Fonds comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal, academic, and professional activities as a jurist, judge, and professor. Records include those related to Macdonald's involvement with Osgoode Hall, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, Peking University, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Records types include correspondence; meeting minutes and agendas; research materials; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clippings; manuscripts; and off-prints.
Item is a catalogue for an exhibition of artwork by Robert Kirschbaum, organized and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from July 10 to August 10, 1977.
Catalogue contains an essay by John Adkins Richardson ( Professor, Art and Design, Southern Illinois University), chronological resume of the artist, and b&w plates of artworks,
Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his academic activities, including his involvement as a faculty member of York University Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and other institutions. Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.
File contains a plain green notebook with red plastic spiral binding, used by Kenneth Leslie -- likely in the early 1940s (after 1936) -- for the purposes of compiling reading notes related to a seminar on Romanticism and the Romantic movement in literature. File largely contains Kenneth Leslie's densely-handwritten reading notes relating to his close study of Irving Babbitt's book 'Rousseau and romanticism'. File also contains a short bibliography of works on Romanticism (the latest entry dated 1936, with a reminder to purchase "the Modern Library giant -- Hawthorne" which was first published in 1937.
File contains an autographed photograph of the French pianist Raoul Pugno (1852-1915), addressed to Ellen Ballon. The photograph was taken by an indecipherable studio in New York.
File contains two fragments of radio interviews (one dated March 14, 1940, the other undated) involving Kenneth Leslie. The first, titled "Radio Script : Leslie-Merchant" -- discusses Leslie's involvement in the Protestant Digest, and Protestantism in general. The second untitled and undated fragment discusses science and mathematics.
File contains correspondence with Jeremy Rifkin (Peoples Business Commission), Dale Riehli (on the television adaption of "The Drama of the Oceans"), and W. Riphagen.
File contains correspondence with Berudt Richter, Jacques Rougeru (of the Centre d'Architecture de la Mer et de l'Espace), Don Reed, Ruder and Finn, and Ruth Ross. Topics of discussion include Borgese's "The Drama of the Oceans," the International Ocean Institute (IOI), and a speech Borgese gave at the Henry Salvator Center (which includes a transcript, with handwritten annotations and corrections by Borgese).
File contains correspondence with Dimitri Rebekoff, John Schaffner, University of Chicago Press, Phie van Ettinger. Also includes a Rebekoff Institute notice, advertising courses at the Institute.
File contains correspondence with the "Quarterly Review of Biology," Joyce Rosner, Mr. Ronning, and Plenum Publishing Corporation (the latter referring to pictures for inclusion in "The Mines of Neptune").
Item is one handwritten letter (1882) from Henry, Carey, Baird and Company, publishers and booksellers, advising Munro of recent titles in political philosophy.
File contains publicity photographs of Ellen Ballon. Most are portraits, but some feature her playing the piano, participating in World War II support activities, at ceremonies, at concerts, and at receptions. Most of the photographs are undated but seem to span the entirety of her adult life. The last photograph in the album is of Ballon receiving her honorary doctorate from McGill University in 1954.
File contains a pamphlet advertising a series of records containing fairy tales in French recorded by the Educational Department of the Columbia Graphophone Company by Marguerite Clement, professor of French language and literature at the Lyceum of Marseilles and the University of Paris.
File contains a program for The Town Hall concert series in New York where Ellen Ballon performed February 13, 1943; a program from the Columbus Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Izler Solomon, with whom Ballon performed March 20, 1944; and a poster advertising Ellen Ballon, by her personal representative, Andrew Schulhof.
File contains an official souvenir programme from the Toronto Musical Festival, commemorating the opening of the Arena in Toronto, Ontario. The program includes performances by Nahan Franko and members of the Metropolitan Opera and Philharmonic Orchestras of New York.
File includes the United Nations general assembly reports on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, five issues of the Journal of the United Nations from the period between 1966 to 1972, United Nations official records on human rights, member lists of the United Nations general assembly, and United Nations reports on the United Nations international conference on human rights.
File includes the United Nations security council proceeding, United Nations economic and social council proceedings, a report of the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination of 1971, and handwritten notes related to the subject. File also contains two drafts of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law final report on the task force on the faculty of law's next 50 years by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law of 1996.
File contains facsimiles of newspaper clippings collected by Kenneth Leslie, between 1939 and 1946, containing articles (complimentary or otherwise) about Leslie's periodical 'The Protestant'. File includes clippings from America: A Catholic Review, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Brooklyn Tablet, the Fayetteville (N.C.) Advocate, the International Jewish Press Bureau, the Jewish Advocate, the Jewish Examiner, the Memphis Press Scimitar, the New York Times, the New York World Telegram, the Southern Israelite, among others.
File contains two postcards of churches, one of Trinity Church and Wall Street in New York, and the other of Hensley Memorial Chapel and Convocation Hall, King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. The file also includes miscellaneous prints removed from magazines of organs, opera singer Annie Beaumont, pianist Franklin Taylor, and a drawing "Leur Fils" by P. Eschbach.
File contains copies of letters from Joel Taxel, editor of "The New Advocate," and Allyn M. Johnston, senior editor of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, to Paul Wiseman, executive editor of Philomel Books.
File contains two undated typed fragments, likely written in the 1940s, by Kenneth Leslie. The first fragment, a five-page selection, discusses religion in regards to imperialism, largely dealing with China and eastern Asia. The second fragment, one page long discusses politics and "one's objective obligation to history". Both fragments contain numerous annotated with corrections and alterations in ink.
File contains a piano technique book used by Ellen Ballon while she was studying with Alberto Jonas in New York. Each page includes printed technical excercises and blank staff lines with some additions handwritten in pencil, presumably by Jonas or Ballon. The book includes a repertoire list of pieces Ballon performed in 1918-1919.
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