George F. Walker Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS069
George F. Walker was a professor in the Modern Languages Department at Georgia Tech. His papers primarily consist of materials he collected on the French novelist Marcel Proust.
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These papers include Dr. Walker's personal collection on Marcel Proust. The articles and news clippings include reviews of books that deal with Proust's works, with some of the material in the French language. The scattered correspondence consists of letters are written to Dr. Walker, including one that is handwritten in French. Another indicates that he privately taught Spanish lessons. The academic papers are either typed or handwritten, on the subject of Proust, and the exhibition materials include notes and a copy of an article on the exhibition.
George Fuller Walker was born in 1910. He attended Vanderbilt University, Stanford University, and the University of Paris. During World War II, he served in the Army for 3 � years. Dr. Walker began teaching at Georgia Tech in 1946 in the Department of Modern Languages. He amassed a large collection of Marcel Proust's works and exhibited them at the school in 1974. Dr. Walker retired in 1976 and died in 1989.
Correspondence is arranged chronologically, as are the notes on the Proust Exhibition.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
George F. Walker donated these papers in 1989. Accession #1989.0803 (old number: 89-08-03).
(one half-size document case)
Yen M. Tang processed these papers in 2000.
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, Library, Georgia Institute of Technology Repository