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Rare Books and Special Collections Muses’ Company Fonds
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Muses’ Company Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 948
  • Fonds
  • 1980-1995

The fonds chiefly consists chiefly of records related to the editing and publishing work of the Muses' Company press. The fonds consists of seven series: manuscripts; financial records; publications; correspondence; records related to the Association des éditeurs anglophone de Québec; records relating to the Association of Canadian Publishers; and records relating to the Literary Press Group. Most of the records were either created or accumulated by Endre Farkas in relation to the Muses’ Co. publications between 1980 and 1995. Records relating to publishing include manuscripts of works, page proofs with corrections, editors’ and authors’ notes, published books, and publicity materials. Other production records within the fonds include correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, layouts, and drawings for covers. These manuscripts also often have accompanying materials including photos and correspondence, in particular for the Dance Agenda project. There is also correspondence including exchanges with authors such as Ken Norris, Kenneth Radu, Katharine Beeman, Elias Letelier-Ruz, Ian Stephans, and Sharon H. Nelson as well as notes to Leonard Cohen. The company's financial records in the fonds consist income tax receipts, statement of earnings, reports of sales of books, buyers, quotes, invoices, funding applications, contracts and correspondence. Notable financial records include book sales from the McGill University Bookstore, as well as the universities of Toronto, Waterloo, Calgary, and Maine. Other records include materials from the Association des éditeurs anglophone du Québec (1991-1994), the Canada Grant Council, the Association of Canadian Publishers, the Literary Press Group. Also represented is the Quanglo Tour itinerary including posters, postcards, and advertisements (1994-1995).

Muses' Company

AEAQ Task Force

Correspondence mostly about funding for AEAQ, meeting briefs, AEAQ membership document (list of members with sizes of their collections for 1993), statistics, handwritten notes.

AEAQ History Book

Contains correspondence about “Lasting Impressions” as well as newspaper article, other AEAQ correspondence, and biography of Endre Farkas.

AEAQ Spring Book fair

1994 Muse fair inventory, application; correspondence about fair; preliminary budget; AEAQ meeting minutes about fair.

LPG

Correspondence about LPG membership fees, invoices for outstanding charges (commission)

Little Prints

1 volume of Surface Noise LPG Newes for Bookstores Dec 94/Jan 95, Biography of Austin Clarke & Peter Gzowski, 2 issues of The Little Prints (LPG publication for Libraries) Nov/Dec 1994, Jan/Feb 1995

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