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archival descriptions
Edmund Pugsley fonds
UVICSP SC398 · Fonds · 1972

The fonds consists of a 13 p. corrected typescript re British Columbia railways.

Pugsley, Edmund E.
Beverly Joan Mitchell fonds
UVICSP SC377 · Fonds · 1972 - 1992

The fonds consists of a 2 page tls by Frank Davey to Mitchell with comments on the TISH group and Mitchell's thesis. The letter accompanied the thesis A Critical Study of the TISH Group which is catalogued in Special Collections. Also included is an hls from Deborah Douglas.

Mitchell, Beverley Joan, 1930-
David R. Clark fonds
UVICSP SC334 · Fonds · 1971 - 1994

The fonds consists of: research notes; correspondence; census material; MS photocopies, transcriptions and proofs produced in the production of Clark's The Winding Stair (1929): Manuscript materials published by The Cornell Yeats (1995) at the Cornell University Press. In addition to material on Yeat's The Winding Stair (1929), The research includes related material from The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) and Words for Music Perhaps. Also included is a set of corrected page proofs for Druid Craft (1971).

Clark, David R.
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
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
Aram Saroyan collection
UVICSP SC296 · Collection · 1970

The collection consists mainly of a photocopied typescript of Aram Saroyan's "Cloth: an electric novel". Also included are a handwritten letter to Tom Clark re "Cloth" and mentioning Ted Berrigan, Paul Carroll, Steve Katz, and Philip Whalen; a corrected typescript signed by Tom Clark which seems to be intended as a preface to "Cloth"; clippings from "Poetry (Chicago)" of Aram Saroyan selection of material from Louis Zukovsky; and a clipping from Rolling Stone? of a picture of Randy Newman.

Saroyan, Aram
UVICSP SC234 · Collection · 1970 - 1971

The collection consists of 2 holograph signed aerograms to Audrey Watson in response to a request for an autograph; one letter alludes to the author's current activities.

Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986
Barry MacSweeney fonds
UVICSP SC260 · Fonds · ca. 1970

The fonds consists of a 14 page typescript carbon hand-stapled chapbook 21x26 cm, with holograph corrections. The holograph ink titlepage states: “12 poems -- Barry MacSweeney”.

MacSweeney, Barry
Wendy Morton fonds
UVICSP SC356 · Fonds · 1970

The fonds consists of correspondence and typescripts.

Morton, Wendy, 1940-
Franz Moos fonds
UVICSP SC267 · Fonds · ca. 1970s?

The fonds consists of 5 unpublished typed works in German: Karneval zu Kopenhagen. 108 pp. (play); Morus,72 pp. (play); Der Herrensohn, 189 pp. (novella); Noma, 139 pp. (novella); Skizzen,195 pp (sketches).

Moos, Franz
UVICSP SC017 · Collection · ca. 2000 B.C.-1970

The collection consists of ancient documents, including a cuneiform tablet and an Egyptian hieroglyph; Medieval and Renaissance documents from England, France, Spain and Italy, 1243-1599, including deeds, charters, illuminated manuscript leaves, letter, letters patent, papal bulls, fragments from religious manuscripts, manuscripts on medicine and magic, a catalogue of English armorial shields, statutes of the Garter, and a manuscript of a Spanish Armelite prioress; modern literary and political manuscripts, records, and autographs, including policies of assurance, letters, and World War I and World War II surrender documents; autographs of various world figures; maps of Europe, Asia and North America; medals, decorations, and flags, mostly from Europe.

Garnett Weston fonds
UVICSP SC378 · Fonds · 1970 - 1979

The fonds consists of poetry and prose typescripts, correspondence, and clippings.

Weston, Garnett, 1890-1980
David Jones collection
UVICSP SC064 · Collection · 1969

The collection consists of heavily corrected galley proofs for the poems "The Wall", "The Sleeping Lord" (extract), and "The Boast of Dai" (extract), plus an accompanying hls from Jones to Annwyl [Dear] Meic Stephens.

Jones, David, 1895-1974
Ed Dorn fonds
UVICSP SC192 · Fonds · 1969

The 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, Edward
Michael Ondaatje collection
UVICSP SC272 · Collection · ca. 1969

The collection consists of a Xerox copy of the original typescript for projected publication, with a letter dated October 10th, 1969, (1 p. part holograph, signed) from the author to Alan Brilliant (Unicorn Press) about the possibility of publication of "The Man with seven toes" in the U.S. There is a carbon copy of Alan Brilliant's reply.

Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
Stephen Pettit collection
UVICSP SC281 · Collection · 1969

The collection consists of a letter to an unknown correspondent in Canada. In the letter, he mentions his wartime training in Canada. He also sends him his second book of poems and requests a brief review.

Pettit, Stephen Lewis Ingham
Margaret Peterson fonds
UVICSP SC095 · Fonds · 1969 - 1983

The fonds consists of sketches, photographs and notes and correspondence found in accompanying books donated by Peterson. Some of her correspondence and her manuscript about her life with Howard O'Hagan is in the Howard O'Hagan fonds.

Peterson, Margaret, 1902-1997
John Sherlock Gooch fonds
UVICSP SC216 · Fonds · ca. 1969

The fonds consists of a handwritten bio of Gooch, plus a typed transcription and carbon (possibly by Daphne Fiske). Also included are photocopies of Gooch's handwritten journal comprised of "A 'free run' in the balloon 'Vivid'" [October 18th 1909, 31 l.]. This account was published in The Malahat Review No. 11, 1969; and "Protagonists", his account of moving the artillery battery, of which he was the commanding officer, from England to Salonica and through the campaign there until his discharge [Oct 1915- Dec 1918, 131 l.]

Gooch, John Sherlock, 1866-1929
Hugo Manning collection
UVICSP SC396 · Collection · 1969

The collection consists of one red ink drawing of Henry Miller "drawn from life, in London," 36 x 23 cm signed and dated 1969, and a charcoal sketch by Vernon Watkins 34 x 25 cm, signed with no date.

Manning, Hugo
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
Arthur Russell fonds
UVICSP SC105 · Fonds · 1968 - 1969

The fonds consists primarily of typescripts, together with a proof copy and dust jacket of "Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet"[1969]. In addition, there is some correspondence to Russell from some of the potential contributors to the book, including John Betjeman, Philip Larkin, Norman MacCaig, John Masefield, and Iris Murdoch.

Russell, Arthur Wolseley
Derek Mahon collection
UVICSP SC350 · Collection · 1968

The collection consists of a set of page proofs of “The Night Crossing”.

Mahon, Derek, 1941-
Fireweed Press fonds
UVICSP SC381 · Fonds · 1968 - 1989

The fonds consists of 12 Series: Greentree Press; Publications with Related files; Small Format Broadsheets, Cards and Single Leaf Printings; Job Printing including: Publicity Brochures, Menus, Broadsides and Business Cards; Subject Files; Office Files; Fireweed Printing Samples; News Clippings; Photographs; Large Format Broadsheets; Certificate and Event Posters; Linocut Blocks. Correspondence is retained in the associated files.

Fireweed Press
Margerie Lowry fonds
UVICSP SC257 · Fonds · 1967

The fonds consists of a Christmas card announcing the spring publication of Malcolm Lowry's Dark as the Grave wherein my Friend is Laid.

Lowry, Margerie Bonner
Elizabeth Bartlett fonds
UVICSP SC151 · Fonds · 1967

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, Elizabeth