General Manuscripts – By Location
Location
Oversize
1.001
Scott, Sir Walter
(1771-1832)
Author
Place of Creation
Content
A.L.S. to Alexander Balfour, a contemporary
writer of novels and verse. Thanks Balfour
for his praise and hoped that he would have
been able to forward a new copy of a book of
verse. With note explaining the provenance
of the letter.
Date
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Oversize
1.002
?
Last will and testament in Latin. (Mutilated
with severe loss of text.)
1580
[Hungary?]
Oversize
1.003
Uhrfundeind, Ch.
Johann George
Dubel
One certificate on parchment authenticating
the qualifications of a gardener; with the
decorative armorial of Alessandro VII Chigi;
hand water-coloured.
1719
Dresden, [Germany]
Oversize
1.004
Fraser, John
Merchant of
Lower Canada
Series of affidavits relating to the bankruptcy
of John Fraser, merchant, a property holder in
the city of Quebec. Includes documents
pertaining to William Henry Crowder, and
Stephen Newman
1799
London
Oversize
1.005
Sherbrooke Gold
Mining
Association
Declaration of Trust; Articles of Agreement
between the Proprietors and Joint
Stockholders; includes names of stockholders,
number of shares owned by each and the
amount they are to be paid.
1866
New York
Oversize
Arundell,
Indenture for a transfer of lands between
1668 or 1678
England
1
1.006
Richard, Lord
Arundell of Trevise and John Call. With a
transcription in MS.
Oversize
1.007
Grand River
Navigation
Company
Copy of list of subscribers with number of
shares bought and names of directors, Major
Winniett, president; Samuel Street, William
Richardson, Absolum Shade, W. Hamilton
Merritt, and Six Nations of Indians.
1834
Upper Canada
Oversize
1.008
Ratault, Jehanne
Testament de Jehanne Ratault, veuve du feu
Charles de Montmorency, seigneur de
Boucqueval, etc.
1490
France
Oversize
1.009
Dannoy,
Charlotte &
Neufchastel,
Humbert de
Contrat de mariage entre Charlotte Dannoy et
Humbert de Neufchastel, seigneur de Plancy.
Dated: le jeudy xxviii jour de janvier lan de
grace mil cccc soixante et une [o.s. = 1462],
but with a codicil stating that this is a copy
made in 1479 [o.s. = 1480].
1480
France
Oversize
1.0010
McDonald, A.F.
Principal,
Wellesley Public
School
Illuminated testimonial, executed by W.
Revell, in honour of the promotion of
principal A.F. McDonald to the position of
supervisor of education. Signed by the
teachers of the school.
22 Dec. 1891
Wellesley School,
Toronto
2
Oversize
1.0011
Lessore,
Frederick
(1879-
1914
Chalk drawing of James Mavor (1854-1925)
executed during a visit with Mavor in Toronto
in 1914. Mavor gave the drawing to James
Loudon, president of the University of
Toronto, who gave it to his son, Julian, former
head of St Michael’s Hospital. Julian Loudon
gave the picture to his son James, who in turn
passed it on to Mavor Moore, James Mavor’s
grandson. Mavor Moore donated it to the
University of Toronto in September 2001.
Toronto
Oversize
1.0012
Catholic Church
Antiphonal leaf with Gregorian notation on a
five-line staff
16th cent.
[s.l.]
Oversize
1.0013
Photograph of Mavis Gallant.
1983
[Paris?]
Oversize
1.0014
“Thirty days for getting drunk”.
[ca. 1900]
[Toronto?]
1960
Toronto
Oversize
1.0015
Grassick, B.
‘All I want are the facts, man!’
1.004
[s.n.]
Botanical description in MS. of a journey near 1866
the Rideau River.
[Ontario?]
1.005
Acton, Sir John
Emerick, 1st
Baron
A.L.S. to a schoolmaster.
Trinity College,
Cambridge
Ca. 1855
3
(1834-1902)
1.006
Addy, Sidney O.
6 letters to the Rev. W.D. Sweeting.
1881-1882
Sheffield, England
1.007
Aitken, George
A.
A.L.S. to the Very Reverend J.H. Bernard,
Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin.
1906
[London]
1.008
D’Allemagne,
Henry
A.L.S. thanking an unknown correspondent.
In French.
5 Apr. 1930
Paris, France
1.009
Allen, Grant
(1848-1899)
Author
A.L.S. to his father, Joseph Antisell Allen
(1814-1900) introducing the author William
Sharp. On verso is a letter from William
Sharp to Joseph Allen.
[1889]
Dorking, England
Series of letters concerning Mark Andrews’
interest in Bruneau’s article “Shakespeare’s
Law”, McGill Law Review 17 (1971).
Correspondence includes Andrews’ letter to
Bruneau, c/o the McGill Law Review, a reply
from Graham Nevin, editor-in-chief, a draft
letter from Bruneau to Andrews, a
handwritten letter from Bruneau to Andrews
1971-1972
1.010
Andrews, Mark
Edwin; Bruneau,
A. Sydney;
Nevin, Graham.
Montreal, Quebec
Houston, Texas and
Montreal, Quebec
4
and an off print of Bruneau’s 1971 article.
1.011
Arlen, Michael
A.L.S. to an unknown correspondent who had
(1895-1956)
requested a sample of Arlen’s autograph; with
Author of The
a portrait from a newspaper pasted to letter.
Green Hat (1924)
and Hell! Said the
Duchess (1934)
9 June 1930
11 rue Masseran,
Paris
1.012
Armstrong,
Charles W.
A.L.S. to Hubert H. Brown, Toronto,
concerning a scrapbook of articles written by
Armstrong for The Mail, The Globe and The
News. Also a receipt bearing C.W.
Armstrong’s name from the Canadian
Institute dated 1 Oct. 1900.
[Oct.] 1947
2942 West 49th Street,
Vancouver, B.C.
1.013
Arnott, Neil
(1789-1874)
Bedford [England?]
Author, inventor,
natural
philosopher and
physician
A.L.S. to a Mr. Copland (son of Patrick
30 Oct. 1824
Copland, Professor of Natural Philosophy,
Marischal College, Aberdeen) concerning a
book authored by the recipient that Arnott had
recently read; report on some lectures in
natural philosophy about to be delivered by
Arnott.
Arundell, James
Everard, Baron of
Wardour
(1785-1834)
A.L.S. to Sir James Caulfield, Fonthill Abbey
concerning engravings made from portraits in
Arundel’s collection for Additions to
Granger’s Biographical History of England.
Wardour Castle,
England
1.014
23 Nov. 1822
5
1.015
Ashe à Court,
General Charles
(1785-1861)
A.L.S. thanking an unknown person for
hosting his son.
18 May 1832
(?)
London
1.016
Bahr, A.W.
A.L.S. to Dr Charles Trick Currelly of the
Royal Ontario Museum thanking him for
attending a recent exhibition.
15 May 1947
24 Summit Crescent,
Westmount, Montreal
1.017
Baldwin, Martin
Curator, Art
Gallery of
Toronto
Ernest Barker
(1874-1960)
Political scientist
A.L.S. to Dr H.J. Cody, President of the
University of Toronto, providing details of an
upcoming exhibition of children’s art.
25 Apr. 1939
The Art Gallery of
Toronto,
Grange Park
A.N.S. to Mrs. Hunter asking her “to accept
the enclosed.”
[s.d.]
Winchester College,
Winchester
Ca. 1890
[France?]
27 Aug. 1901
Victoria, B.C.
1.018
1.019
1.020
1.021
Becque, Henry
(1837-1899)
A.L.S. to an anonymous correspondent
concerning a conference in which he is
participating and certain articles about to be
French author and published.
dramatist
Begg, Alexander A.L.S. to Arthur H.U. Colquhoun concerning
(1825-1905)
the boundary question [between Canada and
Canadian
Alaska.].
newspaperman,
teacher and office
holder
Belloc, Hilaire
(1870-1953)
Essayist
T.L.S. (with envelope) addressed to R. N.
27 Oct. 1915
Green-Armytage concerning Edwain
Montague, M.P., the Asquiths and India. With
Reform Club,
Pall Mall [London]
6
MS of Green-Armytage written in pencil at
bottom.
1.022
Belloc, Hilaire
(1870-1953)
Essayist
T.L.S. to the Leader Page Editor, New
Chronicle concerning a letter of Belloc’s that
was not published in the paper.
1.023
Belza, Igor
(1904-
Letter to Dr John B.C. Watkins (Canadian
28 June 1956
ambassador to Russia, 1954-1956) concerning
the death of Reinhold Glière; Belza’s new
book, History of Polish Musical Culture and
other publications.
Moscow
Pigeon Cove, Mass.
and New York, N.Y.
Musician
14 Dec. 1933
1.024
Benét, William
Rose
(1886-1950)
Editor and poet
5 letters to Arthur S. Bourinot concerning
poems and a short story submitted to The
Saturday Review.
1949-1950
1.025
Borden, Sir
Robert
(1854-1937)
Prime Minister of
Canada
Letter to Arthur Bourinot thanking him for the 7 Dec. 1929
recently published Ottawa Lyrics and Verses
for Children.
Letter to Arthur Bourinot acknowledging
21 July 1931
receipt of a publication of Bourinot’s Sonnets.
Sherwood, A.P.
Chief
commissioner of
the Dominion
Police
Letter to Arthur Bourinot thanking him for
sending a copy of Bourinot’s Sonnets.
Letter to Arthur Bourinot thanking him for
Reform Club,
Pall Mall [London]
Glensmere, Ottawa
Messines [Quebec]
29 July 1931
Lower Granville, N.S.
7
Betts, Craven
Langstroth
Poet
sending an autographed copy of True Harvest. 19 Jan. 1946
Halifax, N.S.
1.026
Macdonald,
Angus Lewis
(1890-1954)
Premier of Nova
Scotia
Garvin, John W.,
President and
Editor of The
Radisson Society
of Canada
McArthur,
Duncan
Editor, Queen’s
Quarterly
2 letters to Arthur Bourinot (1 undated)
concerning poems to be included in an
anthology about to be released.
Letter to Arthur Bourinot acknowledging
receipt of the manuscript “Sonnets in memory
of my mother”.
Letter to Arthur Bourinot concerning his
poem “Only to rest”.
Letter to Arthur Bourinot concerning his
poem, “Churchill speaks on Parliament Hill.”
17 Apr. 1930
Toronto
27 Nov. 1930
Queen’s Quarterly,
Kingston [Ontario]
5 Sep. 1942
13 Nov. 1942
Queen’s Quarterly,
Kingston [Ontario]
Macphail,
Alexander
The Dalhousie Review,
Halifax, N.S.
Stewart, Herbert
L.
Editor-in-Chief,
Dalhousie Review
8
1.027
Harvey, D. C.
Archivist
1.028
King, William
Lyon Mackenzie
(1874-1950)
Prime Minister of
Canada
1.029
1.030
Masefield, John
(1878-1967)
Author
Noyes, Alfred
2 T.L.S. to Arthur S. Bourinot concerning
scrapbooks connected with his father, Sir
John George Bourinot, and a tablet marking
Bourinot senior’s birthplace.
2 T.L.S. to Arthur Bourinot thanking him for
having sent author’s copies;
Telegram to Bourinot expressing condolences
on Lady Bourinot’s death.
A.L.S. to Arthur Bourinot concerning a poem
Bourinot sent to Masefield.
A.L.S. to Arthur Bourinot concerning letters
from Duncan Campbell Scott.
A.L.S. to Lady Bourinot concerning books he
will send to her son in prison.
A.N.S. to Arthur Bourinot concerning which
books to send.
“Douglas Library Notes” with transcript of
letter from Masefield to Duncan Campbell
Scott.
6 T.L.S. (2 with envelopes) to Arthur
Bourinot concerning poetry; “Deep Down in
Devon”. TS. poem; “Editor’s Note” by
30 Oct. and 7
Dec. 1940
Public Archives,
Halifax, Nova Scotia
24 Dec. 1924
and 20 Jan.
1946;
Laurier House, Ottawa,
and Office of the Prime
Minister, Ottawa
24 July 1930
1 Aug. 1916
Lollindon, Cholsey,
Berks. [England]
[s.d.]
Burcote Brook,
Abingdon [England]
26 Oct. 1917
31 Oct. 1917
Boar’s Hill, Oxford
[England]
[8 Nov. 1905]
April 1956
Boar’s Hill, Oxford
[England]
Jan.-Oct.
1951 and 8
Oct. 1957
[1 Diamond Terrace,
Greenwich, London
S.E.] Queen’s
University, Kingston,
Ontario
Lisle Combe, St.
Lawrence, Ventor, I.W.
[Isle of Wight]
9
A.S.B. TS.
1.031
Parker, Gilbert,
Sir
5 A.L.S. (1 with envelope) to Lady Bourinot
on personal matters and on Wilfrid Laurier.
1902-1916
1.032
Stringer, Arthur
1948-1950
1.033
Thomson, T.E.
11 letters (MS. & TS.) to Arthur Bourinet
concerning a variety of literary matters,
including Stringer’s own publications. With
an offprint of Stringer’s poem “The
Questioner”, from Queen’s Quarterly, v. LVI,
no. 4, 1949.
T.L.S. to Arthur Bourinot confirming his
election as 2nd V.P. and Counsel of the
Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Authors’
Association.
5 Jun. 1944
16 Tweedsmuir Apts,
475 King Edward Ave,
Ottawa.
1.034
Stevenson, Lionel
A.L.S. thanking Arthur Bourinot for sending
his new book of poems, some of which had
already appeared in Saturday Night.
4 Jan. 1946
3971 Sutro Ave,
Los Angeles, Ca.
18 Sep. 1956
3106 Devon Road,
Hope Valley,
Durham, N.C.
1134 Dorchester St.
[Montreal]
T.L.S. requesting that Bourinot forward a
copy of his edition of the Lampman-Thomson
letters.
1.035
Julia [French]
Dadson
A.L.S. to Mrs. Bennett on Bennett’s decision
to leave her church, the meaning of
friendship, good books and authors, Muskoka
and Quebec. (One leaf wanting).
19 Jan. 1898
Paris, New York,
Winnipeg, Surrey, and
London
Mountain Lakes,
New Jersey
Two letters to Mrs. Bennett on family matters.
10
Thomas Dadson
14 Jan. 1904
and
20 Jan. 1905
16 Mar. 1930
McMaster University,
Toronto
London
1.036
Bennett, Arnold
(1867-1931)
Author
A review in MS. of Italo Svevo’s Confessions
of Zeno.
1.037
Bennett, Arnold
(1867-1931)
Author
Bennett, Josiah Q.
Bibliographer,
rare book seller
T.L.S. of thanks to John Lane, and rejecting
any articles about him in his own home.
7 Nov. 1916
Comarques, Thorpe-leSoken [Essex, England]
T.L.S. to William Leslie Shelden concerning
the provenance of Mr Shelden’s copy of
Stevenson’s Father Damien.
16 Aug. 1957
The Scribner Book
Store,
New York, N.Y.
Berkeley, George
(1753-1818)
Senior naval
officer
De Bernard,
Charles [CharlesBernard Dugrail
de La Villette]
(1804-1850)
A.L.S. to John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806),
in Devon, describing the King’s newly
formed cabinet.
4 Feb. 1805
London
A.L.S. to Charles Gosselin concerning certain
articles and books currently being written or
printed.
29 Nov.
1833(?)
[s.l.]
Binyon, Cicely
Margaret
(1879-1961)
Translator,
compiler and
author
Letter to “Sophy”, forwarding “The Leaves”.
1 June [s.a.]
Westridge Farm House,
Streatley [England]
1.038
1.039
1.040
1.041
11
1.042
Birchall, T.W.
Managing
Director of the
British American
Assurance Office,
Toronto
Letter to W.H. Wrighton, Peterborough,
concerning the company’s ability to insure
Mr. Ryan’s tannery and home; asking Mr.
Wrighton whether he might be interested in
acting as company agent in the Colborne
District of the company should establish itself
there.
20 Sep. 1843
British American
Assurance Office,
Toronto
1.043
Blackwood,
Margaret
Letter to “Fred” conveying to him two “rare
and valuable books originally purchased in
England by the author’s uncle, James Charles
Grant.
30 Sep. 1895
Montreal
1.044
Blades, William
(1824-1890)
Printer and
bibliographer
Blake, Charles
(1746-1810)
Army officer,
surgeon,
apothecary
Letter to W.H. Allnutt concerning two leaves
printed by Caxton from the Confessio
Amantis. A postscript is added by Allnutt.
25 Oct. 1880
London
Letter to [James] Davidson, surgeon at
Quebec City, concerning the injection of
medicine into the bloodstream and the
licensing of
physicians.
4 Jan 1786/87
Montreal
1.046
Bland, R[obert]
Henderson
Actor
Letter to Mrs. Patrick Campbell [Beatrice
Stella Campbell?] asking her to accept the
copy of his new book [Moods and Memories]
which he dedicated to her.
13 July 1907
Green Room Club,
46, Leicester Square
[London].
1.047
Blumer, George
Alder
(1857-1940)
Letter to Prof. A.D. Mead congratulating him
on the anniversary of his move to Swanton;
forwarding a copy of Horrebow’s Natural
15 Apr. 1914
Butler Hospital,
[Providence, R.I.]
1.045
12
Doctor and
medical
superintendent of
Utica State
Hospital (N.Y.)
and the Butler
Hospital for the
Insane,
Providence, R.I.
History [1758]; and congratulating him on the
completion of the new laboratories.
1.048
Bohn, Elizabeth
1.049
The Boyd Family
1.050
Boys, Sir Charles
Vernon
(1855-1944)
Physicist and
inventor
Henderson, Anna
M.
3 letters and a postcard to Prof. John Satterly
concerning mathematics, the capillary
barometer, and other matters of physics.
1936-1943
St Marybourne,
Andover [England]
Letter to William S. Braithwaite asking him
to review a sonnet she had printed in the
Boston Transcript. With clipping attached.
22 May 1918
Ottawa
Cloak, J.E.
Letter to William S. Braithwaite asking for
assistance in the publication of a book of
poetry reflecting the “Back to Africa
Movement”.
21 May 1922
Winnipeg, Manitoba
1.051
Letter to Miss Wylie instructing her on the
19 Mar. 1858
proper procedure for establishing a home
aquarium.
Collection of letters and minutes of meetings
1925-1947
held by the family, principally with regard to
Good Cheer Island and Georgian Bay matters.
45 Essex Street
[London?]
Toronto
13
Braithwaite,
William S.
(1878-1962),
Poet and the
editor of the
annual Anthology
of Magazine
Verse
Greene, B.M.
1.051
29 May 1922
[s.l.]
16 Sep. 1922
International Press
Ltd., Toronto
1925
Westmount, Quebec
21 Oct. 1925
The Radisson Society,
Toronto
24 Oct. 1925
[Boston]
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Reply to J.E. Cloak (above).
Letter to William S. Braithwaite concerning
Mr. Macdonald’s poetic works and
forwarding a photograph.
Bowman, Louise
Morey
Advertisement brochure for a new work of
poetry sent to MacMillan Publishers, Bond
Street, Toronto.
Garvin, John W.
President and
Editor of The
Radisson Society
of Canada
Letter to Messrs. B.J. Brimmer Company,
Boston requesting copyright permission to
include poems by Cecilia MacKinnon in the
new Canadian poets anthology.
B.J. Brimmer
Company
Reply to Garvin agreeing to the inclusion of
MacKinnon’s poetry.
MacDonald,
Wilson (18801967)
Canadian poet
Note to William S. Braithwaite attached to a
typed list of the Toronto members of the
Poetry Society of Canada.
14
and patriot
1.051
1.052
1.053
Fillery, William
Edmund
Letter to William S. Braithwaite
acknowledging receipt of Braithwaite’s
Anthology and Year Book for 1926; enquiring
about criteria for inclusion in the poetry
anthology; and reviewing his recent activities.
Lynn, Ross
Letter to Brimmer Publishers concerning his
play Scandal versus humor.
B.J. Brimmer
Company
Letter to Ross Lynn acknowledging receipt of
his play Scandal versus humor.
28 Feb. 1927
Winnipeg, Manitoba
14 Nov. 1927
Gunn’s,
12 Sheppard Street,
Toronto
22 Nov. 1927.
[Boston]
3 Feb. 1928
Gunn’s,
12 Sheppard Street,
Toronto
3 Mar. 1928
Gunn’s,
355 Adelaide St. W.,
Toronto
8 Mar. 1928
[Boston]
Lynn, Ross
Letter to Brimmer Publishers concerning his
play Scandal versus humor.
Lynn, Ross
Letter to Brimmer Publishers concerning his
play Scandal versus humor.
B.J. Brimmer
Company
Rejection notice to Ross Lynn concerning his
play Scandal versus humor.
Brewster,
Elizabeth
(1922-)
Canadian poet
Brookes, Rev.
Letter to “Michael” returning books and
discussing plans to return east to work with
the Canada Council in Ottawa.
18 Mar. 1971
Edmonton, Alberta
Letter to an unnamed recipient advising that
13 Nov. 1935
Oxfordshire
15
C.C.
1.054
1.055
Hon. General
Secretary of the
Oxfordshire
Archaeological
Society
Brooks, Shirley
(1816-1874)
Journalist, editor
of Punch
Brown, D.
he has written to the Provost of Eton and
enclosing a pamphlet about a cope and its
embroidery.
Letter acknowledging receipt of a reply from
the Provost and commenting on the cope in
the possession of the church at Steeple Aston.
Letter to Sotheby’s concerning a book by
Matthew Arnold that was presented to G.
Ward-Hunt, Disraeli’s Chancellor of the
Exchequer.
1 May [s.a.]
Brailsford Rectory,
Derby [England]
1925-1927
Various
2 May 1909
Ca. Torresella,
Venice
Series of 13 letters to Harcourt Brown,
Professor of Bibliography, Brown University.
1.057
Brown, Horatio
Robert Forbes
(1854-1926)
Author
2 letters to W.C. McBain. The first concerns
some pirated pamphlets originally written by
J.A. Symonds on homosexuality in ancient
Greece and modern England; the second
concerns a book on which Symonds and
Havelock Ellis combined.
1.059
Burn, William
Middle Aston, Steeple
Aston [England]
6, Kent Terrace,
Regent’s Park,
[London]
14 July 1868
Brown, Edward
K.
Brown, Samuel
15 Nov. 1935
Letter to Horace Mayhew (sub-editor of
Punch) congratulating him on his upcoming
marriage.
1.056
1.058
Archaeological
Society, Middle Aston,
Steeple Aston
[England]
Letter to “Russell” discussing a recent illness
and chastising the recipient for shoddy
writing.
Letter to his sister, Margaret Wilson of
10 Jan. 1915
1 May 1856
The New Club,
Edinburgh
Naddu [?], [Britain?]
14 Sep. 1853
Belize, Honduras
16
Whitby, on family and business matters.
Newspaper clipping providing provenance
information on Margaret Wilson.
30 Sep. 1967
Oshawa Times
1.060
Burrows, E.A.
Letter to his uncle concerning a book he has
just sent him on “purposive matter”.
1.061
Butler, Fanny
(née Kemble)
(1809-1893)
Actress and
abolitionist
A.L.S. to Richard James Lane (1800-1872)
[s.d.]
acknowledging receipt of the gift of a drawing
by Lane. 4 p.
[s.l.]
1.062
Caine, Hall
(1853-1931)
Manx author
Letter to Foster Brown explaining his anxious
behaviour and discussing a new copyright bill
that, in part, legislates the control of authors.
27 May 1895
Ottawa
1.063
Cameron, Irving
Howard
Letter to Maurice Hutton, Principal of
University College, soliciting the translation
of some prose [from Latin?]. The translation
appears on the verso.
13 Jun. 1929
291 Sherbourne St,
Toronto
1.064
Cameron, John
Home
MS. transcription of a letter from Samuel de
Champlain to Cardinal Richelieu, 18 Aug.
1634. Copied at the Archives du Ministère
des Affaires Étrangères.
16-17 Apr.
1928
Paris
Head of the
French
Department,
University
College (19161927)
19 Dec. 1920
London
17
1.065
Campbell,
Archibald
Letter to Charles Baillairgé concerning the
death of General Montgomery at Quebec, and
an error concerning that event on a recently
erected historical plaque.
21 Mar. 1893
Literary and Historical
Society,
Quebec City
1.066
Campbell,
William Wilfred
(1858-1918)
Letter to Rufus Hathaway expressing concern
that his literary works have been ignored in
The Canadian Magazine. Provides list of his
recent works.
29 Mar. 1910
24 Lisgar Street,
Ottawa, Ont.
Canadian
archivist,
clergyman, poet
and author
Letter to Rufus Hathaway expressing the
same concerns.
6 Apr. 1910
24 Lisgar Street,
Ottawa, Ont.
1.067
Canziani, Estella
(1887-1964)
Artist
Letter to “Kitty” forwarding a book.
19 Oct. 1923
3 Palace Green,
Kensington [London]
1.068
Carman, Bliss
(1861-1929)
Letter of thanks to his sister for her Christmas
present; reviewing his Christmas activities;
detailing his examinations.
7 Jan. 1880
University of New
Brunswick, Fredericton
Letter to Herbert S. Stone (publisher)
concerning Barry’s article on Keats;
publications in the Chap Book; a story by
Julie Lippmann.
31 Jul. 1894
125 Indiana Ave.,
Washington, D.C.
1.069
Canadian poet
Carman, Bliss
(1861-1929)
Canadian poet
1.070
Carman, Bliss
(1861-1929)
Letter concerning the establishment of a small 11 Sep. 1905
free library at Haines Fall for which Carman
would like some books forwarded
Twilight Park,
Haines Falls, N.Y.
18
Canadian poet
immediately, including several of his own
titles.
Letter to Mr Hathaway asking for the address
of a mutual poet friend.
4 (?) Jul.
1913
New Canaan, Ct.
Letter to an unidentified person (“Angel”)
welcoming him/her to town.
19 Apr. 1920
The Hotel Maryland,
Pasadena, California
Letter to “angel child” asking for a
forwarding address.
29 Apr. 1920
1.071
Carmody,
William Patrick.
The Hotel Maryland,
Pasadena, California
[Downpatrick, Ireland]
Letter to J.H. Bernard, forwarding a book on
Swift and other matters of Swiftiana.
21 Nov. 1925
Letter to Dr H.J. Cody concerning his
“character building course”, accompanied by
2 pamphlets.
10 Feb, 1933
67 Yonge St,
Toronto
Letter to Prof. George M. Wrong concerning
research on the Capuchins and Recollets in
Acadia
14 Jan. 1897
Hotel Binda,
Paris
Dean of
Downpatrick
1.072
Carter, J. Smyth
Manager, Life
Portrayal Series
Publishers
1.073
Casgrain, Henri
Raymond
19
1.074
1.075
1.076
1.077
1.078
Letter to Prof. Wrong providing information
from his own writings to assist Wrong in
writing a critique of Parkman.
4 Oct. 1897
Letter of thanks to Miss Russell.
22 Sep. 1832
[Edinburgh?]
Presbyterian
minister and
theologian
Chamberlain,
Montague
(1844-1924)
Letter to John Neilson on the establishment of
an ornithological journal and thanking
Neilson for his offer of assistance.
6 Dec. 1883
Saint John, N.B.
Ornithologist and
anthropologist
Letter to John Neilson concerning nonbreeding warblers.
20 Mar. 1886
Saint John, N.B.
Chapman, Guy
(1889-1972)
Letter to Pollock concerning a delay in the
delivery of a book in which he has written an
inscription.
11 Mar. 1933
Letter to Sophie Grusse thanking her for
giving a relic to his institution.
1 Mar. 1825
139 New Abercorn
Flats,
Abercorn Place
[London]
Paris
Letter to W.H. Wrighton, Deputy Clerk of the
Crown and Pleas, for the United Counties of
Peterborough and Victoria concerning his
10 Sep. 1853
Quebec [City]
Chalmers,
Thomas
(1780-1847)
Soldier and poet
Chateaubriand,
Francois Auguste
Rene, Vicomte de
(1766-1848)
Chaveau, Pierre
J.O.
78 rue de la
Chevretiere,
Quebec City
20
1.079
1.080
1.081
1.082
1.083
1.084
Provincial
Secretary
Chetlain,
Augustus
(1824-1914)
Union soldier,
director of
Chicago Stock
Exchange and
author
Church, Richard
Cladel, Leon A.
(1834-1892)
delinquent financial accounts and threatening
his dismissal.
Letter to Mrs J.W. Scott discussing The Red
Badge of Courage and family matters.
2 Jan. 1897
Letter to Mr Purves on the publishing industry 28 Sep. 1941
and current popular taste and on some
contemporary poets.
Letter of thanks to Mr Ollendorff.
28 May 1880
French novelist
Wilcocks, John
Baron, G.
Roberts, William
Testamur (the certificate students receive at
10 Sep. 1743
their graduation indicating successful
completion of a course of studies) in favour of
Charles Clapp, to the Bishop of Exeter,
Nicholas Clagget.
Clark, Leonard
Letter of thanks to Prof. Norman Endicott
12 Oct. 1960
upon receipt of the University of Toronto
Bibliographer and Quarterly, containing Endicott’s article on
biographer of W. Walter de la Mare.
de la Mare
Clark, Leonard
Letter to John Hayward, C.B.E.,
6 Nov. 1953
40 St James Place,
Chicago
The Oast House,
Curtisden Green,
Goudhurst, Kent
[England]
Sevres [France]
[Devonshire?]
50 Cholmeley Cres.,
Highgate, London
6 Ashwood Villas,
21
1.085
1.086
1.087
Bibliographer and
biographer of W.
de la Mare
Cockerell,
Sydney C.
(1867-1972)
Colenso, John
William
Bishop of Natal
Collier, John
accompanying a copy of “English Morning”.
Headingley, Leeds
[England]
A.L.S. to [Chester?] Beatty, discussing
Cockerell’s return of some manuscripts and
notes and referring to an election of the
Roxburghe Club.
A.L.S. to Mrs. ? declining an invitation and
inviting “Mr Scott” to lunch.
27 March
1921
3 Shaftesbury Road,
Cambridge [England]
24 June 1863
28 Sussex Place,
Kensington [London]
A.L.S. to Mr Marsh, accompanying a “little
edition of John Aubrey”.
Letters to Mme. de Charrière
(photocopies).
Microfilm duplicates 383.
1 June 1931
Ashmansworth
[England]
[Lausanne,
Switzerland]
2.001
Constant de
Rebecque, Henri
Benjamin
[1787]
2.002
Constant de
Rebecque, Henri
Benjamin
Letters to Mme. de Charrière (photocopies)
Microfilm duplicates 383
1787-1790
[Lausanne,
Switzerland]
2.003
Constant de
Rebecque, Henri
Benjamin
Letters to Mme. de Charrière (photocopies).
Microfilm duplicates 383.
1791-1794
[Lausanne,
Switzerland]
2.004
Palliser, Capt.
John
1817-1887
Explorer
Reports by Capt. John Palliser regarding the
British North American Exploring Expedition
with letters from the Colonial Office and
Hudson’s Bay Company (copies).
1857-1858
Downing Street
[London];
Fort Pembina, Hudson
Bay’s Co. Territories;
Hudson’s Bay House;
Montreal, Canada East
22
2.005
?
Correspondence and notes concerning the
Joint Catalogue of Periodicals and Serials in
the libraries of the City of Toronto.
1947-1951
Toronto
2.006
Coulton, George
Gordon
(1858-1947)
Historian
A.L.S. to Thompson concerning Pierre
Bachoire’s Reductorium.
19 Jan. 1914
Great Shelford,
Cambridge [England?]
2.007
Cowan, Hugh
Managing editor,
Algonquin
Historical Society
of Canada
A.L.S. to Dr. Cody concerning the book
Canadian Achievement in the Province of
Ontario.
9 Oct. 1929
82 Gothic Avenue,
Toronto
2.008
Craik, Henry
A.L.S. to J.H. Bernard, Dean of St Patrick’s,
Dublin (with envelope) thanking him for
referring to Craik’s book and agreeing with
Bernard’s estimation of Jonathan Swift’s
attitudes towards religion, but expressing
disbelief in Swift’s professed sexual
impotence.
6 Mar. 1911
5A, Dean’s Yard,
Westminister [London,
England]
2.009
Crawford, Mrs J.
[Maude Moore]
Cruikshank.
Marion A.
2 A.L.S. to Thomas Conant, Oshawa,
concerning her volume of poetry.
A.L.S. (with envelope) to Percy Robinson,
Rothesay School for Boys, Rothesay, N.B.,
inviting him to visit.
6 and 26 Dec.
1893
15 Feb.
[1898]
Bowmanville [Ontario]
2.010
80 Sydney St., St
Stevens (?), N.B.
23
T.L.S. (with envelope) to Mr F.(?) Avison,
Toronto, concerning “spelling-punctuation”.
16 Apr. 1950
4 Patchin Place, New
York City
A.L.S. to Fru Lehns-Baronesse.
A.L.S. concerning payment for bottles of cod
liver oil.
“9-1-15”
[9 Jan.??15]
26 June
[18??]
Saxkjóbing
[Denmark?]
Down, Bromley, Kent
[England]
Darwin, Charles
(1809-1882)
Author and
naturalist
[Darwin, Francis]
“FD”
A.L.S. concerning an account of silk worms.
2 May 1873
[s.l.]
Holograph postcard to Sister Mary Gabriel, St
Andrews Home, Folkestone.
21 Nov.
[18]87
Cambridge [England]
2.016
Davies, William
H.
A.L.S. denying permission to use a poem
published by Mr. Fyfield.
2 Apr. 1912
45 London Road,
Sevenoaks [England]
2.017
Deane, Ruthven
President, Illinois
Audubon Society
Debussy, Claude
(1862-1918)
Composer
T.L.S. to George White, Ottawa, concerning
information on Snowy Owls
15 Feb. 1902
504 No. State St.,
Chicago, Illinois
A.L.S. to Mme Fuchs thanking her for
recommending him as an accompanist for the
“Concordia” choral society.
[before 1884]
[s.l.]
De la Fosse,
Frederick
A.L.S. concerning a poem for his book
English Blood;
19 Feb. 1931
Public Library,
Peterborough, Ontario
2.011
2.012
2.013
2.014
2.015
2.018
2.019
e.e. (Edward
Estlin) cummings
(1894-1962)
Poet and artist
Dansk
Kvindesamfunds
Darwin, Charles
(1809-1882)
Author and
naturalist
24
Librarian and
Sec.-Treasurer,
Peterborough
Public Library
TS., poem, signed.
2.020
De la Mare,
Walter
(1873-1956)
A.L.S. to M Pettitt (?) concerning “The
Riddle” and of ??
30 June 1924
14 Thornsett Road,
Anerly, S.E. 20
2.021
De la Mare,
Walter
(1873-1956)
Author
De la Mare,
Walter
(1873-1956)
Author
Delamere, T.D.
A.L.S. (with envelope) to B.M. Corrigan,
Toronto, concerning Brougham’s translation
of Voltaire.
24 Aug. 1935
Hill House, Taplow,
Buckinghamshire
[England]
A.L.S. to Dr Frank Morley, Baltimore,
declining an invitation.
23 Oct. 1924
[s.l.]
A.L.S. (with envelope) to the Hon. Edward
Blake, QC, concerning church vestries as
corporate bodies.
19 Oct. 1883
2.024
Demidoff,
Anatole
A.L.S. to Madame (?) expressing
condolences.
12 Sept. 1835
Delamere, Black,
Reesor & Keefer,
Barristers, Solicitors,
17 Toronto St
[Toronto]
[s.l.]
2.025
Denison, George
T.
A.L.S. to W.S. Wallace thanking him for
sending a copy of the article on the growth of
Canadian national feeling.
6 July 1920
Heydon Villa, Toronto
2.026
Despars, M.
A.L.S. to M. Seguy concerning Jean-Baptiste
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
2.022
2.023
25
Rousseau
2.027
Destrée, Joseph
A.L.S. to (?) concerning books and
manuscripts (?).
23 Dec. 1930
Brussels
2.028
Dewick, Edward
Samuel
Two A.L.S. to Mr Cockerell concerning an
edition of Robert de Linds Psalter;
enclosing a scholarly paper and discussing
Sir George F. Warner’s retirement from the
British Museum.
26 Dec. 1905
1 Sea View Hope
Road, Shanklin, I.W.
[Isle of Wight]
27 Jan. 1911
26 Oxford Square,
Hyde Park [London]
Devonshire Terrace
[London?]
2.029
Dickens, Charles
(1812-1870)
Novelist
A.L.S. to T. Phillips (house agent?)
concerning inventories.
25 May 1844
2.030
Dickens, Charles
(1812-1870)
Novelist
Dickens, Charles
(1812-1870)
Novelist
Dobbs, W.
Evelyn
Doughty, Oswald
A.L.S. to William Phillips concerning
Dickens’s house in Devonshire Terrace.
13 Aug. 1847
Broadstairs, Kent
[England]
Envelope addressed to Marcus Stone, London
Verso with monogram “C.D.”
15 Feb. 1865
Rochester [England]
A.L.S. to P. Byrne concerning Kottabos.
5 June 1947
A.L.S. concerning the author’s current move;
details concerning the publication of the
second volume of English Lyric in The Age of
Reason; Forgotten Lyrics of the Eighteenth
Century. Comments on the addressee’s
ongoing work on a biography of William
Collins.
August [s.a.]
Viewmount,
Garston [Ireland?]
16 Parliament Hill
Mansions,
Lissenden Gardens,
Highgate, London.
2.031
2.032
2.033
26
2.034
Duncombe,
Thomas Slingsby
M.P. for Finsbury
A.N.S. to Mr. Wilson declining a dinner
invitation;
Pasted on verso is a MS. note to Mr. Noble,
Hull.
With an engraving of Duncombe by D.J.
Pound from a photograph by Mayall.
15 Aug. 1835
13 Arlington St
[London]
27 Feb. 1838
London
2.035
Duvernois, Henri
(1875-1937)
Author
“A quatre épingles = Le chapeau”. 2 p.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
2.036
Eaton, C.O.
A.L.S. to Butler thanking him for his
hospitality and enclosing Eaton’s book about
Waterloo.
13 Nov. 1893
Tolethorpe Hall,
Stamford [England]
2.037
Egbert, Donald
Drew
Architectural
historian
A.L.S. to Sir Sydney enclosing a
1£ contribution to the Friends of the
Fitzwilliam Museum and enclosing a reprint
of an article on the “Greenfield” Apocalypse.
18 Dec. 1936
2.038
Einstein, Albert
(1879-1955)
Physicist
T.L.S. to Dr. Ludwig Silberstein declining an 15 Aug. 1935
invitation to visit Toronto and commenting on
Silberstein’s remarks that Einstein’s paper
with Rosen only hints at a theory of matter. In
German.
With English translation.
McCormick Hall,
Department of Art and
Archaeology. Princeton
University, Princeton,
New Jersey
Old Lyme, Conn.
2.039
Einstein, Albert
(1879-1955)
Physicist
T.L.S. to Prof. Jacques [Salomon] Hadamard, [ca. 1945]
mathematician, New York, granting
permission to publish one of Einstein’s letters.
[s.l.]
27
2.040
Ellis, Henry
A.L.S. to Rev. Dr. Oliver thanking him and
sending material on the history of Exeter
Palace.
19 Sept. 1845
79 Great Russell Street
[London]
2.041
Elson, John
Melbourne
National
Treasurer,
Canadian
Authors’
Association
A.L.S. to Mr. [Percy] Ghent concerning
Canadian literature.
6 Oct. 1927
Canadian Authors’
Association, 232
Simcoe Hall,
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
2.042
Waldie, J. Kemp
et al.
Correspondence with Prof. Norman J.
Mar.-April
Endicott, Dept. of English, University
1942
College, University of Toronto, concerning
the books to be exhibited at the Canadian Arts
and Crafts exhibition.
Various, including
Montreal, Toronto, and
Fort Erie
2.043
Estang, Luc
(b. 1911)
Author
Faine, Jules
Philologist and
lexicographer
A.L.S. (with part of envelope) to Louis
Piechaud arranging a meeting.
27 July 1943
29 rue de l’Université
[Paris?]
A.L.S. to J. de la Roncière, Bibliothèque
Nationale, Paris, concerning Faine’s book Le
créole dans l’univers.
12 May 1939
P.B. 62, Port-au-Prince,
Haiti
Ellis, Havelock
(1859Physician and
author
2 A.L.S. (with envelopes) to Barker Fairley
praising Fairley’s MS. and book on Goethe.
21 June 1931
5 Mar. 1932
24 Holmdene Avenue,
Herne Hill, London
S.E. 24
3.001
3.002
28
3.003
Fairley, Barker
(1887-1986)
Canadian artist
and author
See also Grove,
Frederick Philip
A.L.S. (draft) to Havelock Ellis concerning
Fairley’s book on Goethe.
6 July 1931
University of Toronto
Faculty Union
[Toronto]
3.004
Mann, Thomas
(1875-1955)
Novelist
A.L.S. (with envelope) to Barker Fairley
concerning Fairley’s book A Study of Goethe.
7 p. In German. With typed transcription.
1 Dec. 1947
1550 San Remo Drive,
Pacific Palisades,
California
3.005
Fairley, Barker
(1887-1986)
Canadian artist
and author
See also Grove,
Frederick Philip
T.L.S. (draft) to Thomas Mann concerning
Mann’s Lotte in Weimar and Fairley’s book
on Goethe.
26 Dec. 1947
University of Toronto
[Toronto]
3.007
Falardeau,
A.L.S. (encapsulated) to [Leger Brousseau]
Antoine Sébastien concerning his fond memories of Quebec
10 July 1862
Quebec
3.008
Fassler, A.
A.L.S. to Goldwin Smith enclosing a copy of
Fassler’s book and asking Smith to review it
in the New York Sun.
19 Jan. 1908
Pelham, N.Y.
3.009
Falconer, Sir
Robert
A.L.S. to Prof. C.R. Fay concerning the
situation in Japan and the attitude of
Canadians towards Britain.
19 Dec. 1933
81 Glengowan Road,
Toronto 12
3.010
Stickforth, John
T.L.S. to Barker Fairley, thanking him for
forwarding the typescript Thomas Mann
2 Apr. 1937
Thomas Mann Archiv,
Frankfurt am Main.
29
materials, and expressing the hope to have the
originals one day. With envelope.
3.011
Ferguson, John
A.L.S. to an unnamed cousin describing work
opportunities and wages in New York State.
8 May 1836
Lockport, New York
3.012
Finch, Robert
T.L.S. and A.L.S. to Norman J. Endicott
concerning copies of Acis in Oxford sent to
friends;
A.L.S. to “Richard” with a map from Endicott
giving directions to Endicott’s apartment in
Lone di Amalfi, Italy.
29 Feb. 1960,
29 May 1960
and
28 Mar. 1979
3.013
Fisher, John D.
A.L.S. to Thomas Sergeant concerning Dr.
Howe’s establishment of an Institution for the
Education of the Blind
30 March
1844
Le Prieuré,
Blancheface, par StChéron, Seine-et-OiseFrance
Massey College in the
University of Toronto
[Toronto]
Boston, the States
3.014
Fleming, Sir
Sandford
2 A.L.S. (copies) to Ralph Jones concerning
the construction of a harbour and a branch of
the Intercolonial Railway at Feather Point,
Lower St. Lawrence.
26 Mar. 1872
and
9 May 1873
Intercolonial Railway,
Office of the Chief
Engineer, Ottawa
3.015
Flavelle, Sir
Joseph
T.L.S. to Prof. C.R. Fay concerning the state
of the railways in Canada.
22 Dec. 1931
25 King Street West.
Toronto 2, Canada
3.016
Fletcher, James
Entomologist and
botanist
2 A.L.S. to George R. White concerning
various species of birds including Laplands
and shorelarks
2 and 21 May
1890
3.017
Ford, D.B.O.
A.L.S. to Sir William Buell Richards
20 Dec. 1851
Department of
Agriculture, Central
Experimental Farm,
Ottawa
Brockville [Ontario]
30
concerning Richards’ possible authorship of
an article.
3.018
3.019
3.020
3.021
3.022
Balfour, Arthur
James, 1st Earl of
(1848-1930)
Signer of Treaty
of Versailles for
Britain
Borden, Sir
Robert
(1854-1937)
Prime Minister of
Canada
Connaught and
Strathearn, Duke
of
(1850-1942)
Governor General
of Canada (19111916)
Geddes, Sir
Auckland
Campbell
Milner (Lord)
Letter to Sir George Foster (Minister of Trade
and Commerce for Canada, signer of Treaty
of Versailles for Canada) expressing regret at
not having seen him before his departure for
Canada owing to Foster’s wife’s illness.
15 June 1919
23 rue Nitot,
Paris
2 letters to Sir George Foster: the first thanks
him for his consideration during Borden’s
recent illness; the second gives some details
of his return to Ottawa and thanks him for his
efforts during the P.M.’s absence.
21 Dec. 1919
Prime Minister’s
Office, Ottawa
A.L.S. to Sir George [Foster] congratulating
him on being made a British Privy
Counsellor.
9 June 1916
Government House,
Ottawa
T.L.S. to Sir George Foster concerning the
first airship between Great Britain and
Canada and the importance of trade between
the two nations.
28 June 1919
Board of Trade,
Whitehall Gardens,
S.W. [London]
A.L.S. to Sir George Foster praising Foster’s
article in the Times on peace between the
Domnions and Great Britain.
3 Nov. 1919
17 Great College
Street, S. W. [London]
19 Apr. 1920
Ashville, North
Carolina
31
3.023
Foster, Sir
George Eulas
(1847-1931)
M.P. and Acting
Prime Minister of
Canada (1920)
Holograph notes for temperance speeches.
[ca. 1885?]
[Ottawa?]
3.024
Foster, Sir
George Eulas
(1847-1931)
M. P. and Acting
Prime Minister of
Canada (1920)
Galleys with corrections concerning a
Resolution … for prohibition of the liquor
traffic; Commons Debates on prohibition, p.
1163-1177.
1884
[Ottawa?]
3.025
Fraser, John
Frederick
2 A.L.S. to Mrs. McKenzie concerning one of
his plays
12 June and 3
July 1918
3.026
Frida, Emil
Bohuslav
(pseudonymn =
Jaroslav
Vrchlicky)
(1853-1912)
Author
Holograph letters or notes. In Czech.
Photocopy of excerpt from book. 6 p.
[s.d.]
1/33rd Punjabis,
Chaviari, Murree Hills
[India]
[s.l.]
3.027
Fullalove,
William T.
A.L.S. to the Rev. George F. Lamb requesting 24 May 1887
a search of the parish registers for information
on John Barrett or his parents.
8 Langworthy Road,
Sudley (?), Manchester
[England]
3.028
Furneaux, Henry
A.L.S. to Smith enclosing Furneaux’s edition
The Rectory, Lower
28 May 1886
32
of Tacitus.
3.029
Galpin, Arthur J.
3.030
Galsworthy, John
(1867-1933)
Author
3.031
Heyford, Banbury
[England]
T.L.S. to (?) concerning Walter Pater and
printed editions of his works
A.L.S. declining to have his name formally
associated with pacifist propaganda.
8 Feb. 1906
Garnett, Angelica
(née Bell)
(1918-)
Garnett, David
(1892-1981)
Author
A.L.S. to John Davenport thanking him for
the “beautifully rebound Schubert”.
10 0ct. [s.a.]
Hilton Hall, Hilton,
Huntingdon [England]
2 A.L.S. to John Davenport concerning an
article on Karen Blixen and a poem related to
chap. X of Alice in Wonderland; invitation to
a Midsummer Party; b&w photograph of
David Garnett signed by Garnett.
15 May 1958
and
[s.d.]
Hilton Hall, Hilton,
Huntingdon and
41 Gordon Square,
W.C. [London]
3.033
Garnett, David
(1892-1981)
Author
Holograph notes on Voltaire. Part of
introduction to edition of Voltaire’s Zadig
edited by Garnett (1929). 1 leaf.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
3.034
Garvey, Eleanor
M.
A.L.S. to Anne Ehrenpreis concerning
Swinburne items and their sources;
Note from Paul H. Buck presenting
Ehrenpreis with books (photocopy).
6 Nov. [early
1960s?] and
4 Aug. 1961
Harvard College
Library, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
3.035
Geikie, Sir
Archibald
(1835-1924)
A.L.S. to Col. Feilden concerning Gilbert
White’s observations on the geological
significance of earthworms in transporting
29 June 1909
Sheperd’s Down,
Haslemere, Surrey
[England]
3.032
21 Aug. 1930
King’s School,
Canterbury [England]
France
33
3.036
Professor of
geology
Geoffroy SaintHilaire, Etienne
(1772-1844)
3.037
Gibson, G.A.
3.038
Gilchrist, John,
M.P.P.
3.039
soil.
Holograph: “Description du crocodile sacré
sous le nom de suchus ” and “Sur trois
espèces du crocodile qui vivent dans le Nil”.
Holograph. In French.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Letter to Miss Gunn concerning In Hospital
by W.E. Henley.
A.L.S. to W.H. Wrighton concerning the
Legislative Council, the death penalty, and
penitentiaries.
7 Jan. 1913
14 Oct. 1843
3 Drumeheugh
Gardens, Edinburgh
Kingston [Ontario]
Gordon, Pryse
Lockhart
(1762-1845)
Gossec, F. J.
A.L.S. expressing dismay at not having seen
the printed sheets of his work.
8 Jan. 1830
Brussels
A.L.S. to Mlle. Laure Cretu (?) sending her a
copy of his opera Thésée.
1808
[s.l.]
3.041
Grant, Alexander
J.
Engineer
Correspondence and other material
concerning the opening of the Welland Ship
Canal, and the awarding of the Sir John
Kennedy Medal to Grant; TS. outlining
structure of an emergency dam to be built at
Thorold.
1932-1934
Toronto, Ottawa, etc.
3.042
Grant, M.
A.L.S. to Mrs. Ferguson.
1829
[s.l.]
3.043
Graves, Robert
Author
A.N.S. (on scrap of paper) to Mr. Wilkinson.
29 Apr. 1959
[s.l.]
3.040
34
3.044
Gray, Edwin
A.L.S. to Mr. Lamb.
18 Sept. 192-
3.045
Grey, Henry
George Grey,
Earl
(1802-1894)
Grossart,
Alexander
Balloch
(1827-1899)
Grove, Frederick
Philip
(1871-1948)
Author
Grove, Frederick
Philip
(1871-1948)
Author
Grove, Frederick
Philip
(1871-1948)
Author
A.L.S. to Mrs. Grey concerning a drawing of
Miss Grey.
25 June 1855
2 A.L.S. (with envelopes) to Benjamin
Haynes concerning Grossart’s book and a
subscription for the works of George Daniel.
12 Oct. 1877
and
10 [June?]
1878
15 Nov. 1930
Guillet, J. H.
Attorney and
Counsellor at
Law
Gunther, Robert
T.
3.046
3.047
3.048
3.049
3.050
3.051
A.L.S. (with envelope) to E.H. Thistlethwaite
thanking him for a cheque and the visit to
Walkerville.
Gray’s Court, York
[England?]
[s.l.]
Park View, Blackburn,
Lancashire [England]
Cumming’s Bridge
P.O., Ottawa, Canada
A.L.S. to William Perkins Bull concerning the Oct. 1931
autobiographical elements in Grove’s novel.
[s.l.]
4 A.L.S. to Barker Fairley concerning:
Grove’s novel; Rilke; Grove’s job in a
canning factory; and commenting on Fairley’s
essay and his own ill health; 1 TS. letter (with
envelope) saying he has suffered a stroke.
9 Oct. 1939; 1
Dec. 1941;
12 July 1942;
12 Dec. 1943;
11 June 1944
R.R. 4, Simcoe, Ont.,
Canada
A.L.S. to F. L. Desaulniers concerning the
genealogy of the Guillet family; with
holograph Guillet genealogy.
8 Apr. 1909
11 Hildreth Building,
45 Merrimack St.,
Lowell, Mass.
A.L.S. to Sir Francis Hyett concerning
Cambridge Professor of Botany Richard
6 Nov. 1933
5 Folly Bridge, Oxford
[England]
35
Bradley’s work on husbandry.
4.001
Hagarty, John
Hawkins
A.L.S. to Henry Scadding concerning the
metrics of Hagarty’s poem “Legend”.
[s.d.]
229 Simcoe St.,
Toronto
4.002
Haggard, H.
Rider
Author
Hall, George
Barker
A.L.S. sending “a few lines” as requested.
With photograph of Haggard.
27 Sept. 1891
Ditchingham House,
Bungay [England]
6 Dec. 1844
and 9 Jan.
1845
30 Dec. 1844
and 20 Jan.
1845
28 Mar. 1917
House of Assembly
New York City
4.003
4.004
Hall, George
Barker
2 A.L.S. to Charles Forest written during the
sitting of the House of Assembly: describing a
debate; during a speech by Baldwin
2 A.L.S. to Charles Forest concerning the
lease of Hall’s mill.
4.005
Hamilton,
Clayton
Author
TS. (copy) to Henry H. Harper of the
Bibliophile Society concerning Hamilton’s
book On the Trail of Stevenson.
4.006
Harrington, T.
Douglas
Provincial
Secretary
Harrison, S.
Frances
(“Seranus”)
Author
A.L.S. to William H. Wrighton concerning a
set of weights and measures for the Colborne
District
19 Jan. 1842
Kingston [Ontario]
2 A.L.S. to E. J. Hathaway complaining about
Hathaway’s ignorance of his work;
responding angrily to Hathaway’s letter of 20
Feb. 1916
19 Feb. and
23 Feb. 1916
25 Dunbar Road,
Rosedale, Toronto
Harrod,
Vincentius
T.L.S. to Stan announcing the birth of James
Hilary and recounting the arrival of the books
he had purchased in England.
[25 Mar.]1920 1013 Eighty Second
Street, Brooklyn, N.Y.
4.007
4.008
Montreal
36
4.010
Hay, William
A.L.S. to [Mr. Edward] concerning Edwards’s 4 Mar. 1793
request to be placed on the list of
superannuated admirals and Hay’s request
that his brother Allan receive the commission
by paying fees
[s.l.]
4.011
Hayward, John
A.L.S. to Mr. Holland concerning the
reprinting of “The Beauties” in a Penguin
edition and other literary matters.
10 May 1949
19 Carlyle Mansions,
Cheyne Walk, S.W. 3
[London]
4.012
Hemans, Felicia
Dorothea (neé
Browne)
(1793-1835)
Poet
A.L.S. to Mary Howitt thanking her for the
gift of a volume of poetry. 3 p. With
engraving of Hemans.
14 July 1827
St Asaph
4.013
Henderson,
Alexander
A.L.S. to James Henderson concerning the
state of Ohio: the prevalence of illness,
farming conditions, and the advisability of
settling there.
11 Apr. 1836
Bay Township,
Sandusky County, Ohio
4.014
Henderson, John
A.L.S. to Malcolm Wallace concerning
editions of Burns.
28 May 1921
Clarkson [Ontario?]
4.015
Hennell, Thomas
(1903-1945)
A.L.S. to Mr. Macdonald concerning
Macdonald’s edition of Maria Chapdelaine
and other matters pertaining to art and
illustration.
29 Dec. 1938
Orchard Cottage,
Ridley, Wrotham, Kent
[England]
37
4.016
4.017
Herbert, Elizabeth
(Mrs. Sidney)
Herschel, Sir
John F. W.
(1792-1871)
Astronomer
Holograph note soliciting support for Mrs.
Butler. 1 leaf.
A.L.S. to Lady Bell on the death of her niece.
With transcription.
Spring
election 1853
20 Aug. 1865
T.L.S. (with envelope) from Joan Tomes to
Prof. Heard concerning the Herschel family
with enclosed genealogical notes.
8 Oct. 1948
49 Belgrave Square,
London
Halton
27 Duplex Avenue,
Toronto
4.018
Hewit, Anna R.G.
A.L.S. to Mrs. James sending her an album.
13 Oct. 1879
70 McTavish Street,
Montreal
4.019
Hill, Octavia
(1838-1912)
Philanthropist
A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent
asking for the address of Alex Russell
[possibly Alexander Russell (1814-1876)
concerning a gift of a house to be made to
George MacDonald (1824-1905) by his
personal friends.
18 Nov. 1876
14 Nottingham Place
W. [England]
4.020
Hindmarsh,
Leonard
A.L.S. to Martin (as a Balliol man) soliciting
help in publicizing a new summer programme
at Oxford. With brochure.
31 Oct. 1938
Balliol College
[Oxford, England]
4.021
Hincks, Sir
Francis
(1807-1885)
A.L.S. to the journalist and historian John
Charles Dent (1841-1888) concerning
Hincks’s book Reminiscences.
8 Mar. 1884
Montreal
4.022
Holmes, Oliver
Wendell
(1809-1894)
Essayist
A.L.S. thanking a reader.
17 Jan. 1878
Boston
38
4.023
Bond, Sir Robert
(1857-1927)
Prime Minister of
Newfoundland,
Leader of the
Liberal Party
Letter to J. Castell Hopkins concerning the
Newfoundland election returns of 1913.
Newspaper clipping is enclosed.
15 Nov. 1913
The Grange,
Whitbourne,
Newfoundland
4.024
Ferris, William
Artist
2 A.L.S. to J. Castell Hopkins concerning the
exhibitions of the British Columbia Society of
Fine Arts.
Nov. 1912
and
2 Dec. 1912
The Museum, Carnegie
Library, Vancouver,
B.C.
4.025
Grigg, Richard
A.L.S. to J.C. Hopkins thanking him for his
praise of Grigg’s book of poetry.
21 Oct. 1895
(?)
4.026
Hopkins, Castell
J.
(1864-1923)
2 T.L.S. from Frank Wise and from Charles
Roland concerning the Imperial Home ReUnion Movement.
21 June and 3
July 1912
Toronto and Winnipeg
4.027
Merrill, Helen
A.L.S. to J. Castell Hopkins sending a
collection of her verse published in the Public
Health Journal.
12 Nov. 1915
4 Prince Arthur Av.,
Toronto
4.028
Morris, Edward
(1859-1935)
Prime Minister of
Newfoundland
(1909-1917)
Wade, F.C.
President,
T.L.S. to J. Castell Hopkins (1864-1923)
26 Nov. 1913
concerning the recent election in
Newfoundland, won by Morris for the Tory or
People’s Party.
Prime Minster’s Office,
St. John’s
Newfoundland
T.L.S. to Castell Hopkins concerning the
creation of the Canadian Industrial Peace
Vancouver, B.C.
4.029
26 Nov. 1912
39
Canadian
Industrial Peace
Association
Association. He explains that the group is
organized to fight the growth of socialism and
trade unions in Canada.
4.030
Howe, Clarence
Decatur
12 Mar. 1951
Ottawa
4.031
Howells, William
Dean
(1837-1920)
T.L.S. (with envelope) to Major J. E. Hahn
presenting him with an autographed copy of
the “History of the Department of Munitions
and Supply”.
A.L.S. to Mr. Schofield stating that he is
pleased to send his autograph for the
Canadian Booth at the Allied Bazaar;
mentions his debt to Canada
9 Dec. 1916
4.032
Hughes, James
Laughlin
(1846-1935)
Educator and
author
Hughes, Thomas
(1822-1896)
Holograph poem to Miss Helen Kinnear, with
card pasted on notepaper.
Christmas
1929
The Valencia and
Cottages, St. George,
St. Francis and
Cordoba Streets, Saint
Augustine, Florida
[s.l.]
A.L.S. to Russell concerning a meeting with
Russell’s brother.
[s.d.]
113 Park Street [s.l.]
4.034
Hunt, Leigh
(1784-1859)
Essayist and poet
A.L.S. to (?) concerning a MS.
[s.d.]
Kensington [London]
4.035
Hunter, Dard
(William Joseph
“Dard”)
(1883-1966)
Author of books
on papermaking
T.L.S. (with envelope) to Andrew P. Kellogg
concerning a request for a copy of
Papermaking in Indo-China.
14 Apr. 1947
The Mountain House,
Chillicothe, Ohio
4.033
40
4.036
Huntley, R.
Physician
A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent
concerning 3 patients who have recovered
from smallpox.
9 Aug. 1773
Montreal
4.037
Hutchinson, Sybil
3 T.L.S. to N. J. Endicott concerning the
publication of James Reaney’s poetry.
28 Sept. and 2
Nov. 1948
7 Jan. 1949
McClelland & Stewart,
228 Bloor St. West,
Toronto, Canada
4.038
Jackson, Henry
(1839-1921)
2 A.L.S. to [Henry Montagu Butler (18331918)] on literary matters.
27 Nov. 1914
and 12
January 1915
Trinity College,
Cambridge [England]
4.039
Jackson,
Holbrook
A.L.S. to Seymour concerning Jackson’s
book Bookman’s Holiday; and discussing
Seymour’s poems.
20 Sept. 1946
1 Winterstoke Gardens,
Mill Hill, London N.W.
7
4.040
Jacques, Edna
Letter to Mr. Howarth concerning her poem
“In Flanders Now”. Illustrated copy of poem
on card with Jacques’s holograph comments
on verso.
4 Dec. 1972
7 Honeywell Place,
Willowdale, Ont.
4.041
Jameson, Anna
Brownell
(1794-1860)
A.L.S. to Mrs. Story thanking her for the loan
of a volume of poems and sending an
invitation; A.L.S. to Charles Ollier sending an
article on the Kings Pictures and requesting
the return of a rejected paper on the Hampton
Court Beauties.
[s.d.]
Monte Casino
Jeans, James H.
T.L.S. to H. J. Cody wishing him success with 29 Nov. 1934
4.042
[s.l.]
Cleveland Lo[…],
41
the new telescope.
Dorking [England]
4.043
Jeffares, A. N.
A.L.S. to Dr Wall concerning the loan of a
book and enclosing a bibliography.
8 May 1951
31 Buccleuch Place,
Edinburgh
4.044
Jefferys, Charles
William
(1869-1951)
Artist and author
A.L.S. from Harold A Innis thanking Jefferys
for his letter of congratulations on Innis’s
receipt of the Tyrrell medal.
7 June 1944
The University of
Toronto, Department of
Political Economy
7 June 1945
A.L.S. from Joseph Burr Tyrell thanking
Jefferys for The Picture Gallery of Canadian
History.
14 Walmer Road,
Toronto
4 holograph prose compositions, one of which [s.d.]
was a radio broadcast.
4.045
Jones, Ernest
(1879-1958)
Psychiatrist and
biographer of
Freud
T.L.S. to Leslie Dewart concerning Jones’s
biography of Freud.
11 July 1957
The Plat, Elsted, Nr
Midhurst, Sx. [Sussex,
England]
4.046
Jung, Carl Gustav
(1875-1961)
Psychiatrist
T.L.S. to James Gibb concerning good and
evil.
1 Oct. 1958
Seestrasse 228,
Küsnacht-Zürich
4.047
Jung-Stilling,
Johann Heinrich
(1740-1817)
Abstracts of letters to the Altona (Hamburg)
Mennonite Jacob Gysbert Van der Smissen
concerning Jung-Stlling’s views of Christian
doctrine and practice.
1795-1816
Marburg and Karlsruhe
[Germany]
42
4.048
Kay, Arthur
A.L.S. to Rob sending him some rare books.
27 Aug. 1921
4.049
Keene, Laura
(ca. 1826-1873)
Actress
A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent
concerning terms for the concert tour she is
arranging. With transcript.
24 Dec. 1872
4.050
Keidel, George C. A.L.S. to Henry Yates Thompson concerning
MSS. of Aesop’s Fables.
A.L.S. to Cockerell concerning the Miroir
[Historiae] MS.
3 Apr. 1909
A.L.S. to C.C. Cockerell sending a copy of
Keidel’s article “The History of French Fable
Manuscripts”.
4.052
4.053
Kemble, John
Philip
(1757-1823)
Actor
Kemp, Hubert
Richmond
(1894-
A.L.S. to H.S. Boyd thanking him for sending
a ticket. He has found a pamphlet that may
refer to Boyd’s father. 1 leaf.
2 Dec. 1799
Collection of material relating to the
development of a new Canadian immigration
policy. Main correspondents include R. H.
Coates, Sir Edward Beatty, W.J. Egan, O. D.
Skelton, A.D. Watts and Escott Reid.
1932-1935
Kennedy, W.P.M. T.L.S. to Kennedy from O. D. Skelton
Professor of Law, concerning the powers of the GovernorUniversity of
General of the Dominion.
Toronto
A.L.S.: Kennedy’s reply.
The Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore,
Maryland
18 Apr. 1909
2 July 1909
4.051
11 Regent Terrace,
Edinburgh
34 Bond St., New York
Oving House,
Aylesbury [England]
The Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore,
Maryland
No. 89 Great Russell
Street, Bloomsbury
Square [London]
25 Aug. 1931
Department of External
Affairs , Ottawa
27 Aug. 1931
[Toronto?]
43
4.054
4.055
Kenyon, Lloyd
Tyrell-Kenyon,
4th Baron
(1864-1927)
Keynes, John
Maynard
(1883-1946)
Economist
A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent (“My
dear Lord”) about academic matters.
15 Nov. [s.a.]
Gredington, England
“Paying for the War”. TS. (photocopy), 5 p.,
of 2 articles from the London Times.
14 and 15
Nov. 1939
London
Feb. 1946
Cambridge [England]
Notes taken by Harry Gordon Johnson (b.
1923) on a paper presented by Keynes to the
Political Economy Club, Cambridge. TS.
(photocopy). 3 p.
4.056
King, Annabel
A.L.S. to Jack Elson thanking him for his
editing and moral support regarding the
volume of poetry, Voices of Victory; With
Foreword to Voices of Victory. TS.
17 Nov. 1941
179 Forest Hill Road,
Toronto
4.057
Kingston, A. G.
A.L.S. to G. R. White listing the flycatchers
and warblers seen.
12 June 1910
Ottawa
4.058
Knowles, Robert
Edward
(1868-1946)
Clergyman and
author
A.L.S. to Stewart concerning arrival time for
an upcoming visit
11 Apr. 1911
[s.l.]
4.059
Lacaita, James
Philip, Sir
2 A.L.S. to Lord Vernon concerning a
proposed visit by Mr. and Mrs. Norton.
12 and 15
May 1869
27 Duke Street, St
James, London
4.060
Lambe, Lawrence
M.
A.L.S. to G. R. White concerning the
presentation of a stuffed bird (young female
20 Apr. 1891
Geological Survey
Department, Museum
44
red- throated diver) to the Geological Survey.
4.061
Landseer, Edwin,
Sir
(1802-1873
Artist
A.N.S. to Lady Talfourd accepting an
invitation. 1 leaf.
9 Dec. 1853
and Office, Sussex
Street, Ottawa
[s.l.]
4.062
Langton, Hugh
Hornby
(1862-1953)
Librarian, lawyer,
and author
Langton, L. H.
2 T.L.S. to M. J. Edmond Roy concerning
book reviews and Langton’s translation of
Champlain’s West Indian Voyage.
28 Oct. 1910
and
17 July 1911
University of Toronto
Library, Toronto,
Canada
Copy of letter from Henry Williams
discussing the Langton family history.
2 Oct. 1903
Neasby Vicarage,
Nottingham
11 Feb. 1905
20 Argyll Road,
Kensington. W.
[London]
25 Mar. 1912
80 Beverley Street,
Toronto
Christmas
[s.a.]
[s.l.]
4.063
A.L.S. (copy) to [Tom] Langton discussing
genealogical history of the Langton family.
4.064
Langton, Thomas
4.065
Lankes, J. J.
Artist
MS. Currer of Skipton family tree, with coats
of arms, showing Langton and Williams
branches.
Banks family tree showing Currer, Langton,
and Willimas branches.
A.L.S. (with envelope) to Mrs. Blackwood
concerning the authorship of Shakespeare’s
plays.
Christmas card with Lankes’s illustration of
Robert Frost’s farm in So. Shaftesbury,
Vermont.
45
4.066
Lawrence, Abbott
A.L.S. (with envelope) to Samuel C. Cobb
enclosing a printed copy of a journal
describing a tour to Niagara Falls in 1805
written by Lawrence’s grandfather.
18 Oct. [s.a.]
5 Commonwealth
Avenue [Toronto?]
4.067
Le Moine, J. M.
(James
Macpherson), Sir
(1825-1912)
Canadian author
and barrister
2 A.L.S. to John Neilson concerning a
northern sharpe-tailed grouse.
13 and 18
Mar. 1886
Spencer Grange,
Quebec
4.068
Le Moine, J. M.
(James
Macpherson) , Sir
(1825-1912)
Canadian author
and barrister
2 A.L.S. to Mr. Dent
9 Feb. 1885
and
4 Feb. 1887
Spencer Grange,
Quebec
4.069
LePan, Douglas
T.L.S. to Miss A. M. Smith enclosing a copy
V.
of Longer Poems to the University of Toronto
(1914-1998)
Library.
Poet and
University of
Toronto Professor
26 May 1969
University College,
University of Toronto,
Toronto 181, Ontario
4.070
Lewes, Mr.
A.N.S. to Lieut Col. and Mrs. Oldfield saying
he will wait upon them.
[s.d.]
Fort Townshend
4.071
Ligt, C.L. de
“Wat is anarchisme?”
This work, intended as a pamphlet to be
Ca. 1936
[Netherlands]
46
published by the libertarian periodical
Bevrijding, never in fact appeared in print.
4.072
Livingstone,
3 A.L.S. to H. J. Cody mainly concerning
Richard Winn, Sir postwar economic and political conditions in
Britain.
16 Mar. and
11 May 1947
27 Nov. 1949
4.073
Lloyd George,
David
(1863-1945)
Liberal MP and
Prime Minister of
Britain
T.L.S. to Sir George Foster concerning
Foster’s return to Canada.
11 June 1919
4.074
Long, Albert L.
A.L.S. to Edmund Thompson concerning the
Clementine or Jerusalem MS. With
photograph of the last page of the MS.
5 Jan. 1885
Robert College,
Constantinople
4.075
Lowes, John
Livingstone
(1867-1945)
T.L.S. to Arthur Woodhouse concerning a
book on Collins, the subject of Woodhouse’s
dissertation. With photograph (copy) of
Lowes.
26 Nov. 1928
Harvard University,
Cambridge
[Massachusetts]
4.076
Lucas, E. V.
A.L.S. to Meum Stewart concerning a book
that may be of use.
19 Jan. 1937
36 Essex Street, Strand
[London]
A.L.S. to Clifford suggesting a meeting time.
Bookplate: “Ex Libris Meum Stewart”.
8 May 1938
A.L.S. to Mr Cockerell thanking him for a
gift, sending Christmas greetings, and
23 Dec. 1919
4.077
Luxmoore, H. E.
The President’s
Lodgings, Corpus
Christi College, Oxford
[England]
British Delegation,
Paris
Brittenden, Waldron,
Sussex [England]
Eton [College], Bucks
[England]
47
enclosing a copy of “The Founder’s Pageant
and Play of St Nicholas”.
4.078
Lytton, Edward
Bulwer Lytton
(1803-1873)
McClung, Nellie
Letitia (Mooney)
(1873-1951)
Suffragist and
politician
A.L.S. to W. Magrath thanking him for
supporting Sir Charles Morgan as a candidate
for the Athenaeum.
A.L.S. to H. M. Corbett thanking him for his
letter praising her autobiography.
9 Feb. 1843
Brighton
15 Mar. 1948
R. R. 4 [s.l.]
4.080
McClung, Nellie,
Conference
Material relating to the Nellie Clung
Conference.
Programme (photocopy);
TS. (photocopy): “Portrait of My Mother” by
Mark McClung, 21 leaves.
TS. (photocopy): List of workshops, 15
leaves;
Newspaper clippings (photocopies), 5 leaves;
Correspondence (photocopies): 3 T.L.S.
26-28 Sept.
1975
University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario
4.081
McCurdy, J.
Frederick.
A.L.S. to Mr. Langton concerning a copy of
the Samaritan Pentateuch and fragments of an
Ethiopian (Abyssinian) book of edification.
24 Mar. 1915
319 West 57 St., New
York
4.082
Macdonald, John
A., Sir
(1815-1891)
Prime Minster of
Canada
Transcripts of early correspondence, mostly
on law and business. 16 leaves.
1832-1841
Kingston, Napanee,
Hillier, Toronto,
Bridgewater, and
Montreal.
1 Chancery Lane [s.l.]
4.079
List of publications purchased from H. Sweet.
2 leaves.
27 Apr. 1842
48
Memorandum of term of copartnership
between John A. Macdonald and Alexander
Campbell. 2 leaves.
4.083
Macdonald, John
A., Sir
(1815-1891)
Prime Minster of
Canada
[after 1 Sept.
1843]
Kingston, Canada
A.L.S. to Isaac Buchanan concerning the
20 Nov. 1857
amalgamation of the two companies that
formed the Great South-Western Railway in
1858. With transcription.
Letter from Donald G. Creighton to Mrs. John 5 Dec. 1973
Grover concerning the subject of the
Macdonald letter.
Toronto
15 Princess Street,
Brooklin, Ontario
4.084
Macdonald, John
A., Sir
Sir
(1815-1891)
Prime Minster of
Canada
A.L.S. to the Reverend D. G. Sutherland
concerning Sutherland’s recommendation of
Alexander Johnston for the Senate.
13 Oct. 1886
Earnscliffe, Ottawa
4.085
Macdonald, John
A., Sir
Sir
(1815-1891)
Prime Minster of
Canada
A.L.S. to [Matthew] H[enry] Richey
acknowledging receipt of a letter about
employing Mr. Anderson as a Land Guide.
12 June (?)
1883
Stadacona Hall, Ottawa
4.086
McGee, Thomas
D’Arcy
(1825-1868)
A.L.S. to the poet and antiquary Sir Samuel
Ferguson (1810-1886) discussing the state of
crisis in Parliament and sending a copy of
“The Census of Canada.” With photostat
5 May 1864
Quebec
49
copy.
A.L.S. to Mrs. Samuel Ferguson concerning
the lack of interest in England in the fate of
one-third of the American continent.
24 May 1865
Westminster Palace
Hotel, London
4.087
McGregor, F. A.
T.L.S. to Vincent Bladen enclosing a copy of 15 Oct. 1945
their joint report.
A.L.S. to Vincent Bladen thanking him for his 25 Nov. 1945
work on the report.
Combines Investigation
Commission,
Department of Justice,
490 Sussex Street,
Ottawa
501 Echo Drive,
Ottawa
5.001
Machen, Arthur
A.L.S. to Edmund Gosse concerning
Machen’s book and the “Pantagrueline
Parable” within it.
8 Mar. 1922
12 Melina Place, St
John’s Wood, N. W. 8
[London]
5.002
MacInnes, Tom
Christmas card with A.L.S. to Elson.
5.003
McInnes, Edgar
A.L.S. to L. Burpee thanking him for his
review of The Unguarded Frontier.
Christmas
1935
15 Apr. 1943
CJOR Studio,
Vancouver, Canada
University of Toronto,
Department of History
5.004
MacKay, Eric
Poet
10 A.L.S. to Mr Miles concerning permission
to include some of MacKay’s poems from
Love Letters of a Violinist and Gladys the
Singer in an anthology.
1887-1893
154 Earl’s Court Road,
South Kensington,
London, S. W.
47 Longridge Road,
Earl’s Court, London,
50
S.W. and
New Travellers Club,
Piccadilly, W.
[London]
5.005
Mackenzie,
Henry
Bishop
A.L.S. to the Rev. John Stamage (?)
28 Jan 1878
congratulating him on his success as a pioneer
of the colonial Church.
Sub Deanery, Lincoln
[England]
5.006
McKenzie, R.
A.L.S. to Alexander Christie announcing the
death of Sir George Simpson at Lachine on 7
Sept.
19 Oct. 1860
Manitoba
5.007
Mackereth, James
A.
A.L.S. to William Rothenstein sending thanks
and good wishes.
[s.d.]
Bradford
5.008
MacLeish,
Archibald
(1892-1982)
Poet and
Librarian of
Congress
MacLeod,
Margaret Arnett
T.L.S. to N. V. Gregg giving permission to
copy Songs for a Summer’s Day. With
handwritten signed postscript offering an
original copy.
23 Jan. 1968
Conway,
Massachusetts
A.L.S. to Mr Wallace enclosing photographs
to put in his copy of Letters of Letitia
Hargrave. With photographs of Mr and Mrs
Dugald Mactavish, Florence Mactavish, Mary
Clarke, and Donald Ross.
21 Jan. 1948
Alexandra Palace,
University Avenue at
Queen’s Park, Toronto,
Canada
McMurtrie,
Douglas
Crawford
Correspondence with Louis Blake Duff on
“Some Facts concerning the Invention of
Printing.”
23 Dec. 1939
and 2 Jan.
1940
2030 Magnolia Ave.,
Chicago, Ill. and
[Niagara Finance
5.009
5.010
51
Company, Welland,
Canada]
5.011
Man, William
TS. letter to his father and mother concerning
the risks of his returning to Canada, his job as
a gardener, and family news. 2 leaves.
7 Jan 1839
Sandusky [Ohio?]
5.012
Mann, Thomas
(1875-1955)
Novelist
T.L.S. to William Kennett
7 Dec. 1938
65 Stockton Street,
Princeton, N. J.
5.013
Maritain, Jacques
(1882-1973)
French
philosopher
Martin, John
Edward
T.L.S. to Leslie Dewart commenting on
Dewart’s paper “Existentialism and the
Degrees of Knowledge.”
21 Oct. 1955
26 Linden Lane,
Princeton, New Jersey
A.L.S. to Sir Frederic Madden introducing
Mr. Edward Meede.
17 Oct. 1865
Lower ?
5.015
Martin, Percy F.
T.L.S. to Sr. Carlos M. Dominguez sending a
copy of Martin’s book Through Five
Republics. With receipt.
15 and 21
Nov. 1905
5 and 6 Clements Inn,
Strand W.C. [London]
5.016
Massey, Gerald
(1828-1907)
Poet
“Trust.” Holograph poem. 1 leaf.
5 Dec. 1873
[s.l.]
5.017
Massey, Charles
T.L.S. to Mrs. Howe thanking her for
Vincent
courtesies extended in using the University
(1887-1967)
Library.
Governor General
23 Feb. 1963
Batterwood House near
Port Hope, Ontario
5.014
52
of Canada (19521959)
5.018
Matthews,
Brander
(1852-1929)
Lawyer, author,
and university
professor
A.L.S. to unidentified correspondent thanking
him for sending a paper on Aristotle and
Comedy.
27 Apr. 1907
681 West End Avenue,
N. W. Corner 93rd St.,
New York
5.019
Maurice,
Frederick
Denison
A.L.S. to Mrs. Russell accepting an invitation
to dine.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
5.020
Mawby, Mrs.
Holograph letter to Capt. Grose asking to
borrow money.
[s.d.]
[England]
5.021
Meynell, Wilfrid
(1852-1948)
Journalist
A.L.S. (with envelope) to Professor Lappin
concerning events in Ireland.
Meynell’s engraved calling card with
holograph pencilled note [to Lappin?] on
verso.
31 Jan. 1925
Greatham, Pulborough,
Sussex [England]
5.022
Mignon, Maurice
A.L.S. to unidentified correspondent
arranging a meeting. In French.
11 Feb. 1923
Paris
5.023
Miles, Ernest
Morley
A.L.S. to Mr. Taffs thanking him for a favour
and enclosing some volumes.
18 Dec. 1908
169 Culvuley (?) Road,
Catford S.E. [England]
5.024
Mill, John Stuart
A.L.S. from Charles Austen (1799-1874)
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
[s.d.]
53
5.025
(1806-1873)
Economist,
philosopher, and
author
Mill, John Stuart
(1806-1873)
Economist,
philosopher, and
author
concerning proofs of one of Mills’s books.
Holograph notes by Mill.
Holograph notes: “Peroration written for a
speech on radical reform”. 4 p.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
5.026
Millar, E. G. (Eric A.L.S. to Sydney Cockerell (1867-1972)
George)
enclosing a copy of the catalogue for an
(1887-1966)
exhibition of French manuscripts and
paintings at the Grenville Library in Jan.
Keeper of
1932.
Manuscripts,
British Museum
18 Aug. 1933
Department of
Manuscripts, British
Museum, London W.C.
1
5.027
McLachlan,
Laurentia
A.L.S. to Mr. [E.G.] Millar congratulating
him on his book.
17 Mar. 1926
Stanbrook Abbey,
Worcester
5.028
Goldschmidt,
Adolph
A.L.S. to Mr. [E.G.]Millar thanking him for
his research help.
Berlin W8,
Behrenstrasse 40
5.029
Egbert, Donald
Drew
Architectural
historian
A.L.S. to E.G. Millar, British Museum,
enclosing a reprint of an article on the
Tickhill Psalter.
3 / 7 / 29
[3 July?]
1929
10 January
1932
5.030
Nordenfalk, Carl
T.L.S. (with envelope) to E. G. Millar
21 June 1933
Löfsta, Södertälje,
McCormick Hall,
Department of Art and
Archaeology. Princeton
University, Princeton,
New Jersey
54
thanking him and sending a reprint of a paper.
Sweden
5.031
Druce, George
Claridge
(1850-1932)
Pharmacist and
botanist
A.L.S. to [E. G.]Millar enclosing a copy of
Druce’s translation of “The Bestiary of
Guillaume le Clerc”.
15 Oct. 1936
Flishinghurst,
Cranbrook, Kent
[England]
5.032
Egbert, Donald
Drew
Architectural
historian
A.L.S. to E.G. Millar, British Museum,
enclosing an article on the “Greenfield”
Apocalypse.
16 December
1936
5.033
Plenderleith,
Harold James
A.L.S. to [E.G.] Millar concerning a book
Millar lent him.
17 Apr. 1936
5.034
Graham, Rose
3 A.L.S. to Mr. [E.G.] Millar concerning the
Cluniac monastery at Bermondsey, books,
and MSS.
5.035
Roggen, D.
1 T.L.S. and 1 A.L.S. to “Monsieur le
Conservateur” and “cher confrère” [E.G.
Millar?] concerning the St. Trond lectionary
from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Trond,
Belgium. With TS reply.
21 July 1937,
24 June 1938,
and 25 July
1940
9 Oct. 1947
15 June 1949
and 1 July
1949
McCormick Hall,
Department of Art and
Archaeology. Princeton
University, Princeton,
New Jersey
Research Laboratory,
British Museum,
London, W.C. 1
12 Ladbroke Gardens,
W. 11 [London]
5.036
Giuseppi,
Marjorie
A.L.S. (with envelope) to Eric [E.G.] Millar
returning a photograph of Sir Frederic
Kenyon.
4 June 1954
Ministerie van
Openbaar Onderwijs
and Avenue A. Buyl,
105
Brussels
72 Burlington Avenue,
Kew Gardens, Surrey
[England]
55
5.037
5.038
Ker, Neil Ripley
(1908-1982)
Medievalist
Pacht, Otto
T.L.S. to E. G. Millar concerning a York
psalter and a miniature by William de Brailes.
6 Nov. 1954
A.L.S. to Dr Millar [E.G. Millar] exchanging
offprints of articles.
4 Oct. 1954
8 July 1955
Stonehaven,
Kirtlington, Oxon
[England]
29 Beaumont St.,
Oxford [England]
5.039
Birley, Robert
(1903-1982)
Headmaster, Eton
College
Letter to “my dear Millar” [E.G. Millar]
forwarding a recently written essay and
commenting on a dinner with the Duke of
Buccleuch.
5.040
Rackham,
Bernard
A.LS to [E.G.] Millar concerning an article on 5 Apr. 1955
the windows of Christ’s Chapel.
9 Poyle Road,
Guildford [England]
5.041
Casson, Leslie
Letter to Dr [E.G.] Millar concerning his
work on several mediaeval manuscripts,
including a French Bible Concordance and an
English Psalter.
29 Aug. 1960
The Hawthorns,
Lovers’ Walk,
Rondebosch [Cape
Town, South Africa]
5.042
Miner, Dorothy
Eugenia
T.L.S. to Sydney Cockerell about her visit to
him and literary topics.
25 Nov. 1955
5.043
Montagu, George
(1791-1815)
Author and
collector
Montcalm, Louis
Joseph de
MontcalmGozon, marquis
2 A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent
(“My Lord”) ornithological specimens for the
addressee’s museum.
19 Dec. 1805
and 11 Jan.
1806
The Walters Art
Gallery, Baltimore 1,
Maryland
Knowle House,
Knightsbridge, London,
England
Photograph facsimile of a dispatch to France
requesting that an exchange of prisoners be
arranged between France and England. In
French. 1 leaf.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
5.044
Eton College, Windsor
[England]
56
5.045
de
(1712-1759)
General
Montgomery,
Alfred
A.L.S. to the historian Henry Montague
Butler (1833-1918) concerning
Montgomery’s Wellington Dispatches and
health matters.
3 Dec. [s.a.]
44 Hertford Street, W.
[London]
5.046
[Moodie,
Susannah]
(Strickland)
(1803-1885)
Author
Holograph letter (unsigned) A.L.S to Mr.
[Richard] Bentley, her English publisher,
describing her husband’s death and her
imminent poverty, and asking for copyright
for a new publishing project.
29 June 1871
Toronto
5.047
Moore, Edward
(1835-1916)
A.L.S. to Warren Vernon concerning
Warren’s translation.
23 Sept. [s.a.]
Carradale , Argyllshire,
Scotland
5.048
Moore, George
A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent
arranging a meeting.
4 June [s.a.]
121 Ebury Hert.
[England]
5.049
Moore, Thomas
Sturge
A.L.S. to Sir Henry Newbolt granting him
permission to publish an extract from
Moore’s work.
24 Feb. 1927
3 Howard Place, St
Andrews, Fife,
Scotland
5.050
Morin, Paul
(1889–1963)
French-Canadian
poet
A.L.S. to the reviewer of Morin’s book Le
Paon d’Email thanking him for the positive
review in the Montreal Herald. With
photocopy of review.
1912
62 rue des Signes, Paris
5.051
[s.n.]
Newspaper clipping from the Montreal
16 March
Montreal
57
Herald, with review of Morin’s book, Le
Paon d’Email.
1912
5.052
Morland, Samuel
(1625-1695)
Knight and
baronet
Letter, unsigned, to the mathematician Dr.
John Pell (1611-1685) concerning an
inscription for the tombstone of Morland’s
wife, Carola.
1674?
[s.l.]
5.053
Morris, John
BBC Far Eastern
Service Director
T.L.S. to Roger Stenhouse confirming a BBC
talk by Stenhouse on Lytton Strachey.
23 May 1947
5.054
Morris, Lewis
A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent
sending an introduction to a proposed
interview.
July (1900?)
The British
Broadcasting
Corporation, Bush
House, Aldwych,
London W.C. 2
The Athenaeum, Pall
Mall, S. W. [London]
6.001
Nasmyth, James
(1808-1890)
Bill from Wm Marshall, tailor, with pencil
6 Mar. 1855
drawing on verso (13 x 20.3 cm) depicting a
pool surrounded by rocks.
2 photographs (11.3 x 8.3.cm): “pictures of
the moon surface”; on verso holograph,
1871
signed, stating that photos are of Naples and
its volcanic neighbourhood including
Vesuvius in illustration of the moon’s surface.
6.002
Nelson, Philip
3 A.L.S. to Nelson concerning his book
Ancient Painted Glass in England, 11701500.
6.003
Neri, Fernando
Holograph postcard to Gustave Cohen asking
[London]
after 1914, 17 Winchester,
Jan. 1916, and Birmingham, and
9 Oct. 1919
Harrow-on-the-Hill
[England]
7 Apr.
Corso Vitt. Em. 104,
58
(1880-1954)
for information on the Parfaict brothers,
historians of the French theatre. In French.
(1924?)
Torino [Turin, Italy]
Newman, Francis
William
(1805-1897)
Classical scholar
Nicolson, Harold
(1886-1968)
Author and
politician
A.N.S. to an unidentified woman accepting an 19 Feb.
invitation.
[18]63
10 Circus Road, NW
[London]
A.N.S. (postcard) to Roger Senhouse
thanking him for a book.
T.N.S. refusing permission to reprint his story
“Arketall” in an anthology.
1 Apt. 1943
6.006
Nicolson,
Marjorie Hope
4 T.L.S. to Leonard G. Hulls mainly
concerning their common interest in 17th and
18th-century science.
6.007
Norton, Caroline
Sheridan
Norton, Caroline
Sheridan
2 A.L.S. to Mrs Talfourd on social matters.
14 Sept., 14
Oct., 9 Nov.,
and 10 Dec.
1936
[s.d.]
King’s Bench Walk,
Temple, E.C. 4
[London]
C.1. Albany,
Piccadilly, W. 1
[London]
Office of the Dean,
Smith College,
Northampton,
Massachusetts
24 Bolton Street
A.L.S. to Mr [Thomas Noon] Talfourd
concerning negotiations about access to her
children.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Norton, Sara
3 A.L.S. to Warren Vernon on social matters
and on English politics.
[s.d.],
20 Feb. 1909,
and
30 Jan. 1910
11 Egerton Place, S.W.
[London]
6.004
6.005
6.008
6.009
6.010
Norton, Charles
Eliot
3 A.L.S. to Warren Vernon on social matters,
Dante’s Divine Comedy, and on Dante’s
27 Nov. 1957
Hotel Royal,
Bordighera [Italy]
May 1869 and 18 Queen’s Gate
1 Sept. 1900
Terrace W. [London]
59
(1827-1908)
teacher, Guinicelli.
Ashfield,
Massachusetts
Toronto
6.011
Norwood,
Frances (Ould)
Lecturer in
classics
3 T.L.S. to Norwood concerning her
Nov-Dec.
resignation from the Metropolitan Church
1946
Choir, Toronto; collection includes newspaper
clippings and programs related to her singing
career.
1927-1953
6.012
O’Hagan,
Thomas
(1855-1939)
Educator and
author
A.L.S. to Dr Colquhoun sending the booklet
of verse, “Songs of Heroic Days”.
22 Mar. 1916
24 Brunswick Avenue.
Toronto, Ont.
6.014
Origo, Iris
A.L.S. (with envelope) to B. M. Corrigan
thanking him for an article and sending him a
copy of her A Measure of Love.
26 Aug. 1963
La Foce, Chianciano
Terme (Siena) [Italy]
6.015
Osler, William,
Sir
(1849-1919)
Physician
A.L.S. to George thanking him for a
sympathy letter.
[s.d.]
13 Norham Gardens,
Oxford [England]
6.016
Pantel, Gerhard
Author
T.L.S. to Max Amann, enclosing a book on
Hitler Youth camps
9 Oct. 1935
Desoutchesstr. 44/3.
Munich
6.017
Parker, Gilbert,
Sir
A.L.S. to Colonel Poole on social matters.
21 Mar. 1921
Lasky Studio, 1520
Vine Street,
Hollywood, California
60
6.018
Parkin, George
Robert
T.L.S. to Canon Cody concerning Parkin’s
proposed speech in Toronto and giving some
thoughts on the war in Europe.
A.L.S. to Cody on the postwar situation in
Britain and France.
14 June 1917
Hotel du Pont,
Wilmington, Delaware
5 Dec. 1921
7 Chelsea Court, S.W.
[London]
6.019
Parry, William
Edward, Sir
(1790-1855)
Arctic explorer
and rear admiral
A.L.S. to the Librarian of the Royal Society,
Somerset House, concerning Parry’s account
of his attempt to reach the North Pole.
26 Feb. 1828
Admiralty [London]
6.020
Paterson, J.
A.L.S. to John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806)
offering him the command of the Queen’s
Rangers.
See also Packham, Murray A.
13 Oct. 1777
German’s Town
Headquarters
6.021
Pember, Edward
Henry
A.L.S. to Lady Arthur Russell sending a copy
of his “last escapade.”
24 May 1901
6.022
Perry, Henry Fen
Eyrle
A.L.S. (with envelope) to J.B.C. Watkins on
the lack of positions in the English
Department. With notes in pencil on verso of
letter and envelope.
19 Apr. 1927
46 Charles Street,
Berkeley Square, W.
[London]
15 Arlington Place,
Buffalo, N.Y.
6.023
Pickthall,
Marjorie (Lowry
Christie)
(1883-1922)
Author, artist, and
musician
A.L.S. (with envelope) to the author Marjory
MacMurchy [Willison] thanking her for a
review of The Drift of Pinions. 3 p. With
review from the London Spectator.
22 Oct. 1913
23 Hammersmith
Bridge Rd., London,
W., England
20 Dec. 1913
61
6.024
Pigault-LeBrun,
Charles
6.025
A.L.S. to the lawyer Monsieur Margaret
concerning their “success.” In French. 2 p.
14 July 1829
Valence [France]
Pitt, William, Earl A.L.S. to an unidentified correspondent. With
of Chatham
copy of pp.1 and 4.
30 Mar. 1770
[s.l.]
6.026
Pollock, Walter
Herries
A.L.S. to Mr Lowne concerning social
matters.
12 July 1896
9 Southsea Terrace,
Southsea [England]
6.027
Pomery, Elsie
A.L.S. to the Rev. H.J. Cody thanking him for
favourable comments on the “Biography.”
1 Nov. 1944
211 College Street,
Toronto, Ontario
6.028
Prideaux, William A.L.S. to W. MacDonald MacKay thanking
Francis
him for positive comments on his book.
27 Sept. 1903
1, West Cliff, Terrace,
Ramsgate [England]
6.029
Punnett, Reginald
Crundale
A.L.S. to Watson concerning Chinese
ceramics.
28 June 1959
Bilbrook Lodge,
Washford, Somerset
6.030
Rae, John
(1813-1893)
Physician and
Arctic explorer
Newspaper clippings concerning the Franklin
Expedition and Rae (with photocopies); 3
photographs of Rae; Pocket Atlas of the
World (1887) with annotations by Rae.
ca. 1870s1880s
Toronto and Kirkwall,
Orkney
6.031
Rae, John
A.L.S. to Mrs Gray on social matters.
17 Jan. 1866
6.032
Randall, Ansel B.
A.L.S. to Eliza concerning his school
routines, social matters, and her health. 14 p.
6.033
Rangi of
Nawangar
A.L.S. to a “dear friend” inviting him (?) to
India.
22, 25, 30
May and 2
June 1853
13 Dec. 1920
Berstane House near
Kirkwall, Orkney
[Toronto Normal
School] Toronto
Hotel de la Paix,
Geneva
62
6.034
Renouard,
Philippe
(1862-1934)
Author
A.L.S. to unidentified correspondent
concerning Jean Hygmon, Wolfgang Hopl,
Henri Estienne, and Coline. In French. 3 p,
with MS note. In French. 1 leaf.
26 Dec. 1893
[s.l.]
6.035
Ritchie, Ward
Publisher
T.L.S. to Paul Bennett on publishing and
social matters.
27 Aug. 1940
6.036
Roberts, Charles
George Douglas
(1860-1943)
Author
A.N.S. to [George] Blacklock thanking him
for papers sent.
16 Mar. 1904
1936 Hyperion
Avenue, Los Angeles,
California
Kingston, Jamaica
6.037
Roberts, Charles
George Douglas
(1860-1943)
Author
“The Empire Speaks of Britain.” TS. poem.
19 Aug. 1940
[s.l.]
6.038
Rolph, John
(1793-1870)
2 A.L.S. to Professor [Michael] Barratt,
conveying Rolph’s dissent from the
proceedings at a meeting of the Toronto
School of Medicine.
22 May 1856
and 22 May
1857
Legislative Assembly
6.039
Rose, John
Holland
(1855-1942)
Rubenstein,
Harold Frederick
A.L.S. to [Henry Montagu Butler] concerning
Rose’s work “The Origins of the War.”
28 Jan. 1915
A.L.S. to Bishop thanking him for his
sympathy.
9 May 1930
Walsingham,
Millington Road,
Cambridge [England]
10 Hanover Terrace,
Holland Park, W. 11
[London]
6.040
63
6.041
Ruskin, John
(1819-1900)
A.L.S. to W. Russell stating he will be in
Yorkshire.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
6.042
Ruskin, John
(1819-1900)
A.L.S. (with envelope) to George Jesse
David, a schoolmaster who submitted a
student’s drawing book for Ruskin’s
assessment.
4 Nov. 1874
Corpus Christi College,
Oxford [England]
6.043
Russell, Alys
Smith
(1867-1951)
23 Mar. 1949
25 Wellington Square,
Chelsea [London]
6.044
Russell, Bertrand
(1872-1970)
Philosopher,
mathematician,
and author
6.045
Letter to Robert Gathorne-Hardy concerning
the imminent publication of his book and
comments on Nevil Shute’s new novel, No
Highway. Encloses a newspaper clipping of
[1st wife of
Gathorne-Hardy’s Wiltshire Estate from the
Bertrand Russell.] Times.
Russell, Bertrand
T.L.S. to The Editor, Magazine Feature
17 and 20
Service, enclosing an article his Beacon Hill
Apr. 1931
School. With telegram confirming article sent.
TS. “Aim and achievements of Beacon Hill
School”. 8 leaves (with MS corrections).
Accompanied by T.L.S. to Stillman Drake
from Kenneth Blackwell, Archivist,
McMaster University, requesting copies;
photocopy of Russell’s letter of permission;
and copy of TS from Drake enclosing the
requested copies.
A.L.S. (photocopy) to Prof. J.N. Wright
Beacon Hill School,
Harting, Petersfield
[England]
15 Dec. 1968
9 and 17 July
1970
5 June 1948
27 Dorset House,
64
concerning Stout’s lectures on the history of
philosophy, which Russell attended.
6.046
Gloucester Place,
N.W.1 [London]
Ryerson,
Adolphus Egerton
(1803-1882)
Sardon, Victorien
(1831-1908)
Playwright and
opera librettist.
A.L.S. to Rev. D.G. Sutherland inviting him
to dinner after church service.
15 Dec. 1878
Toronto
A.L.S. to Edmond Joseph Louis Tarbé des
Sablons.
[ca. 1880]
[s.l.]
7.002
Saunders,
Marshall
(1861-1947)
Canadian author
A.L.S. to Mrs Schersley concerning some
books he has forwarded to her “little girls”,
his care for a poor little girl, and forwarding
books for the old men in the Poor Asylum.
Removed from Saunders, M. Daisy. London,
189-.
[s.d.]
[London, England]
7.003
Saunders, W.E.
(1861-1943)
Pharmacist &
naturalist
Savage, Henry
Edwin
(1854-1939)
Anglican priest,
Dean of Lichfield
Cathedral
Savage, Toni
British poet,
publisher, printer
A.L.S. to George White, Ottawa concerning
some skins he is forwarding to White and
some birds for breeding purposes.
29 Dec. 1888
London, Ontario
A.L.S. to Mr Millar requesting that he read a
pamphlet that Savage had written entitled The
St Chad’s Gospels; an address given on the
festival of St Chad, 1931.
12 Aug. 1932
The Deanery,
Lichfield, [England]
7.001
7.004
7.005
Series of 16 A.L.S to Karl Gay concerning his 1983-1991
poor health, and printing activities at New
Broom Private Press. With references to
78, Cambridge Street,
Leicester, England
65
& entrepreneur
Robert Graves and Spike Milligan.
7.006
Scott, Alexander
John
(1768-1840)
Secretary to Lord
Nelson at the
Battle of
Trafalgar; Vicar
of Southminster,
Essex
A.L.S to Russell, concerning his recent illness
and vacation at Buxton where he has been
taking the waters.
31 Aug 1831
66 Spring Gardens,
Buxton, [England]
7.007
Scott, W.L.
A.L.S. to Johnson Neilson concerning a
possible visit by Neilson to Ottawa for the
meeting of the Royal Society. Discusses
matters of ornithology.
23 Mar. 1884
Ottawa
7.008
Scott, Frederick
George
(1861-1944)
Anglican priest,
soldier, poet &
author
A.L.S. to Lt. Col. Hardy forwarding two
signed poems (included) written by Scott.
3 Nov. 1923
Quebec
7.009
Scott, John
A.L.S. to his cousin Martin Scott concerning
5 Sept. 1860
the pressing of his claim in California, family
matters, and the visit of the Prince of Wales to
Canada.
Murphys Camp,
Calaveras County,
California
7.010
Scott, Mary Ann
A.L.S. to her nephew Martin providing an
overview of recent family history since the
Murphys Camp,
Calaveras County,
3 Mar. 1858
66
7.011
Scott, Mary Ann
Scott, John
family left England for California. With a
postscript by John Scott.
California
A.L.S. to her nephew Martin providing more
28 May 1858
family details, news of the recent gold finds in
British Columbia, mining in Calfornia. With
an extended postscript by John Scott.
Murphys Camp,
Calaveras County,
California
7.012
Scott, Martin
Indenture apprenticing William Scott, son of
Martin Scott to John Fox, pianoforte
manufacturer in Kingston, Canada West for a
period of six months.
9 Sept. 1864
[Kingston], Canada
West
7.013
Ryerson, Egerton
(1803-1882)
Methodist
minister,
Superintendent of
Public
Instruction, Upper
Canada
A.L.S to H.F. Sefton of Worcester, England.
Discusses Sefton’s delay in arriving to begin
his employment as a teacher of vocal music at
the Normal School, his salary, the ease with
which he can find a house. Because he will
not be arriving in the next month Ryerson
suggests that he delay coming until October.
24 Apr. 1858
Toronto
Draft of Sefton’s reply to Ryerson’s letter
(above), stating his concern with the contents
of Ryerson’s letter about his going to Toronto
to be a teacher of vocal music. He lists what
he considers the main points of Ryerson’s
letter, comments on them and “depict[s] …
the irreparable ruin which will follow to me,
if the Council refuses to ratify their
engagement with me.”
7 May 1858
Worcester
Sefton, Henry F.
(ca. 1808-1892)
Music teacher,
author &
composer
67
Second Exam in Music
Mar. 1882
[Toronto]
Notes about writing a piece of music.
[s.d.]
[Toronto]
“1858 Ryerson-Sefton Letters presented by
Sefton Family” in Ontario Education News.
Aug. 1965
[Toronto]
Abt. 1881
Colonial Office,
[London]
Sefton, Henry F.
Sefton, Henry F.
19th century MS. copy of a letter to Lord
Pelham, dated 1802, concerning the
permanent security of Ireland, written in
Upper Canada. This copy came from the
Colonial Office.
7.014
[Selkirk, Thomas
Douglas, Lord]
7.015
Sharp, Hugh
A.L.S. to Mr Evans concerning a collector’s
Frederick Bowyer checklist relevant to American literature.
(d. 1937)
Jute manufacturer
and book
collector
10 May 1902
[s.l.]
Letter is written on
New Club, Edinburgh
letter head, scored
through.
7.016
Shaw, George
Bernard
(1856-1950)
Author,
playwright
24 Jan. 1913
Longmynd Hotel,
Church Stretton,
Salop., [England]
A.L.S. to Gilbert Norwood (b. 1880),
professor of Classics, University College of
South Wales, concerning copyright questions.
A.L.S. to Gilbert Norwood concerning a
pamphlet that Norwood had recently written
on some of Shaw’s works. Discussing
Norwood’s translation efforts. With
envelope.
15 Dec. 1913
Codicote, [England]
68
7.017
7.018
Sherrington,
Charles Scott
(1857-1952)
Physiologist,
author
Simpson, Thomas
(1808-1840)
Explorer
A.L.S. to [Edward Neville da Costa] Andrade
concerning some recent addresses about Sir
Isaac Newton, and forwarding two books for
his interest.
22 Aug. 1943
Cambridge, [England]
Typed transcript of letters to Archibald
McKinlay describing Arctic exploration and
travels, and refers to McKinlay’s travels in
New Caledonia.
1839-1840
[Date of
typescript
unknown]
Fort Confidence, Great
Bear Lake.
7.019
Sinclair, George
A.L.S. to Margaret & Amy, conveying
greetings for Christmas. Provides a brief
review of events from 1936.
19 Dec. 1936
The Halt, High
Salvington, Worthing.
7.020
Sitwell, L.H.
A.L.S. to G.R. White concerning the sighting
of several different varieties of birds near
Pembroke, Ontario.
30 Sep. 1909
Department of Militia
and Defence, [s.l.].
Listing of birds sighted by Sitwell.
1910-1911
Captain, Corps of
Guides.
[s.l.]
Renishaw Hall.
Renishaw, Sheffield,
[England]
7.021
Sitwell, Osbert
(1892-1969)
English author
Autograph with envelope addressed to
Charles Robinson. Removed from the
Sitwell’s The collected satires and poems
(London, 1931).
21 Jul. 1949
7.022
Sitwell,
Sacheverell, Sir
(1897-1988)
English author
A.L.S. to [Christina] Duff Stewart
accompanying a copy of Sitwell’s Retrospect
of poems and For a floral inebriation.
3 Dec. 1980
Weston Hall,
Towcester,
Northamptonshire,
[England]
7.023
Smith, S. Percy
Carbon copy of an A.L.S. to Robert McNab
20 Dec. 1913
Southland, Torquay,
69
England
(1840-1922)
Author, linguist,
New Zealand
scholar
(1864-1917) acknowledging receipt of a copy
of The old whaling days, and offering
suggestions for improvement and correction
of the work.
7.024
Sollas, William
Johnson
(1849-1936)
Professor of
geology and
paleontology at
Oxford.
A.L.S to Col. [H.W.] Feilden acknowledging
receipt of Feilden’s letter and a parcel of flint
for display in the museum, and discussing a
recent article on Darwin.
4 Jul. 1909
Oxford, [England]
7.025
Sons of
Temperance
Invitation signed by D. Matheson, S,
Lippincott, A. Cameron and John Hogg
addressed to Frank Lippincott, inviting him to
their ball.
27 Dec. 1850
West River
7.026
Sparks, Jared
(1789-1866)
American
historian and
editor; president
of Harvard
College
A.L.S. to Lemuel G. Olmstead (with partial
envelope) concerning the Sparks family
history in America; the surrender of a sword
at the Battle of Yorktown by the British; the
respectability of Allen’s History of the
Revolution. Inserted in another hand written
on tracing paper is another account of the
incident at the Battle of Yorktown.
29 May 1855
Cambridge,
[Massachusetts]
7.027
Squire, Sir Jack
Collings
(1884-1958)
Editor and poet
A.L.S. to Payen-Payne, thanking him for his
note and informing him he has ordered a
binding case for his use.
10 Feb. 1920
The London Mercury,
Windsor House,
London, [England]
70
7.028
Stampa, George
L.
British artist and
Punch cartoonist
A.L.S. to J.B. Booth concerning sketches
done by Stampa that have already appeared in
several other books; enquiring if Booth
wanted to reproduce some in his own book;
problems with sciatica.
23 Jun 1942
8 The Ridgeway,
[London, England],
N.W. XI
7.029
Stapf, Otto
English botanist
A.L.S. to Sir William concerning Lindley’s
appendix to the Flora Graeca; provides some
biographical detail on Sibthorp, the author of
the Flora Graeca. Removed from
Sibthorpe’s Flora Graeca (London, 1806).
24 Oct. 1909
Kew, [England]
7.030
Stead, Robert J.C.
(1880-1959)
Canadian author
Telegram to Franklin Appleton offering
congratulations from “the cow puncher”…
26 Sep. 1922
Ottawa, Ontario
A.L.S. to Appleton, informing him that he has
just sent off the manuscript of Cowpuncher to
Dr Allison, who will send it on to Appleton;
concerns expressed about simultaneous
copyright in Canada and the United States;
the artwork for the end papers; his portrait;
publicity for the book.
A.L.S. to Appleton expressing concern over
difficulties in getting his recent works
published in the United States because of
Stead’s stand on Canadian versus American
book rights.
7.031
Stein, Gertrude
A.L.S. to Margaret Avison, thanking her for
11 May 1918
Calgary, Alberta
23 Jan. 1924
23 Jun.
Ottawa, Ontario
[Paris, France]
71
7.032
(1874-1946)
Author
Stevenson,
Thomas
her letter. Opened by censors.
1945
A.L.S. thanking Dr. Cook (?) for the loan of
George A. Walker’s Gatherings from
graveyards, particularly those of London.
Letter was removed from the same book.
With a mourning border.
13 Jan. 1896
Sandhurst Lodge,
Gresham Road,
Brixton, S.W.,
[England]
7.033
Stifler, James
Madison
(1875- )
Minister, author
A.L.S. to Mrs Nichols, thanking her for her
complimentary letter on the appearance of his
new book ["My dear girl"; the
correspondence of Benjamin Franklin with
Polly Stevenson, Georgiana and Catherine
Shipley]; lamenting the death of Frank.
17 Nov. 1927
628 Lincoln Street,
Evanston, Illinois
7.034
[Strachey, James]
British
psychologist,
author
Street, George
Slythe
(1867-1936)
British author
Strickland,
Elizabeth
Typed note to Roger Senhouse asking him for
a brief editorial note on K.R. Srinivasa
Iyengar’s “poorly written Lytton Strachey.
16 Apr. 1940
The Listener
Broadcasting House,
London, [England]
A.L.S. to Payen-Payne, concerning when he
will send the introduction to the Henley
letters.
7 Sep. 1930
Ditton Place,
Balcombe, Sussex,
[England]
Letter of introduction to Mr de Bielke,
accompanying her copy of the second edition
of the letters of Mary, Queen of Scots;
explaining her desire to see a letter in the
archives of Denmark; Strickland believes that
some of these letters in the Danish archives
may help exonerate the character of the late
queen.
7 Jul. 1843
6 Charles St.,
Manchester Sq.
7.035
7.036
19th cent.
biographer
72
7.037
Strowski,
Fortunat
(1866-1952)
French author
On a separate leaf in MS: “Observations for
the assistance of those disposed to search in
the Danish Archives for the original of
Bothwell’s confession.”
Letter from an administrator of “Editions de
la nouvelle revue critique” to Perceval Best,
concerning the appearance in print of
Strowski's new book on Montaigne.
30 Jun. 1938
A.L.S to Perceval Best thanking him for the
suggestions for correction to Strowski’s work,
and expressing his hope to see Best in London 16 Nov. 1938
or Paris.
Paris
Paris
Both removed from Strowski’s Montaigne,
sa vie publique et privée (Paris, 1938)
7.038
Sutherland, D.G.
19th cent.
Canadian
Methodist
minister
Draft of a letter of reference to Sir John A.
Macdonald concerning the appointment of
Alex Johnston to the Senate.
[s.d.]
[s.l. – Ontario]
73
7.039
Symonds, John
Addington
(1840-1893)
31 Oct. 1884
Am Hof,
Davos Platz,
Switzerland
13 Nov. 1884
Davos
A.L.S. to Mrs R.C. Boyle concerning his
“rose poetry”; his wife’s remembrance of Mrs
Boyle; and his daughter’s declining health.
7 Dec 1885
Am Hof,
Davos Platz,
Switzerland
A.L.S. to Mrs R.C. Boyle, notifying her that
his article on the pathos of the rose in poetry
is to come out next month in Time;
acknowledging receipt of her drawing of the
olive wood. With envelope.
12 Mar. 1886
Am Hof,
Davos Platz,
Switzerland
A.L.S. to Mrs R.C. Boyle thanking her for her
book On the garden and discussing the effect
of scent on the body and memory; discussing
some of his poetry.
Poet, author, early
A.L.S. to Mrs R.C. Boyle giving instructions
gay rights
for the editing of his poetry in her upcoming
advocate
“Rose book”.
8.001
Taylor, John
A.L.S to the artist Prince Hoare (1755-1834)
concerning his recent move to Bloomsbury
with his wife; the upcoming marriage of his
son; his death
1 Apr. 1831
34 Great Russell St.,
Bloomsbury, [London,
England]
8.002
Tennyson, Alfred
Lord
(1809-1892)
A.L.S. of thanks to Richard [Monckton
Milnes] for his breakfast invitations and
explaining his inability to attend.
[s.d.]
Park House,
Maidstone, [England]
Cheque to Philip Bourgeaurd signed by
Tennyson.
7 Aug. 1865
London
74
Third-person note expressing Tennyson’s
inability to give comment on a resumé of a
certain issue.
11 Dec. 1889
Farringford,
Freshwater, [Isle of
Wight]
A.L.S. to Mr Greening [printer of The
Princess?] asking him to forward all editions
of The Princess.
[s.d. – 1847?]
[s.l.]
Letter signed in the hand of Lady Tennyson to 14 Apr. 1864
J[oseph] Parkinson (journalist and civil
servant) thanking him for his article in the
Daily News, defending Tennyson’s privacy
and expressing indignation at the spoiling of
“my Garibaldi tree”. With envelope.
Farringford, [Isle of
Wight]
A.L.S. to [J.A.] Froude informing Froude that
he will be at Farringford, Isle of Wight, all of
April and will welcome him.
[s.d.]
Farringford, [Isle of
Wight]
8.003
Tennyson, Alfred
Lord
(1809-1892)
Poet
A.L.S. concerning the process of responding
to the great volume of mail he receives. He
notes that a certain illustrator has been
thanked.
18 Mar. 1882
[s.l.]
8.004
Tennyson,
Hallam Lord
(1852-1928)
Author, editor
A.L.S. to J.E. Wetherell written on behalf of
his father, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, pointing
out errors in an upcoming publication of
poems. With a mourning border.
25 Oct. 1891
Aldworth, Haslemere,
[England]
8.005
Thomas, A.P.
Two typescript copies of letters to William
17 Sep. 1844
Aurora, [Upper
75
8.006
Thomas, Edward
8.007
Thompson,
Elspeth
8.008
8.009
Kirby concerning the tanning of skins, the
price of wool, and the payment of personal
debts.
A.L.S to Mr Hutton concerning the
completion of a book and some maps to
accompany it.
Canada]
20 Oct. 1844
24 Apr. 1911
Wide Green, Peterfield
A.L.S. to her aunt, Mrs H.J. Cody thanking
her for sending a copy of Cushing’s Life of
Osler. Removed from Blatz, W.E. The five
sisters (New York, 1958).
25 Sep. 1970
826 Vernon Heights
Circle,
Marion, Ohio
Thompson, Lydia
(1838-1908)
Actress,
burlesque star
A.L.S. to Messrs Simmonds & Brown,
complaining that one of her actors has
“thrown her over” and asking for another
juvenile lead immediately.
25 Nov. 1891
New York, N.Y.
Thompson,
Silvanus Phillips
(1851-1916)
Physics lecturer
and author
A.L.S. to C.A. Chant of the Department of
Physics, U. of. T. concerning forwarding a
copy of the Gilbert Club’s edition of Gilbert
on the magnet. A presentation copy,
including notes, will follow shortly.
24 Oct. 1903
Technical College,
Finsbury, London,
[England]
A.L.S. to Prof. C.A. Chant acknowledging
receipt of $9.80. Reminding him of
upcoming papers in honour of the
tercentenary of Gilbert’s death.
3 Dec. 1903
Morland,
Chislett Road,
West Hampstead, N.W.
Receipt signed by Silvanus Thompson for
$9.80 made out to C.A. Chant.
3 Dec. 1903
[s.l.]
76
All three removed from the Gilbert Club’s De
magnete (London, 1900).
8.010
Thomson, Hugh
Postcard with an illustration by the author to
T. MacEwan. Removed from Gaskell,
Elizabeth. Cranford (London, 1891).
8.011
Thorburn, Grant
(1773-1863)
Anglo-America
author
Part of a letter acknowledging receipt of wood 9 Sep. 1856
from “Charter Oak”, and forwarding to the
unidentified addressee a copy of The Life of
Grant Thorburn.
[s.l.]
8.012
Tocqueville,
Alexis de
(1805-1859)
French politician
and writer
A.L.S. to Henry Reeve regretting that he
cannot comply with Reeve’s request with
regards to publishing an article concerning
Canada; the difficulties of presenting such an
article to the English public written by a
French man; on the distinct character of the
French Canadian population; on the
difficulties of French and English
cohabitating.
3 Jan. 1838
[France]
2 Jan. [1838?]
Bowood [House,
Wiltshire, England]
29 Mar. 1914
Highcroft, Michelgrove
Road, Boscombe,
[Henry PettyFitzmaurice, 3rd
Marquess of]
Lansdowne
(1780-1863)
Whig politician
and reformer
8.013
Tollemache,
Lionel
Oct. 1898
A.L.S. to [Henry] Reeve admitting that it be
valuable to have a statement on Canada by
Tocqueville
A.L.S to his niece, Homera, thanking her for
some bookmarks; concerning a recently
Putney, [London,
England]
77
Hants.
(1838-1919)
British author
published article written by Tollemache
entitled “Bacon on public life”; concerning a
recent biography of Goldwin Smith, the
addressee’s uncle; references to Tolemache’s
books Nuts and chestnuts. Likely written by a
secretary but with Tollemache’s
“typhlograph” or “blind signature” in pencil.
8.014
Tompuri, Elli
(1880-1962)
Finnish actress
A.L.S. to John Watkins acknowledging
receipt of Watkins letter of congratulations.
With envelope.
8.015
Toynbee, Arnold
(1889-1975)
British historian
A.L.S. to Mr Ahmed thanking him for serving 18 Mar. 1957
as host to Toynbee and his wife during their
recent visit to Karachi. Removed from a set
of Toynbee’s works by Merrill.
[s.l.]
8.016
Toynbee, Paget
Jackson
(1855-1932)
Dictionary author,
Dante scholar
Traill, Catherine
Parr
(1802-1899)
Canadian pioneer,
author
A.L.S. to Mr Vernon concerning some entries
in Toynbee’s dictionary; thanking Vernon for
forwarding Norton’s letter.
18 Sep. 1900
Dorney Wood,
Burnham, Bucks.,
[England]
A.L.S. to her niece Agnes [Chamberlin]
concerning her home near Lakefield, Canada
West; outlining her publishing history in
England and Canada; provides a brief
biography; that she is presently working on a
book on the forest, trees and wild flowers of
western Canada; complaining of Canada and
that it has not provided the support expected.
With typescript.
29 Oct. 1861
Westove-Lakefield,
[Canada West]
8.017
3 Feb. 1950
Helsinki, [Finland]
78
8.018
Tredgold,
Thomas
(1788-1829)
Engineering
writer
8.019
Trevelyan,
G[eorge]
M[acaulay].
(1876-1962)
Historian, Master
of Trinity
College,
Cambridge
Trollope,
Theodosia
(1825-1865)
Writer, periodical
reviewer, first
wife of Thomas
Adolphus
Trollope
Trollope, Thomas
Adolphus
(1810-1892)
Author
8.020
8.021
8.022
Tupigny, Jacques
A.L.S. to Dr Tilloch suggesting that a few
25 Jul. 1822
paragraphs from his most recent work on civil
engineering be included in an upcoming issue
of Tilloch’s publication by way of
advertisement; lamenting the death of his
brother. With envelope and seal.
A.L.S. (typescript) to Mr [Sigmund?] Samuel, 15 Feb. 1944
thanking him for the suggestion that Trinity
College, Cambridge should present some
duplicates of books in Newton’s library,
recently come into Trinity’s possession) to the
University of Toronto. With a list of the
books donated.
16 Grove Place, Lisson
Grove,
[London, England]
A.L.S. to Mr B--- forwarding the preface to
Vita d’Arnaldo; asking him to correct some
sheets for her from a play that she is writing;
discussing some translation work; discussing
the beautiful location from which she is
writing.
28 Jun. 1845
Casa Martini: alla villa,
Bagni di Lucca, [Italy]
A.L.S. inviting the unidentified addressee to
come to Italy to see it in its changed
circumstances; discusses the writing of The
Dream Numbers; on his new American wife
[Frances E. Trollope] who has written a book,
Mabel’s progress.
13 Jan. 1868
Florence, [Italy]
A.L.S. congratulating the unidentified
19 Oct. 1930
113, Rue de Courcelles,
The Master’s Lodge,
Trinity College,
Cambridge
79
8.023
[Paris]
Pierre Meurgey,
Baron
(b. 1891)
addressee on his literary works concerning the
English miniature of the 10th and 11th
centuries; an article written on a Flemish
Book of Hours; work for the Palaeographical
Society.
Vaillancourt,
Emile
(1889- )
Diplomate, Chief
of the Canadian
Legation, Cuba
A.L.S. to Dr W.S. Wallace, requesting
information on William O’Ryan, a
Torontonian executed by the Spanish in 1873
as one of the Cuban rebels; offers to send a
reproduction of O’Ryan’s portrait.
28 Dec. 1945
Canadian Legation,
Havanna, [Cuba]
Copy of reply to Vaillancourt, saying that he
will do what he can to gather the pertinent
information on O’Ryan.
2 Jan. 1946
[Toronto]
Copy of a letter from the parish priest of St
Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, Toronto, to
W.S. Wallace, forwarding a copy of what he
believes is O’Ryan’s baptismal certificate.
8 Jan. 1946
St Paul’s Rectory,
Power Street, Toronto
8 Jan. 1946
Walsh, Rev. R.P.
Copy of a letter to W.S. Wallace containing a
citation for the baptismal entry for a William
Ryan, baptized in March 1843.
St Paul’s Rectory,
Power Street, Toronto
10 Jan. 1946
[Toronto]
Wallace, W.S.
Copy of a letter to Vaillancourt that enclosed
the baptismal information from St Paul’s
Church.
Wallace, W.S.
Librarian,
University of
Toronto
(1884-1970)
Walsh, Rev. R.P.
Pastor of St
Paul’s R.C.
Church, Toronto
80
Vaillancourt,
Emile
A.L.S. to W.S. Wallace thanking him for
forwarding the baptismal information;
sending Wallace documentation on Ryan’s
activities in Cuba.
21 Feb. 1946
Canadian Legation,
Havana, [Cuba]
Copy of a response to Vaillancourt, thanking
him for the information about Ryan.
25 Feb. 1946
[Toronto]
Wallace, W.S.
Vaillancourt,
Emile
Wallace, W.S.
Wallace, W.S.
16 Mar. 1946
A.L.S. to Wallace forwarding five
photographs of Ryan and memorabilia
associated with him and his activities from the
war for Cuban independence.
Canadian Legation,
Havana, [Cuba]
Copy of a response to Vaillancourt, thanking
him for the photographs.
19 Mar. 1946
[Toronto]
Copy of a response to Vaillancourt’s letter of
9 Apr. 1946, including a translation of a
passage from Biggar’s edition of the Works of
Samuel de Champlain.
12 Apr. 1946
[Toronto]
Typescript manuscript in Spanish of a brief
biography of Ryan, with five photographs of
Ryan and Ryan memorabilia.
8.024
Vaillancourt,
Emile
(1889- )
Diplomate, Chief
of the Canadian
Legation, Cuba
Typescript copy of a letter to the Governor
13 Oct. 1937
General, Lord Tweedsmuir, on the occasion
the G.G.’s speech to the annual meeting of the
Canadian Institute of International Affairs, 12
Oct. 1937, congratulating him for expressing
so well the sentiments of the French Canadian
141 Avenue Pagnuelo,
Outremont, [Quebec]
81
people with regards to Canada and foreign
affairs; regretting the lack of celebrations to
commemorate the centennial of the Rebellion
of 1837.
Duplicate of the reply to the above from a
member of the Governor General’s staff,
thanking him for the book by Oliver Asselin,
and for his kind words of support.
14 Oct. 1937
Government House,
Ottawa.
8.025
Van Horne, Sir
William
Cornelius
(1843-1915)
Vice-President of
the CPR.
A.L.S. to Lord de Vesci, explaining travel
alternatives to him around the Great Lakes,
and how he may exchange tickets.
A.L.S. to conductors of the CPR, granting
permission to Lord de Vesci and W. Shaw
Stewart to ride on freight or construction
trains between Banff & Glacier stations.
With envelope.
30 Sep. 1887
The Canadian Pacific
Railway Co., Montreal
30 Sep. 1887
The Canadian Pacific
Railway Co., Montreal
Proposed itineraries from Quebec to New
Westminster.
[1887?]
Names of agents and managers of the CPR in
Montreal, Winnipeg, Banff and Vancouver.
82
8.026
W., R.
20 Aug. 1772
A.L.S. describing his journey from York, up
the Hudson River to Albany, Schenectady;
description of Albany town; visit to a
missionary 20 miles from Schenectady and
comments on his native congregation; a visit
to the home of Sir William Poppson, who is
rather boorish; on to Fort Stanwix; to the head
of Lake Oneida; to the Falls of Oswego;
battles with mosquitoes; encounters with
natives; to Lake Ontario; Niagara; entertained
well at Fort Niagara; detailed description of
Niagara Falls; planting vegetables on the
island just above the Falls; return to
“civilization”; comments on Quebec and how
much of it has not been rebuilt since the siege;
comments on Sillery – “beautiful enough for
Canada”; regretting that the spot where Wolfe
fell is not properly marked.
Quebec
8.027
Walker & Miles,
Publishers
Letter to Benjamin Eager, questioning his
19 Nov. 1875
complaints about the New Standard Atlas of
Canada and refusing to accept its return to the
company.
11 King St. W.,
Toronto
Letter to Benjamin Eager threatening to take
proceedings against him for nonpayment of
debt incurred by subscribing to the Atlas.
Letter to Benjamin Eager, once again
threatening to take proceedings against him
for nonpayment of debt incurred by
22 Jan. 1876
11 King St. W.,
Toronto
12 Feb. 1876
83
subscribing to the Atlas.
11 King St. W.,
Toronto
Old Orchard,
Broadstone, Wimborne,
[England]
8.028
Wallace, Alfred
N.
(1828-1913)
English naturalist,
evolutionist,
geographer,
anthropologist,
social critic,
writer and theorist
A.L.S. to Mrs Wagstaffe advising her that his
book is likely available at the Spiritualists’
Society in Huddersfield; also referring her to
Mr Bennett’s book.
8.029
Wallace, W.S.
Librarian,
University of
Toronto
(1884-1970)
A.L.S. to J.N. Wallace concerning an article
6 Oct. 1932
he has written on the fur trade in the
Canadian Historical Review and expressing
his belief in the need for a biographical
dictionary of fur traders; his recent research in
London.
University of Toronto
Library
8.030
Waterbury,
Florance
(1883Author, Far
Eastern scholar
A.L.S. to Mr Zup (Kup?) thanking him for the 10 May ---roses; inviting him to dinner before Bernard’s
lecture; reference to The Bird Deities.
Removed from Hind, A.M. An introduction
to a history of woodcut (Boston, 1935)
[s.l.]
8.031
Weaver, Robert
10 Jul. 1951
8.032
CBC Talks and
Public Affairs
Webling, Peggy
A.L.S. to Norman Endicott setting an
appointment for Prof. Endicott to participate
in an airing of “Wednesday Night”.
A.L.S. to Mr J.S. Willison (1856-1927),
26 Sep. 1896
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation,
254 Jarvis Street,
Toronto
[Toronto]
29 Jan. 1911
84
(1870 or 72 - )
Author,
playwright
informing him that she cannot present Mr
Preston’s letter in person since she is going
west; asking him to do a short review of a
book that she has just produced with her
sister, [Lucy].
8.033
Webster, William
G.
(1805-1869)
A.L.S. to Lemuel Olmstead, conveying
opinions differing from Olmstead’s on the
events surrounding the surrender of
Cornwallis, based on a conversation with a
Major Custis. With envelope.
11 May 1855
Arlington House,
Near Alex[andria],
Virg[inia]
8.034
Wedmore,
Millicent
A.L.S. to Mr Ingpen asking him to post some
notices; expressing surprise that so few of her
works are bound; a poem she will recite
entitled “Before Dawn”; hoping someone will
propose her name for the BBC.
[s.d]
[s.l.]
Note on mourning stationery requesting that
Messrs Ingpen & Grant would forward two
copies of Wedmore’s poems to Sir George
Douglas.
18 Dec. 1930
Springwood Park,
Kelso
Title page from Wedmore’s Collected Poems.
[s.d.]
London
15 Mar. 1922
120, Whitehall Court,
[London, England]
A.L.S. to Roger Ingpen, informing him of her
visit the next afternoon.
8.035
Wells, H.G.
(1866-1946)
British author
A.L.S. to Frederike Lederer predicting that in
spite of recent difficulties, British, Germans
and Austrian people will be able to work
85
together to discuss the future of Europe; but
he maintains that there is no point in
discussing the conduct or causes of the war.
A.L.S. thanking the addressee for some
photographs.
23 Apr. 1935
47, Chiltern Court,
Clarence Gate,
[London, England]
8.036
White, Sir
Thomas
(1866- )
A.L.S. to Sir George Foster congratulating
him on his recent marriage; also on his
performance at the Geneva Conference.
13 Jan. 1921
Queen’s Park,
Toronto
Stencil copy of a circular letter to financial
supporters of the archdeacon’s missionary
activities; describing his journey with the
other missionaries into the Canadian north, in
the area around Athabaska; the effects of the
European War on the local fur trade;
concerning the explorer Stefansson who is
believed lost; New Year’s celebrations.
21 Dec. 1914
St Matthew’s Mission,
Fort McPherson,
via Edmonton, Alberta
Canadian
Minister of
Finance 19111919.
8.037
Whittaker, C.E.
Archdeacon,
Anglican
missionary
Stencil copy of basic information on Fort
86
McPherson.
A.L.S. to Mrs Grover, providing some more
information about the move to Fort
McPherson, along with the various losses to
the household furnitures; dietary problems;
her loneliness and her homesickness.
14 Jan. 1915
St Matthew’s Mission,
Fort McPherson,
8.038
8.039
8.040
Whittaker, M.
Widder, Frederick A.L.S. to W.H. Wrighton forwarding releases
(1801-1865)
for the signature of Daniel Griffith for lands
in Dummer and Douro.
Head of the
Canada Company
Wilkinson, J.J.
A.N.S. to Mme Dubuc, introducing his friend,
Garth
Rutherford Russell.
(1845-1883)
Willard, M.D.
A.L.S. to his brother J.M. Willard concerning
the cholera epidemic currently ravaging
Montreal.
9 Sep. 1843
Canada Company
Office,
Freak St,
Toronto
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
24 Jun. 1832
Dunham, [Quebec]
8.041
Willcocks,
William
(1735/36-1813)
Merchant,
colonizer
A.L.S. to Nicholas Low of New York,
2 Oct. 1799
informing him of the sale of two townships by
the government of U.C. should he be
interested. Removed from Canada (Upper
Canada 1791-1840) Executive Council, 1799.
York, U.C.
8.042
Williams,
A.L.S. to Edmond S. Meany concerning past
135 Whitney Ave,
7 Nov. 1916
87
8.043
Frederick Wells
(1857-1928)
Author, Asian
scholar
Wilson, Sir
Daniel
New Haven, Ct
literary works by Williams’ father concerning
Asiatic studies; refers him to his own study of
Anson Burlingame.
A.L.S. to the Rev. M. MacDougal of the
Italian Free Church in Florence, introducing
one of the College’s professors, David Keys,
who is in Italy to study the language.
30 May 1884
University College,
Toronto
8.044
Winstanley,
Denis Arthur
A.L.S. to Sigmund Samuel acknowledging
Samuel’s letter of thanks for the gift of books
to the University of Toronto associated with
Sir Isaac Newton.
15 Feb. 1944
Trinity College,
Cambridge
8.045
Wodehouse, P.G.
(1881-1975)
British author
Wollstonecraft,
E[dward?]
A.N.S. to B[eatrice] M. Corrigan, thanking
her for her note and mentioning that he has
just finished another Jeeves novel.
Signed receipt for 3 pounds 10 shillings from
William Simpson. Removed from
Wollstonecraft, Mary. A vindication of the
rights of woman. (London, 1792).
15 Sep. 1933
[Postage
mark]
4 Oct. 1780
Hunstanton, Norfolk
[Postage mark]
8.047
Woodcock,
George
(1912- )
Canadian author
A.L.S. to Peter Weinreich informing him that
he will not be in Vancouver during his
proposed visit; that he would find more on
anarchist literature in the TPL than in
Vancouver.
3 Nov. 1978
6429 McCleery St,
Vancouver, B.C.
8.048
Woolley, Ernest
A.N.S. to Millar forwarding photographs of
the Abbot Thomas de la Mare brass at St
Albans.
8 Nov. 1929
Collingworth,
Lemsford Road,
St Albans, [England]
8.046
[s.l.]
88
8.049
Wormald, Francis
(1904-1972)
Historian,
paleographer
A.L.S. to Sir Sydney thanking him for his
card from Asolo, and informing him of the
activities of their acquaintances, Fr Boniwell
and Margaret Rickart.
2 Jul. 1938
Dept. of Manuscripts,
British Museum,
London.
8.050
Wordsworth,
William
(1835-1917)
Poet’s son
Palazzo Marciano
8.051
[Wrighton, W.H.]
A.L.S. to Mrs Smith thanking her for her brief 30 Dec. [s.a.]
survey of Shakespeare; forwarding (not
actually enclosed) an unpublished poem
written by Wordsworth as “a diversion from
depressing feelings”; explains why he chose
not to publish it.
Letter to Frederick Widder concerning land
13 Sep. 1843
transactions in Dummer and Douro
Townships involving Mr O. Griffith who is
suffering financial embarrassment.
8.052
Yonge, Charlotte
(1823-1901)
British author
A.L.S. to “Henry” asking him to sell her
shares in Lima; relaying Kenneth and Julian’s
activities
23 Feb. 1872
Elderfield, Otterbourne,
Winchester, [England]
16 Aug. 1924
Currant Hill,
Westerham, Kent,
[England]
Peterboro, [Canada
West]
Photograph in an unsigned note “for one
faithful admirer of Miss Yonge from two
others.”
8.053
Younghusband,
Sir Francis
Edward
(1863-1942)
British author,
explorer
A.L.S. to Miss Wolff commenting on Alan
Pryce Jones’ poetic efforts and future career.
89
8.054
Zola, Emile
A.L.S. to [Frantz Jourdain], thanking him for
his notes, and commenting on Jourdain’s
dream of a great modern bazaar. With a
photograph of Zola.
18 May 1882
Médun
8.055
Zola, Emile
A.L.S. to Ménard trying to establish whether
they will be able to rendezvous within the
next week.
19 Jan. 1900
Paris
9.001
[s.n.]
17 Mar. 1685
[Venice]
9.002
Booth, John
Bennion
(1880- )
Written from the Accademia degli Uniti of
Venice, concerning the termination of one
appointment and establishing a new
“principe”. In Italian. Removed from
Xenophon, Works. Basel, 1545. E-10 00995.
Two letters. The first, A.L.S. of G.J. Stampa
(1875-1951) apologizing for the delay in
forwarding “anything of Herman” suitable for
reproduction.
8 Sep. [s.a.]
Heath Corner,
Queen’s Drive,
Oxshott, Surrey
British author
The second letter is a TS. from Rudyard
1 Apr. 1933
Kipling’s secretary, C.L. Nicholson
acknowledging receipt of Booth’s book. With
envelope.
Bateman’s Burwash,
Sussex.
9.003
Bridges, Robert
A.N.S. to Elkin Mathews, Publisher,
requesting two dozen copies of Two Fishers.
With envelope.
8 Dec. 1918
Chilswell, [England]
9.004
Byers, J. Frank
A.L.S. to the librarian of the Salem
Athenaeum, with an advertisement of books
6 Apr. 1865
Philadelphia
90
published by Rice, Rutter & Co., of
Philadelphia, asking that he consider
purchasing.
9.005
A.N.S. thanking Mary T. de Lautour and
friends in Bournemouth for their kind
message. On House of Commons stationery.
With envelope.
Posted 1 Oct.
1945
House of Commons,
[London]
9.006
Churchill, Sir
Winston
(1874-1965)
Prime Minister of
Great Britain
Cressey, William
“A general description of the British
settlements in North America.”
5 Jul. 1827
[s.l.]
9.007
Daykin, A.
A.N.S. attached to a list of registered letters,
asking the recipient if he received a brass
horn in the mail by error.
13 Dec. 1892
Regina, Sask.
9.008
Drake, Samuel
A.L.S. to G.M. Elliott thanking addressee for
his recent letter. Enquires after Hallett’s
report; will send half a dozen catalogues;
states that his son’s biographical dictionary is
now out and states price.
23 Mar. 1872
Boston, Mass.
9.009
Hose, Henry
Fieldwick
(1876- )
A.L.S. to Humfrey Michell concerning the
pleasures of retirement, the difficulties of
rationing, news about mutual acquaintances
from Dulwich College, and his own life.
Removed from Dulwich College War
Records, 1914-1919.
1 Dec. 1946
[s.l.]
9.010
Ferriguto,
Arnaldo
Removed from an autographed presentation
copy of Ferriguto’s Attraverso I ‘misteri’ di
[1933?]
[s.l.]
91
Giogione (Castelfranco Veneto, 1933) to Ugo
Oietti. Presumably, this letter is also to him.
[s.d.]
[19th cent.]
[s.l.]
Post card to Miss Wharf concerning an
upcoming visit to London. Signed A.E.M.B.
Postmark: 31
Jan. 1903
East Dulwich
T.L.S. to Foster from [Maj. Robert] Rennie
concerning the anniversary of a 1917 battle
under Foster’s command.
17 Jan. 1928
Office, 134 Adelaide St
East, Toronto
T.L.S. from McC. Christison to Foster
concerning the Toll Gate at Dulwich College.
10 Feb. 1932
Alleyn Club, Dulwich
College
A.L.S. from McC. Christison concerning a
portrait of the sender recently executed and
hanging in the College Board Room; his
retirement; a recent dinner in Montreal; news
of the school rugger team.
24 Dec. 1958
Alleyn Club, Dulwich
College
9.011
Fisklatre (?), J.R.
A.L.S. to Thomas Patteson [his bookplate]
concerning a passage of Virgil which he is
having difficulty interpreting. Removed from
Virgil, Works (London, 1821). D-10 07512.
9.012
Foster, Harold
William
Alexander
(1882- )
Correspondence principally relating to
Dulwich College with news and
reminiscences about the college as well as
current news from the senders. With one
1926 place card for H.W.A. Foster for a
college reunion dinner, signed. Removed
from Dulwich College Register (D-10 07391)
92
6 Feb. 1959
35, Silverwood
Avenue,
Newton Abbot, Devon
28 Feb. 1959
Box 611,
Lennoxville, Quebec
A.L.S. to Mr Deval, thanking him for reading
and correcting his proofs, and wishing him
well in writing his own book. With a
booklabel from Deval and Muir Reference
Library. Removed from: Colin Franklin,
Private Presses (London, 1969) in Horne
Collection.
9 Nov. 1968
Home Farm, Culham,
Nr. Abingdon, Berks.,
[England]
A.L.S. from H.F. Hose, concerning news of
various former classmates from the 1902
class.
A.L.S. from Humfrey Michell concerning
various old classmates including Bishops
Rawlinson and Owen, Barraclough and
Goldwin Smith.
9.013
Franklin, Colin
British author
9.014
Greer, Hon. LtCol
Covering letter for the Special Form of Prayer
and Thanksgiving to be used in the Canadian
Corps to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
Canadian Confederation.
29 Aug. 1917
Canadian Corps H.Q.
B.E.F.
9.015
Harrap, George
A.
(1868- )
Letters in MS. to Thomas Conant, Oshawa.
The first requests the addressee to write a
review in the Globe on John Imrie’s Songs
and Miscellaneous Poems, to assist in reestablishing Imrie’s business.
15 Mar. 1894
167 Markham St,
Toronto
Publisher &
bookagent
93
The second letter thanks the addressee on
behalf of Mr Imrie. With envelope.
25 Jun. 1894
Cor. Church &
Colborne Streets,
Toronto
13 Mar. 1945
Naples, [Italy]
Removed from: John Imrie, Songs and
Miscellaneous poems (Toronto, 1894).
9.016
Hoggart, Richard
President of the
Three Arts Club
of Naples
T.L.S. to Gwen Hayball thanking her for the
free subscription to Horizon; reviewing the
various activities of the club.
A.L.S. to Miss Hayball concerning a recent
publication which is experiencing a great deal
of public disapproval from the British
military.
13 Aug. 1945
Naples, [Italy]
With two flyers and an advertisement. With
envelopes.
9.017
Holmes, C. et al.
A.L.S. concerning the Desjardins Canal,
Hamilton, U.C.
11 Feb. 1826
York, [U.C.]
9.018
Huxley, Thomas
H.
(1825-1895)
Zoologist,
botanist,
Evolutionist,
author
Author’s MS. notes on a matter of zoological
classification. Removed from the author’s
Advance of science in the last half century
(1887).
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
9.019
Ingelow, Jean
A.L.S. to Mrs Walford, thanking her for a gift
of flowers. Removed from the author’s Sarah
[s.d.]
6, Holland Villas Road,
Kensington
94
de Berenger (London, 1880)
9.020
Knight, George
Wilson
(1897-1985)
English writer
and critic
A.L.S. thanking [Mr] de Groot for his
explanation of cuts in King Lear, stating that
they should be done for technical reasons
only. He feels that today’s producers distort
Shakespeare’s intentions. Sends addressee a
play of his own, and congratulates him on
another play called Prompt. Removed from
the author’s The Last of the Incas (Leeds,
1954).
20 Dec. 1963
Caroline House,
Streatham Rise,
Exeter
9.021
Lacroix, Paul
A.L.S. in French concerning recent family
maladies and some manuscripts that he has
recently been dealing with. Removed from
P.L. Jacob, Dissertations bibliographiques
(Paris, 1864).
[ca. 1864]
[s.l.]
9.022
Longman & Co.
Publishers
MS. letter of thanks returning to Mr E Jeffery,
Pall Mall, a copy of Ld. Birneri Froissart.
Someone will speak to Jeffery regarding the
illuminated copy when he sees him.
Removed from J. Froissart, Chroniques
(London, 1523-25).
11 May 1812
London
9.023
Mathews, C.
Elkin
Two receipts from the Leaden Hall Press for
3 Jul. 1890
copies of London City. With envelope from
The Bibliographical Society and a pencil
drawing of a dog and horse signed “Mathews”
at the top.
London
95
9.024
Mather, William
G.
Holmes, Thomas
Librarian of the
Mather collection
9.025
Morris, Francis
Orpen
Rector, 18541893
Nunburnholme
Parish, York
T.L.S. to John Singer Sargent, forwarding a
copy of Kenneth Murdock’s book, The
portraits of Increase Mather …With
envelope.
27 Feb. 1925
30 Dec. 1925
T.L.S. to Frank Deering concerning
arrangements to obtain a copy The portraits of
Increase Mather which is now no longer in
print. With a note dated 1930 explaining how
the current owner of the book obtained his
copy.
A.L.S. thanking the addressee for a recent
entry in a paper; a petition being forwarded to
the House of Commons.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio
[s.d.]
Nunburnholm Rectory,
York, [England]
[s.l.]
A.L.S. thanking the addressee for the return
of the petition; considering another petition
on the protection of birds’ eggs.
9.026
Paludan-Müller,
Caspar Peter
(1805-1882)
A.L.S. in Danish to Christian Peder Theodor
Rosenǿrn-Teilmann. Removed from the
author’s Studier til Danmarks historie I det
13de aaraundrede (Kjǿbenhavn, 1869).
12 Sep. 1869
9.027
Pater, Walter
(1839-1894)
A.L.S. thanking J.M. Gray for his
congratulations on Pater’s recent volume.
Hopes to see him in London. With envelope.
4 Jun. [1887?] 12 Earl’s Terrace,
[London?]
T.L.S. to Frantz concerning prices,
24 Feb
9.028
Author, aesthete,
critic, essayist
Pound, Ezra
{Italy}
96
(1885-1972)
Douglasites, Roosevelt & Co.
American poet
Note in pencil concerning Roosevelt.
[1946?]
[s.d.]
Postcard facsimile of a 1948 letter from
Pound in the Pound-Willis Hawley
Correspondence.
9.029
Roberts, Lloyd
(1884-1966)
Author
9.030
T.L.S. to Mr Hathaway apologizing for the
26 May 1924
delay in answering his two letters. He thanks
the addressee for appreciating the Book of
Roberts and for sending him the story of
Warwick Brothers and Rutter. Removed from
the author’s The Book of Roberts (Toronto,
1923).
[s.l.]
Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby,
B.C.
House of Commons
Canada
The Press Gallery
T.N.S. of thanks to J.G. Matthews, for a
contribution to the Indian Soldiers’ Fund.
With envelope.
10 Oct. 1914
Englemere, Ascot,
Berks., [England]
9.031
Roberts,
Frederick Sleigh,
Lord
1832-1914
Robinson, Robert
A.L.S. to Clark Bowman, thanking him for
letting him see his rare copy of Aesop, and
praising the book for the quality of its
illustrations. Removed from The beauties of
Aesop (London, 1786).
[Late 19th
cent.]
Oxford Mansions,
14, Oxford Street,
[London]
9.032
Roy, J.J.
A.N.S. to Charles Linsley (?) forwarding a
copy of the last report of the Colonial Church
and School Society.
Removed from Church of England French
6 Jun. 1882
Robinson House,
Bay St.,
City
[Montreal?]
97
Mission Record and annual Report of
Colonial Church and School (Montreal,
1880).
9.033
Saunders, Illa
Wife of Reginald
Saunders (18981945), Publisher
Series of correspondence concerning the
death of Reginald Saunders. Correspondence
includes Reginald Saunders & Co., Walter W.
Comber, Frederick Muller and Charles Clay.
Includes A.L.S., 3 T.L., 9 T.L.S., and an
obituary from Quill and Quire.
1945
Various
9.034
Smith, O.I.
A.L.S. to his brother Alf concerning
recruitment for the war effort; the sinking of
the Amphion; comments on reporting the war
news in American and British papers; various
ships in port; reports on his health.
16 Sep. 1914
1621 Blanchard St,
Victoria, B.C.
9.035
Stone, M.W.
Correspondence and financial records
concerning theatre books.
1931-1938
Denmark
9.036
Wells, H.G.
(Herbert George)
Author
Collection of correspondence and papers
between Wells and M.H. Spielmann
concerning G. Herbert Thring, former
secretary of the Society of Authors,
Playwrights & Composers. 4 T.L. (some
copies), 3 T.L.S., with a single envelope, and
enclosures. Removed from H.G. Wells, The
problem of the troublesome collaborator
(Woking, 1930).
1930
London and Uplands
9.037
White, George
A.L.S. to Mr Storrs Fry, thanking him on
7 Feb. 1906
Cotham House, Bristol
98
behalf of the Committee of the Bristol Royal
Infirmary for his cheque. Received a copy of
Seyer’s Bristol which belonged to Fry’s father
and now wishes Fry to have it. Removed
from Samuel Seyer, Memoirs (Bristol, 1821).
9.038
Young, Ian
Holograph letter from John Herbert
discussing a one-act play of Herbert
Jackson’s, and generally discussing what is
wrong with Canadian theatre.
9.039
Young, Ian
Seven items, including letters, two essays, one Mar.-Oct.
flyer mainly relating to poems, fiction, and
1979
writers from James Purdy.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
9.040
Young, Ian
Three letters from Irving Layton (1 A.L.S., 2
T.L.S.) thanking Young for his anthology
Mate Muse, and requesting a meeting.
Thanks Young for the use of Layton’s poem
in Young’s forthcoming anthology. With
envelopes.
1974-1980
Montreal
Ricci, Luigi
Chairman of the
Executive
Committee, Dante
Society of
London.
A.N.S. to Canon Lonsdale Ragg, forwarding
the latest volumes of the Dante Society’s
Lectures, and asking him to consider the
delivery of a lecture in the near future. With
envelope.
25 Mar. 1911
38 Conduit St W.,
[London]
[s.d.]
[London]
The Dante
Society, London
Printed “Syllabus of Lectures” of the Dante
Society for 1911-12
9.041
14 Oct. 1971
20 Clarenville Street,
South Kensington,
London
Downsview, Ont.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
99
Ragg, Lonsdale
(?)
Anglican priest,
Dante scholar
Toynbee, Pagel
Udall, N.R.
Secretary of the
Athenaeum,
Pall Mall,
[London]
18 May 1917
Bangor, [Wales?]
19 Oct. 1917
Fiveways, Burnham,
Bucks., [England]
24 Oct. 1941
The Athenaeum,
Pall Mall, [London]
Dante Lecture I. Notes
A.L.S. to Lonsdale Ragg, congratulating him
on his recovery of health, and describing his
current domestic situation.
A.N.S. to Lonsdale Ragg thanking him for
sending Mr Copplestone-Boughey’s
completed card, and assuming that he wishes
to be considered for election.
9.042
Lacey, Ed A.
(1938- )
Canadian poet,
activist
Nine cards and fourteen letters to Ian Young.
Discusses gay culture in Canada, the U.S. and
the Third World; gay literature and
journalism; the censorship of the Body
Politic; 2 p. of biographical notes.
1974-1980
Various places in South
America, North Africa,
and Europe
9.043
Taylor, Peter
(18th cent.)
Some directions concerning the trade to
Newfoundland. A detailed study, some 15002000 words in length, almost certainly
prepared by Peter Taylor of Whitehaven. The
anonymous author sets out the nature of the
Newfoundland trade for a potential investor the number of ships needed, potential
Ca. 1750
[England?]
100
9.044
9.045
Wellesley, Arthur
1st Duke of
Wellington
(1769-1852)
Soldier, politician
Prime Minister of
Britain
Panofsky, Erwin,
(1892-1968)
9.046
Drake, Bryant
Stillman
9.047
Sands, Dr. E.
9.048
MacDiarmid,
markets, patterns of trade (with the West
Indies & Portugal), and much else. Taylor
was later to buy a plantation in South
Carolina.
Letter to [Robert] Peel, informing him of the
King’s decision to approve the Bishop of
Exeter (Christopher Bethell) as the new
Bishop of Bangor, and the appointment of
Henry Phillpotts as Bishop of Exeter.
Five T.L.S. from Erwin Panofsky, Princeton,
New Jersey, to Stillman Drake, San
Francisco, October 27, 1955, March 5, April
16, April 23 and April 30, 1956.-- Copies of
Drake's replies, April 13, April 19 and April
26, 1956.-- Copy of T.L. from Drake to Dr. I.
Bernard Cohen, Editor, Isis, April 19, 1956.-Copy of Panofsky's reply to the review,
addressed to the editor of Isis (9 leaves) with
corrections in MS.
Radium : 4th Friday lecture, S. Stephen's
Hall, Nov. 27th, 1903; Cymroderian Society
of California, Jan'y. 12, 1904 / by Bryant
Stillman Drake.
4 page report detailing the medical treatment
of one Westroppe McDougall who was shot
near Rice Lake, Ontario, 5 Sep. 1892.
Removed from Dr John Beatty’s [Notebook]
– MSS jah 0021.
Holograph poem entitled “Empty Vessel”.
6 Oct. 1830
London
1955-1956
Various
1903
[s.l.]
8 Nov. 1892
Coldsprings, Ont.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
101
9.049
9.050
9.051
9.052
Hugh
(1892-1978)
Scottish Poet,
a.k.a. Christopher
Murray Grieve
MacDiarmid,
Hugh
(1892-1978)
Scottish Poet,
a.k.a. Christopher
Murray Grieve
MacDiarmid,
Hugh
(1892-1978)
Scottish Poet,
a.k.a. Christopher
Murray Grieve
MacDiarmid,
Hugh
(1892-1978)
Scottish Poet,
a.k.a. Christopher
Murray Grieve
MacDiarmid,
Hugh
(1892-1978)
Scottish Poet,
a.k.a. Christopher
On verso: “One of fifty special copies”.
Published in his Collected Poems, p. 50. New
York : Macmillan, 1962. Massey College
Collection.
Holograph poem entitled “The Little White
Rose of Scotland”. On verso: “One of fifty
special copies”. Published in his Collected
Poems, p. 248. New York : Macmillan, 1962.
Massey College Collection.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Holograph poem entitled “Skald’s Death”.
On verso: “One of fifty special copies”.
Published in his Collected Poems, p. 268.
New York : Macmillan, 1962. Massey
College Collection.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
1 ALS (signed “Chris”) to Helen B.
1 Jun. 1950
Cruikshank, enclosing the note with the Burns
book as promised. Comments on the BBC
poetry discussion group in which they
participated, and on the splendid weather.
Removed from the Massey College
Collection, Robert Burns, Poems. Selected
and introduced by Hugh MacDiarmid.
Edinburgh: Grey Walls Press, 1949.
ANS to Kulgin Duval. 2 leaves, explaining
Nov. 1964
the reason for the exclusion of two poems
from his Collected Poems, and the reason for
reprinting them. Removed from the Massey
College Collection, Hugh MacDiarmid,
Dungaval, by
Strathaven,
Lanarkshire, [Scotland]
Biggar, [Scotland]
102
Murray Grieve
9.053
Chisolm, Lillias
Scott
9.054
Duval, Kulgin
Scottish
bookseller
9.055
McLaren, Moray
9.056
Scottish author
[Catholic Church]
9.057
[s.n.]
Ministry of Water; Two Poems. Glasgow: D.
Glen, 1964.
T.L.S. to Duncan Glen, thanking him for the
letter and for her including her poem to
Christopher in the collection. Points out an
error owing to “my own hasty typing”.
Removed from the Massey College
Collection. Lillias Scott Chisolm, Poems
addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, and
presented to him on his seventy-fifth birthday.
Foreword by Hugh MacDiarmid. Edinburgh:
M. MacDonald, 1966.
A.N.S. to Douglas, thanking him for lending
them Direadh, and wishing them “a very
good New Year”. On verso of printed card
with poem by Sir Walter Scott. Removed
from the Massey College Collection, Hugh
MacDiarmid, Direadh. Dunfermline: Printed
by J.B. Mackie, [1938].
“Thirty-eight years of knowing C.M. Grieve”
[i.e. Hugh MacDiarmid].
Collects for the feasts of Blessed Margaret
Bela, daughter of the King of Hungary (6
Feb.), Blessed Anthony Neüroth [Neyrot] (10
Apr.), and Blessed Bartholomew de Bragantis
(Braganza) (23 October). Margaret was
beatified in 1789 and canonized in 1943,
when her feast was transferred to 18 January.
All three are Dominican saints.
Report on the inspection of dykes on
16 May 1967
St Andrews, Fife,
[Scotland]
31 Dec. 1930
[s.l.]
1967
[s.l.]
[18th cent.]
[s.l.]
10 Feb. 1829
[s.l.]
103
9.058
Tolomei, Claudio
(1492-1556)
Humanist author
9.059
LeBret, M. (?)
9.060
Julius III, Pope
(1550-1555)
9.061
Julius III, Pope
(1550-1555)
9.062
Wesley, John
(1703-1791)
Demperston and Demperston Hill, [Fifeshire,
Scotland?].
Excerpt (including a poem) from a letter to
Alessandro Citolino contained in a book
originally printed by Gabriele Giolito de’
Ferrari and brothers in Venice, 1550.
“Mariage de ma fille Marie a Mr Jean Jacques
Collet (?), Sieur des Contuver (?).” Dowry
details.
Instruttione portata da Mons. Pighino
Archivescovo Sipentino destinato Nuntio
all’Imp.re quale part’ al primo di Iuglio 1550.
1. Instruttiono data al Sigr. Ascanio dalla
Corgna per il Re.o Chr.mo li 25 Aprile 1551.
(15 p.) 2. “Instruttione all’Abbati’ Rossetto
alli 28 di Maggio 1551.” (4 p.) 3. Instruttione
per il Vescovo Viterbo col Re Christ.mo alli
19 Mag.o 1551 (6 p.) 4. Instruttione per il
Sigr. Gio. Batta. Monti mandato con lettere
dell’alt.se di Mag.o 1551. (4 ½ p.) 5.
“Instruttione data a Mons. Prospero S.ta
Croce Nuntio destinato al Re. Christ.mo alli
14 di Guigno 1551.” (9 p.) 6. “Instruttione
data a Mons. Montepulciano per lo Imp.re alli
12 Guigno 1551.” (26 p.) 7. “Instruttione data
a Mons. Di Monluch per il Re Chr.mo li 6 di
Iuglio 1551.” (13 p.)
A.N.S. to “my dear brother” concerning the
recipient’s removal to Castle Townsend,
Ireland. Mounted on board. From the estate
of Edgar & Elizabeth Collard.
[18th cent.]
[s.l.]
4 Oct. 1685
[s.l.]
1 July 1550
[Rome]
1551
[Rome]
3 Jun. 1769
Cork, [Ireland]
104
9.063
[Author’s name
illegible]
A.L.S. to Mr R.P. Barnard concerning the
history of the Fitzwarren & Bourchier
families, and their relationship with the
Wantage Grammar School.
3 Mar. 1928
Shaw Dean,
Downington,
Newbury.
9.064
Spender, Stephen
(1909-1995)
Author’s postcard signed, to Harold Randell,
thanking him for his letter and offering to
autograph a program for him.
26 May 1986
Maussane, France
9.065
Maltin, Leonard
(1950- )
Autographed typed letter to Mr & Mrs
13 Mar. 1990
[Harold & Yetta] Randall, thanking them for
their note and explaining why Scaramouche
was not included in his recent television
survey of swashbucklers. On “Entertainment
tonight” letterhead. The gift of Yetta Randall.
5555 Melrose Ave.,
Hollywood, California
9.066
Casson, Margaret
(1900-1992)
Wife of A.J.
Casson
Note to “Bill” thanking him for obtaining an
A[rts]. & L[etters]. Club tie for her, on behalf
of her husband, Alfred [A.J.] Casson. Card
has illustration of Parry Sound, 1929 on front
cover.
22 Mar. 1969
43 Rochester Ave.
Toronto.
10.001
[s.n.]
Genealogy of the Barrington Family of
Barrington Hall, Essex. (Part 1)
[18th cent.]
[England]
[s.n.]
Genealogy of the Barrington Family of
[18th cent.]
[England]
[Family
History]
10.002
105
Barrington Hall, Essex. (Part 2)
[Family
History]
10.003
[s.n]
In dominam Winifridam Barrington a regibus
editam
[17th c.?]
[England]
[Family
History]
10.004
[s.n.]
Genealogy of Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713)
[18th cent.]
[England?]
Guillet, L.P.
(Lawyer)
Genealogy of the Guillet family of Batiscan,
Quebec
11 Feb 1909
Montreal
Murney, Maria
(1817-1875)
TS (carbon). History of the arrival of the
[1859]
Baldwin family in Canada (1798). Note at end
reads: “Recollections of Mary Warren
Breakenridge, written by her daughter, Maria
Murney …”. 15 leaves.
Belleville [Canada
West]
Packham, Murray
A.
(1889-)
“Family history and interrelated pioneer
families”; John Graves Simcoe and the
Queen’s Rangers”. TS. 22 leaves. Families
considered: Packham, Burkholder, Van
Dusen, Rittenburgh, Carpenter, Coon,
Stephenson.
Weston, Ontario
[Family
History]
10.005
[Family
History]
10.006
[Family
History]
10.007
[Family
History]
1949
106
10.008
Schreiber,
Howard Gibbon
Genealogical notes on the descendants of the
Rev. Thomas Schreiber and his wife Sarah
Bingham. TS. p. 24-31. With Sarah’s
account book.
[s.d.]
[Toronto?]
V.,H.
The Viets Family Reunion : August 1st to 9th
1919.
1 Sep. 1919
[Digby]
Wood, Casey A.
The Wood family of Shelf, Halifax Parish,
Yorkshire, England, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Long Island, N.Y., and Canada.
TS., 39 p.
4 Jul. 1920
Chicago
Grunert Family
Correspondence
MS. letters and documents, mostly in
1824-1886
German, written by the relatives of Karl Ernst
Trangott Grunert (1820-1907) and his wife,
Henriette Krause (1825-1894), who emigrated
from Saxony to Wisconsin; TS., in English, of
notes on the family; translation of “A sketch
of our early pioneer life”. Letters catalogued
(see donor files). 19 file folders.
[Germany]
Grunert Family
Documents
Includes will, passport, religious mementos,
certificates (birth, baptismal, confirmation,
marriage, vaccination, American citizenship),
a poem, and a short genealogy of the Krause
family. 17 file folders.
[Germany and USA]
[Family
History]
10.009
[Family
History]
10.010
[Family
History]
11.001
[Family
History]
(19 folders)
11.002
[Family
History]
1824-1856
107
(17 folders)
12.001
Boehm, Henry
(1775-1875)
Part of the journal of the Rev. Henry Boehm
July 1811
that relates to his visits to Canada with Bishop
Asbury in 1811. Photostat copy.
Upper Canada
Byron, Frank W.
The journal of Frank W. Byron. Original MS.
detailing Byron’s eventful journey from
England to Canada; establishing a business in
southern Ontario.
1865-1867
[s.l.]
Byron, Frank W.
The journal of Frank W. Byron. Modern TS.
copy of the above.
[198-?]
[s.l.]
Lesueur, William
Dawson
(1840-1917)
Translation of 2nd part of 1632 volume, pp.
1-80 of original. The last few pages contain
(on verso) interesting remarks and corrections
by Prof. W.F. Ganong
[Ca. 1922]
[London]
Champlain,
Samuel de
Proofs of 16 pages of Voyages de Champlain
aux Indes Occidentales.
[Ca. 1922]
[s.l.]
[Journals]
12.011
Forin, J.A.
Diary concerning the 1870 Rebellion. TS. 35
p. Dated 1 Jan. – 31 Dec. 1885
[196-?]
[s.l.]
[Journals]
12.012
Hargrave, James
TS. (copy, stapled): “Unfinished Journal of a
Clerk at York Factory, Hudson’s Bay
24 Nov. 1939
[York Factory,
Hudson’s Bay
[Journals]
Methodist
missionary
12.002
[Journals]
12.003
[Journals]
12.00412.009
[Journals]
Positivist, social
critic, and author
12.010
108
[Journals]
12.013
Company”. 13 p. Dated 1828-1829
Company]
Henderson, Elmes “Some Reminiscences of a Modern Do-the(1840-1932)
Boys School”. [Upper Canada College]. TS.
Lawyer
(carbon). 8 leaves. With A.L.S. to Hugh
Hornby Langton (1862-1953).
24 July 1929
54 Madison Av[e]
[Toronto]
Henderson, Elmes “Some Reminiscences of Upper Canada
(1840-1932)
College from 1854 to 1857”. TS. (carbon).,
Lawyer
signed. 10 leaves.
July 1929
54 Madison Av[e],
Toronto
“Reminiscences of a Pioneer,” concerning
emigration from Ontario to southern
Manitoba, near Emmerson. TS. 32 p.
[after 1911]
Galt, Ontario
[Journals]
Henry, George
(fl. 1876)
Author
12.016
Rollins, Capt.
Ship’s logbook for the King Philip, Jetty
London Dock
1859
Boston, San Francisco,
Puget Sound, Sydney,
Callao (Peru), Boston
Lash, Zebulon
Aiton
(1846-1920)
Lawyer and
Deputy of Justice
Address concerning his life as a lawyer,
reforms in the legal profession, and life in
Canada from 1868 to 1918. TS. 4 leaves.
20 May 1918
York Club, Toronto
McKay, John
(fl. 19th century)
Fur trader,
Hudson’s Bay
Company
TS transcript (carbon): Mr. John McKay’s
Journal 1812-13, Brandon House and Port
Qu’Appelle. 15 leaves.
[194-?]
Brandon House and
Fort Qu’Appelle
[Journals]
12.014
[Journals]
12.015
[Journals]
12.017
[Journals]
12.018
[Journals]
109
12.019
Mackie, W. B.
1916-1926
Collection of material from 20th Canadian
Battalion, including a war diary covering
operations on the Somme (TS. 3 leaves),
minutes (TS. 2 leaves), T.L.S. to H. V. Rorke
informing him of his election as honorary
president of the 20th Battalion Association,
programmes, and a Christmas card form H. V.
Rorke with photos
[France], Saint Gerard,
Belgium, on board
RMS Caronia, and
Toronto
Mackinlay, James
Diary of a journey northward from Great
Slave Lake, Great Fish River exploring party.
TS. (carbon transcript). 50 leaves. Dated 7
May-23 Aug. 1890.
Introduction by G.H. Blanchet. TS. 2 leaves.
5 Mar. 1925
[s.l.]
“Hudson’s Bay Company Diary of Fort
Edmonton. October 1854 to May 1856.” TS
transcript (carbon). 69 leaves.
Notes on the Fort Edmonton Diary. TS. 64
leaves.
1854-1856
Fort Edmonton
[s.d.]
1771
[s.l.]
[Labrador]
[s.d.]
[Ontario]
[Journals]
12.020
[Journals]
12.021
Oliver, Frank
folders 17
[Journals]
12.022
Richardson,
William
[Journals] (1748-1772)
Fur trader and
explorer
12.023
Stewart, Rev.
folders 1- William
4
[Labrador journal]. Photostatic reproductions
of a holograph MS (14 p. of the journal), 1
seascape (Blockhouse Chatteau) by
Richardson and a self-portrait.
Memoir of the late Thomas Strahan Shenston
of Brantford, Ont. TS., 92 p.
[Journals]
110
12.024
Swain, Thomas
Journal, 1802-1804. TS., 41 p.
[s.d.]
[Canada]
[Journals]
Fur trader, agent
for the Hudson’s
Bay Company
12.025
Taylor, G.
A voyage to North America perform’d by G.
Taylor of Sheffield, in the years 1768, and
1769. TS., 20 p.
[ca. 1937]
[s.l.]
12.026
Wright, Meriel
Australian Theatre people’s tour of China.
TS.
24 Sep.- 16
Oct. 1978
[Australia?]
[Journals]
Australian author
13.001
Harborne, Symon
and Hickman,
Henry
Original indenture and transcription.
17 June 1622
England
Original indenture and transcription.
26 Sep. 1793
England
[Legal]
Hardwick,
William and
Haskin, Thomas
13.003
Bradford, Robert
Itemized bill for the funeral of Mrs. Diana
Wright.
15 June 1723
[England?]
Selva,
Giannantonio
“Acquisto delli NN. HH. Filippo e Zuanne
fratelli Molin de furono Marco Bertucci dalla
societa del nuovo teatro erretto nelle contrade
23 Feb. 1790
[Italy]
[Journals]
[Legal]
13.002
[Legal]
13.004
[Legal]
111
di S. Angelo …” Contract including
architect’s MS. rendition of the arrangement
of boxes on the third level of the new theatre;
numbering of boxes on 4th level, and printed
table showing prices of seats in old and new
theatre.
13.005
Tompson,
Elizabeth
Special administration (with will annexed) of
the effects of Elizabeth Tompson, wife of
Joseph Frank Tompson.
1863-1865
[London]
Julius III, Pope
(1487-1555)
“Instruttione data a Piet.o Camaiani nostro
Camr…” Instruction by which Camaiani was
to explain the appointment of Cardinal
Verallo as legate to King Henry II of France,
a sign of his love of peace, a peace in which
he wanted to involve the Emperor.
Civil contract on vellum.
Late 16th c.
[Italy]
7 June 1793
Hasting [England]
Taught, Edward
Last will and testament.
2 Apr. 1759
Hasting [England]
[s.n.]
Account of personal expenses in pounds,
shillings and pence.
3 Sep. 1761
[Great Britain?]
Buchnor, John
Account of the estate of the late John
Buchnor, Doctor, to John J. Lefferty,
1825-1835
[England]
[Legal]
13.006
[Legal]
13.007
Ball, Richard and
Milward, Thomas
[Legal]
13.008
[Legal]
13.009
[Legal]
13.010
112
[Legal]
13.011
Surgeon.
Carey, Matthew
(1740-1839?)
Receipt issued to Matthias Hollenback for the
purchase of Guthrie’s Geography.
22 May 1794
[Philadelphia, Pa.]
Noticia de las entradas mensuales
MS. Comparative monthly account for the
two theatre companies.
1773[-74]
Madrid
Compañia de
Manuel Martinez
Madrid theatre
company
Compañia de
Manuel Martinez
Madrid theatre
company
Ricardo Sepulveda
El Corral de la Pacheca, p. 604-607
(photocopy).
Expenses for 1790-1791 theatre season.
MS. Day-book and accounts [I] (sewn and
unbound ).
[1888]
[Madrid]
4 April to 21
Dec. 1790
[Madrid]
Compañia de
Manuel Martinez
Madrid theatre
company
MS. Day-book and accounts [II] (sewn and
unbound).
25 Dec. to 8
March [1790]
[Madrid]
[Legal]
Publisher, author,
economist,
bookseller.
13.012
[Legal]
Compañia de
Manuel Martinez
and Compañia de
Eusebio Rivera
Madrid theatre
companies
13.013
[Legal]
13.014
[Legal]
13.015
[Legal]
113
Compañia de
Eusebio Rivera
Madrid theatre
company
MS. Day-book and accounts [I] (sewn and
unbound).
4 April to 12
Dec. 1790
[Madrid]
Compañia de
Eusebio Rivera
Madrid theatre
company
MS. Day-book and accounts [II] (sewn and
unbound).
25 Dec. to 8
March [1790]
[s.l.]
Letter of Attorney concerning the Canada
Company.
5 Sept. 1845
London
[Legal]
Eyre, Thomas
Captain, Royal
Navy
13.019
Conynck, C. de
Contract for sale of fief-property with pendant 11 Jan. 1679
seal. In Flemish. With translation.
Parish of Renynghelst
Forsyth, Mary
TS. letter to Mr. Stamper, including invoices
of goods shipped to him and to Mrs. Douglas
in Prince Edward Island.
17 Nov. 1837
Halifax [Nova Scotia]
France. Conseil
d’état.
Arest fourne l’officier du baillage. Extrait
1ere registre du Conseil d’état. [6] p.
Manuscript signed “coppie”, by Demerry.
18 Jun. 1745
Paris, [France]
Louis XIII, King
of France
(1610-1643)
Royal edict granting pardon to the Duke de
Rohan and Sieur de Soubise and others in
Languedoc, Cevennes, etc. TS.
July 1629
Nimes
13.016
[Legal]
13.017
[Legal]
13.018
[Legal]
13.020
[Legal]
13.021
[Legal]
13.022
[Legal]
114
13.023
Gardner, Anthony Workshop diary and account for repair and
Bookbinder
rebinding of Medical Zoology.
June 1947
Missel Brook Cottage,
Chiddingfold, Surrey
[England]
Mary I, Queen of
England
(1553-1558)
MS. (encapsulated) on vellum: Royal
proclamation in secretary hand announcing
regnal style of Philip and Mary. In Latin. Part
wanting. With transcription.
25 July 1554
[Winchester, England]
George VI, King
of England
(1895-1952)
Writ of summons to Parliament to Hamar
Viscount Greenwood.
15 June
[1945]
[London]
Pascoe,
Humphrey
Lease of a house to Anthony Harry signed by
Humphrey Pascoe. On parchment. Mutilated
with significant loss of information.
Jun. 1732
[England]
Henry, Edme
(1760-1841)
Soldier
Receipt (duplicate) for disbursements made to
the Militia Men of the Beauharnais Division.
Signed by Edme Henry.
24 Nov. 1814
Montreal
Hubbard, Charles
H.
Masonic certificate, King Solomon’s Royal
Arch Chapter, No. 8, G.R.C.
20 Nov. 1867
Toronto
[s.n.]
Indenture concerning the sale of lands by the
Chiefs of the Sautaux and Cree Nations to the
Earl of Selkirk for his Red River Settlement.
On vellum. With a copy of the recto.
18 July 1817
Red River [Manitoba]
[Legal]
13.024
[Legal]
13.025
[Legal]
13.026
[Legal]
13.027
[Legal]
13.028
[Legal]
13.029
[Legal]
115
13.030
[Legal]
13.031
[Legal]
13.032
[Legal]
13.033
[Legal]
13.034
Lower Stewiacke
Shebenacadie and
Gays River
Agricultural
Society
MS. List of prizes awarded at the
Shebenacadie exhibition. 3 p.
7 Oct. 1858
[Shubenacadie, Nova
Scotia]
McGillivray,
William
(1764?-1825)
Draft of articles of agreement by and William
McGillivray, Simon McGillivray, Archibald
Norman McLeod, Thomas Tain, John
McTavish, and Henry MacKenzie concerning
McTavish McGillivray & Co. (Compagnie du
Nord-Ouest). TS. (copy). 29 leaves.
1 Nov. 1814
Montreal, Lower
Canada
Northwest
Company of
Canada
(1775-1821)
Voyageurs’ contract. Signed + for Benjamin
La Tesace de Berthier. In French.
20 Oct. 1811
Montreal [Lower
Canada]
Northwest
Company of
Canada
(1775-1821)
Two photographs of the original agreement
between Alexander MacKenzie and the
proprietors of the Northwest Company
admitting David Mackenzie and William
Mackay as partners.
5 July 1796
[Montreal]
Phillibot, Joseph
Application signed by Robert Walpole
concerning a grant of land in Quebec made by
King George III.
18 June 1766
Court of St James
[London]
Banff Corps
Proposed establishment of the Banff
[Scotland] Corps of Volunteer Infantry.
30 July 1803
Banff
[Legal]
13.035
[Legal]
116
13.036
Passport for Antoni Bronski. In German.
Contains MS entries and stamps from several
European cities. 4 p.
1832
Prussia
[Legal]
Prussia,
Ministerium des
Inners
13.037
Stewart, Donald
Last will and testament of Donald Stewart of
Pictou.
15 Jan. 1813
Pictou
[Legal]
13.038
[Legal]
13.039
30 Jul. 1813
Schank, John
(1740-1823)
Naval officer
With the probate letter.
Letter of attorney, appointing Simon Fraser of
Quebec, attorney, to act on Schank’s behalf.
6 Aug. 1785
Pictou
[s.l.]
Open letter to the mayor, members of the
Board of Control and Aldermen concerning
income tax.
[6 Feb. 1933]
Toronto
[Legal]
Muntz, G.H.
President
Bureau of
Municipal
Research
13.040
Wilcocks, John
Induction certificate and declaration of
conformity with the liturgy of the Church of
England.
26 Aug. 1730
Exeter, [England]
United Farmers
Co-Operative
Brief financial and personnel history.
1914-1918
[Toronto]
Toronto citizenry
T.S. of a petition of Toronto citizens against
the Rebellion Losses Bill of 1849, with a list
of as many signatures as could be deciphered.
[s.d.]
[Toronto]
[Legal]
13.041
[Legal]
13.042
[Legal]
117
13.043
Hawkins, John
Affidavit sworn by John Hawkins, ship
22 Jun 1786
master of the Canada, concerning a convoy of
ships sailing from Portsmouth to Quebec,
with one of the ships, the Chance under the
command of Captain Murray left behind at
the Isle of Wight. Witnessed by John Croft,
Mayor of Bristol.
Bristol, [England]
Mowat, Oliver
Deed of bargain and sale [to land in lots 10
and 13 on Yonge Street in the City of
Toronto]. By Oliver Mowat et al. to John
Bailey. [8] leaves. With an accompanying
document with the signature and seal of
Oliver Mowat. With envelope addressed to
Dr W.S. Wallace “presented as an example of
a 19th century indenture”.
1 Feb. 1864
Toronto
[s.n.]
Wholesale price current of foreign articles
admitted into Martinique, forwarded by M.
and E. Coipel and Co., St-Pierre.
16 Feb 1866
Martinique
Crofton, Walter
C.
Circular from the Blue Book Department of
the Inspector General’s Office requesting
receivers to transmit the gross amounts
received by each governmental office.
1 May 1850
Toronto
With draft reply to the circular.
7 May 1850
Three completed form letters from the
Geological and Natural History Survey to
1882-1889
[Legal]
13.044
[Legal]
13.045
[Legal]
13.046
[Legal]
13.047
[Wrighton, W.H.]
Whiteaves, J.F.
Ottawa
118
[Legal]
13.048
G.R. White acknowledging receipt of
specimens for the museum.
Langan, Patrick
& Fraser, Juliana
Copy of a contract of marriage, originally
dated 20 Aug. 1794.
16 Dec. 1847
Quebec
Murray, Patrick
(Lt Col)
Acceptance of Francois Bertin in place of
Batiste Renaud, who has been discharged
from service.
2 Jan. 1813
Montreal
Miller, John
Affidavit sworn by John Miller, tide surveyor
at Cowes, Isle of Wight, concerning a convoy
of ships sailing to Quebec, with one of the
ships, the Chance under the command of
Captain Murray left behind at the Isle of
Wight. Miller swears the reason for this was
Murray’s intoxication. Witnessed by William
Dickonson, Mayor of Newport, Southampton.
17 Apr. 1786
Bristol, [England]
[s.n.]
List of articles for agreement between a Mr
Gerrard and G.M. & Co., concerning certain
debts owed by Gerrard, a deed for property
associated with Gerrard as well as money
owed him.
1826
[s.l.]
[s.n.]
Estimated expenditure of the Board of School
Trustees for the village of Yorkville.
1870
[Toronto]
Stewart, William
Affidavit sworn before Nathaniel Newnham,
1 Apr. 1783
London, [England]
[Legal]
13.049
[Legal]
13.050
[Legal]
13.051
[Legal]
13.052
[Legal]
13.053
119
Lord Mayor of London, concerning his
business transactions executed under the
direction of his employer, John Fraser; a
review of his debts.
[Legal]
13.054
7 Mar. 1796
On board the Excellent
[Legal]
Collingwood,
Certificate of Service of Lt John Mortimer,
Cuthbert, Admiral H.M.S. Excellent (1795-96).
Lord
(1750-1810)
British admiral
13.055
[s.n.]
Fragment of a note concerning lots on the
Mill Reservation, Port Hope
[19th cent]
[s.l.]
[s.n.]
T.S. list of books from the estate of William
Henry Skinner. With prices.
[1946]
Great Britain
Ogilvy, Gilbert
“Retour” of the special service of Gilbert A.
Ogilvy as heir to Alexander Ogilvy of that ilk
his father in the lands … and Drumfirks.
With two red wax seals pendant.
10 Jan. 1567
Scotland
Various
Document concerning free land in Orrhart
Lane. With the Great Seal of King James I
pendant.
Between 1603 [England]
& 1625
George IV
Fiat recorded in the Register’s Office of the
Records at Quebec, concerning the
appointment of Justices for Montreal. With
10 Oct. 1827
[Legal]
13.056
[Legal]
14.001
[Legal]
14.002
[Legal]
14.003
[Legal]
St Lewis Castle,
Quebec City
120
the Great Seal of the Province of Lower
Canada pendant.
14.004
?
Large legal document in French, composed of
two vellum pieces stitched together. Several
holes that affect the text. On the verso it is
signed: Sapper J.E. McKinney, 4th Can. Div.
Co., France 1916.
1578
France
Szobranczi, Josa
Last Will and Testament in Hungarian and
Latin. With typescript copy.
16 Oct. 1726
Munkacs, Hungary
(now Mukachevo,
Ukraine)
?
A contract regarding the division of common
lands by 1723. In Latin.
1696
[Hungary?]
?
Contract in which a man promises to free his
serfs at various date between 1613 and 1692,
whom he had given away to cover his debts.
In Latin
“Cenno storico. ‘Il giudizio di Paride’.
Dipinto attribuito al Giorgione.” TS.
1609
[Hungary?]
Nov. 1941
Chiavari, (Riviera
Ligure)
[s.d.]
Myerstown,
Pennsylvania
[s.d.]
Stanford University,
[Legal]
14.005
[Legal]
14.006
[Legal]
14.007
[Legal]
15.001
Albuzio, E.L.
[Literary]
15.002
Chislett, William
[Literary]
Author
Biography of “Grant Allen, naturalist and
novelist”. With envelope addressed to Prof.
H.R. Fairclough. TS.
15.003
Fairclough, Henry
Biography of Grant Allen (1848-1899). TS. 8
121
[Literary]
15.004
p.
Rushton
(1862- )
Classicist, author
California
Allison, William
Talbot
(1874-1941)
Canadian poet,
author
MS. of the author’s poem, “Sic transit gloria”. [s.d.]
Removed from the author’s The amber army
and other poems, Toronto, 1909.
[s.l.]
Hunt y Cortes,
Agustin
In Ezopo izazanillatoi. Fabulas de Esopo
[Aesop’s fables]. TS. 31 p.
1895
Mexico
Arias, Alejandro
C.
(1911- )
Poesias de Alejandro C. Arias. Collection of
15 TS. poems, some autographed.
Ca. 1942
[Montevideo?]
Avison, Margaret
(1918-)
Poet, librarian,
editor, lecturer,
and social worker
“For Professor Endicott: an Address.” TS.
poem.
16 Apr. 1968
[Toronto]
“Jésus enfant.” Poem.
19th c.
[s.l.]
[Literary]
De Banville,
Théodore
Faullain
(1823-1891)
Poet, author
15.009
[s.n.]
“An elegie on the death of that illustrious and
[17th c.]
[England]
[Literary]
15.005
[Literary]
15.006
[Literary]
15.007
[Literary]
15.008
122
vertuous gentleman Sr. John Barrington
Baronet.”
[Literary]
15.010
[s.n.]
“In dominam Winifridam Barrington a
Regibus editam.” Genealogy of Winifred
Pole (ca. 1525 – 1601) the widow of Sir
Thomas Barrington. On vellum.
[16th c.]
[England]
Bertrán, Luis
“Los caminos de Dios : obra en 3 actos y en
pros”. Play.
1951
Montevideo
Blackburn,
Robert
Chief Librarian,
University of
Toronto
Blake, Edward
(1833-1912)
The Dragon, a radio play broadcast 2 May
1956 on the CBC; with a handwritten memo
to Richard Landon forwarding the script to
the University of Toronto Library.
1956
[Toronto]
2 Apr. 1977
Toronto
Speech delivered to the House of Commons
on the Irish situation.
13 Mar. 1902
[Ottawa]
Title page and table of contents (in typescript)
to a collection of poems (later A Dryad in
Nanaimo)
[1931?]
418 Kennedy St.,
Nanaimo, B.C.
Letter to Saturday Night magazine entitled,
“Shaw and the Shaviah”.
[s.d.]
192 Frontenac St.,
Kingston, Ontario
[Literary]
15.010
[Literary]
15.011
[Literary]
15.012
[Literary]
M.P. for S.
Longford
15.013
[Literary]
15.014
Brown, Audrey
Alexandra (19041998)
Canadian poet
Brown, Harcourt
[Literary]
123
15.015
[Literary]
15.016
Callaghan,
Morley (19031990)
Canadian author
“Winter”. TS (with corrections). Short story.
[1974?]
[Toronto]
Caraghiaur,
Eugen Enea
“Iernatice stihuri”. TS., signed. Poetry
compilation.
Mar-May
1980; Apr.
1981
Montreal
Romanian
engineer and poet
Caraghiaur,
Eugen Enea
Romanian
engineer and poet
“Iernatice stihuri”. TS., signed. Poetry
compilation.
Jun.-Jul. 1980
Montreal
Caraghiaur,
Eugen Enea
Romanian
engineer and poet
“Iernatice stihuri”. TS., signed. Poetry
compilation.
Aug.-Oct.
1980
Montreal
Caraghiaur,
Eugen Enea
Romanian
engineer and poet
“Iernatice stihuri”. TS., signed. Poetry
compilation.
Jan.-Apr.
1981
Montreal
Cau, Salvatore
“Il Canada”. Poem, signed, with
accompanying note to “Liguori”.
12 Mar. 1970
Bolzano [Italy]
[s.n.]
Charaden – A collection of German poems
and quotations in MS.
Early 19th c.
[s.l.]
[Literary]
15.017
[Literary]
15.018
[Literary]
15.019
[Literary]
15.020
[Literary]
15.021
124
[Literary]
15.022
[Literary]
15.023
Clark, Alexander
F.B.
(1882- )
(1883?
Literary review of Cement by F.V. Gladkov.
[1929?]
[s.l.]
Holograph notes in English and Latin,
including an extract from Tractatus Bartoli
De fluminibus seu Tyber … , p. 370 (Basle,
1588).
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Dalton
[Armitage],
Annie Charlotte
(1865-1938)
Canadian poet
“God Save Thee, Canada!” TS., poem.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Dawes, Sir
William
Notes for a sermon preached before the
Queen.
[1704/05]
[s.l.]
Digby, Will
“Up she goes”. TS. of play.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
[s.n.]
Metrical feet for poetry
[18th cent.?]
Dowson, William
“Shhhhh! Don’t Tell Anyone: Folk Tales of
1976
[Netherlands?] Dutch
watermark “Vryheyt”,
dating from the 18th
cent.
[Toronto]
[Literary]
15.024
[Literary]
15.025
[Literary]
15.026
[Literary]
15.027
[Literary]
15.028
125
C.H.
Old Toronto; Stories of Its People”. TS.
(photocopy)
31 p.
[s.n.]
[Epitaphs, A collection of.]
[28] leaves in MS. copied from several
sources, containing 34 epitaphs in Latin and
English.
[19th cent.?]
[England?]
[s.n.]
“Out of the full answer” [excerpts] of a reply
to an “infamous pamphlet”. MS. 7 leaves
[17th cent.]
[England?]
Fairchild, George
M.
(1854-1912)
Author, editor
Biographical note and “Oritani snow shoe
song”. TS., 1 p. Removed from Sasseville, J.
Notes on the two Jesuit manuscripts… edited
by George M. Fairchild. New York, 1887.
Gift of Louis Melzack.
[1887?]
[s.l.]
Faithfull, Emily
(1835-1895)
Author, lecturer
on women’s
suffrage, and
founder of
Victoria Press.
“The Enfranchisement of Women”.
Holograph draft.
8 leaves.
[1872?]
[USA?]
Gardiner, Samuel
Rawson
(1829-1902)
Historian
Notes on the Thurleo papers (June-Sept.
1656), now Rawlinson MSS. H., Bodleian
Library (in notebook).
[ca. 1919]
[England]
[Literary]
15.029
[Literary]
15.030
[Literary]
15.031
[Literary]
15.032
[Literary]
15.034
[Literary]
126
15.035
[Literary]
15.036
[Literary]
15.037
Glendinning,
Harry
(1879-1948)
Historian, author
“The Fall of Civilization.” TS., signed. 4 p.
Goodwin, Willard T.L.S. concerning the Kenner checklist; “A
checklist of the published works of Hugh
Kenner”. TS.; T.L.S. to Goodwin from
Kenner.
[ca. 1940]
[s.l.]
May 1979 and The University of
26 May 1978 Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas and
103 Edgevale Road,
Baltimore, Md.
1936-1944
[s.l.]
Gould, Margaret
R.
“Prologue to Oblivion and other poems”. TS.
pamphlet (sewn).
“Brunswick Avenue”. 25 leaves. TS. with
MS. corrections: With A.L.S. and A.N.S.
from Dave Carpenter (of Descant).
[1983?] and
11 Jan. 1984
Toronto
[Literary]
Govier, Katherine
(1948- )
Canadian author
16.001
[s.n.]
“Here’s the kirk, but where’s the steeple?”
Poem debating whether to build a manse or a
steeple for the new church. Illustrated.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Hood, A. N.
Extracts from the journal of Capt. A. N. Hood
on an embassy to the Sultan of Morocco
(from Tangier to Meknès) led by Sir John
Drummond-Hay. 11 p. With envelope.
1861
[s.l.]
Hood, Hugh
(1928-2000)
Canadian author
“One owner, low mileage”. Carbon copy TS.
of a short story commissioned by the CBC as
part of the Anthology Series of Centennial
Short Stories, and read by Bud Napp.
[1967?]
[Toronto?]
[Literary]
15.038
[Literary]
16.002
[Literary]
16.003
[Literary]
127
16.004
“Suites & single rooms w/bath”. Carbon copy
TS. of a short story commissioned by the
CBC as part of the Anthology Weekly
Literary Program.
[1962?]
[Montreal?]
[Literary]
Hood, Hugh
(1928-2000)
Canadian author
16.005
[s.n.]
[Incantation]. [Arbracadabra formula]. In
Arabic.
[18th c.?]
[s.l.]
Lampman,
Archibald
(1861-1899)
Poet and civil
servant
Lampman,
Archibald
(1861-1899)
Poet and civil
servant
Laugharne, Hugh
Three holograph poems (with envelope): part
of “The Child’s Music Lesson,” “October,”
and “What do poets want with gold”.
Sept.-Oct.
1884
[s.l.]
Holograph poems (photocopies): “October,”
[“In October”], part of “the Child’s Music
Lesson,” “Song” [“Unrest”], “What do poets
want with gold”.
[1884]
[s.l.]
A.L.S. enclosing a poem to the late Earl of
Warwick;
“On the Death of the Earl of Warwick”.
Poem. 1 leaf.
27 Aug. 1853
Market Street,
Warwick [England]
Booklet with holograph poem, “The
remembrance of Mis[s] Ramsey,” and
miscellaneous notes.
July 1868
On board the St
Lawrence
[Literary]
Leslie, Mary
(1840-1920)
Canadian author
16.010
Locatelli, Basilio
Scenario of a Commedia dell’Arte. TS. with
[s.d.]
[Rome]
[Literary]
16.006
[Literary]
16.007
[Literary]
16.008
[Literary]
16.009
128
[Literary]
16.011
[Literary]
16.012
[Literary]
16.013
(18th cent. Italian
author)
MS. corrections (stapled). In Italian. 12
leaves.
MacDiarmid,
Hugh (born
Christopher
Murray Grieve
(1892-1978)
Scottish poet
MacDonald,
George
(1824-1905)
Poet and novelist
“Social Credit and Automation”. Holograph
copy of an article (encased). 6 leaves; “To
the Spanish Republicans”. Holograph poem
(encased). 5 leaves.
“New Year 1877”. Holograph poem, signed. 1 [1877?]
leaf.
[s.l.]
McGregor,
Gilbert
“Stray thoughts and other poems”. TS., [37]
leaves.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Maeterlinck,
Maurice
(1862-1949)
Belgian poet and
playwright
L’Intruse (one-act play). TS (sewn). 17
leaves. Cover signed Léo Berty.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Maffuccius,
Simon
“Melibaeus siue De Epiphania Domini.”
Poem.
1587
Rome
Manning, Hugo
(1913-1977)
British poet
A.L.S. to Marian Brown (1 leaf) with a
holograph copy of Mannino’s poem “Tread
gently now”.
10 Aug. 1974
London, England
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
[Literary]
16.014
[Literary]
16.015
[Literary]
16.016
[Literary]
129
16.017
[Literary]
16.018
[Literary]
16.019
Masefield, John
(1878-1967)
Author
Holograph short story “Little Gurhalt’s Mass
Penny.” 8 leaves.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Masefield, John
(1878-1967)
Author
Holograph poem “The Sailor’s Life.”
Sept and Nov.
1894
On board RMS
Orellana off Buenos
Aires
[s.d.]
16 Apr. 1909
[s.l.]
[s.l.]
“Masfields [Masefield’s] Works. TS.
(sewn).13 leaves
Masefield, John
(1878-1967)
Author
A.L.S. to Cazenove concerning the revival of
Masefield’s plays.
Miller, Frances
Fox
Author
Play with binder, signed: “So Red the
Stockings”. TS. 100 leaves.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
“Little Lost Boy”. TS. (copy) poem: 1 leaf.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
[Literary]
Miller, Frances
Fox
Author
16.022
Murray, Alex
“Cottage Children”. Holograph poem. 2 p.
17 Apr. 1802
[s.l.]
Neppi, Giulio
“Cavalin,” “L’Infinit,” and “La Sira Dal Dì
D’Festa”. 3 TS poems, signed. In Italian.
Feb and Mar.
1952
Bologna [Italy]
[Literary]
16.020
[Literary]
16.021
[Literary]
16.023
130
[Literary]
16.024
Outram, Richard
(1930- )
Canadian poet
“Inuit”. TS poem, signed.
To Cicely Blackstock.
Feb. 1981
[s.l.]
Pigott, Harriet
(1766-1846)
Author
Holograph, signed. Preface to John Galt’s
Demon of Destiny.
July 1840
55 Lower Grosvenor
St. [London?]
Price, Marjorie
Canadian
playwright
“Big Business,” one-act play. TS. (stapled).
24 leaves.
[s.d.]
8 Lakeside Ave.,
Toronto, Canada
“A Terrible Night,” TS. (with paper
fasteners). one-act play.15 leaves
[s.d.]
8 Lakeside Ave.,
Toronto, Can.
[Literary]
Price, Marjorie
Canadian
playwright
16.028
Pye, B.
MS notes on Joseph Hall’s virgidenorium. 8
p.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Ralston, James
Layton
(1881-)
Minister of
Defence
“Phases of disarmament,” speech delivered to
the Canadian Club of Montreal. TS. 7 leaves.
2 Apr. 1928
Montreal
Reaney, James
(1926-)
6 poems. TS (some carbon). 9 leaves.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
[Literary]
16.025
[Literary]
16.026
[Literary]
16.027
[Literary]
16.029
[Literary]
16.030
131
[Literary]
Professor and
author
16.031
Reaney, James
(1926-)
Professor and
author
“The Box Social”. MS. draft of short story
published in The New Liberty, 19 July, 1947.
[1947]
[s.l.]
Reaney, James
(1926-)
Professor and
author
A.N.S. to Mr Sinclair concerning the delayed
appearance of the author’s “Alphabet 11”.
14 Jan. 1966
276 Huron St,
London, Ont.
“Jolly Good Fellows”. TS. one-act comedy.
Winner of the playwriting competition
conducted by the Canadian Drama League for
the Women’s League Association.
1933
Toronto
[Literary]
Reynolds, Lois
Canadian
playwright
16.034
Scott, Dixon
“Villanelle”, “Hawthorn in suburbia”,
“Reflections”, “Mount Olive”. Poems in
MS., signed by Dixon Scott.
1902-1905
[s.l.]
26 Dec. 1916
[s.l.]
[Literary]
16.032
[Literary]
16.033
[Literary]
With a newspaper clipping, reviewing the
Scott’s works.
16.035
[s.n.]
Sermon on Titus 2:15. No authorship but
reference to the authority of the King places it
in either Britain or Canada before 1837.
[18th cent.?]
[s.l.]
Service, Robert
(1874-1958)
Galley proofs for Songs of a sourdough.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
[Literary]
16.036
132
[Literary]
Canadian poet
16.037
A.L.S. to a bookseller, Mr [R.A.] Bond,
concerning some thoughts he expressed in a
BBC interview concerning the writing of
Songs for a sourdough, and thanking him for
endorsing the book fifty years previously.
1 Mar. 1957
Villa Aurora,
Monte Carlo
[Literary]
Service, Robert
(1874-1958)
Canadian poet
16.038
Bond, R.A.
Letter to poet and novelist Robert Service
(1874-1958) concerning the original galley
proofs for Songs of a Sourdough. A second
letter to the Ryerson Press asks the editors to
forward Bond’s letter to Service.
15 Feb. 1957
Neptune Motel, Naples,
Florida
Bond, R.B.
[R.A.?]
Typed manuscript of “The Birth Pains of
‘Songs of Sourdough’ by Robert W.
[William] Service”, published in The Globe
and Mail as “I sold Service to the public”, 28
Jun. 1958. With other newspaper and
magazine clippings on Service.
1958
[s.l.]
Sitwell,
Sacheverell
(1897-1988)
“Dr Donne and Gargantua Canto 7”. TS.,
with correction and instructions to the printer,
comprising a 13 p. preface, followed by the
poem and notes.
22 Dec. 1932
Weston, [England]
Suknaski,
Andrew
(1942- )
Canadian poet
Voznesensky,
“The descent”, “Kite poem for Leonard
Cohen”. Two TS. poems. With postmarked
envelope.
7 Oct. 1970
Vancouver
“The first ice”. TS. poem translated by
1959
[s.l.]
[Literary]
16.039
[Literary]
16.040
[Literary]
16.041
[Literary]
16.042
133
Andrei
Russian author
Andrew Suknaski.
[Literary]
16.043
Sweezey, Harriet
Carbon copy of a poetry review of Watson
Kirkconnell’s The tide of life.
23 Feb. 1931
[s.l.]
Wright, Peter
(1910- )
Holograph notes for a lecture (?) on Canadian
culture.
[1951?]
[Canada?]
Zampieri,
Cammillo
(1701-1784)
“Predicando in Forli l’anno 1779 …”; “In
occasione del magnifico solenne ottavario
celebrato nella chiesa loro dalli molto
reverendi pardi cappucini d’Imola”;
Celebrandosi solenne ottavario dalli padri
cappuccini d’Imola in onore dei due santi loro
novelli Santo Serafino da Monte Franaro e
Beate Bernardo da Corleone …” Three
poems in MS.
1779
[Literary]
16.044
[Literary]
16.045
[Literary]
17.001
Collignon, Albert
Correspondence
Collignon, Albert
Correspondence and two copies of his
Flowers of the imagination.
[s.d.]
1769
1990
[Faenza]
[s.l.]
1984-1985
[s.l.]
[Literary]
17.002
[Literary]
134
17.003
Collignon, Albert
Correspondence, drafts of poems, plays, and
prose texts
1984-1990
Various [Canada]
[s.n.]
New Year’s poem in Danish entitled “Den 1.
JanËar 1812. Found in Frederik H¼eghGuldberg, Salmed smaating, Kjobenhavn,
1815-16.
[1812]
[Denmark?]
[Mecking,
Ludwig?
Typescript in German of an article with
various suggested titles, the first of which is
“Japan abseits der breiten Wege”. With
newspaper clipping entitled “Rashin – das
japanische Gdingen”.
[ca. 1938]
[Germany?]
[Leyman, Eric]
Typescript of “The cyclone’s heart” and two
carbon copies of typescript poems: “Chacun a
son gout” and “Hearsay”.
[1970s-1980s] [s.l.]
Hutchinson,
Thomas
Poem by Mary Cowden-Clarke in the hand of
Thomas Hutchinson entitled “Sonnet to Leigh
Hunt”. With envelope in hand of Arthur
Symons.
Before 1901
[London?]
Grant, Douglas
Collection of Grant’s poems included a
holograph of “The Missionary: Love”, “The
Fallen Rider”, newspaper clipping of his
poem, “The Oracle”, one postcard, and the
Order of Service for Grant’s memorial
1955-1969
Various
[Literary]
18.001
[Literary]
18.002
[Literary]
18.003
[Literary]
18.004
[Literary]
18.005
[Literary]
135
service in Leeds.
18.006
Mecking, Ludwig
TS. of Ludwig Mecking’s “Meine Erlebnisse
auf der Japanfahrt von Jul ibis Dezember”.
1926
[Germany?]
Lacey, Ed A.
Twenty-three poems with author’s MS. notes;
typescripts (some photocopies).
Fairley, Barker
(1887-1986)
Canadian artist
and author
See also Grove,
Frederick Philip
“The Forest (for A.Y. Jackson)”. Holograph
poem.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Harte, Bret
(1836-1902)
Author
“Dickens in Camp”. Holograph poem.
July 1879
[s.l.]
O’Hagan,
Thomas
(1855-1939)
Educator and
author
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Browning, Robert
“The Song My Mother Sings”. Holograph
poem, signed. With photocopy.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
Transcript of two pages of Browning’s travel
diary in Italy.
Apr.– May
1838
[s.l.]
Two-page holograph of Browning’s diary of a
Apr.-May
[Italy]
[Literary]
18.007
[Literary]
18.008
[Literary]
18.009
[Literary]
18.010
[Literary]
19.001
[Literary]
19.002
136
[Literary]
19.003
[Literary]
19.004
[Literary]
(1812-1889)
Poet
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
journey to Italy.
1838
Holograph poem “From Zappi”. With the
armorial bookplate of Beaverbrook.
27 Sept. 1850
[s.l.]
Letter to his daughter-in-law Fannie (18531935) concerning family matters.
10 Oct 1887
29 De Vere Gardens
[London]
19.005
[Literary]
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Letter to his son Robert (“Pen”) (1849-1912)
and daughter-in-law Fannie concerning a bust
and picture to be sent to the Brussels
Exhibition; discussing the progress of a new
medallion portrait of the poet; prize day at the
Academy; a new edition of the collected
poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; an
upcoming exhibition of art by Pen.
17 Dec. 1887
29 De Vere Gardens,
[London]
19.006
[Literary]
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Letter to his son Robert (“Pen”) and daughter- 21 Jan. 1888
in-law Fannie concerning Pen’s bust of his
father; a meeting with Henry James; a portrait
being done of Browning.
29 De Vere Gardens
[London]
19.007
[Literary]
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Letter to his son Robert (“Pen”) and daughter- 14 May 1888
in-law Fannie concerning their European tour;
art exhibitions in London; art and politics at
the National Academy; a social meeting with
Gladstone; letter attached to Fannie from
Pen’s aunt, Sarianna Browning.
29 De Vere Gardens
[London]
Browning,
137
19.008
[Literary]
19.009
[Literary]
Sarianna
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Browning,
Sarianna
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Letter to his son Robert (“Pen”) and daughter- 21 May 1888
in-law Fannie concerning recent dinner
parties; the allegation that Shakespeare was
not the author of the plays; news of friends;
pictures and exhibitions in London. Attached
is a letter from Sarianna Browning.
29 De Vere Gardens
[London]
Letter to his son “Pen” (Robert Barrett
Browning) concerning a painting in progress;
refers to a recent dinner with Millais; current
and future art exhibitions; some problems
with the marbles he has received.
11 Apr. 1889
29 De Vere Gardens
[London]
19.010
[Literary]
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
“Plane te valvam,” holograph poem written
“on being defied to express in a hexameter –
“you ought to sit on the safety-valve”.
22 Feb. 1866
[s.l.]
19.011
[Literary]
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Additions to Early poems of Robert
Browning, copied by Bertram Dobell for the
printer.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
19.012
[Literary]
Browning, Robert
(1812-1889)
Poet
Two poems transcribed by Sarianna
Browning.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
20.001
[Literary]
Carlyle, M.
Fragment of a letter to “Jenny” about a
delayed visit.
[ca. 1832?]
Craigenputtock
[Scotland]
138
20.002
[Literary]
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
Letter to his sister, Jenny, encouraging her to
behave well; news of Mrs Welsh.
23 Jan. 1832
Ampton Street, London
[England]
Scottish historian
and essayist
20.003
[Literary]
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
Scottish historian
and essayist
20.004
[Literary]
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
Scottish historian
and essayist
20.005
[Literary]
Carlyle, Margaret
(1771-1853)
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
20.006
[Literary]
Scottish historian
and essayist
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
Scottish historian
and essayist
Letter to his sister Jenny, on her recent
16 May 1836
marriage to Robert Hanning; her new life in
Manchester; an unnamed doctor who is
planning to move to Italy; a second volume he
is working on; family news.
5 Cheyne Row,
Chelsea [London]
Letter to his sister, Jean concerning his
sojourn in Suffolk and other family matters.
Attached is a letter from Carlyle’s mother,
Margaret (Aitken) Carlyle, to him. She is
reading poems on Luther; discusses other
family affairs.
[Sep. 1842]
[s.l.]
19 Sep. 1842
Scotsbrig [Scotland]
Letter to his sister Jenny Hanning on family
matters, the activities of the “Doctor” [brother
John Carlyle]; and the imminent, but delayed,
appearance of his new book from the printer.
11 Apr. 1843
Chelsea [London]
Letter to his sister Jenny Hanning on family
matters, more of brother John Carlyle’s [the
“Doctor”] activities in and around London;
the second volume of Carlyle’s work which is
sickening him and not yet finished.
15 Jun. 1845
Chelsea [London]
139
20.007
[Literary]
20.008
[Literary]
20.009
[Literary]
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
Scottish historian
and essayist
Carlyle, James
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
Scottish historian
and essayist
20.010
[Literary]
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
Letter to his sister Jenny Hanning concerning
her recent illness; potato rot and harvest at
home; family matters.
18 Sep. 1849
Scotsbrig [Scotland]
Letter to “Aunt Jenny”, [Jenny Hanning,
Thomas Carlyle’s sister] communicating
information about his lessons at school.
6 Dec. 1849
An[n]an [Scotland]
Letter to his sister Jenny Hanning (living in
Canada West since 1851) concerning the
portrait of their mother which he has had
photographed and forwarded to her; the
question of their mother’s exact birthdate;
carving their mother’s tombstone; sister
Jean’s recent finger infection causing the loss
of use of the digit; brother John [“the Doctor]
coping since the loss of his wife; his own
work progressing slowly.
8 Apr. 1855
Chelsea [London]
Letter to an undisclosed correspondent
concerning a dinner invitation.
15 Apr. 1859
Chelsea [London]
Letter to Jenny [Carlyle Hanning] concerning
the sudden death of Thomas Carlyle’s wife,
Jane (Jenny).
3 May 1866
5 Cheyne Row,
Chelsea [London]
Scottish historian
and essayist
20.011
[Literary]
Carlyle, John
Aitken
(1801-1879)
James Carlyle’s
brother
140
20.012
[Literary]
20.013
[Literary]
20.014
[Literary]
Carlyle, Thomas
(1795-1881)
Scottish historian
and essayist
[Aitken, Mary?]
Carlyle’s niece
and companion
[s.n.]
Letter to his sister, Jenny, concerning a
cheque which he forwarded her, but about
which he has heard nothing; family matters.
19 Mar. 1868
Chelsea [London]
Partial letter concerning Carlyle’s activities
on New Year’s day and plans for a translation
of Schiller’s Paternal Household.
1 Jan. 1873
5 Cheyne Row,
Chelsea [London]
4 newspaper clippings about the Carlyle
letters.
1931-1932
Toronto
21.001
[Misc.]
Bell, Lionel H.
Advertising agent’s dummy for official
programme for 13th quadrennial convention
for National Fraternal Society of the Deaf.
1939
Toronto, Ontario
21.002
[Misc.]
Blanchard, Raoul
(1877-1965)
Geographer,
specialist in
Alpine and
Canadian studies
“Geographie de l’agriculture”. TS.
Pre-1937
[s.l.]
21.003
[Misc.]
Bryce, Robert B.
“An introduction to a monetary theory of
employment”. TS (photocopy) of a paper read
at the London School of Economics based on
Keynes’s lectures in Cambridge.
spring 1935
St John’s College,
Cambridge [England]
Canadian
bureaucrat and
senior civil
servant.
141
21.004
[Misc.]
[s.n.]
“The Canadian Meteorological Service”. TS.
Historical overview of the Service.
[ca. 1880]
[s.l.]
21.005
[Misc.]
Church of
England
“A form of prayer and thanksgiving to
Almighty God to be used in all chapels and
churches … for vouchsafing such signal
successes to His majesty’s Arms, both by sea
and land, particularly by the defeat of the
French army in Canada…”
29 Nov. 1759
[s.l.]
21.006
[Misc.]
Coats, R.H.
“The Expansion of Canada” (outline of
population growth and immigration
backgrounds in Canada to 1930). TS.
53 p.
[c. 1931]
[s.l.]
Chapter III, Canada, from International
Migrations, vol. II, Interpretation. National
Bureau of Economic Research.
1931
New York, N.Y.
“Social Statistics,” a lecture to the graduating
class in Economics, Toronto University. TS.
1943
[Toronto]
Collection of documents relating to the
Montreal Volunteer Cavalry: 11 holograph
letters, including several from Captain and
Paymaster Francis Drummond Fulford and
one letter to Thomas D’Arcy McGee from an
unknown correspondent asking for
employment. Other documents include a
1859-1866
Dominion
Statistician
21.007
[Misc.]
21.008
[Misc.]
21.009
[Misc.]
Coats, R.H.
Dominion
Statistician
Coats, R.H.
Dominion
Statistician
Montreal
Volunteer
Cavalry
Montreal, Quebec
142
catalogue of a horse auction and a notice of a
“Trial of Skill in Military Exercises …”
21.010
[Misc.]
Colquhoun,
Arthur Hugh
Urquhart
21.011
[Misc.]
Holograph memoranda relating to John
Sanfield Macdonald (politician)
(1812-1872). 11 p.
1841-1872
[Ontario?]
Glazebrook, G. de A History of Transportation in Canada, chap.
T.
2 (31 p.) and chap 3 (36 p.). TS. (drafts). Four
folders.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
21.012
[Misc.]
[s.n.]
“… on the Progress and History of
Orangeville chiefly from the Advertiser. No.
1”
Photocopy of scrapbook. 50 p.
1870s
Orangeville, Ontario
21.013
[Misc.]
Hodgins, John
George
“School Children’s Manners: Official
Regulations”. Holograph.
[Late 19th
c.?]
[Ontario]
21.014
Extracts from journal describing the geology
of northwest Morocco. Holograph. 18 leaves.
ca. 186-
35 Bedford Square,
London
21.015
[Misc.]
Hodgkin,
Thomas, M. D.
Quaker
Johnson, John, Sir
(1742-1830)
Corrected page proofs of an article on John
Johnson. 41 leaves.
1921
[s.l.]
21.016
[Misc.]
[Peyster, John
Watts de]
Small notebook containing newspaper
clippings detailing the life and career of Sir
John Johnson. With two ribbons bearing the
legend “Reina Victoria” and the royal arms.
1921
[s.l.]
143
21.017
[Misc.]
Lakanal, Joseph
(1762-1845)
Political figure of
the French
Revolution
Funeral oration of the naturalist Geoffroy
Saint-Hilaire given at the Museum d’Histoire
Naturelle, which had been founded in 1794 at
Lakanal’s suggestion. Holograph. In French.
3 p.
22 June 1844
[Paris]
21.018
[Misc.]
Lindsey, Charles
(1820-1908)
TS. Extracts from the MS. by Lindsey in the
Mackenzie papers, concerning early Canadian
publishing. 19 [i.e. 23] leaves.
18 Feb. 1925
The Library, University
of Toronto, Toronto
21.020
[Misc.]
Lyon, Peyton V.
Political scientist
TS. (copy). “The Loyalties of E. Herbert
Norman”. Report prepared for External
Affairs and International Trade Canada. 49 p.
18 Mar. 1990
Department of Political
Science, Carleton
University, Ottawa
22.001
[Misc.]
22.002
[Misc.]
McMahon, James
J.
MacMurchy,
Bessie
(d. 1952)
“The Quebec Bridge” TS.; with TS letter
from James McMahon. 8 leaves (glued).
“St. Andrew’s Church, Church Street,
Toronto.” Speech to the Women’s Historical
Society. The history of St. Andrew’s Church,
c. 1830-1878. TS. 9 leaves.
21 Oct. 1940
12 Apr. 1901
2210 Marcil Avenue,
N.G.D., Montreal Que.
[Toronto]
22.003
[Misc.]
Mercer, Samuel
A. B. (Alfred
Browne)
(1879-1969)
Egyptologist
TS. concerning the Pyramid Texts and the
Egyptian calendar. 39 leaves.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
22.004
[Misc.]
Mercer, Samuel
A. B. (Alfred
Browne)
(1879-1969)
Notes by Robert E. Briggs on Mercer’s
Egyptian calendar texts. TS. 22 leaves.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
144
Egyptologist
22.005
[Misc.]
Mercer, Samuel
A. B. (Alfred
Browne)
(1879-1969)
Egyptologist
Notes by Robert E. Briggs on Perseus. TS. 9
leaves.
8 May 1954
[s.l.]
22.006
[Misc.]
Mercer, Samuel
A. B. (Alfred
Browne)
(1879-1969)
Egyptologist
Mercer, Samuel
Alfred Browne
(1879-1969)
Egyptologist
Mercer, Samuel
A. B. (Alfred
Browne)
(1879-1969)
Egyptologist
14 T.L.S. to Mercer from Robert E. Briggs
concerning Mercer’s work on the Egyptian
calendar texts. 16 leaves.
June 1954July 1955
[s.l.]
Holograph notes in pencil by Robert E.
Briggs concerning the Egyptian calendar.19
leaves.
[mid 1950s?]
[s.l.]
Envelope addressed to Society of Oriental
Research, Worcester, Mass. Handwritten in
pencil: “Mr. Briggs’ Material and Mine for
Chapter VI, The Eg.[yptian] and Bab.
Calendar, Handwritten 1956”.
21 Apr. 1955
Otto Harrassowitz
Wiesbaden [Germany]
[antiquarian
bookdealer]
Merriman, Robert
Owen
Neilson. John
List of birds seen. Holograph. 16 p.
Mar. 1913Sept. 1921
1894
[Ontario]
Neilson, John
List of winter migratory and sedentary birds
1888-1889
detected during the winter 1888-9. Holograph.
4 p.
22.007
[Misc.]
22.008
[Misc.]
22.009
[Misc.]
22.010
[Misc.]
22.011
[Misc.]
Arrival of migratory birds. Holograph. 4 p.
[s.l.]
Dornald, Cap-Rouge
Road [Neilsonville,
Quebec]
145
22.012
[Misc.]
Neilson, John
Skeleton list. Land birds of the county of
Quebec. Holograph. 5 leaves.
Feb. 1886
[Neilsonville, Quebec]
22.013
[Misc.]
Neilson, John
Spring bird list. Holograph (on U. S.
Department of Agriculture form). 1 leaf.
1890-1893
“Wee Dornal,” St Foye
[Quebec]
22.014
[Misc.]
Neilson, John
Winter birds. Holograph (on U. S.
Department of Agriculture form). 1 leaf.
1892-1893
22.015
[Misc.]
Osborne,
Alexander
Campbell
Proceedings of
the Northern
Entomological
Society
Reed, Thomas
Arthur
On the history of Penetanguishene. TS. 9
leaves.
[s.d.]
Dornald, Cap-Rouge
Road [Neilsonville,
Quebec]
[s.l.]
MS. Minutes of the Society. 44 p.
28 July, 4
Oct., and 22
Dec. 1862
[s.l.]
“Church Music in Canada.” TS (photocopy).
15 leaves.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
22.018
[Misc.]
Robinson, Percy
J.
(1873-1953)
Historical author
“The Beginning of Newmarket” from the
Newmarket Era. Mounted newspaper
clippings. 3 leaves. MS notes on Newmarket
history (with 4 b& w photographs). 8 leaves.
13 Jan. 1938
[s.l.]
22.019
[Misc.]
Siebert, Werner
Königliche Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu 1901
Berlin Anmeldebuch des Werner Siebert aus
Osnabrück. Report card, with the signature of
Max Planck on p. [9].
22.016
[Misc.]
22.017
[Misc.]
Berlin
146
22.020
[Misc.]
Tully, Kivas
(1820-1905)
Architect.
Designer of
Trinity College,
Osgoode Hall, the
Custom House
and the Bank of
Montreal,
Toronto; Victoria
Hall, Coburg.
Toronto and Georgian Bay Ship Canal report.
Written for Thomas Clarkson, Chairman of
the Committee and President of the Board of
Trade, Toronto.
15 Jan. 1858
[Toronto?]
22.021
[Misc.]
[s.n.]
Topographical description of New York State
and Upper and Lower Canada.
Early 19th
cent.
[s.l.]
22.022
[Misc.]
White, G.R.,
Collection of
Various ornithological notes in print, with a
list of botanical names and their English
equivalents.
1885-1926
Ontario
22.023
[Misc.]
Bennett, Norda
Blue Royal Canadian Air Force class
notebook with notes on various electrical
topics.
[1940s?]
[s.l.]
147
21 Dec. 1918
Budapest
22.024
[Misc.]
Neményi, Pál
Engineering diploma issued to Pál Neményi,
signed by the rector and dean of the
Engineering Faculty of the József Polytechnic
University. All references to “Imperial” or
“Empire” have been obliterated on the printed
form. With seal in wooden case, pendant.
22.025
Coppée, François
(1842-1908)
Holograph poem written on a postcard
10 Oct. 1892
beginning “Poète de vingt ans …”, dated 10
Oct. [18]92. Written at La Fraiziere, posted
in Paris, and addressed to M. Soehnée,
Membre de l’Ecole Française, Palais Farèse,
Rome. Written to commemorate the marriage
of Jeanne Lemerre on 15 Oct. 1892.
Published along with other epithalamic poems
in 1892.
La Fraiziere, France
22.026
Stefansson, V.
Typescript bibliography for guide books of
Arctic Canada. From the library of J. Tuzo
Wilson.
[1942]
[Ottawa?]
22.027
Prere, Joseph
Arthur
Scribbler with cover title: College de SainteAnne de la Pocatiere, Que.
[18]91 [?]
Ste-Anne-de-laPocatiere, Quebec
22.028
Anon.
Arise, arise, ye sons of Easter, arise
[Early 19th
cent.]
[England?]
22.029
Carleton, Guy,
Lord Dorchester
(1724-1808)
Payment to William Monsell for subsistence
of foot troops.
4 Jun 1787
Quebec
148
22.030
Weir, Daniel,
(ca. 1734-1781)
[Statement of provisions destroyed and
thrown away to prevent the same from falling
into the hands of the enemy]
4 Feb. 1762
London
22.031
Haldimand,
Frederick, Sir
(1718-1791)
[Payment of wages to Samuel Holland,
Surveyor General of the Province of Canada]
1 Nov. 1784
Quebec
22.032
Way, Albert
(1805-1874)
Collection of 11 letters and notes addressed to
or created by Albert Way, antiquarian and
founding member of the Archaeological
Institute, concerning English artists,
previously laid in at front of Cotton, William.
Sir Joshua Reynold, and his works. London,
1856 (B-13 01165).
1867-1868
[London]
22.033
Bible. Acts of the Latin mediaeval MS. leaf. (Gift of R. &. L.
Apostles XXPeters)
XXII
[ca. 1240]
[France]
22.034
Stumpf, T. Robert Record of a talk with Kobodaishi, together
with a 2 p. ALS. The gift of Ron & Luana
Typophile,
Peters.
Proprietor of
Thumbprint Press
22 Mar. 1938
Forest Hills, New York
149
22.035
Stumpf, T. Robert Christmas Greetings for Paul Bennett. The
gift of Ron & Luana Peters.
Typophile,
Proprietor of
Thumbprint Press
25 Dec. 1941
[New York]
22.036
Daniel, Lewis
(1901-1952 )
Letters to Lester Douglas. Includes four TLS
and five ALS from Daniel to Douglas, with
two tissue copies of letters to Daniel by
Douglas, one mentioning George Macy’s
commission for Douglas to design the Travels
of Marco Polo for the Limited Editions Club,
together with several pieces of ephemera
related to Daniel. The gift of Ron & Luana
Peters.
1930-1949
Various
Artist
22.037
Catholic Church.
Breviary page for containing the Matins for
the feast of St. Stephen.
[Ca. 1260]
[France]
22.038
Hudson’s Bay
Company
List of Chief Factors & Chief Traders of the
Hudson’s Bay Company since 1821. In
typescript and MS.
Ca. 18961921
[s.l.]
22.039
Hale, Edward
Letter to Hale’s wife in Boston.
21 Jan. 1849
Sherbrooke, Quebec
22.040
Grahame, N.R.
Letter addressed to Mr. Thomas Grahame,
Annan, Scotland.
24 & 26 Feb.
1933
York, U.C.
150
22.041
Louis XVI,
King of France
(1754-1793)
Military commission of M. Chupiet, signed
by King Louis XVI.
25 Oct. [?]
1791
Paris
22.042
MacDonald,
Thoreau
(1901-1992)
ALS from MacDonald to Raymond Peringer.
ALS from Peringer to MacDonald
4 Jan. 1975
3 May 1975
[s.d.]
[s.d.]
Thornhill
Toronto
Thornhill
[s.l.]
ANS from MacDonald to Peringer
Raymond
Peringer
F.H. Varley
(1881-1969)
Fragment of a letter from F.H. Varley to
Thoreau MacDonald
(MS.00.024)
22.043
Morison, Stanley
(1889-1967)
ALS to Margot, enclosing a piece printed by
R & R Clark with engraving made at the
Edinburgh College, and an article on which
he has been working for several years. Also
describes the continued Blitz activities over
London.
14 Dec. 1944
73 Dorset House,
Gloucester Place,
London.
22.044
Staveley-Hill,
Henry.
Barrister, M.P.
(1865-1946)
A.L.S. to J.W.W. Henry Staveley-Hill was
the son of Alexander Staveley-Hill, author of
From Home to Home, Autumn Wanderings in
the Northwest of Canada 1881-1884 and
director of the Oxley Ranch near Fort
Macleod, Alberta. The letter describes the
ranch and the family’s homesteading
activities there.
14 Nov. 1922
Westfield House,
Rugby
151
22.045
Bond-Head, Sir
Francis
(1793-1875)
2 ALS to his daughter Julia concerning her
engagement and wedding.
11 June 1843
12 June 1843
[England]
22.046
Hogg, John
Printed notice of a “roup of stock & crop” by
John Hogg.
30 Jun. 1835
Candermill, Scotland
Topping, H.
Letter from H. Topping to John Hogg
demanding mortgage payment for his
property.
5 Aug. 1853
Toronto
22.047
Gomes, Maria
João
Letter in Portuguese listing the desserts that
the author knows how to make.
[ca. 1800]
[Portugal?]
23.001
?
Pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings: three
depicting Lake Huron; one of a grouse.
[1860s?]
[Lake Huron?]
Avrom
Birthday card for Dora Salsberg, made to
accompany a gift of a set of 12 of his lithos.
1949
[s.l.]
Nicol, Dominik
“The last remnant of nomadic Gipsies
(Zlatari) from Romania”.
A.L.S. from Nicol to C. Dima-Dragon. In
Romanian.
The customs and life of the nomadic gypsies.
TS. 14 leaves. In Romanian.
1962
Romania
15 Oct. 1981
NYC [New York City]
[Pictorial]
23.002
[Pictorial]
23.003
[Pictorial]
Folders 1-24
152
Album of 20 b&w photographs, with captions
in Romanian.
23.004
Seton, Ernest
Thompson
[Pictorial]
Autographed original pen and ink drawing of
an Arctic Fox. Dedicated to James H.
Fleming.
1897
[s.l.]
19 Jun. 1925
23.005
[s.n.]
Treaty of Breda
21/31 Jul
1667
Breda
23.006
Service, Robert
(1874-1958)
Postcard with photograph of Robert Service
with his log cabin in the Yukon. Acc.
MS.06.006, purchased from Robert Wright.
190-
Yukon
Anonymous
Collection of drawings depicting German
hunting scenes from the 18th century and of
the Shawnee Indians from 1760. (The gift of
Prof. C. Lloyd Brown-John.)
Febr. 1948
[Germany?]
Justis, Lyle
(1892-1960)
Letters to Lester Douglas. 17 ALS from
Justis to Douglas (d. 1961) with several
sketches and drawings; mainly related to the
Gospel according to St Matthew, 10 tissue
copies of TLS by Douglas to Justis. A
chronicle of what it was like to work with
Douglas, the use of experimental drawings
(often as many as 20-30) before the right
“line” was obtained to harmonize with the
1930-1934
Various
[Pictorial]
23.007
[Pictorial]
23.008
[Pictorial]
Artist
153
type face used by Douglas. The gift of R. &
L. Peters.
23.009
Keene, Susan
Warner
Boardwalk : for Barbara & Richard [Outram]
who know it well
Jan. 1978
[Toronto]
Horace. Lib. Iii Ode II and Blandusia. Lib.
Iii, Ode xiii. Holograph ms. 2 p.
3 Feb. 1815
[s.l.]
24.002
Macaulay,
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
To [Richard Sharp]. A.L.S. 2 p. Thanks him
for his congratulations on his speech. (In
Pinney, VI, 275)
4 Mar. 1831
London
24.003
Macaulay,
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
To [Richard Sharp]. A.L.S. 1 leaf. Thanks
him for his kind note. (In Pinney, VI, 277)
12 Oct. 1831
[s.l.]
24.004
Macaulay,
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
To Hannah [his sister]. A.L.S. 1 leaf. Has
tickets for private view of the Exhibition.
27 Apr. 1833
Albany
24.005
Macaulay,
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
To Mr Milman. A.L.S. Folder 2 p. Sends a
[1841?]
haunch of Queen’s venison. Watermark dated
1838. (In Pinney, IV, 400)
12 Gt George St
24.006
To [G.F. Scope]. A.L.S. Folder 3 p. Thanks
Albany
Artist
24.001
[Thomas
Macaulay]
Macaulay,
Thomas B.
(1800-1859)
Macaulay,
20 July 1843
154
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
him for sending copy of the Life of Lord
Sydenham; praises Sydenham, brother of the
recipient of the letter.
24.007
Macaulay,
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
To Mrs Grover. A.L.S. folder 1 leaf. Refuses
social invitation. Watermark dated 1849. (In
Pinney, VI, 268)
[Ca. 1849]
Albany
24.008
Macaulay,
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
To [J.L.] Adolphus. A.L.S. 1 leaf. Reminds
him of social engagement.
18 Jun 1849
Albany
24.009
Macaulay,
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
To “My dear Sir”. Folder. 1 leaf. Accepts
social engagement. (In Pinney, V, 153)
12 Mar. 1851
Albany
24.010
[s.n.]
[Thomas
Macaulay]
Card admitting bearer to Gallery of the House
of Lords.
25 Feb. 1858
[London?]
24.011
Macaulay,
[Thomas
Thomas B.
Macaulay] (1800-1859)
To [John Weale]. A.L.S. Folder. 2 p.
Thanks him for sending a scarce booking
containing material which Macaulay’s
recently published history also covered. (In
Pinney, VI, 154)
5 Jun. 1858
Holly Lodge
24.012
Richmond,
[Thomas
George
Macaulay]
Photograph of a coloured chalk portrait of
Macaulay, executed in 1844
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
155
24.013
Sartain, I.
[Thomas
Macaulay]
Engraving of Macaulay from a portrait by
Henry Inman.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
24.014
[s.n.]
[Thomas
Macaulay]
Contemporary photograph of Macaulay
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
24.015
Winifred A.
[Thomas
Myers
Macaulay] (Autographs) Ltd.
Invoice for a variety of MS items, made out to 1 Aug. 1969
Prof. Michael Millgate, Toronto, Canada
London
24.016
[s.n.]
[Thomas
Macaulay]
Photocopy of the catalogue of the library of
the Right Honourable J.B. Macaulay
Nov. 1852
[s.l.]
25.001
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Letter of Lorenzo Magalotti to Carlo Dati,
Florence, ca. 1665, concerning a book about
heat & cold.
1665
Florence
25.002
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Letter from Alessandro Marchetti, Pisa, 19
July 1712, concerning a move to the
University of Padua, with portrait.
1712
Pisa
25.003
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Lista de' Pagamenti. Casa de' Medici,
Florence, 1626.
1626
Florence
25.004
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Account book of Giovanni Battista Gondi,
1700-1704.
1700-1704
156
25.005
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Copy of a letter of Redi on hypochondria.
25.006
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Miscellaneous papers relating to G.B. Doni's
book "La Libreria".
25.007
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Permission granted to Cosimo Rudolfi, a
friend of Galileo's, to read a forbidden book
by Paracelsus.
25.008
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Letter from Juan Cordova (1603-1655),
Naples, 14 Aug. 1637 to a friend in Florence.
25.009
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
9. List of persons accompanying the Tuscan
Court to Rome.
25.010
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder of 17th cent. letters and reports to the
Florentine government from local inspectors.
17th cent.
25.011
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Censuses of Prato, 1414-1430, on vellum.
1414-1430
25.012
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
18th cent. Legal document
18th cent.
26.001
Drake Coll.
(Latin)
17th century copy of a letter from Thomas
Campanella to Cardinal Richelieu on
palmistry.
17th cent.
26.002
Drake Coll.
Large vellum document from Pope Urban
1626
1637
Naples
Prato
Rome
157
(Latin)
VIII, Rome 1626, with seal removed.
26.003
Drake Coll.
(Latin)
17th century list of excommunicated kings
and emperors.
17th cent.
26.004
Drake Coll.
(Latin)
Vellum legal scroll documenting a land
transaction by Girolamo Galilei, Florence,
1575.
1575
27.001
Drake autograph
collection
Charles Burbage.
27.002
Drake autograph
collection
Raffaello Bombelli (1629).
1629
27.003
Drake autograph
collection
Agostino Caracchi (1605).
1605
27.004
Drake autograph
collection
G.H. Darwin.
27.005
Drake autograph
collection
Sir Humphry Davy.
27.006
Drake autograph
collection
Augustus de Morgan (1848).
1848
27.007
Drake autograph
collection
Sir Arthur S. Eddington (1928).
1928
Florence
158
27.008
Drake autograph
collection
Prof. Francis Ysidore Edgeworth.
27.009
Drake autograph
collection
Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1845).
27.010
Drake autograph
collection
T.H. Huxley.
27.011
Drake autograph
collection
M. LeVerrier (1847).
1847
27.012
Drake autograph
collection
William Leyborn (1711).
1711
27.013
Drake autograph
collection
Ernst Mach.
27.014
Drake autograph
collection
John Nevil Maskelyne.
27.015
Drake autograph
collection
George Peacock.
27.016
Drake autograph
collection
John Playfair.
27.017
Drake autograph
collection
Silvanus B. Thompson.
159
27.018
Drake autograph
collection
Prof. Todhunter.
27.019
Drake autograph
collection
John Tyndall.
27.020
Drake autograph
collection
Three letters from Emil Wohlwill to Ernst
Mach.
28.001
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 1. Cioli, Andrea, 1573-1641
Al sig. Benedetto Guerrini. Di Firenze. 14
setem. 1634.
A.L.S.
28.002
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 2. Compendio nel quale si contengono [1618?]
del cometa, c’hora appare, il positioni del
cielo nell’orto, et recato d’esso il nome; il
colore; la grandezza il nascimento, l’occaso, il
segno, in che si moue; il pronostico, et ragioni
d’esso. Il tempo nel quale potranno seguiri
gl’effetti; se dureranno molto, o poco, et
gl’esempi ch’a cio fanno a proposito. [1618?]
[17] p. diagrs.
Four blank leaves between p. [14] and [15].
28.003
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 3. Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
[A Gallanzone Gallanzoni. Firenze, 16 luglio
1611. 16--]
[14] p. A contemporary copy, apparently the
only complete one, of this letter.
Pages [3-4] slightly mutilated.
1634
1611
160
28.004
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 4. Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
Decisione del s.re Gallileo Gallilei. [16--].
[2] p. On a mathematical argument.
16--
28.005
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 5. Gualterottj, Raffaello, 1543-1638
[Discorso sopra l’apparizione de la nuova
stella. 1605]
[21] p. Printed, with many additions, in
Florence in 1605.
1605
28.006
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 6. Guicciardini, Piero, 1560-1626
Alla ser.ma Madama Madn’ Madama la gran
duc[hessa] Di Roma li 12 d’aprile 1614.
A.L.S. Addressed to Christine, of Lorraine,
Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
Announcing the death of Pirotes and the
appointment of Simone Giannelli as his
successor in the Dateria.
1614
Rome
28.007
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 7. Maria Maddalena, d’Austria,
granduchessa, 1587- 1631
All’Ill.mo et ecc.mo sig.re mio cognate amat.mo
il s.r principe don Francesco Medici, Firenze.
Di ... Pisa a’ 27 dicembre 1612.
A.L.S. Signed:Maria Magdalena.
1612
Pisa
28.008
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 8. Observationes, discursus, et judicia
nonnullorum mathematicorum de nuperiori
cometâ. [1666?]
[4] p. col. ill. Includes quotations from
various English mathematicians; and
“Lamentatio Hungariae …” Slip laid in:
1665-1666
Rome
161
Nova prognostica de summa pontifice circa
finem anni 1665, 1666, Romae … (on verso:
Anno 1665 … Anno 1666 …)
28.009
Drake Coll.
(Italian)
Folder 9. Tedeschi, Leonardo, ca. 1571-1634 1604
Trattato intorno alla stella apparsa a x
d’ottobre l’anno M.D.CIIIL / dell’eccellente
medico il signor Lionardo Tedeschi veronese.
[1604?]
223-229, 220-222 leaves. Dated and signed at
end: Di Verona il 22 di dicembre 1604 …...
Lionardo Tedeschi.
29.1-12B
Freeman, Richard
B.
British Natural History Bibliography
(Typescript)
Mid-20th
century
[England?]
30.001
Trudeau, Casimir
[?]
Collection of 6 early Canadian medical
manuscripts including: 1) Chemistry
notebook; 2) “Maladies des yeux. Extrait de
Boyer”; 3) Notes on the influence of various
foods on digestion; 4) “Remarques faites en
suivant la clinique de Mr. Dupuytren à
l’hôtel-Dieu sure une hernie crurale
enterorale”; 5) Draft of a letter to the Dean of
the Paris medical faculty; 6) Draft of a letter
to the Dean of the Paris medical faculty. (Cf.
Notes on Manuscripts file.)
1816-1818
Paris, France
30.002*
Woodbury, Lt.
Lt. Woodbury's journal of Peninsula
campaign, 1813-14
[1816?]
[England?]
Verona
162
30.003
P-----, Allan
Letter to Henry concerning a recent treatise
by their friend Lauder concerning Einstein’s
errors.
23 Dec. 1924
Southern Lines Pacific
30.004
Anonymous
List of books removed from Orlers, Jan.
Description & representation de toutes les
victoires, tant par eau que par terre,
lesquelles Dieu a octroiees aux nobles, hauts
& puissants seigneurs, Messeignrs les Estats
des Provinces Vnies du Païs-bas, souz la
conduite & gouuernement de son excellence,
le prince Mavrice de Nassav. Leiden, 1612.
(Simcoe collection)
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
30.005
Nawratzki, Emil
Medical School attendance and report record
for the Königlichen Friedrich-WilhelmsUniversität zu Berlin. Contains the signatures
of very well-known German physicians,
including Professors Virchow and Waldeyer.
Prof. Nawratzki was one of Berlin’s first
neuro psychiatrists, and was founder and
owner of the Sanatorium Waldhaus. He died
at the hands of the Nazis with his wife in
1938
1887
Berlin
163
30.006
Lewin, Bruno
Medical school attendance and report record
for the Universität Berlin. Contains the
signatures of famous German physicians
including Professors Fick and Lewin (a
distant relative). Bruno Lewin was the first
forensic psychiatrist of the Berlin Polic Force,
but was summarily dismissed in 1993 as
because of his Jewish heritage. With a
photograph of Lewin’s graduation diploma,
and a photograph of Prof. Bonhoeffe,
professor of psychiatry, and one of Lewin’s
supervisors in 1927.
1920
Berlin
30.007
Thomas, H.A.
Letter to J.H. Markland concerning some
pieces written by Thomas’s grandfather, Dr
Harington.
12 Jan. 1855
4 Lansdowne Cres.
[s.l.]
30.008
Allen, Ralph
A.L.S. to Barbara [Gilmour], wife of Clyde,
[196-]
concerning the lyrics to Black Pillow and
thanking her for a recent dinner; discussing an
upcoming convention and influencing the
Prairie delegation.
229 Glenrose Ave.,
Toronto, Ont.
30.009
Baillie, J.M.
Baillie, Helen
Banting, F.G.
Postcard with view of a Tudor-style home
signed by these three.
[s.l.]
[192-?]
164
30.010
Gandhi, Mahatma
(1868-1949)
A.N.S. to Major Galvin asking that his mail
be sent out and noting that there should be a
spinning wheel waiting for him in the
Despatch Office.
18 Nov. 1930
Yeravda Central Prison
30.011
Enriquez, Anton
& Alonso
Asiento fecho por los s[eno]res Anton
Enriquez e Alonso Enriquez su subrino
1517
Bruselas
30.012
s.n.
Sentimentos de Armindo na-ingrata mudansa
de Lorinda ; exportos em-um romanse lirico
[18--]
[Portugal?]
30.013
Banting,
Frederick
Letter to Mrs Arthur James
12 Feb. 1941
Ottawa
30.014
Hernandez
Bermudez,
Ricardo
Letter to D.F.A. de Villagomez
29 Mar. 1909
Madrid
30.015
Cruikshank,
George,
1792-1878
Letter to the publisher, T. C. Newby.
6 Aug. 1850
[London?]
30.016
Smith, Henry
Jonas
Mr H.S. Smith's settlement
1869-1877
London
30.017
Eastman, M.
Notes, letters, and poems belonging to Miss
M. Eastman
1918
Various places
30.018
Liceti, Fortunio
A.L.S. to Andrea Moresini
16 Sep. 1612
Venice
165
30.019
Bryce, James,
1st Viscount
Bryce
A.L.S. to Goldwin Smith concerning the Boer
War.
10 June 1900
54 Portland Pl.
London
30.020
Grant Duff, Sir
Mountstuart
A.L.S. to Goldwin Smith concerning the Boer
War.
23 May 1900
11, Chelsea
Embankment,
[London]
30.021
Holyoake, George A.L.S. to Goldwin Smith concerning Smith’s
Jacob
writing and the Boer War.
9 Oct. 1900
Eastern Lodge,
Brighton
30.022
Merriman, John
Xavier
3 A.L.S. to Goldwin Smith concerning the
Boer War.
11 Sept. 1900
27 Sept. 1900
10 Oct. 1900
Cape Town, South
Africa
30.023
Morley, John, 1st
Viscount Morley
A.L.S. to Goldwin Smith concerning a recent
national election in England and the Boer
War.
22 Oct. 1900
57 Elm Park Gdns
London
30.024
Smith, Goldwin
A.L.S. to Thomas C. Patteson informing him
that their acquaintance must now necessarily
cease.
23 Jun. 1896
Toronto
30.025
Patteson, T.C.
A.L.S. to Goldwin Smith concerning their
agreement to discontinue their friendship
because of Smith’s annexationist politics visà-vis Canada and the U.S.
23 June 1896
Toronto
166
30.026
Hamilton, Arnold
A.L.S. to an unidentified woman asking her to 12 Sept. 1910
write an account of some of the lectures
delivered by Goldwin Smith at The Grange.
Accompanying is the typescript account of
the lectures.
Toronto
30.027
Smith, Goldwin
A.L.S. of congratulations to W.S. Wallace.
1 Dec. 1902
Toronto
30.028
Anonymous
Sermons notes based on Acts 14:27
[1915?]
[Toronto?]
30.029
Caswell, Edward
S.
1861-1938
Two letters addressed to George Murray
19 Apr. 1907
concerning his potential review of "Songs of a 25 Apr. 1907
Sourdough", by Robert Service
Toronto
30.030
Catholic Church
Tabula epistolarum et evangeliorum
[14--?]
[France?]
30.031
Price, Henry H.
1899-1984
Letter to Prof. R.W. Church of Ithaca, N.Y.
18 Jan. 1936
New College, Oxford
30.032
Bright, William
(1824-1901)
Letter to Charles Abel Heurtley (1806-1895),
asking where John Calvin uses the expression
“horribile secretum” and exactly what he
thinks Calvin means by the expression.
Removed from Knox f 00299.
30 Sep. [189-]
Christ Church, Oxford
French vellum fragment suitable for
palaeographical exercise.
1540
France
Regius Professor of
Ecclesiastical History
in the University of
Oxford, Canon of
Christ Church
30.033
Odin, Nicolas
167
30.034
French vellum fragment suitable for
palaeographical exercise.
16th cent.
France
30.035
Corrigan,
Beatrice M.
Signed guestlist from the testimonial dinner
given in honour of Dr. B.M. Corrigan
5 Mar. 1971
[Toronto]
30.036
[Alexander,
Joseph John?]
Notes by an Anglo-Catholic clergyman on
orders of service for the feasts of the
exaltation of the Holy Cross; the Decollation
of St John the Baptist; the Nativity of the
B.V.M., the 1st Sunday in Octr., Our Lady of
the Holy Rosary.
[England?]
[18--?]
30.037
Carré, Arthur C.
Copy of the poem “Hylas” transcribed by
Heathcote Garrod (1878-1960).
[19--?]
[England?]
30.038
The English
Positivist
Committee and
the Incorporated
London School of
Economics and
Political Science
Trust Deed of the Auguste Comte Memorial
Fund. Typscript with annotations in
contemporary MS. [The gift of Sidney Eisen,
1998.]
1 June 1951
[London]
30.039
Gifford, Grace
Original ink cartoon showing a group of
gentlemen in evening dress and captioned
‘The Cumann na n’Gaedheal Reception’.
Signed by Grace Plunkett on verso.
[Dublin?]
[ca. 1920]
168
Muirhead, James
P.
Letter from James to his son Lionel,
forwarding to him a copy of William
Cowper’s Iter Johannis Gilpini. [Edinburgh,
1897].
2 Sept. 1897
Haseley Court
Muirhead, Lionel
Thank you note from Lionel to his father
James acknowledging receipt of Cowper’s
book and discussing family matters.
4 Sept. 1897
Waterstock
30.041
Conlon, M.
Letter to her brother written on board the ship
‘Achilles’ detailing the drowning death of her
husband and the general conditions of life on
the ship.
May [184-?]
At sea
30.042
Moysey,
Frederick
Note accompanying the presentation of a
book to his brother.
7 Oct. 1835
[s.l.]
30.043
McBride, P.
[Receipts for membership fees from the
Wolfe Society]
1934-1939
[s.l.]
30.044
Bathurst, Allen
Bathurst, Baron
(1684-1775)
[Letter of condolence on the death of General
James Wolfe.]
28 Jan. 1760
[England]
Cola di Rienzo: libretto
[18--?]
[Italy?]
30.040
30.045
169
30.046
Kirby, Grant
Two affidavits dealing with the sureties and
power of attorney over Kirby’s contract with
the Naval Storekeeper at Kingston, Upper
Canada for the transportation of His
Majesty’s Naval and Naval ordinance stores
from Fort George to the Naval Depot at the
mouth of the Grand River on Lake Erie.
24 Apr. 1823
Queenston, [U.C.]
30.047
Casey, George E
(1850-1903)
Letter to O'Malley asking him to investigate
the financial standing of certain of his
constituents in Elgin West with a view to
holding public office
[18--]
Ottawa
Postcard from to Comm. Jules Sambon
concerning a exhibition of art at the theatre
[of La Scala, Milan?].
Removed from John, Wilhelm. Erzherzog
Karl der Feldherr und seine Armee. Wien,
1913 (F-10 01760).
Beaulieu
22 Feb. 1914
Letter to an actress, Miss Birkitt,
accompanying a copy of The Brass Bottle as a
souvenir of her association with the play.
Removed from the author’s The Brass Bottle.
London, 1911 (B-13 02492)
[London]
24 May 1911
30.048
30.049
Anstey, F.,
(1856-1934)
170
30.050
Cameron, Edward Letter to “Cousin Gouverneur” thanking him
for sending their grandfather’s Bible to him
and discussing their genealogical history.
Removed from: Eager, Samuel W. An outline
history of Orange County. Newburgh, 18461847. (B-13 02422)
Wallfield,
N.Y.
December 1925
30.051
Baillie, Alicea
Letter to Rowland forwarding some books
and expressing her hope to visit Hereford ‘if
Hitler does not object’. Removed from
Baillie, J. B. (James Black), Sir. Studies in
human nature. London, 1921. (slater UK
00327)
Weybridge,
England
25 July 1941
30.052
Garvey, Michael
Letter to an unidentified priest concerning
passages from Votive Lights that could be
printed in The Messenger. Removed from the
author’s Votive Lights. Toronto, 1926. (Regis
586)
Toronto
[s.d.]
30.053
Davies,
Robertson
The 'lost' scenes from The merry wives of
Windsor : restored from the 1599 duodecimo
and edited with notes. By the Dark horse of
the sonnets [Typescript].
[Toronto?]
[1956?]
30.054
Lee-Hamilton,
Eugene,
1845-1907.
[Letter to Oscar Wilde.]
Florence
19 December 1894
30.055
Clark, Leonard
[Letter to Miss Dane.]
Leeds
18 June 1945
171
30.056
O’Meara, W.A.J.
[Letter to Kekewich.]
Whetstone
3 Feb. 1926
30.057
Ukrainska
studentska
hromada voiakiv
na emihratsii.
Khronika
Riccione,
Italy
7 Aug. – 29 Dec. 1945
30.058
Darwin, Charles
Letter to Charles Kingsley
Otley,
Yorkshire
1 Dec. [1859]
30.059
Roddick, Amy
Redpath
Letter to [John] Britnell
Montreal
18 Nov. 1919
30.060
Soutar, William
Letter to Mrs Auld asking for information on
the Scottish artist James Duncan.
Perth
27 Dec. 1936
30.061
MacGill-Eain,
Somhairle
(1911- )
A.L.S. to Mrs Hazel Smith
Braes, Skye
19 Jan. 1981
30.062
Service, Robert
A.L.S. to Mrs Brown.
Toronto
12 Aug. 1940
30.063
St John, Thomas
Account for gardening services rendered to
Mr K. Laurie
Redcastle
1805-1806
30.064
Service, Robert
A.L.S. to R.T. Bond of Dodd, Mead & Co.
Hollywood
30 Oct. 1945
30.065
Princess Mary
Adelaide
Autograph
Richmond
172-
172
30.066
Darwin, Charles
1809-1882
[Holograph letter from Charles Darwin to
Paolo Mantegazza]
28 Dec. 1872
Down, Kent
30.067
Hetherington, J.
Newby
Letter to Mr Green concerning the ranks of
the archangels.
5 Oct. 1922
The Pleasance,
Malvern Wells
30.068
Douglas, Alfred
Lord
Letter to Mr Green Armytgage.
2 March 1916
Shelley’s Polly, Lewes
30.069
Stevenson, Adlai
Letter to Claude Bissell, President of the U. of 4 Jul. 1965
T.
St Mary’s Road,
Libertyville, Illinois
Classroom ledgers
1891-1896
St Vincent Twp, Ont.
4 July 1711
[Montreal]
30.070
31.001
Deschambault,
Ordinance to all of the inhabitants of Ville
Jacques-Alexis de Marie who have not repaired their
Fleury
“banquettes” (footways) that they have eight
days from the publication of this notice to do
Ca. 1642-1715
so. Signed Deschambault.
Deschambault was bailiff, king’s attorney
then royal judge at Montreal, as well as
founder of the seigneury and village of
Deschambault; son of Jacques Fleury and
Perrine Gabar; buried 31 March 1715 at
Montreal. With typed transcript.
173
31.002
Tilly Seigneury
Verbal process of the land survey for the
property of the late Pierre-Noël Legardeur de
Tilly, Sieur de Moncarville, done for his
widow, Madeleine Boucher. Signed by a
general surveyor.
27 September
1724
[Quebec]
31.003
Plamondon,
Ignace
Survey report of land in the Duquet fief
(Paroisse St-Antoine) undertaken at the
request of Jean Baptiste Houde & Jacques
Houde to determine the separating line.
Signed by the surveyor: Plomondon.
19 July 1741
St-Antoine [de Tilly?],
Quebec
31.004090
Various
Historical documents from French Canada –
all catalogued in OPAC
32.001030
Various
Historical documents from French Canada –
all catalogued in OPAC
32.031080
Documents principally related to the French
theatre
France, Switzerland &
Belgium
33
Various
Collection of 10 vellum scraps suitable for
palaeographical exercises, in Latin & English.
The gift of Balfour Halevy of York
University.
16th & 17th
century
England
34
Cameron,
Alexander
1834-1917
Alexander Cameron's collection of lecture
cards for admittance to medical lectures at the
University of Glasgow, and other material
relating to his medical career
1859-1917
Glasgow, Liverpool,
Quebec
174
35
Hahn, G.
Schmetterlinge
(Watercolors of moths)
[147] folders
(Acquired from Dave Mason)
19--?
Germany?
36.001
Christ Church,
Meaford, Ont.
Baptismal certificate for Talmadge D’arcy
Carefoote.
15 Sep. 1918
Meaford, Ont.
36.002
Reid, R.J.
A.L.S. to Sheldon Carefoote, reservist in the
Mississauga Horse Regiment, inviting him to
attend a series of parades.
26 Sep. 1930
185 Gerrard St E.,
Toronto.
36.003
Carefoote,
Sheldon F.
(1915-1944)
Telegram to Mrs S.F. Carefoote (Bessie)
accompanying a Christmas gift to his mother.
25 Dec. 1933
[Toronto]
36.004
Carefoote,
Hugh
Sketch of Sheldon F. Carefoote in his CPR
Telegraph uniform.
[1931]
[Toronto]
36.005
Carefoote,
Poem: Wartime Peace
Talmadge D’Arcy
11 Nov. 1938
[East York, Ont.]
1941-1945
v.p.
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.006
Canadian Army
Soldier’s Pay Books for Talmadge D’Arcy
Carefoote
175
36.007
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
A.L.S. to parents, Sheldon and Bessie
Carefoote. Describing his first days in the
army and his dislike of the experience thus
far. Meets up with his brother, Sheldon
Carefoote Jr. On Canadian Active Service
Force letterhead.
8 Jan. 1941
Camp Borden, Ont.
36.008
Canadian Army
Clothing and equipment statement.
Completed by Talmadge D’Arcy Carefoote.
Nov. 1942
[Ottawa?]
36.009
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
A.L.S. to parents. Describes dealing with the
food situation at Camp Borden, experiencing
the gas chamber, activities on the range. On
Knights of Columbus War Services
letterhead. With envelope.
26 Jan. 1942
Camp Borden, Ont.
Post-letter telegram to his mother Mrs S.
Carefoote (Bessie) wishing her a happy
Mother’s Day.
10 May 1942
Great Britain
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.010
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
176
36.011
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.012
Carefoote,
George Ray
8 Aug. 1942
A.L.S. to his family. In England since May
1942; discusses family affairs at home.
Comments on a recent baseball game between
his team and a French Canadian unit and
other athletic events in a period of otherwise
little activity; going to the movies and seeing
newsreels with images from Toronto; missed
his brother George’s wedding; dangers of
motorcycle riding in Europe
1st Canadian Army
H.Q.
C.A.O. England
Postcard to parents describing his trip by train
to Terrace, B.C.
14 Oct. 1942
Winnipeg, Manitoba
A.L.S. to family. Describes the climate in
B.C. Talks about his brother-in-law, Jack
Aimers, and how he was exempted from
military service – wishes he could do the
same. Asks for some chocolate bars or
peanuts to be sent out to him.
30 Oct. 1942
Terrace, B.C.
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
36.013
Carefoote,
George Ray
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
177
36.014
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.015
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
[Oct. 1942?]
A.L.S. to family. Anticipates the birth of his
first child at home. Furloughs not as regularly
granted as anticipated; decamping to General
McNaughton’s HQ near London. Discusses
his brother-in-law Jack Aimers who has been
in the sanitorium; laying bets on when the war
will end; playing successfully for the
regimental basebal team; details other sports
activities for the soldiers; inspection by
General Harry Crerar.
1st Canadian Army
H.Q.
C.A.O. England
Telegram to his mother, Mrs S. Carefoote
(Bessie) thanking her for letters and parcels
received. “Daughter born”.
Great Britain
5 Nov. 1942
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.016
36.017
Blank airgraph form.
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
Airgraph letter to his youngest brother, Pearce 15 Nov. 1942
Carefoote.
1st Canadian Army
H.Q.
C.A.O. England
Airograph letter to family, thanking them for
the Christmas parcel of 19 Oct. that arrived.
1st Canadian Army
H.Q.
C.A.O. England
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.018
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
15 Nov. 1942
Lorne Scots
Regiment
178
36.019
Canadian Army
Soldier’s Service Book. Completed by
Talmadge D. Carefoote
Dec. 1942
[Ottawa?]
36.020
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
Telegram to his mother, Mrs S. Carefoote,
thanking her for letters and parcels received.
[s.d.]
Great Britain
A.L.S. to family. Comments on the slow
delivery of mail; the low cost of processing
camera film; guard duty; troubles with his
boots, asks his mother to send him insoles.
1 Dec. 1942
Terrace, B.C.
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.021
Carefoote,
George Ray
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
36.022
Carefoote,
George Ray
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
A.L.S. to family. Comments on drinking with 13 Dec. 1942
his friends; stomach problems; hopes his
brother Sheldon stays at Camp Borden;
discusses events at his old place of work in
Toronto; discusses the Toronto Maple Leafs;
food improvements in the Mess; moving out
on “schemes” within the month, so it may be
difficult getting mail. On Canadian YMCA
Christmas stationery.
Terrace, B.C.
179
36.023
Christmas Card
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’Arcy
Dec. 1942
England
11 Mar. 1943
[England]
A.L.S. to family. Comments on the “dry”
liquor situation at the Camp; working on the
rifle range; hasn’t heard from his brothers
Tom or George, but has heard from his wife
Mabel. On Canadian Legion War Services
letterhead.
22 Mar. 1943
[s.l.]
A.L.S. to family. Principally discusses family
matters, including the Kentucky Derby and
upcoming King’s Plate. Enquires about life
insurance for himself. Expects to be moved
in June.
12 May 1943
Terrace, B.C.
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.024
Carefoote,
Poem: Air-Raid
Talmadge D’Arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.025
Carefoote,
Sheldon F.
(1915-1944)
North Shore New
Brunswick
Regiment
36.026
Carefoote,
George Ray
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
180
36.027
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.028
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.029
A.L.S. to family. Packages and letters from
mid-June have finally arrived. Family matters
discussed, including the 1-year anniversary of
his late infant son’s birth. Comments on the
resignation of Mussolini as a sign of hope for
the war’s end; doesn’t think his brother Hugh
Carefoote will be called up since the war will
probably be over by then; Italy exiting the
war; discusses family problems and news in
general; comments on a recent air raid;
difficulties of censorship.
27 Jul. 1943
[s.l.]
Airograph letter to family. Discusses the
receipt of family mail and packages; relative
quickness of regular mail versus airograph;
still playing hockey, which was unexpected
by this point in his tour.
18 Oct. 1943
1st Canadian Army
H.Q.
C.A.O. England
31 Oct. 1943
[England]
Carefoote,
Poem: The Horse and the Groom
Talmadge D’Arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
181
36.030
Carefoote,
Sheldon F.
(1914-1944)
A.L.S. to family. Mentions army censor;
discusses weather in his new location [Nova
Scotia?]; his wife Mabel going on a trip to the
West. On Canadian Legion War Services
letterhead.
8 Mar 1944
[s.l.]
A.L.S. to family. Comments on recent
examinations; the D-Day invasion which
began the day previous; expresses hope that
his brother Tom and Shellie will be all right;
mood at the Camp in the light of the invasion;
lists his movements over the next few weeks;
hoping to transfer to the Air Force; King’s
Birthday Parade; planning a trip home soon.
7 Jun 1944
Vancouver, B.C.
Field Service Postcard. The text is set by the
army; the soldier merely strikes out those
sentences that do not apply. [Sheldon
Carefoote participated in the D-Day invasion
on 6 June 1944; he was killed on 4 July 1944
near Carpiquet, France.]
9 Jun 1944
[France]
Driving permit for T.D. Carefoote
1 Jul 1944
[England]
North Shore New
Brunswick
Regiment
36.031
Carefoote,
George Ray
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
36.032
Carefoote,
Sheldon F.
(1915-1944)
North Shore New
Brunswick
Regiment
36.033
War Department
(Canada)
182
36.034
Carefoote, Bessie
Initial notes concerning the active-service
death of her son, Sheldon Carefoote Jr.
30 July 1944
[East York, Ont.]
(1896-1979)
36.035
Carefoote, Bessie
(1896-1979)
Notes taken from information provided by her 30 Jul 1944
son, Talmadge [Tom] Carefoote concerning
the active-service death of his brother,
Sheldon. With photograph of grave.
[East York, Ont.]
36.036
London Free
Press
Obituary notice for Pte. S.F. Carefoote
[July 1944?]
London, Ont.
36.037
Appleyard, Maj.
R.D.
Letter to Sgt George Ray Carefoote
concerning his request to transfer to the
C.P.M.H. (Camp Petawawa Military
Hospital) with a decrease in his rank to
Corporal and his pay.
26 Nov.
[1944?]
North Rosedale,
Toronto.
Dec. 1944
England
[1944]
Ghent
RCAMC,
Registrar
36.038
Carefoote,
Christmas Card
Talmadge D’Arcy
Lorne Scots
Regiment
36.039
Bill’s Café,
Ghent, Belgium
Souvenir calendar with the words “Welcome
Canada, Welcome Poland” printed on back.
183
36.040
A.L.S. to his mother, Bessie Carefoote,
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’Arcy enclosing a hand painted silk scarf that he had
purchased while on leave in Ghent. With
envelope bearing the insignia of the Canadian
Lorne Scots
Army Active Service.
Regiment
36.041
Carefoote,
George Ray
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
36.042
36.043
Canadian Army
31 Jan. 1945
[Belgium]
A.L.S. to family. Comments on upcoming
6 Feb. 1945
casualty exercises; expresses hope that his
brother Art will stay out of the army or, at
worst, stay as part of the home defence; tips
for preserving alcohol in freezing weather; the
progress of the Russians, and the weakening
of the German troops; comments on
conscription and the Canadian Legion; the
apparent lack of British military participation
in the War of late; Canada’s independence;
comments on his mother’s return to nursing;
weather in Saskatchewan; relations with the
native children. Includes newspaper clipping
‘Eskimo Force builds roads, chases parasites’.
With envelope.
Lac La Ronge,
Saskatchewan
Order of Service for dedication and
presentation of memorials.
14 Mar. 1945
Christie Street
Hospital, Toronto
Reallocation Questionnaire. Completed by
Talmadge D’Arcy Carefoote.
16 May 1945
[Belgium]
184
36.044
Drug Trading
Company,
Toronto
Certified Chatter. Company newsletter,
commemorating Victory in Europe, four days
earlier. (Sheldon Carefoote Sr. was an
employee here.)
16 May 1945
Toronto
36.045
1st Canadian
Army Troops
Track & Field Championship programme.
27 Jul. 1945
Apeldoorn, Holland
36.046
Carefoote,
A.L.S. to his mother Bessie Carefoote.
17 Aug. 1945
Talmadge D’Arcy Commenting on gifts he had purchased for his
mother. Still waiting on news about when he
Lorne Scots
will be shipped home. On Canadian Army
Regiment
Active Service letterhead. With Valentine.
Holland
36.047
Carefoote, Bessie
9 Oct. 1945
[East York, Ont]
22 Nov. 1945
Sutton, Surrey,
England
(1896-1979)
36.048
Notes taken from conversation with Company
Sgt Wakefield, outpatient at the Christie
Street Hospital. Details circumstances
surrounding the death of her son, Sheldon F.
Carefoote, Jr.
Carefoote,
Postcard to his wife, Orma Stewart Carefoote,
Talmadge D’Arcy saying that he is about to finish leave and
hope that he will be sailing home soon.
Lorne Scots
Regiment
185
36.049
District Officer
Commanding,
M.D. no. 2
36.050
Postcard to Mrs T.D. [Orma] Carefoote
informing her of the imminent arrival of her
husband, Sgt T.D. Carefoote on board the
Queen Elizabeth, and then in Toronto by train
no. 303.
5 Dec. 1945
Toronto
Newspaper clipping entitled “Police are
brushed aside as kin long kept waiting rush to
embrace repats”.
[Dec. 1945]
[Toronto]
36.051
[Canadian Army]
Rehabilitation training questionnaire
[s.d.]
[Ottawa?]
36.052
[Canadian Army]
Medical chits?
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
36.053
Carefoote,
George Ray
Ration card, with the stamp of the Orderly
Room, Military Hospital, Windsor, Nova
Scotia, for the period 1 Nov. 1945 to 2 Mar.
1946.
10 Nov 19452 Mar 1946
Windsor, N.S.
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
36.054
Department of
National Defence
Statement of War Service Gratuity for
Talmadge D’Arcy Carefoote.
26 Jan. 1946
[Ottawa?]
36.055
Chorley Park
Military Hospital
Pass for weekend furlough issued to Cpl
George Carefoote
21 Mar. 1946
[Toronto]
186
36.056
Shewfelt, G.A.
Principal,
McGregor School
36.057
Carefoote, Bessie
(1896-1979)
36.058
Note to the Carefoote family concerning the
reception at McGregor School for returning
veterans, and to acknowledge those who have
lost family members. On verso, newspaper
clipping with photograph of cenotaph erected
outside of McGregor School, dated 22 May
1948.
5 Apr. 1946
[East York, Ont.]
Draft of note of thanks to G.A. Shewfelt,
Prinicipal of McGregor School, East York,
for the roses sent in honour of her late son,
Sheldon F. Carefoote Jr. With newspaper
clipping containing notice of the reception for
the school’s veterans from the previous
evening.
6 Apr. 1946
[East York, Ont.]
In memoriam: East York School Pupils who
gave their lives in World War II
May 1947
[East York, Ont.]
36.059
Department of
National Defence
Letter to Bessie Carefoote forwarding a
3 Jul 1947
photograph of the temporary marker for her
son Sheldon’s grave in the Cemetery of Benysur-Mer, France.
Ottawa, Ont.
36.060
Shewfelt, G.A.
Invitation to Mrs Carefoote and family to
attend the unveiling of the war memorial
erected outside of the school.
[East York, Ont.]
Principal,
McGregor School
21 May 1948
187
36.061
R.H. McGregor
Public School
Order of Service for dedication of war
memorial
21 May 1948
[East York, Ont.]
36.062
Carefoote, Bessie
Reflections on the death of her son, Sheldon
Carefoote Jr.
11 Nov. 1971
[East York, Ont.]
(1896-1979)
36.063
Cloutier, M.G.
Letter to Pearce A. Carefoote enclosing a
colour photocopy of the page from the Book
of Remembrance containing the name of his
brother, Sheldon Frederick Carefoote.
22 Nov. 1995
Ottawa, Ont.
36.064
Carefoote,
Sheldon F.
Photographs from the military career of
George R. Carefoote. Includes studio portrait
together with his wife Mabel Vance
Carefoote, and two children Vance and
Muriel; with wife Mabel, son Vance, and
members of the Vance family at the Toronto
Exhibition grounds (1940); at Camp Borden
with brother Talmadge, aunts Martha
Carefoot May & Alexia Carefoot Murray,
with their respective husbands Harry Mary
and Pearce Murray.
1940-1941
Toronto & Camp
Borden
1940-1945
v.p.
(1915-1944)
North Shore New
Brunswick
Regiment
36.065
Carefoote,
Photographs from the military career of
Talmadge D’Arcy Talmadge D. Carefoote. Many annotated on
back.
Lorne Scots
Regiment
188
36.066
Collection of photographs from Carefoote’s
Carefoote,
Talmadge D’Arcy time in active service in Europe. Most
photographs are dated and labelled on versos.
Lorne Scots
Regiment
1942-1945
[v.p.]
36.067
Carefoote,
George Ray
Photographs from the military career of
George R. Carefoote
1942-1945
v.p.
Royal Canadian
Army Medical
Corps
36.068
Carefoote,
Arthur W.B.
Photographs from the military career of
Arthur W. Carefoote
1945
[v.p.]
36.069
Royal Canadian
Air Force
Silk handkerchief with the insignia and motto
of the RCAF. With envelope.
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
36.070
Carefoote,
Talmadge
Miscellaneous postwar materials
1951-1959
Toronto
Carefoote,
Arthur
37.001
Government of
Canada
Ration books
[1940s]
Canada
37.002
Government of
Canada
Ration books
[1940s]
Verdun, Quebec
189
37.003
Simons, Miles C.
Letter to 2nd Lt Ralph C. Simons, P.O.W.
4 June [1944]
Tulsa, OK
37.004
Simons, Miles C.
Letter to 2nd Lt Ralph C. Simons, P.O.W.
15 June 1944
Tulsa, OK
37.005
Copeland,
Caroline
Letter to 2nd Lt Ralph C. Simons, P.O.W.
29 July
[1944?]
Tulsa, OK
37.006
Lucas, Mme
Charles
A.N.S. to Charles Lucas, P.O.W.
22 Aug.
[1940?]
Tourlaville, France
37.007
Lucas, Mme
Charles
A.N.S. to Charles Lucas, P.O.W.
7 Aug. 1940
Tourlaville, France
37.008
Lucas, Mme
Charles
A.N.S. to Charles Lucas, P.O.W.
13 Dec 1940
Tourlaville, France
37.009
Lucas, Mme
Charles
A.N.S. to Charles Lucas, P.O.W.
24 Dec. 1940
Tourlaville, France
37.010
Tellett, Charles
Frederick
Letters, photographs, and clippings related to
the wartime career of Charles Tellet, Supply
Unit 32 Cdn CTPS/COAM. [The gift of
Charles Watt Tellett.]
1939-[1947?]
Various
190
38.001
10 Sep. 1849
McGrath, Thomas A.L.S. to the Quebec Board of Health.
Detailed document concerning the beginning
(d. 1872)
of the cholera epidemic in Quebec. Attributes
the Asiatic Cholera to the arrival of the Sir
Medical asst. at
Charles Napier from Dublin which arrived on
Grosse Isle,
19 August. Several passengers ill, but none
Quebec
with cholera; five days later one of the
passengers, a child aged 12, was stricken with
the disease, dying the following day. Fiftyseven deaths occurred the following day at
Grosse Isle, of which 53 were passengers
from the Circassian, which arrived shortly
after the Napier. Details early progress of the
disease.
Grosse Ile, Quebec
38.002
Hotel Dieu de
Quebec
[ca. 1847]
Quebec
38.003
Committee for the Printed circular letter concerning the
General Hospital establishment of a General Hospital at
at Quebec
Quebec for the sick poor. Sent to doctors
who had proposed the establishment of this
new hospital. Signed by A.W. Cochran “for
the Committee”, and addressed to Dr Morrin.
18 Jan. 1845
Quebec
Unsigned, undated manuscript draft of a
memorandum entitled “Small pox and
vaccination” concerning the “very general
anxiety visiting in the public mind, from the
late introduction of small pox among the
inhabitants of Quebec”, and its author’s
arguments in favour of Jenner’s serum far
vaccination.
191
38.004
Blewett, Jean
A.L.S. to Faith Fenton offering words of
encouragement. Includes newspaper clipping
with poetry by Blewett.
22 Jun 1896
Blenheim
38.005
Galt, Lady Amy
Gordon
A.L.S. to Faith Fenton concerning Fenton’s
“kind and gentle words in the last number of
the Canadian Home Journal, descriptive of
my dear mother and the old home”.
30 Apr. 1896
Toronto
38.006
Macdonald,
Susan Agnes
A.L.S. to Faith Fenton humbly declining her
request to publish a “Christmas Greeting
addressed to Country women in Canada” in
the woman’s column of The Empire.
6 Dec. [1891]
Victoria, B.C.
38.007
Richards, Laura
E.
Poem. A short ditty presumably to Faith
Fenton addressed as “curly-head”.
1893
[Gardiner, Maine?]
192
38.008
Traill, Catherine
Parr
A.L.S. to Faith Fenton thanking her for what
the latter wrote about her in the Home
Journal. Traill wonders if any of her writings
on birds, beasts or butterflies would be
welcomed in the Journal.
13 Jan. 1896
Westhove, Lakefield,
Ontario.
With an undated holograph author’s note
containing a fanciful description of her
motives for writing nature stories for children.
With another author’s note to Fenton, made at
the age of 94.
13 Dec. 1895
With a cabinet photograph of Traill at the age
of 84, signed on the front and inscribed to her
daughter, Kate, on verso.
38.009
Chamberlin,
Agnes
Biography of her mother, Susanna Moodie.
[1861?]
[Toronto?]
38.010
Chamberlin,
Agnes
Two letters to Henry Morgan concerning her
mother, Susanna Moodie.
1861
Toronto
38.011
Horne, Robert C.
A.L.S. to Alexander Hamilton, businessman,
militia officer, and judge, enquiring if the
latter, as new postmaster at Queenston, would
act as agent for The Christian Observer and
The Upper Canada Gazette. In return, Horne
offers him a remittance on each paper, or
10%. The letter contains Hamilton’s reply to
Horne accepting his offer.
23 Nov. 1820
York, U.C.
193
38.012
Shaw, George
Bernard
A.N.S. to Messrs Hodder & Stoughton
thanking them for permission to use the title
‘The Doctor’s Dilemma’.
24 Oct. 1906
London
38.013
Lamartine,
Alphonse de
Letter to Col. Comte Elie d’Angenoust
recommending the promotion of one of his
friends, Eugène Alban François, currently a
maréchal des logis.
23 Mar. 1846
Paris
38.014
Brevismo compendio de la historia de Mexico [1848?]
des de la conquista hasta Junio de 1848. Mi
opinion.
[Mexico?]
38.015
Hanley, James
(1897-1985)
A.L.S. to Norman Elliston concerning the
writing of Hanley’s “sea book”. Talks about
seeing J.C. Powys who carries Elliston’s book
with him when he goes for his walks. Also
refers to Elliston’s Romany book.
16 Feb. 1938
Corwen, North Wales
38.016
Lahr, Charles
(1885-1971)
List of deletions from the expurgated edition
of James Hanley’s Boy.
[1934?]
[London]
38.017
Hanley, James
(1897-1985)
Holograph of “It is later than you think” with
note in author’s hand “abandoned after the
first page”. A second sheet reads “another
beginning, and no end. James Hanley,
London, ‘68”.
[s.d.]
[London?]
194
38.018
Lewis, C.S.
Letter to Hayworth saying that he “can do
nothing about Milton” as he is “immobilized
with a bone disease and can’t go near a
library”.
9 Jul 1937
The Kilns, Headington
Quarry, Oxford
38.019
Johnson, J.H.
Railway warrant for journeys in the United
Kingdom
22 Apr 1919
[Milford, England?]
38.020
Murray, Charles
(1864-1941)
A.L.S. to Mrs [Katharine] Gerard concerning
a request from his friend [and her son] Robin
to attend the interment of a friend’s cremation
urn [i.e. the late Dr John Gerard]. With two
photographs: (1) Kate Gerard with Dr Charles
Murray & (2) Dr Charles Murray at
Allanmore. With newspaper clipping and
obituaries for Katharine Gerard and Robin
Gerard
24 Oct 1935
The Lythe,
Banchory, [Scotland]
38.021
Nicholson,
William
(1872-1949)
A.L.S. to his son, “Tony, old friend”,
concerning game hunting with the Viceroy’s
party. Includes a coloured pen and ink
drawing of his elephant Maggie. Discusses a
portrait he is painting of the Viceroy, Lord
Hardinge, and alludes to the troubles
associated with the beginning of the First
World War in England.
[1915?]
Mohand Pass [?]
Viceroy’s Camp, India
195
38.022
Hughes, Olwyn
Collection of letters, principally addressed to
Seamus Cooney of the Department of
English, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, concerning the
publications of The Rainbow Press, London.
1975-1979
The Rainbow Press,
London
38.023
Bingre, Francisco
Joaquim
(1763-1856)
A.L.S. with poem.
24 Oct. 1844
[Portugal?]
38.024
Thomas Aquinas
(1225-1274)
Sacris Solemniis: One of the five hymns
composed by St. Thomas Aquinas (12251274) in honour of the Blessed Sacrament at
specific request of Pope Urban IV (12611264) when the Pope first established the
Feast of Corpus Christi in 1264. The last two
stanzas contain the text for the hymn Panis
Angelicus.
[18th cent.?]
Unknown
38.025
Ginesi, Michael
Letter to the publishers Chatto and Windus
asking for information about two books by
James Aston (a.k.a. T.H. White), First Lesson
and They winter abroad, both published in
1932.
20 Oct. 1965
London, England
Smallwood,
Norah
Reply of Norah Smallwood on behalf of
Chatto and Windus.
21 Oct. 1965
London, England
196
38.026
Smith, Iain
Crichton
(1928-1998)
Autumn. (Poem)
[s.d.]
[s.l.]
38.027
Hughes Family of
the Municipality
of Somerville,
Victoria County,
Ontario
Collection of documents related to the history
of Somerville Township, East Victoria
County.
1897-1903
Somerville, Ontario
38.028
Two 17th-century financial documents. The
first signed by Thomas Burnett (1662) deals
with money being paid to a relative. The
second is a fragment (1678) on one side of
which appears to be a listing of silk costs.
1662-1678
[England].
38.029
Fragmentary Latin document beginning
“Generosus D. Joannes Kerczy …”
[1692?]
Documents pertaining to the Freeman family
of Nova Scotia and Ontario.
1837-1838
v.p. in Canada
38.030
Freeman, George
Freeman, Joseph
38.031
Birth, Isaiah
d. 1837
Last will & testament.
1837
[London?]
38.032
Turnbull, Gael
Correspondence with Neil Curry
[1989-2001?]
Ulverston, England
197
38.033
Hood, Thomas
(1799-1845)
A.L.S. to Sir Francis Freeling, referring to Sir
Walter Scott and sending Freeling the
manuscript dedication of “The First Volume
of the Comic Annual.”
3 Sep. 1829
[London, Eng.]
38.034
The Molsons
Bank
Memorandum to the Bank of Nova Scotia,
New Glasgow, for the collection of funds.
25 May 1877
Montreal
38.035
Haliburton,
Thomas
1796-1865
Five A.L.S. to W.B. Watkins and one
fragment of an letter by Haliburton’s second
wife, Sarah Harriet Owen.
1857-1860
Gordon House,
Isleworth, England
38.036
Niven, Frederick
Stoics: Story of the Canadian Northwest
[19--?]
[British Columbia?]
38.037
Goldie, James
A.L.S. to James Carmichael, New Glasgow,
concerning a bill collection. On letter head of
People’s Mills, James Goldie, Merchant
Miller, Guelph, Ont.
5 Mar. 1877
Guelph, Ont.
38.038
Bruce, George
“Sonnet on my wife’s birthday”
10-12 Dec.
1977
[s.l.]
38.039
Law Society of
Upper Canada
Barrister at Law Diploma issued to Philip
Alexis Holt.
15 May 1876
Toronto
Certificate of admission to the Bar
9 Dec. 1876
Toronto
1768-1769
Prince of Wales Fort,
[Manitoba]
38.040
Wales, William & Astronomical observations by order of the
Dymond, Joseph
Royal Society at Prince of Wales’s Fort on
the North-West Coast of Hudson Bay.
198
38.041
Franklin, Sir John
et al.
Transcription of letters by and to the Chief
Factors, chief traders, and gentlemen in
charge of Hudson Bay Company posts,
Northern District, forwarded with despatches
of Capt. John Franklin.
[1825?]
[Fort Franklin,
N.W.T?]
38.042
Hudson’s Bay
Company
Duplicate of letter to Eden Colvile, Governor
and the Council of the Northern Department.
1852
Hudson’s Bay House,
London, England
38.043
[Hudson’s Bay
Company]
Courses and distances from Oxford House to
Fort Daer.
1833
[Oxford House,
Manitoba?]
38.044
[Hudson’s Bay
Company]
Comparative list of McKenzie’s River District [1857?]
returns of various type of pelts.
[s.l.]
38.045
[Hudson’s Bay
Company]
Abstract of value and number of martens in
[Mackenzie River] District
[1857?]
[s.l.]
38.046
Watmough,
David
[Personal notes]
[198-?]
[Vancouver, B.C.?]
38.047
Riddell, Henry
Scott
(1798-1870)
Scotia’s thistle.
1867
[Scotland?]
Letter in German on stationery with handcoloured lithograph of “Der Alsterdamm in
Hamburg” at top of p. 1.
1877
Germany
38.048
199
38.049
Collection of manuscript material related to
the seizure by the Canadian Department of
National Revenue of the book "Tobacco
Road" written by Erskine Caldwell.
1942
Ontario
38.050
Constantine,
Louis A.
A.L.S. concerning the Welland Canal to the
Hon. Avery Skinner.
1832
Buffalo, N.Y.
38.051
King, Raphael
[Letter to Dr R [i.e. M]. Pierce Rucker
concerning the writings and library of Dr
Moses.
1949
London
“Pleasant prospect – A Day with the Stag”.
11 Jan. 1876
[London?]
Christmas card to the Bennets.
[1940?]
[New York?]
[Leaf from an unidentified Urdu novel.]
[s.d.]
[Persia?]
38.052
38.053
Wilson, Edward
A.
38.054
38.055
Campbell, James
Letter to Dr S.P. May, Ministry of Education,
Province of Ontario
3 March 1876
Toronto
38.056
Nelson, Horatio
(Admiral)
Facsimile of a letter written on board the
Victory. (The gift of Nigel Spicer.
MS.90.050)
8 Oct. 1803
At sea.
38.057
Dick, James
Receipt for plot in the Ripley Graveyard.
23 Sep. 1833
Ripley, [Ontario?]
38.058
Trimble, Richard
Copies of Letters
1796-1797
Philadelphia, Pa.
200
38.059
Arnold, William
Ross Concession.
29 Sep. 1832
[Tennessee?]
38.060
Graczyk,
Aleksandra
Blank form, completed and addressed to L.
Gizycke, concerning registration in the
Communist Party. With envelope.
10 Nov. 1974
Lublin, Poland.
38.061
Carr, Robert,
Major
Letter to Lt. Col. Richard Dennis.
13 May 1813
Trenton, N.J.
Notes of the post mortem appearances
observed in the examination of the body of
the late Thos. Fargues, M.D.
Quebec
11 Dec. 1847
Pigott’s, High
Wycombe,
England
1937
38.062
38.063
Gill, Eric
A.N.S., author’s postcard signed, and cheque
made out to Eric Gill by Dr Herman T. Radin.
38.064
Smith, Mary
A.L.S. to her granddaughter Polly, concerning Philadelphia
the young girl’s illness. With an annotation at
the end signed by Cornelius M. Trimble
explaining that the writer was his greatgrandmother.
Ca. 1780
38.065
Holmes, John
A.L.S. to Ephraim Steele in Carlisle,
concerning political changes in the state of
New Jersey.
Sussex Court
House
14 Oct. 1798
38.066
Dickson, Violet
Innes
Letter to Prof. Harold Innis.
Weston,
Mass.
5 Dec. 1958
201
38.067
Cannon, Florence
Pond
Two letters to Prof. Harold Innis concerning
Peter Pond.
New Haven,
Ct.
1932
38.068
Waines, W.J.
Letter to V.W. Bladen.
Winnipeg
2 Nov. 1937
38.069
Innis, Harold A.
Holograph notes about Peter Pond.
[Toronto?]
[s.d.]
38.070
Innis, Harold A.
Reports of the Special Committee of the Privy [Toronto?]
Council to consider its powers to try cases of
murder in the Indian territory. (Typescript
with annotations by Harold Innis.)
[s.d.]
39
Odell, N.E.
Collection of letters, photographs, and other
documents concerning Alakan glaciers and
ice worms found in the Yukon and Alaska.
Various
1947-1956
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