Autobiographical notes of Elizabeth Shortt.
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Part of Elizabeth Smith Shortt fonds.
File consists of autobiographical materials created by Elizabeth Smith Shortt.
Shortt, Elizabeth Smith
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Autobiographical notes of Elizabeth Shortt.
Part of Elizabeth Smith Shortt fonds.
File consists of autobiographical materials created by Elizabeth Smith Shortt.
Shortt, Elizabeth Smith
Extracts from letters of Elizabeth Shortt (biographical information).
Part of Elizabeth Smith Shortt fonds.
File consists of extracts from the letters of Elizabeth Smith Shortt that give biographical information on her life.
Shortt, Elizabeth Smith
Part of Elizabeth Smith Shortt fonds.
Shortt, Elizabeth Smith
Part of Clement Bowlby Family fonds.
File consists of one group portrait of Martha Esther Murphy Bowlby (left) with daughters (from left to right) Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement, Grace Esther Bowlby Fennell and Emma Allen Bowlby Boyd. All are seen in high-collared dresses with oversized leg of mutton sleeves.
Clement Bowlby Family
Part of Clement Bowlby Family fonds.
Tintype studio portrait of Edwin Perry Clement seen looking off camera.
Clement Bowlby Family
Part of Clement Bowlby Family fonds.
One head and shoulders studio portrait photograph of Edwin Perry Clement seen looking off camera.
Clement Bowlby Family
Part of Clement Bowlby Family fonds.
File consists of snapshots taken by, and showing, extended family members and friends of the Clement family at locations in Georgian Bay. Edwin Perry Clement and his brother-in-law John Birnie both had cottages in Georgian Bay. The photographs show the cottages and camps as well as family and friends swimming, boating, picnicking and enjoying the outdoors. Family and friends shown include: John Birnie, Florence Grace Clement, Muriel Alberta Kerr Clement, David Ward Clement, Charles Bowlby Clement, Blanche Mildred Clement Kelly, Edwin Oliver Clement, William Pope Clement, Alice Lyons Clement Birnie, Esther Williams, Edwin Perry Clement, Mosson Boyd.
Clement Bowlby Family
Kelly, Blanche Mildred Clement.
Part of Clement Bowlby Family fonds.
Snapshot of Blanche Mildred Clement Kelly seated in the back of a canoe close to a shoreline, paddle across lap, with an unidentified friend. Both are wearing hats.
Clement Bowlby Family
Clipping regarding Harriet Churchill.
Part of Mary B. Churchill fonds.
File consists of one brief newspaper clipping regarding Harriet Churchill being accepted to the Lyceum de France.
Churchill, Mary B.
Rittinger & Motz : job price sheets.
Part of Motz family fonds.
File consists of blank job pricing and job order sheets for various work done by Rittinger and Motz.
Motz Family
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of one manuscript note on the Canada Company.
Canada my country, by Clara H. Mountcastle.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of one clipping of the poem Canada my country by Clara H. Mountcastle.
Notes written by Edward B. Littlehales.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of manuscript copies of original notes and correspondence written by Edward Baker Littlehales.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of one manuscript essay on the old Niagara River road.
Religion and morality among the early settlers.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of one manuscript essay on religion and morality among the early settlers of America.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of one manuscript essay on the settlement of Richmond Hill.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of manuscript notes on Six Nations history.
William the Fourth King of Great Britain and Ireland.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consist of one etching of William the Fourth King of Great Britain and Ireland. An manuscript note reads died 20th June, 1837.
Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds
File consists of one photograph of the Kitchener market with the city hall and post office buildings visible.
Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Upper Canada land grant to John Snyder.
Part of Ontario history collection.
Upper Canada land grant awarded to John Snyder for 100 acres of land in the Township of Ernestown, currently within the province of Ontario. Dated September 17, 1801.
Part of Kitchener-Waterloo Record fonds
Copy print, showing the interior of an unidentified store.
Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Wordsworth, William : letters to Robert Southey.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
File consists of copies of five items of correspondence from William Wordsworth to others, including Miss Taylor, John Taylor, Thomas Hervey and Robert Southey. Letters have ms. notations by Davis.
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of Clement Bowlby Family fonds.
Series consists of 347 photographs and 12 negatives showing extended members of the Clement-Bowlby families. Includes formal studio portraits, snapshots, and negatives showing Clement, Bowlby, Jackson, Berkinshaw, Boehmer, Boyd, Chalk, Forbes, Kelly, Murphy, Oliver, Pope, Southgate, and Stewart families as well as friends, animals, and locales.
Clement Bowlby Family
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834: ["Kiss and the Blush"]: clipping, 1803 May 12.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Clipping of poem "The Kiss and the Blush" from Morning Post (?) May 12, 1803. ("My gentle, Grace, I did but seek"). Initialed "S.T.C." in Coleridge's autograph.
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of one manuscript essay on traveling in early times.
File consists of a statement declaring the registration of the birth of James Colquhoun, son of Frederick Colquhoun and Jane Hanson, in the parish of Govan (in Glasgow). Possibly a draft or copy of an official registration certificate.
Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville
Silver dollar from England showing on the obverse the head of King George III and on the reverse Britannia seated surrounded by FIVE SHILLINGS DOLLAR and then again by BANK OF ENGLAND. This coin has been struck over a Spanish dollar.
Pyke, Edgar William
Circular part of The Temple Church, London.
Part of William Dendy fonds.
Dendy, William
Donald McKay journal : Book III.
Part of Colin Rankin fonds.
Donald McKay journal, Feb. 1805-June 1806, Book III.
Rankin, Colin
Southey, Robert 1774-1843: Note, 1805 April 2.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph passage dated April 2, 1805. Written in the form of a note in a common-place book, but it reads as if it is a letter from a gentleman to a lady.
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of William Dendy fonds.
One leaf from Vol. 1, p. 32 of an unidentified publication.
Dendy, William
Margareta Riehl birth certificate.
Fonds consists of one birth-and-baptismal certificate (Geburts-und-Taufschein) for Margareta Riehl. The certificate is written in German and is a fraktur text featuring examples of decorative calligraphy and artwork.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
File consists of copies of Robert Southey's letters, as well as one from Caroline Southey, Davis' notes on the letters, a list of letters published, a list of omissions from published letters, and a list of ms. letters of Robert Southey and Hannah More at Bristol Public Libraries.
Davis, Bertram R.
Ground plan of Longleat, Wiltshire.
Part of William Dendy fonds.
Dendy, William
Silver 5 franc coin from France showing on the obverse the head of Napoleon and on the reverse 5 FRANCS. Edge inscription reads 'France Dieu Protes.'
Pyke, Edgar William
Longleat House and gardens, Wiltshire, as they appeared toward the end of the seventeenth century.
Part of William Dendy fonds.
Dendy, William
Southey, Robert 1774-1843: ALS, 1809 March 14-15, Keswick, to Thomas Southey, Plymouth.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter to Thomas Southey (Robert's brother and an officer in the Royal Navy.) March 14-15, 1809. Discusses progress on poem "Curse of Kehama." Reports that the Quarterly Review has been published, mentions his and Walter Scott's contributions, editorial deletions, his payment. Discusses development in the war, "Thalaba" has been finished. His Brazil reviewed by Sharon Turner, to be reviewed by Bedford and, possibly, S.T. Coleridge.
Published in Kenneth Curry's New Letters v.1 p. 502.
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of Sol Eisen collection.
Collection consists of four files donated as part of the Sol Eisen collection of Canadiana. These items include a ms. of Mexican plays, a music manuscript, a receipt for work completed by a slave on chain gang, and materials related to the life of Frederic William Wile.
Eisen, Sol
Part of Sol Eisen collection.
File consists of one musical manuscript. written on staff paper. The manuscript is oblong and features numerous short songs, as well as small portions of notation. Notation is written in two distinct hands.
Eisen, Sol
More, Hannah, 1745-1833: ALS, [1811?], Gt. Pulteney St. [Bath], to the Rev. Mr. Haiveis.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter, 1811 (?) to the Rev. Mr. Haiveis. Enclosed letter from Mr. Hornes suggest taking no notice "till we see the result from Lambeth."
Davis, Bertram R.
Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville fonds.
The fonds consists of land transactions, mortgages, declarations, and power of attorney documents. Some seem to have been retained as they pertain to personal or family business of members of the firm, such as documents relating to the estate of Christian Kumpf, whose daughter married A.B. McBride.
Some documents relate to well known names in the history of the area, such as David Kuntz of Kuntz Breweries and John Hoffman, for whom a survey of Waterloo was done in 1855, Thomas Hilliard, Charles Noecker, Ford S. Kumpf, etc.
Evidence of printing activity is present in legal forms printed by local booksellers and stationers for the firm. The documents contain evidence of trades and occupations of the time, including marble cutter, tailor, hotel keeper, farmer, woolen mill employee, button turner, shoe merchant, cabinet maker, tobbaconist, cigar box manufaturer, brewer, pumpmaker, telephone agent, etc. Also interesting to note is the shift to the use of a typewriter and the appearance of a female employee described as a "stenographer." Interesting also is the relative level of literacy evident in the signatures of individuals, particularly those of husbands and wives, many of whom are represented only by their "mark."
Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville
An Abstract of the will of Joseph Hanson, late of Strangeways Hall Esquire deceased, 5th Aug. 1811.
This abstract names James Colquhoun as a beneficiary.
Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville
Abbey Gate-Way, north side, Bury St. Edmunds.
Part of William Dendy fonds.
Dendy, William
Holograph manuscript titled "Cours de calcul integral" by Auguste Bienaimé Désiré Pioch (1812-1846). Bound with his "Memoire sur les fonctions arbitraires exprimes par des integrales doubles" [G3145]. Taken from Tome XV of Memoires Couronnes, Academie Royale de Bruxelles.
The counsellor, king, warrior, mother and child in the tomb.
Part of William Dendy fonds.
One leaf, p. 11 from an unidentified publication.
Dendy, William
Part of Rieder and Anthes family fonds.
File consists of one piece of lace work, identified as having been created by Caroline Herlan, Martha Rieder's grandmother.
Herlan, Caroline
A. Pugin print of the library of All Souls College.
One print of the library of All Souls College. Original drawing by A. Pugin.
Pugin, A.
Part of Jardine family fonds.
This documents consists of two separate dated statements: "Kilbride, 14 June, 1814. William Jordan and Catherine Bell both in this parish have, on the three preceding Sabbaths, been regularly proclaimed in this church and no objections offered. Thomas Bryce, Sess. Clks [here the handwriting changes] This 15 of June 1814. The above parties were joined in marriage at Glasgow by J.M. Lockhart Minr.
Jardine Family
Elevation of bay window, west side, Crosby Hall, London.
Part of William Dendy fonds.
Dendy, William
Part of Jardine family fonds.
Jardine Family
Adelaide : documents, printouts.
Part of The Petworth Project fonds.
Material relating to the settlement of Petworth emigrants in Adelaide Township. Consists of photocopies from 19th century manuscript sources.
The Jackman Foundation
Part of Ontario history collection.
Fragment of possibly the Kingston Gazette.
PRO WO/120/26 : Chelsea Hospital records.
Part of The Petworth Project fonds.
Material relating to Petworth Emigration/Genealogical research. Consists of a photocopy from the Chelsea Hospital records dated 1815.
The Jackman Foundation
Anton Kaiser discharge certification.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of one document certifying that Anton Kaiser served in De Watteville's regiment in Captain Sturter's Grenadiers during the War of 1812. Dated June 15, 1816.
One travel diary written by an unknown person. The diary recounts a trip to France and Switzerland, with a particular emphasis on mountain climbing in the Swiss Alps. An accompanying item of correspondence addressed to George from Vivian de Sola Pinto of Nottingham University indicates that the traveler saw a woman he presumed to by Mary Shelley in Berne, possibly dating the diary to when Shelley was living in Geneva.
Southey, Robert 1774-1843: ALS, 1816 April 23, Keswick, to the Rev. Dr. Bell.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter to the Rev. Dr. Bell. April 23, 1816. Acknowledges receipt of weather-glass, damaged in shipment. Hartley Coleridge has fellowship at Oriel. Has had visitor: a professor of chemistry from Columbia College, New York.
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Continuation of file 233a.
Davis, Bertram R.
French construction : clipping of a sketch of Red River settlement by Lord Selkirk.
Part of John Ivan Rempel fonds.
One clipping of a sketch of Red River settlement by Lord Selkirk ca. 1817.
Lord Selkirk
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
File consists of a ts. transcription of Robert Southey's diary from his trip through mainland Europe, including France, Italy and Switzerland. Ts. has ms. corrections and additions. Continued in 233b.
Davis, Bertram R.
Deed of land between Aaron White and Joseph Dorland.
Part of William Dickson collection.
Consists of one deed of land dated June 5, 1818 between Aaron White of the Township of Hallowell and Joseph Dorland of the Township of Ameliasbury, both of Prince Edward County for 100 acres of land in Hallowell Township.
Dickson, William
Collection consists of seven legal documents regarding the sale of land in the Township of Dumfries in Southern Ontario.
Dickson, William
Part of Clement Bowlby Family fonds.
Head and shoulders studio portrait of Rev. Edwin Clement seen looking off camera.
Clement Bowlby Family
Certificate of baptism for Jane Hanson.
File consists of a certificate of baptism for Jane Hanson, born to Frederick Colqhhoun and Jane Hanson in Edinburgh.
Haney, Haney, Kendall & Melville
Part of William Dendy fonds.
Dendy, William
Carbon typescript transcript of Arthur Lang's diary prepared as a Christmas souvenir in 1907 by T.A. Lang in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. It includes a copy of a letter from one of Arthur Lang's granddaughters, giving some family background. Arthur Lang describes the sea voyage, scenery, and passengers on trip from Montreal, through the Lachine Rapids, to Prescott, Ontario. The diary also discusses Lang’s experiences inspecting land near the townships of Ramsay, Lanark, and Dalhousie in Lanark County, Ontario.
Lang, Arthur
Part of Jardine family fonds.
Jardine Family
Silver crown from England showing on the obverse the head of King George IV and on the reverse an image of St. King George slaying the dragon.
Pyke, Edgar William
[H. Hadding?] to Dr. [William] Canniff.
Part of Ontario history collection.
One letter addressed to Dr. Canniff from [H. Hadding?]. The letter discusses the history of a house that Dr. Canniff is inquiring about.
Correspondence, legal documents, photographs, ephemera and genealogical records, relating to Jacob Hailer (1804-1885), Henry Wagner (1793-1867), Jacob Wagner (1824-1858), Louis Henry Wagner (1857-1945), their families and the related Staebler Family, Biehn/Bean Family and Breithaupt Family.
Wagner Hailer family
Part of Wagner Hailer family fonds
One wanderbuch (journeybook) recording Jacob Hailer's journeyman as a wheelwright. A wanderbuch served as both a passport and a resume and has pages for local authorities to give approval to work and for employers to make statements about the worker's qualifications. Hailer worked in various cities across Germany including Durlach, Muhlburg, and Kehl.
Hailer, Jacob
Part of Jardine family fonds.
Jardine Family
Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853: ALS, 1823 Jan. 13, Norwich, to Robert Southey.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter to Robert Southey. January 13, 1823. Her client, Alfred Pettitt, an invalid music teacher, wishes to publish a collection of hymns. Mrs. Opie hopes that Southey and Wordsworth will be willing to supply compositions for his collection.
Davis, Bertram R.
Fonds contains three books written by Robert Forbes. They consist of ledgers dating from 1823 to 1873 and daybooks documenting Fobes' activities as a farmer and merchant dating from 1856 to 1891. Also included are three leaflets with information about postal and farmers’ schedules from the Department of Agriculture, Ontario.
Daybook coverage:
Ledger coverage:
Three files:
Forbes, Robert
Part of Schantz Russell family fonds.
Schantz Russell Family
Southey, Robert 1774-1843: ALS, 1824 May 24, [London], to Charles Danvers, [Bristol].
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter to Charles Danvers. May 24, 1824. "Will leave tomorrow (Tuesday) at four p.m. and hopes to arrive at Danvers's door (in Bristol?) before three o'clock Wednesday."
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of Wagner Hailer family fonds
Detailed family relationships are outlined in genealogical documents prepared by Gordon Wagner.
Wagner Hailer family
Part of Wagner Hailer family fonds
Handwritten death notice for an unknown person who died November 4, 1824 aged 54 years, 9 months.
Wagner Hailer family
Silver shilling from England showing on the obverse the head of King George IV and on the reverse a lion over a crown and a rose.
Pyke, Edgar William
One autograph album kept by an unknown person. The album spans from 1825-1854 and features biblical and literary passages written by those in England and Scotland. Locations include Glasgow, York, London, Newark, Rotherham and more. In the back of the volume is the Lord's prayer written in Malay by a Mr. Trout, Baptist missionary in Batavia, Java.
Receipt for work performed by enslaved Black female.
Part of Sol Eisen collection.
File consists of one receipt, in French, for work performed by an enslaved Black female named Maria on a chain gang in New Orleans in 1825. Translation reads "Wages for negress on the chain: The city treasury will pay to Mr. D. Fitch the sum of 11 piastre and 50 cents for forty six days of work by his negress Maria, employed by the public works from August 9 to October 3." The document is signed by David Fitch and Precend Lament [?] and is dated at New Orleans, Oct. 3, 1825.
Attached to the receipt is what appears to be a clipping from the vendor catalogue which listed the item for sale. It reads:
"174. NEGRO CHAIN GANG LABOR RECEIPT. Printed document, in French, signed, one page, oblong small quarto. Nouvelle-Orleans, 1825. Interesting if not gruesome document. Receipt for labor in the chain gang performed by a negress."
Eisen, Sol
St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, compartment on one side.
Part of William Dendy fonds.
Dendy, William
Thomas P. Stowell mathematical notebooks.
Three notebooks kept by Thomas P. Stowell with mathematical problems, solutions, and notes.
Stowell, Thomas Pollard
Upper Canada indenture for lease of a ferry to Claudius Christie.
Part of Ontario history collection.
Upper Canada indenture regarding the lease of a ferry to take passengers across the River Trent, given to Claudius Christie. Dated June 10, 1826.
Engraved portrait of Colin Rankin.
Part of Colin Rankin fonds.
Engraved head and shoulders portrait of Colin Ranking later in life created and printed by A. Alexander & Sons Ltd. London, England.
Rankin, Colin
Southey, Robert 1774-1843: ALS, 1826 May 13, Keswick, to unknown correspondent.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter. May 13, 1826. Mentions that a set of books directed by Southey in care of the recipient of the letter should have arrived.
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of Wagner Hailer family fonds
Birth certificate for Jacob Wagner (here listed as Johann Jacob Wagner) dated June 1, 1826. Wagner was born December 20 1804.
Germany
Robert Southey letter to William Webb.
One handwritten letter from Robert Southey addressed to a William Webb of Dublin. The letter was sent from Keswick and is dated November 8, 1826. Also includes an etching of Southey.
Southey, Robert
Southey, Robert 1774-1843: ALS, 1827 Aug. 11, Keswick, to Messrs. Treuttel and Wurtz, London.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter addressed to Treuttel and Wurtz (probably Treutel and Wurtz, publishers). August 11, 1827. Acknowledges receipt of Bank of England post-bill for £100.
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of Schneider family collection.
Two studio portraits of Charles Andrew Ahrens, seen in formal dress with hands crossed at abdomen. One is an upper body portrait, and the other is a head and shoulders crop of the same photo.
Schneider family
George Gordon to George, Earl of Dalhousie.
Part of Ontario history collection.
One letter addressed to George, Earl of Dalhousie from George Gordon dated August 27, 1827.
Part of Jardine family fonds.
Jardine Family
Receipt R.J. Hopkins to Adam Stubbs.
Part of Ontario history collection.
File consists of one receipt for 95.0.6 recieved by R.J. Hopkins from Adam Stubbs. Dated February 25, 1827.
Richard Beasley Upper Canada deed of enrollment.
Fonds consists of one Upper Canada deed of enrollment from Richard Beasley to David Gingrich for a parcel of land in Waterloo County. The parcel in question is noted as being "a certain parcel on tract of land in the Township of Waterloo in Richard Beasley Lower Block on the Northside of the Grand River containing one hundred acres ... being composed of the Eastern half of lot number four in the Second Concession beginning at a post planted equal distance from the front to rear on the division line between lotts number three and four which is the south east corner of Jacob [M] half of the same lott. Thence move seventy seven degrees East forty chains more or less to within fifty links of the rear of the said concession. Thence North thirteen degrees west twenty five chains more or less to the north east of Jacob [M] said half lott thence south thirteen degree east twenty five chains more or less to the place of beginning containing one hundred acres..."
Beasley, Richard
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
File consists of copies of Joseph Cottle's letters, along with notes on the letters and an introduction to them.
Davis, Bertram R.
Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850: ALS, 1828 March 1, Bremhill, [to Caroline Bowles].
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter to Caroline Bowles (who became Mrs. Robert Southey). March 1, 1828. Says he would be glad to send her his "plain statements, of all the circumstances of the case of the poor woman whom I was able to deliver from her horrible doom." Deals with other matters also.
Davis, Bertram R.
Sermons by Reverend Joseph Irons.
One bound manuscript volume of sermons by Reverend Joseph Irons for the year 1828. The book appears to have been written by his son William Josiah Irons (note on p. 26 reads taken by W.J.I.)
Southey, Robert, 1774-1843: ALS, 1828 Feb. 27, Keswick, to the Rev. Dr. Bell.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
Autograph letter to Rev. Dr. Bell. February 27, 1828. Urges recipient not to worry about the matter that has been bothering him for so long. Now that he has established the discovery for his own, he should let the matter rest. Suggests meeting him in Cheltenham. Refers to Southey's daughter and son.
Davis, Bertram R.
Part of Bertram R. Davis collection.
"Document, signed, appointing his brother, Henry Herbert Southey, his lawful attorney, to receive any sum of money due to him as Poet Laureate." Also includes original auction advertisement for the item.
Davis, Bertram R.