Correspondence from John Galsworthy, W.W. Jacobs, Blanch Patch, Helen Waddell, manuscript of Galsworthy's The Pigeon; photographs.
Archival Collections Finding Aids
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library holds over 750 archival collections (more than 4,500 metres). The archives consist primarily of Canadian literary, historical, and personal papers from individuals and organizations, dating from the 19th to the 21st centuries. 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; as well as drafts, research notes, and correspondence of Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Leonard Cohen, Mazo de la Roche, and Josef Skvorecky. 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.
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Collection of literary papers, 1909-1965. 1 box.
Manuscripts, research notes, correspondence related to her published and unpublished material.
Papers, 1963-2002. 7 boxes.
Administrative records from the antiquarian book store, Patrick McGahern Books in Ottawa, Ontario, also known as both The Book Boutique and Patrick and Liam McGahern Books. Also contains a collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century bookseller's catalogues.
Papers, 1888-2012. 50 boxes.
Includes correspondence from Mavis Gallant to Joan McInnes, 1970s-1990s. See also: Gallant, Mavis.
Papers, 1972-1999. 1 box.
Manuscript drafts for both published and unpublished material, editorial correspondence, reading and lecture notes.
Papers, 1954-2016. 65 boxes.
Contains manuscripts for McKone’s books: Moose Factory Indian Hospital, Eastern Arctic Medical and X-Ray Survey 1955, Dr. Barclay McKone - Life as a Medical Doctor since Graduation from U of T; and drafts and published versions of articles: A post sanatorium institution for rehabilitation in Tuberculosis (1946) and Rehabilitation of the Tuberculosis veteran western counties veterans' lodge, London, Ontario (1948).
Papers, 1946-1993. 1 box.
Notes, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and materials for both his fiction and non-fiction.
Papers, 1949-2016. 53 boxes.
Research and draft materials for the book The Laws of Media and related correspondence. See: Index to the Marshall McLuhan Library for list books and added material.
Papers, [196-]-1990. 34 boxes.
Notes and manuscript drafts for McMurrich's unpublished book, The History of Anatomy.
Papers, [192?-193?]. 8 boxes.
Photos, manuscript notes and ephemera relating to Gilbert and Sullivan, and especially to the tour of the D'Oyley Carte Company across Canada.
Papers, 1927-1942. 1 box.
Correspondence, reports, notes, diaries chiefly concerning western wheat marketing. Microfilm.
Papers, 1920's-1930's. 1 box.
Diaries, and 1953 Coronation memorabilia.
Collection of diaries and papers. 2 boxes.
Contains two photograph albums belonging to a German couple, Hermann and Emmi Meinhardt, which separately record their wartime experiences.
Photographs, 1939-1952, 2016-2019. 4 boxes.
Collection of Canadian historical documents, 1697-1949. 49 boxes and items.
Collection includes letters and postcards addressed to Lilian Wetstein Mendelssohn from Anne, Gertrude and Horace Traubel. Horace Traubel (1858-1919) was Walt Whitman’s literary executor, as well as a poet, essayist and magazine publisher.
Papers, 1910-1968. 1 box.
Contains manuscripts and correspondence with various authors; editing files; Humber School for Writers - teaching and mentoring files; as well as Metcalf's writing, journals, photographs and other material related to his life and work.
Papers, 1990-2017. 110 boxes.
Collection of papers used in preparing the collectied edition of the works of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873); includes editorial correspondence, editorial committee minutes and reports.
149 boxes and items.
Contains drafts, manuscripts, correspondence and other material pertaining to the life, education, poetry, and published work of Jay MillAr. Also includes material from the two literary presses – Boondoggle Books (1992-1997) and Book*hug (1997-) – that he founded and operates.
Papers, 1986-2006. 25 boxes.
Includes Ontario and Toronto ephemera and materials from family businesses, including an Ontario lumber mill and a Toronto lithographic printing company. Also includes materials related to Roger Miller’s teaching career in Ontario in the late 20th century, Frederic William Miller’s advertising career in Chicago and Montreal in the early-mid-20th century, and the 1929-1931 Arctic expeditions of John C. Rogers.
Papers, 1900-2017. 13 boxes.
Architectural drawings and other documentation for buildings designed by G.M. and W.J. Miller.
Collection, 1883-1952. 1301 plans in 2 mapcases, 8 vols, 8 boxes.
Files of correspondence with and about Richard Outram.
Papers, 1997-2005.
Family photographs, drawings and etchings, letters and ephemera.
Papers, 1885-1980.
Collection of papers, notes, correspondence for his biographies of Thomas Hardy, and his editing of Hardy correspondence.
Papers, 1912-2009. 218 boxes.
Correspondence of William Mills (d.1848), an Anglican clergyman in Ireland, and diaries and papers of Samuel Dillon Mills, son, who emigrated to Ontario in 1864.
Papers, 1826-1920. 5 boxes.
Manuscripts, correspondence, research material, photographs.
Papers, [195-]-2017. 55 boxes.