Two volumes containing an unpublished manuscript by Miriam Saville titled: ‘I Wanted to Be a Nurse.’ Story details Saville’s life, including her diabetes diagnosis and treatment. Miriam Saville was a diabetic patient treated by Dr. Charles Best in the late 1920s/early 1930s when she was about thirteen years old, see mention of Dr. Best (“Dr. Charles”) on page 5 of both the holograph journal and typed version.
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, [192-]-[193-]. 1 box.
Photographs of early Toronto, and its prominent citizens.
Papers, [185-]-1882. 5 boxes.
Correspondence, Christmas cards, drawings, original lino-cuts, printer and proofs, clippings.
Collection of Thoreau MacDonald, 1924-1977. 3 boxes.
Research materials, manuscripts and galleys for an unpublished book on 20th century Jewish artists in Europe. The research materials include correspondence with more than 120 Jewish artists, many of whom perished during World War II.
Papers, 1929-1973. 176 boxes and items.
Production files for his theatrical productions in Toronto.
Papers, 1981-1986. 61 boxes and items.
Correspondence, notebooks, unpublished novel.
Papers, 1896-1946. 6 boxes. Microfilm.
Scrapbook of insurance underwriters’ reports and records, fire reports, original news clippings and photographs, and other miscellaneous material on various North American conflagrations, including the Toronto fire of 1904.
1904-1918. 2 oversize boxes (76 pages).
Professional and personal papers pertaining to the life and career of Shyam Selvadurai. These papers contain extensive material on the novels of Selvadurai.
Papers, 1956-2013. 56 boxes.
Includes correspondence, minutes, reports, memoranda and other material related to the Board of Directors and Shareholders of McClelland and Stewart, 1984-1985.
Papers, 1984-1985. 1 box.
Historical manuscripts relating to Australia, correspondence about book collection.
Collection, 1670-1838. 6 boxes and items.
Includes early correspondence, travel, European horticultural materials, materials, photographic slides, and drafts of 150 Years of Canadian Beer Labels (2016).
Papers, 1997-2016. 4 boxes.
Includes drafts and notes for books. Poem drafts, early essays, course work from York University and literary correspondence, 1980s-2000s.
Papers, [1970s-2000s]. 21 boxes.
See: Ronald Peters Gift of the Lester Douglas Personal Archives of Earl Horter, Hans Foy, David Karfunkle and Barbara Shermund under R.
Note: This collection has been transferred to Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto.
Contains 13 photographs, of various Ukrainian-Canadian groups, events, and organizations from Ontario and Quebec.
Photographs, 1939-1951. 2 boxes (OVS).
Bound typescript of Shulman's The Pfeffenhauser Clock and collection of material relating to Julia Jarvis and her family.
Papers, 1882-[1982?]. 3 boxes and items.
Published works (including Woman in Bronze, Underground, and Dinner at the End of the World); unpublished manuscript materials; juvenilia; correspondence; CBC Radio comedy sketch scripts, and other materials.
Please note: All files pertaining to the Humber School for Writers were transferred to the Humber College Archives in 2022.Papers, 1960-2013. 30 boxes.
This accession consists of textual and cartographic materials documenting the lives of several members of the Simcoe family in the United Kingdom and Canada. It covers the activities of John Graves Simcoe, Elizabeth Posthuma (Gwillim) Simcoe, their son Francis Gwillim Simcoe, and their eldest daughter, Eliza Simcoe. The fonds also contains material documenting the activities of various other members of their extended family and descendants.
Fonds, 1655-1931. 36 boxes, 110 maps.
Typescript and copies of typescript of a Novellae by rabbinic scholar Singer (1855-1930).
Papers, [19--]. 8 boxes and 1 item.
Drafts of writings, correspondence, biographical materials.
Papers, 1945-2010. 143 boxes.
Includes correspondence relating to Bertrand Russell, as well as other personal correspondence.
Papers, 1970-1992. 7 boxes.
Drafts and clippings from her articles; correspondence and notes on authors whom she represented as a literary agent.
Papers, 1962-2011. 136 boxes and items.
One-line-a-day farm diaries kept by William Smellie (1836-1919) of Glenelg Township, Ontario. Smellie’s handwritten diaries date from 1883 to 1916.
Papers, 1897-1916. 1 box.
Correspondence, notebooks, manuscripts by other writers for anthologies.
Papers, 1924-1965. 5 boxes.
Correspondence with George William Curtis about Canadian-American relations.
Papers, 1875-1887. 1 box.