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Correspondence : Bill.

File consists of one postcard addressed to Dana Porter from Bill [?] featuring a photo of an Atomic Detonation in Nevada.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence to and from Dana Porter regarding a variety of topics in his personal and professional life. Includes approximately three hundred and thirty-six items. Correspondents are listed at the file level. Note that where applicable items of correspondence have been left in their original file and subsequently correspondence can also be found in :

  • Series 2. Dana Porter and Dorothy Parker Family ;
  • Series 4. Ephemera ;
  • Series 5. Political and Legal Career ;
  • Series 6. Scrapbooks and Clippings ;
  • Series 7. Shakespeare ;
  • Series 8. Speeches and Addresses ;
  • Series 9. Visual Materials.

Porter, Dana Harris

Writings

Series consists of works authored by Dana Porter that are not on the topic of Shakespeare. Includes essays and a play.

Porter, Dana Harris

Scrapbook.

File consists of one large scrapbook with pasted-in clippings and magazine articles on Porter, his work, and related interests.

Porter, Dana Harris

Scrapbook.

File consists of one large scrapbook with clippings relating to Dana Porter, his life, work and interests.

Porter, Dana Harris

Scrapbook.

File consists of one large scrapbook with pasted-in clippings, magazine articles, ephemera and correspondence created and accumulated by Porter, relating to his work, family and interests.

Porter, Dana Harris

Scrapbook.

File consists of one large scrapbook with five pasted-in photographs of Dana Porter and others at various events. No identification is given for the photographs.

Porter, Dana Harris

Scrapbook : election publicity.

File consists of a scrapbook with samples of election publicity for Dana Porter's 1955 campaign for re-election in the St. George riding of Toronto.

Porter, Dana Harris

Scrapbook : University of Waterloo Convocation.

File consists of a scrapbook relating to the University of Waterloo Convocation where Dana Porter was installed as Chancellor. Includes a programme, clippings, and photographs. All items are glued onto scrapbook pages. Also includes later materials collected by Julian Porter on the Dana Porter Library.

Porter, Dana Harris

Time Magazine page.

File consists of a page taken from the September 29, 1958 issue of Time Magazine with an article titled Where will our heroes come from by Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg featuring a photograph of Dana Porter.

Porter, Dana Harris

Book reviews.

File consists of two book reviews by Dana Porter on works about Shakespeare : Shakespeare Unmasked by Pierre S. Porohovshikov and The Murder of the Man Who Was Shakespeare by Calvin Hoffman.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence : Chariton, Morris.

File consists of five items of correspondence between Dana Porter and Morris Chariton regarding Chariton's request to lecture in Shakespeare at the University of Waterloo, as well as an essay on Shakespeare that Chariton sent to Porter.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence re. publication of Shakespeare manuscripts.

File consists of sixty five items of correspondence regarding the review and potential publication of Dana Porter's manuscripts on the Sonnets of Shakespeare. Includes correspondence between Dana Porter, publication houses, reviewers, and friends who he asked to read the works.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence re. Shakespeare.

File consists of thirteen items of correspondence between Dana Porter and others regarding his interest in Shakespeare. Many items include clippings or articles on Shakespeare and Shakespearean research. Also included are copies of responses from Porter.

Porter, Dana Harris

The Familiar Ghost, by Dana Porter.

File consists of an easy on Shakespeare's Sonnets by Dana Porter titled The Familiar Ghost. File includes hand written versions as well as a typed annotated version, notes and a second untitled essay.

Porter, Dana Harris

Poetry notes.

File consists of notes on poetry handwritten and typed by Dana Porter. Includes notes on Sonnets, excerpts from poems, etc.

Porter, Dana Harris

Shakespeare notes.

File consists of typed and handwritten notes on Shakespeare, Edmund Spencer, and related topics. Notes primarily consists of passages and sentences from books, articles, etc.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence re. Royal Commission on Banking and Finance.

File consists of forty-eight items of correspondence to and from Dana Porter and his secretary regarding the Report of the Royal Commission on Banking and Finance.
Correspondents include:

  • Abbott, Justice Douglas
  • Barber, Clarence L.
  • Cromer, The Earl of
  • Diefenbaker, John
  • Frost, Leslie
  • Gillanders, E.B.
  • Hampson, H.A.
  • Harris, W.C.
  • Haug, Edgar
  • Heward, Brian
  • Hewitt, H.J.
  • Holtroy, Marius
  • Johnson, Harry G.
  • Keir, David Lindsay
  • Kim, John
  • Lafrance, Leo
  • Litchfield, E.
  • Lundberg, Erik
  • McKinnon, Neil J.
  • McLaughlin, W. Earle
  • Mansur, David B.
  • Matthews, Beverley
  • Mercure, G.
  • Neufeld, E.P.
  • Parizeau, Jacques
  • Prentis, Margaret R.
  • Shearer, Ronald A.
  • Sproul, Allan
  • Stanley, David
  • Tanz, Mark M.
  • Trudeau, Pierre.

Porter, Dana Harris

Shakespeare's Sonnets : essay.

File consists of an untitled essay by Dana Porter of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Includes three drafts of the essay, as well as reference photocopies sent from the Bodleian Library.

Porter, Dana Harris

The Shakespeare Sonnet Sequence.

File consists of Dana Porter's essay The Shakespeare Sonnet Sequence. This essay is sometimes also titled The Shakespeare Sonnets. Also includes notes on the vowel sounds of the sonnets.

Porter, Dana Harris

Sonnet notes.

File consists of handwritten and typed notes by Dana Porter on Shakespeare's Sonnets.

Porter, Dana Harris

Sonnet notes.

File consists of a notebook with notes on Shakespeare's Sonnets. Each page has a pasted down copy of a Sonnet, and handwritten notes on the form, meter and language.

Porter, Dana Harris

Sonnet order.

File consists of a chart giving Dana Porter's proposed order for Shakespeare's sonnets alongside the order established in 1609 and by Denis Bray.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence re. speeches.

File consists of three items of correspondence regarding speeches given by Dana Porter. These items do not correspond with a speech in the collection.

Porter, Dana Harris

Fire Protection Conference.

File consists of a transcript of Dana Porter's speech from the Eighty-second Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association Fire Protection Conference, royal York hotel, Toronto, May 27th, 28th, 29th, 1953. Item was reprinted from Industrial Canada, July 1953. Also includes a programme and one item of correspondence.

Porter, Dana Harris

Notes.

File consists of a series of notes on speeches given by Dana Porter.

Porter, Dana Harris

Canadian School Journal.

File consists of a copy of the September-October 1967 (vol. 45, no. 6) edition of the Canadian School Journal which features an obituary for Dana Porter.

Porter, Dana Harris

Speech File : 1954-1959

File consists of transcripts of approximately 35 speeches given by Dana Porter at a variety of events between the years 1954-1959. In some cases there are multiple copies, ms. copies, and annotated copies of the speeches.

Porter, Dana Harris

Speech File : 1960.

File consists of the transcripts for eleven speeches given by Dana Porter at various convocations and events. Includes one for the University of Waterloo Convocation for the Installation of the Chancellor The Honourable Dana Harris Porter. Also includes four photographs showing Dorothy Porter, Julian Porter and Dana Porter Jr. standing under a painting of Dana Porter at the dedication ceremony for the Dana Porter Library.

Porter, Dana Harris

Correspondence from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker.

File consists of ten items of correspondence from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker from the time of their engagement. These letters are the same as those in the spiral bound collection. Also includes copies of the other materials that are in the bound volume.

Porter, Dana Harris

Attendees of the graduation exercises of the 42nd Session of the FBI National Academy.

File consists of one photograph showing attendees of the graduation exercised of the 42nd Session of the FBI National Academy. Left to right:

  • Mr. W.V. Scott, Fire Marshal for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
  • Mr. W.B. Common, Director of Public Prosecutions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
  • J. Edgar Hoover, Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ;
  • Honourable Dana Porter, Attorney General for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
  • Mr. Clifford R. Magone, Deputy Attorney General for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ;
  • Honourable William H. Stringer, commissioner of Police for Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Porter, Dana Harris

Child drawings.

File consists of one leaf of paper with drawings by a child on it. Possibly by Julian or Dana Porter Jr.

Porter, Dana Harris

Don Jail escape : exhibit photo album.

File consists of an album of photographs used as evidence in the case of the 1952 jail break of the Boyd Gang at the Don Jail. The photographs are listed in the front of the album, but they have been left in original order in the album itself (not chronological). The photographs were taken by Det. Sergt. Maurice Inglis of the Toronto Police. Also includes a clipping from 1990 on the break out.

Porter, Dana Harris

Directions to wake.

File consists of a small card giving directions from the church to the reception area for Dana Porter's wake at 32 Heath Street West in Toronto.

Porter, Dana Harris

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