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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).

Fonds · 1877-1928

The fonds consists of the following record series: Diaries (1886-1887, 1891, 1902-1928); Sermons (1877-1912); Scrapbooks (1878-[1899?]); and Notebooks (1877).

Cameron, Alexander Henry
Jim and Mary Prime fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1928]

Fonds consists of photographic negatives from the early twentieth century showing people in the South Pacific, probably Hawaii or Samoa, in their traditional dress.

Prime family
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
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.

Charles Mair fonds
CA FTST MS 14 · Fonds · 1886-1929

Fonds consists of personal and business records of Charles Mair from 1886-1929. Includes correspondence, financial records, legal records, list, and publications.

Mair, Charles, 1838-1927
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
J. Edward Rendle fonds
Fonds · [ca. 1910]-1930

Fonds consists of sermons, correspondence, essays and written presentations, booklets, and a photograph.

Rendle, J. Edward
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
Eric Duncan fonds
UVICSP SC138 · Fonds · 1880 - 1930

The fonds consists of 5 holograph poems and typescript photocopies of 2 others. manuscript copies of "June Days", "The Love of the Ages to Come", "Unreasonable", and "November in Vancouver Island", plus typescript photocopies of "A Shetland Summer Storm" and "The Tsolum River". In addition, there is a small amount of biographic information.

Duncan, Eric, 1858-1944
Edward Dahlberg fonds
UVICSP SC183 · Fonds · 1930

The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry (Chicago), inquiring about the poems he sent two months previously and giving his assessment of several imagist poets. In the letter, he mentions Flint, Lawrence, Pound, Williams, Fletcher, Aldington, and Stanley Kunitz.

Dahlberg, Edward, 1900-1977
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
UVICSP SC030 · Fonds · 1850 - 1931

The fonds consists of holograph testimonials and letters of Dr. J. P. Cunningham and his son, Dr. H. H. B. Cunningham; British Army (42nd Division) orders to H. H. B. Cunningham, 1915-1920; army payslips, 1917-1921; personal account books, 1900-1922; army reports, 1916-1931; and memorabilia, 1893-1931.

Cunningham, H. H. B. (Herbert Hugh Blair)
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
Harvey Darton fonds
UVICSP SC185 · Fonds · ca. 1931

The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to Joan. Mackail (J.W.?) is mentioned in the letter.

Darton, F. J. Harvey (Frederick Joseph Harvey), 1878-1936
Ethel Wilson fonds
UVICSP SC323 · Fonds · ca. 1931

The fonds consists of a handwritten manuscript of a critique of "The History of Emily Montague" by Frances Brooke. It was written to advertise the Vancouver Symphony Carnival Book Fair.

Wilson, Ethel, 1888-1980
Sir Gavin de Beer fonds
UVICSP SC145 · Fonds · 1932

The fonds consists of three letters from Cornelius Ubbo Ariens Kappers to Dr. de Beer about the anatomy of the vertebrate head. Ariens Kappers was a professor in Amsterdam, Holland.

De Beer, Gavin, Sir, 1899-1972
Fonds · 1877-1932

Consists of 20 diaries (1877-1889 and 1909-32), letters, notebooks, medical notebook, account books, bonds.

Arthur, Dr. Edward Charles