Patti Gordon Collection of Robert Chester Ruark Letters and Photographs, 1950s-1970s

Collection Number: 05737

Collection Title: Patti Gordon Collection of Robert Chester Ruark Letters and Photographs, 1950s-1970s

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Size	.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 50 items)
Abstract	The collection of white singer and club owner Patti Gordon (d. 2016) of Houston Tex., contains letters from the 1950s and 1960s received by Gordon from author Robert Chester Ruark (1915-1965) with whom she had an intimate relationship. Also included are newspaper clippings related to both Gordon and Ruark and candid photographs of the couple together, some taken in Africa where Ruark hunted big game. Images depict animals killed by Ruark.
Creator	Gordon, Patti.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English

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Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Patti Gordon Collection of Robert Ruark Letters and Photographs #05737, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Elizabeth Robb-Wymore in November 2016 (Acc. 102699).

Sensitive Materials Statement: Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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This summary description was created in June 2019 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Hart, June 2019

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Robert Chester Ruark Papers (04001)

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Patti Gordon (d. 2016) was a singer and proprietor of a supper club in Houston, Tex., in the 1960s and 1970s. Gordon and American author Robert Chester Ruark (1915-1965) of North Carolina were in an intimate relationship during the 1950s and 1960s.