Contents: material relating to administration and operation of the K-W YWCA, its programs and services, consisting of the files kept by Marilyn Dippell through her term as President. Includes correspondence, ephemera, memoranda, minutes of meetings, ms. notes and document drafts, etc.
Arranged in three series: 1. Board of Directors; 2. President's files: Marilyn Dippell; 3. Publications, Ephemera.
Contents: fonds consists of the correspondence of H. Stanley Smart to his family in Grassie, Ontario, written while he was stationed in England during World War II. Includes letters, airgraph letters, postcards, a telegram, and a roll of honour. The correspondence covers Smart's time in Europe from the first letter after his arrival in England (dated December 20, 1942) to the last letter before he sailed back to Canada (dated December 19, 1945), and describes his daily activities, training, social outings, leaves, health, and general news about the war.
Sans titreThis fonds consists of administrative records, including minutes and treasurer's books (1990-1998), as well as newspaper clipping scrapbooks and photographs reflecting the members, activities, events, conventions and dances organized or particpated in by the Lighthouse Squares square dancing club of Southampton, Ontario, originally known as the Town and Country Swingers Square Dance Club of Port Elgin, Ontario.
Sans titreContents: fonds consists of material collected by members of the Rieder and Anthes families. Material is mainly related to Ella Anthes' travels in Europe, the Rieder family tree, and Talmon Henry Rieder's career and plans for the Westmount area in Berlin/Waterloo. Includes souvenir guide books, postcards, and other ephemera; family trees; a letter and a plan regarding the Westmount suburb; and other material.
Sans titreContents: accrual consists mainly of moving images, sound recordings, and slides relating to Electrohome, especially public relations, sales and marketing, and advertising, as well as some documenting various aspects of the company's facilities, operations, and history. Accrual also includes materials relating to the administration of Electrohome, and in particular financial reports for the company from 1985-2000 as well as some public relations materials from 1979-1984 and annual reports for the years 1997-1999.
The accrual is arranged in the following eight series:
- Administration : Annual Reports
- Administration : Financial Files
- Administration : Public Relations Manager's Files
- Visual : Photographs and Slides
- Visual : Moving Images
- Sound Recordings
- Computer Disks
- Miscellaneous
Contents: eight notebooks used by Tony Urquhart to record daily activities, ideas, etc. They include ms. notes, including trip notes and diary entries, quotes, drawings and sketches (some col.), clippings and ephemera, and photographs. They include drawings by his daughter, Emily Urquhart, as well as renderings of and notes concerning artwork of others and artwork of his own.
Also included in this accession is material relating to Matt Cohen's In Search of Leonardo published in 1985 at the Coach House Press, and for which Tony Urquhart did the illustrations. Included are proof and final versions of the entire work as well as etchings and proof copies of illustrations.
Contents: accrual consists of material relating to the artistic career of Tony Urquhart as well as his personal life. The materials in this accrual are arranged according to the series set out in the original finding aid, with some exceptions.
Sans titreCorrespondence, manuscripts, illustrations, clippings, sketchbooks, and other materials created and accumulated by Virgil Burnett that document his personal and professional life. Includes materials relating to his work with the Pasdeloup Press.
Sans titreContains ca. 640 pieces of correspondence, written to Virgil Burnett from friends, colleagues, business associates, publishers, agents, and others. There are a very few letters and letter copies by Virgil Burnett to others. Also present are clippings, drawings (original on letters and cards, as well as photocopies), ephemera, offprints, copies of short stories, chapters, poems, etc.
Correspondents include Gay Allison, Ross Arthur, Phillippe Asselin, Elizabeth Bailey, Bruce Barber, Anne Baruch, Nancy Boyd, Marta Braun, John Buchanan-Brown, Douglas Campbell, William Chadwick, Jacqueline Chesta, Andree Christensen, Rienzi Crusz, John Culhane, George d'Almeida, Amelia Davies, Michel Devrient, Elsie Diehl, Pamela Dorman, Rikki Ducornet, Donna Dunlap, Timothy Findley, Jeremy Gentilli, Francine Goldenhar, Pat Goodheart, Geogg Hancock, Kim Harrovich[?], Grace Heller, Conrad Hilberry, Peter Hinchcliffe, Daryl Hine, Harold Horwood, Tim Inkster, George Johnston, Sam Kirkpatrick, Stuart Krichevsky, Wendy Kuhn, Beverly Kupersmith, Gwen Layne, Amanda Lewis, Gary Lewis, Marion Lindsay, Jill Littlewood, Charles Maryan, Ariane Masse, Lynne Mayers, Marjorie McColl, Eric McCormack, Jerome McGann, Robin Magowan, Lorenzo Milan, Arthur Morey, Robert Morgan, Karen Mulhallen, Nancy-Lou Patterson, Joe Plaskett, Nicholas Rees, Rob Reid, Martha Roth, Beverly Scanlan, Laurence Shute, Ted Solotaroff, Helen Sovereign, Sally Spector, Isabella Stefanescu, Richard Taddei, Diana Theodores, Jane Urquhart, Tony Urquhart, Jan Whitford (Lucinda Varley Agency), Richard Wilbur, John Wilde Barb Wood, Joe Wyatt, Tim Wynne-Jones.
Publishers and others include Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Fiction Magazine, Descant, Garland Publishing, Harper-Collins, Mercury Press, Mika Publishing, Porcupine's Quill, Prentice Hall, Tsar Publications, Yale University Press.
Material documenting a social and family history spanning almost one century. It revolves primarily around three women: Elizabeth Smith Shortt, and her daughters, Muriel Clarke and Lorraine Shortt. The fonds contains family correspondence, 1880 - 1970, general correspondence 1876-1970, manuscripts, diaries, typescripts, pamphlets, clippings and photographs. Correspondence includes Cecil B. and Senator E.D. Smith, the Smith and Shortt family letters, Adam and Elizabeth Shortt love letters, but primarily correspondence during and after the war period between Elizabeth, her daughters Muriel and Lorraine, until Elizabeth's death in 1949. Letters follow Elizabeth Smith through Queen's University, her role in formation of the Queen's Medical School for women, her concern with local and national councils of women, and a variety of clubs, commissions, and organizations. Correspondents includes Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Dr. Jennie K. Trout, Eliza Fitzgerald, Lady Ishbel Aberdeen. Also present are 15 manuscript diaries kept by E. Smith Shortt covering the period from 1872-1932. Diaries 1892-1911 are memoirs of Shortts' European trips. twenty-three diaries or day books kept by Lorraine Shortt from 1912-1943 are also present. The fonds contains also approximately 50 manuscript addresses, reports and speeches given by Elizabeth Shortt, as well as speeches by Lorraine Shortt. About 100-150 pamphlets and leaflets on a variety of subjects document Elizabeth's interests and activities, especially war period and restoration, National Council of Women, Mother's Allowance Commission, etc. Also present are clippings from 1800-1960, original and photocopied newspaper and magazine clippings and articles arranged under about 50 headings dealing with the Shortt and Smith families, and with a multiplicity of organized groups that formed at the turn of the century. Miscellaneous documents include notebooks of Elizabeth Shortt's subjects at Queen's Medical School, certificates, records of investments, bank records, war medals, autograph books, and scrapbook belonging to the family. Photograph albums and approximately 100 loose photographs of family and friends are included.
Sans titreDeed of bargain and sale on vellum, dated December 12, 1834, details a transaction between Vincent Dewell, and his wife Harriet, with Henry Smith regarding a plot of land in exchange for 50 pounds. The plot of land is identified as the west part of lot 29 on the 8th concession of Hope Township in Durham County, Upper Canada. Two red wax seals appear on the bottom right corner of the deed.
Sans titreCorrespondence, pamphlets, scrapbooks, clippings, etc. concerning Lady Aberdeen and the National Council of Women of Canada's gift to the University of Waterloo Library.
Sans titreTwo items of correspondence from Emily Bax to a Mrs. Milner Wood of Woodman's Point on the St. John's River, dated June 3, 1938 and May 16, 1939. Topics discussed include Emily Bax's book, the World's Fair, the King's speech, and her daily life and plans.
Sans titreThree books written by Robert Forbes. They consist of ledgers dating from 1823 to 1873 and daybooks documenting Fobes' activities as a farmer and merchant dating from 1856 to 1891. Also included are three leaflets with information about postal and farmers’ schedules from the Department of Agriculture, Ontario.
Daybook coverage:
January 1871 – October 1881;
January 1882 – December 1891; and
March 1856 – December 1862.
Ledger coverage:
July 1839 – [1858?];
September 1851 – December 1857; and
September 1823 – 1873.
Three files:
3 pamphlets; Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 1 of 3), 1839 – 1862
Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 2 of 3), 1851 – 1881
Accounts, day books, diaries (volume 3 of 3), 1843 – 1891
Sans titre
One scrapbook assembled by Ethel and Anne Longfellow during their attendance at Smith College, Massachusetts between 1902-1906. The scrapbook contains correspondence, photographs, programmes, clippings, notes and ephemera detailing the academic and social life of the sisters.
Sans titreTwenty-six manuscript letters, several written to Edward Marsh and St. John Ervine concerning a tribute to Thomas Hardy on his 81st birthday. Includes correspondence by Enid Bagnold, Stella Benson, Mary Cholmondely, Lady Gregory, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Margaret Kennedy, Mary St. Ledger Kingsley, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Rose Macaulay, Ethel Mayne, Charlotte Mew, Viola Meynell, Eleanor Mordaunt, Viola Paget, Ldila Ramee (Ouida), Dorothy Richardson, Elizabeth Robins, Elizabeth Russell, Vita Sackville-West, Anne de Selincourt, May Sinclair, Ethel Smyth, Rebecca West, Charlotte Yonge.
Autographs collected by Eugene Ferrin Clark from various British and American actors. Correspondence from Clark to various people soliciting autographs and autographed photographs are included.
Correspondence:
1. Granville Barker also G. Barker’s autograph
2. John Randolph Bolling; November 23, 1921
3. Witter Bynner, New York; December 12, 1921/December 21, 1921
4. W. L. George, New York; October 22, 1920
5. B. Roland Lewis, University of Utah; December 14, 1919/December 19, 1919
6. Joseph Pennell, London/Philadelphia; June 8, 1913/November 16, 1919
7. G. Rollin, Chicago; May 10, 1919
Autographs collected by Clark:
8. George Arlis, Walter Hampden, Victor Herbert, William Hodge, James Hunellar, Oliver Lodge, Nance O’Neil, Eugene O’Neill, A.C. Read, Chauncey Brewster Tinker
Photographs:
9. Floral Tributes on Grave of Actor James O’Neill, 1920 and photographs with autograph signatures of:
- Nazimova, n.d.;
- Henry Irving dated 1894;
- Anton Lang as Jesus dated 1922;
- Anton Lang dated 1922;
- Guido Moyr dated 1922.
One letter dated January 21, 1963 and addressed to "My Dear Jean" from Dion Calthrop Clayton regarding his book. Underneath the body of the letter is a drawing in black ink of a person blowing on a trumpet. There is also a separate, folded leaflet included with the letter titled, "In Memoriam 1881-1937". Inside the leaflet is a black and white profile shot of Calthrop.
Sans titreTypescript play written by Royde-Smith titled "Mafro: A Comedy in Three Acts." The play is dated March 1929 and was apparently unpublished. An inscription on the cover page reads "To W. Graham Robertson from Naomi Royde-Smith."
Sans titreTwo notebooks containing draft manuscript versions of Partridge's work "Shakespeare's Bawdy", published in 1947.
Sans titre