The fonds consists of three typescripts: 1) "An Annotated Elizabeth" - a partial annotation of Dick Diespecker's [1950] 'Elizabeth' (semi-biographical novel of his mother); 2) "Family, Fictions, Frictions"; 3) "Opsaal" (Diespeckers in South Africa 1901).
Diespecker, Don, 1929-The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to Stephen Scobie. He mentions his own book “Saying Grace” and also comments on Scobie's poetry.
Gutteridge, Don, 1937-The fonds consists of a typescript "I Go (Not) Down To the Sea in Ships: Recollections of a Canadian Wren", photocopies taken from Dorothy Robertson's scrapbook, plus photographs and negatives.
Robertson, DorothyThe collection consists of mainly of correspondence. Most of the letters are from Dylan Thomas to John Lehmann, David (Tennent ?), G.V. Roberts and Clifford Dyment. Also included are letters from Daniel Jones and Vernon Watkins to (G.V.?) Roberts and from Denys (Kilham Roberts?) to Lehmann. The letters relate to personal activities and various literary matters. The other material is ephemera: a b/w postcard of the Augustus John portrait of Dylan Thomas, and a clipping of Thomas' obit. from The Tenby Observer and Country News, Nov. 18, 1953.
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953The collection consists of 3 typed, signed letters; a postcard; 5 Christmas cards; and a short note from Cummings. (tls to Peter Russell, the rest to Mrs. Ellen Stevenson). One of these letters relates to reprinting one of Cummings' articles. One Xmas card is a reproduction of a painting by E.E. Cummings (stamped on verso "Painting by E.E. Cummings").
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962The 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), 1882-1964The collection consists of letters written by Forster to Randall. They concern, firstly, his trip to Rumania, where he stayed with the Randalls; a tour in France in 1928; and his journey home. Later letters include references to such literary people as Herbert Read, Harold Monro and T.S. Eliot, plus a mention of reading James Joyce's "Ulysses". He also refers to his visit to Africa and his sentiments about the Spanish Civil War and W.W.II. Most of the later letters are signed "Morgan".
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970The collection consists of 1 concert brochure.
Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway CompanyThe fonds consists of a handwritten letter, togther with its envelope, to John Martin (Black Sparrow) re Dorn's broadsheets. Also included is a broadsheet entitled “The Cosmology of Finding Your Spot” by Ed Dorn.
Dorn, EdwardThe fonds consists of page proofs (1st) for his book of reminiscences “The Black Shofar and other Vignettes”.
Efrat, Edgar S. (Edgar Shlomo), 1924-1996The collection consists of a handwritten letter to J. G. Wilson (manager of Bumpus bookstore), sending him an early copy of her "Collected Poems"; and a handwritten letter to George Plank, together with its envelope, inviting him to "my very small tea party" and that she hopes "several of the other poets" will be there.
Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964The fonds consists of a 13 p. corrected typescript re British Columbia railways.
Pugsley, Edmund E.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, 1900-1977The collection consists of interviews and releases from 12 Jewish veterans and refugees.
Fitch, Edward, 1949-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, 1862-1936The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to an unknown correspondent about his visit to Moscow as guest of its theatres, and the book he is trying to write about it.
Craig, Edward Gordon, 1872-1966The collection consists of photocopies of a bio of Edward Philip Leacock, dated 2000, mostly concerning his life in Canada 1879-1894, together with a map of southern Manitoba. Also included are photocopies of 4 Leacock letters to his family in England, a photocopy of an article about "Stephen Leacock's Remarkable Uncle" from the Beaver, Dec 1986, and a photocopy from a Parks brochure for Saskatchewan.
Leacock, Edward Phillip, 1853-1927The collection consists of a 2 page hls, May 26, 1937, from Henry Simpson to Meyerstein re: Meyerstein's Briancourt; a 1 page hls, Jan. 13, 1945, from Meyerstein to Henry Simpson; a 1 page, Jan. 29, 1945, incomplete draft typed letter reply to Meyerstein from Henry Simpson about Meyerstein's Azure.
Meyerstein, Edward Harry William, 1889-1952The fonds consists of a typescript of "Cy Peck, V.C.: a biography of a Legendary Canadian" by his son Edward.
Peck, Edward, 1924-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-The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to Fred Candelaria (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.) enclosing her song lyric “Guadalajara”. She suggests that he might compose a score for it. She also mentions that she has only a few copies of her book left, but that Robin Skelton was recommending it for a British edition.
Bartlett, ElizabethThe fonds consists of a handwritten notebook, in French and Latin, on the letters of Seneca to Lucilius. Etude critique sur les lettres de Seneque a Lucilius avec la collation du plus ancien Manuscript.
Chatelain, Emile, 1851-1933The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to an unnamed cousin. In the letter, she mentions her book “Letters and Papers of Andrew Robertson” ed. Emily Robertson.
Robertson, EmilyThe collection consists of a scrapbook containing autographs of English notables including Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli, and George Cruikshank.
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