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Interview with Robert Gordon
No full textThis interview with Robert Gordon, Illinois Tech architecture alumnus, architect, planner, artist, and author, was conducted on June 6, 2017 by Ralph Pugh and Adam Strohm
Caroline Gordon Collection
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EXTENT
Linear Feet: 2 linear feet
Number of Containers: 2 boxes
Series 1: Writings, 31 files
Series 2: Lectures, 19 files
Series 3: Courses, 10 files
Series 4: Book Reviews, 5 files
Series 5: About Caroline Gordon,8 files
Series 6: Correspondence, 18 files
Series 7: Books, 5 books
Series 8: Media: 9 digital files, 9 cassettes, 2 reelsCOLLECTION DETAILS
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BIOGRAPHICAL / Historical Note: Twentieth-century novelist Caroline Gordon was born into the Kentucky line of the extensive Meriwether family in 1895. Exploration of the family's past and its evolution is a major theme of her fiction. She grew up at Merry Mont in Todd County, near Clarksville where she received her early education. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bethany College in 1916. Her father is the idealized subject of Gordon's second novel, Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), and the central character in her much-anthologized story, "Old Red." Gordon taught briefly; then, as a journalist, she became one of the first reviewers to comment favorably on a new Nashville-based magazine of poetry, The Fugitive. During the summer of 1924, Robert Penn Warren, a Todd County neighbor, introduced her to Allen Tate. Within a year they were married and living in New York City, where their daughter, Nancy Meriwether was born. With Tate, she began a period of life abroad, devoted to writing and sustained by various fellowships granted to one or the other. In London, Gordon was secretary to the influential British writer Ford Madox. In 1930 the Tates returned to the United States and settled in Clarksville in a house provided by Tate's brother Ben and called "Benfolly." Both Tates were exceptionally hospitable to friends and encouraging to younger writers. Both were prolific correspondents, generous with constructive criticism. (Gordon eventually became mentor to several writers, most notably Flannery O'Connor). Although she had to wrest time for her writing from domestic and social obligations, the eight Benfolly years were especially productive for Gordon, who published four novels and several stories before 1937. The first novel was Penhally (1931), followed by Alec Maury, Sportsman (1934), None Shall Look Back (1937), and The Garden of Adonis (1937), studies of the southern family during the Civil War and Great Depression. Academic appointments of the 1940s took the Tates throughout the Southeast and to Princeton, where they established a home near their daughter, who married psychiatrist Percy Wood in 1944. During this time Gordon published her fifth novel, Green Centuries (1941). Her second related group of novels, The Woman on the Porch (1944), which deals with a troubled marriage, The Strange Children (1951), based on life at Benfolly, and The Malefactors (1956), is informed by her conversion to Roman Catholicism. She and her husband wrote The House of Fiction (1950), which was followed by Gordon's How to Read a Novel in 1957. Gordon lived in Princeton until 1973, teaching, and writing: The Glory of Hera (1972). An appointment in the creative writing program drew her to the University of Dallas (Gordon was 77 years old when she proposed the new creative writing program at UD). When her health began to fail in 1978, she moved to San Cristobal de las Casas in Chapas, Mexico, with her daughter and family. She died there on April 11, 1981.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION Caroline Gordon (1895-1981) was an American author. This collection consists of manuscripts of Gordon's work, including novels, lectures, and poetry during her time at the University of Dallas. It also includes correspondence with authors and family members, writings of others, and photographs.
Lectures and Commentary available here: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14026/2548University of Dalla
Portrait of Gordon Adam Clapp
No full textPortrait of Gordon Adam Clapp, Tualatin Academy class of 1904.Gordon Clapp; student and alumni; C-
Lettre d'Adam Gordon à H. W. Ryland sur le désir de lord Liverpool de voir Ryland le lendemain
No full text6 pages, originalAvec enveloppe et sceauLettre d'[Adam] Gordon à [H. W.] Ryland sur: le désir de lord Liverpool de voir Ryland le lendemain
The Duke of York giving a speech after unveiling the bust of Adam Lindsay Gordon in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London, 11 May 1934 [picture]
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from accompanying information.; Part of collection: Unveiling of a memorial bust of the Australian poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, in the Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, London, 11 May 1934.; Condition: Faded, yellowing, stained, folds, creases.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4773573; Donated by Launceston Library + Online Access Centre, 2010. Front row, left to right: Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duchess of York, the Duke of York (speaking), William Foxley Norris, Dean of Westminster Abbey and Sir Edward Knapp Fisher, Receiver-General of Westminster Abbey
NA4004 Gordon Oswald, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli
No full textNA4004 Gordon Oswald, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli, November 15, 2013, over the phone,with Oswald near Cambridge, England and Cilli in Orono, Maine. Oswald talks about Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, England; conducting research in Antarctica; working for various industries; his beginnings at the Climate Change Institute; his role as research professor for the CCI; his interdisciplinary research with James Fastook and Roger Hooke; and the reality of anthropogenic climate change.
Text: 6 pp. transcript
Recording: mfc_na4004_audio001 30 minutes
Photo provided by the Climate Change Institute.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf192/1026/thumbnail.jp
NA2754 Gordon Hamilton, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli
No full text2754 Gordon Hamilton, interviewed by Adam Lee Cilli, September 19, 2013, in his office in the Sawyer Lab Annex at the University of Maine, Orono. Hamilton talks about the beginnings of his career in glaciology; public perceptions of science and climate change; the influence of early Climate Change Institute scientists on his career, particularly George Denton and Terry Hughes; his beginnings in the CCI; and the future of the CCI.
Text: 9 pp. transcript
Recording: mfc_na2754_audio001 43 minutes
Photo provided by the Climate Change Institute.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mf192/1013/thumbnail.jp
Gordon Brown's misplaced Smithian appeal : the eclipse of sympathy in changing British welfare norms
No full textGordon Brown has eagerly lauded his fellow Kirkcaldy citizen, Adam Smith, as his main policy inspiration. This article tests the rigour of such a claim by matching Brown's promotion of Smithian ‘sympathy’ as the centrepiece of his programme for government with the changes introduced by his Treasury to the British welfare model. In the 1970s, Thomas Wilson showed that the traditions of the post-war British welfare state were compatible with a modified form of Smithian sympathy socialised at the level of the state. New Labour has set about reforming the welfare model with respect to both its underlying institutions and the basic subjectivities of its recipients. I show that Brown's substantive preference for an asset-based system of welfare moves those subjectivities away from the ‘relational self’ of Smithian sympathy and towards a much more ‘autonomous self’. Consequently, I conclude that it is stretching Smith's concept of sympathy too far, even in a modified socialised form, to associate it with New Labour's asset-based system of welfare
Adam Gordon estate appraisal, Claiborne County, Mississippi, 1845
No full textTwo appraisals of the property belonging to the estate of Adam Gordon completed by James P. Parker, H.N. Spencer and James Grafton on January 29 and March 21, 1845. A court warrant is attached. The first appraisal lists 24 slaves by name and the second lists another two slaves. Adam Gordon died on August 25, 1836, and his wife Aletheia died on August 28, 1844, leaving the 2,400 acre Woodland plantation to their granddaughter Eugenia A. Calhoun.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-alarkmomisstenn1/1004/thumbnail.jp
Statement of Gordon Hirabayashi
No full textStatement by Gordon Hirabayashi about his refusal to register for forced removal to an incarceration camp. He writes: "This order for the mass evacuation of all persons of Japanese descent denies them the right to live."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (1944), in which the United States Supreme court unanimously ruled that the federal government could not indefinitely detain United States citizens who were loyal to the government. Files include documents related to the Gordon Hirabayashi Supreme Court case Hirabayashi v. United States
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