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Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Roscoe Fillmore

MS-10-1, Box 2, Folder 7
Item
August 20, 1964

Item is a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. congratulating Rosco Fillmore for reaching the age of 77 and expressing gratitude for his contributions to a more positive social climate. He also expresses a desire to speak in person about the issue of Black people and military service.

Resignation letter from Jack London to members of the Socialist Party

MS-10-1, Box 2, Folder 9
Item
March 7, 1916

Part of Roscoe Alfred Fillmore fonds

Item is a typed, signed resignation letter sent by Jack London to members of the Socialist Party. The letter was written from his ranch in Glen Ellen, California, and reveals his dissatisfaction with trends of socialism in the United States. He also announces the resignation of his wife, Charmain K. London.

Invitation to the inaugural Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, SF Box 6, Folder 4
Item
1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item is an open invitation to "socialists from across Nova Scotia" to mark the occasion of would have been Roscoe Fillmore's 91st birthday.

Press release regarding picket in front of the Carleton Hotel on Argyle Street

MS-11-1, Box 22, Folder 12
File
1977

Part of Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

File contains a press release announcing a picket to protest the management of the Jury Room Lounge, which had been refusing service to the gay and lesbian community. File also contains a letter to members of the Gay Alliance for Equality regarding a 1975 citation to recognize exceptional service by the Movement for Citizens' Voice and Action to promote the equality of lesbians and
gay men.

Letter of application from the Gay Alliance for Equality to join the Movement for Citizens Voice and Action

MS-11-1, Box 22, Folder 18
Item
April 1, 1974

Part of Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

Item is a letter written by John Marr, Public Relations Officer, outlining the Gay Alliance for Equality's activities and rationale for wanting to join forces with MOVE.

Correspondence, questionnaire and press release regarding gay political action campaign

MS-11-1, Box 9, Folder 20
File
1974

Part of Movement for Citizens Voice and Action fonds

File also contains articles of association for the Gay Alliance for Equality and a letter to Movement for Citizens Voice and Action enquiring about the possibility of GAE becoming a member agency.

Correspondence to stakeholders of the Institute of Man and Resources Ark project

MS-11-13, Box 14, Folder 10, Item 11
Item
1981-04

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item consists of correspondence sent to stakeholders of the Institute of Man and Resource's Ark project at Spry Point, Prince Edward Island, in April 1981, announcing the cessation of the project and the transfer of the facility back to the Canadian Government.

Examination certificates, certificates of class attendance, and other records of Nelson Pratt's medical training

MS-13-32, SF Box 66, Folder 7
File
1896 - 1931, predominant 1896 - 1900

Part of Nelson Pratt fonds

File contains records collected by Nelson Pratt while he was a medical student at Halifax Medical College and Dalhousie University's Medical Faculty. Records include registration receipts; medical examination certificates; certificates of class attendance; certificates from the Provincial Medical Board; and other letters and certificates certifying that Pratt completed aspects of his medical training. There are also letters and receipts related to purchases made by Pratt.

A student's letters, number 1 / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 15
Item
May 29 1857

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a letter submitted by A.P. Reid to the July 1857 issue of The Medical Chronicle (Montreal monthly journal of medicine & surgery) (Vol. 5, No. 2), dated May 29th, 1857, discussing life as a medical student in London.

Provincial medical board matriculation examination : [correspondence, facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 30
Item
June 1904

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of facsimile of correspondence submitted by A.P. Reid to the June 1904 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVI, No. 6), on the topic of Nova Scotia's medical board matriculation examination.

Leper hospital / A.P. Reid : [correspondence, facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 32
Item
February 28, 1903

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of correspondence submitted by A.P. Reid to the April 1903 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XV, No. 4) on the topic of a leper hospital in St. Jago de la Vega, Jamaica. Correspondence is dated February 28th, 1903.

A tropical insane asylum / A.P. Reid : [correspondence, facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 33
Item
January 30, 1903

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of correspondence submitted by A.P. Reid to the March 1903 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XV, No. 3), dated January 30, 1903, on the topic of a Jamaican asylum.

Correspondence sent to the Maritime Medical News about the smallpox epidemic : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 6
Item
[1900?]

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a letter sent by Dr. A.P. Reid to an unknown issue of the Maritime Medical News, addressing the Provincial Board of Health's response to the smallpox epidemic.

Correspondence from J.G. MacGregor to A.P. Reid

MS-13-33, SF Box 66, Folder 12
Item
May 27 1877

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item is handwritten correspondence sent to Alexander Reid from J.G. MacGregor, dated May 27, 1877. Item discusses the promotion of Dr. H.A. Bayne, and reactions from some fellow medical education Commissioners.

Notes and other material on Canadian pharmacy history

MS-13-82, Box 18, Folder 11
File
1907-1986

Part of J. Gordon Duff fonds

File contains notes and correspondence on pharmacy history. File also contains menus, programs, and other memorabilia from Canadian pharmacy associations.

Correspondence sent to Allison Gallant about the history of Prince Edward Island pharmacies

MS-13-82, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 2
Item
February 1963

Part of J. Gordon Duff fonds

Includes correspondence from Wm. J. Semple Limited (Kensington), Waite's Pharmacy (Summerside), Foley's Drug Store (Summerside), Boates Pharmacy (Summerside), and E.M. Gorman (Deputy Fisheries Minister).

Correspondence sent to Allison Gallant about pharmaceutical history

MS-13-82, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 3
Item
[1963?]

Part of J. Gordon Duff fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent to Allison Gallant, likely in 1963, addressing questions about Prince Edward Island pharmaceutical history.

Correspondence between Allison Gallant and J.H. Blanchard

MS-13-82, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 4
Item
[1963?]

Part of J. Gordon Duff fonds

Item consists of typed correspondence sent from J.H. Blanchard to Allison Gallant, addressing questions about early Prince Edward Island history.

Halifax Relief Commission

MS-13-84, Box 2, Folder 16
File
1918-1938

Part of Halifax Visiting Dispensary fonds

File contains correspondence related to the Halifax Relief Commission, ranging from 1918 to 1938. Includes correspondence between K. MacKay, Ralph Bell, D.M. Sheehan, G.H. Archibald, W. Bedwin, T.S. Rogers, E.L. Thorne, and others.

Letter from Alexander Leighton to his father, 1938

MS-13-86, Box 112, Folder 1
Item
August 5, 1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a letter written to his father from Alexander Leighton during his residency at Johns Hopkins. The letter addresses his sister Gertrude's mental health and details about equipment for a film project.

Correspondence between Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 48, Folder 2
File
1943 - 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.

Correspondence with Adolf Meyer

MS-13-86, Box 50, Folder 13
File
1937 - 1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.

Correspondence between Movie Makers magazine and Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 96, Folder 9, Item 3
File
1937 - 1941

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a series of letters between Arthur Gale and Alexander Leighton regarding his film "Porpoise Oil." The correspondence includes an announcement of its inclusion as an Honorable Mention by Movie Makers staff in the selection of the Ten Best Non-theatrical Films of 1937, as well as letters about an article Gale commissioned from Leighton about the making of his film. There is also correspondence from 1941 with James Moore at The Amateur Cinema League regarding Alexander Leighton's possible submission of his film about Navajo life, "Work for your Own," for a contest in the Special Class.

News release for the amendment to the Human Rights Code Chapter 214, clippings, correspondence, and ephemera

MS-15-13.2020-007, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1988 - 1991

Part of Kevin Crombie fonds

File contains an amendment to chapter 214 news release; clippings; memos; press release in support of including LGBT individuals in the Human Rights Legislation; pink triangle armband; correspondence; calls for donations; a list of individuals and organizations who wrote to MLA's with sending a copy to LGRNS; draft copy of an opinion article for the Halifax Herald; transcripts of an assembly debate; and a submission in respect of the Human Rights Act Bill 136.

Newspaper clippings re. Take Back the Night and International Women's Day

MS-15-2.2019-062, Box 3, Folder 11
File
1991

Part of Anita Martinez fonds

File contains one brochure for International Women's Day 1991, various newspaper clippings about Take Back the Night March, opening of a women's centre, and letters to the editor.

Correspondence, clippings, and notes regarding religion, homosexuality, and AIDS

MS-15-9.2020-011, Box 35, Folder 4
File
1994

Part of Larry Baxter fonds

File contains correspondence, clippings, and notes regarding the Spirituality and AIDS Conference, held December 3 1994, and the relationship between religion and homosexuality.

Records regarding CARAS survey of churches and faith groups

MS-15-9.2020-011, Box 36, Folder 24
File
1991 - 1992

Part of Larry Baxter fonds

File contains materials regarding a CARAS survey of churches and religious groups to identify attitudes towards individuals with HIV/AIDS and faith groups' involvement with CARAS or other HIV/AIDS support programs. Materials include the survey report, correspondence, memos, minutes, and notes.

Correspondence

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 11
File
1918-1919

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains seven pieces of typed correspondence addressing S.R. Balcom, regarding events at the Bramshott Camp, Hants., the No. 9 Canadian Stationary Hospital, and the No. 12 Canadian Stationary Hospital, during and shortly after the First World War. Correspondence sent from Major S.G. Chown, Colonel H.M. Robertson, and Lt.-Col. H.E. Randall.

Dalhousie #7 Stationary Hospital - Matron's Correspondence

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 13
File
1916-1919

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains matron correspondence related to the Dalhousie No. 7 Stationary Hospital.

Dalhousie #7 Stationary Hospital - John Stewart Correspondence

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 14
File
1912-1932

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains correspondence related to Col. John Stewart. File includes correspondence from Reginald V. Harris, Roy MacNutt, and others.

Letter from Samuel Balcom to A.M. Savage, Managing Editor of The Halifax Herald, thanking him for their coverage of the 1972 Balcom family reunion at Port Dufferin

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
1978

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter from Samuel Balcom to A.M. Savage.

Letter from Samuel Balcom to Graham (G.W. Dennis) thanking him for the Chronicle-Herald and the Mail-Star's coverage of the 1972 Balcom family reunion at Port Dufferin

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 2
Item
1978

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter from Samuel Balcom to Graham (G.W. Dennis).

Correspondence and program for the Balcom family reunion with Samuel Balcom's completed attendance response

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 3
Item
1978

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

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 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.

Correspondence 1939-1940

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 18
File
1939-1940

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains correspondence to and from Samuel Balcom in 1939 and 1940. Correspondence is to Rebecca Cohn, Angus L. Macdonald, Carleton Stanley, Gordon B. Isnor, Colonel J.D.G. Campbell, Captain G.R. Forbes, Major L.L. Henshaw, Captain Carl Trask, Captain A.D. Grayson, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Maxwell, and A.S. MacMillan, among others.

Dalhousie #7 Stationary Hospital - J. Stewart - Staff References

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1920

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains copies of letters of reference for former railway dining car workers who enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, served in the First World War with the (Dalhousie) No. 7 Canadian Stationary Hospital. The correspondence contained herein discusses disagreements over the promises of wages granted to enlisted men from railway companies as a result of two different circulars being signed in relatively short order.

Correspondence - Central Medical Supplies

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 20
File
1942

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains correspondence from Balcom's time as Officer Commanding, Medical Stores, and Chief Medical Stores Inspection Officer during World War II. Original file split between files 2-19 and 2-20.

Correspondence between Barbara Hinds and Arthur Shears

MS-2-130, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 10
Item
1969

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item consists of a typed letter from Arthur Shears to Barbara Hinds, dated March 6, 1969, about editorial suggestions related to Hinds' coverage of the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre.

A concept of rehabilitation / Herbert S. Talbot

MS-2-130, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 4
Item
1962, 1977

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item consists of a copy of the article "A concept of rehabilitation", written in 1962 for Paraplegia News by Herbert S. Talbot, sent by Don Curren to Barbara Hinds. Item also includes correspondence between Curren and Hinds from 1977, related to the included article.

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

Letter to Vincent MacDonald from D.C. Abbott

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 1
Item
1 March 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Newsletters and correspondence regarding the Association of Canadian Clubs and the Canadian Club Halifax

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 10
File
1934 - 1936

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Correspondence with Claude C. Chappell regarding a favourable decision in the Supreme Court

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 11
File
2 July and 12 July 1963

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Letter and telegram from Brooke Claxton congratulating MacDonald on assuming Chair of the Regional War Labour Board

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 12
File
30 December 1944 and 10 February 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Letter of congratulations to the new Justice MacDonald from W. Earl Smith

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 13
Item
14 October 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter written on behalf of the Conference of the Governing Bodies of the Legal Profession in Canada.

Letter of congratulations from S.P. Chisholm, President of Dalhousie Law Society

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 14
Item
13 February 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter congratulating MacDonald on his appointment to the bench.

Letter from Carleton Stanley requesting MacDonald's return to his duties as Dean of Law

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 15
Item
22 March 1944

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter from Dalhousie University president Carleton Stanley.

Correspondence with Lyman P. Duff

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 16
File
1950, 1955

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

File includes a telegram from Sir Lyman congratulating MacDonald on his appointment to the bench and letter from MacDonald wishing his mentor a happy 90th birthday.

Letter of thanks and admiration from Eugene Forsey, Director of Research for Canadian Labour Congress

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 19
File
20 March 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter remarking on MacDonald's lecture to Osgoode Hall students on the Supreme Court of Canada and the Constitution in the 1950s.

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