MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Nelson, J. Robert (John Robert), 1920-2004
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1960
Volume: 1 item(s); 1 pg(s)
Scope and Content
Thomas Merton writes to J. Robert Nelson to join with him in solidarity in protest over the expulsion of James Lawson from Vanderbilt University. Nelson had resigned as dean of the divinity school in protest.
Biography
J. Robert Nelson was dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School from 1957-1960. He was later dean at Boston University School of Theology from 1965-1985.
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See also The Lawson-Vanderbilt affair : letters to Dean Nelson : Excerpts from unsolicited letters consequent upon the resignation of the Dean and eleven faculty members of the Divinity School of Vanderbilt University filed in Sub-Section B.2 of the Merton Collection.
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