Item consists of typed research notes about the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family, written by Robert Dewis, transcribed in 1950 by R.L. Dewis, and collected by Irving Deale. Dewis was the son of Joshua Dewis, owner of the Mary Celeste.
File contains a booklet titled "The Mary Celeste : The odyssey of an abandoned ship" published by The Atlantic Companies in 1942. File also contains an undated poster regarding the Mary Celeste from Walter De Wolfe's Craft Shop.
File includes photographs of Joshua Dewis at Refugee Cove; a 1967 Mary Celeste stamp; Captain Robert W. McLellan's gravestone; Joshua Dewis' gravestone; Sarah Briggs' harmonium; and Mary Celeste plaque at Spencer's Island.
File consists of thank you letters from the students Carol B. Chapman's class at Spring Hill High School, Springhill, Nova Scotia. Includes a photocopy of a group photograph.
File contains interview with Chief Plomp, Amherst Police Department, Howard A. MacKenzie, Bedford Municipal Police Department, and Chief Murray, Truro Police Department.
Accessions consist of materials related to the publication of the poetry periodical Germination. Materials include manuscripts and proofs, editorial drafts, correspondence, sales and business records, and promotional materials.
File consists of two handwritten letters by Charles Tupper. One letter is an 1887 letter of introduction to Sir Andrew Clark regarding Mr. Freeborn, a Canadian medical student in London. The second letter was written in 1911 to Mrs. J. Ross Smith in Amherst, Nova Scotia thanking her for an earlier correspondence regarding election results.
File includes two letters written by Mary Vingoe as Co-Artistic Director of Ship's Company Theatre to Jeremy Long and Anna Tratton, respectively, at the Canada Council, regarding funding for their production of The Mystery of the Mary Celeste.
File contains an annotated manuscript of handwritten and typed pages and a photocopied newspaper article about a ceremony marking the 68th anniversary of the landing of the Handley-Page in Parrsboro.
File contains a draft of Mary Vingoe and Michael Fuller's first play for Ship’s Company Theatre, which was staged aboard the old and dilapidated ferry vessel.
File includes a 1988 summer season brochures, fact sheet about the theatre company, operations growth data, media quotes and information about upcoming seasons.
File contains a joint copyright agreement between Christopher Heide and Al MacDonald; publishing contract and correspondence with Borealis Press; correspondence, contract and reviews for the 1998 Tantramar Theatre Festival production; notes, reviews and advertisements for the 1994 Lunenburg Dinner Theatre Company production; correspondence, contract and reviews for the 1980 Stages production; correspondence, contract and reviews for the 1984 Kam Theatre (Thunder Bay) production; and an annotated copy of the published script. There is also correspondence between Chris Heide and Rosemary Gilbert about the possibility of converting Pogie and No More Gasoline into television scripts. File also contains a chronology of events documenting the genesis and evolution of the script development and production.
