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196?-199? (Creation)
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94 cm of textual records
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Ruth Nichols, author, was born on 4 March 1948 in Toronto. She was educated at the Universities of British Columbia and McMaster. For a number of years after 1974 she lectured at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is primarily a writer of juvenile novels although she has written some historical novels as well.
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Fonds consists mainly of manuscripts. There are two letters from C. S. Lewis (1898-1963).
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There have been several accruals from Ruth Nichols beginning in 1974.
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Access restrictions on the following materials have expired: manuscripts of The Knife-Grinder's Bell, I Arise, What Dangers Deep: A Story of Philip Sidney, an essay (accession 09-1998) titled "Silence Must Speak", as well as one letter.
Other family and personal correspondence, juvenilia, and her Ph.D. thesis are closed for an indefinite time period.
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Further accruals are expected.
