File contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of his association with the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, in particular as interim coordinator and as a writer-in-community in 1983. Record types include correspondence, reports, meeting minutes and notes.
File contains an account, unsigned but believed to have been written by Dr. Melville Cumming, in regards to the donation of a tractor by Henry Ford to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1917. Mr Ford had previously met then Premier the Honorable George H Murray and was introduced to Melville Cumming, Secretary for Agriculture and Principal of NSAC (1905-1927). There are annotations on the first page "Thanks very much - Len" and on the second page "He was here I understand on a trout fishing exhibition (expedition?)."
File contains a manuscript, submission correspondence and a chronology of events regarding the submission, various rejections and eventual publication of the story in an anthology of writers from Atlantic Canada called Voices from Down East.
File contains correspondence with or about Joseph Zubin. Also includes research proposals for "An international commission on field studies of incidence of mental disorders" and "A cross-cultural study of diagnosis of mental disorders in Scandinavia."
