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Appointment book

Item is a spiral-bound appointment book containing five pages of contacts and occasional diary entries that make reference to rehearsal times.

Don Allison fonds

  • MS-3-28
  • Fonds
  • 1967 - 1972
Fonds comprises records created and collected by Don Allison that document his work as an actor in Neptune Theatre's 1967 production of The Wooden Ship, as well as his own poetry and prose writings. There is also a small number of letters from someone named Anna.

Allison, Don

Prose and poetry manuscripts

File contains poems and prose primarily handwritten in notepads and on single sheets on paper, including hotel stationary and the reverse pages of an ACTRA newsletter. There is also an exercise book containing ten pages of diary-like entries titled "Reflections of London, Merstham, Paris, Rome and places here and there from the head of a Nova Scotian, Canadian actor."

Prose and poetry manuscripts

File contains typed and handwritten poems and prose, largely written by Don Allison. There are also annotated copies of poems by Dylan Thomas and John Masefield; a small booklet of poems titled "Lighted Windows"; and a story by Roark Bradford called "Green Pastures," torn from a book. A photograph of a young woman standing in front of a pond is tucked into a notebook with "Don Smith" written on the cover.