Fonds consists of manuscripts and proofs of Budge Wilson's books and short stories; correspondence with publishers, students, and teachers; publicity material; photocopies and clippings of reviews, profiles, and notices regarding awards and appearances; diaries; recorded radio interviews; and an assortment of other documents created and collected by the author throughout her writing career. The fonds also contains materials relating to the adaptation of Wilson's novel "Before Green Gables" into a Japanese animated television series.
Item is a copy of an address given by Tom Traves on behalf of the Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada with reference to Atlantic Canadian universities' research infrastructure and funding.
Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the April 1906 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVIII, No. 4), titled "Atmospheric Humidity in Relation to Health". Item was also read at a meeting of the Canadian Medical Association in Halifax in August 1905.
Item consists of an offprint from the Summer 1959 issue of the Dalhousie Review (pages [208]-218), containing the text of an address delivered by President Alexander Enoch Kerr about the the recent celebration of three different anniversaries related to the life and activities of John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland in the sixteenth century.
File contains a copy of Budge Wilson's "Ann Connor Brimer Talk," the keynote address at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, which launched Canadian Children's Book Week in 1999. The speech addresses the state of children's literature in Nova Scotia. The file also includes a copy of a fax sent to Budge Wilson from regarding the schedule for the Canadian Children's Book Week Gala.
Fonds contains textual records relating to the history of the activities of the Dalhousie University English Department and to Bevan's academic activities. The fonds consist of research notes generated during Bevan's study of Dryden's literature; academic and departmental correspondence and documentation created while Bevan was head of the English department and afterwards; documents and correspondence relating to operations at the Dalhousie Review from 1972-1980; fiction and other writings; material pertaining to courses he taught from 1949 to 1976; and various undated papers written by his students.
Item consists of an annotated draft of Alexander Enoch Kerr's speech to be delivered at the October 4, 1960 Dalhousie Fall Convocation ceremonies. Includes additions and elaborations in Kerr's hand to verso of several pages.
File contains the valedictory address delivered by Alexander Howard MacKay at convocation on April 30, 1873. The address was published in the Dalhousie Gazette, Vol. 5, No. 10 on May 3, 1873.
File contains a typed and annotated manuscript copy of an address given to the Halifax Commercial Club in 1946. It also includes newspaper clippings related to the event.
Item is a copy of the address given by Tom Traves at an event celebrating the amalgamation of Dalhousie University and the Technical University of Nova Scotia.
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![Alexander Kerr's convocation speech, October 4, 1960 : [annotated draft manuscript]](/uploads/r/dalhousie-university-archives/e/4/8/e488befa68fc00f8fc1aec29a9feaae4dcf089c427e4d9735aaa89d30afae560/7583295a-b1eb-40be-9872-e8dd20fab5bd-UA-3_261_10_2_142.jpg)
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