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Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone
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Isabel Ecclestone Mackay fonds.

  • SCA3-WA2
  • Fonds
  • 1891-1979

Fonds consists of materials relating to the personal and professional life of Isabel Ecclestone Mackay. Includes primarily prose and poetry by Mackay, as well as photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks and ephemera.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Personal and Biographical

Series consists of materials relating to the personal life of Isabel Ecclestone Mackay. Includes clippings, obituaries, correspondence and ephemera.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Clippings.

File consists of various clippings from newspapers and magazines on the life and works of Isabel Mackay.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Correspondence.

File consists of nine items of correspondence and four greeting cards to and from Isabel Mackay. Correspondents include:

  • Brady, W.J. - McClelland and Stewart Ltd. (July 5, 1921);
  • Brock, Mrs. (n.d.);
  • Bliss, Carmen (November 17, 1926);
  • Johnson, Pauline [December 11, 1912];
  • MacTavish, Newton;
  • Moore, Leonard - Christy & Moore Ltd. (June 25, 1928);
  • Roberts, Charles (December 31, 1926);
  • Robinson, Edgar - Vancouver Public Library (November 26, 1926); and
  • Willison, Marjory (December 8, 1929).

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Scrapbooks

Series consists of five scrapbooks created by Isabel Mackay. The scrapbooks include clippings of Mackay's works, reviews, obituaries, and photographs of contemporaries.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Scrapbook.

File consists of one scrapbook with reviews and articles on Mackay's book "Blencarrow." The reviews are pasted into a blank book that has the Blencarrow cover pasted on the front.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Scrapbook.

File consists of one bound scrapbook compiled by Isabel Mackay. The scrapbook contains published versions of short stories written by Mackay which have been pasted into one volume, labelled in gilt on the front cover "Short Stories by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay."

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Scrapbook.

File consists of one scrapbook compiled partially by Mackay and partially by an unknown person. Includes loosely inset obituaries and reviews of Mackay's works as well as a number of photographs of contemporary Canadian authors.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Scrapbook.

File consists of one bound scrapbook compiled by Isabel Mackay. The scrapbook includes clippings of Mackay's published works, reviews, and biographical sketches. Pages 278-286 consist of a partial index to the scrapbook.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Scrapbook.

File consists of one scrapbook compiled by an unknown person consisting of obituaries of Isabel Mackay. Also includes one photograph taken by Mackay on August 15, 1928 of Boundary Bay.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Poetry and Prose

Series consists of poetry and prose written by Isabel Mackay. Includes mss., tss. and published works.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

The mountain dog.

File consists of one typescript, one manuscript and one clipping of the poem which was published in a newspaper.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Window Gazer (1 of 3).

File consists of one 328 p. manucript draft of Window Gazer by Isabel Mackay. The work was later published by Doran (U.S.A.) and McClelland and Stewart (Canada).

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Photographs

Series consists of photographs of Isabel Mackay, as well as her friends and contemporaries.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

de la Roche, Mazo.

File consists of one signed studio portrait of Canadian author Mazo de la Roche. Verso reads "To Mrs. Mackay from M.O. Hammond March 1928."

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone.

File consists of one snapshot of the gravestone of Isabel Mackay. Verso reads "Photograph of the grave and memorial stone, at Clear View Cemetery, Burnaby, B.C. 1928. The grave of Isabel Ecclestone Mackay with her signature cut into the stone."

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone.

File consists of one photograph of Isabel Mackay seated at her writing desk in the "attic room." Verso reads "The attic room, with Rhyme, and studies of favourite authors on the wall. Here, and in similar settings, a great of her writing was done. Isabel Ecclestone Mackay at the desk."

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone.

File consists of one snapshot of Isabel Mackay with two of her daughters, Phyllis and Margaret. The three are standing outside in a wood in Stanley Park. Verso reads "Taken in Stanley Park about 1912 with Margaret on left, Phyllis on right."

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone.

File consists of one upper body studio portrait of Isabel Mackay. Mackay is seated and holding a fan. Also includes a cropped close up of the same portrait.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone.

File consists of one full length studio portrait of Isabel Mackay with an unknown woman. The two are seater side by side wearing elaborate gowns.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Mackay, Isabel.

File consists of one head and shoulders studio portrait of Isabel Mackay in her wedding dress. The upper part of her dress can be seen, and she is holding a bouquet of ferns and carnations and wearing a snake upper arm cuff.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone

File consists of one three quarter length studio portrait of Isabel Eccleston Mackay. Isabel is seated wearing a lace dress and holding a magazine.

Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone