File contains Christmas cards sent to Florence Jessie Murray by various senders, including J.W. Bennett, Chang H. Cho, Kook Hoon Ko, Ada Sandell, Mimie Saper and others
File contains a letter from Marjory MacMurchy, president of The Canadian Women's Press Club, concerning John Daniel Logan's letter in the Canadian Magazine on Canadian women.
File consists of correspondence to Harvey from Dr. A. MacMechan and his wife, a recommendation letter from MacMechan to Edwin Laftus, and a letter from George W. Robinson to Dr. MacMechan.
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 includes offprints of Policy controlled state interest analysis in choice of law, measure of damages, tort cases, by Moffatt Hancock; Biblical atonement and modern criminal law, by Jerome Hall, "No distant millennium: the international law of human rights, by John Humphrey, Trials and tribulations of a bluenose barrister, by R.A. Kanigsberg, Constitutionalism and the treaty, by James M. Henry; La capacite internationale des etats: l'exercice du jus tractatuum, by Andre Patry; three typescripts of Dalhousie Law School, 1945-1950; The constitutional framework of the international community and The evolution of international law 1945-1985; a letter dated 3 May 1919 addressed to the secretary of the Civil Service Commission of Canada; Kluwer Law International newsletter, vol. 1(2); a transcript of a conversation between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Elisabeth Mann Borgese dated June 30, 1999; a draft version Niki Tobi's Judge Taslim Olawale Elias; the Canadian Council on International Law membership directory and 34th annual conference programme; and the European Court of Human Rights meeting minutes and reports.
File contains a watercolour painted and signed by Kenneth Leslie, presumably in the late-1930s. The painting depicts a rural setting -- quite likely of somewhere in Pictou County -- with a brown fence in the fore-ground, a narrow peninsula stretching into a river, with low hills in the distance.
File contains two undated promotional leaflets (likely from the late 1930s or early 1940s, promoting Kenneth Leslie poetry readings and discussions. The earliest of the two leaflets, on off-white paper, is entitled "Kenneth Leslie / Poetry Readings -- Discussions / Mr. Leslie / Reads His Own Poetry / Discusses Contemporary Poetry / Helps you Develop Your Poetry" and contains a small portrait of a youthful Leslie wearing a fedora. It contains testimonials from Charles G.D. Roberts, Robert Norwood, and Lawrence H. Conrad on the verso. The second leaflet, printed on yellow paper, also undated, but after 1938, is entitled "Kenneth Leslie : Singer-Composer / Poet", contains a portrait of Leslie to the upper left corner, with a short bibliography (ending in "By Stubborn Stars". The front contains words promoting Leslie's talent from 'Voices', 'London Times', Sir Charles Roberts, 'N.Y. Herald Tribune', 'Halifax Chronicle', Reverend Sister Maura, 'Charlottetown Guardian', and Shaemas O'Sheel, while the verso has further testimonials under the heading "What they say of Kenneth Leslie's poetry...." with the sub-headings "In London, England", "In Toronto", "In New York", and "In Charlottetown".
File contains Kenneth Leslie's personal copy of his collection of poems, 'Such a din!', published in 1936. Leslie used this copy as a working copy when compiling his anthology of poems, 'O'Malley to the Reds and other poems" in 1972. File contains inked corrections, additions, and excisions in Leslie's hand (addition of dedications -- largely to Robert Norwood -- for a few poems, as well as a few title and spelling changes, with poems not be included in the anthology crossed out).
File contains newspaper clippings collected by Kenneth Leslie in 1972 and 1973, largely related to the 1972 United States presidential election. File contains clippings and facsimiles of articles written by Leslie's associates Hugh Hester and Morris Kominsky, among others. Articles tangentially related to the role of both religion and the Vietnam War in American political affairs during the run-up to the election. A few of the clippings contain notes and marginalia in Leslie's hand.
File contains two leaves of stationery with the letterheads of two of Kenneth Leslie's periodical publications. The first is the letterhead of The Protestant, from the late-1940s, when The Protestant had moved operations back to Nova Scotia. The letterhead reads The Protestant, with "Cambridge Station, Nova Scotia" beneath the main title. On the left margin is the list of names on the editorial board of The Protestant, with Kenneth Leslie as "editor", Rev. John Tunnicliffe as "associate editor", and 52 others listed as "editorial advisers". The second is the letterhead for Leslie's next publication, "The New Christian", with "Kenneth Leslie, editor, publisher" at the left margin and "Pictou, Nova Scotia" at the right margin.
File contains correspondence with George Peabody. Materials include one handwritten letter to Kerslake requesting permission to reprint "Soft Body Parts" (as well as "Did You Ever ...") from "The Book of Fears," and one blank permission to reprint form.
File contains an unpublished manuscript; the cover page features a quote from Robinson Jeffers, "... Life; a flicker of men and moths ...," and a longer poem by Elinor Wylie.
File contains an unpublished manuscript and an unsigned handwritten review suggesting edits and a rewrite, as well as a typed review with handwritten suggestions. The quote on the cover page reads "For here alone in all the world was found Moria-silver, or true silver as some have called it: Mithril is the Elvish name ..."
File contains a heavily annotated first draft with the earlier title, To Stir a Flower; the cover page includes the Yeats' quote: "That thou canst not stir a flower without troubling a star."
File contains a substantially annotated second draft as well as black-and-white photograph of a sea creature under a boat and a colour photograph of two houses. There are minor and major edits, predominantly towards the end.
File contains an undated Christmas card, likely from the 1950s or early-1960s, sent by Harold S. Latham, of Kearny, NJ (formerly chief editor of Macmillan Publishing Company), to Kenneth Leslie. File briefly recounts Latham's recent trip to Nova Scotia to visit "Five Islands on Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy", and expresses regret at not having heard from Leslie recently. Latham was Leslie's editor when he published his first collection of poems, "Windward Rock" (Macmillan, 1934).
File contains invitations sent to Florence Jessie Murray including from the Government of the Republic of Korea and the Christian Medical Fellowship of Britain.
