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Where the dead lay thickest

Where the dead lay thickest

Item is a poem in manuscript form, commemorating the death and burial site of Raddall's father in Amiens, France, in what became known as the Manitoba Cemetery, Caix. The poem is followed by an edited explanatory note and the name Gregory Cook is written in pencil on the margin.
The grass

The grass

Item is a poem in manuscript form, written, according the note, by Raddall's ten-year-old son, Tommy.
Song of the Canada Geese

Song of the Canada Geese

Item is a page containing two poems in manuscript form, "Spring" and "Summer," which were published in a pamphlet called "Canada Geese in Rhyme and Dish."
Sailing directions for Margaret

Sailing directions for Margaret

Item is an unpublished poem in manuscript form, "lines for a 'kitchen shower' to Margaret Seaborne, on the occasion of her marriage to Lieut. Esmond Horne, RCNVR, February 1st, 1944," signed by "THR."
Old Shannaigh's house

Old Shannaigh's house

Item is an edited manuscript with "Original typescript. THR" written beside the title. The story was published as "Old Shannaigh's Wooden House" in The Star Weekly, June 28, 1941.
"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

File contains a transcription of ballads. Includes: "The Frozen Girl," "On the Banks of Newfoundland," "The Worn-Out Sailor," "The Rose of Britons Isle," "The Banks of Brandywine," "The Pride of Glenco," "Sweet Jinny on the Moor," [Untitled], "The Blind Sailor," "The Ship Lady Sherbrooke," "The Cabin Boy," "The Braes of Balquhidder," "The Ramblin' Irishman," "The Desolate Widow," "The Bounty Jumper," "Our Fifer Boy," "The Ghostly Sailors," "The Cumberland," and "Bold Jack Donahue." Includes handwritten annotations by Raddall
Nine mile house

Nine mile house

Item is an unpublished short story in manuscript form, with "Original working typescript. Never published -- THR" written across the top of the first page.
Minesweeping at Halifax, 1943

Minesweeping at Halifax, 1943

Item is an unpublished typed manuscript by Thomas Raddall, with a handwritten note indicating that it was re-copied from his original typescript in 1972, with some additional notes in the light of later knowledge.
Main four

Main four

Item is a short story in manuscript form, heavily edited with a handwritten paragraph on an inserted page and "Never published --THR" written at the top of the first page.
Keeping the fleet afloat

Keeping the fleet afloat

Item is an unpublished typed manuscript with handwritten edits by Thomas Raddall about naval ship building and maintenance in World War Two Halifax.
Jonah

Jonah

Item is an original working typescript by T.H.R. titled "Roll Along," changed to "Jonah," and ultimately published as "Action at Sea," in Colliers, for April 11,1942. Manuscript is heavily edited by hand and contains two pages of notes.
In mighty waters

In mighty waters

Item is an unpublished short story in manuscript form, with "Original working typescript. Never published --THR" written beneath the title.
Hull down

Hull down

Item is a poem in manuscript form, dated and signed by hand, "THR."
G

G

Item is a heavily edited manuscript with "Original typescript. THR" written beside the title.
Francis Freeman Tupper

Francis Freeman Tupper

Item is a four-page typed and edited manuscript about Nova Scotia writer Francis Freeman Tupper, as well as 18 pages of Tupper family history notes, transcribed diary entries and newspaper stories, and family trees.
Figure head

Figure head

Item is a short story in manuscript form, heavily edited in pencil, with "never published -- T.H.R." written at the top of the first page.
"Evangeline and the Real Acadians"

"Evangeline and the Real Acadians"

Item is a typescript transcription of "Evangeline and the Real Acadians," an essay by Archibald MacMechan. MacMechan published the essay in 1914, as part of the collection 'The Life of a Little College & Other Papers'.
Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and Maclean's Magazine

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and Maclean's Magazine

File contains correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and Maclean's Magazine dating from 1939 to 1944. Relates to the inclusion of the stories "Eighth Mile House" and "The Odour of Sanctity", and articles "Ready", "North of Vinland", and others, in Maclean's issues in the early 1940s. File also includes active story revisions. Includes correspondence from R. Napier Moore, W.A. Irwin, Jack Paterson, Dorothy Hodgins, Walter Gilhooly, Harry C. Clarke, Noryal Bonisteel, and others.
"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

Item is a collection of transcribed sea chanties, as sung aboard vessels out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the 1870's, 1880's, and 1890's, and recalled in whole or part by William H. Smith, of Liverpool, N.S. (born 1867). The words were taken down and prepared in typescript by his son T. Brenton Smith, in the year 1940. Includes the following chanties: "The Loss of the Emma-Jane," "Lay Out, Tack Sheets and Haul," "Bound to Rio," "Blow the Man Down," "Old Hoss," "Screwing in Song," "Way Down in Tennessee," "The City of Baltimore," "Around the World and Home Again," "Old Mother Head's," "Sauer Kraut," "Arriving back at Liverpool," "The Mary," "Brigantine Scrocco," "The Big Five Gallon Jar," "Shiloh Brown," "Shanadore [Shenandoah]," "What You Going to do with a Drunken Sailor," "Goodbye, Fare Ye Well," "Say Old Man," "Harbour Grace," "Liverpool Packet," "Fire in the Foretop," "Sailor's Burial at Sea," "On the Banks of the Sacremento," "Rolling Home to Merry England," "Then Turn out You Jolly Tars," "Whiskey for my Johnnie," "The Banks of Newfoundland," "Hangman Johnnie," "On the Plains of Mexico," "We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots," "Isle of Fugi," "Old England's Gained the Day," and "Walking in de Middle of de Road." Includes annotations about the chanties, some of which are handwritten and by Thomas H. Raddall.
909

909

Item is an unpublished short story manuscript, with "Second version. Never published -- THR" written on the top of the first page.
1909

1909

Item is an unpublished short story in manuscript form, with "First version. Never published. THR" written beside the title.