File includes a postcard with a black and white photograph of Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), an Italian opera composer. The postcard has various signatures on the front, including Francesco Marconi (1855-1916, operatic tenor from Rome) and four other illegible signatures. The postcard is addressed to Frau Dr. Lehnsern(?) of Berlin. File also includes the incipits of three pieces by Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), signed at dated October 3, 1844. There are also five letters written by the following composers: Jacques Offenbach (1879), Gustav Mahler (1899), Edvard Grieg (1902), Maurice Ravel (1921), and Ignacy Paderewski (n.d., 1860-1941).
File contains job applications by L. A. Borsford, W. E. Cooper, Emile Coulon, Reuben C. Curry, Philip De Grassi, I. F. Gesner, William James Hickie, Henry Voule Hind, D. Honeyman, Michael C. Howe, John Howard Hunter, L. H. Irvan, John Johnson, John K. Johnston, James Liechti, William Lyall, Thomas McCulloch, Charles McDonald, I. I. Meyers, John G. Mulholland, Burnthorn Musgrave, James Patterson, John Pryor, C. D. Randall, James Ross, Edwin N. Sharp, James Sinclair, L. H. Swan, Walter Angus Watts, George Weir, Arthur Wickson, and James Woods.
File contains a letter from Joseph Howe to D.O.C. Madden of Arichat, Nova Scotia, written on 10 August 1849. The letter discusses a petition from Peter Furrier, Master of the Brig Superb, to have his vessel released from quarantine.
File consists of four letters from Alfred Austin to Stephen Tobin. Austin was Tobin's schoolmate at Stonyhurst College from 1849-1852 and later served as Poet Laureate of England (1896-1913).
File contains an autographed letter from Jacques Offenbach as Director of the Theatre des Bouffes Parisiens, addressed to "Monsieur le Baron" (likely Georges-Eugène Haussmann, commonly known as Baron Haussman).
File contains photographs of different individuals, including Ronald St. John Macdonald, Eunice W. Beeson, Wang Tieya, John P. Humphrey, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Pope John Paul II, François-Maximilien Bibaud, and many others, taken on different occasions.
File includes reports, including the final draft of the Dalhousie University Financial Strategy Committee of the Board of Governors report of 1990, vol. 1, no. 3, of the Dalhousie Alumni Magazine of 1985, correspondence, and newspaper clippings.
