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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Dawson, Robert L.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1943-2007
History
Robert Lewis Dawson joined the faculty at the Department of French and Italian, the University of Texas at Austin, in 1975 and remained there to his death. At the same time, he collected some French 15,000 books and 6,000 manuscripts, most from the long 18th century. These are in the Dawson French Collection at Cushing Library.