Fonds MS-2-82 - Archibald MacMechan fonds

Correspondence between George P. Baker and A. MacMechan A lecture on capital and labour in modern literature Letter from Sara Jeannette Cotes to Archibald MacMechan Letter from Sara Jeannette Cotes to Archibald MacMechan Letter from Sara Jeannette Cotes to Archibald MacMechan An issue of the Dalhousie Gazette found in the trenches in France Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, January 10, 1904 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, April 19, 1904 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, May 15, 1904 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, February 7, 1905 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Edith MacMechan, July 24, 1905 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, September 12, 1905 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, March 3, 1907 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, November 18, 1915 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, October 11, 1916 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, January 31, 1918 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, September 12, 1918 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, January 28, 1919 Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, October 14, 1923 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, August 26, 1915 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, September 16, 1915 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 20, 1915 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, November 2, 1916 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 25, 1916 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, January 11, 1917 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 27, 1919 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, June 20, 1921 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, August 1, 1921 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, July 2, 1923 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 7, 1923 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 30, 1923 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, April 3, 1923 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, May 12, 1923 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 30, 1927 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 9, 1928 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, November 21, 1928 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, February 5, 1929 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 14, 1928 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 5, 1930 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, January 8, 1931 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, February 9, 1931 Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 23, 1931 Note from Virginia Woolf to Archibald MacMechan Four letters from David Soloan to Archibald MacMechan Letter from Molly Beresford to Archibald MacMechan Two letters from D.G. Davis to Archibald MacMechan Correspondence between Alexander Graham Bell and A. MacMechan Correspondence between Herman Melville and A. MacMechan

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Archibald MacMechan fonds

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10 meters of textual records ; 421 photographs : b&w ; various sizes

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MacMechan, Archibald McKellar
(1862-1933)

Biographical history

Archibald McKellar MacMechan was a Munro Professor of English at Dalhousie University and a prolific writer of essays, article and books, including an official history of the Halifax Explosion. He was born in 1862 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, son of the Reverend John and Mary Jean MacMechan. He earned a BA at the University of Toronto in 1884, then taught school in Brockville and Galt for two years before entering Johns Hopkins University as a doctoral candidate in modern languages, receiving his PhD in 1889. That same year he married Edith May Cowan, with whom he had had three daughters, Jean, Grace and Edith.

MacMechan was appointed professor of English at Dalhousie University in 1889, where he remained until 1931, helping to establish the Dalhousie University Marine Museum and briefly serving as University Librarian. He also served as president of the Nova Scotia Historical Society (1907-1910) and was awarded a fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1926). He was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Toronto (1920) and Dalhousie University (1933). He died on 7 August 1933.

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MacMechan's papers were donated between 1970-1974 by his daughter Jean Willets; in 1983 by his daughter Edith Dobson; and in 1990 by his granddaughter Joan Cervin.

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Fonds contains diaries, correspondence, manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, research notes, materials related to MacMechan's research and teaching and other university-related activities, artwork, memorabilia, scrapbooks, photographs and financial papers.

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Materials do not circulate and must be used in the Archives and Special Collections Reading Room.

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