Collection of Burdett Gardner Materials
Scope and Contents
Collection contains one letter to Irene Cooper Willis and one typescript manuscript on Vernon Lee, both dated 1953.
Dates
- 1953.
- 1953 - 1953
Creator
- Gardner, Burdett, 1917-2010 (Person)
Language of Materials
English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Materials to be used on site during regular Special Collections hours or by appointment. Photocopying or scanning may be possible at discretion of staff for nominal fee. Digital cameras are permitted. Materials may be protected by copyright.
Biographical / Historical
Burdett H. Gardner was born Aug. 14, 1917 in Ashland, Maine and died in 2010. He graduated from Colby College in 1939 and received a B.S. degree from Boston University in 1940 and served in the U.S. Army's Signal Intelligence Service Japanese cryptography effort from 1942 to 1946. In 1954, he received a PhD degree in English Literature from Harvard University. He taught at colleges and universities throughout the United States and was a professor of English at Monmouth University from 1964 up to his retirement in 1984. He is the author of The Lesbian Imagination (Victorian Style): A Psychological and Critical Study of "Vernon Lee. "
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Abstract
Collection contains one letter to Irene Cooper Willis and one typescript manuscript on Vernon Lee, both dated 1953.
Arrangement
Materials arranged in three series: Correspondence from Burdett Gardner, Correspondence to Burdett Gardner, Manuscripts.
Custodial History
Materials acquired via gift or purchase.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Collection of Burdett Gardner Materials
- Author
- Colby College Special Collections, Waterville, Maine
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Colby College Archives Repository
