Item includes a covering letter from Dalhousie's business manager to Mrs. Heinish of Preston Street, Halifax, explaining that the list is sent at the request of Dr. Lehv.
Item consists of a transcribed copy of a letter from Janet Mullins to Thomas H. Raddall on the history of the Irwin and Bartling families of Queens County, Nova Scotia.
Item consists of correspondence, reproduced from microfilm, sent to Richard Roome on November 24, 1941, from members of the "Roome Group" stationed in Halifax, sending "Season's Greetings" and mentioning shenanigans on the home front.
Item is a letter congratulating Vincent MacDonald on improvements on loadings since he assumed controllership of loading operations at the National Harbours Board.
Item consists of Canadian Army Overseas correspondence, reproduced from microfilm, dated April 4, 1942, sent by "Austin" to Richard Roome, giving a "very hearty congratulations on [his] recent 'upping'."
Item consists of correspondence sent by David MacLellan (of the Department of National Defence--Army) to Thomas H. Raddall in November 1942, commenting on the publication of "His Majesty's Yankees".
Item is a letter from Dalhousie Alumni Secretary, Helen Balcom, to Bertha Oxner at the University of Saskatchewan regarding the latter's written query about the history of early women graduates of Dalhousie University. Her letter makes reference to recently made lists, which are likely those listed elsewhere in this file (UA-32, Box 9, Folder 1, Items 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9). Bertha Oxner's letter of response is also included.
File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.
Item is a transcription to English of the twenty-eighth paragraph in a letter that Richard Wagner wrote to his publisher in 1872. This transcription was presumably sent by William Somerset Maugham to Ellen Ballon with a letter.
File contains letters from Humphrey Mitchell, Minister of Labour, and A. MacNamara, Deputy Minister, regarding Vincent MacDonald's leave of absence from Dalhousie to serve as the Assistant Deputy Minister of Labour.
File contains a printed letter from the White House sent in response to an invitation from Ellen Ballon for Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt to attend an event in New York on November 28, 1944.
File contains correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and Don Henshaw of MacLaren Advertising Limited, regarding promoting an radio broadcast reading of Raddall's story "Muster of Arms" on October 3, 1944.
File contains correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and Maclean's Magazine staff from 1945 to 1949, with correspondence from Noryal Bonisteel, R. Napier Moore, W.A. Irwin, Scott Young, and John Clare. Topics covered include whaling off the coast of Nova Scotia, travels with the Lunenburg fishing fleet, the publication of "Tambour", the Teazer incident and Tancook Island, and others subjects.
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.
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".
Item is a typed letter from Heitor Villa-Lobos to Ellen Ballon written on December 17, 1946. The letter acknowledges a letter Ballon wrote on December 5, 1946 and asks if Ballon performed the world premier of Villa-Lobos's first piano concerto with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Item is accompanied by the stamped air mail envelope in which Ballon received the letter. Two Brazilian postage stamps are affixed to the envelope.
File contains handwritten and typed correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and Hugh MacLennan dating from 1946 to 1976, detailing responses to the publication of "Pride's Fancy", the Royal Commission on Publications, among other topics.
Item consists of a letter sent by G.H. Corkum of the Lunenburg County Teachers Institute to Thomas H. Raddall, requesting Raddall give a talk at the Institute.
File contains correspondence and a postcard sent between Thomas H. Raddall and Donald C. MacKay dating from 1946 to 1953 and 1970. One letter includes a drawing by D.C. MacKay depicting a Sable Island lighthouse keeper on horseback.
