Manuscripts

MS-13-86, Box 95, Folder 2
File
1944 - 1987

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains letters concerning the book "The Navaho Door" by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton, a 1945 copy of the New York Times Book Review covering Leighton's book "The Governing of Men," a bundle of abstracts from the American Philosophical Society's AGM in 1952, a bulletin on teaching English to the Navajo, and a proposal for a retirement commemoration conference for Alexander Leighton. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's reports and articles: "Pilot study of cultural items in medical diagnosis," "Mental health in Canada: working toward a better future," "Cornell southwestern program: a summary report on five years 1948-1953," and "Interview with the editor of a small town paper."

Verses by Paul Cram

MS-5-21, Box 6, Folder 14
File
[ca. 1980s]

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains manuscript copies of verses: "Road"; "Traction"; "Blood Bondage"; "O Egypt"; "Somewhere Would be Better"; "Anyway"; and "Dry Eyes," which features musical keys under each word.

Vietnam moratorium : [manuscript]

MS-2-702, Box 20, Folder 29
File
[1970]

Part of Gilbert R. Winham fonds

File includes a short paper written by Gilbert Winham, likely in 1970 when he was working in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, titled "Vietnam Moratorium", related to the anti-Vietnam protests affecting the 1970 congressional elections.

Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

MS-2-171, Box 1-3
Fonds
August 1924 to April 2 1964

Fonds comprises record created or collected by Vincent MacDonald that primarily document his work as a legal scholar and lecturer. Record types include manuscript and printed copies of his writing and lectures about government, the Canadian Constitution, the British North America Act and other topics. There is also correspondence from colleagues, including letters from former Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; newspaper clippings; memorabilia; and photographs.

MacDonald, Vincent Christopher

Vincent MacDonald's review of Changing Legal Perspectives, edited by R. St. J. MacDonald

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 31
Item
1963

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is a lightly edited manuscript copy of MacDonald's review, which is signed from "Halifax Law Courts."

Vincent MacDonald's review of Justice According to the English Common Lawyers, by F.E. Dowrick

MS-2-171, Box 2, Folder 28
Item
1951

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

Item is an edited manuscript copy of a review that was published in The Dalhousie Review.

Vol 1 : queries and hints in 20 vols.

MS-2-726, Box 13, Folder D1
Item
1779-1780

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is the first volume of a journal created by James Dinwiddie while he was in Ireland and Northern Ireland in 1779-1780. This volume contains scientific queries numbered 1-123 with additional notes and observations in the end pages.

Vol. 11 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D9
Item
1790

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 11 James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," containing queries numbered 1896-1972 and headings including manufacturers, metallurgy and mechanics.

Vol. 13 [Queries and HInts]

MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D11
Item
[ca. 1792]

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 13 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," containing queries numbered 2082-2172 and headings including mathematics, engineering and mechanics.

Vol. 16, queries and hints

MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D14
Item
1792-1793

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 16 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 2252-2360 and subject headings including navigation and natural history.

Vol. 17 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D15
Item
1793

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 17 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 2361-2455 and was created when Dinwiddie was in China.

Vol. 18 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 14, Folder D16
Item
1794

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 18 of James Dinwiddie's "Queries and Hints," which contains queries numbered 2457-2508 and was created when Dinwiddie was in China.

Vol. 3 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 13, Folder D3
Item
1782

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 3 of "Queries and Hints," containing queries numbered 428-613, created by James Dinwiddie in 1782 while he was in Dublin.

Vol. 4 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 13, Folder D4
Item
1784

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 4 of "Queries and Hints," containing queries numbered 614-727, created by James Dinwiddie in May 1784 while he was in Waterford, Ireland.

Vol. 5 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 13, Folder D5
Item
1786

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 5 of "Queries and Hints," with queries numbered 728-794, created by James Dinwiddie in November 1786.

Vol. 6 [Queries and Hints]

MS-2-726, Box 13, Folder D6
Item
1787

Part of James Dinwiddie fonds

Item is volume 6 of "Queries and Hints," containing queries numbered 795-1000, created by James Dinwiddie in April 1787 while he was in London.

Waiting for a bus / Andrew Merkel : [manuscript]

MS-2-326, Box 1, Folder 9
Item
[ca. 1947]

Part of Andrew Merkel fonds

Item is a 1000 word article by Andrew Merkel deploring the lack of public transport in Lower Granville and the politics underpinning the problem. The manuscript contains no information about where or whether the article was published.

War brides journal writing group records

MS-2-838, Box 9, Folder 7
File
1995

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains correspondence, contact lists, a press release, and writing exercises.

Water : back to the well : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folders 6 and 7
File
[2014?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

Water : solutions and manifestos : adapted from the book Water by Marq de Villiers / Larry J. Bauman : [script]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 13
File
2001

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a treatment for episode 3 of 3.

Welcome to the Ark Project : [manuscript]

MS-11-13, Box 14, Folder 10, Item 1
Item
[1976]

Part of Ecology Action Centre fonds

Item consists of a facsimile draft manuscript outlining the history of the Solsearch Architects and New Alchemy Institute Ark project in Spry Point, Prince Edward Island, likely written in late 1976, discussing solar energy and food production at the facility.

We'll all be rich soon! (no more gasoline) / by Christopher Heide : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 5, Folder 5
Item
[ca. 1983]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is an undated manuscript draft.

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

What is contemporary philosophy re. Jackson, Grant

MS-2-834, Box 8, Folder 4
File
[1974?]

Part of James Doull fonds

File contains handwritten notes, possibly for a 1974 debate with David Braybrook.

What they wanted : [manuscript]

MS-2-753, Box 13, Folder 21
Item
[2016?]

Part of Donna Morrissey fonds

Item is a partial manuscript, which includes pages 71-165.

What's Brewing at Olands 1867 - 1971 : a story of the Olands of Halifax / G. Brenton Haliburton : correspondence and research notes

MS-4-135, Box 202, Folder 9
File
1993 - 1995

Part of Oland and Son fonds

File consists of correspondence, the draft foreward for the manuscript; historical research about the Oland family.

What's Brewing at Olands 1867 - 1971 : a story of the Olands of Halifax by G. Brenton Haliburton

MS-4-135, Box 202, Folder 8
File
1994

Part of Oland and Son fonds

Item consists of two draft manuscript of what's brewing at Olands 1867 - 1971; written by G. Brenton Haliburton in 1994.

Where Do We Go and How Shall We Get There

MS-2-706, Box 7, Folder 21, Item 2
Item
[1977?]

Part of Donald Higgins fonds

Item consists of a brief publication prepared by Alderperson Barbara Hart (likely in 1977) in association with the Nova Scotia Division Community Planning Association of Canada, relating to public transportation in Halifax and Dartmouth.

Where the dead lay thickest

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 6, Item 1
Item
[192?]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a poem in manuscript form, commemorating the death and burial site of Raddall's father in Amiens, France, in what became known as the Manitoba Cemetery, Caix. The poem is followed by an edited explanatory note and the name Gregory Cook is written in pencil on the margin.

Where the horses run : the story of Sable island, a dune adrift in the Atlantic / by Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle : [manuscript]

MS-2-825, Box 5, Folder 2
File
2003 - 2004

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains a revised, edited manuscript, editorial notes, and correspondence from Jacqueline Johnson, non-fiction editor at Walker Books.

Whimsy for a winter's night

MS-2-202, Box 29, Folder 6, Item 9
Item
1942

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a poem in manuscript form, dated and signed "THR."

Who Goes There? script development and production records

MS-2-838, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1994

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, contact lists, press releases, programs, final report and reviews.

Who's who in the Trojan War : retold for young readers : [manuscript]

MS-2-153, Box 3, Folder 10
File
[ca. 1960s]

Part of Alexander E. Kerr fonds

File contains a manuscript of stories written by Kerr for his grandchildren.

Why do disease germs vary in virulence? / A.P. Reid : [facsimile]

MS-13-33, SF Box 63, Folder 3, Item 35
Item
November 1906

Part of Alexander Peter Reid fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of an article submitted by A.P. Reid to the November 1906 issue of Maritime Medical News (Vol. XVIII, No. 11), titled "Why Do Disease Germs Vary in Virulence?", which was also read at a meeting of the Medical Society of Nova Scotia, held in Lunenburg in early 1906.

Whyte, William Foote

MS-13-86, Box 59, Folder 23
File
1942 - 1982

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about William Foote Whyte. Also contains project and study summaries, Whyte's curriculum vitae, research reports, chapter manuscripts, research proposals, research plan outlines, and papers titled "Toward a new model for social research on health in Latin America" and "Developing the national survey for Peru: notes on planning discussion."

William Greenwood

MS-2-82
Subseries
[ca. 1914]

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

This subseries consists of research notes and the manuscripts. This book was published in Halifax, N.S. in 1914.

William Greenwood by Archibald MacMechan [manuscript]

MS-2-82, Box 18, Folder 11
Item
c1914

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

William Inglis Morse's manuscript, corrected proofs and final page proof of Nordic Trails: A Journey to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Czecho-Slovakia

MS-2-603, SF Box 95, Folders 5-6
File
1927 - 1930

File contains a manuscript, corrected proofs, and final page proof of Nordic Trails: A Journey to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Czecho-Slovakia, by William Inglis Morse, printed privately in 1930.

Morse, William Inglis

Windswept : a documentary / Marq de Villiers : [television scripts]

MS-2-825, Box 4, Folder 10
File
[2004?]

Part of Marq de Villiers fonds

File contains three script treatments, including visuals and narration.

Winning of Popular Government

MS-2-82
Subseries
1901-1915

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

This subseries consists of research notes, correspondence and multiple drafts of the manuscripts. This book was published by Brook in Glasgow, in 1915.

With Sirens Wailing — CBC produced

MS-2-838, Box 14, Folder 1
File
1975 - 1978

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains four drafts copies of The Sound of Sirens, broadcast three times by CBC Radio, the first time as "With Sirens Wailing." File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.

Woman's debt to Dalhousie / Eliza Ritchie

MS-2-82, Box 43, Folder 19
File
1911

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

Women and medical research / Women, illness, and reason conference materials, manuscripts, and correspondence

MS-2-186, Box 15, Folder 2
File
1986-1992

Part of Susan Sherwin fonds

Women and medical research correspondence, manuscript, and referee reviews

MS-2-186, Box 14, Folder 8
File
1989

Part of Susan Sherwin fonds

Woogh, Carolyn M.

MS-13-86, Box 60, Folder 7
File
1989 - 1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Carolyn M. Woogh. Also includes a paper titled "Kingston psychiatric record linkage system."

Work : a segmented perspective / Don Clairmont and Richard Apostle

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 2
File
1984, 1986

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes a signed permissions form and letter from Butterworth & Co. (Canada) regarding the paper's inclusion in K. Lundy and B. Warme, eds., Work in the Canadian Context, second edition.

Work toward a 7th draft