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Publishers' contracts
RC0096-420 · Series · 1910-1965
Part of Bertrand Russell fonds

Series consists of approximately 90 publishers contracts of which most are from the publishers listed in series 410, and several letters relating to the contracts. Also includes other financial documents, such as a list of Russell's earnings in 1950.

Publishing correspondence
RC0096-410 · Series · 1919-1970; predominant 1952-1970
Part of Bertrand Russell fonds

Series consists of correspondence with Russell's publishers as well as requests for Russell to contribute writings for various journals, pamphlets, etc. Also includes some book covers from Allen & Unwin for some of Russell's published works. Letters from Russell and his staff are typescript copies; some received letters are photocopies.

Acquired as part of Archives 1 and Archives 2. The print finding aid for Archives 2 states that the series "represent the general correspondence of Russell and his staff with publishers of every description. Includes some Vietnam publishing correspondence. There are several files with George Allen & Unwin Ltd., Russell's English publisher since 1916, including one stray letter from 1919. The general correspondence contains much information about translations of Russell's works - e.g., a Russian translation of "Satan in the Suburbs" in Zvezda, 1963."

Pugwash movement
RC0096-625 · Series · 1956-1966
Part of Bertrand Russell fonds

Series consists of correspondence, 1956-1966, the published proceedings of the 2nd-13th Pugwash Conferences, reports of various Conferences, agendas and minutes of the 1st-3rd and 10th Conferences, as well as minutes of some Pugwash Continuing Committee meetings. Other printed materials include news clippings, booklets, offprints, statements, and two published histories of the Pugwash movement, including ‘The Pugwash Movement: Its History and Aim’, London, 1960 (in box 1.39). Of particular note is the correspondence between Russell and Cyrus Eaton, the primary financier of the Pugwash Conferences; correspondence with Conference co-founder Joseph Rotblat; and letters written by Lady Edith Russell and Anne Eaton. Letters from Russell are typescript copies. The Pugwash Conferences were an outgrowth of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, bringing international scientists together to reflect on the social consequences of their work; the first Conference took place in 1957; Russell was not in attendance. Most of this series was acquired as part of Archives 1, with additional items acquired with Archives 2.

Qing Dynasty scroll
MS140 · Item · 1869

The handscroll is an Imperial mandate from the Tongzhi Emperor ( 1856-1875) to the parents of Lu Chuan-Lin (1836-1910), an officer of the court and a Jinshi who passed the highest Imperial examinations. The text which is in Mandarin and Manchu, is written in ink and gold paint upon contiguous panels of blue, fuchsia, gold, cream and purple silk, backed onto sections of laid paper. The edict proclaims a promotion given to a Manchu official. The emperor praises the distinguished service of Lu Chuan-Lin. The scroll is wound around two cedar dowels at both ends, and is tied with multicoloured flat silk ribbon. The scroll is housed in an acid-free box.

RC0262 · Collection · 1968-1971

The collection contains printed materials, such as bulletins, newspapers, press releases, and a few minutes, pertaining to the following organizations:

Centre de formation populaire
Comité ouvrier St. Henri (includes minutes)
Committee for a free Quebec
Emergency committee for the defence of political rights in Quebec
Ligue pour l'intégration scolaire
McGill socialist action committee (includes minutes)
Montreal council to aid war resisters
Mouvement de libération du taxi
Our generation
Parti communiste de Québec
Parti socialiste du Québec
Partisans du Québec libre
Patriotes québécois
Quebec solidarity committee
Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale
Syndicat des professeurs de l'université Montréal
Syndicat des fonctionnaires provincaux du Québec
Syndicat du sécondaire
Voix du Québec sur le Vietnam

There is also one file of newspapers clippings, labelled "Quebec situation", one file concerning Opération libération, one file of mimeographs from unidentified organizations and two pamphlets.

RC0877 · Item · 15 November 1601

Quittance by the Constable of France [ie Henri de Montmorency, not named in text] of seigneurial rights relating to the seigneurie of Mauregard. This followed on a contract between two parties, the first comprising of the Doya [Dean?] de Billy, escuier, Lord of Mauregard in France and of Manguinard in Beausse, his eldest daughter Catherine de Billy, and his daughters Jehanne and Margeurite de Billy, together with their respective husbands Pierre du Rousseau, escuier, Lord of Monvilliers, and Jacques Daunery, escuier, Lord of La Mothe du Riene. The other party to the contract was Jacques Amelot, Lord of Carnetin, king's councillor in the court of Parliament. By reason of an exchange between these parties of the land of Mauregard, the Constable has discharged 133 ecus of appointed revenue, and, the Lords Amelot and Duy [Dean?] paying him 100 ecus in cash, he discharges his seigneurial rights relating to the acquisition.

Montmorency, Henri de
Qur'an manuscript
MS039 · Item · before 1800?

Manuscript also contains a prayer not from the Qur'an. Illumination in floral pattern.

Qur'an manuscript
MS038 · Item · 18--

An incomplete manuscript. Contains all of the Qur'an but also contains other prayers. Part of a series, neither the first or last volume. Turkish in origin. Illumination in black, gold, green, and red. There are two pages containing only illumination in the same colours.

R. Norris Wolfenden
RC0173 · Fonds · 1900-1905

The fonds consists of expedition and research notes, a small amount of correspondence, biological illustrations, and offprints. The fonds was supplemented by books owned by Wolfenden, some of which have been catalogued.

Wolfenden, R. Norris
Rachel Manley fonds
RC0924 · Fonds · 1978-2017

The fonds consists of records related to Rachel Manley’s writing career, particularly the period from the late 1990s on when she began writing non-fiction memoirs about her family members.

Series groupings have been supplied by the processing archivist following functional analysis. Principal documentary forms include manuscripts and promotional records related to Manley’s books.

Manley, Rachel
RC0096-430 · Series · 1927, 1948-1965
Part of Bertrand Russell fonds

Series consists of correspondence and other documents regarding Russell's radio broadcasts and television appearances, primarily with the BBC, but also including US networks ABC, CBS and NBC; Canada’s CBC; Australia’s ABC; Polskie Radio, Radio Free Europe, and many others. The BBC material includes a file on “The Life and Times of Bertrand Russell”, a 92nd birthday tribute; it contains a script, shot lists, and other documents relating to the May, 1964 broadcast, featuring Robert Bolt (interviewer), A.J. Ayer, Robert Boothby, Michael Foot, Julian Huxley, Miles Malleson and Leonard Woof. Also included are letters regarding a 1959 broadcast relating to Wisdom of the West, and correspondence with journalists such as Alistair Cooke, Kenneth Harris and Woodrow Wyatt. Most of the series was acquired with Archives 1, with a few additional items acquired with Archives 2.

Ralph Ellis fonds
RC0411 · Fonds · [195-]-[197-]

The fonds consists of two scrapbooks which contain mainly news clippings outlining Ellis' many activities. See also the National Committee for Independent Canadian Unions fonds for further biographical information on Ellis as well as some correspondence.

Ellis, Ralph
Ralph Sheldon fonds
MS092 · Fonds · 1779

The fonds consists of a bound manuscript, 48 pages in length, titled "A tour through part of Switzerland and the glaciers of Savoy & Berne in a letter to Richard Cox Esq." The manuscript is not dated, but can be deduced from references in the text. The trip took place after the death of Voltaire in 1778 but before the climbing of Mont Blanc which occurred in 1786. The mention of a Dr. Michael Schüppach, age 72, suggests the year 1779, which is confirmed by the indication that October 5th is a Tuesday. The manuscript is signed by Ralph Sheldon.

Sheldon, Ralph
Ralph Straus fonds
RC0248 · Fonds · 1812-1951

The fonds is arranged into eleven series: press cuttings; a literary log; miscellanies; books (tss., mss., proofs, related material); correspondence; other manuscripts (untitled and titled mss. and lectures); societies and clubs; George Augustus Henry Sala; book collecting and other personal matters (includes correspondence of Sir Robert Peel); photographs and illustrations; and oversize material. Also acquired with the Straus fonds are the following: a collection of his published books and books from his library (for a description of these, see the master file on Straus), which have been catalogued in Research Collections; a pottery monkey, ca. 1880, formerly in the possession of Sala; an oil portrait of John Baskerville by his niece, Miss Gillespey.

Straus, Ralph
Ray Gardner fonds
RC0883 · Fonds · 1948-1950

The fonds consists of letters from Maclean’s Magazine to Gardner during his time as a freelance writer with the magazine. The correspondence is mainly with Pierre Berton, but there are a number from other Maclean’s editors as well.

Gardner, Ray
Raymond Knister fonds
RC0121 · Fonds · 1921-1932

The fonds contains correspondence, manuscripts, news clippings and other published materials, personal and family materials, including photographs, two audio reels.

Knister, Raymond
Réamur collection
MS091 · Collection · 1859-1861

The collection consists of letters and documents concerning several voyages made by the Réamur. There is correspondence from La compaignie générale maritime, Le gouvernment des establissement français dans l'Inde (India), and La Ministère de l'Algérie (Algeria) et des colonies. Recipients include Monsieur de Challié, capitaine de vaipeau, president de la commission supérieure d'immigration. The collection also contains two swatches of jute, perhaps woven by artisans in Pondicherry

France. Ministère de l'Algérie et des Colonies
MS049a · Item · [16--/17--?]

Translation of Title: Collection of all the acts concerning the dukes and peers of France. The complete origin of the Peerage of England and the Grandee of Spain. Since the year 900 until 1660. First volume.

Fair copy in several unknown hands. Stamped on spine: Origine des ducs et pairs. Tom I.