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File includes a letter to children's author Claire MacKay and copies of publications that include stories by Joyce Barkhouse, including Hi Venture magazine and the Canadian Children's Literature journal. The file also includes photographs of Blomidon, King's County, Nova Scotia and the Town of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in addition to copies of poems, birthday invitations, an edited biography of Joyce Barkhouse from the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia website, and family history documents.

File contains 15 issues of a periodical "issued every so often," edited and published by Andrew Merkel out of his Halifax office of the Canadian Press. In addition to publishing the poems of The Song Fishermen, a Halifax literary group that included Andrew Merkel, Kenneth Leslie, Charles G.D. Roberts, Molly Beresford, Bliss Carman, Charles Bruce, and Robert Norwood, it became a vehicle for members to keep in touch with each other, especially those who lived outside of Halifax. Issue numbers 1-4 and 10 were published as "The Song Fishermens' Song Book"; the possessive apostrophe was corrected in the remaining numbers. Number 12 is missing and number 13 took the form of a short book of poems published by Abenaki Press in tribute to Bliss Carman after this death.

File contains textual records pertaining to Kenneth Leslie's religio-political publication New-Man.