Contains handwritten correspondence from Nelson Adams to Shelley Freeman, c.1976-1979 and letterpress materials hand-printed by Shelley Freeman during her time as a student and employee at Coach House Press, as well as related project materials.
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.
Displaying 176 - 200 of 575
Papers, [1973]-1979. 1 box.
Plays in manuscript and typescript, articles, clippings, reviews, photographs pertaining to theatre in the French language.
24 boxes
Correspondence with book reviewers and authors, drafts for reviews, column articles, lectures and speeches.
Papers 1960-1990. 78 boxes.
Detailed daily accounts of business activities and travel between Boston and Montreal.
Papers, 1810-1870. 1 box (12 diaries).
Collection of photographs, offprints, clippings, memorabilia and correspondence, chiefly relating to F.G. Banting ant to Gairns' work as his assistant in the Department of Medical Research of the Banting Institute.
Papers, 1917-1972. 1 box.
Drafts of writings about Korea and translations of English and Korean texts, correspondence, commonplace books, diaries, photographs.
Papers, 1888-1937. 24 boxes.
Typescripts with editorial revisions by her editor at The New Yorker and author's proofs for some stories.
Papers, 1951-1986. 14 boxes.
Theatre programmes, articles and clippings about history of theatre in Canada, especially for Toronto; audio and video tapes, scrapbooks, prompt books, diaries, correspondence, playbills, photographs, John Holden's collection of playscripts.
Papers, 1950-1999. 88 cartons and items.
Manuscript submissions, corrected drafts, proofs, correspondence, notebooks, and artwork.
Contains editorial files for Impulse magazine (1975-1990) and material relating to the life and work of Eldon Garnet. 129 boxes.
Papers, 1930-1980. 274 boxes.
The collection consists of notebooks, diaries, drafts for writings, lectures, broadcasts, correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers clippings, films and photographs related to the journalistic career of Mark Gayn (1909-1981).
Letters, telegrams, photographs, postcards and various other ephemera related to the First and Second World Wars.
Papers, 1911-1956. 8 boxes.
Manuscripts, drafts and research for her books, articles and PhD thesis, as well as correspondence and other materials related to her work and life. Please note restrictions of collection.
Papers, [197-]-2006. 72 boxes and items.
Collection of papers of the family and descendants of William Schenck and Mary Hodge (Gibbs) Blackstock.
Papers, 1813-1962. 14 boxes.
Drafts and final manuscripts for novels, correspondence about them, editorial correspondence for Anansi Press, correspondence relating to PEN and other organizations.
Papers, 1959-2005. 51 boxes.
Collection of anatomical drawings for published anatomical texts.
Drawings, 1963-2014. 532 drawings.
Correspondence and manuscripts from the British writer and poet Kenneth Hopkins to book shop owner Franklin Gilliam.
Papers, 1928-1988 (bulk 1961-1970). 2 boxes
Collection of lecture notes and other material relating to the philosophy of Sankara, seventh-century Hindu philosopher.
Lectures and notes, 1906-1910. 20 boxes.
Photographs of India.
Photograph albums, [between 1878-1880]. 2 volumes.
Consists of Derek Walcott material acquired by Prof. Susan Gingell.
Papers. 1 box.
Slides of Niagara Falls and area. [View them on Flickr]
Glass negatives. 2 boxes.
Signed drawings in pencil commissioned byThe Illustrated London News for series on Canadian universities and schools.
Collection of drawings, 1961. 1 box (6 drawings).
Notebooks, manuscript drafts for published and unpublished poems and stories.
Papers, 1972-2017. 53 boxes.
Correspondence.
Papers, 1859-86. 1 box.
Thesis on Montreal poets, correspondence.
Papers, 1958. 1 box.
Notes, prose and poem drafts, correspondence.
Papers, [195-]-[200-]. 31 boxes and items.