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Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and the Public Lending Commission

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 49
File
1987 - 1994

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake fonds

MS-2-662
Fonds
[after 1943] - 1994

Fonds contains records relating to Susan Kerslake's writing and personal life, including manuscripts of published and unpublished work; correspondence, early writing and schoolwork, photographs, awards, articles and books reviews, and materials from events she attended.

Kerslake, Susan

Susan Kerslake's correspondence

Series
[after 1943] - 1994; (predominant 1975 - 1994)

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains correspondence to and from Susan Kerslake and includes typed and handwritten letters, form rejection letters and requests for use of work.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Ragweed Press

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 50
File
1983 - 1994

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with Ragweed Press. Materials include editorial and production correspondence for The Book of Fears and an article about Ragweed featuring the book.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and the University of Nebraska

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 48
File
1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence regarding the magazine Prairie Schooner of the University of Nebraska. Materials include one rejection letter, one poem, and one short story.

Published reviews and articles featuring Susan Kerslake's writing

Series
1976 - 1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains reviews and articles relating to Kerslake’s work and writing. Materials include newspaper clippings, photocopies of reviews from journals or papers, and papers written as class assignments (including an original interview). Material also includes one review and edits written by Kerslake.

Poster for a Susan Kerslake reading for the Canadian Literacy Collections Project in the Killam Library's Special Collections room

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 21
File
1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's publishing contract and royalties correspondence

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1970 - 1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence from various publishers regarding contracts and royalties. Publishers include Pottersfield Press, Ragweed Press, and Aya Press. Materials also include financial statements related to book sales, agreements and a handwritten letter.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Hants Shore Health Centre

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 29
File
1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with the Hants Shore Health Centre. Materials include two letters regarding a contribution to their anthology "ShoreLines" and handwritten prose on loose leaf.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Pottersfield Press

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 47
File
1979 - 1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with Pottersfield Press. Materials include four letters regarding contributions to various collections, as well as a report on royalty earnings.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Dalhousie University regarding the Canadian Literary Collections Project

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 18
File
1992

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's speech given at Dalhousie Medical School's Medicine and the Humanities conference

MS-2-662, SF Box 77, Folder 6
File
1991 - 1992

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File also contains conference schedules and information, requests to publish excerpts of Susan Kerslake's talk and poems, copies of the poems featured, a list of conference participants, correspondence, and an article about the conference describing Kerslake's involvement.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Halifax City Regional Library re. their Freedom to Read program

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 28
File
1991 - 1992

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence to Susan Kerslake from Mercury Press re. royalty statements for Penumbra

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 33
File
1992

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

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Susan Kerslake's records regarding organizations, conferences, and awards

Series
[after 1943] - 1992; (predominant 1985 - 1992)

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains materials related to Kerslake’s involvement with organizations or events related to her writing. The organizations represented in the series are the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, the Writer’s Council of Nova Scotia, and CBC. The events represented in this series are the Dalhousie Medical School’s Medicine and the Humanities event, the Maritime Writer’s Workshop, and an Arts Festival.

Published reviews of Susan Kerslake's writing

MS-2-662, SF Box 87, Folder 21 and MS-2-662, Oversize Folder 4
File
1976 - 1991

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a review of Blind Date by Bill Gaston; reviews of The Book of Fear by Janice Kulyk Keefer, Libby Scheier, Adrian Fowler, and David Sharpe; reviews of Middlewatch. Also included are Susan Kerslake's review of Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer, published in Atlantic Provinces Book Review, three drafts with edits, and a handwritten note with edits from Elizabeth; and a photocopied article Writing for the Yankee Dollar, by Keith Mallard, which features Kerslake.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 13
File
1991

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Materials include a typed letter from CBC to Kerslake and Pottersfield Press requesting permission to record an eight-minute reading of "Blind Date."

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and the Canada Council

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 14
File
1985 - 1991

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with the Canada Council. Materials include two letters from the Canada Council to Kerslake regarding royalty payments and requesting an opinion on a manuscript, "Guyana Betrayal." It also includes a letter from Kerslake critiquing the manuscript. File also contains completed Canada Council forms, including a writer's report on short-term residency, a writer's report on public reading, letters of appraisal.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Breakwater Publishing

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 12
File
1990

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains four typed letters to and from Kerslake including requests and payment discussions for use of Kerslake's writing in various anthologies.

Once upon a time, a talk given by Susan Kerslake at the Maritime Writers' workshop

MS-2-662, SF Box 77, Folder 7
File
1990

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File also a workshop pamphlet.

Susan Kerslake's fan mail regarding her book Middlewatch

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 34
File
1976 - 1990

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains fan mail for Middlewatch, including five handwritten letters (one made up of several individuals' commentaries), and one critique by an eighth grade student.

Newspaper clippings about Susan Kerslake's writing career

MS-2-662, SF Box 87, Folder 20 and MS-2-662, Oversize Folder 2
File
1985 - 1990

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Rights correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Gage Educational Publishing Company

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 23
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a letter from Susan Kerslake requesting rights clarification and one from Gage informing that her material could not be included in the 1989/90 edition of Collections.

Correspondence from George Whipple to Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, SF Box 77, Folder 5
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence from George Whipple, including one letter containing a positive review of "An Old Night" from Whipple to Kerslake.

Review of Susan Kerslake's Blind Date, written by Lorna Inness

MS-2-662, Oversize Folder 3
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File a review cut from the Chronicle Herald/Mail Star, Saturday, September 23, 1989, page E4.

Susan Kerslake : an Atlantic author / Angela Reid : [interview]

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 25
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence from Formac Publishing Company Limited to Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 22
File
1988 - 1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a letter from Formac seeking permission to reprint stories in Best Maritime Short Stories and another regarding payment.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Aya Press

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 11
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains one handwritten letter detailing cheques received for Penumbra royalties and sales.

Susan Kerslake's published books

Series
1976 - 1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains four books published by Susan Kerslake, including Middlewatch, Penumbra, The Book of Fears, and Blind Date. All four are in good condition and are autographed by her.

Blind date / Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 41
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains an autographed copy of Blind Date, by Susan Kerslake.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Greg Gatenby

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 30
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with Greg Gatenby of Harbour Front Reading Series. Materials include two letters: one asking Kerslake to provide information about her experiences with Toronto, and a reply from Kerslake stating that she has no connection to Toronto as a writer.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Cape Breton University press

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 43
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's editorial correspondence for Penumbra

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 1
File
[after 1943] - 1988

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's submission correspondence with The Antigonish Review

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 10
File
1982 - 1988

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Rejection and acceptance letters to Susan Kerslake from New Quarterly

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 37
File
1982 - 1988

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Leslie Fielder

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 21
File
1988

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with Leslie Fielder, Kerslake's teacher in 1960-61 and a professor in the English department at Samuel Clemens, New York. Materials include a brief letter from Kerslake updating Fielder about her writing and professional work, and a thank you letter in response.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Greg Gibbons

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 26
File
1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with Greg Gibbons including one photocopied handwritten letter from Kerslake regarding suggested edits.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and TriQuarterly

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 44
File
1983 - 1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a letter of rejection and one accepting a story, as well as a completed form for publication of Kerslake's Foreigner.

Poster for Dalhousie English department event featuring a Susan Kerslake reading

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 22
File
1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence to Susan Kerslake from Kate Millett

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 35
File
1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Acceptance letter from the Canadian Forum to Susan Kerslake for Keeping Up with the Times

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 16
File
1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

A short story script by Susan Kerslake for CBC's state of the arts radio program

MS-2-662, SF Box 31, Folder 30
File
1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence to Susan Kerslake from Mount Saint Vincent University re. Making Time for Art workshop

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 36
File
1986

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Nomination records for Susan Kerslake as a top-ten best fiction writer in the Canadian Book Information Centre's 45 Below competition

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 24
File
1986

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Emery Collegiate Institute

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 19
File
1986

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with the Emery Collegiate Institute regarding a request for a contribution to their wall dedicated to authors, as well as a piece of writing selected for the purpose.

Susan Kerslake's correspondence and records regarding her nomination for the Governor General’s Award

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 25 and MS-2-662, Oversize Folder 1
File
1985

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Photograph of Susan Kerslake and CBC Radio’s George Jordan at an arts festival

MS-2-662, SF Box 87, Folder 19
File
1985

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Nadia Bakhit's English-class assignment review of Susan Kerslake's The Book of Fears

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 23
File
[after 1984]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Penumbra / Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 39
File
1984

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains and autographed copy of Penumbra, by Susan Kerslake.

The book of fears / Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 40
File
1984

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains an autographed copy of The Book of Fears, by Susan Kerslake.

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