Item consists of one book titled "Song of Hiawatha" owned by Joyce as a child and later read to her children. The book is small and bound in maroon leather.
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.
Fonds consists of records created and collected by the DeMill family, including Arthur DeMill, Anna DeMill, Nathan DeMill, Elisha Budd DeMill, Frederick E. DeMill, and Alfred DeMill. Materials include scrapbooks and journals, correspondence, business papers, photographs, and literary manuscripts by James De Mille.
File contains lightly annotated, photocopied pages of Grenfell, the Labrador Pioneer, by Ernest H. Hayes (Wallington, Surrey: Religious Education Press, 1947), which was used by Donna Morrissey in her research for Rage the Night.
File contains correspondence related to Barkhouse's short story "The Secret of Silk," which was originally "Unimportant Princess" and renamed for OWL magazine. Materials also contain the first page of the story.
File contains published short stories written by Joyce Barkhouse. The stories are mostly found in magazines such as The Canadian Boy and Discovery, and include title such as "Pioneer Preacher" and "The Purple Cloak" instalments.
Series consists of correspondence, secondary research materials, notes and manuscripts of Charles Bruce's unpublished work, including a novel titled Drift of Light. There is also a file containing drafts of speeches given by Bruce.
Subseries consists of 18 folders relating to Charles Bruce's 1954 book The Channel Shore, including manuscripts, correspondence, research notes and book reviews.
File contains correspondence, an offprint, and a manuscript copy of the first story published by Christopher Heide, which appeared in the summer 1975 edition of Canadian Fiction Magazine. File also contains a chronology of events regarding the submission and publication of the story.
File contains a manuscript, correspondence and a copy of Nebula, in which the story appears. There is also a chronology of events documenting the submissions, rejections and acceptance of the short story.
File contains two manuscript drafts of the story, submission correspondence, a chronology of events regarding the story's various submissions, rejections and eventual publication in The Alchemist (Vol.1, No. 3), and a copy of the journal.
File contains a manuscript, submission correspondence and a chronology of events regarding the submission, various rejections and eventual publication of the story in an anthology of writers from Atlantic Canada called Voices from Down East.
File contains a manuscript, rejection letter from Grain magazine, and a chronology of events regarding the story's submission and publication in Mud Creek Magazine by "Either/Or."
File contains a draft of the story, submission correspondence, a chronology of events regarding the story's various submissions, rejections and eventual publication in Karaki (December 75, No. 5), and a copy of the journal.
File contains handwritten manuscript pages with inconsistent pagination, sometimes clipped together in sections; file contents were divided between individual folders by the processing archivists in the same order and groupings as originally arranged and received.
File contains a manuscript, submission correspondence and a chronology of events regarding the submission and acceptance of the story in Chezzetcook, an anthology published by Lesley Choyce's Wooden Anchor Press.
File contains two manuscript copies, correspondence and a copy of Mistral, the literary review in which the short story was published in spring 1975. File also contains a chronology of events regarding the submission, various rejections and publication of the story.
File contains three manuscript drafts of the story, which was was originally titled "The Last Day before my Father's Holiday." There is also correspondence and a chronology of events regarding the story's various submissions, rejections and eventual publication in the Chelsea Journal, and a copy of the journal (Volume 3, Number 6, November-December 1977).
File contains a typed copy of Chapter 19, "Beginning," a letter to Jane Murphy from a typing and editing service, typed excerpts from John Muir's "Travels in Alaska," a poem called "Eskimo Funeral," and two copies of published articles by Robert N.Wilson.
File contains two manuscript copies, submission correspondence and a chronology of events regarding the submission, various rejections and eventual publication of the story in the October 1977 issue of Alpha, an Acadia University literary magazine.
File contains a manuscript draft plus rewritten sections, submission correspondence to multiple publishers, a grant application, and a chronology of events regarding the novella's creation, submissions and rejections.
The fonds includes correspondence covering the years 1962-1978; scrapbooks containing clippings, correspondence and photographs (1926-1973); manuscripts for a number of Bird's published and unpublished works-including novels, stories and articles (undated); hardcover novels, fiction and non-fiction published in magazines, journals and newspapers (1928-1975); and miscellaneous documents including reviews, articles about Bird and royalty information (1935-1976).
Fonds contains textual records relating to the history of the activities of the Dalhousie University English Department and to Bevan's academic activities. The fonds consist of research notes generated during Bevan's study of Dryden's literature; academic and departmental correspondence and documentation created while Bevan was head of the English department and afterwards; documents and correspondence relating to operations at the Dalhousie Review from 1972-1980; fiction and other writings; material pertaining to courses he taught from 1949 to 1976; and various undated papers written by his students.