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Thomas Donal Linehan fonds

  • MS-2-759
  • Fonds
  • 1946-2003
The fonds consists primarily of poems authored by Thomas Donal Linehan. The fonds contains published collections, annual files of unpublished manuscripts, and thematic files of unpublished manuscripts. This fonds also includes correspondence and a collection of unpublished prose and poetry.

Linehan, Don, 1924-2003

The Protestant Digest

Series contains copies of the The Protestant Digest, materials related to the Textbook Commission, as well as office ledgers, advertisements, and Protestant stationery.
The past 60 years of Peking University, 1898-1958 : [manuscript and clippings]

The past 60 years of Peking University, 1898-1958 : [manuscript and clippings]

File contains records related to human rights teachings in China. File largely consists of a typed manuscript by Ronald St. John MacDonald, likely in 1958 or 1959, outlining the previous sixty years of the history of Peking University, includes discussions on the campus and its buildings and a brief account of its founding in 1898. File also contains clippings.

Textbook Commission to Eliminate Anti-Semitic Statements in American Textbooks clippings and correspondence

File contains facsimiles of newspaper clippings related to Kenneth Leslie's "Textbook Commission to Eliminate Anti-Semitic Statements in American Textbooks", collected between 1943 and 1946. File includes facsimiles of articles from The Catholic News, Our Sunday Visitor, American Glass Review, The Portland Scribe, among others. File also includes a "Declaration of Principles of the Textbook Commission to Eliminate Anti-Semitic Statements in American Textbooks" broadside; facsimile of a letter sent by John Edgar Hoover to Ben Richardson (of The Protestant) dated December 27, 1945; facsimile correspondence between Richardson and Arthur Lourie of the American Zionist Emergency Council; a facsimile of a letter from L.M. Birkhead (National Director of Friends of Democracy Inc.) to Mrs. F.H. Gray (regarding The Protestant), a three-page letter by Jules Cohen of the Brooklyn Jewish Community Council on the subject of an "observers report on the 'Protestant' rally of March 21, 1946"; and facsimiles of an anti-Semitic poster from the German American Vocational League and an anti-Semitic advertisement for a Henry Ford publication.

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

File contains a draft of an undated (presumably spring 1943) letter to be sent to American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, written by Kenneth Leslie. The file addresses concerns raised by the Textbook Commission about a "most regretful anti-Semitic foot note" that appeared in the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament that was issued to all "Catholic personnel of the Army". The offending passage, that the Commission requested be removed from all editions, appeared on page 559: "the Jews are the Synagogues of Satan". The First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, had previously been an ardent admirer of Kenneth Leslie's work, giving invaluable endorsements to Leslie on several occasions.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's research materials regarding the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights

File contains records related to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights, Dalhousie University, and Canada's constitution revision. File includes photographs of a group of unidentified individuals and letters between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Paul Martin.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding the European Court of Human Rights

File includes reports, meeting minutes, meeting timetables, handwritten notes, press releases, and other materials related to the subject. File includes Ronald St. John Macdonald's nine short comments on the universal declaration of human rights, records related to the European convention on human rights, and a meeting minute of the London Institute of World Affairs council of June 1983.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding the Council of Europe parliamentary assembly and European Court of Human Rights

File includes Ronald St. John Macdonald's article "protecting human rights in emergency situations: making article 15 work", a Council of Europe committee of experts for the improvement of procedures for the protection of human rights meeting report, and other materials related to the subject.

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".

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights

File contains correspondence with different individuals, including Moffat Hancock, Junos Miklavc, Bernard Adell, Claude Emanuelli, Balfour J. Haley, D.A. Soberman, Richard B. Potter, Gerard J. Wiarda, Antonio LaPergola, Franz Karasek, Herbert Petzold, Janice Paskey, Marc-Andre Eissen, Wolfgang Heinz, Hans Eberhard Wohlfarth, Maggie Nicholson, J. Wolf, George Soros, Alan Stephens, Hans-Peter Furrer, Eva Smith, Franz Matscher, Jutta Brunne, V.S. Vereshchetin, J. Robert S. Pritchard, Luzius Wildhaber, Christine Chinkin, John K. Akpalu, William R. Pace, Adel Omar Sherif, Richard A. Falk, I.I. Lukashuk, Alberto Sanguinetti, Roger S. Clark, J. Callewaert, Rudolf Bernhardt, Rolv Ryssdal, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, and others. File includes meeting minutes, reports, handwritten notes, 19 photographs of Ronald St. John Macdonald with a group of unidentified individuals possibly at the European Court of Human Rights in 1993, one photograph of Ronald St. John Macdonald with Rudolf Bernhardt at the European Court of Human Rights' old deliberation room in 1982, and other materials related to the European Court of Human Rights. File contains a copy of the editor's agreement between Ronald St. John Macdonald and Martinus Nijhoff Publisher regarding the manuscript "the European system for the protection of human rights" and Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov's resume.

Ronald St. John Macdonald's correspondence regarding the Canadian Human Rights Commission

File contains correspondence forwarded to Ronald St. John Macdonald that is related to the subject. File contains a letter from Donald S. Frey to Ronald St. John Macdonald, Includes proposals for the creation of an independent Canadian organization for Human Rights, and other records related to the subject.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s professional records

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his professional activities, including his involvement with different organizations, such as the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the Hague, 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. Series contains meeting agendas, meeting minutes, newsletters, reports, and other records.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s correspondence

Series comprises correspondence regarding Macdonald's professional and academic involvement with institutions including 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. Series also contains correspondence between Ronald St. John Macdonald and individuals including Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, Paul E. Martin, Jean Chrétien, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Wang Tieya, A. Donat Pharand, and others.

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

Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Roscoe Fillmore

Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Roscoe Fillmore

Item is a letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. congratulating Rosco Fillmore for reaching the age of 77 and expressing gratitude for his contributions to a more positive social climate. He also expresses a desire to speak in person about the issue of Black people and military service.

Kenneth Leslie's Protestant Digest and Textbook Commission letter book

File contains Kenneth Leslie's letter book from the early years of The Protestant Digest, and the Textbook Commission to Eliminate Anti-Semitic Statements in American Textbooks, dated 1938 to 1943. File contains full correspondence as well as snippets from Kenneth Leslie's letters, Protestant Digest documentation, favourable testimonials about The Protestant Digest, as well as Leslie's efforts to attract scholars to join the editorial board of The Protestant Digest.

The letter book is divided into the following sections:
- Textbook Commission: with a "general invitation to join the Textbook Commission to Eliminate Anti-Semitic Statements in American Textbooks as well as Leslie's letters to Richard E. Gutstadt, Samuel Radbill, Joseph Barth, E. George Payne, Chas. Feltman, Sol Tekulsky, Brigadier-General Chaplain William R. Arnold, St. Anthony Guild Press, the Confraternity of the Precious Blood, E.E. Wheeler, Louis Broido, and Abraham A. Neuman;

- Released Time: responding to critiques from the Editor of Commonweal, the editor of the Friends of the Public Schools of America, Harriet V. Postman, Simon Certner, Mrs. Yorke Allen, Mark Starr, and James King;

- Anti-Semitism: letters and support to Isaac Rosengarten, Marion B. Sulzberger, Joseph Gorelik, Dr Albert W. Palmer, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Hon. Fiorello LaGuardia, Senator James E. Mead, Margaret Lee Southard, Philip Slomovitz, Rabbi Jerome Unger, and Mrs. Louis L. Browne;

- Social Action and Negro: letters to the editor of the New York Post, John T. McManus, the Women's National Radio Committee, Dr Benjamin E. Mays, Donald West, Hon. Sumner Welles, Patrick Malin, Dr A. Clayton Powell Jr., Donald Young, Robert Searle, Bridget Clark, Mrs Franklin D. [Eleanor] Roosevelt, Sylvia Loomis, Annette Smith Lawrence, Mrs. Julius O. Adler, Harold Rosswell, Philip Murray, Chaim Weizmann, Meyer Weisgal, Samuel McCrea Cavert, Dr Adolf Meyer, Eugene R. Shippen, Attorney General Francis Biddle, and the text of a "statement for the special Negro issue of New Masses, October 1, 1942";

- The Protestant Digest, later The Protestant: with subheadings for Documents, Beginnings -- Motif -- Aim -- Purpose, Epigrams (to Nora Bateson, John L. Lewis, Edward T. Friendly, American League for Peace and Democracy, John Temple Graves II, Walter Winchell, Paul Vincent Carroll, Carl W. Shaver, Dr J.H. Rushbrook, Rev. J.T. Widner, Bishop Ralph A. Ward, Sara Graham Mullhall, Maurice Rosenblatt, Mrs. A. Goshawk, Hon. Henry A. Wallace, Cyrus S. Eaton, and Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst;

- Comments on The Protestant Digest, later The Protestant, Favorable: with comments from Eleanor Roosevelt, The Christian Register, Zions Herald, Social Action Digest, Reinhold Niebuhr, Dr. W.K. Wilson, Mrs. Andrew Gardner, Presbyterian Tribune, Joseph Fort Newton, Upton Sinclair, Edward Holton James, George N. Falconer, Edward T. Friendly, Nora Bateson, O.R. Thome, Miss Ada L. Snell, A.W. Heinle, Clifford J. Laube, I.C. Thorgaard, Ellis Huntington Dana, Hamish Hamilton, H.A. Crossley, Clarence E. Wilson, Carl W. Shaver, Walter C. Leck, Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow, P.L. Howe, Kay Smith, Robert C. Harder, M. Milton Talkin, Arthur Settel, Robert H. Ellis Jr., I.M. Sholkin, Fred Eastman, Florence L. Cox, Rev. Robert H. Eads, Stephen S. Wise, Angie Wynn, John Granberry, Samuel L. Hamilton, Leon Wolf Levy, W. Edgar Gregory, Guy Henson, R. Lloyd Pobst, Don MacDiarmid, D. Arthur Bowman, Harry C. Steinmetz, Lester L. Greenbaum, the New York Post, R.O. Johnson, Maria Halberstadt, Pierre vanPaasen, Louis Adamic, Sam G. Johnson, Laird T. Hites, Frank Mlakar, C. Oumansky, George R. Bryant, Robert Ulich, Mrs. A.B. Cross, Rev. Hurley Begun, Horace T. Houf, Frank D. Graham, Ivy Litvinoff, Rev. Alfred V. Bliss, Peter Kamitchis, Rev. Edward Morris, Gerald M. Meyer, William Bouck, R.. Dundon, Edwin McNeil Poteat, Stanley High, Ione Riggs, Bishop James Cannon Jr., Olive Anderson, Robert Whitaker Edward H. Redman, John A. Lee, John A. MacKay, Walter M. Kraus, Theodore D. Jervey, Neason Jones, Sidney A. Goodman, Mrs. A. Allyn, Marion Neville, Albert F. Gilmore, Richard J. Davis, and Ralph W. Wescott;

- Invitations to join the Board of Editorial Advisors, epigrams: with letters to Albert Einstein, Sherwood Eddy, Bishop Edward L. Parsons, George Bernard Shaw, Rt. Rev. Malcolm E. Peabody, Charles Evans Hughes, Rt. Rev. Benjamin, Ralph Barton Perry, and Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam;

- The Protestant Digest Associates, epigrams: with letters to Martha Gelhorn [sic], Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Helen Lynd, William Jay Schieffelin, Rev. Edward Morris, Ida Pellar, Judge Benjamin Shaleck, and Cyrus Eaton.

Kenneth Leslie fonds

  • MS-2-232
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1975
Fonds consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, sermons, miscellaneous papers, poetry volumes and copies of The Protestant, a journal edited by Kenneth Leslie.

Leslie, Kenneth

Ian McAllister fonds

  • MS-2-769
  • Fonds
  • 1967-2019
Fonds contains records documenting Ian McAllister's work as an economist and professor between 1967 and 2010. Records include research materials and manuscripts about regional and international development and policy, foreign aid, disasters and development, and the role of universities as development contributors.

McAllister, Ian

Human rights for the gay minority — a brief to the government of New Brunswick

Item is a copy of Human Rights for the Gay Minority — A Brief to the Government of New Brunswick, published May 1988. The brief was produced by the New Brunswick Coalition for Human Rights Reform to encourage legal protections for LGBTQ+ persons and was used as a reference for Lesbian and Gay Rights Nova Scotia when producing their own brief.
Final Report: Sunnyville, Lincolnville, and Upper Big Tracadie, Guysborough County, N.S. - A Soci...

Final Report: Sunnyville, Lincolnville, and Upper Big Tracadie, Guysborough County, N.S. - A Socio-Economic Study & Recommendation

File contains the final report, drafted by the Institute of Public Affairs, titled "Sunnyville, Lincolnville, and Upper Big Tracadie, Guysborough County, N.S. - A Socio-Economic Study & Recommendation", and prepared for the Nova Scotia Department of Public Welfe, and ARDA. File also contains related correspondence between Guy Henson and the Hon. James Harding, Minister of Public Welfare.

"Professors Donald Clairmont and William Benallick, of the Departments of Sociology of Saint Mary's and Dalhousie University, respectively, were engaged as study directors on behalf of the Institute of Public Affairs. Four students were employed as "participant- observers" for seven weeks, two being spent in training and five in the communities, during July-September 1964." -- from p. iii.

Democracy as a self-correcting process / L. B. Selllick

Item is an essay written by a Dalhousie MA student with an attached letter of explanation and samples of the formats used in survey groups on topics such as human rights in Canada, the educational system, democracy, and basic adult education needs in Halifax.
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