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.
Collection contains correspondence related to Mary Celeste research in 1974, between Irving Deale and Dave Taylor, Gilbert Collicott, Marjorie Robb, Francis Ruzicka, Thomas Raddall, Caroline Jarvis, John Lochhead, Michael Joseph, James How, R. Baden Powell, Howard Gottlieb, Milton Gustafson, Theresa Cederholm, Tatiana Ruzicka, Sandra Hopkins, Stanley Spicer, Philip C.F. Smith, among others.
Item consists of correspondence from Stephen Orr to Irving Deale, adding further information and context to their discussions about swords aboard the Mary Celeste.
Item consists of selections from a transcript of a discussion between Irving Deale and Stephen Orr (of Rexton, NB) on October 28, 1973, related to the Mary Celeste.
Item consists of a short handwritten manuscript about swords aboard the Mary Celeste, written on vellum by Stephen Orr, and collected by Irving Deale in 1973.
Collection contains correspondence related to Mary Celeste research in 1973, between Irving Deale and Ernest Dodge, Joseph Howerton, J.S. Harley, Audrey Logie, Stephen Orr, John Lochhead, Keith Matthews, Milton Gustafson, Valerie Simpson, H.M. Puddington, C.P. Lambert, Felix Pizzarello, George Orr, C. MacKinnon, Caroline Jarvis, Sandra Hopkins, and others.
Item consists of a typed manuscript, likely written in 1973 by Irving Deale, about coming across a painting of the Mary Celeste (originally, the Amazon), at a Halifax antique shop, and discussions with Rhodes Dewis and Niels Jannasch about acquiring it.
Item consists of typed research notes about the Mary Celeste and the Dewis family, written by Robert Dewis, transcribed in 1950 by R.L. Dewis, and collected by Irving Deale. Dewis was the son of Joshua Dewis, owner of the Mary Celeste.
Item consists of a facsimile of handwritten research notes drafted in 1953 by R.L. Dewis (and collected by Irving Deale), about the early history of the Mary Celeste (then known as the Amazon).
Item consists of typed research notes collected by Irving Deale, and written by unknown persons likely in the 1960s, giving a brief outline on the history of the Mary Celeste.
Item consists of a facsimile of a passage from J. Alphonse Deveau's 1968 book "La ville francaise" related to the mystery of the Mary Celeste, with an accompanying English translation (likely undertaken by Irving Deale).
File contains correspondence related to exchange of students between Dalhousie University Law School and Peking University, written from 1983 and 1986, between Ronald St. John Macdonald, Qui Mei Bai, H. Leslie O'Brien, Edgar Gold, Qing-Nan Meng, K.T. Leffek, Randle Edwards, Wang Fusum, Zhang Guo-hun, Ni Meng-xung, Zhang Long-xiang, Bai Gui Mei, Peter Hoffman, Bu Zhaomin, Iain Thomson, Gerald Fitzgerald, Evelyne Meltzer, Lawrence R. Raicht, Gary C. Vernon, and W.G. Low. File contains a photocopy of the memorandum of agreement between Dalhousie Law School and the Institute of International Law of the University of Beijing and notes and correspondence regarding Quing-nan Meng's thesis.
File contains seventy-one handwritten letters between poet Molly Beresford and her Song Fishermen colleague Andrew Merkel, between 1922 and 1936 (predominantly late 1920s). File also includes four of Beresford's poems: "The Philosophy of a Would-Be Poet," "Moon Shadows," "To a Fair Lady on returning to her a Pair of Rubber Shoes," and another untitled poem. File also includes three postcards and one Christmas card.
File contains four pages of five traditional songs sung to Edward Charles Feltmate during his childhood in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Includes the text to the following songs: "The Cold Winters Night", "The Steam Packet Soverign [sic]", "The Gay Spanish Maid", "The Flying Cloud", and "Sable Island: Graveyard of the Atlantic" (written by an attendant of the [Sable Island] Life Saving Station).