Paul A. Gordon Collection

Collection

Identifier: Collection 281

Staff Only

Content Description

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 Gordon himself wrote lots of unpublished papers which can be found throughout this part of the collection.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

Creator

Gordon, Paul Alfred, 1930-2009 (Person)

Conditions Governing Use

All users of this collection are required to completer the “Application to Use Unpublished Records,” and to observe the regulation specified in the “Patron Agreement” and “Researcher’s Code of Conduct.” All records in this collection are open and available for research. Citation for this collection:

Box___Folder__ Paul A. Gordon (collection 281), Center for Adventist Research, James White Library, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI.

Extent

14 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

During the processing quite a bit of rearrangement was necessary. General categories could be recognized in the arrangement as received. During processing the collection was arranged in a more logical and a more accessible way. ABC papers have were arranged alphabetically in topical order and also alphabetically within each folder. Originally some boxes contained ring binders, while other boxes had piles of paper which had to be organized. Display items in general were set in an order. Originally they were all mixed up in about nine folders.

The major structure of the collection looks like this: