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UVICSP SC324 · Collection · 1914 - 1919

The collection consists of two volumes. The first volume is hardcover and contains clippings from Toronto newspapers. Some of the text extends into the 1930s but all of the photographs are from 1914-1919. The second volume is unbound. Its clippings are from an unknown source. Included with this volume are some loose clippings from the same sources, together with newspapers from Hamilton and Toronto.

Destrube family fonds
UVICSP SC033 · Fonds · 1857 - 1919

The fonds consists of correspondence regarding World War I, 1915-1919, mostly letters and postcards from Georges Destrube in France, with a few from other family members and friends (some are in French). The subject of the letters is mostly about army life/war and the untimely deaths of Guy and Paul Destrube. Also included are clippings from "The Illustrated London News", from 1857 and 1870.

Destrube (family)
Sir William Orpen collection
UVICSP SC089 · Collection · ca. 1901-1920

The collection consists of 36 letters from Sir William Orpen to Beatrice Elvery (Lady Beatrice Glenavy), all illustrated with ink or pencil sketches, and one ink sketch entitled "Howth". Most are addressed to "Bridjit" from "Dijit".

Orpen, William, Sir, 1878-1931
Henry Albert Penn fonds
UVICSP SC389 · Fonds · 1916 - 1920

The fonds consist of copies of records, documents and photographs in the possession of Major Penn's Grand-daughter Sarah Beynon. They relate to Major Penn's Medals and certificates in the Bruce Brown collection.

Penn, Henry Albert, b. 1878
UVICSP SC022 · Collection · 1888 - 1920

The collection consists of a few of her letters plus her autograph (ca. 1908); her portfolio photographs and photo-postcards; theatre programs and clippings relating to her performances.

Campbell, Patrick, Mrs., 1865-1940
Bernhard Rottlander fonds
UVICSP SC291 · Fonds · ca. 1920

The fonds consists of a black notebook containing a handwritten commentary on Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). The pages are numbered consecutively from 268 to 403. The entire text is in German.

Rottlander, Bernhard
Bliss Carman fonds
UVICSP SC169 · Fonds · 1921

The fonds consists of a handwritten letter of thanks to Mr. Fisher.

Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929
John Butler Yeats collection
UVICSP SC130 · Collection · 1884 - 1922

The collection consists of pencil and ink sketches (1884-1885) and letters (with illustrations) to Jack Butler Yeats (1918-1922).

Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922
Lady Gregory collection
UVICSP SC329 · Collection · 1922

The collection consists of a handwritten letter to Sydney Cockerell. A transcription provided by Anthony Rota is also included.

Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932
Wallace family fonds
UVICSP SC140 · Fonds · 1917 - 1922

The fonds consists of sixty-two handwritten letters and one postcard to the Wallace family. Most are from Edith J. Lyttleton (godmother) to Paul A. W. Wallace during his service in England during WWII. Lyttleton also wrote a few letters to Dorothy (Mrs. Paul Wallace) and to Professor F. H. Wallace (Paul's father?). The other letters are to Paul from Helena Coleman and Marjorie Pickthall.

Wallace family
Henry James collection
UVICSP SC235 · Collection · 1923

The collection consists of a 2 pp holograph letter to “Plunket”.

James, H., 1803-1877
UVICSP SC338 · Fonds · 1900-1923

The fonds consists of records generated and utilized by the 16th Battalion (The Canadian Scottish). The fonds is arranged into 11 alphabetically organized series. These series include aerial photographs of the Western Front, information of a World War One operation at the city of Lens, orders issued to the Battalion, personnel records, photographs, publications (including early editions of "The Brazier"), reports, scrapbooks, information on training, minutes of meetings of the Veterans Association of the 16th Battalion, and a design for the 16th Battalion war memorial.

Canada. Canadian Army. Battalion, 16th
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
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
William Bade fonds
UVICSP SC147 · Fonds · 1928

The fonds consists of a typed, signed letter ordering books, together with its envelope.

Bade, William Frederic, 1871-1936
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
Robert Burness fonds
UVICSP SC166 · Fonds · 1929

The fonds consists of a handwritten letter from Burness' widow to Rev. Cyril Dobson re his lecture on his distinguished father and sending him a copy of her late husband's book, which she had published after his death.

Burness, Robert, 1873-1927
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