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Waiting for a bus / Andrew Merkel : [manuscript]

Item is a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel deploring the lack of public transport in Lower Granville and the politics underpinning the problem. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

The Lower Granville causeway / Andrew Merkel : [manuscript]

Item is a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel reporting on the arguments in favour and against the building of a causeway or upgrading the bridge spanning the Annapolis River at the point at which it is divided by Coat Island, between Annapolis Royal and Granville Ferry. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

America's first garden / Andrew Merkel : [manuscript]

Item is a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel reporting the development of historic gardens adjacent to the reconstructed Habitation in Lower Granville. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

I buy a farm : [manuscript]

Item is a partial manuscript written by Andrew Merkel describing how he came to live in Lower Granville after his retirement. The first page is missing and it's unclear whether there are more missing after page number six. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

A Nova Scotia serendipity / Andrew Merkel : [manuscript]

Item is a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel describing the history of the Granville Shore's economic decline, its lack of transportation routes and the impact on tourism triggered by reconstructing the Port Royal Habitation. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

The way to Port Royal / Andrew Merkel : [manuscript]

Item is a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel about the significance for tourism of paving the highway from Granville Ferry to Lower Granville. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

Ironbound, July 30, 1926 : [manuscript]

Item is a manuscript of diary entries, genealogical notes, lists of idioms, and anecdotes written by Frank Parker Day in preparation for writing his novel Rockbound, which was based on families on East Ironbound Island.

Chanties by various authors

File contains handwritten copies of various sea chanties collected by Frank Parker Day. Includes "Yankee Ship," "A la Claire Fontaine" (accompanied by musical notation), "Storm Along," "Shenandoah," and other untitled chanties.

Discourse no. 1 & 2

Item consists of two discourses written by William Ellis, likely in the late-1770s. The items are bound dos-a-dos, with Discourse no.1 starting at front cover to the middle of the booklet and Discourse no.2 starting at the back cover to the middle of the booklet.

"Chanties and Other Songs of the Sea" : [manuscript]

Item is a collection of transcribed sea chanties, as sung aboard vessels out of Liverpool, Nova Scotia in the 1870's, 1880's, and 1890's, and recalled in whole or part by William H. Smith, of Liverpool, N.S. (born 1867). The words were taken down and prepared in typescript by his son T. Brenton Smith, in the year 1940. Includes the following chanties: "The Loss of the Emma-Jane," "Lay Out, Tack Sheets and Haul," "Bound to Rio," "Blow the Man Down," "Old Hoss," "Screwing in Song," "Way Down in Tennessee," "The City of Baltimore," "Around the World and Home Again," "Old Mother Head's," "Sauer Kraut," "Arriving back at Liverpool," "The Mary," "Brigantine Scrocco," "The Big Five Gallon Jar," "Shiloh Brown," "Shanadore [Shenandoah]," "What You Going to do with a Drunken Sailor," "Goodbye, Fare Ye Well," "Say Old Man," "Harbour Grace," "Liverpool Packet," "Fire in the Foretop," "Sailor's Burial at Sea," "On the Banks of the Sacremento," "Rolling Home to Merry England," "Then Turn out You Jolly Tars," "Whiskey for my Johnnie," "The Banks of Newfoundland," "Hangman Johnnie," "On the Plains of Mexico," "We'll Pay Paddy Doyle for his Boots," "Isle of Fugi," "Old England's Gained the Day," and "Walking in de Middle of de Road." Includes annotations about the chanties, some of which are handwritten and by Thomas H. Raddall.

"Old Sailor's Ballads, Collected by the Late Capt. Fenwick Hatt of Liverpool, N.S."

File contains a transcription of ballads. Includes: "The Frozen Girl," "On the Banks of Newfoundland," "The Worn-Out Sailor," "The Rose of Britons Isle," "The Banks of Brandywine," "The Pride of Glenco," "Sweet Jinny on the Moor," [Untitled], "The Blind Sailor," "The Ship Lady Sherbrooke," "The Cabin Boy," "The Braes of Balquhidder," "The Ramblin' Irishman," "The Desolate Widow," "The Bounty Jumper," "Our Fifer Boy," "The Ghostly Sailors," "The Cumberland," and "Bold Jack Donahue." Includes handwritten annotations by Raddall

"Evangeline and the Real Acadians"

Item is a typescript transcription of "Evangeline and the Real Acadians," an essay by Archibald MacMechan. MacMechan published the essay in 1914, as part of the collection 'The Life of a Little College & Other Papers'.

James De Mille : [manuscript] / by Lawrence J. Burpee

Item is a manuscript written by Lawrence Johnstone Burpee about James De Mille. Manuscript contains biography, an appreciation, and a bibliographic index of De Mille's work. Additionally, the manuscript contains extracts from "Helena's Household", "Christian Watchman", "Fire in the Woods", "Behind the Veil","Kosekin", "A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder", "Sweet Maiden of Quoddy", "Mimehaha Mine", "A Nightmare", Moses et Ingens dux", "Heroes of Legislature", and "The Dodge Club".

The early Scotch settlers of Cape Breton : [manuscript]

  • MS-2-165, SF Box 25, Folder 37
  • Item
  • 1931
Item is a manuscript of Daniel Morrison's unpublished article The Early Scotch Settlers of Cape Breton, which he presented to the literary branch of the Guild in Dominion, Nova Scotia. Attached is his letter to Mr. McIntosh, requesting the manuscript's return and the reader's spelling corrections of Gaelic words.

Morrison, Murdoch Daniel

Hid treasure, or the labours of a deacon, and other poems : [manuscript]

  • MS-2-158, SF Box 19, Folder 7
  • Item
  • [before 1892]
Item is a manuscript of Hid Treasure, or The Labours of a Deacon and Other Poems dated April 29, 1919, which is possibly when the pages were taped into the bound scrapbook with the title embossed on the spine. A contents page lists both published and unpublished poems, including "Betula Nigra," "The Prince's Lodge," and the title poem, "Hid Treasure." The manuscript date is unknown, but the poems themselves range in date from ca.1839-1886. Robert R.J. Emmerson's name appears as co-author on the title page, but it has been scratched out along with the second of two epigraphs.

Fenerty, Charles, 1821-1892

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