Archives Catalogue

MS-2-744, Box 324, Folder 23
File
1996-1997

FIle contains correspondence (all of which is outgoing) to Jean-Pierre Lévy and Rudd Lubers. Topic of discussion concerns the Independent World Commission on the Oceans Study Group on the Economic Uses of the Ocean, of which Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a member.

'L' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 353, Folder 3
File
1986-1990

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence concerning the ICOD seminar, and the ICOD Board of Directors. Correspondence include the Public Service Commission of Canada; Minister for External Relations and International Development (Monique Landry); the Minister's Oceans Group; the Privy Council Office; Huguette Labelle; Philip Lapp (attached are Elisabeth Mann Borgese's comments on a document by Minister's Ocean Group); Michael Latremouille (attached is a plan for an ICOD seminar); Michele Lemay; and Douglas Lindores.

'L' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 79, Folder 27
File
1974-1984

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File includes correspondence with David Luke of Dalhousie University, Lev Ljubmov, Betty Lussier (Consultants in Development), Dennis Livingston, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Edward Landstrom (United States Department of State), Heldegard Lamfrom, The Law of the Sea Institute, and Jonathan Lu.

Le Club de Rome a-t-il changé? / Jean Claude Lamberti

MS-2-744, Box 31, Folder 7, Item 7
Item
1984

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

Item is an article published in the July-September 1984 issue of France Forum.

Letter from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a letter from Princess Alice concerning a concert that Ellen Ballon gave, including pieces by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Letter from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 3
Item
June 4, 1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Edvard Grieg

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 27, Item 5
Item
February 10, 1902

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a letter from Edvard Grieg to an unidentifed person. Grieg wrote the letter at his Troldhaugen residence in Bergen Norway on February 10, 1902. It reads: "Dear Sir! Permit me, in bad English, to thank you for your songs & for your essay on my musical work. Both has [sic] given me much pleasure. I also congratulate you to your reputation in America as teacher and composer and beg you kindly to receive from me and my wife our best compliments. Yours faithfully, Edvard Grieg."

Grieg, Edvard, 1843-1907

Letter from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to Edward Deorient

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 25, Item 1
Item
January 28, 1834

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to Professor Hildebrand

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 25, Item 2
Item
April 18, 1839

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Franz Liszt

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains 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.

Letter from Gunter Pauli to Elisabeth Borgese requesting that she write the environment report for the Aurelio Peccei Tagung

MS-2-744, Box 19, Folder 36
Item
April 3, 1985

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

Item is a letter regarding the October 1985 meeting in Salzburg.

Letter from Gustav Mahler

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 27, Item 4
Item
September 24, 1899

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Mahler, Gustav

Letter from Heitor and Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 4
Item
July 26, 1947

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a handwritten letter from Heitor and Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon written on July 26, 1947. The letter details Villa-Lobos itinerary on a European tour and comments on Ballon's performances of Villa-Lobos' compositions. Item is accompanied by the stamped air mail envelope in which Ballon received the letter. One French postage stamp is affixed to the envelope.

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Letter from James Proudfoot to Dr. Dinwiddie

MS-2-726, Box 1, Folder 33
Item
May 7, 1812

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a letter from James Proudfoot to James Dinwiddie regarding procuring furnishings for his rooms at Cambridge.

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 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 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 Maurice Ravel

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

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Ravel, Maurice

Letter from Sgt. A. Fraser Tupper to Ralph Kane

MS-13-2, SF Box 54, Folder 6, Item 3
Item
December 13, 1916

Part of Dalhousie University No. 7 Stationary Hospital collection

Item is a letter from Sgt. A. Fraser Tupper to his nephew, Ralph Kane. The letter was sent from La Havre, France, on December 13, 1916, while Tupper was serving overseas.

Tupper, A. Fraser, Sgt.

Letter from Thomas McCulloch to the Senate of the University of Edinburgh

MS-2-40, SF Box 15, Folder 9
Item
[18--?]

Part of Thomas McCulloch collection

Item is a letter concerning Thomas McCulloch's donation of a North American insect specimen (from Nova Scotia) to the University of Edinburgh, via Professor Jameson, for the university's museum. The letter discusses Nova Scotia's Scottish connections, Presbyterian religion, the Pictou Academy, and the advocates for the conference of honorary degrees on the Honourable Sampson Salter Blowers, the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; the Honourable James Stewart; and the Honourable Brenton Halyburton.

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 20
Item
February 11, 1954

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 15
Item
January 6, 1947

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 19
Item
August 2, 1951

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon and Sally Ryan

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 14
Item
March 8, 1947

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon, Sally Ryan, and Ryan Gustafson

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 18
Item
January 26, 1950

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Lincoln, United Kingdom

MS-2-128, PB Box 5, Folder 67, Item 6
Item
1925

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Lotte Lehmann : [autographed photograph]

MS-5-2, Box 8, Folder 6
File
[1940 - 1972]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

'M' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 93, Folder 29
File
1970-1974

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence with Pus McCloy, Michael Dempsey (Managing Editor, MacGibbon and Kee Ltd.), Larry Eugene McGinesey (on "The Drama of the Oceans)", and George MacLeod. Also inlcudes a newspaper clipping ("Global Body Urged for Sea Control").

Marche funèbre, Op. 35 : exécutée aux funérailles de l'auteur

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 10
Item
1837-1839

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a copy of the first separate edition of Marche funèbre from Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor. The separated third movement was played as Chopin's body was conveyed to the mausoleum on October 30, 1849, and was subsequently released as a separate publication, using the original plates (891) by Troupenas. The file includes a folder and brief description of the work from Scribner.

Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek

Märchen (Ritterzug), Op. 14, no. 2

MS-5-2, Box 6, Folder 9
Item
1905-1907

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a copy of the second tale in Medtner's Two Tales, Op. 14, for piano. It was published by P. Jurgenson and distributed in Leipzig by Robert Forberg in 1907 and includes an inscription to Ellen Ballon from Alfred La Liberté.

Medtner, Nikolay

Miscellaneous personal correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 6, Folder 5
File
1971-1984

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence regarding Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sigerson, from [Marie?], to [Unkie?], from [Peter?], [T.? -indecipherable], [Jacques Piccard], Cathy Enright, [Humberto and Alara Gristancho], [Johan], Bruce Kubert, and an invitation from one of Elisabeth Mann Borgese's dogs.

Miscellaneous personal correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 6, Folder 1
File
1983-1984

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence correspondence from Jan Tinbergen, Ben Weininger, Peter Wehrli, Cordelia [Sceudal], Ludwig Karbe, and Gabrielle Edjcomb.

'N' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 179, Folder 24
File
1976-1984

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File includes correspondence to R.A. Ness (of the Ambassador Trading Company) and Satya Nanden (of the United Nations). Topics discussed include the Law of the Sea and Micronesia, and the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

'N' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 163, Folder 8
File
1981-1983

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence with "The New York Times," "The New Yorker," and "National Geographic Magazine."

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

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

Notebook kept by Roscoe Fillmore during a visit to Kuzbas Autonomous Industrial Colony in Russia

MS-10-1, Box 2, Folder 11
Item
1923

Part of Roscoe Alfred Fillmore fonds

Item is a notebook containing expenditures, addresses, Russian vocabulary lists and reminder notes.

Notebook of George Renny Young

MS-2-212, SF Box 32, Folder 4
Item
1838

Item is a notebook belonging to George Young containing a report on emigration from Germany and personal journal entries.

Young, George Renny, 1802-1853

Notebook of Samuel J. Holland

MS-2-33, SF Box 16, Folder 1
Item
1747-1748

Item is a 150-page notebook that Samuel J. Holland used in 1747 when he was serving as an artillery officer in the Dutch army. The notebook is bound in vellum and contains tables, memoranda, mathematical calculations, diagrams, recipes for making gun powder, and assorted notes.

Holland, Samuel, 1728-1801

Notes on Davy's lectures at the Royal Institution, 18 Dec 1809

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E7
Item
1809 - 1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Humphrey Davy's lectures (18 December 1809 - 26 January 1811) at the Royal Institution on topics in chemistry, including electro-chemistry, phosphates, sulphur, and salts.

Notes on Davy's lectures on chem. & philosophy

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E9
Item
1810 - 1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Humphrey Davy's lectures (19 December 1810 - 23 February 1811) at the Royal Institution on topics in chemistry and philosophy.

Notes on Davy's lectures, Royal Inst., 9 Feb 1811

MS-2-726, Box 17, Folder E11
Item
1811

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Humphrey Davy's lectures (8 February 1911 - 3 April 1811) at the Royal Institution on topics in chemistry, including voltaic electricity, uses of potassium and sodium, and oxygen.

Notes on H. Davy's lectures, Royal Institution, 17 Dec 1808

MS-2-726, Box 16, Folder E6
Item
1808 - 1809

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a book kept by James Dinwiddie containing notes about Humphrey Davy's lectures (17 December 1808 - 3 June 1809) at the Royal Institution on topics in chemistry, including the decomposition of acids and alkalis by electricity, metals and potassium.

Notes on lectures at the Royal Institution

MS-2-726, Box 19, Folder J1
Item
1808 - 1809

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notebook kept by James Dinwiddie from December 22, 1808 - March 11, 1809 containing his notes on lectures at the Royal Institution on topics including orbits of the sun and moon, the state of science prior to Isaac Newton, and chemical attraction.

Notice of general annual meeting of members of the Royal Institution

MS-2-726, Box 19, Folder J8
Item
April 20, 1812

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notice sent to James Didwiddie.

Notice of lectures by Mr Singer at the Scientific Institution

MS-2-726, Box 18, Folder H4
Item
February 10, 1813

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is a notice announcing a twelve-lecture series on electro-chemistry and voltaic electricity given by Mr. Singer at the Scientific Institution in February-April 1813.

Notice of Royal Institution general meeting

MS-2-726, Box 19, Folder J3
File
November 23, 1810

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

File contains a notice and the envelope in which it was sent to James Dinwiddie.

'O' - 'P' miscellaneous correspondence

MS-2-744, Box 353, Folder 5
File
1986-1990

Part of Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

File contains correspondence with Department of Finance and Treasury Board of Canada, Government of Canada Privy Council Office, and the Canadian International Development Agency. Correspondents include Karen O'Brien; Douglas Patriquin (attached are government documents); C.G. Penney; Nicholas Polunin (attached are EMB's comments on an editorial); George Post (attached are government documents); Francois Pouliot; Victor Prescott; Sharon Proctor.