Archives Catalogue

The deception of Livvy Higgs : [typescript with editorial comments]

MS-2-753, Box 10, Folder 7
File
[20-]

File contains one copy of complete paginated typescript of the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs, with handwritten notes possibly from editor.

The fortunate brother : a novel by Donna Morrissey : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 24
Item
2016

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a manuscript with the first 68 pages deleted (line crossing out the text), and the remaining pages, starting with chapter 9, all containing the page number 191.

The second draft of Sylvanus Now - Parts 1 to 3

MS-2-753, Box 3, Folder 2
File
[2004?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

The second draft of Sylvanus Now - Parts 4 to the end

MS-2-753, Box 3, Folder 3
File
[2004?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

The white prince, Dec 15/16 — rage the night : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 13
Item
[2022?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a manuscript without pagination. The title is handwritten at the top of the first page.

This Broken Moment : [typescript draft of chapter one with handwritten comments]

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 7
File
[20-]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains a hand numbered sections for the manuscript of The Deception of Livvy Higgs, with editorial comments. Sectiosn have been labelled and stapled. First page is labelled as Chapter one- This Broken Moment.

This broken moment : [typescript draft of chapter one with handwritten comments]

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 9
File
[20-]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains a hand numbered, up to page 45, chapter one for the manuscript of The Deception of Livvy Higgs, with editorial comments. Labelled as chapter one "The Broken Moment", last 20 pages are not numbered and may not be in the correct order.

TVO more to life : Donna Morrissey, seg. #2

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
[20--]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a videocassette containing an episode of TV Ontario's More to Life with Donna Morrissey.

Two drafts of Halfways Home

MS-2-753, Box 8, Folder 5
File
2007

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Two letters regarding the completed draft of Downhill Chance

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 7
File
2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains a letter from Beverly Slopen to Susan Canavan at Houghton Mifflin regrading the submission of Donna Morrissey's completed draft of Downhill Chance, and a letter from Cynthia Good, president and publisher of Penguin Canada, to Donna Morrissey about her pleasure at receiving her manuscript.

Two letters to Donna Morrissey from Lara Hinchberger about her manuscript My Name is Roan Genge, which became Rage the Night

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 6
File
2022

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Typescript draft of chapter one

MS-2-753, Box 11, Folder 3
File
[20-]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains one partial copy of hand paginated typescript manuscript for the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs. Draft is labelled chapter one, with potential book titles listed at top of page, these include Painted Lies ; A Spoonful of Lies ; The Hidden Heart of Livvy Higgs ; The Seduction of Livvy Higgs

Untitled/Unedited First Pages of New Novel [electronic resource]

File
May 22, 2006

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Untitled/Unedited First Pages of New Novel [electronic resource]

File
June 5, 2006

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Untitled/Unedited First Pages of New Novel [electronic resource]

File
June 21, 2006

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Untitled/Unedited First Pages of New Novel [electronic resource]

File
June 18, 2006

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Upon Being Rejected for the Commonwealth [electronic resource]

File
January 28, 2006

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

What They Wanted

Subseries
1979-2012

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Subseries contains drafts in both electronic and hardcopy form of the novel What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey. Early drafts are titled Darkling Sea, Christ Child, and Leaving. What They Wanted explores both new and familiar terrain: a divided house on the shores of Newfoundland and the equally challenging environment of an Alberta oil rig. After Sylvanus has a heart attack, family tensions rise to the fore. Sylvie must deal with her feelings of estrangement from her mother, Addie. Meanwhile, Chris, a natural artist, frustrates his dreams by going to work on the rig. What They Wanted is a novel about guilt, responsibility, tragedy, and the enduring ties of family.

This novel is the second in the Sylvanus Now trilogy and was shortlisted for the 2009 Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award.

What they wanted : [manuscript]