Clifford and Gladys Lyons Collection of Robert Frost Materials, . 1929-1981

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Clifford and Gladys Lyons Collection of Robert Frost Materials, . 1929-1981

ABSTRACT BIOG/HIST The collection includes correspondence, writings, newspaper and magazine clippings, audio tapes, photographs, and other materials documenting the life and work of Robert Frost, especially as they related to Frost's friendship with Clifford Lyons, professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Lyons's wife, Gladys.

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Lyons, Clifford P. (Clifford Pierson), 1904-1992

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Clifford and Gladys Lyons met Robert Frost and his family when they were neighbors in Gainesville, Florida, in the fall of 1937. The Frosts were spending the winter there, and Clifford Lyons was teaching English at the University of Florida. During World War II, when Lyons was stationed near Boston, he and his wife frequently exchanged visits with Frost, who was living in Cambridge. Clifford Lyons joined the faculty of the English Department of the University of North Ca...