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US US-kylobm 1-B-008-#7
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1968-05-no-day, TLS to Merton, 'I am happy to tell you that my committee accepted the dissertation this week and'
Date(s)
- 1968 May (date approximate) (Creation)
Extent
1 page(s); Typed signed letter.
Name of creator
(1940-)
Biographical history
James Thomas Baker, at the time of writing, was a graduate student in humanities at Florida State University. He was writing an interdisciplinary dissertation about Merton in literature, the arts, and religion (see "Related Information" below). Baker first came to know of Merton's writings while a student of Glenn Hinson at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY.
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First lines: "I am happy to tell you that my committee accepted the dissertation this week and that I have now"... Contents index: completed PhD / moving to Bowling Green [to teach at Western Kentucky University] / sending dissertation / sending dialogue with Baptist church students.
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Languages of the material
- English