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Gerald Sandford Graham fonds
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1904-1984 (Creation)
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- Graham, Gerald Sandford
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2.18 m of textual records, ca. 100 photographs, 3 audio reels
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Biographical history
Gerald Sandford Graham, born in 1903 at Sudbury, Ont., received his education from Queen's University, M.A. 1925, and Cambridge University, Ph.D. 1929. He received a number of academic awards including a Queen's Travelling Fellowship to Harvard University, 1926-1927, the Sir George Parkin Scholarship to Germany, 1929-1930 and a Guggenheim Fellowship to the United States, 1941. He held a number of academic positions including Instructor in History at Harvard University, 1930-1936, Assistant Professor and later Professor of History at Queen's University, 1936-1946, Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at the University of London, 1949-1970 and Visiting Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of Western, Ontario. He authored numerous books and articles concerning military history, international studies and other historical subjects. He passed away in 1988.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence, news clippings, articles, pamphlets and offprints of articles. Many files relate to a proposed biography of Sir Edward R. Peacock. Correspondents include T.S. Eliot, Lord Beaverbrook and a number of individuals at Queen's University. There are also manuscripts and offprints of Professor Graham's publications, a recording of and photographs of initiation activities for Queen's University's class of Arts '26. There is also a noteable amount of family material including a childhood photo albums, posthoumous material gathered by his family pertiaing to GSG's life and times, as well as genealogical material relating to the Graham family. This fonds contains the following series: Correspondence (1925-1984), Subject Files (1932-1981), Peacock Biography research (1904-1975), Writings (1935-1979), Photographs (ca. 1922) and Sound recordings ([1944-1945]).
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Physical condition
Good
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Professors G.S. Graham, H.M. Cave and D.M. Schurman. 2013 - Donated by Dr. Laura Brandon
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- English
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Location of originals
2169
2170
2151.5
2999 (Graham)
2336
3206.3
F3 B3.5
SR79
SR676
SR749
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None
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None
Finding aids
- https://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/FindingAids/G/Graham-Gerald/Graham-Gerald-2169.xlsx
- https://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/FindingAids/G/Graham-Gerald/Graham-Gerald-2170.xlsx
- https://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/FindingAids/G/Graham-Gerald/Graham-Gerald-3206_3.xlsx
- https://db-archives.library.queensu.ca/FindingAids/G/Graham-Gerald/Graham-Gerald_S-2151_5.xlsx
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No further accruals are expected