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Daily News review of Words Unrealized and correspondence with the reviewer

File contains incoming and copies of outgoing correspondence between Budge Wilson and Lindsay Brown, books editor for the Sunday Daily News and two drafts of Wilson's review of "Words Unrealized: Short Stories of Adolescence by Canadian Writers," edited by Andrew Garrod and Janet Webster (St. John's: Breakwater Press, 1991).

Joyce Barkhouse fonds

  • MS-2-646
  • Fonds
  • [1860-1899], 1906-2012

The Joyce Barkhouse fonds consists of published and unpublished manuscripts of books, short stories, articles, and other writings, as well as photocopies and clippings of published materials, personal and professional correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, promotional material, and other material collected and created by Joyce Barkhouse.

This fonds consists of nine series: Articles and other writings, Books, Short stories, Associations, Awards, Biographical materials and other documents, Correspondence, Personal documents, and Promotional material.

Barkhouse, Joyce Carmen

Greg Cook fonds

  • MS-2-720
  • Fonds
  • 1950-1993
Fonds consists of correspondence, newspaper articles written by Cook, published and unpublished manuscripts, published articles, academic papers, association minutes, writings, subject files, financial records, and research files.

Cook, Gregory, A., 1950-

Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia fonds

  • MS-2-612
  • Fonds
  • 1975-2005

The Archives of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia consists of records created by the administration, members, and affiliates of the Federation. It includes a wide variety of materials including administrative records, audio/visual material, correspondence, financial records, meeting agendas and minutes for a variety of groups and committees, photographs, promotional and press material. The records refer to the adminstration and functions of the Federation, as well as its relationships with its members, government departments, and other writing, publishing and cultural groups.

Materials are mainly in English, with a small number in French. See individual Series descriptions for detailed scope and content notes.

Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.

Charles Bruce's professional correspondence

Series comprises Charles Bruce's professional correspondence, organized by subject. The bulk of the correspondence relates to his professional life and writing, but there are some files containing letters and notes of a more personal nature. Many files contain notes and newspaper clippings.

The Flowing Summer

Subseries consists of three folders regarding Charles Bruce's book of poetry,The Flowing Summer, published in 1947, including a manuscript, correspondence and book reviews.

News and the Southams

Subseries consists of 29 folders relating to Charles Bruce's last major work, "News and the Southams," published in 1968, including a manuscript, correspondence, business papers, notes and reviews.

Personal Note

Subseries consists of two folders relating to Charles Bruce's poem Personal Note, including correspondence and reviews.

The Township of Time

Subseries consists of two folders relating to Charles Bruce's 1959 book The Township of Time, including correspondence and reviews.

The Gales of August

Subseries consists of the manuscript, correspondence and notes pertaining to Charles Bruce's 1971 story The Gales of August.

Donna Morrissey fonds

  • MS-2-753
  • Fonds
  • 1979-2012
Fonds contains records created and collected by Donna Morrissey that document her work as a creative writer. Records types include manuscripts (print and electronic), page proofs, illustrations, digital photographs, and published copies of her novels, scripts and short stories. There is also e-mail and printed correspondence, press material and book reviews, research materials and workshop resources.

Andrew Merkel fonds

  • MS-2-326
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1954
Fonds contains records created and collected by Andrew Merkel, including correspondence with friends and associates such as Charles Bruce, Kenneth Leslie, and Robert Norwood; manuscripts; Atlantic Radio and Aviation Magazine papers; newspaper clippings; and copies of The Song Fishermens’ Song Sheet and The Order of Good Cheer.

Merkel, Andrew Doane

Records regarding Ronald St. John Macdonald’s academic work

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his academic activities, including his involvement as a faculty member of York University Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and other institutions. Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the development of his book "the Canadian perspectives on international law and organizations"

File contains correspondence with different individuals and institutions, including University of Toronto Press, J. Alan Beesley, Emilio S. Binavince, Charles B. Bourne, Ian Brownlie, A.A. Fatouros, Leslie C. Green, M. Jean Houston, Nancy Iacobucci, D.V. Kerig, Margaret A. Banks, Andre Defour, Wolfgang Freidman, Allan E. Gotlieb, D. Colyn Williams, Carol M. Creighton, Jean Beetz, W.F. Bowker, N.F.W. Gates, F.E. LaBrie, D.T. Anderson, John Claydon, Vincent Bladen, Robin S. Harris, G.L. Morris, Ivan A. Vlasic, and others. File includes contributors list, contributors' biographical notes, book reviews, and other materials related to the subject,

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the development of his project "the development of public international law in the 20th century"

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Kemi Odujirin, Sergei Vinogradov, Igor Lukashuk, Krzysztoof Jan Skubiszewski, Karl Josef Partsch, Grainne de Burca, Vladimir Semenov, and others. File includes handwritten notes and typescripts.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the development of the article "the organization of American states in action"

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Angel W. Peluffo, Mario Rodriguez, Richard I. Philips, Manuel E. Egana, Tad Szulc, Mario Garcia Inchaustegui, John M. Fischer, Covey Oliver, Harvey L. Johnson, K.D. Edmonds, and others. File contains handwritten notes and pamphlets related to the subject.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the development of the book "international law and policy of human welfare"

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including John Clayton, Allan E. Gotlieb, D.A. Hill, Nathan Keyfitz, Gerald L. Morris, J. Allan Beesley, Robert W. Cox, Gerry K. Helleiner, Louis Sabourin, Peter Dijkstra, John Hucker, Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Inga Angevaare, Lietha Stokhuyzen, R.G. Blackburn, Ian Brownlie, Marc Ancel, Mohammad K. Nawaz, Charles B. Bourne, Petersen N. Decker, and others. File includes a copy of the agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Sijthoff International Publishing Company B.V., handwritten notes, typescripts, pamphlets, and other materials related to the subject.

Dorothy and Samuel Shields fonds

  • MS-2-453
  • Fonds
  • 1942 - 1980
Fonds consists of correspondence with friends and politicians, newspaper clippings regarding the Nova Scotia Centre of the Poetry Society, Canadian Authors Association, Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Art, Prince Edward Island Art Society and the writer Kay Hill. The fonds also contains records related to The Nova Scotia Centre of the Poetry Society, including correspondence, poems, and copies of the society’s constitution and by-laws.

Shields, Dorothy and Samuel

Catherine Creighton and family fonds

  • MS-2-656
  • Fonds
  • [18--]-1989

Fonds consists of papers created and/or accumulated by Catherine Creighton and her family, including those of her husband Graham and children Edith, Anna, Lois, Frieda, and Howard. While the fonds includes correspondence from Wilfred Creighton to his siblings and parents, Wilfred's papers are not included as a sous-fonds within the fonds.

The bulk of the fonds consists of correspondence from family and friends, but also includes diaries, photographs, financial papers, personal papers, memorabilia, print materials, scrapbooks, articles, and artwork. Records in the fonds provide a well-rounded depiction of the family's daily activities and lives - from their relationships with each other, their extended family, and their community, to their financial status, values, education, and careers.

Creighton Family

Wendy Lill fonds

  • MS-2-772
  • Fonds
  • 1976 - 2015
Fonds contains records created and collected by Wendy Lill, including correspondence, manuscripts, published play scripts, research material, speeches, reports, publicity material, and personal records.

Lill, Wendy

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the development of his book "towards world constitutionalism: issues in the legal ordering of the world community"

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Antonio Augusto Cancado Trindade, Lindy Melman, Charlotte Ku, Hans Van Aggelin, Douglas Johnston, Margareth H. Ogilvie, Mohammad Javad Zarif, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, R.P. Anand, V.S. Mani, and others. File includes a list of potential contributors, handwritten notes, and other materials related to the subject.

Ann Connor Brimer keynote address launching Canadian Children's Book Week

File contains a copy of Budge Wilson's "Ann Connor Brimer Talk," the keynote address at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, which launched Canadian Children's Book Week in 1999. The speech addresses the state of children's literature in Nova Scotia. The file also includes a copy of a fax sent to Budge Wilson from regarding the schedule for the Canadian Children's Book Week Gala.

Budge Wilson fonds

  • MS-2-650
  • Fonds
  • 1948-2018
Fonds consists of manuscripts and proofs of Budge Wilson's books and short stories; correspondence with publishers, students, and teachers; publicity material; photocopies and clippings of reviews, profiles, and notices regarding awards and appearances; diaries; recorded radio interviews; and an assortment of other documents created and collected by the author throughout her writing career. The fonds also contains materials relating to the adaptation of Wilson's novel "Before Green Gables" into a Japanese animated television series.

Frank Baird fonds

  • MS-2-5, SF Box 13, Folder 2
  • Fonds
  • 1923-1933
Fonds consists of a draft typescript of Baird's "Doctor Archibald MacMechan: An Estimate and an Appreciation," commissioned by The Halifax Chronicle for their 1923 New Year's edition and withdrawn at Archibald MacMechan's request. Also present are three letters from MacMechan concerning the article and a later letter from Stanley MacKenzie regarding an essay by Baird rejected by The Dalhousie Review.

Baird, Frank, Rev. Dr., 1870-1951

Charles Bruce fonds

  • MS-2-297
  • Fonds
  • 1870 - 1974
Fonds consists of the personal papers of Charles Bruce, including a scrapbook, notebooks, personal and professional correspondence, published and unpublished work, and research materials and notes.

Bruce, Charles Tory

The Channel Shore

Subseries consists of 18 folders relating to Charles Bruce's 1954 book The Channel Shore, including manuscripts, correspondence, research notes and book reviews.

Grey Ship Moving

Subseries consists of three folders relating to Charles Bruce's 1946 book of poetry, Grey ship moving, including correspondence, book reviews and a radio script from CJCH.

The Mulgrave Road

Subseries consists of two folders relating to Charles Bruce's 1951 book of poetry, "The Mulgrave Road," including correspondence and reviews.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the development of the book "the European system for the protection of human rights"

  • MS-2-615, Box 18, Folder 9 - 13; MS-2-615, Box 19, Folders 1 and 2; and MS-2-615, Box 20, Folders 1 and 2
  • File
  • 1986 - 1994

    • Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Herbert Petzold, Franz Matscher, Prince Nicolas de Liechtenstein, Alois Mock, Lindy Melman, Alan Stephens, Goran Melander, Pieter van Dijk, Andrew Clapham, Karl J. Partsch, Jean-Paul Jacque, Mark Eugene Villiger, Paul Mahoney, Anthony Lester, Hans Danelius, Goran Melander, Andrew Drzemczewski, Peter Leuprecht, Jan de Meyer, Soren Prebenson, Malcolm Shaw, Juan Antonio Carrillo Salcedo, M. Melchior, and others. File includes a list of contributors, handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, and other materials related to the subject. File also contains the editor's agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Kluwer Academic Publishing B.V. regarding the book "essays in honour of Wang Tieya".

James De Mille and family fonds

  • MS-2-21
  • Fonds
  • 1834-1942
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.

De Mille, James, 1833–1880

Correspondence with Patricia Gouthro on Canadian literary study

File contains copies of outgoing and incoming emails between Budge Wilson and Patricia Gouthro of Mount Saint Vincent University regarding Gouthro's Canadian Literature Study. The file also contains an annotated copy of the "Letter of Informed Consent" for Wilson's participation in the study.

Alan Creighton fonds

  • MS-2-701
  • Fonds
  • 1845-2001

Fonds includes Alan Creighton's diaries, which cover many of the years from 1920 to 2000. Writings from the period 1920 to 1954 (many undated) are mainly short stories and poems. These writings include handwritten and typed, complete and incomplete, and published and unpublished works. There is also some correspondence throughout as well as copies of his two books of poetry. The fonds includes writings with titles such as "About Poetry," "Poetry Courses," "Thoughts," "Music & Art," and "Bedford Basin." His notebooks include evidence of a variety of courses taken, including French and Greek, music, poetry, and art (both practice and history, including Chinese art). There is also a record of his art sales from 1964 to 1999. Personal and family documents are included in the fonds.

Alan Creighton's artwork is extensive and primarily in the form of sketches and watercolours, with a few oil paintings. Many of his sketches are in albums, many of which are used exclusively for one particular aspect of his studies. For example, album labels include "People," "Trees," "Skies," "Rock Formations," "Buildings," "Railway Sketches" (scenes from train journeys), and "Outdoors." Others identify a place and time and include such labels as "At the Zoo," "Nova Scotian Sketches 1951," "South Shore 1982," and "Toronto 1996." Still others contain a mixture of styles and themes. There are also numerous loose sketches and watercolours which have been loosely arranged into similar groupings such as "Clouds," "Boats," "Flowers," and so forth. Photograph albums include photos of family and of scenes taken by Alan as a reference for future paintings.

Included with Alan Creighton’s personal items are papers, writings, art, and memorabilia belonging to his friend and roommate Christine Eyles, who died without heirs. Some relate to her employment as a violinist in England and in Toronto, Ontario and some contain her poetry, plays, and artwork (in sketchbooks and on loose paper). Published and handwritten music scores, mostly for the violin, are also included. A photograph album contains many formal portraits of family and friends taken in England in the early 20th century. Records also include papers by and about her father, Charles Eyles, a famous violin-maker. Such materials include advertisements, brochures, and letters attesting to the high quality of his craftsmanship.

Creighton, Alan

Archibald MacMechan fonds

  • MS-2-82
  • Fonds
  • 1860-1955
Fonds contains diaries, correspondence, manuscripts of published and unpublished writings, research notes, materials related to MacMechan's research and teaching and other university-related activities, artwork, memorabilia, scrapbooks, photographs and financial papers.

MacMechan, Archibald McKellar

Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

  • MS-2-615
  • Fonds
  • 1823 - 2006
Fonds comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal, academic, and professional activities as a jurist, judge, and professor. Records include those related to Macdonald's involvement with Osgoode Hall, University of Western Ontario, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, Peking University, World Academy of Arts and Science, Canadian Council of International Law, United Nations, Institute of International Law, African Society of International Law, British Institute of International Law, Canadian Institute of International Law, International Law Association, and others. Records types include correspondence; meeting minutes and agendas; research materials; photographs; newsletters; newspaper clippings; manuscripts; and off-prints.

Macdonald, Ronald St. John, 1928-2006

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