Item is one volume of a diary of Thomas H. Raddall dating from April 22, 1936 to May 11, 1940 with accounts of war news and day-to-day happenings and life events.
Item is two pages of correspondence dating from 1940 between Thomas H. Raddall and Lorne Campbell complimenting Raddall on his story "Blind McNair" in the Saturday Evening Post.
Item is one page of correspondence between the Department of Mines and Resources and Thomas Raddall regarding a cover on a publication on archaeological explorations.
Item is nine pages of correspondence dating from 1938-1940 between Thomas H. Raddall and John Buchan containing praise for Raddall's short story "Blackwood".
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.
File contains one page of correspondence dating from 1940 between Thomas H. Raddall and Adelyn Curphey thanking Raddall for the stories "Bald Eagle 'Iggins" and "Blind MacNair".
File contains one page of correspondence between Thomas H. Raddall and T. E. Jackson dating from 1940 asking Raddall for the lyrics to "Young Charlotte" as it appears in the book "Blind Mac Nair".
Item is an album with 206 photographs taken between 1929 and 1941 by Raddall and others. Subjects include Raddall and friends and family; Raddall and Edith's vacation to Bermuda; Raddall and friends boating, and taking camping, hunting and fishing trips across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island; historical artifacts including a -pound canon; images from a 1933 performance of "Three Live Ghosts" put on in Liverpool, Nova Scotia and in which Raddall acted; and Edith Raddall with her children, Tommy and Frances.
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