Showing 652 results

archival descriptions
George Moore collection
UVICSP SC266 · Collection · ca. 1922-1925

The collection consists of a 2 page hls, Feb. 4, [192?], to "Miss Rosenbloom" re: his works and Rosenbloom's writing and a 1 page hls, Oct. 26, 1925, to Frederick MacCurdy Atkinson (with envelope).

Moore, George, 1852-1933
Katherine Tynan collection
UVICSP SC315 · Collection · 1909 - 1925

The collection consists of three handwritten letters to Arthur St. John Adcock concerning her reviews of various books. Also included is a letter to Mrs. Smith.

Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931
Herbert Palmer collection
UVICSP SC274 · Collection · ca. 1925

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to Hugh l'Anson Fausset about Palmer' s “Songs of Salvation, Sin, and Satire”.

Palmer, Herbert E. (Herbert Edward), b. 1880
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
Andrew Soutar collection
UVICSP SC303 · Collection · 1928

The collection consists of one handwritten and seven typed, signed letters to W. Harrison together with one typed, signed letter response. The letters are mostly concerned with the topic of spiritualism. Soutar refers to Henry Ford, Dawson Scott, Sir Oliver Lodge, Walter de la Mare, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Soutar, Andrew, 1879-1941
Collection · 1907 - 1928

The collection consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, memos and reports regarding Cape Lazo station. Operators mentioned include: C. Bradbury, W. Howard, J.D. Creer, S.R. Edmunds, R.G. Emmerson, ? Redford, James Daniel, A.I. Deacon. Extensive correspondence re: closing Cape Lazo Radiotelegraph service and moving it to Powell River (1922-1928).

Rhys Davies collection
UVICSP SC186 · Collection · 1928

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to Charles Lahr. In the letter, he mentions his story? "Waxworks" which he had sent him. He also mentions that he has received a letter from Jack Lindsay, who likes his story "A Bed Of Feathers", which Lindsay hopes to publish in his magazine.

Davies, Rhys, 1901-1978
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
Collection · 1912-1929

Collection consists of a Certificate of Baptism for Cecil Josephine Mobley dated January 1, 1912 and a Marriage Certificate for Ida Josephine Mobley and Arthur Meachem dated October 16, 1929 in the Holy Trinity Parish, Cumberland, B.C.

Arthur Symons collection
UVICSP SC310 · Collection · 1906 - 1929

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to Henry Davray (1873-1944) concerning the foreign publication of Symons ' books and a holograph short critical assessment of Robert Browning. Also included is a copy of "Poetry World" (1929; Vol.1, No. 1) which contains a critical article: "Arthur Symons: English Decadent" by Richard Johns.

Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945
Aldous Huxley collection
UVICSP SC233 · Collection · 1930

The collection consists of a one page typed letter signed to an unknown correspondent Sept. 8. 1930 regarding the letters of D. H. Lawrence which Huxley was then editing.

Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
E. J. Pratt collection
UVICSP SC286 · Collection · 1930

The collection consists of a menu "A Complimentary Dinner to Professor E.J. Pratt M.A., Ph.D., upon the occasion of the launching of 'The Roosevelt And The Antinoe'. It is autographed on the front cover by Hugh Eayrs, Charles G.D. Roberts, and Ned Pratt.

Pratt, E. J. (Edwin John), 1882-1964
Cecil Day Lewis collection
UVICSP SC189 · Collection · 1929-ca. 1930s

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to "David", in which he mentions Ellery Queen, (Eneas) Dallas, Drinkwater, and Cape's (Jonathan Cape Ltd), and two handwritten poems: "Epitaph for a Knife-Grinder" and "Photograph of a Bacchante" (published in Country Comets [1928]).

Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972
UVICSP SC299 · Collection · 1931

The collection consists of a typed, signed letter to J. R. Lowther, responding to Lowther's letter re natural history conditions in British Columbia.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946
Henry Moore collection
UVICSP SC125 · Collection · 1930 - 1931

The collection consists of Wilenski's correspondence with Henry Moore relating to Wilenski's lectures on modern art and the acquisition of photographs and drawings from Moore.

Moore, Henry, 1898-1986
UVICSP SC294 · Collection · 1932

The collection consists of a typed, signed letter to H. Calverley about the dramatisation of Sackville-West's novel “All Passion Spent”.

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962
Leonard Strong collection
UVICSP SC309 · Collection · 1932 - 1933

The collection consists of five typed, signed letters to Raymond Marriott (perhaps a book seller or collector).

Strong, L. A. G. (Leonard Alfred George), 1896-1958
Agnes Laut collection
UVICSP SC251 · Collection · 1929-1933

The collection consists of 3 letters (4 leaves) to Maude E. McVicker from Winnipeg, Manitoba and Wassiac, New York about Laut's books.

Laut, Agnes Christina, 1871-1936
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
Jack Squire collection
UVICSP SC306 · Collection · 1933

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to Francis Meynell (1891-1975).

Squire, John Collings, Sir, 1884-1958
Yukio Ozaki collection
UVICSP SC273 · Collection · 1920 - 1933

The collection consists of a 325 page carbon typescript autobiography (with 25 pages of endnotes) in translation. Personal and political reminiscences and observations covering childhood, period as a newspaper editor in Meiji (1879); Mayor of Tokyo, and political and parliamentary activities. The original text was written in 1920, and the translation, possibly edited by John Soffell, perhaps in the 1930's.

Ozaki, Yukio, 1858-1954
UVICSP SC113 · Collection · 1889 - 1934

The collection consists of manuscript material, consisting of a carbon typescript, corrected of "An Explanation" (being the preface to Shaw's edition of the Shaw-Ellen Terry correspondence); a manuscript of "Motives of Socialism"; and marked proofs for "Shaw Speaks on War" (a transcript of a short wave broadcast in 1937). Also included is correspondence with Elbridge Adams, Hubert Bland, William Archer, William J. Pickerell, and Harold Laski, together with correspondence from Janet Achurch to Hubert Bland. There is also a small amount of ephemera.

Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
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
Noel Humphreys collection
CA UNBC 2000.18 · Collection · 1934-1935

Collection consists of eight newspaper clippings, seven of which are a series of articles on the findings of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition, with the eighth being a photograph of the Expedition’s winter quarters in Etah, Greenland. Five of the articles were written by the expedition leader, Mr. Noel Humphreys and the other two were written by members of the Expedition, Mr. Moore and Mr. Haig-Thomas. The articles were originally published in the “Times” of London but the clippings appear to be from the “New Zealand Herald”.

Humphreys, Noel