Additional Papers of Douglas H. Gordon, 1934-1988

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968

Summary

Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The additional papers of Douglas H. Gordon consist of correspondence, papers, financial papers, photographs, and printed material pertaining to European travel. There are travel itineraries, 1946-1985; agendas for International Law Conferences, business correspondence and records; records and receipts for purchases of art and literature; also literary reviews, newsclippings, sheets from sales catalogues, museum catalogues, cards, and art prints. Also included are three manuscript binders of catalogues of the early and late French Books of the Charlecote House Library, vol. 1-3, and 16 photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Gordon, ca. 1934-1980. There is also personal correspondence from Winifred M. Gordon and other family members and letters pertaining to routine legal matters among the papers. Contained throughout are lists of names and addresses in Europe, particularly London, England; Paris, France; and Brussels, Belgium.

Biographical / historical:

Douglas Huntly Gordon (1902- ), lawyer and financier, of Charlecote House, Baltimore, Maryland, received his law degree from Harvard University in 1928 and was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1929. He was assistant United States district attorney for Maryland from 1934-1939. He was president of St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, 1931-1934; and, president of the Municipal Arts Society, Baltimore, Maryland, 1935-1970. Memberships included the American Bar Association, Decorated Legion of Honor, and Palmes Academiques in France. He was the author of legal and historical articles. Gordon was a collector of books, especially those of the French Renaissance, and of drawings, especially those of eighteenth and nineteenth century France. He married Winifred Macmillan Claude on June 2, 1934.

Acquisition information:
This collection was given to the Library by Mary L. Dierdorff through Jeanne Hammer, Library Development Office, University of Virginia, on June 26, 1997.
Arrangement:

Material was removed from folders with brackets and then placed in folders in the same order as removed. Each set of papers for a specific year is chiefly filed in reverse chronological order.

Physical description:
Ca. 25,000 items