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Thomas and Matthew Arnold collection

  • RC0790
  • Collection
  • 1840-1891

There have been two accruals. The first accrual consists of four letters from Matthew Arnold to different correspondents: S. Wordlaw McAll, Rev. Charles Anderson, Blanchard Jerrold, R.C. Trench, Archbishop of Dublin, 1870-1884.The letter to McAll, 18 June 1870, is published in The Letters of Matthew Arnold, edited by Cecil Y. Lang (Charlottesville: U. of Virginia, 1996-2001): Vol. 3, p. 424. Also included in this accrual are: a letter from Thomas Arnold to [Thomas?] Burbridge, 2 December 1840 and a poem ("Persistency of Poetry"), 4 lines, signed by Matthew Arnold and dated 30 December 1884. This accrual also contains a note written 11 February 1891 at Park Hill, Lyndhurst. It appears to be signed "R"; Park Hill was at that time a school established by W. Rawnsley. The second accrual consists of a letter written by Thomas Arnold at Rugby on 20 April 1842, addressed to “Dear Sir”; it concerns the manufacture of a window.

Arnold, Matthew

Charles W. Jefferys collection

  • RC0789
  • Collection
  • 1943-1944

The collection consists of 23 letters that Jefferys wrote to Thomas Melville Bailey, 4 January 1943 to 7 October 1944. Bailey wrote a number of books on Hamilton history, including its Presbyterian churches and Dundurn Castle, as well as editing The Dictionary of Hamilton Biography.

Jefferys, Charles William

Soviet poster collection of Boievoi Karandash

  • RC0787
  • Collection
  • 198-

The collection consists of the following posters (translations from Russian of partial captions provided): (1) “When has she gone”, artist L. Kaminskii; (2) “How much money..”, artist V. Kiunnal; (3) “A toast for the...”, artist V. Dubiago; (4) “We haven’t...”, artist IU. Trunev; (5) “Technology...”, artist B. Zav’ialov; (6) “Nothing has been refused”, artist B. Tsygankov; (7) “Theme of speech”, artist D. Oboznenko; (8) “Don’t disturb us”, artist B. Men’shikov; (9) “If they cared...”, artist IU. Trunev (men with pipe); (10) “Dissertation”, artist V. Kiunnal; (11) “Tomorrow is here!”, artist IU. Trunev; (12) “Less work”, artist P. Mitrofanov; (13) “When you get a nice job”, artist B. Ivanov.

Boievoi Karandash

Socialist Party of Canada collection

  • RC0786
  • Collection
  • 1919-1970

The collection consists of printed materials, such as pamphlets, election manifestos, and speeches, as well as literature issued by affiliated parties. There is one letter (1970) from Larry Tickner, General Secretary, which contains details about the party's history.

Socialist Party of Canada

Socialist Labor Party of Canada collection

  • RC0785
  • Collection
  • [1968]-1970

The collection consists of printed materials, leaflets, manifestos, and pamphlets as well as a letter (1970) from Alan Sanderson, national secretary, which contains details of the party's history.

Socialist Labor Party of Canada

James R.H. Hille collection

  • RC0782
  • Collection
  • 1892-1903

The collection consists of one autograph book as well as several loose sheets containing autographs of various people, the majority of which are from the theatre world.

Hille, James R. H.

Hugh Richard Lawrie Sheppard collection

  • RC0779
  • Collection
  • 1933-1937

The collection consists of 23 letters to Nancy Pearn of Curtis, Brown, a literary agency, and Sheppard's funeral order of service. For other Sheppard letters, see the Vera Brittain and George Edward Catlin fonds.

Sheppard, Hugh Richard Lawrie

Royal Canadian Air Force Women’s Division collection

  • RC0777
  • Collection
  • 1944-1945

The collection contains photographs taken at the Prince of Wales Barracks, Kingsway and the W.D. Barracks in Edmonton; an aircraft display, Edmonton Station, May 1945 (B24 Liberator, Super Fortress, Flying Fortress); and the visit to Edmonton by Princess Alice, Honorary Air Commander of the Women’s Division, and her husband, the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of Canada, 3 May 1945 (the photographs do not show the couple). There are other photographs of the Gremlins Basketball Team, 1944-45 and aircraft and personnel at Jasper, Alberta. There are also photographs of St. George’s Island Zoo, Calgary; Vancouver, B.C.; as well as weddings and other gatherings. Found loose with the album are photographs of an unidentified parade, a formal group military photograph and other photographs and news clippings.

Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division

Hamilton Real Estate Board collection

  • RC0773
  • Collection
  • 1918-1934

The collection consists of news clippings, letters to the editor of The Hamilton Spectator from the Real Estate Board, and a report done of the McKittrick Properties, a large 700 acre parcel of undeveloped land within the Hamilton, Ont. city limits, submitted on 1 February 1919.

Hamilton Real Estate Board

Edward Burnaby Greene collection

  • RC0771
  • Collection
  • 1775

Ode / by Edward B. Greene -- [1775]. -- Manuscript, 1 p.

Ode / by E.B.G. -- 31 March [1775]. -- Manuscript, 1 p.

Ode / by E.B.G. -- 7 May 1775. -- Manuscript, 3 p.

Ode / by E.B.G. -- 12 April 1775. -- Manuscript, 3 p.

Alcaic / by E.B.G. -- [1775]. -- Manuscript, 1 p.

All five manuscripts are written on blank pages of The poems of Mr. Gray to which are prefixed memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason, M.A.

Greene, Edward Burnaby

Nora M. Duncan collection

  • RC0766
  • Collection
  • 1941

The collection consists of 4 poems: one is a manuscript, "Lake Memphremagog" and was written there in August 1941. The other three are typescripts : "Laurentians in Summer", "Until we Meet" and "Easter ... 1941...". Duncan has noted on the Laurentians typescript that it was pulbished in the Montreal Star "last week". The Easter typescript is signed.

Duncan, Nora M.

Andy Donato collection

  • RC0764
  • Collection
  • [197-]-[1980]

The collection consists of 22 drawings.

Donato, Andy

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts collection

  • RC0761
  • Collection
  • 1929-1936

The collection consists of an autograph album which belonged to Dorothy Dowie and contains two poems by Roberts, "The Cricket" and "The Spirit of Beauty" as well as four untitled lines. A letter to Dowie was laid in the album. Also in the collection is a poem by Roberts, "Colour Toasts". Dowie's album also contains four autograph lines signed by Wilson MacDonald. For letters written by Roberts, researchers are directed to the Walter Jackson McCrea fonds.

Roberts, Charles George Douglas

Ezra Pound collection

  • RC0760
  • Collection
  • 1971

The collection consists of a score, libretto, rehearsal schedule, programme, poster, and tear-sheet of a review for his opera Le Testament de Villon, performed at the University of California at Berkeley on 13 November 1971.

Pound, Ezra

Lorraine Phelan

  • RC0759
  • Collection
  • 1901-1932

The album contains eight portrait photographs of Lorraine taken by Charles A. Aylett, The Hardy Studio, and the Bain Studio. Each portrait has her name and the dates 1914-1932 stamped in gold. The first leaf of the album contains an unsigned poem of remembrance, titled “Lorraine”. It was possibly written by Wilson MacDonald. Found loose in the album was a poem written by MacDonald for Percy Gardiner. This poem has been placed in the Wilson MacDonald collection. Also in the album is a card, dated 1901, certifying that Mrs. Phillip Gardiner of Mount Forest is a member of the Methodist Church Twentieth Century Fund.

Phelan, Lorraine

Canadian Military Rifle Team collection

  • RC0754
  • Collection
  • 1926-1930

Collection consists of five photographs, all of which appear to have been taken at Bisley, Surrey, England. All photographs depict the team; in three of the photographs the scoring board is also on display. In 1927 the team is identified as winnter of the Mackinnon Challenge Cup. In 1929 the team is identified as the winners of the Rajah of Kolapore's Imperial Challenge Cup. The names of all the team members are printed beneath each photograph; in four the photographs their regiment names are also included.

Canadian Military Rifle Team

Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey collection

  • RC0748
  • Collection
  • 1927

The collection consists of the typescript of Bailey’s first book of poetry, Songs of the Saguenay and Other Poems, and three other poems (“Autumn Night”, “Belle Isle”, and “Tadoussac without You”). With the exception of one leaf, all leaves are signed by Bailey. The typescripts are on the rectos of each leaf.

Bailey, Alfred Goldsworthy

Liam O'Flaherty collection

  • RC0746
  • Collection
  • [192-]-[1927]

The collection consists of the manuscript of The Informer as well as five letters. The manuscript is contained in five school-exercise books; there is also a typescript of chapters 1-3, with numerous holograph corrections, 27 pages. There are four letter from Arthur Rogers to Walter Hill, 1926-1927 and one letter from O'Flaherty to Arthur Rogers, 1927.

O'Flaherty, Liam

Frederick Niven collection

  • RC0744
  • Collection
  • 1913-1915

Collection consists of three letters all written to Martin Secker of Secker and Warburg by Niven on 2 and 16 August 1913 and 17 June 1915.

Niven, Frederick

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