File consists of material relating to discussions with Lewis Lektronix Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA) regarding the point-of-purchase advertising system, ScanVertiser. Includes a letter from Jack Young, Vice President Marketing at Lewis Lektronix Inc. to Michael W. Scott, three copies of the ScanVertiser brochure, and photocopies of operations manuals:

• The Scanvertiser Operations Manual (Revised edition, June 1978)
• Eprom System Operation [1979]
• Addendum for Programming a "FLASHER" [1979]
• Break-out System Operation [1979]

File consists of correspondence and other material from Arts and Communications Counselors (Toronto, ON) regarding corporate sponsorship of an art exhibition organized by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.

File consists eleven of items of correspondence addressed to Margaret Rieder. Includes primarily Christmas cards, with one birthday card. Correspondents include: Anthes, Carolina; Clarke, Evelyn; Edkins, Phyllis; Morley, Margaret Louise and Anna Elizabeth; Parry, Magaret; Rieder, Emeline Merner; Rieder, Margareth Anthes.

File consists of five items of personal and professional correspondence between Tony Urquhart and others. Correspondents include: Dion, Stephane; Edmonds, Helen; Essar, Gary; Urquhart, Emily.

File consists of one item of correspondence, with accompanying documentation consisting of an outline of Oniakara : The Niagara Sculpture Project.

File consists of materials created and accumulated by Tony Urquhart related to the exhibit Transforming Chronologies at the Museum of Modern Art, in which his work "Summer Forms I" was displayed. Includes 11 items of correspondence, a clipping and promotional materials. Correspondents include: Gutierrez-Guimaraes, Geaninne; Perez-Oramas, Luis.

File consists of materials created and accumulated by Tony Urquhart relating to his solo exhibition "Ambiguous Geographies : Unearthing the Work of Tony Urquhart" originally at the Stewart Hall Gallery. Includes correspondence, an exhibit catalogue, information on an Ontario Arts Council grant, information on the traveling history of the exhibit, a CD of images, lists of images with prices, promotional materials and more. Correspondents include:

• Braistein, Marcel
• Cubberley, Amy
• Desjardins, Sylvie
• Dyck, Sandra
• Ferri, Laura
• Fraser, Marie
• Greer, Kristen
• Gu, Zhe
• McCabe, Nicole
• Millar, Joyce
• Spalding, Jeffrey
• Stunik, Maia
• Teitbaum, Matthew
• Toppings, Iris
• Wohrle, Lisa.

File consists of five letters received by Martha Rieder from family members and friends. Some envelopes are included; stamps have been removed. Also present is an empty envelope. Includes letter from J.I. Frank Anthes on Anthes Mfg. Co. of Berlin letterhead and company envelope.

File consists of 20 letters (one consists of last page only) received by Martha Rieder from Talmon Henry Rieder mostly during the year 1921. Some letters include envelopes; 12 envelopes contain stamps. Also present are: one empty envelope, manuscript notes by Talmon, a newspaper clipping, a promissory note and receipt between Martha and Talmon, and funeral notice cards for Talmon.

File consists of 12 letters received by John S. and Lydia Anthes from Martha Rieder; some letters also contain notes from Ella Anthes Cook and Louisa Anthes Breithaupt. Also includes one letter from Martha to Louisa.

File consists of 23 letters received by John S. and Lydia Anthes from Martha Rieder. Some letters are addressed individually to her mother or father. File also includes a letter from Ella Anthes Cook to Lydia; and two letters to Louisa Anthes Breithaupt, one from Martha and one from Ella.

File consists of 14 letters received by John S. and Lydia Anthes from Martha Rieder, some addressed individually to her mother and father.

File consists of 19 letters received by John S. and Lydia Anthes from Martha Rieder, some addressed individually to her mother and some to her mother and Ella.

File consists of 28 German letters from between 1867 and 1872. The majority of the letters were written by Reverend Jacob Anthes, from the Carrick and Port Elgin areas of Ontario, to his parents Martin and Catharina Anthes, in Baden and New Hamburg in Waterloo County. They document his young family's experience living in a new place while he preached, sometimes at long-distances, attempting to convert people to the Evangelical Association Church. Included are references to the Anthes family's health and living situation, local weather and farming conditions, and happenings related to the day to day lives of people with whom he interacted.
File also includes one unidentified letter; an agreement [?] signed by Rev. Anthes, Glenlyon, Bruce Co.; and invoices, one for Martin Anthes' account at a store in New Hamburg signed by Jacob [Niebel?].

File consists of twenty five items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence and accompanying materials between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Brown, L.W.
• Bruce, John
• Butterfield, Philip
• Byram, Terence
• Doner, D.B.
• George, Rolf
• Haworth, L.
• Hellawell, E. Robert
• Langan, Thomas
• Linden, George W.
• Mills, Margaret
• Minas, J.S.
• Petch, H.E.
• Suits, David B.
• Thomas, John E.
• Tursman, Richard
• Yildiran, Guzver.

File consists of eighty one items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence and accompanying materials between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adamczewski, Zygmunt
• Adams, D.J.
• Adams, Jack
• Ashworth, E.J.
• Battae, Dorothy
• Canada Council
• Cornell, P.G.
• Deck, John N.
• Horne, James
• Ingram, Brian
• Kerr-Lawson, A.
• Matthews, B.C.
• McCracken, W.
• Monro, D.H.
• Needham, W.R.
• Nemetz, Anthony
• New, J.F.H.
• Npwell-Smith, P.H.
• Ober, W.U.
• Penelhum, Terence
• Seguin, Lloyd
• Siegfried, C.L.
• Smale, Peter
• Tucker, John
• Vogel-Sprott, M.D.
• Wahl, J.A.
• Whitton, Bob.

File consists of one hundred thirty two items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adamczewski, Zygmunt
• Air Canada
• Binkley, Robert
• Brown, Norman
• Canada Council
• Centore, F.
• Chairmen of Departments of Philosophy of Ontario
• Cornell, P.G.
• Cross, G.E.
• di Norcia, Vincent
• Eichhorn, Mary
• Fisch, Max
• Gallop, David
• George, Rolf
• Harris, H.S.
• Hart, James
• Hendley, B.
• King-Farlow, John
• Kretchmar, Scott
• Kubara, Michael
• Mandell, Arthur
• Matthews, B.C.
• McElroy, Elliott
• Morgan, J.D.
• Munro, Bradley
• New, J.F.
• Parfait, D.
• Pearson, Kathleen
• Penelhum, T.
• Pfeiffer, W.M.
• Roazen, Paul
• Robertson, Phyllis
• Robinson, Helier
• Seguin, Lloyd
• Shimizu, V.Y.
• Smale, Peter
• Taylor, M.C.
• Taylor, Mort
• Thomas, John
• Vincent, Una
• Whitton, R.W.
• Yolton, John
• Zeman, V.

File consists of one hundred thirty one items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adamczewski, Zygmunt
• Ashworth, Jenny
• Batke, T.L.
• Beaumont, C.F.A.
• Boyes, T.C.
• Brown, Richard
• Centore, F.
• Cornell, P.G.
• Department of National Revenue
• Diesing, Paul
• Fraleigh, Warren
• Godbey, Geoffrey
• Grayhurst, Denis
• Haworth, Lawrence
• Hendley, B.
• Horne, J.R.
• Laycock, H.
• MacIntyre, Rae
• Matthews, B.C.
• Needham, Robert
• Odegard, Doug
• Odegard, Douglas
• Ornstein, Jack
• Pagliuso, Saverio
• Parker, David
• Pearson, Kathleen
• Petch, H.E.
• Romenco, A.
• Short, Michael
• Spadoni, Carl
• Taylor, Mort
• Vogel-Sprott, Muriel
• Zeigler, Earle.

File consists of sixty items of manuscript and typescript professional correspondence between Bernard Suits and others including official departmental correspondence, personal professional correspondence and memos.

Correspondents include:

• Adam, Martin
• Adams, Jack
• Anderson, R.F.
• Baker, William
• Banks, R.K.
• Banks, Robin
• Braybrooke, David
• Brzustowski, T.A.
• Daniel, J.V.
• George, Rolf
• Hallman, Max
• Harkins, P.
• Hendley, Brian
• Homles, Richard
• Horne, Jim
• Hyland, Drew A.
• Keller, Lynn
• Kutscher, Austin H.
• L'Heureux, W.J.
• Matthews, B.C.
• Minas, J.S.
• Patten, S.C.
• Redmond, Chris
• Sherwin, Susan
• Stone, Roselyn
• Sumner, Wayne
• Van Evra, J.W.
• van Fraassen, Bas
• Watt, L.A.K.
• Willms, J.F.
• Wright, Douglas
• Zeigler, Earle.

File consists of a scrapbook compiled by Damaris Smith's daughter Gertrude, containing an article written by Damaris Smith entitled "Pioneer Wife" published as a serial in Farmer's Magazine beginning with vol. 41, no. 7, July, 1944. The scrapbook also documents the history of the Smith family and contains photographs, a pencil sketch of the "Mountain Hall" homestead, and correspondence.

141 pieces of correspondence including originals, carbon copies, telegrams and attachments.

7 pieces of correspondence and transcripts of documents relating to birth control in Holland. Correspondents include Mary Hawkins, Birth Control Society of Hamilton; and others.

21 pieces of correspondence. Includes "Notice of action for libel. William Lorne Hutton vs. Le Syndicate d'Oeuvres Sociales and Charles Gautier," Feb. 19, 1937. Includes a ts. (carbon) by Charles Gautier, "Trial of Miss Palmer," Nov. 12, 1936, and ms. notes.

Three pieces of correspondence, eight "Notice of Action", Notice of Motion & drafts, newspaper clippings.

File consists of two items of correspondence from Dana Porter to J.W. McAree of Mail and Empire, regarding the Empire Club of Canada.

File consists of two hundred and forty six items of correspondence congratulating Dana Porter on his appointment as Ontario Chief Justice, as Chancellor of the University of Waterloo and as a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Toronto.
Correspondents include :

• Allen, Francis J.
• Althouse, Mayme
• Anderson, Hugh A.
• Archer, William L.
• Armstrong, C.H.A.
• Armstong, James S.P.
• Armstrong, V.W.
• Ash, W.M.V.
• Ball, Gordon R.
• Band, James S.
• Beaudoin, Gerard
• Beck, Frederick A.
• Bell, Dick
• Bell, Thomas H.
• Belyea, Roy E.
• Berlin, S.S.
• Berry, Nixon T.
• Berry, J. Wilson
• Bickle, E.W.
• Bigelow, S. Tupper
• Biggar, H.W.
• Bishop, A.L.
• Bissell, Claude
• Bind, H.I.
• Birbaum, S.U.
• Blackwell, Leslie
• Blaird, Sid
• Blair, Willis L.
• Blatz, Anne and Bill
• Boland, John F.
• Borden, Henry
• Bowlby, A.T.
• Bowman, W.C.
• Brebner, F.R.
• Brown, Mannie
• Bruce, Herbert A.
• Bruce, Maxwell
• Buckland, Babs and Bert
• Bunnell, Arthur E.K.
• Campbell, Fred A.
• Cawthorne, Frederick
• Chalmers, Floyd S.
• Clark, Christie T.
• Coon, Burwell R.
• Crate, Alexander V.
• Currey, Jessie G.
• Davies, Robertson
• Duggan, R.B.
• Duncan, James S.
• Dunlop, W.J.
• Durie, Helen
• Dymond, M.B.
• Edmonds, George E.
• Erichsen-Brown, F.
• Farewell, C.A.
• Featherstone, Edna
• Feinberg, Rabbi Abraham L.
• Fell, Charles P.
• Forsyth, Bob
• Frankel, Egmont
• Fraser, D.G.
• Gelber, Marvin
• Gibson, D.H.
• Gilmour, G.P.
• Glassco, U. Grant
• Goodman, E.A.
• Goodwin, L.H.; Graham, Beatrice B.
• Graydon, Allan
• Green, Robert M.
• Gregory, Wilfrid P.
• Griffin, John
• Grossberg, Ben
• Gundy, Clarke

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.

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.

File consists of a spiral bound volume with copies of love letters sent from Dana Porter to Dorothy Parker during their courtship. Also included are photos of Dorothy, the Porter family, and a print out of a news article by Dana and Dorothy's grand-daughter regarding the letters.

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.

Letter from Peter H. Sims from Glenelg, September 18, 1869 to his wife Jemima Sims: "My dear wife
I arrived here safely last night and I Can tell you I was pretty tired. I feel somewhat sore this morning but will be all right soon. There was nothing remarkable happened on the way worthy to being related. When I came in sight of the old House in the moon light I then began to feel lonesome. I felt like turning in and staying all night but I knew you were not there to greet me on my return so I went on to mothers where I got a cup of tea and then went to bed. I slept well for  I was very tired. I begin to see now how lonesome I am going to be without you. No one can supply your place and now you are away I begin to feel it . . . I now bid you good bye with a good hearty kiss.
Hoping to hear from you soon.
I remain your loving husband
P.H. Sims.”
Includes a stamped envelope addressed to Jemima at Flora P.O. (later Floradale) and postmarked Walkerton.

Letter from Peter H. Sims dated Salem, October 4, 1869 to his wife Jemima Sims: "I am making every endeavour to get out of the bush country but I cannot do so untill [sic] I collect the accounts and straighten the business somewhat. After I got back I went out collecting but found it was impossible to get any money, consequently I took cattle. By this means I got a dozen together and I then started for Elora to turn them into money, which I will do tomorrow."

Letter from Peter H. Sims dated Waterloo, July 28, 1876 to his wife Jemima Sims: "I am getting along very well, have plenty to do to keep me from getting lonesome. But when night come and before I retire to rest I feel that I [am] alone and that home would be dreary enough without you . . . What do you think the town has had a visit from Mrs Von Schultis. She is dressed up in wonderful fine style. Black. Silk. Bustles and flounces. I suppose she came to see her children, and get a plan (place?) for her little girl at [B---'s?] I think she has left. She created quite a sensation in town . . . Remember me to Harvey and tell him Pa would like to see him and that I hope he is a good boy. Be careful of the water and do not let him go too close to it. I do not wish to hurry you home but I feel that I would like to see you back sometime next week. I am your loving Husband, Peter."
Letterhead is The Mercantile Fire Insurance Company, President I.E. Bowman, P.H. Sims Secretary.

Letter from Peter H. Sims dated London, Ontario, May 10, 1878 to his wife Jemima Sims; two court cases involving his business are being heard there.

Correspondence from Jemima Cook's friends prior to her marriage in 1869.

General correspondence received by Jemima Sims.

Letter from James and Janet Sims, Hawkesville, thanking Peter H. Sims for the $30.00 he sent so they could pay for the cow.

Three letters from James Campbell Sims in Montreal to Peter H. Sims.

Business correspondence relating to mortgage loans and payments managed by John H. Robertson and Peter H. Sims. Includes correspondence from individuals about their payments.

Letter from Margaret Forbes dated Inverury, October 4, 1835 addressed to Miss Garden, 204 Gallowgate, Aberdeen, hoping that Margaret will visit after the communion: "It always gives me pleasure to know that you have been favoured with such a Minister, who is likely to be zealous, in the cause of Christ … while God gives much grace to your young minister, he also will be the means of comforting you." She goes on to say, "We at present are well supplied with Gospel ministers, I pray for us, that the Spirit may accompany their labours," and ends by sending love to Jane and Jessy and hopes all can visit or write.

Letter from George Davidson in Aberdeen, Scotland to his wife Margaret in New Aberdeen, C.W., responding to the news of the death of their infant son: "The intelligence was painful, more so than had I been present with you, for altho' my friends here feel deeply with me, still you were awaiting." He speaks of the comfort that their belief offers, and continues: "I thank God that you are living & that I have so near a prospect of meeting you again – how happy I shall be to see you & this feeling is strengthened from the fact that you will be the same regarding me." He will be on the steamer Europa from Liverpool to New York and lists in detail the amount of time it will take to be back in New Aberdeen. (includes envelope sealed with family crest)

Letter from George Davidson in New York, dated May 16, 1880 to his wife Margaret, commenting on the number of "pleasure seekers" passing his window on a Sabbath. He mentions that "other people from Berlin are here." He complains that he will be confined to his room as the elevator is out of order, recounts an accident with a chamber pot and complains that his appetite is not good (Includes envelope addressed to Margaret at "Forest Hill, Berlin, Ontario").

Letter from Alexander Davidson, Port Elphinstone, dated July 22, 1856, to his niece Margaret Davidson, thanking her for presents sent. He reports on the growth and changes in Aberdeen and area since she had last been there, and lists all his children and what they are doing.

Letter from Anne Argo, Eden Mills, [date illegible: 1890?] in response to one from Margaret, calling her an old friend and sympathizing in her widowhood. She gives all the news of illnesses and doctoring of family and friends. This letter was enclosed with one to Florence, June 30 1890.

Handwritten draft of a letter by Elizabeth Roos in response to a newspaper advertisement seeking relatives of John Davidson on behalf of the estate of Minnie B. Davidson, providing details of their relationship to the deceased. Attached is the advertisement "Are there heirs here?" Includes a carbon copy of a letter to the same Charles White Mortimer from James Davidson, M.A., M.B., Burnside House, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, describing his knowledge of the John Davidson who had been lost to his family, and also the family genealogy.
Includes a carte de visite, head and shoulders portrait, sepia-toned, signed John Davidson, taken by Caswell & Davy, Duluth, Minnesota.

Photographic postcard (damaged) from Florence Sims dated Prince Rupert B.C. August 18, 1922, to her mother Elizabeth Roos, showing a totem pole in Alert Bay, B.C. The postcard is accompanied by handwritten notes and observations made on a trip.

Letter from Bella King (sister of W.L. Mackenzie King) dated July 17, [1904] to her friend Florence Sims, who has just given birth to her first child. After asking about the baby and Florence's health, Bella announces that "the house question" has finally been settled and that they are to move to 4 Grange Road in the middle of September, talks about holidays, and reports on going to "the Dundonald reception" with her Father John King. Signed Bella.

Letter from Mary Elizabeth dated 48 Austin Terrace, Toronto, January 26, 1928, thanking her Aunt Florence for birthday gifts (includes stamped envelope).

Eight letters from Peter H. Sims to Harvey J. Sims written between 1902 and 1910.

Correspondence from P.H. and Jemima Sims to their son Harvey J. Sims on a trip to England and Scotland from June to September 1912.

Eleven letters to and from Harvey J. Sims and Rella May Stewart and family.

Typewritten letter marked (confidential) from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated September 11, 1907, accompanied by a carbon copy of a letter from John A. Lang to A.B. Aylesworth; together with a letter from Peter H. Sims to Harvey dated October 1, 1907 commenting on Mackenzie King's proposals.

Monogrammed card from Laurier House, Ottawa sent as a Christmas card from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims, undated, inscribed inside in Mackenzie King's handwriting: "With the season's Greetings, W.L. Mackenzie King." Printed inside is King's favourite portrait of Isabel King (painted by J.W.L. Forster in 1905).

Telegram from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated August 7, 1925, thanking him and his wife Florence for the memorable visit: "I can recall no happier home town visit since the days of Woodside."
Salutation: none; Signature: "Billy."

Handwritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Florence Sims, dated August 10, 1925, containing effusive thanks for her hospitality during the Old Boys' Reunion in Kitchener, many memories of the past, and reminiscences of all he saw and did while in the area.

Telegram with pictorial header from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated December 31, 1927, sending best wishes for the New Year.
Salutation: none; Signature: "Billie."

Telegram from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated January 31, 1928, concerning the possibility of Mackenzie King attending the funeral of Florence Sims' mother Elizabeth Roos.
Salutation: "Dear Peter"; Signature: "William L. Mackenzie Kin.[sic]"

Typewritten letter from O.D. Skelton, Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada, replying to Harvey J. Sims on Mackenzie King's behalf, concerning a letter of introduction.

Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated December 22, 1930, in reply to one just received. King describes the volume of mail he still receives, "whether it be due to sympathy or regard." In response to being asked how he felt about being in the opposition, King says there is not much difference: "Office is a hard row and a perpetual grind. Opposition is just about the same," and confesses that he is glad not to have to "carry responsibility for conditions as they are in Canada at present."
Salutation: "My dear Peter" [typewritten]; Signature: "Your very devoted and affectionate friend [typewritten], Billy [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated August 6, 1931, expressing his frustration and humiliation over "incidents of the past few weeks" and declaring that "far too much has been left to one or two to do. I have made up my mind that unless a sufficient number of Liberals can be found who will undertake the management and maintenance of an information and organization office, run under the party's own responsibility, I shall cease to have anything further to do with the party's leadership."
Salutation: "My dear Peter" [typewritten]; Signature: "Believe me, as always, dear Peter [handwritten], Yours very sincerely [typewritten], W.L. Mackenzie King [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated December 29, 1931, thanking Harvey for his letter and comparing Harvey's enjoyment of country life at Chicopee with his own experience "through similar ventures at Kingsmere. Indeed, some of the things you have been doing, and some of the improvements you have made on your property are so ridiculously like those which I have been attempting myself that I have fairly danced with glee at the parallel." King elaborates on improvements and work at Kingsmere, walks, and underbrush, and says he intends to follow Sims' efforts with little dams and waterfalls along a stream. He thanks Harvey and Florence for the gift of a book England, The Unknown Isle and counters with a similar book by Lukin Johnson, a personal friend. King also thanks Harvey for sending him the 1930 volume of the Waterloo Historical Society, detailing the writers and contents, giving a paean of praise for the work of the Society, and expressing amazement at the growth of the County. King ends by mentioning his health, his fatigue. and his need for recreation, and sends New Year's wishes to the Sims family: "The older we grow, the more precious become the friendships that have their beginnings in childhood's days."
Salutation: "My dear Peter" [handwritten]; Signature: "With affectionate good wishes to you all, Believe me, as always, dear Peter, Your sincere and devoted friend [typewritten], Billy [handwritten]." Includes insertions and corrections in Mackenzie King's handwriting.

Typewritten letter marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated January 32, 1932, offering to "get up" a book of photographs of Kingsmere and exchange it for one of Chicopee, after having seen one that had been received by someone else.
Salutation: "My dear Peter" [typewritten]; Signature: "With kindest regards, Yours very sincerely [typewritten], W.L. Mackenzie King [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated November 9, 1933, concerning publication of the proceedings of the Port Hope Conference as The Liberal Way and the picture of King that appears in it. King submitted to the publication committee a picture that had been taken at Chicopee, not at the conference. He is asking, after the fact, for permission and thanks to the actual photographer.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [typewritten]" ; Signature: "With all good wishes, believe me, as always, dear Peter, Yours affectionately [typewritten], Billy [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated April 6, 1934, concerning King's travels in the South Oxford by-election, allowing him to consider visiting Homer Watson again, with whom he has "one or two matters" to discuss. He refers to his previous visit in Harvey's company and reiterates that he wants to see Harvey again on the same visit. The bulk of the letter concerns organizing the trip to suit King's wishes.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [typewritten]"; Signature: "With kindest regards, Yours very sincerely [typewritten], Billy [handwritten]." Includes handwritten insertion and handwritten P.S.: "Please do not think of this above for a moment if you have other engagements or should it not be wholly convenient. This is just a [illegible] shot. K."

Telegram from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated April 16, 1934: "The memories of Kitchener visit and South Oxford campaign more delightful than ever, never mind the IOU, I can never repay all your kindness to me."
Salutation: none; Signature: "Affectionate remembrance to all, Billy."

Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated May 10, 1934, in which he passes thanks to Mr. Burden for a clipping sent through Harvey, and expressing interest in obtaining plants and shrubs from his old home Woodside to re-plant at Kingsmere. He asks Harvey to be his middle-man in finding a way to accomplish this while also releasing him from any feeling of obligation. King notes that Kingsmere is looking beautiful and that he has a good gardener, and adds a handwritten postscript emphasizing that Harvey need not take any trouble unless he knows "just the person."
Salutation: "My dear Peter [handwritten]" ; Signature: "With affectionate remembrances to you both, Believe me, as always, dear Peter, Yours very sincerely [typewritten], Billy [handwritten]." Includes corrections and postscript in Mackenzie King's handwriting.

Typewritten letter, green carbon copy, from Harvey J. Sims to William Lyon Mackenzie King dated May 12, 1934, in reply to King's letter of May 10 requesting plants and shrubs from Woodside. Harvey replies that he was unable to make the request due to the health of the owner and says he will let King know when it might be possible.
Salutation: "My dear Billy"; Signature: "With the kindest regards from the both of us, I am, Yours most sincerely."

Handwritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Florence Sims dated December 23, 1934, affirming Florence's decision to stay home at Christmas but to let her two sons travel to Hartford, CT, where Harvey is in hospital. King offers to help in any way and offers to see Florence should she wish to come to Ottawa and talk: "If you thought a chaperone necessary, it would be well to bring one of the boys along, or Madge Gibson, or Mrs. Patteson would I am sure be glad to make a second or have you stay with her."
Salutation: "My dear Florence [handwritten]" ; Signature: "With every affectionate good wish to yourself, Believe me, as always, Very sincerely yours, Willie [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated August 12, 1936, apologizing for not having been able to visit Chicopee due to pressure of work, and to preparing for his forthcoming trip to Geneva where he is to head the Canadian delegation to the League of Nations. He makes reference to a photograph of himself and "The President" sent to him by Harvey. King tells Harvey that he has received two letter from "your friend Borgstrom" and says he has written again to the Minister of Labour and the National Employment Commission on his behalf. He asks Harvey bring Florence and Carl Borgstrom to visit Kingsmere so that he might "sound him out" before possibly obtaining his professional opinion about improvements at Kingsmere.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [typewritten] ; Signature: "Yours as ever, Billy [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter from Carl A. Borgstrom, landscape architect, to Harvey J. Sims, expressing gratitude to Harvey for his assistance in arranging for him to be able to visit Kingsmere, and enclosing a copy of the letter he had written to Mackenzie King with thanks for putting his name before the National Employment Commission.

Typewritten letter marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated December 2, 1936, thanking Harvey for information, describing the pressure of his work: "The problems are far and away beyond anything the like of which we have had hitherto to consider," and expressing sympathy for Euler and his wife in their "great bereavement."
Salutation: "My dear Peter [typewritten]"; Signature: "Yours affectionately, Billy [handwritten]."

Telegram from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated July 15, 1937, making arrangements for the forthcoming visit of Harvey to Kingsmere.
Salutation: "Dear Peter"; Signature: "Billy."

Typewritten letter, carbon copy, from Harvey J. Sims to William Lyon Mackenzie King dated October 22, 1937, following up on King's letter of October 16 and replying that he has ordered two copies of Violet Markham's book; also that he had spoken to "Mr. Sanderson, the Chief Librarian of the Toronto Public Library." This letter is accompanied by a carbon copy dated the same day of Harvey J. Sims' letter to Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. In London, England, requesting copies of Violet Markham's book and mentioning that it had been suggested to him by "The Rt. Hon. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada."
Salutation: "My Dear Billy [typewritten]"; Signature: "Yours very sincerely [typewritten]."

Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated October 30, 1937, refusing an invitation from Harvey J. Sims to a banquet in Kitchener on the grounds of overwork: "The truth is, I am at present, once again played out. " He leaves it to Harvey to explain "to our friends" and to pass on King's appreciation of the thought.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [typewritten]"; Signature: "Love to Florence and to yourself [handwritten], Yours very sincerely [typewritten], Billy [handwritten]."
Includes handwritten corrections and insertion.

Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated January 12, 1938, concerning his present to Harvey of an autographed copy of John Buchan's Augustus and his wishes for good health for Florence in the coming year.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [handwritten]"; Signature: "My best of wishes again to you both [typewritten], Yours affectionately, Billy [handwritten.]"

Typewritten letter marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated June 4, 1938, mentioning the "Grand River conservation matter" and also looking forward to seeing Harvey in Queenston on June 18. He mentions that due to fatigue he has given up attending sittings of the House.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [handwritten]"; Signature: "I do hope Florence is regaining her strength. With affectionate good wishes to you both, Billy [handwritten]."
This letter is accompanied by material relating to the opening of the Memorial Arch at Niagara Falls by Mackenzie King on June 18, 1938: official invitations to Harvey and Florence Sims to attend the opening ceremony, a luncheon, and a dinner, as well as a two-page typescript carbon itinerary.

Typewritten letter marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims (who is a passenger on the Letitia, en route to Scotland) dated August 3, 1938, in which he thanks Harvey for his visit to Kingsmere and relates that a "vision" had led him to listen to a radio story about the composer of the music for "The Sweet by and by," who felt he was guided by his deceased wife. King states "When I see you again, I shall tell you more in the way of evidence of Florence's continued existence, and her power to continue to share your life." King describes the Army Corps Reunion and his day in Kingston where he spoke at the official opening of Fort Henry. He gives Harvey advice on how to structure his life on the trip to Scotland, and ends: "Continue to think of nature as the garment of the invisible, and to commune with the spiritual reality which lies behind the things we see."
Salutation: "My dear Peter [handwritten]"; Signature: "With every good wish, Yours affectionately, WLM Billy [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter Marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated August 17, 1939, regretting not having seen him after "the banquet in Toronto."
Salutation: "My dear Peter [handwritten]"; Signature: "Believe me, Yours very sincerely [typewritten], Billy [handwritten."Billy [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated September 26, 1941, thanking Mrs. Shannon Bowlby for sending photographs to him through Harvey. He expresses interest in visiting Chicopee but is having difficulty arranging it.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [handwritten]"; Signature: "All good wishes, Yours affectionately, Billy [handwritten]."
Includes handwritten correction.

Typewritten letter from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated December 23, 1941, concerning changed arrangements for Harvey to visit Ottawa, as King is unsure when he will be called to Washington by the President.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [handwritten]"; Signature: "Please let this letter bring to you anew my warmest and best of wishes for your seventieth birthday anniversary, and for Christmas day. Let it bring my best of wishes also to the boys, and my love to Madge and Minnie. Indeed, I send my love to you all [typewritten]. Yours affectionately, Billy [handwritten]."

Typewritten letter marked "Personal" from William Lyon Mackenzie King to Harvey J. Sims dated May 12, 1942, concerning the opening of "the great Dam on the Grand River, which has recently been completed," and the impossibility of his being able to attend. He explains that although he has had many invitations and honours, he does not "feel at liberty to make any engagement which might take me from Ottawa at a time when I might be most needed." King has also received Harvey's letter of May 11 and replies that he would not approach Mr. Litvinoff about an engagement in Canada, as he had already indicated to King that he would not travel here again for the coming year.
Salutation: "My dear Peter [typewritten]"; Signature: "With all good wishes, Yours affectionately, Billy [handwritten]."
Includes handwritten corrections.

Includes invitation to the Cook family reunion, correspondence about peafowl and other wild stock available, and a postcard showing Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida.

Correspondents include the Canadian Legion, Canadian Kennel Club, A. Chappell concerning Chicopee Heights, Ernest and Alice Chadwick, Hector Charlesworth, Chicopee Tennis Club, Chicopee Ski Club, and E.H. Coleman.

Correspondents include the Hon. Mr. Justice Godfrey, Supreme Court of Ontario, V. Evan Gray, Ainslie W. Greene, and Norman S. Gurd.

Correspondents include Bob Kay and L. Keyzer. Bob Kay, an old friend of Harvey Sims, lived in Hartford, CT and Florida, and was acquainted with Harvey's sister Rella and her husband John Ross Stewart. The correspondence concerns mostly the scrapbooks about curling and football that Kay had assembled and their eventual disposition.
Postcard in this file: "RMS Ausonia, White Star Line" from L. Keyzer, a fellow Rotarian, postmarked Brussels.

Correspondence relates to Harvey J. Sims' activities as Colonel of the Scots Fusiliers.

Correspondence to and from Harvey J. Sims (carbons), tenders, agreements, invoices and other material relating to work being planned and carried out at Chicopee, including landscape features, nursery stock, concrete bridge, bubbling tanks, dry stone walls, also to a Workmen's Compensation case. Correspondents include Ball Bros., Dunker Brothers, Herbert Johnston, Civil Engineer, Forsey Page & Steele, architects, Fess Oil Burners of Canada Ltd., Thomas Rennie, Ontario Agricultural College, Carl A. Borgstrom (of Wilson, Bunnell & Borgstrom Ltd., also of Lorne Park Nurseries) landscape architect.

Contains one ts. item of correspondence from Carl F. Klinck to McNeill regarding Klinck's visit to McNeill and their discussion of William Wilfred Campbell. Letter is dated August 20, 1931.

Letters written to and from Alice Egan Hagen. Correspondents include Woman's Art Association of Canada, and the Nova Scotia College of Art.

• Date and Place From: 1893.04.29 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From ?
• Date and Place From: 1896.11.06 Toronto, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Thompson, E.J. Notes: Partial letter
• Date and Place From: 1896.12.05 Toronto, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Thompson, E.J.
• Date and Place From: 1897.07.08 Toronto, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Thompson, E.J.
• Date and Place From: 1897.12.06 Toronto, Ont. To Egan, Thomas J. From Maughan, J. Notes: Re his daughter's work.
• Date and Place From: 1898.07.07 Toronto, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Morson, Jessie D. [?]
• Date and Place From: 1940.03.30 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Mulcahy, Mary
• Date and Place From: 1940.04.10 Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia To Mulcahy, Mary From Hagen, Alice Mary
• Date and Place From: 1940.04.13 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Nutt, Elizabeth S.
• Date and Place From: 1940.04.23 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Nutt, Elizabeth S.
• Date and Place From: 1946.08.07 Ottawa, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Smart, J.
• Date and Place From: 1947.08.05 Falmouth, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Emelie
• Date and Place From: 1948.10.08 Saskatoon, Sask. To Hagen, Alice Mary From McNaughton, Violet
• Date and Place From: 1948.10.25 Falmouth, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Emelie
• Date and Place From: 1953.04.29 Oakville, Ont. To Hagen, Alice Mary From Satterly, M.F.
• Date and Place From: 1958.08.05 Cambridge, ? To Hagen, Alice Mary From ?
• Date and Place From: 1961.08.07 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Rita and Bill
• Date and Place From: 1961.08.15 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Balcom, S.R.
• Date and Place From: 1961.08.16 Halifax, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Roche, Gertrude
• Date and Place From: 1961.08.16 West Bay, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Urquhart, Earl W.
• Date and Place From: n.d. S.l., To Hagen, Alice Mary From Emelie Notes: Top of letter torn off.
• Date and Place From: n.d..09.10 Falmouth, Nova Scotia To Hagen, Alice Mary From Emelie

Letters and typescript transcripts written to Elizabeth Long by Alice Egan Hagen, giving the background on sets of china she painted for various causes.

• Date and Place From: 1962.12.15 Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia To Long, Elizabeth From Hagen, Alice Mary Notes: + transcript
• Date and Place From: 1963.04.00 Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia To Long, Elizabeth From Hagen, Alice Mary Notes: + transcript
• Date and Place From: 1963.04.17 Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia To Long, Elizabeth From Hagen, Alice Mary Notes: + transcript
• Date and Place From: 1963.04.19 Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia To Long, Elizabeth From Hagen, Alice Mary Notes: + transcript

File consists of two pieces of correspondence between Annie Elizabeth May Hewlett and Elizabeth Long.

4 pieces of correspondence regarding Beulah's death.

8 pieces of correspondence:

• Date and Place from: 1956 Eldama Ravine, Kenya To Misener, H.A., Mr. and Mrs. From Barnett, Erik, Mr. and Mrs. Notes: 2 letters.
• Date and Place from: 1957-58 Kericho, Kenya To Misener, Millie and Orden From Alloway, Beulah Misener Notes: 2 letters.
• Date and Place from: 1960.02.04 Kericho, Kenya To Woods, Miss From Alloway, Beulah Misener
• Date and Place from: 1960.02.08 Nairobi, Kenya To Misener, H.A., Mr. and Mrs. From Reynolds, R.V., Mrs.
• Date and Place from: 1960.02.14 Nyakach, via Kisumu, Kenya To Misener, H.A., Mr. and Mrs. From Downings, K.L.
• Date and Place from: 1960 April 17 Brantford Ontario To Friends From Misener, Harley and May