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Sandra Mattia collection
UVICSP SC436 · Collection · ca. 42 A.D., 1493

The collection consists of two medieval manuscript fragments, two incunabula, and a Herodian coin.

Ben Nicholson fonds
UVICSP SC438 · Fonds · [19–]

The fonds consists of a framed collage painting by Nicholson.

Nicholson, Ben, 1894-1982
Kenneth Koch collection
UVICSP SC244 · Collection · [19--]

The collection consists of a one page letter to Gail [Dunsbery?] regarding the sale of periodical issues.

Koch, Kenneth, 1925-2002
Truman Capote fonds
UVICSP SC168 · Fonds · [19--]

The fonds consists of a signed, typed letter to David Loovis, declining an invitation.

Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
Milton Campbell fonds
UVICSP SC386 · Fonds · [19--]

The fonds consists of 7 envelopes of architectural floor plans with photos of the building pasted on the outside. Used as architect's reference.

Campbell, Milton Donald
Gary Snyder collection
UVICSP SC302 · Collection · [19--]

The collection consists of a typed bread recipe. It is signed Gary Snyder [via Valery McCorkle].

Snyder, Gary, 1930-
Roy S. fonds
UVICSP SC347 · Fonds · [19--]

The fonds consists of a typewritten volume of poetry; 20 leaves of typescript in a blue cloth notebook.

S., Roy
Robin Blaser fonds
UVICSP SC418 · Fonds · [19--]

The fonds consists of a VHS videocassette.

Blaser, Robin
R. A. B*** fonds
UVICSP SC352 · Fonds · [18--]

The fonds consists of a wash drawing of “R Southey Poet Laureat”.

B***, R. A.
UVICSP SC206 · Collection · [18--]

The collection consists of an undated, handwritten letter to Mr. Thornton.

Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894
Edward Fitch collection
UVICSP SC413 · Collection · 2007

The collection consists of interviews and releases from 12 Jewish veterans and refugees.

Fitch, Edward, 1949-
Angelo Caravaggio fonds
UVICSP SC415 · Fonds · 2002

The fonds consists of a copy of "The Human Dimension of Compromised Command: Major-General George Kitching and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division in Normandy. [March to August 1944].

Caravaggio, Angelo N.
Edward Peck fonds
UVICSP SC416 · Fonds · 2001

The fonds consists of a typescript of "Cy Peck, V.C.: a biography of a Legendary Canadian" by his son Edward.

Peck, Edward, 1924-
Don Diespecker fonds
UVICSP SC205 · Fonds · 1998

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-
Shawn Cafferky collection
UVICSP SC353 · Collection · 1997

The collection consists of interviews recorded with naval personnel, together with transcripts. The interviews refer to the experimentational squadron VX10, and the testing and use of the Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King helicopter.

Cafferky, Michael Shawn, 1958-2008
Edgar Efrat fonds
UVICSP SC373 · Fonds · 1996

The fonds consists of page proofs (1st) for his book of reminiscences “The Black Shofar and other Vignettes”.

Efrat, Edgar S. (Edgar Shlomo), 1924-1996
Union Bay collection
UVICSP SC409 · Collection · 1996 - 1997

The collection consists of a 1996 development plan, plus an article on the history of Union Bay (a small community approximately 15 kilometres south of Courtenay, British Columbia).

David Fate Norton fonds
UVICSP SC412 · Fonds · 1988

The fonds consists of a photocopy of the article "John Wilson, Hume's First Printer" (British library journal, v.14, 1988, p.123-135).

Norton, David Fate
Reference West fonds
UVICSP SC133 · Fonds · 1987 - 1996

The fonds consists of manuscripts and typescripts of: Reference West Chapbooks and Hawthorne Anthologies; Reference West publications such as B.C. Profiles, The Preview, Fortnightly Preview, The Poetry Newsletter, and Reference West; and Reference West Bibliographical Checklists, Catalogues and Symposia. It also includes some manuscript/typescript material not included in the Chapbooks, together with some correspondence from a few of the authors.

Reference West (Firm)
Tim Lander collection
UVICSP SC247 · Collection · ca. 1987-2000

The collection consists of pages of holograph poetry removed from a copy of Lander's Like Stepping Stones above the Traffic (1987), plus other leaves of holograph poetry.

Lander, Tim
Margaret Shepherd collection
UVICSP SC300 · Collection · 1987 - 1989

The collection consists mainly of Shepherd's unpublished typescripts concerning her family history in France and Italy, England, and Ireland: "The Illustrious De Verduns" (paperbound, corrected); "A Journey Into Time Past" (Beaumont family, paperbound); "The Diaries of my Grandmother, Margaret Emily Cooke [nee Verdin] (paperbound, corrected). Also included is a pamphlet "Joseph Verdin and Sons, Salt Proprietors" by Mary Rochester; correspondence (1989-1990) between the author, Gray Campbell (Gray's Publishing), Judge Monty Tyrwhitt-Drake, and Special Collections; a National Gallery photograph of "The Beaumont Family by George Romney" (painted ca. 1778-82); and some typed "De Verdun and Verdin pedigrees".

Shepherd, Margaret R. G. (Margaret Rohesia Gundred)
UVICSP SC401 · Collection · 1986

The collection consists of a photograph of B.C. Premier W.A.C Bennett with author Ronald B. Worley at the launch of Worley's book "The Wonderful World of W.A.C. Bennett". It is signed by the Premier, and inscribed to Bill Thomas by the author.

Allen Bell fonds
UVICSP SC036 · Fonds · 1985 - 1995

The fonds consists of typescripts of an unpublished novel "The Harmless Snake"; 3 unpublished books of poetry: "The Simon Poems", "Thy Harry's Company", "A Motley to the View"; typescript copies of five Egoyan screenplays (reworked by Bell) including: "Family Viewing" (1987) in 3 drafts; "Speaking Parts" (1989) in 5 drafts; The Adjuster (1991) 1 draft, "Exotica" (1995) 1 draft (not reworked by Bell) and "The Sweet Hereafter" (1997) in 3 drafts; some additional holograph notes and a notebook regarding the scripts and correspondence from Atom Egoyan to Bell 1985-1995 regarding the films. Additionally, there is correspondence from Irving Layton and others.

Bell, Allen
D. F. Aris fonds
UVICSP SC371 · Fonds · 1984

The fonds consists of a typescript (photocopy) about Group Captain J.R.D. "Bob" Braham, operations record book entries, photocopies copies of combat reports, together with a package of negatives of the photographs included in the typescript.

Aris, D. F.
Kathleen Raine collection
UVICSP SC098 · Collection · 1983 - 1985

The collection consists mainly of material generated in the process of publishing the book Yeats the Initiate (1986), consisting of typescripts, drafts, paste-ups, illustrations, and proofs; plus correspondence, mainly to Liam Miller at the Dolmen Press.

Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003