Correspondence from Matt Morris MacKinnon
- MS-5-1, Box 3, Folder 38
- File
- 1926
Part of John Daniel Logan fonds
File contains a letter from Matt Morris MacKinnon of Amherst, Nova Scotia, concerning some of MacKinnon's poetry.
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Mater coronata : an ode with lyrical interlude
- MS-5-1, Box 1, Folder 9
- File
- 1924
Part of John Daniel Logan fonds
File contains two copies of "Mater Coronata," a poem written by John Daniel Logan "commemorating the founder, preceptors, scholars, and heroes of the University of Dalhousie College." It was recited at the reunion of the alumni on August 21, 1924 and published by the Alumni Association. One of the copies is inscribed to "Captain John S. Roper, B.A., M.A., LL.B., M.C." with a poem from Logan.
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- MS-5-1, Box 2, Folder 11
- File
- 1910, 1921
Part of John Daniel Logan fonds
File contains the sheet music for a song by Paul Heinrich with words by Dr. Charles H. Baltzer (published in 1910). The front cover is autographed by Baltzer and a note on the last page indicates that it was sent from Baltzer of Middleton, Nova Scotia. The file also includes 7 poems by Baltzer (not set to music): "Charity," "Apostrophe to the Sun," "The Tree," "To Next Summer,""A Bachelor's Lament,""Frost Ere Roses," and "Greed." Some of the poems are from newspaper clippings and others indicate that they were published in the Halifax Chronicle and the Halifax Herald.
Insulters of death and other poems of the great departure : a book of solace
- MS-5-1, Box 1, Folder 7
- File
- 1916
Part of John Daniel Logan fonds
File contains a book of poems, published by John Daniel Logan of the 85th Overseas Battalion, C.E.F., Nova Scotia Highland Brigade. The book was published by L. Clyde Davidson & Co. of Halifax, Nova Scotia and contains the following poems: "Invocation," "Insulters of Death," "Timor Mortis," "Sursum Corda," "Renouncement," "A Requiem," "The Greater Love," "For an only Son," "Poe of Princeton," "Flame of God (Rupert Brooke)," "The Soul's Supreme Adventure," and "Gone on Ahead Awhile." The book also includes a prose preachment entitled "The Fatal Paradox and Sin of Sorrow for the Dead."