Personal business, 1936-1937 : D.
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Personal business, 1936-1937 : D.
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Personal business, 1936-1937 : C.
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Personal business, 1936-1937 : B.
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Personal business, 1936-1937 : A.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : W.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : T.
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Lockie, James, Secretary, Mercantile Fire Insurance Co. to Peter Harvey Sims.
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From Waterloo: letter from James Lockie to P.H. Sims reporting internal issues and factions, personnel problems and cliques working for their own ends.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : S.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : .R.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : O.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : M.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : L.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : K.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : I-J.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : H.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : G.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : F.
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Sims, Rella May : correspondence to her father, Peter Harvey Sims.
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From Floradale (includes envelope).
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : D-E.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : C.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : B.
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Personal business, 1933-1934 : A.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : W.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : T.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : S.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : R.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : P.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : N.
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Sims, Harvey J. to Peter Harvey and Jemima Sims.
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Two letters from Harvey J. Sims to his parents Peter H. and Jemima Sims.
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Sims, Peter Harvey to his wife Jemima Sims.
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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.
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Sims, Peter Harvey to Harvey J. Sims.
Part of Sims Family collection.
Waterloo (includes envelope addressed to Forest, Ontario).
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Part of Sims Family collection.
Hamilton Ohio: postcard with colour illustration of the American flag.
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Sims, Janet to her son Peter Harvey Sims.
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"I had dinner ready waiting for you on that day but as you failed to come I had it all to myself."
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Harvey James Sims and Florence Katherine Roos Family
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Records documenting the family life of Harvey J. Sims and his wife Florence Katherine Roos, who married October 29, 1902. Correspondence to Florence is sparse but includes three letters from her old friend Isabel Grace Christina "Bella" King, sister of William Lyon Mackenzie King. Florence had a literary bent and some of her writing is present in the collection, including her biography of Sheriff George Davidson.
A quantity of letters from Peter H. Sims to his son Harvey are present from 1888 (when Harvey was 17) to 1912. Peter gives opinions, advice, and instruction on every aspect of Harvey's life. He attempts to guide Harvey through the narrow path to success in the legal profession, counselling frugality, moral rectitude, and duty to family above all. He even gives Harvey step-by-step instructions on cleaning and painting his basement to make it healthy.
Correspondence from Harvey's mother Jemima is not as sympathetic. In 1898, on hearing a report that Harvey had been struck by a ball, she advises him strongly to give up football as "beneath the dignity of a practising barrister." Harvey never took this advice as he had a strong interest in many sports and made his mark in all of them: football, curling, and lawn bowling.
Also present in this series is correspondence from his sister Rella and her family, legal agreements, ephemera, football ephemera, lawn bowling scrapbook and trip ephemera.
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Bowman, Joseph B. to Jemima Cook.
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From: "Canada Hygienic Home" Blair.
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Hilliard, Thomas to Jemima Cook.
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From: Waterloo. Circular letter concerning Methodist Church dues payable for Quarter ending Sunday April 25.
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Sims, James Campbell to his brother Peter Harvey Sims.
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Harvey has arrived to visit.
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Sims, Peter Harvey to Harvey J. Sims.
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Stern criticism of Harvey's financial situation, debt incurred by spending money on his new home: "You are just in the condition I expected you would be. You started out with too big ideas and now you find you have gone steeper in than you should and loaded yourself with a heavy debt … but you always were an extravagant boy." He continues with advice on getting and staying out of debt and living within his means (includes envelope).
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Sims, Jemima to Harvey J. Sims.
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Family news (includes envelope).
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Sims, Peter Harvey and Jemima Sims to Harvey J. Sims.
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London, England (includes envelope).
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Stewart, Rella May to Harvey J. Sims.
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Hartford, Conn.: congratulations concerning bencher election results.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : M.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : K.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : I-J.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : H.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : G.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : F.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : D-E.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : C.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : B.
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Personal business, 1931-1932 : A.
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Sims, James Campbell to his brother Peter Harvey Sims.
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Three letters from James Campbell Sims in Montreal to Peter H. Sims.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : Y.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : U-V-W.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : T.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : S.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : R.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : P-Q.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : O.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : N.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : M.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : L.
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Sims, Janet to her son Peter Harvey Sims.
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Four letters from Janet Sims in Salem to Peter H. Sims.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : K.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : I-J.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : H.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : G.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : F.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : E.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : D.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : C.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : B.
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Personal business, 1930-1931 : A.
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Sims, James and Janet to their son Peter Harvey Sims.
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Letter from James and Janet Sims, Hawkesville, thanking Peter H. Sims for the $30.00 he sent so they could pay for the cow.
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Personal business, 1929-1930 : F, H, K.
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Personal business, 1929-1930 : A.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : X-Y-Z.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : U-V-W.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : T.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : S.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : R.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : P-Q.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : O.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : N.
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McQueen, John to his brother-in-law Peter Harvey Sims.
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Letter from John McQueen, Walkerton, to Peter H. Sims: note enclosed in favour of John Robertson, "I have never been well Since I took the medison which caused the fits," also received a letter from Peter's mother asking for money.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : M.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : L.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : K.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : J.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : I.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : H.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : G.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : E-F.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : D.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : C.
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McQueen, Janet to Peter Harvey Sims.
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Two letters from Janet McQueen to her brother Peter H. Sims.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : B.
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Personal business, 1927-1928 : A.
Part of Sims Family collection.
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Correspondence with Adam Strohm and Charles R. Sanderson.
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Correspondence from and to Harvey J. Sims, Adam Strohm, Librarian at the Detroit Public Library, and Charles R, Sanderson, Chief Librarian of the Toronto Public Library, between 1927 and 1941, the latter two often enclosing each other's letters. Adam Strohm sometimes encloses letters from Fred Burden, a mutual friend of his and Harvey's. Harvey had initially approached Adam Strohm for advice about books for his library; this correspondence included Sanderson after 1927. As well as corresponding about books these three men developed a friendship demonstrated in their letters, writing about their visits, their travels, and their lives.
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