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Fonds · 1922-1961

The collection consists of 4 letters addressed to William Mullis, editor, The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ont. and 1 letter to T.W.D. Farmer, editor, The Hamilton Spectator. The letters are from Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen (1874-1960), Prime Minister of Canada, 1920-1921 and 1926; Vincent Massey (1887-1967), Governor-General of Canada, 1952-1959; John Hylan, Mayor of New York city; and William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook (1879-1964). There is also an autograph by Arthur Meighen.

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Betty M.B. Houghton fonds
Fonds · 1914-1915

The fonds consists of short accounts by soldiers at the hospital of their war-time experiences, as well as poems and addresses. The fonds is contained in two albums.

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Elsie J. Corrigan collection
Fonds · 1951

The collection consists of 3 poems written by Corrigan, a photograph of Mitchinson, Mitchison's letter to Corrigan, and Corrigan's thesis.

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William Burton Hurd fonds
Fonds · 1937-[194-]

The fonds consists of manuscripts and typescripts of articles and also other documents relating to his work on behalf of the Committee on Post-War Reconstruction.

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H. Montgomery Hyde fonds
Fonds · 1971-1974

The fonds consist of materials relating to the Baldwin book: typescript, proof copy, correspondence, notebooks, research materials, reviews, and photographs.

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John Innes Merrylees fonds
Fonds · 1914-1919

Fonds consists of a diary kept by Merrylees from 1914-1918. From 1915-1916 it exists in typescript form only. From January 1917 to November 1917 his diary exists in manuscript and typescript form. Diary entries from March to June 1918 are handwritten on loose sheets. The date that the typescript was created is not known. The fonds also consists of orders issued by the adjutant, Captain Colin Dunean, Queen's Regiment, and Merrylees's correspondence with the adjutant, 1918; maps, predominately of Europe but also one of Gaza; Merrylees's commission certificate, and various printed materials and realia, including his Middlesex regiment insignia.

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Fonds · 1920-1977

Collection consists of correspondence between Millard, William Ready, and Harry Waisglass; an interview by Ready of Millard in August 1975. (audio and transcript), and photographs both of and by Millard. A letter from Millard to Waisglass contains information about the 1946 Stelco strike in Hamilton, Ontario.

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W. L. Morton fonds
Fonds · 1944-1978

There have been two accruals which have been combined. The fonds is arranged into the following series: Correspondence; Published Work; Unpublished Material. The fonds contains various drafts of Morton's major books, manuscripts, editorial work, reviews, articles and lectures, unpublished manuscripts, research files, and material relating to Morton's teaching and conference participation.

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Emily F. Murphy collection
Fonds · 1906-1910

The collection consists of manuscripts of reviews written by Murphy. Each review is written on the blank back pages of review copies of books that Murphy received. There are nine reviews in all. One of the books (Margaret Baillie Saunders's Litany Lane) is only signed by Murphy, and does not have a review inside it. The books have been catalogued for Archives and Research Collections.

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Fonds · 1858-1925, predominant 1858-1916

The collection consists of 23 letters from McGee to John O’Donohoe (1824-1902), a senator. The McGee collection also contains the research materials of J. Alexander Wallace, M.P., who wrote a Master’s thesis on McGee at McMaster University in 1916. The materials include: correspondence, interview notes with John M. McGee, half-brother of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, typed copy of a letter from McGee to A. M. Sullivan, editor, Nation, Dublin, 25 June 1866, and research notes concerning McGee and Whelan.

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Irving Layton collection
Fonds · 1961-1969

The collection consists of a small amount of correspondence with Glenn Sinclair, who was working on a bibliography of Layton, as well as interviews with and broadcasts by Layton which are available on audio cassettes and transcripts.

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Fonds · 1943-1946

Collection of photographs, some with inscriptions in Lithuanian on the reverse, predominately showing soldiers at their barracks. There is one photograph of four nurses. Date range is taken from dated photographs, most are not dated.

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John Edward Macfarlane fonds
Fonds · 1960-1992

The fonds (22-1992) is arranged into the following series: correspondence; administrative files: Canadian University Press, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Weekday (scripts for programme), Maclean's, Weekend Magazine, and Saturday Night, Financial Times of Canada, diaries, C.T.V.; writings, speeches and reports; associations and organizations; Macfarlane, Walter and Ross; personal items including photographs.

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Boyd Neel fonds
Fonds · 1929-1981

The fonds consists of programmes, correspondence, including letters from Arnold Bax, Adrian Boult, Benjamin Britten, Robertson Davies, Laurence Olivier, Peter Pears, Ralph Vaughan Williams, typescripts, page proofs of The Story of an Orchestra (1950), published articles, news clippings,scrapbooks, and photographs.

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Margaret Laurence fonds
Fonds · 1949-1997, predominant 1962-1987

The fonds consists mainly of book manuscripts including The Stone Angel (1964), A Jest of God (1966), Long Drums and Cannons (1966), The Fire Dwellers (1969), A Bird in the House (1970), The Diviners (1974) and Heart of a Stranger (1976). The audio cassette, disc, and reel are of songs from The Diviners. There have been ten accruals. The first is arranged into the following series: manuscripts; reviews, other printed material. The second accrual consists of manuscripts. The third accrual consists of short stories. The fourth accrual consists of a scrapbook and poster. The fifth accrual is arranged into the following series: manuscripts; journals; correspondence, publications, research files. The sixth accrual consists of correspondence. The seventh accrual consists of typescripts of Dance on the Earth. The eighth accrual consists of correspondence and the typescript of a speech. The ninth accrual is a mimeograph ts., “The Christmas Story”. The tenth accrual consists primarily of letters to Lois Wilson, including Laurence's instrucitons concerning her own funeral service and burial.

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Fonds · 1870-1938

The fonds contains the typescript of the Tupper book which has been annotated by Margaret Marshall Saunders as well a typescript of an unpublished work by her, “Poor Phoebe”. There is correspondence relating to the Tupper book, including correspondence between Edward Saunders and Sir Charles Tupper (1821-1915). Tupper was a physician from Nova Scotia who briefly served as Prime Minister of Canada in 1896. There is correspondence gathered as part of the research of the Tupper book, including one undated letter from Sir John A. MacDonald (1815-1891)to Tupper. There is also correspondence to Margaret Marshall Saunders, mainly from the 1930s. The fonds also contains photographs and news clippings. The fonds was supplemented by books owned by Margaret Marshall Saunders. They have been separately catalogued.

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Fonds · 1943-1973

The fonds is roughly organized into the following series: personal documents, appointments calendars, addresses and lectures, overseas visits, correspondence concerning the U.S.W.A. international election of 1973, periodicals containing articles about Sefton.

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H.R. Percy fonds
Fonds · 1931-1994

There have been two accruals. The first (4.5 m) is arranged into the following series: General correspondence; Writers' associations; Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs; Oversize items; Broadsides and miscellaneous runs of magazines; Publishers' catalogues; Literary journals; Religious circular; Military journals; Military manuals. The second accrual (2.19 m) is arranged into the following series: General correspondence; Literary correspondence; Essays, speeches and related correspondence; Novels; Short stories and related correspondence; Other literary works; Personal material; Printed matter.

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Klaus Pringsheim fonds
Fonds · 1912-1972

The fonds is arranged into the following series: correspondence, manuscripts, news clippings and periodicals, compositions, transcriptions of Japanese, Thai, and Cambodian music, photographs, compositions by Alfred Israel Pringsheim. There is a small addendum to the fonds of materials that were not described in the initial finding aid. One of the photographs is of Thomas Mann.

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