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Archival description
Friends of McMaster fonds
RC0113 · Fonds · 1953-1983

The fonds consists primarily of the correspondence and minutes of the association, as well as additional records.

Friends of McMaster
RC0159 · Fonds · 1942-[2011]

The fonds consists primarily of Fred’s correspondence to Margaret and his parents. Additionally, there are a number of photographs taken while he served, and documents from his life. As well, there are a number of highly detailed maps first from his training and then from the war. The fonds consists of four series: correspondence; photographs, military service and miscellaneous; and maps.

Vickers, Fredrick William
Fraser Sutherland fonds
RC0282 · Fonds · 1966-2020

The fonds consists of material related to Sutherland's writing, including the marketing, publishing and promotion of his works; material pertaining to speaking engagements and workshops; the works of other authors; and material related to his personal life and that of his son Malcolm Sutherland (1984-2009). The fonds contains correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, and other material.

Sutherland, Fraser
RC0611 · Fonds · [194-]-1951

The fonds consists of two notebooks kept by F.C. Zurbrigg – one on meteorology and the other on bombing. There is also a b&w photograph of Zurbrigg with his plane, a Hudson aircraft, and an invitation from McMaster University to the unveiling of a memorial tablet in Alumni Hall bearing the names of all members of the University who were killed in World War II.

Zurbrigg, Franklin Charles
RC0497 · Fonds · [190-]-1977

The fonds consists of artifact catalogues, correspondence, site reports and other material.

Wood, Alfred E.
Frank Norman Walker fonds
RC0155 · Fonds · 1913-1966

There have been two accruals. The first accrual (13-2009) consists of a variety of materials documenting Walker’s professional career and interests including medical correspondence, published off prints and early sketches of a dissected rabbit (1913). There are also page proofs and preparatory material on Daylight through the Mountains (1957), political memorabilia and speeches. There is also general correspondence, of which a highlight is a carbon copy of letter to Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent dated August 27, 1951 proposing the building of a National Library with a signed reply from St. Laurent dated August 31, 1951. The second accrual (77-2009) consists of research materials gathered and compiled by Walker on Frederic Newton Gisborne (1824-1892), an engineer and inventor, for his proposed book, "Cables of Confederation". There is also a copy of a letter to former premier, Joseph R. Smallwood, 1966; printing blocks; and spoons.

Walker, Frank Norman
F.B. Carron
RC0572 · Fonds · 1907-199-

This fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, hospital inspection records and scrapbook.

Carron, F.B.
Farzana Doctor fonds
RC0911 · Fonds · [2003?]-2015

The fonds consists primarily of material related to writing, publishing, and promoting her novels: Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement, and All Inclusive. As well as some additional writing material.

Doctor, Farzana
Farley Mowat fonds
RC0022 · Fonds · c.1800-2022

The fonds consists of manuscripts, research materials, correspondence, financial documents, photographs, maps, audio reels, and video cassettes. There have been twenty-two accruals.

Mowat, Farley
Faith Fenton fonds
RC0768 · Fonds · 1895

The fonds consists of 5 letters written to Faith Fenton by Cyrus C. Adams, an editor with the New York Sun, about her articles for that newspaper.

Fenton, Faith
Everett James Case fonds
RC0496 · Fonds · [188?-1973]

The collection consists of catalogue information for an archaeological collection, photographs, and research materials.

Case, Everett James
Evelyn Mae Kapitain fonds
RC0396 · Fonds · 1894-1918

The fonds contains correspondence between Evelyn Mae Kapitain and her brother Charles G. Kapitain during his time served in the AEF. Also included are military associated letters and documents, newspaper clippings, two German postcards found in the Argonne Woods and US military postcards to Evelyn Kapitain from an unknown individual.

Kapitain, Evelyn Mae
Eugene McNamara fonds
RC0195 · Fonds · 1927-2012

There have been four accruals. The first accrual (03-2000), measures 6.52 m and consists of 16 series: Poetry; Short Stories; Non-fiction; Fiction; Plays; Poetry to McNamara from Joyce Carol Oates; Contracts; Personal; Sesame Press; Reading and Creative Writing Courses Taught; Conferences; University of Windsor Courses Taught; Reviews of McNamara's work; Correspondence; Dissertation; Publications - sub-series: poetry. short stories, non-fiction, Sesame Press, University of Windsor Review. The second accrual (39-2002), measures 1.60 m and consists of the following series: Journals and Notebooks; Poetry; Short Stories and fiction; Non-fiction; Correspondence; Personal. This accrual is supplemented with a collection of books and periodicals. The third accrual (35-2006) consists of three series: Manuscripts; Personal Materials; Journals and Notebooks. The fourth accrual (28-1010), measures 38 cm and consists of journals, poetry, short stories, and a novel. The fifth accrual (2013-003) consists of the following series: Notebooks, Poetry, Fiction; Seminars, Teaching, Readings and Awards; Correspondence and Personal, Business and Other. The fifth accrual was accompanied by periodicals and monographs containing McNamara’s work. These have been separated from the archival collection and a list accompanies this finding aid.

McNamara, Eugene
E.T. Scammell fonds
RC0530 · Fonds · 1927-1929

The fonds consists of mimeographed letters that Scammell sent out to Ontario newspapers in 1927, calling attention to neglected gravesites in Ontario. The remainder of the fonds consists of incoming letters to Scammell. There are letters from members of the general public as well as The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire; the Col. Gooderham Chapter, I.O.D.E.; the Ontario Attorney General; the Canadian Red Cross Society; the Ontario Historical Society; the Ontario Department of Health; T.E. Kaiser, M.P.; the Soldiers’ Aid Commission and the Federal Press Association Ltd. There are also brief minutes of meetings on the neglected graveyards issue and an agenda, as well as a copy of “The Cemetery Act”, 1928.

Scammell, E.T.
Ernest Klein fonds
RC0206 · Fonds · 1960-1983

There have been two accruals which have been combined. The fonds consists of the manuscript of the dictionary as well as notebooks and research materials for an unpublished dictionary on medical terminology; articles and speeches; correspondence; legal and other documents; news clippings.

Klein, Ernest
Eric Walter White fonds
RC0211 · Fonds · 1826-1969

There have been four accruals. The first accrual consists of research materials White gathered for his writings on English opera. It includes letters from Ethel Smyth and correspondence of other composers, photographs and engravings. The second accrual consists mainly of an incomplete run of White's correspondence relating to his work as an arts administrator. Some correspondence concerns The Poetry Book Society Bulletin. The third accrual consists of a manuscript and a typescript bound together. The fourth accrual consists to two letters to Keith Scott written in 1953 and 1954 re The Battle of Hexham.

White, Eric Walter
Eric Dowling fonds
RC0160 · Fonds · [194-]-1991

Fonds (59-1995) consists of correspondence, tss. and mss. of speeches, bound diary-notebooks, musical socres, photographs, and printed materials including published music, programmes, and news clippings.

Dowling, Eric
Ellen Seligman fonds
RC0946 · Fonds · 1950-2016; predominant 1985-2012

The fonds consists of records related to Ellen Seligman’s professional career at McClelland & Stewart (1977-2016) and PEN Canada presidency (2009-2011). A small subset of records, predominantly photographs, are related to Seligman’s personal life.

Series groupings have been supplied by the processing archivist following functional analysis. Principal documentary forms include correspondence and photographs.

Seligman, Ellen
Ella Julia Reynolds fonds
RC0253 · Fonds · 1894-1961

Fonds consists of correspondence (including letters from Lorne Pierce and one letter from E. J. Pratt), photographs, musical scores and printed materials.

Reynolds, Ella Julia
Elizabeth Evans fonds
RC0059 · Fonds · 1943-1999

There have been three accruals. The first accrual (22-1999) consists of eight files of poems, six of which are organized into chronological periods: file 1, 1943-1971; file 2, 1971-1973; file 3, 1973-1984; file 4, 1984-1989; file 5, 1989-1995; file 6, 1996. The remaining files are: file 7 "Vignettes of a Nursing Life", 1989; file 8 poems to Olmec head in Mexico, n.d. All files except files 6-8 have an index to poems contained in the back of the file. The second accrual (15-2000) consists of one file (F.9) of poetry, 1996-1999; the third (03-2001) accrual consists of one file (F.10) of recent poetry.

Evans, Elizabeth