Archives Catalogue

Tulsa Based Foundation Develops Alternative To Welfare for Korean Lepers : [article and correspondence]

MS-2-535, Box 4, Folder 10, Item 6
Item
[1973?]

Item consists of an article from the David Livingstone Missionary Foundation about leprosy missions in Korea, forwarded with a note by Jess Pedigo to Florence Murray, in the early 1970s.

Transcription of a letter from Franz Liszt

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 23, Item 2
Item
November 21, 1842

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a typed transcription of a letter written by Franz Liszt to an unidentified person, addressing the publication of some of his songs by Schott, and his cousin, Mlle. Liszt.

Transcription of a letter from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to J.H. Kufferath

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 25, Item 4
Item
April 5, 1840

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a typed transcription of a letter from Felix Mendelssohn to the Johann Hermann Kufferath, the music director in Utrecht. The letter is translated to English from German.

Transcription of a letter from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to J.H. Kufferath

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 25, Item 3
Item
April 5, 1840

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a typed transcription of a letter from Felix Mendelssohn to the Johann Hermann Kufferath, the music director in Utrecht.

Transcribed letter from Richard Wagner to his publisher

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 21
Item
[c. 1944 - 1954]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a transcription to English of the twenty-eighth paragraph in a letter that Richard Wagner wrote to his publisher in 1872. This transcription was presumably sent by William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon with a letter.

The energy of the future and the future of the global economy : a warning / by Alexander King

MS-2-744, Box 282, Folder 20
Item
1986

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

Item is a paper by the president of the Club of Rome; file includes enclosure letter and newspaper clippings.

The early Scotch settlers of Cape Breton : [manuscript]

MS-2-165, SF Box 25, Folder 37
Item
1931

Item is a manuscript of Daniel Morrison's unpublished article The Early Scotch Settlers of Cape Breton, which he presented to the literary branch of the Guild in Dominion, Nova Scotia. Attached is his letter to Mr. McIntosh, requesting the manuscript's return and the reader's spelling corrections of Gaelic words.

Morrison, Murdoch Daniel

Telegram from Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 6
Item
December 20, 1952

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a Western Union telegram sent from Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon on December 20, 1952.

Villa-Lobos, Arminda

Specific correspondence related to the Nova Scotia Wool Marketing Board

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 42, Folder 8
Item

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Specific correspondence related to the Canadian Sheep Breeders Association

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 42, Folder 7
Item

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Specific correspondence related to the Canada Sheep Marketing Council

MS-14-22, MS-14, Box 43, Folder 3
Item

Part of Edith Zillig sheep and wool collection

Resignation letter from Jack London to members of the Socialist Party

MS-10-1, Box 2, Folder 9
Item
March 7, 1916

Part of Roscoe Alfred Fillmore fonds

Item is a typed, signed resignation letter sent by Jack London to members of the Socialist Party. The letter was written from his ranch in Glen Ellen, California, and reveals his dissatisfaction with trends of socialism in the United States. He also announces the resignation of his wife, Charmain K. London.

Report on the Attaché

MS-2-35, SF Box 16, Folder 7, Item 4
Item
[19-]

Part of Charles William Jefferys fonds

Item is a report on the Attaché.

Provincial medical board matriculation examination : [correspondence, facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 30
Item
June 1904

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of facsimile of correspondence submitted by A.P. Reid to the June 1904 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVI, No. 6), on the topic of Nova Scotia's medical board matriculation examination.

Press releases related to a 1934 public lecture series

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 73
Item
January 1934

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a series of press releases prepared by Carleton Stanley outlining a public lecture series at the University Gymnasium in January and February 1934. Press release outlines multidisciplinary lectures by Dr. Dixie Pelluet, Dr. W.D. Woodhead, Dr. H.F. Munro, Dr. H.E. Bigelow, Dr. E.W.. Nichols, and Dr. W. Hamilton Fyfe. Item also contains related correspondence.

Press release submitted to the Halifax Chronicle and Daily Star about a donation to the Library

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 5
Item
14 October 1931

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a short piece prepared by Carleton Stanley, submitted to the Halifax Chronicle and Daily Star in October 1931, about a gift of books from Francis McLennan to the Library at Dalhousie University. Includes correspondence.

Press release for the long-term loan acquisition of Labrador duck specimens by the National Museum of Natural History

UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 8
Item
1968

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a press release issued by the National Museum of Canada regarding the long-term loan acquisition of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum at Dalhousie University to the National Museum of Natural History in Ottawa. Also includes correspondence between A.W.F. Banfield and Eric Mercer.

Postcard from Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 24, Item 1
Item
[c. 1898]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a cropped postcard depicting a churchyard with a musical excerpt written in pen over top of the picture.

"Origin of the Irwin and Bartling Families in Queens County, N.S."

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 5
Item
March 1941

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a transcribed copy of a letter from Janet Mullins to Thomas H. Raddall on the history of the Irwin and Bartling families of Queens County, Nova Scotia.

Note from Virginia Woolf to Archibald MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 16, Folder 44
Item
June 16, 1931

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item is a handwritten note from Virginia Woolf thanking MacMechan for his article on her book A Room of One's Own.

Note from Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
June 18, 1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Note from Phyllis Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 2
Item
[195-]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Duke-Elder, Phyllis

List of women Dalhousie graduates probably complete to 1917

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 12
Item
[1919?]

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typewritten alphabetical list with the handwritten title "Women Graduates" and a note: "copied from calendars summer of 1919 (probably complete to 1917)." The list includes students' names, home towns, degree earned and date granted.

List of Jewish students in attendance at Dalhousie University from 1926-1941

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 2
Item
1941

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item includes a covering letter from Dalhousie's business manager to Mrs. Heinish of Preston Street, Halifax, explaining that the list is sent at the request of Dr. Lehv.

Letter to Vincent MacDonald from D.C. Abbott

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 1
Item
1 March 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Letter to University of Toronto Press with comments on Comparative Federalism by Edward McWhinney

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 29
Item
March 19, 1962

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter and reader's response directed to the editor of University of Toronto Press, Miss Halpenny.

Letter to the editor of the Mail Star

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 35
Item
5 August 1953

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is letter written by Vincent MacDonald adding to the tributes to the late Edward Cummings.

Letter to Lawrence J. Burpee from Gordon C. Warren

MS-2-175, SF Box 27, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
20 October 1944

Part of Lawrence Johnstone Burpee fonds

Letter to John Bell from George D. Noiles regarding Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One. regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Part of John Bell's research regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Letter to James Dinwiddie from C. Clagget concerning access to rooms in Dublin

MS-2-726, 2011-055, Box 2, Folder 15
Item
2 July 1783

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Letter to Gordon C. Warren from Lawrence J. Burpee

MS-2-175, SF Box 27, Folder 14, Item 2
Item
24 October 1944

Part of Lawrence Johnstone Burpee fonds

Letter of thanks from W.A. MacKay

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 34
Item
5 February 1962

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter thanking MacDonald for his guest lecture at the Law School and judging the competition for the Smith Shield.

Letter of thanks from W. Kenneth Campbell on behalf of Sir Lyman, Chief Justice

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 6
Item
14 February 1955

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Letter of thanks from Henry Hicks to Samuel Balcom for his $300 contribution to close out the Benevolent Fund of the World War One No. 7 Stationary Hospital Unit

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 4
Item
1975

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter from Henry Hicks to Samuel Balcom.

Letter of support for Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey from Archibald McKellar MacMechan to Edwin Laftus

MS-2-30, SF Box 16, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
March 30, 1915

Part of Correspondence of Daniel C. Harvey

Item is Archibald MacMechan's letter of recommendation supporting Daniel Harvey's application as a history lecturer at Dalhousie University.

MacMechan, Archibald McKellar

Letter of congratulations to the new Justice MacDonald from W. Earl Smith

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 13
Item
14 October 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter written on behalf of the Conference of the Governing Bodies of the Legal Profession in Canada.

Letter of congratulations to Samuel Balcom from J.K. Lawson of Balcom-Chittick Limited-Lawton's Drug Stores regarding the City of Halifax's designating a park as Balcom Square

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 6
Item
1979

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter referring to a park named in Balcom's honour by the City of Halifax; a plaque bearing Samuel Balcom's name still marks the small triangle of lawn at the corner of Robie Street and Spring Garden Road.

Letter of congratulations from S.P. Chisholm, President of Dalhousie Law Society

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 14
Item
13 February 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter congratulating MacDonald on his appointment to the bench.

Letter of congratulations from Robert H. Winters, Minister of Resources and Development

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 45
Item
11 February 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter congratulating "Vince" on his appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Letter of congratulations from G.P.R. Tallin, Dean of Manitoba Law School

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 42
Item
4 April 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter written on behalf of the law school and the Law Society of Manitoba.

Letter of appreciation from Patrick Kerwin

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 27
Item
14 March 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada thanking MacDonald for sending a copy of his lectures delivered at Osgoode Hall on legislative power and the Supreme Court in the fifties.

Letter of application from the Gay Alliance for Equality to join the Movement for Citizens Voice and Action

MS-11-1, Box 22, Folder 18
Item
April 1, 1974

Part of Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

Item is a letter written by John Marr, Public Relations Officer, outlining the Gay Alliance for Equality's activities and rationale for wanting to join forces with MOVE.

Letter from W.R. Lederman, Dean of Law, Queen's University

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 30
Item
2 April 1964

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter thanking MacDonald for granting permission for his lecture on legislative powers and the Supreme Court in the fifties to be reprinted for teaching use.