 | - | - | "Standing By His Chair," undated |
