File contains the original manuscript and six typewritten sets of revisions for the short story "Like a Water Lily," originally titled "The Simile." This story was published in "Fractures," 2008.
File contains articles by Joyce Barkhouse (and others) for the Wesley Knox United Church, including "For Mothers and Others"; the announcements of the Thomas H. Raddall endowment at Dalhousie University Libraries; family postcards; photographs of Joyce Barkhouse; correspondence; printouts of Google search results for Joyce Barkhouse; magazines featuring her writing (including 10 "Canadian Boy" magazines with installments of her story "Purple Cloak"); programs from the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Children's Literature (1991); newspaper clippings; Janet Barkhouse's nomination of her mother for the Order of Nova Scotia; and a draft of "Doctor's Daughter."
File contains a letter to Janet Barkhouse from her mother, Joyce Barkhouse, which mentions, among other things, her story "Connie Catches a Fish." The file also contains a story about Joyce's childhood, typed by Janet; a newspaper clipping about Joyce's brother Fred Killam's retirement from the family orchard at Woodville; a copy of an obituary for Gardy Killam (Fred's wife, d. 2008); and a copy of a poem written for Dr. H.E. Killam for his 53rd birthday.
File contains two copies of Volume 1, Number 1 of Fathom, a creative writing journal published by the Dalhousie University Department of English. File also contains two copies of Volume 1, Number 2.
File includes two manuscript drafts; handwritten notes; a letter from Vingoe to James Roy with a detailed synopsis of her radio adaptation of Sheldon Currie's story; correspondence to Sheldon Currie; and CBC's Dave Carley's notes on the radio script.
File contains a copy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story as published by The Feminist Press, with the individual pages pasted on foolscap and annotated; a handwritten manuscript and notes; and a heavily edited typed manuscript draft.