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Letter from Major John White Hughes Bassett to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 18
File
1953

File contains a citation of a poem by Robbie Burns, signed by John Bassett, the president and managing director of the Montreal Gazette.

Bassett, John White Hughes

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 3
Item
April 6, 1910

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 6
Item
January 20, 1912

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 12, Item 10
Item
November 24, 1913

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from Lotte Lehmann to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 11
File
1958

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a brief thank-you note for flowers received.

Lehmann, Charlotte

Letter from Walter de Mouilpied Scriver to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 7
File
September 30, 1952

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

File contains a letter from Walter de Mouilpied to Ellen Ballon, written on September 30, 1952. The letter thanks Ballon for a performance she gave at an honorary dinner. Item is accompanied by the stamped envelope in which Ballon received the letter. The postage stamp has been removed from the envelope.

Scriver, Walter de Mouilpied

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Sally Ryan and Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 2
Item
June 13, 1944

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 6
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 7
Item
1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is a note from William "Willie" Somerset Maugham written to Ellen Ballon on the reverse side of an advertisement for three recitals in New York (April 4, 11, 25, 1945) performed by Ellen Ballon and recorded by the radio station WNYC.

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 10
Item
October 22, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Letter from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 12
Item
December 22, 1945

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Envelope from William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon

MS-5-2, Box 1, Folder 10, Item 22
Item
[c. 1944 - 1945]

Part of Ellen Ballon fonds

Item is an envelope used by William Somerset Maugham to send a book to Ellen Ballon.

Letter from Mary Kenny to Roger Savage

MS-3-35, Box 18, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
July 2, 1974

Part of Eyelevel Gallery fonds

Item is a letter from Mary Kenny to Roger Savage written on July 2, 1974. In the letter, Kenny accepts an offer from Karl MacKeeman to serve on the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery. Kelly offers her services as a photographer or as coordinator of TELED's Media Resource Centre.

Letter from Julia Schmitt Healy to Ron Shuebrook

MS-3-35, Box 18, Folder 10, Item 3
Item
October 31, 1974

Part of Eyelevel Gallery fonds

Item is a letter from Julia Schmitt Healy to Ron Shuebrook concerning his omission from the Board of Directors of Eye Level Gallery. In the letter, Healy reveals that the selection process was "basically fascism prompted by our Catch-22 situation: To apply for the grant we had to have a board of directors yet we had no members who, under a true co-operative would elect the board." She invites Shuebrook to contribute a piece to the gallery's first show, Peggy's Cove Syndrome.

Carleton Stanley's article submitted to the 1932 Christmas Edition of the Saint John Telegraph Journal

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 15
Item
December 1931

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's article submitted for the Christmas Edition of the Saint John Telegraph-Journal, dated December 9, 1931, discussing the importance of the humanities in education. Item also includes related correspondence.

Correspondence between Fred Wigmore and Carleton Stanley

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 18
Item
20 February 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent by Fred Wigmore, editor of the Dalhousie Yearbook, to Carleton Stanley discussing the theme of the 1932 Dalhousie Yearbook of "Pilgrim's Progress".

Carleton Stanley's article submitted for the 1932 Christmas Edition of the Saint John Telegraph-Journal

UA-3, Box 102, Folder 2, Item 41
Item
6 December 1932

Part of President’s Office fonds

Item consists of a typescript copy of Carleton Stanley's article submission for the Christmas Edition of the Saint John Telegraph Journal, dated December 6, 1932, discussing the rapid changes to Dalhousie's campus and culture in the years since the end of the First World War. Item also contains related correspondence.

Correspondence between Barbara Hinds and Arthur Shears

MS-2-130, Box 1, Folder 5, Item 10
Item
1969

Part of Barbara Hinds fonds

Item consists of a typed letter from Arthur Shears to Barbara Hinds, dated March 6, 1969, about editorial suggestions related to Hinds' coverage of the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre.

Examination certificates, certificates of class attendance, and other records of Nelson Pratt's medical training

MS-13-32, SF Box 66, Folder 7
File
1896 - 1931, predominant 1896 - 1900

Part of Nelson Pratt fonds

File contains records collected by Nelson Pratt while he was a medical student at Halifax Medical College and Dalhousie University's Medical Faculty. Records include registration receipts; medical examination certificates; certificates of class attendance; certificates from the Provincial Medical Board; and other letters and certificates certifying that Pratt completed aspects of his medical training. There are also letters and receipts related to purchases made by Pratt.

A student's letters, number 1 / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 15
Item
May 29 1857

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a letter submitted by A.P. Reid to the July 1857 issue of The Medical Chronicle (Montreal monthly journal of medicine & surgery) (Vol. 5, No. 2), dated May 29th, 1857, discussing life as a medical student in London.

A tropical insane asylum / A.P. Reid : [correspondence, facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 33
Item
January 30, 1903

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of correspondence submitted by A.P. Reid to the March 1903 issue of the Maritime Medical News (Vol. XV, No. 3), dated January 30, 1903, on the topic of a Jamaican asylum.

Correspondence sent to Allison Gallant about pharmaceutical history

MS-13-82, Box 31, Folder 11, Item 3
Item
[1963?]

Part of J. Gordon Duff fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent to Allison Gallant, likely in 1963, addressing questions about Prince Edward Island pharmaceutical history.

Correspondence 1939-1940

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 18
File
1939-1940

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains correspondence to and from Samuel Balcom in 1939 and 1940. Correspondence is to Rebecca Cohn, Angus L. Macdonald, Carleton Stanley, Gordon B. Isnor, Colonel J.D.G. Campbell, Captain G.R. Forbes, Major L.L. Henshaw, Captain Carl Trask, Captain A.D. Grayson, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Maxwell, and A.S. MacMillan, among others.

Letter from Samuel Balcom to A.M. Savage, Managing Editor of The Halifax Herald, thanking him for their coverage of the 1972 Balcom family reunion at Port Dufferin

MS-2-128, Box 1, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
1978

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

Item is a letter from Samuel Balcom to A.M. Savage.

Letter of congratulations to the new Justice MacDonald from W. Earl Smith

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 13
Item
14 October 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter written on behalf of the Conference of the Governing Bodies of the Legal Profession in Canada.

Two letters from Paul A. Freund, Harvard Law School

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 20
File
3 April 1952 and 18 June 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Letter to the editor of the Mail Star

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 35
Item
5 August 1953

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is letter written by Vincent MacDonald adding to the tributes to the late Edward Cummings.

Letter of congratulations from G.P.R. Tallin, Dean of Manitoba Law School

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 42
Item
4 April 1950

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter written on behalf of the law school and the Law Society of Manitoba.

Letter from K. Wheare, Rector, Exeter College, Oxford

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 43
Item
3 May 1961

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a letter thanking Justice MacDonald for sharing a copy of his lectures on legislative power and the Supreme Court in the fifties.

Correspondence - Central Medical Supplies

MS-2-128, Box 2, Folder 20
File
1942

Part of Samuel R. Balcom fonds

File contains correspondence from Balcom's time as Officer Commanding, Medical Stores, and Chief Medical Stores Inspection Officer during World War II. Original file split between files 2-19 and 2-20.

Correspondence from Thomas Head Raddall, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to Eleanor C. Armstrong

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 1
Item
January 20, 1947

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item consists of correspondence between Mrs. Armstrong and Thomas H. Raddall about the history of Irish people in Queens County.

Correspondence from Earl R. Lewis, Jr., of West Hartford, Connecticut, to Thomas Head Raddall

MS-2-202, Box 31, Folder 2, Item 10
Item
August 15, 1961

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a letter sent to Thomas Raddall discussing the family name of "Poquetanuck" and its use in Connecticut.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and the Liverpool Library Association

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 15
File
1954-1955

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains fourteen pages of correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and Liverpool Library Association dating from 1954 to 1955, relating to the DeWolfe Library.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and A. R. Lock

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 18
File
1972

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains three pages of correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and A. R. Lock dating from 1972 regarding research on a gull on Sable Island.

Correspondence between Thomas Head Raddall and C. J. MacGillivray

MS-2-202, Box 43, Folder 38
File
1945-1946

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

File contains correspondence sent by C.J. MacGillivray (published of The Casket in Antigonish) to Thomas H. Raddall, between 1945 and 1946, discussing Thomas Hierlihy, a British officer deemed the "founder of Antigonish".

Invitations to dances, at homes, and a gift sale

MS-2-299, SF Box 36, Folder 2
File
[ca. 1925]

Part of Avis (Marshall) McCurdy fonds

File contains five invitations to events at Dalhousie sent to Avis Marshall, including a dance by the junior class of the Faculty of Arts and Science; a sale of gifts and novelties from the Hwaiking Shop; an "at home" at the Pine Hill residence; a dance at Kings College; and an "at home" at the Waegwoltic Club.

Letter from Edith MacMechan to Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey

MS-2-30, SF Box 16, Folder 4, Item 3
Item
[191--?]

Part of Correspondence of Daniel C. Harvey

Item is one sheet of paper. The item is folded to create two additional pages, with only the right page having any text. The letter is from Edith MacMechan, Archibald MacMechan's wife, to Dr. Daniel Cobb Harvey.

Letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch

MS-2-40, SF Box 16, Folder 11
Item
September 7, 1815

Part of Thomas McCulloch collection

Item is a typed copy of a letter from Sam Cunard to Thomas McCulloch concerning students, likely Cunard's sons, John, Henry and Thomas, which Cunard sent to McCulloch in Pictou, Nova Scotia.

Letter from Katherine Creelman to Annie Creelman concerning the Halifax Explosion

MS-2-775, Box 1, Folder 1
Item
December 17, 1917

Part of Creelman Family fonds

Letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia

MS-2-779, SF Box 80, Folder 12
File
August 10, 1849

Part of George Robertson's historical documents collection

File contains a letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia, written on 10 August 1849. The letter discusses a petition from Peter Furrier, Master of the Brig Superb, to have his vessel released from quarantine.

Howe, Joseph

Letter from James Baxter to Dalhousie's President MacKenzie

MS-2-7, SF Box 13, Folder 4, Item 15
Item
November 2, 1917

Part of James Baxter fonds

Item is a letter written by James Baxter to President McKenzie (Arthur Stanley), written in Chatham on 2 November 1917 on letterhead from the Dominion of Canada Quarantine Station of the Public Health Branch of the Department of Agriculture. The letter refers to Baxter's attendance at both the Presbyterian seminary in Truro and Dalhousie College in Halifax in the 1850s and 1860s, and mentions enclosed course tickets and notebooks.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, May 15, 1904

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 3
Item
May 15, 1904

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to the MacMechans, dated May 15, 1904 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, thanking them for past correspondence, and about catching up with friends and former classmates.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, November 18, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 8
Item
November 18, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated November 18, 1915, in Montreal, Quebec, discussing the difficult decision to enlist in the war effort, and his training for the Canadian Grenadier Guards Overseas Battalion. He then discusses military exploits of mutual friends.

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, October 11, 1916

MS-2-82, Box 15, Folder 14, Item 9
Item
October 11, 1916

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated October 11, 1916, in Montreal, Quebec, discussing training and work with his battalion, chiefly at Bramshott Camp near London.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 1
Item
[1915?]

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, likely in the spring of 1915, about apologies for not meeting up before Jones's overseas departure.

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, September 16, 1915

MS-2-82, Box 9, Folder 85, Item 3
Item
September 16, 1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Item consists of handwritten correspondence sent from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated September 16, 1915, at Valcartier Camp (Quebec City), thanking MacMechan for further outfitting of the Camp's library, general anxiousness around Camp, and the hopes of the Battalion soon being deployed to England.