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Preferred Citation:
G. Glenwood Clark Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gift
Biographical Information:
Graves Glenwood Clark was born on April 19, 1894. He received his A. B. and his LL. B. from the University of Richmond and his M. A. from Columbia University. He taught American Literature at the College of William and Mary from 1920-1964. He taught twice at the National University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
Scope and Contents
Papers of G. Glenwood Clark, professor of English who taught American Literature at the College of William and Mary. The collection iIncludes correspondence, 1921-1965, with former students, faculty and administration of the College, personal acquaintances, publishing companies, clubs and organizations as well as newspaper clippings, typescripts of books, articles and talks, lecture notes, scrapbooks and materials relating to his two sabbaticals in Brazil including photographs, letters, accounts and a diary.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- American literature--20th century
- Brazil--History--1930-1954
- Brazil--Politics and government--1930-1954
- College of William and Mary--History--20th century
- Correspondence
- Diaries
- Photographs
- Publications
- Scrapbooks
- Speeches
- Typescripts
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Brazil--History--1930-1954
- Brazil--Politics and government--1930-1954
Container List
Correspondence with students, administration, and faculty of the College of William and Mary, personal acquaintances, publishing companies, and clubs and organizations before whom Clark gave talks.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 id155050
Correspondence of G. Glenwood Clark with former students1941-1964Scope and Contents
Includes one short story by former student, Percy Hicks. Arranged alphabteically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id155051
Correspondence of G. Glenwood Clark with faculty and administration of the College of William and Mary1921-1964Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id155052
Correspondence of G. Glenwood Clark with personal acquaintences1949-1966Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id155053
Correspondence of G. Glenwood Clark with personal acquaintances-E.G. Swem1963-1964
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id155054
Correspondence regarding speeches or talks given by G. Glenwood Clark1953-1963Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id155055
Correspondence with G. Glenwood Clark regarding book reviews1936-1940Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id155056
Correspondence with G. Glenwood Clark regarding his inclusion in Who's Who and the Virginia Association of Teachers' Literary Map1960Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id155057
Letters to G. Glenwood Clark from David C. Cook Publishing Company regarding articles for children's magazines1924-1929Scope and Contents
Arranged chronologically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id155059
Letters to G. Glenwood Clark regarding publishing Tiny Toilers and Their Works1921-1943Scope and Contents
The majority of letters from The Century Company. Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id155060
Correspondence with G. Glenwood Clark regarding Thomas Alva Edison1950-1965Scope and Contents
Includes clippings, telegrams, and royalty statements. Original order.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id155061
Letter to G. Glenwood Clark from Thomas Y. Crowell Company regarding Short Story Tour of the United States1955
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id155212
Correspondence with G. Glenwood Clark regarding Walter Reed1949-1960Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id155213
Letters to G. Glenwood Clark from the Johnson Publishing Company1947-1949Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding Thomas Jefferson and The Language We Use Series. Arranged chronologically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id155214
Correspondence of G. Glenwood Clark with publishers regarding Brafferton Boy1948-1950Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7 id155215
Cards (birthday, Christmas, and Father's Day) to G. Glenwood Clark from friends, family, and students1959-1964, undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 8 id155216
Miscellaneous letters to G. Glenwood Clark1924-1929Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
Includes alumni gazettes and faculty newsletters.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 1 id155220
G. Glenwood Clark related newsclippings1940 November-1967 MayScope and Contents
Includes newspaper clippings regarding book reviews and talks given by G. Glenwood Clark, books written by G. Glenwood Clark, the College of William and Mary, and stamp collecting. Also includes an obituary for G. Glenwood Clark.
- Mixed Materials Box: 3 Folder: 2 id155221
Faculty newsletters, news releases, and alumni gazettes that mention G. Glenwood Clark1959-1961, undated
Includes writings of children's and adults' books, short stories, and articles, including record of manuscripts and record of book reviews for the Friday Night Book Club. Boxes 4-10
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 1 id155224
Record of articles, short stories, and book reviews written by G. Glenwood Clark1916-1943Scope and Contents
Scrapbook.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 2 id155225
Record of books reviewed for The Friday Night Book Club by G. Glenwood Clark1934-1942Scope and Contents
Also includes list of book reviews given to various Women's Clubs in 1954 and 1955. Scrapbook.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 3 id155226
The Development of the Surprise Ending in the American Short Story from Washington Irving Through O. Henry1930 May 5Scope and Contents
Master's Thesis by G. Glenwood Clark. Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 4 id155227
Bibliography and notes on Brafferton BoyUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 5 id155228
Outlines for Short Story Tour of the United States, Folklore Geography, and "Rio de Janeiro"Undated
- Mixed Materials Box: 4 Folder: 6 id155229
Notes, clippings, photostats, pamphlet, and bibliography for Walter ReedUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 1 id155231
Walter Reed by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 2 id155232
Walter Reed by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 5 Folder: 3 id155233
Walter Reed by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 1 id155235
Walter Reed by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 2 id155236
Walter Reed by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 3 id155237
Brafferton Boy by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 6 Folder: 4 id155238
Brafferton Boy by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 1 id155240
Strange Stories from Plantland by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 2 id155241
Strange Stories from Plantland by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 7 Folder: 3 id155242
Little Journeys by Night by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 8 Folder: 1 id155244
Various versions of sections and chapters for A Guide to Story Writing by G. Glenwood ClarkUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 1 id155246
Book review of Whitman's Manuscripts: Leaves of Grass editor Fredson Bowers by G. Glenwood Clark.UndatedScope and Contents
Typescript and annotated typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 2 id155247
Various articles written by G. Glenwood ClarkDatedScope and Contents
"A Plant that Carries Life Insurance," The Girls' Companion, November 22, 1924. "A Plant that Carries Life Insurance," Countryside, February 26, 1927. "Cereus Gigantus Banker," Countryside, May 5, 1928. "Cereus Gigantus Banker," What to Do, May 5, 1928. "The Strangest Chemist in the World," The Boys' World, May 17, 1924.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 3 id155248
Various Articles written by G. Glenwood ClarkScope and Contents
Scope and Contents "The Thematic Opening," The Editor, January 13, 1917. "The Young Writer and the Hackneyd Plot" The Editor, April 21, 1917. "The Complication -- The Motive Force," The Editor, May 19, 1917. "Differentiating Dialogue" The Editor, August 22, 1917. "The Question of Style Again," The Editor, October 3, 1917. "The Writer's One Necessary Possession," The Editor, October 31, 1917. "The Short Story Character," The Editor, November 28, 1917. "Painting the Character," The Editor, December 5, 1917. "Do Technical Rules Hamper?," The Editor, April 25, 1918. "What is Originality?," The Editor, June 10, 1918. "Personality in Writing-- A Rejoinder," The Editor, July 25, 1918. "Integration in Literature," The Editor, June 25, 1918. "Themes and the Thematic Story," The Editor, September 25, 1919. "Vision Angles," The Editor, October 25, 1919. "The Dramatic Value of the Entry and Exit," The Writer's monthly, January 1920. "The Ghost Writer and His Work," The Editor, February 1920. "The Short Story as a Factor in Modern Language Teaching," Virginia Journal of Education, February 1920. "Literary Borrow Pits," The Editor, July 1920. "The Dialogue Opening," The Writer, November 1920. "The Structural Value of Theme," The Writer's Monthly, January 1921. "The Essay -- The Organ of Personality," The Writer's Monthly, June 1921. "Opening the Story," The Editor, September 17, 1921. "The Great American 'Fairy Tale,'" The Writer's Monthly, February 1923. "Function and Management of Clews," Student Writer, April 1923. "The Story of Crime Detection - Part 1," The Writer's Monthly, August 1923. "The Story of Crime Detection- Part II," The Writer's Monthly, September 1923. "Prescriptions for Ailing Plots," The Writer's Monthly, February 1925. Fragment, March 11, 1918 by G. Glenwood Clark. Photocopies.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 4 id155249
Scrapbook of children's newspaper articles by G. Glenwood Clark1922-1927Scope and Contents
Also includes "Consecrated Ground," The Missionary, February 1922 by G. Glenwood Clark.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 5 id155250
"A Plant that Advertises" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 6 id155251
"A Tree that Manufactures Paper" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 7 id155252
"Burning Sunbeams -- Our Everyday Miracle," by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 8 id155253
Various Articles and Short Stories by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
"A Wee Stranger Fisherplant," "A Tree that Keeps a Diary," "Dionaea, the Trapper," "The Tree that Gives Bread," "A Vegetable Slave and Its Master," "The Strangest Chemist in the World," "A Thief in Yellow," "The Compass of the Prairies," "The Strange Habits of the Typhoid Plant," "Cycloloma, the Clown Athlete," by G. Glenwood Clark. Annotated typescripts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 9 id155254
"Our Wonderful Body-Machine" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescript and incomplete typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 10 id155255
"A Straight Line Menagerie" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript with illustrations.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 11 id155256
"Shadow Plays" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 12 id155257
"How to Tell Time by the Sky-Clock" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 13 id155258
"A Homemade Dresser Clock" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript with illustration.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 14 id155259
"An Oddity of the Multiplication Table" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 15 id155260
"Rainy Day Ducks" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript with illustrations.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 16 id155261
"Shadow Charades" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 17 id155262
"Famous Streets of American Cities" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript. 1 item.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 18 id155263
"The Story of Crime Detection" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescripts with variations.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 19 id155264
"Consecrated Ground" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 20 id155265
"The Triangle of Love" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 21 id155266
"The Ghost Story" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescript and typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 22 id155267
"Curious Culprits" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 9 Folder: 23 id155268
Printed Illustrations for various short stories by G. Glenwood ClarkUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 1 id155270
Miscellaneous short themes, fables, folktales, and limmericksUndatedScope and Contents
Some written by students. Typescripts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 2 id155271
Childrens short stories and fablesUndatedScope and Contents
"Little Deeds of Kindness," "My First Fishing Trip," "Great Heart Saves His Animal Friends," "Toto Gets His Easter Eggs," "Great-Heart-Big-Foot and the Flood," "The Forest Fire," "How Glendaddy Got Rid of His Golden Curls and Why," and "The Day the Crab Caught Me," by G. Glenwood Clark. Typescripts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 3 id155272
Papers written for an English Class by G. Glenwood Clark1923Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents "The Ghost in Shakespeare" and "The Nibelungen Lied." Typescripts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 10 Folder: 4 id155273
"John Steinbeck: An Interpretation" by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
Boxes 11-15
- Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 1 id155276
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American Literature- Puritan WritersUndatedScope and Contents
Also includes miscellaneous notes on Harriet Beecher Stowe and four women poets, Lizette Reese, Sara Teasdale, Adelaide Crapsey, and Louise imogen Guiney.
- Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 2 id155277
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American Literature- The Revolutionary PeriodUndatedScope and Contents
Covers Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight, Tom Paine, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown.
- Mixed Materials Box: 11 Folder: 3 id155278
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American LiteratureUndatedScope and Contents
Covers Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H.W. Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and Walt Whitman.
- Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 1 id155280
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American Literature, covering T.S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neil, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Carl Sandburg, Emerson, Thoreau, and LongfellowUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 2 id155281
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American literature, covering O. Henry, Robert Frost, Edgar Allen Poe, Eugene O'Neil, Emily Dickenson, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Edith WhartonUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 12 Folder: 3 id155282
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American Literature, covering John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Emily DickensonUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 1 id155284
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American Literature, covering Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Edna Ferber, Pearl Buck, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, and Herman MelvilleUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 13 Folder: 2 id155285
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American Literature, covering Henry James, Edith Wharton, Jack London, Theodore Dreiser, Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, and Sherwood AndersonUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 1 id155287
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes on Edgar Allen PoeUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 2 id155288
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American Literature, covering D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Aldous Huxley, and George OrwellUndatedScope and Contents
Includes a paper by a student, Beth Davis, on D.H. Lawrence.
- Mixed Materials Box: 14 Folder: 3 id155289
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for American Literature, covering William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ellen Glasgow, and D.H. LawrenceUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 1 id155291
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for Short Story WritingUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 2 id155292
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for the study of the BibleUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 3 id156822
G. Glenwood Clark's lecture notes for a class in Journalism and Short Story WritingUndatedScope and Contents
Also includes typescript of A Guide to Short Story Writing, by G. Glenwood Clark.
- Mixed Materials Box: 15 Folder: 4 id156823
G. Glenwood Clark's miscellaneous lecture notesUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 16 Folder: 1 id156826
Scrapbook of G. Glenwood Clark1941-1949Scope and Contents
Includes book reviews, miscellaneous clippings and photographs, and correspondence of G. Glenwood Clark with students, faculty, and administration of the College of William and Mary, and personal acquaintances.
- Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 1 id156829
Notes for talks given by G. Glenwood ClarkUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 2 id156830
Notes for Inspiritational talks given by G. Glenwood ClarkUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 3 id156831
"The New Deal and the Schools," talk given by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
- Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 4 id156832
Talk on Edith Wharton given by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Annotated typescripts.
- Mixed Materials Box: 17 Folder: 5 id156833
"Let's Rediscover the Bible," talk (?) given by G. Glenwood ClarkUndatedScope and Contents
Typescript.
Diary related to two trips G. Glenwood Clark made to Brazil. Boxes 18 and 19
- Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 1 id156836
Letters from G. Glenwood Clark while he was in Brazil1950 August 17-1951 January 18Scope and Contents
Arranged chronologically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 2 id156837
Letters from G. Glenwood Clark to his children and grandchildren while he was in Brazil1950 March 5-1953 November 30Scope and Contents
Arranged chronologically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 3 id156838
Correspondence with G. Glenwood Clark regarding Brazil visits1950-1953Scope and Contents
Arranged alphabetically.
- Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 4 id156839
G. Glenwood Clark's "Brazilian Diary"1953 February 21-1953 December 31
- Mixed Materials Box: 18 Folder: 5 id156840
Scrapbook, mainly correspondence and clippings regarding Brazil1950-1952Scope and Contents
Also includes personal correspondence, correspondence regarding William and Mary, correspondence regarding short story contests, clippings regarding G. Glenwood Clark, and programs for talks given by Clark.
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 1 id156842
Clippings regarding G. Glenwood Clark's Brazil teaching tour1953 January 13-1953 November 27
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 2 id156843
Photograph albumUndatedScope and Contents
Includes miscellaneous photgraphs of Brazil and the faculty and students of the University of Brazil. Also includes letter from Brazilian student and card with signatures of students.
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 3 id156844
Miscallaneous photographs and postcards of BrazilUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 4 id156845
Miscellaneous bills and receipts from G. Glenwood Clark's teaching tour in BrazilUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 5 id156846
Printed material from G. Glenwood Clark's teaching tour in BrazilUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 6 id156847
Legal documents pertaining to G. Glenwood Clark's teaching tour in BrazilUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 7 id156848
Drawings- BrazilUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 8 id156849
Miscellaneous notes pertaining to G. Glenwood Clark's teaching tour in BrazilUndated
Box 19, Folders 9-11
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 9 id156852
MiscellaneousUndated
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 10 id156853
Massachusetts Voting Form1812Scope and Contents
Printed document.
- Mixed Materials Box: 19 Folder: 11 id156854
North Carolina Bond1863Scope and Contents
Printed document.