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archival descriptions
Norman Douglas collection
UVICSP SC194 · Collection · 1928

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to an unknown correspondent, telling him that the three copies he requested “are being despatched to you this afternoon.”

Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952
UVICSP SC195 · Collection · ca. 1928

The collection consists of Downton's handwritten (photocopied) reminiscences of the Great War, 1914-1918. Also included is "A short account of a pilgrimage made by my wife and myself" in 1928. There are two copies of each. The second copy has a handwritten note to Downton from Reg (Roy) in 1968. The first copy has the stamp of G. Smedley Andrews.

Downton, Geoffrey Murray, 1880-1972
Ashley Dukes collection
UVICSP SC196 · Collection · 1926

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to an unknown correspondent, in which he declines “to address the Shirley Society” due to rehearsals and his forthcoming trip to Greece.

Dukes, Ashley, 1885-1959
Maria Edgeworth collection
UVICSP SC197 · Collection · 1827

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to Mr. R. Hunter (publisher) concerning the proofs for a proposed edition of Edgeworth's “Little plays, warrented harmless.”

Edgeworth, Maria, 1767-1849
UVICSP SC198 · Collection · 1828 - 1859

The collection consists of a scrapbook containing autographs of English notables including Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli, and George Cruikshank.

R. G. Everson collection
UVICSP SC199 · Collection · 1969

The collection consists of a typewritten letter to Alan Brilliant (Unicorn Press), together with its envelope. In the letter, he mentions Dudek, Gnarowski, Siebrasse, and Gabrielle Roy. Also included is a copy of a mailer for Everson's book “The dark is not so dark”, with Everson's handwritten instructions inside.

Everson, R. G., 1903-1992
Molly Hamilton collection
UVICSP SC200 · Collection · ca. 1940

The collection consists of a handwritten letter from Josephine Letitia Fairfield, thanking her for the loan of a book by Gertrude Stein and making a few comments about it

Hamilton, Mary Agnes, 1884-1966
UVICSP SC201 · Collection · 1967

The collection consists of a typed, signed letter to Alan Marlowe, on behalf of City Light Books. In the letter, Ferlinghetti refers to his trip to New Mexico and the “hippie” situation there. He also requests him to send copies of his books “Huncke's Journal” and “Love Poems From The Middle Latin”, as they are running out of copies. He refers to Timothy Leary's “1000 Prayers” and requests him to send as many as possible.

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
UVICSP SC202 · Collection · 1911

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to Viscount Dillon regarding the recent publication of this book and matters concerned in it.

Ffoulkes, Charles John, 1868-1947
Timothy Findley collection
UVICSP SC203 · Collection · 1959

The collection consists of a handwritten postcard to Moira (Troup), a former employee of the McPherson Library, University of Victoria. It is signed “Tiff”. In addition, there are two theatre programmes, which feature both Troup and Findley in the respective casts: Crest Theatre Foundation (Toronto) production of The Entertainer by John Osborne, and The Straw Hat Players (Port Carling) in Escapade By Roger MacDougal (Findley also directed), plus a hc from “Tiff”.

Findley, Timothy
George Fitch collection
UVICSP SC204 · Collection · 1937 - 1938

The collection consists of two copies of a typescript “Fall of Nanking”.

Fitch, George A.
UVICSP SC206 · Collection · [18--]

The collection consists of an undated, handwritten letter to Mr. Thornton.

Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894
Christopher Fry collection
UVICSP SC207 · Collection · 1950

The collection consists of two typed rough drafts of 2 pages of the play “A Sleep of Prisoners”, page eleven plus one rough draft of page seventeen, all with Fry's handwritten corrections. Also included is a handwritten cover note, signed.

Fry, Christopher, 1907-2005
Northrop Frye collection
UVICSP SC208 · Collection · 1971

The collection consists of a copy of the press release from Anansi, a photocopy of a corrected typescript of the preface (13 l.), and galley proofs (155 l.) of The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination by Northrop Frye.

Frye, Northrop
Joseph Gastard collection
UVICSP SC210 · Collection · ca. 1933

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to G. Lappe(?), a handwritten note, and a prospectus for “Chateaubriand: La Jeunesse de Rene en Bretagne”. All are in French.

Gastard, Joseph, b. 1889
Edward German collection
UVICSP SC211 · Collection · 1907

The collection consists of a handwritten note to an unknown correspondent, in which he outlines the Shakespearian music that he has composed. Additions, in a different colour ink, (probably in a different hand) have been made at the beginning.

German, Edward, Sir, 1862-1936
Eric Gill collection
UVICSP SC212 · Collection · 1934 - 1938

The collection consists of a woodblock and a signed pencil drawing of a "Mother and Child" (used as a Christmas card for the Peace Pledge Union); a collotype reproduction of a signed pencil drawing of David Pepler; a typed, signed letter to ? Henderson re: the Catholic Church and the Trade Union Movement, with a pencil draft on verso (illegible?); and eight signed engravings to illustrate Patrick Miller's "The Green Ship" (Golden Cockerel Press).

Gill, Eric, 1882-1940
Allen Ginsberg collection
UVICSP SC213 · Collection · 1966

The collection consists of a handwritten postcard to Ted Berrigan.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
John Godfrey collection
UVICSP SC214 · Collection · [192-]

The collection consists of a handwritten poem, "The Prodigal Son".

Godfrey, John B.
William Golding collection
UVICSP SC215 · Collection · 1970 - 1971

The collection consists of a typed, signed letter to Colin Huggett (concerning Golding's “Free Fall”) together with its envelope. Also included is a handwritten letter to Colin Huggett (about Golding's three novellas, “Envoy Extraordinary”, “The Scorpion God”, and “Clank Clank”) together with its envelope.

Golding, William, 1911-1993
Paul Goodman collection
UVICSP SC217 · Collection · 1972

The collection consists of a corrected manuscript draft and a corrected typescript first draft of the prose essay from “Little Prayers and Finite Experience”. Also included is a dealer's cover sheet.

Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972
UVICSP SC222 · Collection · 1887

The collection consists of a holograph letter to Sir Theodore Martin on literary and personal matters.

Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889
Henry Labouchere collection
UVICSP SC224 · Collection · 1856 - 1857

The collection consists of 4 hls. Ker Baillie Hamilton (1856-57) from Antigua to Henry Labouchere, M.P. Secretary of State for the Colonies. Further letters are written by Governor C. J. Bayley pleading the case of Mr. F. Whitley concerning colonial securities for public officers, plus earlier letters from Whitley to Robert Lowe, M.P. and from Adderley and Francis to Whitley.

Taunton, Henry Labouchere, Baron, 1798-1869
James Hanley collection
UVICSP SC225 · Collection · 1934

The collection consists of a 3 page hls James Hanley to Penllwyn Lynant responding to Lynant about Hanley's book Ebb and Flood.

Hanley, James, 1901-1985
Eliza Hawkins collection
UVICSP SC227 · Collection · 1978

The collection consists of a photocopy of a typescript with holo. corrections of Maizy's Scarf, a short novel by Eliza Hawkins.

Hawkins, Eliza, 1936-