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Series consists of works authored by Dana Porter that are not on the topic of Shakespeare. Includes essays and a play.

File consists of miscellaneous writings by Kay Rex. Includes primarily short stories.

File consists of what appears to be the beginnings of a story written by Kay Rex. Includes handwritten drafts of chapters.

Articles authored by Donna Jean MacKinnon (some signed as Isabella Street). Most articles were published on Fifty-Five Plus 25 (2013), Canadian Living (1988), House and Home (1985), Select Homes (1988), Great Expectations (1985), Free Saturday Star (2014), and City and Country Home (1983-1985).
Includes a negative of a photograph used in one of the articles.

File consists of miscellaneous writings by Kay Rex. Includes poems, short stories, newspaper articles and television plays.

File consists of various writings by Kay Rex. Includes Growing Up On Garden River, Velvet Grove_ and an untitled work. Also includes two items of correspondence from the Women's Press relating to publication of Growing Up On Garden River.

Essays, books, and articles written by Michael Bird and others. Topics include folk art, fraktur, religious imagery and film.

File consists of miscellaneous manuscripts and typescripts of writing, including school reports, articles and short stories.

File consists of various writings by Kay Rex. Includes poems, short stories, drafts and character sketches.

File consists of writings of William Pope Clement. Includes poems, plays, recounts of events, and a series of poems written for grand-daughter Janet Stewart on each birthday.

Newspaper clippings of published articles authored by Donna Jean MacKinnon. Most articles were published in the Toronto Star and its different sections (1981, 1991-1992, 1998, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2011), the Washington Post, Great Expectations (1984), City and Country Home (1984), and Toronto Life (1986-1987).
Includes a printed draft of Newsgirls : gutsy pioneers in Canada’s Newsrooms from December 2000 and February 2001 with notes by Deanna Dunn (copy editor at the Toronto Star).

Materials about Donna Jean MacKinnon’s professional career, including photocopies and original newspaper clippings of articles she authored and ghostwrote for the Toronto Star, and invitations to art shows. Includes MacKinnon’s business cards and her curriculum vitae as of January 2020.

File consists of typed articles and writings written by Tony Urquhart, including works about his own work, art in general, and other artists.

Writings and paperwork related to Bettie Bernice Wilson during her time at the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Includes a drawing, a certificate of discharge for Wilson from the RCAF from September 1945, writing titled "The plight of 'C' flight" by AW2 Lockwood, J.B.E. in May 1942, the Christmas program for No. 16 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) Hagersville (Ontario) for 1944, and the menu for the 25th Anniversary Reunion of Women of the RCAF (1966).

File consists of manuscript and typescript stories and articles as well as research notes by Anne Innis Dagg that have been identified by her as having been written early in her career.

File consists of a letter by Catherine Taylor to herself, written in 1920 with instructions not to be opened until 1940, and a typescript speech entitled "Special meeting," written in 1938.

Series consists of James Downey's files relating to friend and former student, Florence Reid. Includes correspondence to and from Florence Reid, clippings, manuscripts, tss., photographs, etc.

Contains clipping, ephemera, typed notes and pages, also photocopied typescripts by J. Winfield Fretz and Michael Bird on aspects of Mennonite life and folk art.

Series is comprised of correspondence and writings created by Florence Reid and accumulated by James Downey. Includes tss. and published books of Reid's poetry work as well as correspondence.

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 132 p. handwritten draft.

Contains ca. [148] p. handwritten notes.

Notes and a response to writings by Harold Coward on the topic of religious tolerance and intolerance.

A small booklet of religious writings and Bible verses titled, Our pilgrimage.

File consists of a variety of miscellaneous poems, short stories and other writings by Virgil Burnett.

Series consists of ts. drafts of writings such as speeches, articles etc. by John D. Detwiler.

Materials created or accumulated by Robert Shipley. Includes personal notes, writings, and poems.

Reference materials, research, and writings by Luke Stewart on Vietnam draft dodgers and deserters who came to Canada.

Series consists of ts. drafts of writings such as speeches, articles etc. by John D. Detwiler.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett, undated. Includes original writings and poems, primarily passages from the play The Red Box. Also included are two loose leaves with original writings. The recto of the notebook is inscribed "Virgil Burnett. A play?".

Notes by Michael Bird on writings by A.S. Byatt, Lewis Hyde, Gregory Cook, and Chaim Potok.

Series consists of drafts, notes and manuscipts of of writings such as speeches, articles etc. by John D. Detwiler.

File consists of a group of various works by Virgil Burnett. Includes passages from short stories, plays and other original writings.

File consists of notebook with writings on psychic and spiritualism related topics by Frederick J.T. Maines. Includes passages and quotes from various others.

Material documenting the career of Nazla Dane primarily through clippings, diaries and copies of her published works as well as through scrapbooks of and writings about her.

File consists of 3 leaves of draft writings of the chapter "The Detective Story; A Case Study of Games in Literature" from Suits' unpublished work "Grasshopper Soup."

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett from 1971. Includes original writings, as well as quotations and passages from other works.

Includes research material collected or compiled by E Palmer Patterson to inform and support his writings about Indigenous Peoples of Canada.

Copies of writings by poets other than Rienzi Crusz. Includes tss. (originals and photocopies), clippings, photocopies from published works.

Notes, clippings, research and writings on Fraktur art in Ontario. Includes information on Anna Weber and Christian L. Hoover among others.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett from 1960. Includes original writings by Burnett and Daryl Hine as well as correspondence from Hine, book layouts, and pasted in newspaper clippings, drawings, and other ephemera. Some of the original writings and book layouts would go on to become Heroics and Bluebeard's Wife.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett from 1977. Includes original writings, as well as quotations and passages from other texts.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett, undated. Includes mostly original writings, with some quotations and passages from other texts.

Copies of writings by poets other than Rienzi Crusz. Includes typed documents. (originals and photocopies), clippings, photocopies from published works.

Material relating to the activities, career, research and writings of Anne Innis Dagg. Files contain extensive annotations and commentary by Anne Innis Dagg.

Series consists of manuscripts, short stories, poems, plays and other writings by Virgil Burnett. Some items are annotated and duplicates of some works are present.

Research and writings on research topics including video display terminals and their hazards to vision, protecting the eye from ultraviolet radiation during photochemotherapy, eye injury and prevention in industry.

Collection consists of a corrected carbon typescript of a review article. The article, written by Acorn Milton, discusses the writings of Al Purdy and Irving Layton, as well as the use of poetics in writing.

File consists of writings other than by Rienzi Crusz. Includes a poem (1 leaf, original) by Michael Estok and a typed essay (4 leaves, photocopy)by Noel Crusz.

A foreword written by Anne Dagg, for the book Harold Innis Reflects: Memoir and WWI Writings/Correspondence, edited by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer.

File consists of materials on Latin squares created and collected by Stanton. Includes correspondence, examples of squares, and writings on squares. Many of the squares make the basis for sudoku.

Press clippings, photocopies of possible illustrations, and gallery proofs related to E Palmer Patterson's writings, possibly for a proposed book titled, "Native Peoples of Canada."

Tables of contents and lists of speeches and papers written and presented by James Downey between the years 1980 and 1999. Contains lists with title and date of publication or address of writings.

Materials created or accumulated by Robert Shipley. Includes personal correspondence, notes, writings, and poems. Also contains ephemera related to events and organizations in which he participated.

Series is comprised of materials created and accumulated by Kay Rex relating to her professional life and writings. Includes clippings of published articles, short stories, poems, TV dramas, etc.

Contents: series consists of biographical and autobiographical information about Rienzi Crusz and his activities. Includes clippings, grant applications, information about readings, and critical writings about his work.

Materials created or accumulated by Joan Hollobon about Kay Rex. Includes correspondence to Hollobon and to Hollobon and Rex, photographs of Rex, writings by Rex, and correspondence about the Women’s Press Club of Toronto’s Kay Rex Scholarship.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett from 1968-1969. Includes quotations, passages from other texts, original writings and drawings, and dream diary entries.

Contains one copy of the play "Two Old Bachelors: Being a day in the Life of Edward Lear, a Dirty Landscape Painter, and Foss, his Cat, Arranged from Lear's own Writings by Virgil Burnett and Arthur Morey".

Research and writings on two topics for Ontario Hydro: Radiation induced ocular damage resulting from in-line switch operations, and evaluation of ocular hazards due to electric arc flash at in-line switch.

File consists of One photocopied typescript of Two Old Bachelors, Being a Day in the Life of Edward Lear, a Dirty Landscape Painter, and Foss, His Cat, Arranged From Lear's Own Writings by Virgil Burnett and Arthur Morey.

File consists of materials created by Kay Rex on a trip to Mexico in 1958 as a freelance reporter for the Globe and Mail. Includes notes, writings, published articles and correspondence. Correspondents include: Rex, Kenneth and Rex, Alfred Lionel (her brother and father).

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of E Palmer Patterson's writings about Indigenous peoples in Canada. Also contains supporting documents, and some related correspondence concerning the publication of E Palmer Patterson's works by Grolier for use in the Canadian education system.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett from 1971-973. Includes dream diary entries, original writings and drawings, quotations and passages from other texts, and a list of drawings sold.

Series consists of twelve commonplace books belonging to Virgil Burnett. The books include quotations and passages from other texts, original writings by Burnett and others, diary and dream diary entries, as well as pasted in ephemera and correspondence.

Writings on various topics by Luke Stewart over summer 2011. Topics include torture, the failure of economic determinism, war crimes, the Nuremberg principles, policing, war resisters, G8 and G20 in Canada, super-patriorism, and Lybia.

Records related to E Palmer Patterson’s research and writings, both published and unpublished, primarily about Indigenous peoples in Canada. Includes manuscripts, typescripts, offprints, notes, press clippings, correspondence, publishing contracts and other material.

Materials created or accumulated by John English during research activities. Includes articles and drafts of articles he authored, applications to related programs, notes on research topics, writings by other authors that were reviewed by English, and other research projects in which he participated.

Materials created and accumulated by Virgil Burnett that relate to his professional and personal life. Includes correspondence to and from Burnett, artworks and writings by Burnett and others, materials relating to the creation and publication of books written and illustrated by Burnett as well as those published by Pasdeloup Press, and other ephemera.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett from 1959-1960. Includes original writings and drawings, quotes and passages from other texts, diary entires, and listings of works sold as well as pasted in notices of gallery shows.

Materials created and accumulated by Dana Porter during his personal and professional career, as well as materials collected posthumously and created and accumulated by his wife and children. Includes photographs, correspondence, research notes, essays and other writings, ephemera, scrapbooks and clippings.

Accrual consists of material relating to the artistic and literary career of Virgil Burnett. Includes sketchbooks with illustrations and life drawings; commonplace books with original works as well as copied quotations, passages and ephemera; manuscripts; poetry and plays; as well as writings by others given to Burnett.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett from 1960-1962. Includes notes, quotations, original writings, sales of books and prints and a list of memorable meals as well as pasted in notices for gallery shows, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and other ephemera.

Series consists of materials relating to the life, interests, and death of William Pope Clement and wife Muriel Clement née Kerr. Includes biographical information, clippings, correspondence, juvenilia, information on interests, scores composed by William Pope, writings by William Pope, and other ephemera.

One diary belonging to Etta Lydia Mary White (nee Schantz). The diary was given to Etta in 1882 for her sixteenth birthday and in it she has written poems, songs and diary entries. Also includes clippings, drawings, fabric swatches and writings that were inserted into the diary.

Materials related to James Walker's publications and writings. Includes correspondence received by James Walker about his participation in the Canadian Historical Review LXX with the paper “Race & Recruitment in World War I: enlistment of visible minorities in the Canadian expeditionary force,” an abstract of the paper, and other unidentified articles.
Also contains handwritten notes.

File consists of material related to the creation and publication of "The Monday Painter" a catalogue of works by Michel Devrient along with writings by Devrient, translated by Robin Magowan and with notes by Virgil Burnett. Includes a dummy of the book, draft copies, notes, as well as correspondence to Burnett from Magowan and Devrient regarding the publication.

Materials related to James Walker's writer and public speaker life. Includes printouts, drafts, summaries, and abstracts of presentations and guest lectures delivered by Walker in different events; various ephemera and correspondence related to those events; and writings and publications published by Walker as stand-alone texts or as part of encyclopedic works.

File consists of one scrapbook compiled by Alice Riggs Hunt containing her published writings, beginning with her "Voters' Column" from the New York Evening Post, 1918; clippings from newspapers and periodicals reporting on the 1919 Paris Peace Conference (including some duplicates of material listed separately); announcements for lectures, etc.

File consists of draft chapters of Suits' unpublished work "Return of the Grasshopper; Further Reflections on Games, Life and Utopia" as well as notes and brief passages from chapters. Draft chapters include:

• Reflections typescript (original, nine leaves);
• Racing File Objection Refuted typescript (original, seven leaves);
• Rebuttals from Bill manuscript (seven leaves);
• unidentified writings typescript and manuscript (originals and computer output, 31 leaves);
• unidentified notes manuscript (12 leaves);
• Paradox manuscript (3 leaves);
• unidentified writings typescript (original) and manuscript (23 leaves);
• Life as Game manuscript (2 leaves);
• Pretending and Gaming as the Two Varieties of Playing manuscript (4 leaves).

Correspondence sent by Robert Shipley to Bill Ratcliffe between 1993 and 2002, and in 2008. Includes personal correspondence, invitations to events and ephemera, Shipley's resume, related newspaper clippings and photocopies of newspaper clippings, a printout of book proposal The late late loyalists. Canada in the eyes of American immigrants, and printouts of Shipley's writings "Going home" and "Ants."

File consists of drafts of poems assembled in preparation for the manuscript of "Lord of the mountain : the Sardiel poems." Includes ts. drafts (photocopies and computer output), some with corrections, and ts. and ms. contents pages. Includes multiple copies of many poems. Author note attached to folder: "This is a very early ms. of 'Lord of the mountain : the Sardiel poems.' The poems are not in sequence and is the earliest attempt to collect my writings on Sardiel."

Correspondence sent and received by Robert Shipley between 1984 and 1986. Includes business correspondence related to different jobs he had, correspondence received from politicians, related to his career as a writer, invoices and payments for his articles, letters thanking him for donations, and a display agreement for his watercolours. Also contains personal correspondence and writings sent to different media for publication.

The collection consists of 350 titles from the personal library of the philosopher and man of letters, George Santayana (1863-1952). The subject focus of this portion of Santayana's library, purchased by the University of Waterloo Library during the 1960's, could be characterized as interdisciplinary, with works in philosophy, literature, religion, and history. Many of the books were presented to Santayana by their authors. The collection is supplemented by reference and critical materials related to the life and work of Santayana as well as editions of Santayana's own writings. First or early editions of most of Santayana's works are included.

One of the most interesting and significant features of the Library of George Santayana is that many of the books from his personal library contain annotations in his own handwriting. These notes reveal his opinions and thoughts about the writings of others. The collection includes Santayana's own copies of his three-volume autobiography, with his corrections and notes to his publisher.

One diary of Etta White (nee Schantz). The diary is primarily lyrics to songs and poems, which have been indexed by Etta in the back. Also written are a list of New Years guests 1884, favourite quotations, the Morse code alphabet, a magic age table, and diary entries for her birthdays. Included in the file are newspaper clippings, writings, fabric swatches, and pressed flowers that were found in the diary.

File consists of one commonplace book belonging to Virgil Burnett from 1962-1969. Includes loose leaf paper with poems, story drafts, quotations, and notes. Items have been subdivided by the author into the categories "miscellaneous", "voyage en Pologne", "the academy" and "chateron". Also includes spiral bound notebook with excerpts from Nathaniel Hawthorne's French and Italian Notebooks, quotations, notes, and original writings.

Materials created or accumulated by Bettie Bernice Wilson and related to her years in the Royal Canadian Air Force Women's Division (1942-1945). Includes photographs of instruction and training sessions, of facilities, of graduating classes, and of Wilson and her colleagues; official documentation and ephemera related to Wilson's service and different events she attended; writings by Wilson and her colleagues; related newspaper clippings, and correspondence sent and received by Wilson.

2 cream double sided cards (duplicate copies). One side has Rev. William John Knox Little writings on Woman's Place in Nature, 1880 which is submissive, obedient, illogical, and intended to be a wife and mother. One side has excerpt from Canadian Women and the Law which states the issue of women in marriage is their lack of rights and treatment as property, being transferred from father to husband.

Correspondence sent and received by Robert Shipley in 1983 from different persons and institutions. Includes administrative correspondence related to grants, job applications, submission of his work, letters of acceptance and rejection, invoices and payments, donation agreements, writings about his work as an educator, and letters received from politicians. Also contains personal correspondence, two coins received as a reimbursement from Canada Post, and newspaper clippings received with the correspondence from family and friends.

Personal and administrative correspondence sent and received by Robert Shipley to and from different persons and institutions. Includes correspondence related to the University of Waterloo, his work and different positions he held, submissions of his writings, applications for grants and jobs, letters of acceptance and rejection, invitations to events, letters thanking him for participating in events, invoices and payments, letters congratulating him for his work, correspondence related to the Canadian Armed Forces, correspondence received from politicians, and personal correspondence.

Typed draft of "The Anthology of Canadian Women Writers" edited by Rota Herzberg Lister. Includes one typescript which is primarily photocopies, with some originals draft of the work composed of notes written by Rota on the various authors and excerpts from the authors' writings.

The women included in the anthology wrote between 1760-1980 and include Margaret Atwood, L.M. Montgomery, Pauline Johnson, Susanna Moodie, Mary Quayle Innis, Luella Crieghton, and others.

It does not appear that the work was ever published.

Series consists primarily of material created and /or accumulated by Alice Riggs Hunt, documenting her life, interest and activities. Includes ephemera such as certificates, passports, travel documents and ration cards. Includes material relating to the International Congess of Women held in Zurich, 1919. Includes a trip diary as well as two notebooks, one recording suffrage campaigning in West Viginia and the other, notes about Europe after 1919. Includes a scrapbook of her published writings in newspapers and periodicals. Also includes articles by Thomas T.C. Gregory on Eastern Europe and Bela Kun, ca. 1919 a topic that A.R.H. also wrote about.

Fonds consists of textual and visual materials created and received by Dorney over the course of his career, including drafts and reprints of most of his published writings, teaching and course materials, audio-visual materials, framed items, ephemera and realia. Of interest is an original map by Dorney which attempts to reconstruct the original vegetation patterns in North Dumfries Township in Waterloo County in the 19th century. Dorney's collection of slides is particularly significant in its documentation of natural vegetation, urban impact and areas of ecological interest both locally and elsewhere and includes extensive documentation of the "mini-forest" at his home at 124 Amos Ave. in Waterloo.

Material documenting Luella Creighton's student days at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1924-1926. Her personal life is further documented through a series of diaries, 1963-1990. Most of the textual material in the fonds, however, relates to her career as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and consists of correspondence with her publishers and readers, reviews, manuscripts and typescripts of both published and unpublished works.

Writings by James Walker for his contributions to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Includes:

• “George, David: pioneer black Baptist preacher in South Carolina, Nova Scotia, News Brunswick and Sierra Leone, runaway slave, black Loyalist, missionary; b. c. 1743, Essex Co., Virginia; d. 1810, Freetown, Sierra Leone.”
• “Peters, Thomas.”
• “Marrant, John: freeborn black American, Revolutionary War veteran, minister of the gospel, Mason, founder of the Countess of Huntington’s Connexion among Nova Scotian black, author; b. New York, 15 June 1755; d. London, 15 April 1791.”

Also contains a printout of James Walker's review of David Brion Davis' "The problem of slavery in the age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (Cornell University Press, 1975)" published in the Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines Vol. 9, No. 2 (1975), pp. 383-386.

The Women and Work collection consists of 74 contemporary British and European imprints which focus upon women and the workplace.

Included are autobiographical accounts, which range from Dorothy C. Keeley's The Crowded Stairs: Recollections of Social Work in Liverpool 1919-1940 (London: National Council of Social Services, 1961) to Sex work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry (London: Virago Press, 1987). Other personal accounts include: The Life and Writing of a Working Woman (London: Virago Press, 1984) by Ada Nield Chew, which describes her work in the Women's Trade Union League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and Front Line Heroines: Stories of Ten Soviet Women (Soviet War News, 1945).

Commentaries on women in the workplace are represented by such titles as Women in Industry: a Marx House Syllabus (Southampton: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., [n. d.]); Helping Women at Work: the Women's Industrial Council, 1889-1914 (London: Hutchison, 1985); and Willing Hearts and Ready Hands: the Labours and Triumphs of Earnest Women (London: Nelson, 1883).

Ephemeral materials related to different events, locations, and products. Includes advertisements from 1944 for Jacob Ruppert Brewery at New York, Chesterfield tobacco, the Royale theatre, and Schenley Whiskey; napkins and table covers from the Hotel Roosevelt Grill, the Yacht Cafe at Montreal, and the Chic-n-coop at Montreal; tickets for events; and a newspaper clipping about the red letter day at No. 16, Service Flying Training School. Also includes personal notes and short writings in the form of jokes and wordplay.
Also contains programs and information pamphlets for:

• Ontario Services Football League (October 14 and October 21, 1944),
• Canadian Women's Army Corps. Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Qualifications (September 1, 1941),
• Dedication of the Chapel Cross and the Chapel and Narthex windows at St Bartholomew's Church in New York (November 19, 1944),
• Order of Service, St. Bartholomew's Church, New York (Easter 1943),
• New Year's Dinner. No. 16. Service Flying Training School (SFTS), Hagersville, Ontario (1944).

File consists of eight pieces of correspondence from the editors of the New York Evening Post, the New York Tribune and the New York Call, concerning Alice Riggs Hunt's writings.

• Date and Place from: Jan. 29, 1919 New York To To whom it may concern From Puckette, Charles McD.
• Date and Place from: Feb. 3, 1919 New York To To whom it may concern From Pierce, A.L.
• Date and Place from: Feb. 3, 1919 New York To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Pierce, A.L.
• Date and Place from: May 6, 1919 New York To Hunt, Mary R. From Puckette, Charles McD.
• Date and Place from: Nov. 3, 1919 New York To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Puckette, Charles McD.
• Date and Place from: Nov. 3, 1919 New York To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Pierce, A.L.
• Date and Place from: Nov. 11, 1919 New York To Hunt, Alice Riggs From Erwin, Charles W.
• Date and Place from: May 19, 1921 New York To To Whom it May Concern From Puckette, Charles McD.