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To waste a wave / Susan Kerslake : [manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 1, Folder 2
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains an unpublished manuscript and an unsigned handwritten review suggesting edits and a rewrite, as well as a typed review with handwritten suggestions.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 ..."

The book of fears / Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 40
File
1984

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains an autographed copy of The Book of Fears, by Susan Kerslake.

Susan Kerslake's unpublished manuscripts

Series
[after 1943] - 1981

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains manuscripts of unpublished novels, including edited drafts. Other materials include letters from third parties with suggested edits, and rejections or comments from publishing agencies.

Susan Kerslake's submission correspondence with The Antigonish Review

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 10
File
1982 - 1988

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's speech given at Dalhousie Medical School's Medicine and the Humanities conference

MS-2-662, SF Box 77, Folder 6
File
1991 - 1992

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File also contains conference schedules and information, requests to publish excerpts of Susan Kerslake's talk and poems, copies of the poems featured, a list of conference participants, correspondence, and an article about the conference describing Kerslake's involvement.

Susan Kerslake's rejection letters

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 42
File
1981 - 1983

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains assorted personal and generic rejection letters from various publishers, including Canadian Fiction Magazine, Room of One's Own and The Long Story.

Susan Kerslake's records regarding organizations, conferences, and awards

Series
[after 1943] - 1992; (predominant 1985 - 1992)

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains materials related to Kerslake’s involvement with organizations or events related to her writing. The organizations represented in the series are the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia, the Writer’s Council of Nova Scotia, and CBC. The events represented in this series are the Dalhousie Medical School’s Medicine and the Humanities event, the Maritime Writer’s Workshop, and an Arts Festival.

Susan Kerslake's publishing contract and royalties correspondence

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 17
File
1970 - 1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence from various publishers regarding contracts and royalties. Publishers include Pottersfield Press, Ragweed Press, and Aya Press. Materials also include financial statements related to book sales, agreements and a handwritten letter.

Susan Kerslake's published manuscripts

Series
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains manuscripts of published novels, including heavily annotated drafts of Middlewatch and Penumbra. There is also related correspondence, including royalty payments, requests for inclusion in anthologies, and letters of acceptance and rejection.

Susan Kerslake's published books

Series
1976 - 1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains four books published by Susan Kerslake, including Middlewatch, Penumbra, The Book of Fears, and Blind Date. All four are in good condition and are autographed by her.

Susan Kerslake's handwritten English 201 essay titled Theme, including teacher's comments

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's fan mail regarding her book Middlewatch

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 34
File
1976 - 1990

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains fan mail for Middlewatch, including five handwritten letters (one made up of several individuals' commentaries), and one critique by an eighth grade student.

Susan Kerslake's editorial correspondence regarding Middlewatch

MS-2-662, Box 1, Folder 7
File
[after 1943] - 1977

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's editorial correspondence for Penumbra

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 1
File
[after 1943] - 1988

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's early writing

Series
[after 1943] - 1961

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains Kerslake's early writing, dating back to grade eight.

Susan Kerslake's early unpublished story manuscripts

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 7
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains seven untitled short story manuscripts.

Susan Kerslake's correspondence regarding untitled early writing

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 9
File
[after 1943] - 1984

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Susan Kerslake's correspondence

Series
[after 1943] - 1994; (predominant 1975 - 1994)

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains correspondence to and from Susan Kerslake and includes typed and handwritten letters, form rejection letters and requests for use of work.

Susan Kerslake fonds

MS-2-662
Fonds
[after 1943] - 1994

Fonds contains records relating to Susan Kerslake's writing and personal life, including manuscripts of published and unpublished work; correspondence, early writing and schoolwork, photographs, awards, articles and books reviews, and materials from events she attended.

Kerslake, Susan

Susan Kerslake : an Atlantic author / Angela Reid : [interview]

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 25
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Seasoning Fever / Susan Kerslake : [edited manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 1, File 4
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a manuscript published in 2002, after its acquisition by the Archives. The file includes a loose photograph captioned "pasqueflower."

Rules / Susan Kerslake : [edited manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 5
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a manuscript with a handwritten statement on the cover: "Whole story of Rules, 14 pages."

Review of Susan Kerslake's Blind Date, written by Lorna Inness

MS-2-662, Oversize Folder 3
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File a review cut from the Chronicle Herald/Mail Star, Saturday, September 23, 1989, page E4.

Raw / Susan Kerslake : [edited manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 4
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Published reviews of Susan Kerslake's writing

MS-2-662, SF Box 87, Folder 21 and MS-2-662, Oversize Folder 4
File
1976 - 1991

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a review of Blind Date by Bill Gaston; reviews of The Book of Fear by Janice Kulyk Keefer, Libby Scheier, Adrian Fowler, and David Sharpe; reviews of Middlewatch. Also included are Susan Kerslake's review of Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer, published in Atlantic Provinces Book Review, three drafts with edits, and a handwritten note with edits from Elizabeth; and a photocopied article Writing for the Yankee Dollar, by Keith Mallard, which features Kerslake.

Published reviews and articles featuring Susan Kerslake's writing

Series
1976 - 1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Series contains reviews and articles relating to Kerslake’s work and writing. Materials include newspaper clippings, photocopies of reviews from journals or papers, and papers written as class assignments (including an original interview). Material also includes one review and edits written by Kerslake.

Poster for Dalhousie English department event featuring a Susan Kerslake reading

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 22
File
1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Poster for a Susan Kerslake reading for the Canadian Literacy Collections Project in the Killam Library's Special Collections room

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 21
File
1993

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Penumbra / Susan Kerslake : [second draft manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 1, Folder 9
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

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.

Penumbra / Susan Kerslake : [first draft manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 1, Folder 8
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a lightly annotated first draft as well as a black-and-white photograph of a cliff overlooking the beach.

Penumbra / Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 39
File
1984

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains and autographed copy of Penumbra, by Susan Kerslake.

Nomination records for Susan Kerslake as a top-ten best fiction writer in the Canadian Book Information Centre's 45 Below competition

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 24
File
1986

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Newspaper clippings about Susan Kerslake's writing career

MS-2-662, SF Box 87, Folder 20 and MS-2-662, Oversize Folder 2
File
1985 - 1990

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Nadia Bakhit's English-class assignment review of Susan Kerslake's The Book of Fears

MS-2-662, SF Box 91, Folder 23
File
[after 1984]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Middlewatch / Susan Kerslake : [second draft manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 1, Folder 6
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a lightly annotated second draft with the earlier title, "To Stir a Flower."

Middlewatch / Susan Kerslake : [first draft manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 1, Folder 5
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

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."

Middlewatch / Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 38
File
1976

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains an autographed copy of Susan Kerslake's Middlewatch.

English 201 essay written by Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 3
File
1961

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a handwritten essay written for English 201 containing a few edits, teacher's comments and a grade of B+.

Editorial correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Brenda Riches from Grain magazine

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 27
File
1981

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Creance / Susan Kerslake : [manuscript]

MS-2-662, Box 1, Folder 3
File
[ca. 1979] - 1981

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains an unpublished manuscript, a rejection letter from The Women's Press , a letter containing criticisms and suggestions from Oberon Press, and a small poem by David Rook.

Correspondence to Susan Kerslake from Mount Saint Vincent University re. Making Time for Art workshop

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 36
File
1986

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence to Susan Kerslake from Kate Millett

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 35
File
1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence from George Whipple to Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, SF Box 77, Folder 5
File
1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence from George Whipple, including one letter containing a positive review of "An Old Night" from Whipple to Kerslake.

Correspondence from Formac Publishing Company Limited to Susan Kerslake

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 22
File
1988 - 1989

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a letter from Formac seeking permission to reprint stories in Best Maritime Short Stories and another regarding payment.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and TriQuarterly

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 44
File
1983 - 1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains a letter of rejection and one accepting a story, as well as a completed form for publication of Kerslake's Foreigner.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and the Public Lending Commission

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 49
File
1987 - 1994

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and the Canada Council

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 14
File
1985 - 1991

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with the Canada Council. Materials include two letters from the Canada Council to Kerslake regarding royalty payments and requesting an opinion on a manuscript, "Guyana Betrayal." It also includes a letter from Kerslake critiquing the manuscript. File also contains completed Canada Council forms, including a writer's report on short-term residency, a writer's report on public reading, letters of appraisal.

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Joanne Cutt, or Quarry

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 8
File
[after 1943]

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Halifax City Regional Library re. their Freedom to Read program

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 28
File
1991 - 1992

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

Correspondence between Susan Kerslake and Greg Gibbons

MS-2-662, Box 2, Folder 26
File
1987

Part of Susan Kerslake fonds

File contains correspondence with Greg Gibbons including one photocopied handwritten letter from Kerslake regarding suggested edits.

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