Fonds consists of materials regarding the Charles Walmsley's academic life and his activities as a faculty member of Dalhousie University, including notebooks, lectures notes and a manual of the first year of the Dalhousie course of mathematics. The fonds also contains correspondence sent to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walmsley and others textual records.
Item is a signed and sealed bond dated 1760 from the Earl of Halifax (George Montagu-Dunk) to James Wooley for securing an annuity of £100 during the life of the Earl of Halifax.
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.
Item consists of a facsimile of the original December 18, 1872 court document regarding the mystery of the Mary Celeste, undertaken at the Vice Admiralty Court of Gibraltar, before Sir James Cochrane Knight, Judge and Commissary, and collected in the 1970s by Irving Deale.
Fonds comprises records documenting Henry Hicks' political career and tenure as president of Dalhousie University, as well as his earlier studies at Oxford University and his military service in World War II. There are also records regarding his stamp collecting hobby, his community service, and his long involvement with associations such as the Rhodes Scholarship Committee. Record types include diaries and appointment books, correspondence, manuscripts, philatelic records, newspaper clippings and photographs.
File contains records regarding expenses with the S.S. Winona, crew list, and crew salaries. The file also includes clearance papers granted by the United Kingdom.
Fonds consists of materials regarding Captain Robert N. Anderson's activities as a shipmaster, including a ship's logbook, a bill of sale for the schooner Corona and receipts of goods freighted by the Corona. Records also include correspondence sent to Anderson by his family.
File consists of three letters written to Mr. Miller from J.A. Froude. The first letter refers to a suggestion that Froude be interested in editing The Contemporary Review, an idea firmly withdrawn in Froude's second letter.
Item is a diary kept by Arthur H. Whitman that describes a trip to England between November, 30 1888 and January 17, 1889. The diary contains daily entries that describe Whitman's activities, church attendance, meals, business and social visits, and letters sent and received. Many entries describe his meetings about apples. The diary also records money received and paid.
Item is a photocopy of an unpublished typed manuscript, containing the following hand-printed text on the extant front page, beneath the table of contents: "AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF / HERBERT LESLIE STEWART / MA (Oxon), PhD, FRSC, FRSA / FIRST DRAFT / – INCOMPLETE and UNPOLISHED / at the time of his death in 1953."
File contains three copies of a photograph of Prof. H. A. Bumstead making a vacuum to split atoms at Cambridge University in the Cavendish Laboratory. A. S. MacKenzie is visible in the background, measuring a magnetic field.
Item is a photograph of Harris Brown taken in Garden House in Chelsea, London. Harris is sitting on a stool next to an ornate fireplace with a mirror and sculptures. The photograph was sent to Arthur Stanley MacKenzie as a Christmas and New Year greeting card.
Item is a photograph of Harris Brown sitting in Garden House in Chelsea, London. There are paintings and sculptures in the room around Harris. The photograph was sent to Arthur Stanley MacKenzie as a Christmas and New Year greeting card.
File contains two photographs of H. Harris Brown taken in Garden House in Chelsea, London. The photographs show Brown sitting in a room with sculptures and other artwork. The photographs were sent to Arthur Stanley MacKenzie as Christmas greetings.
Fonds consists of handwritten and printed sermons and lectures and an open letter to the Chancellor of the University of Halifax (1877). It also includes a convocation address (1870) and the order of service for Macdonald's funeral (1901).
Item is a letter concerning Thomas McCulloch's donation of a North American insect specimen (from Nova Scotia) to the University of Edinburgh, via Professor Jameson, for the university's museum. The letter discusses Nova Scotia's Scottish connections, Presbyterian religion, the Pictou Academy, and the advocates for the conference of honorary degrees on the Honourable Sampson Salter Blowers, the Chief Justice of Nova Scotia; the Honourable James Stewart; and the Honourable Brenton Halyburton.
Item is a microform copy of Thomas McCulloch's book, "Popery again condemned by scripture and the fathers : being a reply to a part of the popish doctrines and assertions contained on the refutation, and in the review of Dr. Cochran's letters, by the Rev. Edmund Burke, V.G. Que."
Item is a microform copy of Thomas McCulloch's book "Popery condemned by the scripture and the fathers : being a refutation of the principal popish doctrines and assertions maintained in the remarks on the Rev. Mr. Stanser's examination of the Rev. Mr. Burke's letters of instruction to the Catholic missionaries of Nova Scotia and in the reply to Rev. Mr. Cochran's fifth and last letter to Mr. Burke, etc."
Item is a 150-page notebook that Samuel J. Holland used in 1747 when he was serving as an artillery officer in the Dutch army. The notebook is bound in vellum and contains tables, memoranda, mathematical calculations, diagrams, recipes for making gun powder, and assorted notes.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, of a group of unidentified Indigenous people sitting in front of John W. Matheson's grave at the mission house in Maré, Loyalty Islands [New Caledonia]. Matheson, of Pictou County, traveled with John Paton to the South Pacific in 1858, and passed away in 1862.
Item consists of a black-and-white stereoscope photograph, likely taken in 1863, of the Rev. J. McFarlane's mission house on Lifu, New Caledonia. Photograph shows several unidentified people sitting in front of the house.
Item consists of a charcoal and pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely in 1940, showing a busy port scene at Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Scene includes tugs and naval vessels, as well as two sailors carrying duffel bags.
File contains catalogue cards that are filled with handwritten bibliographic, contact and terminology entries related to James Morrison's research on J. M. Synge, Ireland, and Missionaries in China. The cards have been organized into a section marked Synge.
File contains catalogue cards that are filled with handwritten contact information related to James Morrison's thesis on the Jos Plateau. The cards contain contact information of individuals from the United Kingdom, and include addresses and notes on reasons for contact.
File contains catalogue cards that are filled with handwritten contact information related to James Morrison's thesis on the Jos Plateau. The cards contain contact information of individuals from countries outside of Nigeria.
Item contains one clothbound diary for the year 1976 used by James Morrison in Nigeria. The diary has a green cover and contains notes related to travel and research in Nigeria, Ireland, and Nova Scotia. The diary contains notes on expenses and contact information for colleagues and venues.
File contains a variety of research from 1975 on J. S. Synge for a chapter of James Morrison's thesis on the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. The file contains a handwritten notes for a biography of Synge, a notebook containing handwritten notes on Synge and the Birom. The file contains a handwritten letter addressed to James Morrison from Synge, and a copy of the letter.
File contains an assortment of invoices, correspondence, and change of address notices that James Morrison sent and received from 1973-1974 in Nigeria and in Colchester County, Nova Scotia. The file holds publication invoices from Blackwell's and Cambridge University Press, hand written correspondence from James Morrison to his wife Sheila Morrison, and bank statements from several Nigerian banks.
File consists of a combination of handwritten research notes and typed research plans and reference request index sheets created by James Morrison in 1972. The indexes list materials and documents from government, academic and institutional archives and libraries on the topic of Nigeria, Jos Plateau and tin mining.
File consists of handwritten notes on correspondence between the Colonial Office in London, England, and administrative officials including Frederick Lugard and Charles Lindsay Temple. The notes were compiled from correspondence from the Public Record Office by James Morrison during the 1970's in Nigeria.
Item is a print of a drawing of the brig Europa. Writing on back reads: Brig "Europa" of Maitland, N.S. entering (port of) Leghorn 1858. Alexander MacDougall, master. The above Alex MacDougall was father of Captain Everett MacDougall.
Item is a photograph of the S.S. Trebia loading in New York enroute to Australia. The writing on the back states that the ship (2343 tons) was built in Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1902 by Russell and Co.
Item is a print of a drawing of the barque Daylight. The writing on the back states that the ship was built in Port Glasgow, Scotland, in 1902 by Russell and Co. Imprinted on the front mount is "Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year."