Archives Catalogue

Series
1999-2005

Series contains records regarding publicity and reviews of Morrissey's work as well as press items regarding her life. The types of records included here are predominantly newspaper clippings, magazine articles and radio and television interviews.

Promotional Posters for Creative Workshop and Book, Talk and Reading appearences

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 10
File
15 September [20--] and 15 April [20--]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains two promotional posters. One is for a Creative Workshop featuring Donna Morrissey and hosted by Blue Heron Books. The second is for Book, Talk and Reading featuring Donna Morrissey and hosted by South Shore Public LIbraries.

Program with notes for The Heart of the Story workshop [electronic resource]

File
October 18, 2000

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Prayer for the beggar man : [typescript draft with handwritten comments]

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 5
File
[20-]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains a paginated manuscript for the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs, with a editorial comments througohut text and on page backs, possibly from editor. First page is titled as "Chapter on: Prayer for the Beggar Man" "The Beggar's Prayer".

Poem written on a leaf and an envelope, possible from Lillian Dingwell

MS-2-753, Box 5, Folder 18
File
2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Pluck — a scene to balance out the father to go near the ending

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 15
Item
[1998?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is an unpaginated manuscript with the title handwritten across the top.

Pluck : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 13
Item
[1998?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a paginated manuscript with the title Pluck written in black marker across the top.

Pluck : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 14
Item
[1998?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is an unpaginated manuscript with the title Pluck written in black marker across the top.

Pluck

Subseries
[2019?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Subseries contains manuscripts and correspondence for Donna Morrissey's Pluck: A Memoir of a Newfoundland Childhood and the Raucous, Terrible, Amazing Journey to Becoming a Novelist, which was published in 2021 by Penguin/Random House Canada.

Photographs of Sounds Like Canada panellists

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 27
File
2005

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains two photographs of the 2005 CBC Canada Reads panel, which included Donna Morrissey, Olivia Chow, Molly Johnson, Roch Carrier and Sherraine MacKay. Host Bill Richardson also appears in the photos. There is one photograph of Donna Morrissey and Molly Johnson holding their respective books. Also included in the folder are two undated photographs of Donna Morrissey at different events with unidentified individuals.

Photocopied published records used by Donna Morrissey in her research for Rage the Night

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 4
File
1914 - 2017

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Photocopied pages from Wilfred Grenfell: The Master Mariner: A Life of Adventure on Sea and Ice

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 3
File
1924

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains lightly annotated, photocopied pages used by Donna Morrissey in her research for Rage the Night.

Pencil drawings of a sealing schooner by Mac MacKay

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 5
File
2017

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains pencil drawings of a schooner and sealers, as well as design details of a sealing ship.

Partial draft of Kit's Law

MS-2-753, Box 4, Folder 3
File
[1999?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Page proofs of the Prologue and "Clair" section of Downhill Chance with editor's comments and author's responses; also includes typescript of Prologue with editor's comments

MS-2-753, Box 2, Folder 3
File
December, 2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Page proofs of the prologue and "Clair" section of Downhill Chance

MS-2-753, Box 1, Folder 1
File
December, 2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Page proofs of the "Hannah" section of Downhill Chance with editor's comments and author's responses

MS-2-753, Box 2, Folder 4
File
December, 2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Page proofs of the "Hannah" section of Downhill Chance

MS-2-753, Box 1, Folder 2
File
December, 2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Outline of The Clothesline Patch [electronic resource]

File
March 8, 1999

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

One sweet day : [typescript draft of chapter one with handwritten comments]

MS-2-753, Box 11, Folder 1
File
[20-]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains paginated typescript copy of chapter one of the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs, with handwritten notes possibly from editor throughout text and on backs of pages. The typescript is titled One Sweet Day.

One Sweet Day : [typescript draft of chapter one]

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

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains one copy of hand numbered manuscript for chapter one of the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs, with a few handwritten notes througohut text and on page backs, possibly from editor. "Chapter One: One Sweet Day" is labelled on first page.

Nursery for Seaman : [typescript draft of chapter one]

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 6
File
[20-]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains a hand numbered chapter one for the manuscript of The Deception of Livvy Higgs. Handwritten labelled as chapter 1, "Nursery for Seaman"

Notes regarding Frank Parker Day's Rockbound [electronic resource]

File
November 13, 2004

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Notes and manuscript drafts for Fortunate Brother

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 25
File
2013 - 2015

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Manuscript draft of Pluck

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 22
Item
[2019?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a clean manuscript draft starting on page 4: "Part One: Leaving the Beaches."

Machushla : [typescript draft of chapter one with handwritten comments]

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

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains typescript of the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs, with handwritten notes throughout text and on back of pages, including potential book titles, possibly from editor. Draft is not paginated and titled Chapter one Machushla.

Loneliness theme RTN

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 16
Item
[2022?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a typed manuscript with a handwritten title (Loneliness Theme) at the top that refers to the paginated excerpts from the novel as they appear below.

Logline for Kit's Law and text of a speech [electronic resource]

File
October 3, 1999

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Letters to Donna Morrissey from her readers

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 11
File
2005 - 2009

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Letters to Donna Morrissey from Halifax Public Libraries, Atlantic Book Festival, Canada Council for the Arts, Penguin Publishing Group, NS Masterworks Awards Foundation and Adsum House

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 10
File
2004 - 2017

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains letters regarding awards or recognition received by Donna Morrissey. There is also a photograph of Donna Morrissey speaking at a podium at a 2004 literacy award ceremony.

Letters from readers regarding Kit's Law

MS-2-753, Box 5, Folder 12
File
2000

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Letters from publishers regarding Kit's Law

MS-2-753, Box 5, Folder 10
File
1998-2000

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Letter to Donna Morrissey from Diane Turbide about her first impressions on reading Pluck

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 16
Item
October 7, 2019

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a typed letter from Donna Morrissey's editor at Penguin.

Letter regarding a memoir in the December/January 2005 issue of The Walrus

MS-2-753, Box 5, Folder 11
File
January 19, 2005

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Letter from Morrissey to Mr. Morgan containing a biography [electronic resource]

File
February 28, 1998

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Letter from Ken Burke of Halifax Public Library regarding a Canada Council Reading

MS-2-753, Box 5, Folder 14
File
October 31, 2003

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Land and Sea episode

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
2006

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a videocassette containing a 2006 episode of CBC Television's Land and Sea about East Ironbound Island, on which Frank Parker Day based his novel Rockbound.

Kit's law (synopsis) / Donna Morrissey : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 12
Item
1998

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a 20-page synopsis of Kit's Law written by Donna Morrissey.

Kit's Law publicity schedule

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 8
Item
[200?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a promotional schedule for London, England.

Kit's Law and Downhill Chance reviews

MS-2-753, Box 7, Folder 7
File
1999-2004

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Kit's Law and Downhill Chance reviews

MS-2-753, Box 7, Folder 8
File
2004-2005

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Kit's Law

Subseries
1998-2000

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Subseries contains various drafts and typescripts, as well as synopses and a logline, of Kit's Law.

Jim's edit

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 21
File
[2022?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains annotated manuscript pages.

Jen and Honey : [typescript draft of pages 140-158 with handwritten comments]

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 4
File
[20-]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains a portion of the manuscript for the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs, pages are hand numbered (140-158) with a editorial comments througohut text and on page backs, possibly from editor. Has "Jen & Henri" handwritten at the top.

Interviews with men from the 1914 sealing disaster

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 1
File
[191-?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains photocopied transcripts from The Rooms, St Johns, Newfoundland.

ILA — Rage the Night

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 19
Item
[2022?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a stapled typed manuscript with a handwritten title.

Handwritten notes for Rage the Night

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 24
File
[2022?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Grenfell, the Labrador pioneer

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 2
File
1947

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains lightly annotated, photocopied pages of Grenfell, the Labrador Pioneer, by Ernest H. Hayes (Wallington, Surrey: Religious Education Press, 1947), which was used by Donna Morrissey in her research for Rage the Night.

Glossaries of terms used in writing Rage the Night

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 25
File
[2022?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains a shipping glossary, a snow and ice (weather) glossary, and a list of adjectives and descriptors for beards.

Global Television Noon Show interview with Donna Morrissey

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
Feb 8, 2006

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a DVD containing a recording of a 6-minute television interview with Donna Morrissey by Diane Lowe on Global Maritime Noon Show. The focus of the interview is Sylvanus Now.

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