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Caroline Gordon Collection
No full textArrangement Description
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
The Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley
No full textA devotional work used as a compilation of the teachings of Gordon B. Hinckle
Gordon B. Washburn
No full textA photograph of Museum Director Gordon B. Wasburn sitting in the living room of his home.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/archives_rubiocollection/1014/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Gordon B. O'Meeghan to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Gordon B. O'Meeghan, Rue de la Victoire, Paris (France), to Hagan. Explaining why his return to Rome is delayed until 21 October; he is in Paris with his sister
Letter from Gordon B. O'Meeghan to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Gordon B. O'Meeghan, Parker's Hotel, Naples, to Hagan, advising him of his arrival in Rome in a few days' time. Fr. Hugh O'Neill, Mosgiel, wrote to Hagan of O'Meeghan's coming to the College. Adding regards from Dr. Kelly, Dunedin
Gordon Gridley, Syracuse, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, 7 March 2015
No full textTranscript (41 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Gordon Gridley on March 7, 2015, in Syracuse, Utah
On the integrability of the sine-Gordon system
No full textThis thesis investigates the integrability of the sine-Gordon system of nonlinear partial differential equations when the dependent variables are subject to some very particular boundary conditions. In chapter 1 the sine-Gordon system is introduced and, with N ϵ Z, P, Q ϵ R, the sets of initial-boundary value problems A(_N) and B(_P,Q) are defined. In the set A(_N) at the spatial variable x is unbounded and the boundary conditions are fixed by initially choosing the topological charge N. This set of problems is the one usually associated with the sine-Gordon system. In the set B(_P,Q) the spatial coordinate is constrained to the semi-line (-oo,0) and there exists two boundary parameters P,Q ϵ R to be chosen a priori. It is the study of this second set of initial-boundary value problems for arbitrary P, Q which forms all the original work of this dissertation. The study presented here is primarily concerned with the development of three separate inverse scattering methods for solving these sets of initial-boundary value problems. The first of these is developed in chapter 3 and is applicable to a subset of the problems in A(_N). The method is the one usually associated with the sine-Gordon system and studies the asymptotics of the initial data as x → ±oo. It is included in this thesis for completeness and as background for the original material which follows. Next, in chapters 4 and 5, the inverse scattering methods appropriate to initial-boundary value problems in subsets of B(_P,O) and B(_P,Q#O) are constructed. In these cases it is important to realise that it is only possible to study the asymptotics of the initial data as x → -oo. Once these three methods have been formulated they are used to find soliton solutions and infinite sets of integrals of motion for these boundary value problems. When a boundary is present at x = 0 the interaction of the solitons with this boundary is studied. These topics are addressed in chapter 6. Finally in chapter 7 the question of the integrability of both sets of problems is addressed. By interpreting the various inverse scattering methods in terms of canonical coordinate transformations of phase space it is seen that the existence of such methods can be viewed as a constructive proof of the integrability of these boundary value problems
Gordon B. Washburn and Family
No full textA photograph of Museum Director Gordon B. Wasburn sitting in the living room of his home with his wife Ruth and children. Deric Washburn\u27s screenplays include The Deer Hunter.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/archives_rubiocollection/1015/thumbnail.jp
K. Gordon Lark, Salt Lake City, Utah: six interviews by Becky B. Lloyd, 2015
No full textTranscript (38, 41, yy, 38, 44, 40 pages) of two interviews by Becky B. Lloyd with K. Gordon Lark on August 22, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Includes a memoir by Lark, "The debt of a lifetime," about his career
Attorney Gordon B Knowles
No full textPortrait of attorney Gordon B. Knowles. He was a Democrat, a soldier in World War I, an American Legion member and ran for county prosecuting attorney in 1920 and was State's Attorney by 1924. He resigned in August 1925, which gave him time to be elected Mayor of Bradenton in December 1927. He still worked as an attorney in 1950 and he was city attorney for Bradenton in 1955. He died in 196
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