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.
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G. Glenwood Clark Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
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.
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.
Includes one short story by former student, Percy Hicks. Arranged alphabteically.
Arranged alphabetically.
Arranged alphabetically.
Arranged alphabetically.
Arranged alphabetically.
Arranged alphabetically.
Arranged chronologically.
The majority of letters from The Century Company. Arranged alphabetically.
Includes clippings, telegrams, and royalty statements. Original order.
Arranged alphabetically.
Correspondence regarding Thomas Jefferson and The Language We Use Series. Arranged chronologically.
Arranged alphabetically.
Arranged alphabetically.
Includes alumni gazettes and faculty newsletters.
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.
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
Scrapbook.
Also includes list of book reviews given to various Women's Clubs in 1954 and 1955. Scrapbook.
Master's Thesis by G. Glenwood Clark. Typescript.
Typescript.
Annotated typescript.
Annotated typescript.
Typescript.
Typescript.
Typescript.
Typescript.
Typescript.
Annotated typescript.
Typescript.
Typescript and annotated typescript.
"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.
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.
Also includes "Consecrated Ground," The Missionary, February 1922 by G. Glenwood Clark.
Annotated typescript.
Typescript.
Typescript.
"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.
Annotated typescript and incomplete typescript.
Typescript with illustrations.
Typescript.
Typescript.
Typescript with illustration.
Typescript.
Typescript with illustrations.
Typescript.
Typescript. 1 item.
Typescripts with variations.
Annotated typescript.
Typescript.
Annotated typescript and typescript.
Annotated typescript.
Some written by students. Typescripts.
"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.
Scope and Contents "The Ghost in Shakespeare" and "The Nibelungen Lied." Typescripts.
Typescript.
Boxes 11-15
Also includes miscellaneous notes on Harriet Beecher Stowe and four women poets, Lizette Reese, Sara Teasdale, Adelaide Crapsey, and Louise imogen Guiney.
Covers Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman, Joel Barlow, Timothy Dwight, Tom Paine, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown.
Covers Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H.W. Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and Walt Whitman.
Includes a paper by a student, Beth Davis, on D.H. Lawrence.
Also includes typescript of A Guide to Short Story Writing, by G. Glenwood Clark.
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.
Typescript.
Annotated typescripts.
Typescript.
Diary related to two trips G. Glenwood Clark made to Brazil. Boxes 18 and 19
Arranged chronologically.
Arranged chronologically.
Arranged alphabetically.
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.
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.
Box 19, Folders 9-11
Printed document.
Printed document.