I'm currently researching Rowland Hazard. In looking at Wilson/Jung letters Re: Hazard written in 1961, both Wilson and Jung misspell Rowland's name as "Roland." In looking through internet image searches of the original letters, it seems both Wilson and Jung misspell his name. Then things get confusing. ?In internet searches of discussions of the Wilson/Jung letters re: Rowland where people enter the data of the letters themselves, they ostensibly correct "Roland" ?to "Rowland." ?In Pass It On (page 381) ?Wilson's letter to Jung is discussed, reprinting the data of the letter only. Bill's misspelling here remains. However, on the next page (page 383) in Jung's reply letter, the data is the correct spelling of "Rowland."
I'm bring this up because G. Chesnut had an interesting theory, but to my research, Chesnut's info is incorrect, but his theory remains Re: misspelling. In The book The Road To Fellowship by Richard Dubiel on page 162 n191, Chesnut discusses the misspelling: "It (the misspelling) is significant that Bill, in his letter to Jung, misspelled Hazard's fist name as 'Roland,' leaving out the W in the middle (Pass It On P. 382). Someone from Switzerland (remembering the famous Song of Roland and other continental European usages of the name in that spelling) would have simply assumed that this was the correct spelling, barring any other information to the contrary. Roland with the W is in fact the only form that the spell checker in my American word processing program regards as correct. And yet Jung, in his letter of replay, quietly correct the spelling and referred to the businessman as 'Rowland' with a W (Pass It On Page 383). This seems a clear indication that Jung either still remembered what would have seemed to him an odd spelling of the name, or had old case files to refer to. In either eventuality, Jung clearly had been in some sort of contact with Rowland Hazard somewhere along the way."
Now according to my research, Chesnut is wrong: Along with Wilson, Jung also misspells Rowland's name.
Why does any of this matter? According to my research and new dissertation papers written about Hazard accessing newly found Hazard Family papers at the Rhode Island Historical Society, Hazard DID NOT spend a year studying with Jung as AA history tradition has told us (me). He spent more like a couple of weeks. He seems not to even have been remembered by Wilson or Jung much, hence the name misspelling.
That Hazard spent more time with Courtenay Baylor learning from Baylor and his (Baylor's) Emmanuel Movement's psychological approach to dealing with alcoholism as opposed to Jung's "You need a spiritual experience to deal with this alcoholism" as AA tradition tells us (me) seems apparent.
