Correspondence, editing files, notes and drafts for writings, family papers.
Archival Collections Finding Aids
The Library houses over 750 manuscript collections covering a wide range of subject areas. Holdings range from a collection of about 40 third-century B.C. Egyptian papyri to papers of the co-discoverers of insulin: Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod; and finally to drafts, research notes, and correspondence of Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Leonard Cohen, Mazo de la Roche and Josef Skvorecky. The majority of our manuscript collections date from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries and pertain to Canadian historical, literary, artistic or scientific fields.
Collections of personal papers are listed by the surname of the creator or collector, e.g. Birney, Earle. Institutional records are listed under the name of the institution, e.g. Royal Canadian Institute.
Collection level records for many of the manuscript collections appear in the on-line catalogue, along with links to finding aids in pdf format.
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Papers, 1948-ongoing. 576 boxes.
Correspondence, lecture and research notes concerning Leo's research on Dante, Tasso and Petrarch.
Papers, ca. 1948-1959. 1 box.
Research notes on the Royal Commission on Canada's Economic Prospects for which LePan was secretary and director of research, notes and drafts for literary writings, correspondence; diaries, journals, photographs.
Papers, 1914-1998. 168 boxes.
Primarily financial statements, correspondence and legal transactions related to the operations of the publishing house Lester and Orpen Dennys during the 1980s.
Papers, [198-]-[9-]. 1 box.
Collection documents Levine’s writing process for several publications, poems, and short stories. Also contains correspondence, educational records, promotional materials, teaching materials, and familial records.
Papers, 1955-2019. 41 boxes.
Minutes of the club, correspondence of various members with Norma Lynes and excerpts from a volume of the reminiscenes of Henry N. Noyes.
Records, 1930-1934, 1984. 1 box.
Correspondence, notes and manuscripts, clippings.
Papers, 1923-1997. 9 boxes.
Typescript of her unpublished novel, The Moon and the Morning Star.
Papers, 1953. 1 box.
Official correspondence and personal letters of Otto Meissner, head of the Office of the German Reich President during the entire period of the Weimar Republic under Friedrich Ebert and Paul von Hindenburg and at the beginning of the Nazi era under Adolf Hitler.
Papers, 1939-42. 2 boxes.
Correspondence, minute books, administrative records, legal documents, photographs, scrapbooks, printed materials. Includes People for Sunday Association of Canada records, 1982-1994.
Records, 1888-1994. 278 boxes and items.
Scripts, music and film of productions by Lund, primarily at the Charlottetown Festival in Prince Edward Island, the Stratford Festival and the Canadian National Exhibition.
Papers. 7 boxes and items.
A collection of eleven letters and notes written by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 18001859, between 1815 and 1858 to his family and friends.
1815-1858. 1 box.
Drawings and designs, correspondence, biographical materials; notebooks and diaries.
Papers, 1905-1984. 29 boxes and items.
Contains photographs and a typewritten manuscript recording Raymond MacDougal’s wartime experience while serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in Canada.
Papers, 1936-2003. 4 boxes.
Notes, manuscripts for writings, and clippings on gold mines and mining in Canada.
Papers, [1917-1946]. 1 box.
Notes, drafts and manuscripts for published and unpublished writings, designs and drawings, correspondence, business records, printed appearances, biographical materials; photographs, posters, memorabilia.
Papers, 1955-1987. 40 boxes and items.
Material related to Kyo Maclear's work as a writer, including materials pertaining to her children's books, novels, nonfiction books, as well as magazine articles and essays.
Papers, 1987-2023. 24 boxes.
Typescripts with holograph notes for Barometer Rising, "Requiem" published as The Watch that Ends the Night, and Seven Rivers of America.
Papers, 1930-1962. 1 box.
Legal and business papers, correspondence.
Papers, 1801-[1900?] 23 boxes. Microfilm of boxes 1-20.
Photographs, [1930s]-[1940s].
Collection of manuscripts, notes, drafts, correspondence and photographs related to his life and complete body of work.
Papers, 1960-ongoing. 586 boxes.
Ranging in date from the 13th century to 19th century, this collection contains a large number of indentures, wills, marriage contract and military commissions that pertain to a small group of families whose ancestral home was in the manor town of Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire, England.
Pieces of manuscripts taken from various sources as examples of handwriting. 1 box.
Two versions of de Marbois' autobiography, and six letters relating to his naval career in World War II.
Papers, date unknown. 1 box.