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1948-1984 (Creation)
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- Roper, Gordon
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30.5 cm of textual records
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Gordon Herbert Roper was born in Brantford, Ontario. He married Helen Caddy and they had two children, Susan and Mark. Professor Roper was educated at Peterborough Collegiate Institute; George Williams College in Chicago and the University of Chicago (B.A. 1938, M.A. 1939 and Ph.D. 1944). He served in the Canadian Army from 1944 to 1946. Professor Roper taught English at Yale University from 1939 to 1940; at the University of Chicago from 1941 to 1944 and in 1946; at Trinity College at the University of Toronto from 1946 to 1969 and at Trent University from 1969 to 1975. He researched and wrote extensively on a number of English Literature subjects including Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robertson Davies. Roper was a founding member of the Melville Society and an advisor to the Centre for the Editing of Early Canadian Texts. He was a key figure in the building of the Shell Collection of Canadian Literature for Bata Library at Trent University.
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This fonds was created by and in the custody of Gordon Roper before it was donated to the Trent University Archives.
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This fonds consists of clippings, correspondence and notes mostly concerning Robertson Davies. Materials include taped interview transcripts of Davies and Roper.
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This fonds was donated by Gordon Roper.
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Additions to the fonds include 95-015, 97-1000, 99-005, and 05-005.
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Box 1
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1: 1948 Clippings: Premiere of "Fortune, My Foe"
2: 1950 At My Heart's Core clippings and notes
3: 1951 "The Theatre" and essay for the Royal Commission on Arts, Letters and Sciences (and notes)
4: 1951 Letter from Robertson Davies to Gordon Roper regarding Moby Dick article
5: 1952 "A Mosque for Aesop" clippings
6: 1952 "Tempest-Tost" reviews and notes
7: 1953 "King Phoenix" script and notes
8: 1954 "The Double Life of Robertson Davies" article and notes
9: 1954 "Ajig For the Gypsy" notes and clipping
10: 1955 "Hunting Stuart" play script
11: 1959 "General Confession" play script
12: 1960 "Love and Libel" notes and clipping
13: 1960 Biographical sketch for the Lorne Pierce medal
14: 1960 Trinity College correspondence
15: 1961 Massey College appointment
16: 1962 Clippings
17: 1962 "Literature and Medicine" reprint
18: 1963 1963 Clippings
19: 1963 Peterborough Examiner special issue
20: 1964 Clippings; reprint on Garrick's letters; program on Confederation Centre
21: 1965 Clippings and "A Theatrical Trip for a Wager"
22: 1966 clippings
23: 1966 "The Theory and Theatre of the Abound" by R.B. Parker
24: 1967 Vincent Massey clippings
25: 1967 Senator Davies will and estate, clippings
26: 1967 Peterborough Examiner special issue
27: Marchbanks Almanac, notes
28: 1967 clippings
29: 1967 Scenario for Centennial spectacle
30: 1968 clippings
31: 1969 clippings
32: 1969 "Leacock the Humorist" and notes
33: 1970 clippings and "The Heart of a Merry Christmas"
34: 1970 "The Fifth Business" outline and notes
35: 1971 clippings
36: 1972 clippings
37: 1972 Roper's article on "Fifth Business and Jung" Journal of Canadian Fiction
38: 1972 Correspondence re introduction to book of 3 plays
39: 1973 "Jung and the Theatre" text of speech
40: 1973 Leaven of Malice clippings for 1973 and 1975
41: 1973 clippings
42: 1974 convocation address at Trent University
43: 1974 Notes on CBC play
44: 1974 clippings
45: 1975 Penman interview with Robertson Davies for Sunday supplement
46: 1975 clippings especially on World of Wonders
47: 1975 Peterborough letter found (hoax)
48: 1975 "Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science" article by Robertson Davies
49: 1976 clippings
50: 1977 clippings
51: 1977 Notes on CBC broadcast
52: 1977 "A Davies Log" annotated
53: 1977 "The All-Hallows Horrors" a ghost story by Robertson Davies
54: 1978 "Delusions of Literacy" speech
55: 1978 clippings especially regarding "One-half of Robertson Davies"
56: 1979 "Robertson Davies and Fifth Business" revised article by Gordon Roper
57: 1979 "Shamanstvo" speech by Robertson Davies
58: 1979 clippings especially on Fifth Business and World of Wonders
59: 1980 Notes on North Toronto lecture
60: 1980 "A Return to Rhetoric" lecture by Robertson Davies
61: 1980 Speech at the opening of the new Peterborough Public Library
62: 1980 clippings, mostly book reviews
63: 1981 clippings
64: 1981 "Masque of Honor" program and clipping
65: 1982 clippings including Galbraith on Robertson Davies
66: 1984 clippings
67: Play reviews and programs
68: Notes on Robertson Davies as reviewer
69: Notes on Diary of Samuel Marchbanks
70: Notes on Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks
71: Further notes on Diary and Table Talk
72: Notes on a "Writer's Diary"
73: Notes on A Voice From the Attic
74: Notes on Samuel Marchbanks Almanac
75: book dust jackets
76: Tayne's World Author Series correspondence
77: table of contents for proposed book
78: Bibliography for proposed book
79: Notes on items to be checked
80: background materials for book
81: Robertson Davies' assumptions, values and general definitions (notes)
82: interview tape transcripts, Gordon Roper and Robertson Davies
83: Gordon Roper's early draft of parts of book and associated notes
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- Davies, Robertson (Subject)