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Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding his visits to China

File contains correspondence about Ronald St. John Macdonald's trips to China - which started as part of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) assignment to strengthening training and research in selected key universities in China - with different individuals, including Bai Gui-Mei, Zhao Zhenjiang, Wang Tieya, Yaoyuan Xia, Luo Hao Cai, Tony T.L. Chang, Eiichi Fukatsu, Masao Nakayama, Zhang Wen-pu, Fritz von Klein, Wang Xuex hen, Xue Mo-hong, Zhu Qiwu, Wei Min, Judith Ogden Bullitt, Randle Edwards, Peter Hoffman, Maarten Bos, Luzius Wildhaber, Eugene V. Rostow, Jeremy Thomas, John Churchill, Nessim Shallon, Roberto Ago, and others. File contains newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and handwritten notes about international law in China, including two versions of Macdonald's paper "the People's Republic of China and the International Court of Justice". File includes a letter from Bai Gui-Mei to Mairi Macdonald.
Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 5, 1930

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 5, 1930

Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated December 5, 1930 from Paris, lamenting the passing of Howard Murray, his convalescence after another illness, the discovery of shrapnel behind his ear nearly fourteen years' removed from active duty, and his contemplating pursuing a Ph.D at Dalhousie.
Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, January 28, 1919

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, January 28, 1919

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Archibald MacMechan, dated January 28, 1919, in Hoeylaert, Belgium, expressing relief at the cessation of hostilities and anxious anticipation upon returning home, and of Grenadier post-war life billeted in a village near Brussels.

Letters from Alice Mary, Princess of Albany, to Ellen Ballon

File contains letters concerning Ellen Ballon's performance of music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and the receipt of flowers. File also contains a letter to Ballon from Mary Goldie, Private Secretary to Princess Alice, concerning a letter from the latter and Lord Athlone to Dr. James (presumably Frank Cyril James) at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the McGill Conservatorium of Music.

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

Letter from Heitor and Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon

Letter from Heitor and Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon

Item is a handwritten letter from Heitor and Arminda Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon written on July 26, 1947. The letter details Villa-Lobos itinerary on a European tour and comments on Ballon's performances of Villa-Lobos' compositions. Item is accompanied by the stamped air mail envelope in which Ballon received the letter. One French postage stamp is affixed to the envelope.

Villa-Lobos, Heitor

Mario Giacomelli

The file consists of records related to an exhibition of photographs by Mario Giacomelli organized by George Eastman House of Photography and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery from October 8-25, 1968.

Records consist of correspondence between Evelyn Holmes (Acting Curator, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and staff of George Eastman House, an exhibition report form, descriptive text for the exhibition, and a list of artworks.

Jacob Jordaens

File consists of records related to the exhibition 'Jordaens', a significant exhibition of Jacob Jordaens' paintings organized by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at Dalhousie Art Gallery in October 1969.

Records consist of an invitation, a calendar of events for the National Gallery for the period of November 15, 1968 to January 15, 1969, correspondence of Evelyn Holmes (Acting Curator, Dalhousie Art Gallery) including letters regarding the safety of the Jordaens' artworks during blasting activities on campus, including seismographic data, newspaper clippings regarding the exhibition, including one titled 'Jordaens Canvas Displayed After Shock Test', descriptive exhibition text provided by the National Gallery of Canada, a copy of 'Jordaens and Flemish Opulence' from Flemish Painting Volume 2, and three National Gallery press releases.

French paintings exhibition

File consists of records relating to organization, planning, and preparation for the exhibition 'French Painting 1840-1924' organized and circulated by the National Gallery of Canada and presented at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in February and March of 1971.

Records consist of correspondence, condition reports from Dalhousie Art Gallery and others, accompanying texts for the exhibition including a bibliography, recommended film screenings, readings, and descriptive texts; an exhibition loan agreement, docent agreements, lists of artworks and biographical information, and a newspaper clipping.

On the water's edge

File consists of records relating to the exhibition 'On the water's edge', consisting of facsimiles of 17th and 18th century Dutch drawings from the collection of the Teylers Museum, Haarlem. The exhibition was presented at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in April 1971.

Records consist mainly of correspondence between Ernest Smith (Director, Dalhousie Art Gallery) and staff of the Royal Netherlands Embassy, whom the exhibition was circulated through. One additional record consists of a paper outlining the historical background of the Teylers Museum and the collection of drawings.

Charles Walmsley fonds

  • MS-2-521
  • Fonds
  • 1910 - 1955
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.

Walmsley, Charles

Colonial office correspondence

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

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

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.

Garber, Paul

File contains two letters written by Bishop Paul N. Garber (of Geneva, Switzerland), and one response from Kenneth Leslie, dated March and April 1946. The first letter, dated March 7, 1946, from Garber, informs Leslie of his meeting in Warsaw with Stefan Molski, a correspondent for Leslie's publication The Protestant, and discusses the current tenuous Polish political situation. The response from Leslie, dated April 11, 1946, inquires as to whether Bishop Garber would be willing contribute an article to The Protestant, and gauging Garber's interest in serving as an adviser of the publication's Editorial Board. Garber's response, dated April 17, 1946. affirms his interest in serving as an editorial adviser, but warns that he will also be "very busy" given his need to attend "four annual conferences [held] in rapid succession in Switzerland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland."

Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik, Faroe islands

Series consists of records created and collected by Richard Apostle that document his involvement in establishing a regional development research institute in Klaksvik, Faroe Islands. His primary scholarly output from this collaborative endeavour was the book The Restructuration of the Faroese Economy: The Significance of the Inner Periphery, by Richard Apostle, Dennis Holm, Gestur Hovgaard, Olavur Waag Hognesen and Bjarni Mortensen. A subseries contains records documenting the development of a book about the amalgamation of municipalities in the Faroe Islands. Records types include correspondence; draft manuscripts; studies and papers; budgets and financial reports; meeting minutes; and research data and notes. Records include correspondence and reports in Faroese, Icelandic and Danish.
Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Edith MacMechan, July 24, 1905

Correspondence from Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Edith MacMechan, July 24, 1905

Item consists of handwritten correspondence written by Gilbert Sutherland Stairs to Edith MacMechan, dated July 24, 1905 in Neuchatel, Switzerland, discussing learning French and traipsing through mountains while on vacation in western Switzerland, visits to exhibitions in urban England, and catching up with friends at Oxford and beyond.
Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 25, 1916

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, December 25, 1916

Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated Christmas Day 1916 from the I.O.D.E. Hospital for Officers in London, wishing MacMechan a "jolly old-time Christmas", and providing further updates on his recovery from wounds suffered in combat.
Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 9, 1928

Correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to MacMechan, March 9, 1928

Item consists of handwritten correspondence from Owen Bell Jones to Archibald MacMechan, dated March 9, 1928 from Paris, lamenting having just undergone his 28th operation, reminiscences of a recent car crash, and in response to prompts from MacMechan, sharing rich details of the characters sitting with him in a cafe.

Autographs and letters from various composers

File includes a postcard with a black and white photograph of Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), an Italian opera composer. The postcard has various signatures on the front, including Francesco Marconi (1855-1916, operatic tenor from Rome) and four other illegible signatures. The postcard is addressed to Frau Dr. Lehnsern(?) of Berlin. File also includes the incipits of three pieces by Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), signed at dated October 3, 1844. There are also five letters written by the following composers: Jacques Offenbach (1879), Gustav Mahler (1899), Edvard Grieg (1902), Maurice Ravel (1921), and Ignacy Paderewski (n.d., 1860-1941).

Letter from Franz Liszt

File contains a letter written by Franz Liszt to an unidentified person, accompanied by a typed transcription. The letter addresses the publication of some of his songs by Schott, and his cousin, Mlle. Liszt.

Liszt, Franz

Transcription of a letter from Franz Liszt

Transcription of a letter from Franz Liszt

Item contains a typed transcription of a letter written by Franz Liszt to an unidentified person, addressing the publication of some of his songs by Schott, and his cousin, Mlle. Liszt.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding Dalhousie Law School

  • MS-2-615, Box 2, Folders 2 - 7; MS-2-615, Box 3, Folders 1 - 8; MS-2-615, Box 4, Folders 1 - 10; MS-2-615, Box 5, Folders 1 - 7; and MS-2-615, Box 6, Folders 1 - 8
  • File
  • 1963 - 2004

    • Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Gary M. Keyes, Peter B. Waite, Christian L. Wiktor, Duncan MacIntosh, Bruce H. Wildsmith, Bruce Archibald, A.S. Abel, Jeremy Akerman, Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz, I.F.G. Baxter, J. Alan Beesley, Charles B. Bourne, W.F. Bowker, Alexander B. Campbell, Lorne O. Clarke, F.V. Garcia-Amador, Edvard Hambro, Ivan L. Head, Henry D. Dicks, Marsh Jeanneret, Bora Laskin, Fraser Mooney, Harold Nelson, Martin O'Connell, Diana M. Priestly, Susan Ruether, Dalton Bales, Egon Schwelb, Grant Hammond, A.R. Thomson, K.T. Leffek, C.D. Beeby, James B. Chadwick, J.F. Leddy, R.J. McCleave, J.J Santa-Pinter, Thomas Sloan, Kamleshwar Das, John W. Holmes, Kenneth Jarvis, Paul Martin, Marc Ancel, Richard Arens, Leon A. Bagramov, Antonio Cassese, Jonathan Guss, E.W. Innes, Randall Ivany, Donald W. Mac Donald, Allan J. MacEachen, Hans Mohr, E.W. Whelpton, Arthur S. Pattillo, Leon E. Trakman, Hugh M. Kindred, A. John Yogis, Innis Christie, Alex C. Castles, Patrick J. Cihon, Gordon S. Cowan, R. Desjardins, Yoram Dinstein, Virendra Kumar, Debbie Lynkowski, Donald S. Macdonald, Ronald A. MacDonald, David C. MacDonald, Harrison E. Tucker, Wm. J. Van Veen, Michael Terry Hertz, Donald H. Clark, J.L. Dubinsky, H.W. Arthurs, Nabuya Bamba, Thomas R. Berger, Edmund Morris, Manfred Lachs, Kaldone G. Nweihed, Thomas Maxwell, Otto E. Lang, Allan J. Gotlieb, Ralph Gibson, Gregory T. Evans, Christopher S. Axworthy, Ronald Basford, Gerard Bertrand, R.G.L. Fairweather, Samuel Freedman, Peter E. Darby, Thea E. Smith, Vaughan Black, W.H. Jost, Rudiger Wolfrum, Richard W. Bauman, Joseph G. Jabbra, James Vorenberg, Evelyne Meltzer, Debra Johansen, Howard C. Clark, Jill Shlossberg, W. Brent Cotter, Richard Devlin, A. Donat Pharand, Arthur J. Hanson, Horace Krever, and others, regarding a wide range of subjects during his deanship and professorship at Dalhousie University. File includes a booklet for the proceeding in honour of Mr. Justice Brennan, the Dalhousie Gazette, vol. 116, number 23 of March 1984, Dalhousie News, vol. 29, No. 15 of June 1999, Dalhousie Law School newsletter, vol. 2, no. 8 of February 1976, Dalhousie Faculty Association dialogue, vol. 2, no. 1 of March 1989, Dalhousie Law Journal, vol. 14, no. 2 of November 1991, Dalhousie University Law and Technology Institute newsletter, issue 3 of October 2004, the Canadian Association of Law Teachers bulletin of January and March of 1989, Dalhousie University Stewardship report for 1986, Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies Council, Dalhousie University Faculty of Law Council, Dalhousie University Faculty of Law Executive Committee and Dalhousie University Senate meeting minutes and notices from 1982 to 1990, and a photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with unidentified people taken in September of 1987. File may include Ronald St. John Macdonald's personal correspondence. File also contains correspondence from Ronald St. John Macdonald's deanship and professorship period in the University of Toronto Law School from 1971 to 1972, and 1991 to 1992, respectively. File includes materials regarding Dalhousie Law School centenary celebrations.

William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

  • MS-2-762
  • Fonds
  • 1831 - 2005
Fonds comprises the records of William Edward Maclellan and his family's records, including those of including William Edward and Margaret Jane (Mackenzie) Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan; Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan; Jean Stewart Maclellan; Robert William Maclellan; and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan. Record types include correspondence, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, poems, certificates, booklets, periodicals, notebooks and genealogical charts.

Maclellan, William Edward

Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan's records

Subseries consists of Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan's correspondence with Jean Stewart Maclellan and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick Maclellan; and Margaret Jane (MacKenzie) Maclellan and William Edward Maclellan. It also contains her mother's handwritten recipe book.
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