Archives Catalogue

Research materials and notes for Livvy Higgs

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 23
File
[2009]

File contains research notes, correspondence, printed secondary materials and a manuscript titled A Grand Burst of Glory, with "alias Livvy Higgs" handwritten on the first page.

The dictator considers his regime / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-752, Box 5, Folder 14
File
2009

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File includes manuscript notes by Carol Bruneau.

Ian Colford's correspondence

MS-2-751
Series
[19--]-2008

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Series contains correspondence brochures regarding various reading series and manuscript rejections.

CBC Radio One The Next Chapter interview with Donna Morrissey

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 4, Item 3
Item
Sept. 27, 2008

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a cassette tape with an interview with Donna Morrissey by Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio One's The Next Chapter.

Global Television Noon Show interview with Donna Morrissey

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
Feb 8, 2006

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a DVD containing a recording of a 6-minute television interview with Donna Morrissey by Diane Lowe on Global Maritime Noon Show. The focus of the interview is Sylvanus Now.

Evidence / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 5, Folders 17-18
File
July, 29, 2006

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File contains a copy of the revised version submitted to Porcupine's Quill in August 2006. The manuscript contains editorial notes by Doris Cowan, a freelance editor.

Letters to Donna Morrissey from her readers

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 11
File
2005 - 2009

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

CBC Radio One Sounds Like Canada interview with Donna Morrissey

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 5, Item 2
Item
May 30, 2005

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a CD-ROM containing a radio interview with Donna Morrissey by Shelagh Rogers on CBC Radio One's Sound Like Canada. The focus of the interview is Sylvanus Now.

Donna Morrissey's notes for her defence of Frank Parker Day's Rockbound on CBC's Canada Reads

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 12
File
2005

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Photographs of Sounds Like Canada panellists

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 27
File
2005

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains two photographs of the 2005 CBC Canada Reads panel, which included Donna Morrissey, Olivia Chow, Molly Johnson, Roch Carrier and Sherraine MacKay. Host Bill Richardson also appears in the photos. There is one photograph of Donna Morrissey and Molly Johnson holding their respective books. Also included in the folder are two undated photographs of Donna Morrissey at different events with unidentified individuals.

Canada Reads

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 2, Item 3
Item
2005

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a videocassette containing the filmed version of CBC Radio's Canada Reads, in which Donna Morrissey champions (and wins) Frank Parker Day's Rockbound.

The story of Hector Tomàs / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 5, Folder 19
File
2004-2005

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File comprises an early version of the opening chapter of Ian Colford's The Story of Hector Tomàs sent to Lynne Kinney, a Toronto literary agent.

Coterminous / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 5, Folders 15-16
File
2004

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File consists of the early draft of Coterminous, which was later changed to Evidence.

Letters to Donna Morrissey from Halifax Public Libraries, Atlantic Book Festival, Canada Council for the Arts, Penguin Publishing Group, NS Masterworks Awards Foundation and Adsum House

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 10
File
2004 - 2017

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains letters regarding awards or recognition received by Donna Morrissey. There is also a photograph of Donna Morrissey speaking at a podium at a 2004 literacy award ceremony.

Manuscript excerpt of Ian's Colford's The Story of Hector Tomàs

MS-2-751, Box 5, Folder 20
File
2003

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File comprises an early version of the opening chapter, which was entered as a writing sample to the Humber School for Writers in July 2003. The manuscript contains editorial notes by Alister MacLeod.

CBC Television news interview with Donna Morrissey

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
April 29, 2002

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a videocassette containing a brief television interview with Donna Morrissey in which she discusses her novel Downhill Chance.

Coterminous / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 3, Folder 9
File
2002-2003

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File contains a manuscript written in October 2002 and edited by Rick Cumyn in July 2003.

Sophie's blood : the confessions of Joseph Blanchard / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 3, Folders 1-3
File
[2001]

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File contains a manuscript that won the 24th Atlantic Writing Competition award for unpublished novels. Ian Colford's competitions pseudonym (Packard Bell) appears on the title page. File also includes two reviews and a letter from Jane Buss, the executive director of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, announcing the winner.

Ian Colford's correspondence with literary agents

MS-2-751, Box 5, Folder 9
File
2001-2008

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Sophie's blood : the confessions of Joseph Blanchard / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 4, Folders 10-12
File
[2001]

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Two letters regarding the completed draft of Downhill Chance

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 7
File
2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File contains a letter from Beverly Slopen to Susan Canavan at Houghton Mifflin regrading the submission of Donna Morrissey's completed draft of Downhill Chance, and a letter from Cynthia Good, president and publisher of Penguin Canada, to Donna Morrissey about her pleasure at receiving her manuscript.

Talk to Dalhousie Library School on becoming and being a writer

MS-2-650.2018-042, Box 90, Folder 20
File
March 30, 2001

Part of Budge Wilson fonds

File contains Budge Wilson's notes for her presentation to a class at the Dalhousie Library School on Young Adult Writing. Wilson was invited to talk to the class by Vivian Howard of Dalhousie University.

Television interviews with Donna Morrissey

MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 3, Item 3
Item
2000 - 2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a videocassette containing: a 5-minute panel interview with Donna Morrissey, Gregor Ash and Glenn Mettin regarding the best films of the past 100 years; a ca. 60-minute interview with Donna Morrissey in "Ziggy Introduces the Person Behind the Book"; and a 5-minute segment from CBC Midday regarding Kit's Law.

Editorial and production correspondence from Penguin Canada for Kit's Law

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 9
File
1998 - 1999

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Pluck : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 13
Item
[1998?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a paginated manuscript with the title Pluck written in black marker across the top.

Pluck : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 14
Item
[1998?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is an unpaginated manuscript with the title Pluck written in black marker across the top.

Correspondence to Donna Morrissey from Beverly Slopen and Cynthia Good

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 18
File
1998 - 2001

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

File also includes a draft of a pitch letter to Penguin for Kit's Law.

Kit's law (synopsis) / Donna Morrissey : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 12, Folder 12
Item
1998

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a 20-page synopsis of Kit's Law written by Donna Morrissey.

Pluck — a scene to balance out the father to go near the ending

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 15
Item
[1998?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is an unpaginated manuscript with the title handwritten across the top.

Ian Colford's correspondence and publicity brochures regarding the Dalhousie University Reading Series

MS--2-751, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1997-1999

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File includes a 1998 Canada Council of the Arts application for the Dalhousie University Reading Series.

Research materials on cemeteries and gravestones

MS-2-821, Box 7, Folder 3
File
1996 - 2011

Part of Jessica Scott Kerrin fonds

File contains magazine articles, correspondence, and handwritten notes related to cemetery and gravestone studies compiled and created by Jessica Kerrin for writing mystery series for children. There is also a copy of the Cemetery Studies: A Guide for Teachers by Sean Rodman (November 1996), a printed copy of the Stories in Stone Patch Program at Mount Hope Cemetery (June 2004), and a photocopy of a few chapters of the book, Your Guide to Cemetery Research by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack (2002).

Correspondence from Design North to Ian Colford, editor of Pottersfield Portfolio

MS-2-751, Box 5, Folder 13
File
1995-1997

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Ian Colford's correspondence, brochures and clippings regarding the New Voices Reading Series

MS-2-751, Box 2, Folder 3
File
1995-1997

Part of Ian Colford fonds

The evolving text in the electronic environment : a research paper / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 1, Folder 4
File
August 1994

Part of Ian Colford fonds

File also includes two review articles, two letters from Bertrum MacDonald, and Ian Colford's 1999 curriculum vitae.

Ian Colford's correspondence as editor of Pottersfield Portfolio

MS-2-751, Box 5, Folder 6
File
1994-1997

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Publishers' rejection letters sent to Ian Colford

MS-2-751, Box 1, Folder 7
File
1993-2003

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Ian Colford's correspondence, brochures and clippings regarding the Canadian Literary Collections Project

MS-2-751, Box 2, Folder 1
File
1992-1996

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Revenge : a story / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 3, Folder 6
File
1990

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Lower / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 3, Folder 13
File
1990

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Publishers' rejection letters to Ian Colford regarding his manuscript submission, Fishes in the Flood

MS-2-751, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1989-1994

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Enclosures / Ian Colford : [manuscript]

MS-2-751, Box 3, Folder 12
File
1988

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Ian Colford's correspondence with U.S. book publishers

MS-2-751, Box 5, Folder 10
File
1988-2002

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Ian Colford's manuscripts

MS-2-751
Series
1980-2010

Part of Ian Colford fonds

Ian Colford fonds

MS-2-751
Fonds
1979 - 2010

Fonds contains Ian Colford's manuscripts and other records illustrating his work as an author.

Colford, Ian

The Very Famous Man

MS-2-838, Box 13, Folder 6
File
1978 - 1982

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains six manuscript drafts, submission correspondence, and a chronology of events regarding the story's creation, submission and rejection.

A portrait of my brother, part 2 / New Latchford : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 13, Folder 12
Item
[ca. 1978]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a partial manuscript.

Rough draft for third rewrite of part two done in Indonesia and Halifax

MS-2-838, Box 13, Folder 11
Item
1978

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is an annotated manuscript of A Portrait of my Brother.

A portrait of my brother, part 1 - childhood : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 7, Folder 10
Item
[ca. 1978]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a partial manuscript.

A portrait of my brother : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 7, Folder 9
Item
1978

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a heavily annotated manuscript, a rewrite of the novella with Canada Council assistance.

Handwritten manuscript pages for "Come Near"

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folders 14-18
File
1977

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains handwritten manuscript pages with inconsistent pagination, sometimes clipped together in sections; file contents were divided between individual folders by the processing archivists in the same order and groupings as originally arranged and received.

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