Contains correspondence, ephemera, handwritten notes and original corrected typescript produced for workshop presentation, in addition to photocopied typed documentation for workshop issued by the Brucedale Press re the "Writing for Young Readers" workshop (Aug. 23, 1997) at which Nancy-Lou Patterson gave a presentation. This workshop formed part of a series of workshops ("Authors in August" workshops) which was sponsored by the Brucedale Press.

Contains correspondence, ephemera, and a map with handwritten additions indicating directions to Keppel-Sarawak Elementary School in Owen Sound, Ont.

Contains correspondence received by and sent by Nancy-Lou Patterson relating to various different themes including:

(1) Committee to be established by the City of Kitchener to deliver a Cultural Plan for the community;
(2) Submission of article by Nancy-Lou Patterson to summer 1997 issue of the Journal;
(3) Call for papers for unspecified publication;
(4) Fire regulations of City of Waterloo for two unit residential occupancies.

Also includes announcement for Nancy-Lou Patterson's 1992 research paper "Birds in Flight: Twenty-Five Years of the Mennonite Relief Sale Annual Quilt Auction, as Embodied in Twenty-Five Quilts Selected from the Collection of Elfreida Heinrichs".

Other items in this file include a book catalogue (spring 1995) issued by the University of New Mexico Press, a membership application for the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, an issue of Leisure World ( August/September 1994), and a subscription application form for the Journal of American Culture. Also includes ephemera including receipts, a packing slip, and flyers.

Contains correspondence, clippings, ephemera, an invoice, a photocopied typed biographical note, and a photocopy of a photograph of Nancy-Lou Patterson. All these materials relate to a reading from Barricade Summer given by Nancy-Lou Patterson at the Linwood branch of the Waterloo Regional Library on June 4, 1997.

Contains [1] p. typescript (computer output) and [1] p. photocopied typescript of poem by Nancy-Lou Patterson entitled "Heritage Landmark, 1898" which was accepted for publication in The Grand Table Anthology, an anthology published by the Waterloo-Wellington branch of the Canadian Author's Association. This file also contains correspondence, an original typed biographical note, handwritten notes, and 14 p. photocopied typescript of an excerpt from Part III of Cloister Death, an unpublished novel by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Contains ca. [305] p. holograph manuscript.

Contains 8 p. photocopied illustrations.

Contains handwritten drafts and notes, and tss. (some with corrections) of two articles (includes originals, photocopies, and final computer output versions) written by Nancy-Lou Patterson. The first article is entitled "Joseph Arthur Greeves (1895-1966)", while the second is entitled "They Stand Together: The Letters of C.S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963), Edited by Walter Hooper (London: Collins, 1979)". These articles appeared in The C.S. Lewis Companion which was published by HarperCollins to mark the 100th anniversary of Lewis's birth.

Also includes typed biographical note about Nancy-Lou Patterson. Additionally contains correspondence relating to the submission of publications to The C.S. Lewis Companion, as well as a work-for-hire contract between Nancy-Lou Patterson and D. Schultz & Co. of Colorado Springs, Colorado, in addition to guidelines for contributors, and a sample entry for contributors.

Contains correspondence and ephemera re Nancy-Lou Patterson's participation in a work shop ("Meet the Author" program) held at the Kitchener Public Library.

Contains correspondence, a flyer, and two clippings re Seniors' Day at the Joseph Schneider Haus. Nancy-Lou Patterson was among those who gave a presentation at this event.

Contains ca. 325 p. holograph manuscript. Also includes handwritten comments by Nancy Martin.

Contains 177 p. original typescript. Also includes a letter dated Sept. 23, 1997 sent to Susan Burke, curator at the Joseph Schneider Haus from Sandra Woolfrey, Director at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. This letter contains critical commentary on The Tramp Room and also relates to the matter of who should publish this novel. This letter appears to have been forwarded to Nancy-Lou Patterson by Susan Burke.

Contains [2] p. handwritten notes, 75 p. original corrected typescript, a receipt, an invitation for submissions from Mythlore, and correspondence exchanged between Nancy-Lou Patterson and Doris Myers in Sept. 1997 relating to " 'Miraculous Wine...Miraculous Bread': Eucharistic Motifs in the Fantasies of C.S. Lewis".

Correspondence, drawing (photocopied) for a C.S. Lewis brochure.

Contains correspondence, information package for nominees for the Arts Awards.

Contains a wide variety of materials relating to Barricade Summer including a Listening Response Log, created by Ann Larsen, to accompany the novel Barricade Summer (Port Elgin, Ont. : Brucedale Press, 1997). Some announcements and advertising for this novel issued by Brucedale Press are also contained in this folder.

Also includes clippings from newspapers and serial publications. A few of these clippings have a biographical focus, while most relate to book promotion events and readings from Barricade Summer given by Nancy-Lou Patterson at public libraries, at bookstores, at schools on the Bruce Peninsula, and at other locations. Flyers which were produced for these readings are also contained in this file.

Also included in this file are typed itinearies of the author and hand-drawn maps relating to readings she gave at various schools on the Bruce Peninsula during 1996. This file also includes book reviews of Barricade Summer.

Also contained in this file is correspondence. Much of it takes the form of illustrated cards and letters sent to the author by children at schools where Nancy-Lou Patterson gave readings. Other correspondence included in this file takes the form of letters sent to the author by Brucedale Press regarding Barricade Summer and correspondence with other individuals regarding the promotional events for Barricade Summer .

32 col. photographs, most of which were taken during the author's readings at schools on the Bruce Peninsula, are also contained in this file, as well as illustrated banners presumably made by the children in these schools in honour of Nancy-Lou Patterson's visits. Also incudes b&w photocopy of photographs of children (unidentified).

Contains correspondence, ephemera, handwritten notes, and photocopies of information sheets re a lecture given by Nancy-Lou Patterson to the KW Society of Artists at the KW Art Gallery on Sept. 17, 1998. Also includes exhibition guide booklet produced for an exhibtion of Nancy-Lou Patterson's works in 1995 entitled "Nancy-Lou Patterson: The Canadian Years 1962-1995".

Contains 177 p. photocopied typescript with holograph corrections.

Contains some handwritten notes, in addition to 2 handwritten drafts (first and second versions) with varying pagination, 1 9 p. corrected typescript (original), 1 9 p. photocopied typescript, 2 7 p. tss. (computer output), 1 with a few holograph corrections. Also includes a flyer produced to advertise the talk Nancy-Lou Patterson gave at the Toronto CS Lewis Society on May 6, 1998 entitled "C.S. Lewis: His First Hundred Years".

Contains materials relating to a talk which Nancy-Lou Patterson was scheduled to give at the Toronto C.S. Lewis Society entitled "Encountering C.S. Lewis". This was to form part of a centenary celebration of the life of C.S. Lewis. This event was, however, cancelled. This file includes 1 [2] p. corrected original typescript of this talk, in addition to 1 [2] p. photocopied typescript, and 2 handwritten drafts with varying pagination.

Also includes correspondence received by Nancy-Lou Patterson from the Toronto C.S. Lewis Society which includes details of the names of speakers and of the dates they will give presentations about C.S.Lewis during 1998 and 1999. Included on this list of events is the centenary celebration of the life of C.S. Lewis which was later cancelled.

Correspondence regarding permission to reprint a letter to Nancy-Lou Patterson from Dr. Daniel Luzon Morriss, 4. p. typed (photocopy).

Correspondence to and from Nancy-Lou Patterson, ephemera.

Ms. notes, 6 col. snapshots, original pen and ink illustration. NB Photographs, original artwork.

Ms. notes.

Twenty-three loose book reviews by Nancy-Lou Patterson, handwritten (original).

Ca. 100 p. handwritten notes.

Handwritten notes, sketches, graphs, 4 snapshots, working papers.

Accrual consists of material documenting Nancy-Lou Patterson's career.

Contains photocopied handwritten notes, and order of service for All Saints Day (Nov. 1 1998) at the Calvary Memorial United Church, Kitchener, Ont. Among the list of upcoming events listed in this order of service is a slide show and talk which will be presented by Nancy-Lou Patterson on her quilts and banners in this church on Nov. 8, 1998.

Contains correspondence, handwritten notes, the September issue of the Wellington County Historical Society's newsletter, an information leaflet on this society and a photocopy of a map. All these materials relate to Nancy-Lou Patterson's address (Sept. 20, 1998) on the former McWilliams' residence on Drayton's main street, a heritage home, where several historical oil paintings were discovered in the mid-1980's. This event was sponsored by the Wellington County Historical Society in conjunction with the Women's Institute.

Materials relate to the banner designed by Nancy-Lou Patterson as a gift to the Randburg Baptist Church in South Africa. Contains correspondence, ephemera, handwritten notes, [2] p. photocopied handwritten sewing and design instructions, photocopied tss. including a biographical note about Nancy-Lou Patterson and information about the significance of the images depicted in the banner.

A copy of the Randburg Baptist Church's newsletter from March 1997, as well as a booklet relating to the Church's 1997 AGM, are also among the items included in this folder. Colour charts, sketches and graphs of the banner are also contained in this file as well as 21 col. snapshots.

Contains 177 p. original typescript.

Untitled folder containing drafts (both handwritten and typed) of a letter sent by Nancy Lou Patterson to Sandra Woolfrey of Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 1998. This letter accompanied the finished manuscript of The Tramp Room, which has been "extensively revised in light of the readers' reports".

Correspondence about a guest speaker engagement, handwritten notes.

Contains 176 p. photocopied typed with pages of notes and research photocopies inserted.

Ms. notes and drafts, 11 p. typed (original and photocopy) of a talk with title "An artist's life" preared for an exhibit to be given at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. This event was apparently cancelled.

Contains correspondence, ephemera, photocopied typed biographical note, and photocopied handwritten notes re a reading from Apple Staff and Silver Crown given by Nancy-Lou Patterson at Chapters in Waterloo, Ont. on July 11, 1998.

Also contains an issue of University of Waterloo Library's newsletter (v. 28, no. 1, April 1997) featuring an article reporting that Nancy-Lou Patterson's papers have been donated to the University of Waterloo Library.

Contains correspondence between Nancy-Lou Patterson and Anne Duke Judd, Publisher with the Brucedale Press regarding Barricade Summer. This correspondence relates to a request from the Saugeen Literacy Program that they be granted permission to post Barricade Summer a chapter at a time on their Web site without royalty or payment.

Contains 176 p. typescript with holograph corrections.

Contains 155 p. typescript (computer output) with holograph corrections.

Contains 177 p. photocopied typescript.

Contains two 65 p. photocopied corrected tss. of " 'Bloody Farce': Irony, Farce, and Mortality in Dorothy L. Sayers Have His Carcase". Also includes corrrespondence (photocopies and originals) both sent and received by Nancy-Lou Patterson. Individuals with whom correspondence is exchanged include Barbara Reynolds, Editor of SEVEN, and Pamela Shade, Editorial Assitant of SEVEN, Christopher Mitchell, Director of the Marion E. Wade Center, and Christopher Dean of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society.

Also includes a call for papers (flyer) for the ACA's 1997 Annual Meeting to be held in March 1997 in Texas.

Contains 2 handwritten drafts with varying pagination, and 8 p. corrected typed original of a presentation given by Nancy-Lou Patterson at an event entitled "C.S. Lewis: An Anglican for our Time", hosted by the Prayer Book Society of Canada (PBSC) Toronto Branch on Nov. 14, 1998. The title of this presentation by Nancy-Lou Patterson was "The Spirituality of C.S. Lewis".

Also includes two copies of the PBSC newsletter The Lamp (Michaelmas 1998) which contain an announcement of this event. Additionally contains a notice as to a typographical error in this issue of The Lamp, as well as an informational leaflet about the PBSC Toronto Branch, a hand-drawn map, and correspondence received by Nancy-Lou Patterson from Diana Verseghy of the PBSC Toronto Branch.

Includes correspondence and typescripts re Charles Williams. ***Includes photographs.

155 p. of computer output.

Correspondence to and from the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 43 p. typed (computer output) of "'Bloody Farce': irony, farce and mortality in Dorothy L. Sayers' Have his carcase.".

71 p. typed (computer output).

Contains a letter (dated Jan. 29, 1998) received by Nancy-Lou Patterson from Wayne Hammond re a drawing sent to him by Nancy-Lou Patterson to be used in the souvenir book produced for the centenary celebration of Lewis' life hosted by the Mythopoeic Society in Wheaton, Illinois in July 1998. Also includes photocopy of this illustration.

Contains correspondence, ephemera, handwritten notes, sketches, graphs, a colour chart, and 28 col. snapshots depicting the needlepoint kneelers designed by Nancy-Lou Patterson for the Church of the Messiah in Toronto, Ont. Also includes 29 col. snapshots of flowers and other vegetation which presumably played an important role in determining the colours and designs for these kneelers.

Contains 90 p. original typescript with holograph corrections. Also includes 1 photocopied illustration, and [4] p. handwritten notes outlining corrections to the manuscript. Additionally contains a letter (photocopy) dated Jan. 31, 1997 sent by Nancy-Lou Patterson to Jim Brothers who had agreed to consider "The 'Jasper-Lucent Landscapes' in the Writings of C.S. Lewis" for publication. Also includes invoice and business card from Bruce Barber Written Word Services.

Contains ca. [33] p. handwritten notes re a presentation given by Nancy-Lou Patterson which was hosted by the Prayer Book Society of Canada (PBSC)

Contains [1] p. original typescript of a comment written by Nancy-Lou Patterson re the Mythopoeic Press's publication of Chad Walsh Reviews C.S. Lewis. This comment was written at the request of Joan Marie Verba of the Mythopoeic Press for placement on the book and in promotional materials. Also includes correspondence re Chad Walsh Reviews C.S. Lewis, and a 33 p. typescript (computer output) of this work.

Contains 1 75 p. photocopied typescript with holograph corrections, 1 64 p. typescript (computer output) with holograph corrections, 1 copy of article for Mythlore, no. 84 (winter 1998): 1-18, with a few holograph corrections. File also includes 1 invitation for submissions to Mythlore, and 1 invoice issued by Bruce Barber for Nancy-Lou Patterson in respect of the costs of the preparation of a handwritten copy of " 'Miraculous Wine...Miraculous Bread': Eucharistic Motifs in the Fantasies of C.S. Lewis".

Correspondence, 1 piece.

Clipping, handwritten notes

Correspondence, ephemera, handwritten notes, working papers for research on quilt design, plot elements. *Includes negatives.

Clippings, correspondence re publication of this work, ephemera, readers' reports. *Includes photographs.

Package of personal and career information requested by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for marketing The Tramp Room.

Correspondence, handwritten notes and drafts, 15 p. typed (computer output).

Contains photocopied illustration for Lamppost cover, 6 p. original typescript, 17 p. original manuscript, handwritten draft pages.

Contains [1] p. unidentified sketches and handwritten notes which may relate to a design commission received by Nancy-Lou Patterson.

Contains 162 p. photocopied typescript.

Untitled folder containing [12] p. loose typed (original) corrected pages and [1] p. handwritten notes.

This accrual continues to add to the holdings of Nancy-Lou Patterson's most recent activities, writing and design work. Of particular interest, however, is the presence of a significant amount of "juvenile" and young adult work, both written and artistic. Compositions and notebooks from public and high school, short stories, poems, scrapbooks, projects created for art courses, all demonstrate her very early interest in art and writing.
The development of an artistic style is documented in her experiments in female "superhero" comics, her cartoon rendition of Tennyson, serious drawings to accompany poems, and illustrations for text.

Autobiographical, 14 handwritten pages.

Ephemera, handwritten notes.

Ephemera, handwritten notes re reading from The Tramp Room..

Correspondence to and from Nancy-Lou Patterson re use of her illustrations on T-shirts.

This series contains correspondence and working materials relating to illustrations commissioned for publication, from cartoons to illustrations accompanying articles and books by others. Discrete printed or published items containing such illustrations are found in Series 9.5 Published illustrations.

Correspondence to and from Nancy-Lou Patterson, tss. (e-mail, photocopies) of three masques by Charles Williams, to be published by the Mythopoeic Press.

Clippings, correspondence, ephemera, handwritten notes

One sample copy of the certificate given to the recipient of this award, given by the Fine Arts Dept., University of Waterloo.

Draft leaflet entitled "A big shade tree", with drawings and couplets by Nancy-Lou Patterson, also 1 p. handwritten of couplets.

Photocopied newspaper article.

An "idea" file, handwritten notes regarding plot.

Ca. 350 p. typed, photocopy.

An "idea" file, handwritten notes regarding plot.

An "idea" file, handwritten notes regarding plot.

Ephemera, ca. 45 p. handwritten notes.

177 p. typed (photocopy).

1 computer diskette, 1 copy of _"Bloody Farce": Irony, Farce and Mortality in Dorothy L. Sayers' Have His Carcase / by Nancy-Lou Patterson, copy 5 of 150.

6 p. typed (original), 22 p. handwritten notes and drafts, correspondence, relating to an article about quilting with a liturgical theme. Includes a copy of Canadian Quilter. *Includes photographs.

6 p. typed (photocopies), clippings, order of service, correspondence, handwritten notes and working papers for this speech given at Old St. Paul's Anglican Church, Woodstock, Ont., June 13, 1999. *Includes photograph.

Correspondence, typed copy (photocopy) of an introduction to an annual poetry anthology published by the Librarian's Association.

Correspondence, ca. seventy handwritten and typed reviews (original and photocopies).

Handwritten notes: "idea" file.

Ephemera, handwritten outline for a lecture given at Joseph Schneider Haus in Kitchener, Ont.

2 p. typed (photocopy).

File consists of 934 slides used by Nancy Lou Patterson to teach about Mennonite and Amish life and art. Slides are organized as they were originally donated, with original headings. Slides show Mennonite arts including show towels, fraktur drawing, and quilting as well as events and places such as barn raisings, schools, gardens and farms.

Contains 16 snapshots, sketches, charts, handwritten notes.

Contains 42 snapshots of works executed in several media.

Contains handwritten draft, notes.