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| Title | Franklin Abbott (Athens, Georgia), to Cal Gough (Atlanta, Georgia), letter, October 10, 1976. (2 leaves, on yellow lined paper.) |
| Identifier | W2013-40x-069 |
| Date of original | 1976-10-10 |
| Decade | 1970s |
| Creator |
Abbott, Franklin |
| Contributors |
Gough, Cal, 1948- |
| Description | Includes envelope postmarked October 11, 1976, addressed to Gough on Center Street, Atlanta, from Abbott on Hall Street, Athens. |
| Subject |
Gay authors--Letters Gay men--Letters |
| Subject (names) |
Abbott, Franklin--Correspondence Gough, Cal, 1948- --Correspondence |
| Location depicted |
Athens (Ga.) Clarke County (Ga.) |
| Collection | Cal Gough, loaned for digitization |
| Curatorial area |
Archives for Research on Women and Gender |
| Digital publisher |
Georgia State University Library |
| Rights information | This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). |
| Source format |
personal correspondence letters |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Type |
Text |
Description
| Title | First leaf. |
| Identifier | W2013-40x-069 1 |
| Description | Text: Sunday afternoon, October 10th. Dear Cal -- I have been intending to write you ever since our visit a few weeks ago. A combination of scholarly endeavor and personal chaos has been the major obstacle in my doing so. Not only was our visit too brief, I was unable at that time, for reasons that will become obvious, to "fill you in" on what has been happening with me. That has changed slightly in the interim, but let me proceed with a few details. I've been under a great deal of stress since mid-July due to problems Tommy and I were having in our relationship. His room-mate during his last 5-6 months in Norfolk turned out to be his lover. The relationship, he said, began as purely sexual and developed into an emotional attachment only after he moved back here in July. Up until the first of August I was totally ignorant of the situation. After he moved to Ashburn he became increasingly cool and even secretive. I finally confronted him with my "insight" that something was amiss. He then told me about the fellow in Norfolk and said he didn't know what his feelings for me were. I took him to Athens to stay with our friend John and went to Nashville to sort things out. I decided that I would not be so rigid as to rule out |
| Digital publisher |
Georgia State University Library |
| Rights information | This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). |
| Format |
application/pdf |
