Plagiarism Issue 1

Item — Box: 12, Folder: 3

Identifier: VII

Staff Only

Content Description

From the Collection: This collection, consisting of 14 boxes, is about Ellen White and Seventh-day Adventist Church history. This collection seems to be his life collection of work on behalf of the Ellen G. White Estate with only a few personal items found in the first series, Personal Document. The first part of the collection consists of Gordon’swritings, projects, public speaking, and clippings. In this part one can find manuscripts of some of Gordon’s books and materials he used to research and write them. There are a lot of periodical issues included where articles of his have been published. The section “Projects” contains works on Ellen White and the pioneers. “Public Speaking” contains notes and other materials from his different speaking occasions with an emphasis on preaching and presenting about Ellen White and related topics. In this part occasionally scholarly papers are included which have been listed.

The biggest part of the collection is the ABC paper collection and the topical material collection. These are a collection of materials, papers and notes regarding all kinds of issues and individual related to Ellen White. This was most likely Gordon’s reference source about these various issues and people. Gordon himself wrote lots of unpublished papers which can be found throughout this part of the collection.

At the end of the collection there are folders on items Gordon used for display purposes when he talked about Adventist history and Ellen White.

Dates

1825 - 2001

Extent

From the Collection: 14 Boxes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

List of Items

Ellen G. White Estate. “Book Titles in Order of Literary Borrowing Percentage.” Ellen G. White Estate, October 14, 1986 (1 page)
Ellen G. White Estate. “The Fannie Bolton Story: A Collection of Source Documents” (122 pages)
Gordon, Paul. “Walter Rea’s Attitude toward Religion and the Bible.” Paper, no date (2 pages, 2 copies)
Gordon, Paul. “Why Did Ellen G. White Borrow?” Paper, no date (14 pages, 2 versions)
Graybill, Ron. “Historical Difficulties in The Great Controversy.” Paper. Ellen G. White Estate, January 30, 1978. Revised, June, 1982 (7 pages)
Lang, Frank. “Interview with Ellen’s Angel.” Paper, no date (8 pages)
Olson, Robert. “How the Desire of Ages Was Written.” Paper. Ellen G. White Estate, May 23, 1979 (47 pages)
Olson, Robert. “Ellen G. White’s Use of Uninspired Sources.” Paper. Ellen G. White Estate, April 10, 1980 (19 pages)
Olson, Robert. “The Literary Borrowing Question.” Paper, May 8, 1995 (11 pages)
Poirier, Tim. “Did James White Attempt a ‘Cover Up’ of Ellen White’s Literary Borrowing?: An Explanation of His Statements in Life Sketches (1880), pp. 328, 329.” Paper. Ellen G. W hite Estate, August 15, 1985 (5 and 8 pages, 2 copies)
Poirier, Tim. “Ellen White’s Literary Sources: How Much Borrowing Is There?” Paper. Ellen G. White Estate, September, 1986 (3 pages, 2 copies)
Poirier, Tim. “Materials Pertaining to a Recent Communication from Walter Rea.” Material Collection, April 15, 1993 (2 copies)
Ramik, Vincent. “The Ramik Report: Memorandum of Law: Literary Property Rights: 1790-1915.” Report, August 14, 1981 (17 pages)