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Budge Wilson fonds

MS-2-650
Fonds
1948-2018

Fonds consists of manuscripts and proofs of Budge Wilson's books and short stories; correspondence with publishers, students, and teachers; publicity material; photocopies and clippings of reviews, profiles, and notices regarding awards and appearances; diaries; recorded radio interviews; and an assortment of other documents created and collected by the author throughout her writing career. The fonds also contains materials relating to the adaptation of Wilson's novel "Before Green Gables" into a Japanese animated television series.

Letters from students and teachers at St. George's School

MS-2-650.2000-033, Box 30, Folder 22
File
June 1993 - November 1993

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File includes a picture of students and teachers at St. George's School in Paradise River, Newfoundland and the script for a play "To be or not to be," performed at the school.

Correspondence, schedules, and program for Canadian Images conference

MS-2-650.2000-033, Box 33, Folder 14
File
1994

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File includes a portrait of Budge Wilson, presumably used in promotional materials for the conference. The photograph was taken by Murray Forbes.

Correspondence regarding visit to Oromocto Public Library

MS-2-650.2004-048, Box 40, Folder 30
File
2004

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File includes correspondence regarding a reading at the Oromocto Public Library to students and pictures of Budge Wilson's visit.

Letters and from students following school visits

MS-2-650.2005-043, Box 43, Folder 13
File
2003

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains letters and cards from students at St. Theresa's School (St. John's, Newfoundland), correspondence with illustrator Brenda Clark, and correspondence and copies of photographs from Budge Wilson's visit to Donagh School (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island).

Material for Margaret Laurence lecture

MS-2-650.2013-070, Box 61, Folder 19
File
2004

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains correspondence, promotional material, a draft of Budge Wilson's lecture, and three photographs. The lecture took place on October 21, 2004.

Letter and photograph from Marni Tuttle, Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving, Dalhousie University, to Budge Wilson

MS-2-650.2016-052, Box 80, Folder 30
File
December 14, 2004

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Letter from Budge Wilson to Heather Collins

MS-2-650.2016-052, Box 81, Folder 2
File
[before 2016]

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Photograph of Budge Wilson

MS-2-650.2016-052, Box 83, Folder 13
File
2016

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File consists of a copy of a digital photograph of Budge Wilson, with the book "After Swissair." Photograph includes an unknown woman.

Two photographs of Budge Wilson at Dalhousie University's Queen of Everything event

MS-2-650.2016-052, Box 83, Folder 14
File
[2008?]

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Twenty book cover photographs for Budge Wilson's books

MS-2-650.2016-052, Box 85, Folder 24
File
[before 2016]

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File consists of twenty coloured book cover photographs for Budge Wilson's domestic and foreign edition books. Photographs are housed in removable card mats (17 x 12.5 cm).

Two photographs of the students of the North Queens Schools, Caledonia, Nova Scotia

MS-2-650.2016-052, Box 86, Folder 13
File
May 25, 1992

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File includes a thank you note to Budge Wilson, from Elaine Frail, North Queens Rural High School, Caledonia, Nova Scotia.

Typescript of a speech

MS-2-650.2016-052, Box 88, Folder 3
File
February 2008

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File consists of the hand-written speech of Budge Wilson given at the book launch for Before Green Gables, in February 2008. Includes three photographs taken at the event.

Books and short story anthologies by Budge Wilson

Series
1977-2016

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Series consists of research, manuscripts, and drafts of books and short story anthologies written by Budge Wilson. Series also contains some draft illustrations by Budge Wilson and artists with whom she collaborated, including Terry Roscoe, and signed, published copies of her books.

Subseries
1999-2016

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Subseries contains research and handwritten and typescript drafts of Budge Wilson's book "After Swissair," a collection of poems written in response to and commemoration of the Swissair Flight 111 crash near St. Margaret's Bay, Nova Scotia (September 2, 1998).

Awards and honours

Series
1981-2015

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Series contains records relating to Budge Wilson's awards and honours, including correspondence, programs, certificates, and speeches.

Presentations at workshops, conferences, and other appearances

Series
1977-2016

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

Series contains notes, speeches, and correspondence relating to presentations by Budge Wilson at workshops, conferences, arts festivals, libraries, and universities.