Archives Catalogue

Tulsa Based Foundation Develops Alternative To Welfare for Korean Lepers : [article and correspondence]

MS-2-535, Box 4, Folder 10, Item 6
Item
[1973?]

Item consists of an article from the David Livingstone Missionary Foundation about leprosy missions in Korea, forwarded with a note by Jess Pedigo to Florence Murray, in the early 1970s.

Transcription of a letter from Franz Liszt

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 23, Item 2
Item
November 21, 1842

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item contains a typed transcription of a letter written by Franz Liszt to an unidentified person, addressing the publication of some of his songs by Schott, and his cousin, Mlle. Liszt.

Transcription of a letter from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to J.H. Kufferath

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 25, Item 4
Item
April 5, 1840

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a typed transcription of a letter from Felix Mendelssohn to the Johann Hermann Kufferath, the music director in Utrecht. The letter is translated to English from German.

Transcription of a letter from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to J.H. Kufferath

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 25, Item 3
Item
April 5, 1840

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a typed transcription of a letter from Felix Mendelssohn to the Johann Hermann Kufferath, the music director in Utrecht.

Transcribed letter from Richard Wagner to his publisher

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 21
Item
[c. 1944 - 1954]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a transcription to English of the twenty-eighth paragraph in a letter that Richard Wagner wrote to his publisher in 1872. This transcription was presumably sent by William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon with a letter.

The early Scotch settlers of Cape Breton : [manuscript]

MS-2-165, SF Box 25, Folder 37
Item
1931

Item is a manuscript of Daniel Morrison's unpublished article The Early Scotch Settlers of Cape Breton, which he presented to the literary branch of the Guild in Dominion, Nova Scotia. Attached is his letter to Mr. McIntosh, requesting the manuscript's return and the reader's spelling corrections of Gaelic words.

Morrison, Murdoch Daniel

Telegram from Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 6, Item 6
Item
December 20, 1952

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a Western Union telegram sent from Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon on December 20, 1952.

Villa-Lobos, Arminda

Report on the Attaché

MS-2-35, SF Box 16, Folder 7, Item 4
Item
[19-]

Part of Charles William Jefferys fonds

Item is a report on the Attaché.

Reference letter from F. L. Fuller

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
October 10, 1900

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This file contains a reference letter from Dr. Melville Cumming's past employer, F.l. Fuller, who was then Superintendent of Farm & Provincial Agricultural Farms.

Publisher's letter to George Munro regarding recent titles in political philosophy

MS-2-53, SF Box 18, Folder 18
Item
1882

Item is one handwritten letter (1882) from Henry, Carey, Baird and Company, publishers and booksellers, advising Munro of recent titles in political philosophy.

Munro, George

Press release for the long-term loan acquisition of Labrador duck specimens by the National Museum of Natural History

UA-3, Box 163, Folder 8, Item 8
Item
1968

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a press release issued by the National Museum of Canada regarding the long-term loan acquisition of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum at Dalhousie University to the National Museum of Natural History in Ottawa. Also includes correspondence between A.W.F. Banfield and Eric Mercer.

Postcard from Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 24, Item 1
Item
[c. 1898]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a cropped postcard depicting a churchyard with a musical excerpt written in pen over top of the picture.

"Origin of the Irwin and Bartling Families in Queens County, N.S."

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 5
Item
March 1941

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of a transcribed copy of a letter from Janet Mullins to Thomas H. Raddall on the history of the Irwin and Bartling families of Queens County, Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia Steel & Coal Company political contributions, 1886-1921

MS-2-755, Box 2, Folder 15
Item
1921

Part of Thomas Cantley fonds

Note from Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
June 18, 1955

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Note from Phyllis Duke-Elder to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 2
Item
[195-]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Duke-Elder, Phyllis

Note from Dalhousie professor John J. MacKenzie regarding a class cancellation

MS-2-44, SF Box 18, Folder 14
Item
1878

Item is a note from J.J. MacKenzie to a colleague cancelling his class due to illness and referring to an upcoming guest lecture by Sir W. Young.

Mackenzie, John James

Nigel F.S. Rusted's student notebook

MS-2-787, SF Box 84, Folder 4
Item
1927 - 1933

Item is a physics class notebook, subsequently turned into a scrap book and containing newspaper clippings and correspondence.

Rusted, Nigel

Minute book of the Sons of Temperance, Columbia Division No. 24

MS-2-14, SF Box 13, Folder 11
Item
1848

Item is the division's minute book from 1848 to 1862, which include a letter dated 1864 regarding a charge against Jasper Journeay for violating the Sons of Temperance constitution.

Sons of Temperance, Columbia Division No. 24.

List of women Dalhousie graduates probably complete to 1917

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 12
Item
[1919?]

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item is a typewritten alphabetical list with the handwritten title "Women Graduates" and a note: "copied from calendars summer of 1919 (probably complete to 1917)." The list includes students' names, home towns, degree earned and date granted.

List of Jewish students in attendance at Dalhousie University from 1926-1941

UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Item 2
Item
1941

Part of Dalhousie Alumni Association fonds

Item includes a covering letter from Dalhousie's business manager to Mrs. Heinish of Preston Street, Halifax, explaining that the list is sent at the request of Dr. Lehv.

Letters from Thomas H. Raddall to Margaret Martin regarding a speaking engagement for the Canadian Library Association in Halifax

MS-2-227, SF Box 33, Folder 2
Item
1963

Three letters from Thomas Raddall to Miss Margaret Martin at the Halifax Memorial Library regarding the details of his speaking engagement with the Young People's Section of the Canadian Library Association.

Martin, Margaret

Letter written by Kenneth Leslie regarding the threat posed by fascism and antisemitism in the United States

MS-2-232, Box 1, Folder 8
Item
1942

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item is a two-page typed letter written by Kenneth Leslie on December 17, 1942. The letter addresses the threat posed by the fascist movement and antisemitism in the United States, both at present during the war, as well as the threats posed "after the war is over", where "this Fascistic movement will let loose with its first barrage, to consist of a wave of terror against the Jew". The letter, which an accompanying index card suggests should be sent "first to Presidents of colleges and then to professors of education, philosophy, psychology, historical and sociological sciences", urges educators join the "Protestant Digest"-supported Textbook Commission to eliminate anti-Semitic statements in American textbooks as a means of warding off fascism and antisemitism "not in the name of any church but in the name of democracy".

Letter written by Augustus Churchill regarding medical books

MS-13-7, SF Box 57, Folder 5
Item
1886

Churchill, Augustus, Dr.

Letter to William Henry Harris from John Crevar of Liverpool, Nova Scotia

MS-2-148, SF Box 25, Folder 1
Item
1864

Item is a letter from John Crevar to William Henry Harris, dated March 15, 1864, regarding escorting "Miss Maggie" (probably Harris' young daughter, Margaret) on her journey home.

Harris, William Henry

Letter to Richard Apostle from George Smith, Nova Scotia Police Commission

MS-2-681, Box 26, Folder 6
Item
2 May 1988

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Letter to Paul Cram from the Nova Scotia Registry of Joint Stock Companies regarding the renewal of the name Undercurrent Recordings

MS-5-21, Box 9, Folder 7
Item
2014

Part of Paul Cram fonds

Letter to Mrs. William Clarke from her cousin

MS-2-150, SF Box 27, Folder 4
Item
1878

Item is a black-bordered letter written to [Maria?] Clarke from her cousin in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia relating the news of her sister's death and funeral.

Clarke, Mrs. William, fl. 1878

Letter to Lawrence J. Burpee from Gordon C. Warren

MS-2-175, SF Box 27, Folder 14, Item 1
Item
20 October 1944

Part of Lawrence Johnstone Burpee fonds

Letter to Kenneth Leslie from Bertha Starratt Leslie

MS-2-232, Box 1, Folder 6
Item
[193-?]

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item is a two-page letter written from Leslie's mother, Bertha Starratt Leslie.

Letter to Kenneth and Nora Leslie from Dermot and Anita McHugh

MS-2-232, Box 1, Folder 9
Item
1972

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item is a letter from Anita and Dermot McHugh (grandson of Kenneth Leslie, son of Gloria) addressing their appreciation of the Leslies' wedding gift and their concern regarding Kenneth and Nora's poor health.

Letter to John Bell from George D. Noiles regarding Leon Trotsky's month at the Amherst Internment Camp during World War One. regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Part of John Bell's research regarding Leon Trotsky's internment at Amherst, Nova Scotia, during World War One

Letter to James Dinwiddie from C. Clagget concerning access to rooms in Dublin

MS-2-726, 2011-055, Box 2, Folder 15
Item
2 July 1783

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Letter to Gordon C. Warren from Lawrence J. Burpee

MS-2-175, SF Box 27, Folder 14, Item 2
Item
24 October 1944

Part of Lawrence Johnstone Burpee 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 to A.M. Uniacke from John Inglis, third bishop of Nova Scotia

MS-2-76, SF Box 18, Folder 27
Item
1847

Item is a letter (1847) from Reverend John Inglis to A.M. Uniacke regarding a Mr. Botsford Viets' letter of application for an excise appointment.

Uniacke, A.M., 1808-1895

Letter regarding soil surveys

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 16, Item 1
Item
October 28, 1954

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter addressed to Dr. Cumming from W.L. Hutcheon of the Saskatchewan College of Agriculture, dated October 28, 1954.

Letter on mineral content in Ontario soils

MS-14-1, MS-14, Box 126, Folder 15, Item 2
Item
February 25, 1954

Part of Melville Cumming fonds

This item is a letter addressed to Dr. Cumming from W.L Hutcheon of the Ontario College of Agriculture, dated February 25, 1954.

Letter of thanks from Henry Hicks to Samuel Balcom for his $300 contribution to close out the Benevolent Fund of the World War One No. 7 Stationary Hospital Unit

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 4
Item
1975

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter from Henry Hicks to Samuel Balcom.

Letter of support for Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey from Archibald McKellar MacMechan to Edwin Laftus

MS-2-30, SF Box 16, Folder 4, Item 1
Item
March 30, 1915

Part of Correspondence of Daniel C. Harvey

Item is three sheets of paper. The first sheet is folded to make two additional pages. The letter is Archibald MacMechan's recommendation to Edwin Laftus, that Daniel Harvey should receive the position of lecturer in History at Dalhousie University. A P.S. note by MacMechan also recommends an article that Harvey wrote for the Rhodes Foundation.

MacMechan, Archibald McKellar

Letter of introduction to Edwin Gilpin for the Anglican clergy of England

MS-2-391, SF Box 40, Folder 18
Item
1889

Item is a letter of introduction to Edward Gilpin written by the Bishop of Nova Scotia to the Anglican clergy in England and elsewhere.

Gilpin, Edwin, 1821-1906

Letter of congratulations to Samuel Balcom from Robie Tufts regarding the City of Halifax's designating a park as Balcom Square

MS-2-218, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 5
Item
1979

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter referring to a park named in Balcom's honour by the City of Halifax; a plaque bearing Samuel Balcom's name still marks the small triangle of lawn at the corner of Robie Street and Spring Garden Road.

Letter of congratulations to Samuel Balcom from J.K. Lawson of Balcom-Chittick Limited-Lawton's Drug Stores regarding the City of Halifax's designating a park as Balcom Square

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 6
Item
1979

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter referring to a park named in Balcom's honour by the City of Halifax; a plaque bearing Samuel Balcom's name still marks the small triangle of lawn at the corner of Robie Street and Spring Garden Road.