- Collection:
- LGBTQ Collection
- Title:
- Franklin Abbott (Atlanta, Georgia), to Cal Gough (San Francisco, California), letter, February 20, 1981. (inside of greeting card.)
- Creator:
- Abbott, Franklin
- Contributor to Resource:
- Gough, Cal, 1948-
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1981-02-20
- Subject:
- Gay authors--Letters
Gay men--Letters - People:
- Abbott, Franklin--Correspondence
Gough, Cal, 1948- --Correspondence - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- personal correspondence
letters (correspondence) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Includes envelope postmarked February 22, 1981, to Gough on Hoffman Street, San Francisco. From Abbott on Iverson Street, Atlanta. Text: February 20th. Dear dear Cal, How wise of you to wait 'til Spring to return. February has been mild but very gray and Atlanta in azaleas and dogwood is irresistible. I'm so glad you're coming back, I've missed you a lot. I hope your re-entry will be gentle and happy. I'm glad too that Dr. Schwartz may be back. Once he is here I intend to charm him into staying as good comrades within the "helping" profession are scarce and hard to find. I am well, working hard and deep healing and creating. My life feels like a flower opening slowly, tentatively unsure of so much warmth and light. Neil and I continue to prosper and grow filling our space with our synergy. The gathering was magical and terrible, delightful and draining. It is so hard and so frightening being the first men to change, to become, to see, to love. It is rapture and terror bound inextricably together -- prevention and healing back and forth. We are, in all of this, simply marvelous: We make our own miracles. The spring is opening for me as a creative time again. Ceres comes home over and over, again and again. I'm looking forward to sharing the time with you. Love, Frank.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/lgbtq/id/134
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/lgbtq:134/manifest.json
- Additional 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).
- Original Collection:
- Cal Gough, loaned for digitization
Archives for Research on Women and Gender - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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