The Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship

Robert Lincoln Coffin Rein’l received his doctorate in philosophy from Harvard in 1940; the title of his dissertation was “Intuition and Analysis in Bergson’s Theory of Knowledge.” The file here contains three letters from Mr. Rein’l to Franklin Wolff that span the years from 1972 to 1979. In the first letter here, Mr. Rein’l, who was a philosophy professor at Arizona State University, expresses some thoughts on Wolff's two-part recording, “On the Nature of Space, Dynamism, and Free Will”; attached to this letter are several syllabi for courses that Rein’l taught at ASU. The second is a cover letter for an article that he sent to Wolff on “The Teaching of Shankara.” This letter is followed by a reply from Gertrude Wolff, thanking him for the letter and suggesting that a mutual acquaintance bring him to visit in Lone Pine. In the last letter here, Prof. Rein’l comments on the Buddhist Diamond Sutra. (20 pages)