Fonds contains records created and collected by Andrew Merkel, including correspondence with friends and associates such as Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslie, and Robert Norwood; manuscripts; newspaper clippings; and copies of The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet and The Order of Good Cheer.
File also includes three drafts of an address made by Charles Bruce at a dinner held on 11 May 1946 in honour of Andrew Merkel's retirement as Atlantic superintendent of The Canadian Press and a copy of the CP Informative Bulletin, which includes an account of the dinner and tributes to Merkel from editors at Halifax Herald and Halifax Chronicle.
File contains a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel about the Digby scallop industry as well as am enclosure letter to R.J. Rankin at The Herald newspaper, for which the piece was written.
File contains 71 handwritten letters sent from poet Molly Beresford to Andrew Merkel between 1922 and 1936; three postcards; one Christmas card; and four poems, including "The Philosophy of a Would-Be Poet," "Moon Shadows," "To a Fair Lady on returning to her a Pair of Rubber Shoes."
File contains a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel about the history of schooner racing in Nova Scotia prior to the Bluenose, as well as a letter from Merkel to C.B. Cochrane, editor of King's College Record, offering the article for publication.
