File contains Budge Wilson's journal where she recorded the titles of all of her manuscripts, the places that she sent them, rejections, acceptances, and names of characters.
File contains typed and annotated drafts of Budge Wilson's book "Manfred the Unmanageable Monster," as well as correspondence with the illustrator, Jill Quinn, and Lesley Choyce of Pottersfield Press.
File includes Budge Wilson's handwritten speech and a copy of a speech by Margaret Laurence "On Censorship...A Speech given to Ontario Provincial Judges and their Wives" and "Remarks on Margaret Laurence" by Joan Y. Johnston. The file also contains a letter from the Halifax City Regional Library about her participation in the event.
File contains the first handwritten draft of Budge Wilson's book "The Gift," later published as "The Best / Worst Christmas Present Ever," and a letter to Sandra Bogart, Acquisitions Editor at Scholastic Books.
File contains correspondence from Wendy Brown of McClelland and Stewart Limited and copies of letters from Budge Wilson to "Marilyn" and "Marge" regarding illustrations for her book, "The Sale". The file also includes copies of Wilson's illustrations for her own book.
File contains incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters between Budge Wilson and Olive Dickason, women's editor at the Globe and Mail. The file also contains correspondence between Wilson and Elda Bolton at the Institute of Child Study at the University of Toronto.
Series contains materials created by Budge Wilson that not directly related to her career as an author. Files include Budge Wilson's diaries and calendars and materials relating to her job as a fitness instructor and photographer.
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.
File contains a typed and annotated draft of Budge Wilson's book "Cassandra's Driftwood," containing Wilson's edits and those by Sheila Dalton from Scholastic-TAB Publications.
File contains a photograph of the illustration for the front cover of "Cassandra's Driftwood" (illustrate by Terry Roscoe), a photocopy of the proposed front cover, and an envelope addressed to Lesley Choyce.
File contains an annotated, typed draft of Budge Wilson's book "Harold and Harold," and two photocopied pages of the first page of another draft of the same book.
File contains an annotated draft of Budge Wilson's book "Madame Belzile and Ramsay Hitherton-Hobbs" and eight pages of handwritten notes by Budge Wilson that describe illustrations for the book.
File contains three typed drafts with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "The House on High Street," which was published in "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains a typed draft with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "Mrs. Garibaldi and Leonardo," which was published in the anthology "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains an invitation for a fundraising event for the Nova Scotia Writers in the Schools Program, hosted by the Nova Scotia Children's Literature Roundtable and held at the University Club, Dalhousie University.
File contains two annotated, typed drafts of Budge Wilson's short story "The House on High Street," which was published in her anthology "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains a typed draft with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "Mrs. Garibaldi and Leonardo," which was published in the anthology "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains a typed draft with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "Mrs. Garibaldi and Leonardo," which was published in the anthology "The Courtship" (1994).
File contains a typed draft with annotations of Budge Wilson's short story "Mrs. Garibaldi and Leonardo," which was published in the anthology "The Courtship" (1994).
