Archives Catalogue

Letter from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to William Dummer Northend

MS-2-60, SF Box 18, Folder 19
Item
1875

Item is one handwritten letter (1875) from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to William Dummer Northend in Salem, Massachusetts regarding the possibility of finding subscribers in Boston and Cambridge for an unnamed cause.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

Letter from I.C. Rand, Dean of Law, University of Western Ontario

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 39
Item
28 February 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter thanking MacDonald for sending a copy of his Osgoode Hall lectures.

Letter from Jacques Offenbach

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 27, Item 3
Item
October 24, 1879

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Offenbach, Jacques

Letter from James Baxter to Dalhousie's President MacKenzie

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 15
Item
November 2, 1917

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a letter written by James Baxter to President McKenzie (Arthur Stanley), written in Chatham on 2 November 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to Baxter's attendance at both the Presbyterian seminary in Truro and Dalhousie College in Halifax in the 1850s and 1860s, and mentions enclosed course tickets and notebooks.

Letter from James Ross to Hugh Campbell regarding the recovery of his son John from an unspecified illness

MS-2-12, SF Box 13, Folder 10
Item
1865

Item is a letter from James Ross, principal of Dalhousie College (1863-1885), regarding the recovery of John, the son of Hugh Campbell, from an unspecified illness.

Campbell, Hugh

Letter from James to Lloyd regarding his family's quarantine due to influenza

MS-2-804, SF Box 90, Folder 6
Item
13 April 1919

Part of Weldon Guy Morash fonds

Item is a letter written from Rose Street, Dartmouth, from Charles to Lloyd, presumably Weldon Morash's brother.

Letter from Jean Harriet Willetts to Grace Holloway

MS-2-82, Box 3, Folder 25
Item
[190?]

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Letter from John Haar, President of Centennial College, to Stephen Pedersen

MS-5-23, Box 3, Folder 4
Item
June 26, 1969

Part of Stephen Pedersen fonds

Item is a letter thanking Stephen Pedersen for his part in developing the English curriculum at Centennial College.

Letter from Jonathan Sewell to his daughters, Maria and Henrietta

MS-2-66, SF Box 18, Folder 21
Item
1828

Item is a letter (1828) from Jonathan Sewell to his daughters, Maria (the eldest) and Henrietta, addressed to the care of their uncle, Stephen Sewell, in Montreal. Sewell describes the recent departure of Lord and Lady Dalhousie and exhorts his daughters to travel by steamboat and meet him at Three Rivers, which he calls "The Modern Seat of Science, Literature & Fashion."

Sewell, Jonathan, Justice, c. 1766-1839

Letter from Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 24, Item 2
Item
November 1, 1898

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Julia Schmitt Healy to Ron Shuebrook

MS-3-35, Box 18, Folder 10, Item 3
Item
October 31, 1974

Part of Eyelevel Gallery fonds

Item is a letter from Julia Schmitt Healy to Ron Shuebrook concerning his omission from the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery. In the letter, Healy reveals that the selection process was "basically fascism prompted by our Catch-22 situation: To apply for the grant we had to have a board of directors yet we had no members who, under a true co-operative would elect the board." She invites Shuebrook to contribute a piece to the gallery's first show, Peggy's Cove Syndrome.

Letter from K. Wheare, Rector, Exeter College, Oxford

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 43
Item
3 May 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter thanking Justice MacDonald for sharing a copy of his lectures on legislative power and the Supreme Court in the fifties.

Letter from Katherine Creelman to Annie Creelman concerning the Halifax Explosion

MS-2-775, Box 1, Folder 1
Item
December 17, 1917

Part of Creelman Family fonds

Letter from Keiler Mackay

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
May 25, 1960

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item contains a letter to Dr. Melville Cumming from Keiler Mackay, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario written in May 25th, 1960. It writes about John Macrae’s role in WWI as Gunner of the Canadian Field Artillery and as a Medical Doctor in the Canadian Medical Unit. Attached to the is a newspaper clipping of Macrae’s poem “In Flanders Field"

Letter from L. Frank Baum to Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 128, Folder 38
Item
March 1919

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter from L. Frank Baum, author of The Wizard of Oz, responding to a letter written to him by Alexander Leighton suggesting that Baum write a play about Oz.

Letter from Lewis Williams to John McGregor

MS-2-97, SF Box 41, Folder 16
Item
1840

Item is a letter to John McGregor from Judge Lewis M. Williams of Windsor, Nova Scotia regarding his assistance in forwarding items to Liverpool.

McGregor, John

Letter from Library and Archives Canada to Paul Cram regarding legal deposit of Canadian sound recordings for Beyond Benghazi

MS-5-21, Box 9, Folder 6
Item
2010

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Letter from London Missionary Society's Clark Bentom and John Mitchell to Rev. John Eyre reporting on their missionary activities

MS-2-676, SF Box 31, Folder 32
Item
1800

File contains a copy and transcript of a letter written while John Mitchell and Clark Bentom were aboard the ship Ephron.

Bentom, Clark

Letter from Lord Dalhousie to W. Smith

MS-2-69, SF Box 18, Folder 22
Item
1823

Item is a letter (1823) from Lord Dalhousie to W. Smith, requesting that two barrels of Pictou oatmeal be shipped to Quebec on the next available vessel as a sample of Smith's produce.

Smith, W., fl. 1823

Letter from M. Cumming to Chronicle enclosing the manuscript

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55, Item 4
Item
Dec. 10, 1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter from Dr. Melville Cummings

Letter from M. Cumming to Chronicle with postscript and table

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 1, Folder 55, Item 5
Item
Dec.22, 1923

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter from Dr. Melville Cummings

Letter from Marina Stewart to Michael Fernandes

MS-3-35, Box 18, Folder 12, Item 23
Item
August 16, 1982

Part of Eyelevel Gallery fonds

Item is a letter from Marina Stewart to Michael Fernandes regarding a deficit Stewart was alleged to have left at the end of the 1981 fiscal year. In the letter, Stewart asks Fernandes to bring up the matter at the first Eye Level Gallery meeting of the 1982-1983 gallery season.

Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Roscoe Fillmore

MS-10-1, Box 2, Folder 7
Item
August 20, 1964

Part of Roscoe Alfred Fillmore fonds

Item is a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. congratulating Rosco Fillmore for reaching the age of 77 and expressing gratitude for his contributions to a more positive social climate. He also expresses a desire to speak in person about the issue of Black people and military service.

Letter from Mary Goldie, private secretary to Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 21, Item 2
Item
September 21, 1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a letter from Mary Goldie, Princess Alice's private secretary, asking Ellen Ballon to forward an enclosed letter to Frank Cyril James in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the McGill Conservatorium.

Letter from Mary Kenny to Roger Savage

MS-3-35, Box 18, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
July 2, 1974

Part of Eyelevel Gallery fonds

Item is a letter from Mary Kenny to Roger Savage written on July 2, 1974. In the letter, Kenny accepts an offer from Karl MacKeeman to serve on the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery. Kelly offers her services as a photographer or as coordinator of TELED's Media Resource Centre.

Letter from Maurice Ravel

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 27, Item 6
Item
December 13, 1921

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Ravel, Maurice

Letter from Molly Beresford to Archibald MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 4, Folder 80
Item
19 January 1924

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item is a letter from Dalhousie student Molly Beresford (Class of 1926) , to thank MacMechan for awarding her a book of Bliss Carman's poems for a verse she published in the Gazette.

Letter from Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 17, Item 2
Item
December 20, 1954

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a 2 page letter from the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture and Marketing to Dr. Melville Cumming.

Letter from R.A. MacKay (Bert)

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 33
Item
7 February 1945

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Letter from Rev. D.B. Blair to Mr Farquharson

MS-2-228, SF Box 33, Folder 28
Item
1892

Blair's letter discusses the spread of the Evangelical ministry amongst the Gaelic people of Cape Breton.

Blair, Duncan Black, The Reverend, 182?-1893

Letter from Robert Glasgow, president and managing director, The Publishers Association

MS-2-35, SF Box 16, Folder 7, Item 10
Item
1915-10-29

Part of Charles William Jefferys fonds

Item is a letter from Robert Glasgow to C.W. Jefferys outlining the agreement of editorial and illustration work undertaken by Jefferys on a multi-volume series of the works of Haliburton.

Letter from Roy Stewart Bishop relating an anecdote related to Henry Hicks

MS-2-511, Box 22, Folder 24
Item
June 3, 1977

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a letter recounting an episode during which Roy Stewart was apprehended by the Mounties when attempting to deliver a gold desk clock from the President of the Bank of Nova Scotia to Henry Hicks aboard a plane.

Letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch

MS-2-40, SF Box 16, Folder 11
Item
September 7, 1815

Part of Thomas McCulloch collection

Item is a typed copy of a letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch concerning students, likely Cunard's sons, John, Henry and Thomas, which Cunard sent to McCulloch in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Letter from Samuel Balcom to A.M. Savage, Managing Editor of The Halifax Herald, thanking him for their coverage of the 1972 Balcom family reunion at Port Dufferin

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
1978

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter from Samuel Balcom to A.M. Savage.

Letter from Samuel Balcom to Graham (G.W. Dennis) thanking him for the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star's coverage of the 1972 Balcom family reunion at Port Dufferin

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 2
Item
1978

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter from Samuel Balcom to Graham (G.W. Dennis).

Letter from Sara Jeannette Cotes to Archibald MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 5, Folder 95, Item 1
Item
January 6, 1905

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of a letter to Archibald MacMechan from Sara Jeanette Cotes [Duncan] dated Janaury 6 [1905], covering topics such as education, Canadianism, and travels in the Indian subcontinent.

Letter from Sara Jeannette Cotes to Archibald MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 5, Folder 95, Item 2
Item
May 4, 1905

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of a letter to Archibald MacMechan from Sara Jeannette Cotes [Duncan] dated May 4 [1905], covering topics such as her publication of "The Imperialist" and the nature of New Brunswickers.

Letter from Sara Jeannette Cotes to Archibald MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 5, Folder 95, Item 3
Item
April 26, 1905

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of a letter to Archibald MacMechan from Sara Jeannette Cotes [Duncan] dated April 26 [1905], covering such topics as Sara's reception as an author among Canadian readers, and a meeting with Rudyard Kipling discussing Wilfrid Laurier's policies.

Letter from Simeon Perkins to William Cahoon

MS-2-221, SF Box 31, Folder 3
Item
1794

1794 letter to William Cahoon of Port Medway from Simeon Perkins of Liverpool regardling the law surrounding the worrying or killing of sheep by dogs.

Cahoon, William