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Subseries contains Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence with different individuals and organizations, including A. Donat Pharand, J. Alan Beesley, Bozidar Bokatic, Charles B. Bourne, Donald A. Kerr, Donald McInnes, Douglas M. Johnston, Edgar Gold, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Gerald L. Morris, Ivan Leigh Head, John P. Humphrey, John King Gamble Jr., Leslie C. Green, Maxwell Cohen, Wang Tieya, the Canadian Department of External Affairs, the Council of Europe, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects.

Subseries contains scores and parts for Villa-Lobos's first piano concerto, dedicated to Ellen Ballon. It includes the autograph manuscript, copies of the manuscript, a two-piano reduction of the concerto, and parts for each of the orchestral instruments (piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, timpani, tam-tam, triangle, bass drum, harp, strings). The concerto premiered on October 11, 1946 at the Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro, featuring Ellen Ballon as the piano soloist with Heitor Villa-Lobos conducting the Orquestra do Teatro Municipal. The score and orchestral parts were presumably used at the premiere performance as well as a few subsequent performances, indicated on several of the individual instrumental parts.