Mary Wallace Brooks Collection
- CA RBD MSG 373
- Collection
- 1932
The collection consists of a one-page typewritten poem titled "Armistice," signed by the author, Mary Wallace Brooks.
Brooks, Mary Wallace, 1880-1949
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Mary Wallace Brooks Collection
The collection consists of a one-page typewritten poem titled "Armistice," signed by the author, Mary Wallace Brooks.
Brooks, Mary Wallace, 1880-1949
Marquis de la Jonquière Collection
Consists of an English translation of a letter to the Marquis de la Jonquière written by Antoine-Louis Rouillé, comte de Jouy, secretary of state for the French Navy, at Versailles, dated 28 February 1750. The letter discusses an immediate release of prisoners of war taken during conflicts between the French and British colonies. It also includes a mention of Indigenous allies of England and France, and Indigenous people captured during the conflicts: "the Indian Prisoners among the two Nations be likewise released, but after all the French and English Prisoners are released" The letter also includes the name of examiner Josiah Willard, secretary of the province of Massachusetts-Bay.
Rouillé, Antoine-Louis , comte de Jouy, 1689-1761
Marie, Queen of Rumania collection
Manuscript is a typewritten preface with handwritten corrections for the book "In Gipsy Camp and Royal Palace; Wanderings in Rumania" (1924), by Emil Otto Hoppé. It is signed by Marie, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, 1875-1938.
Marie, Queen, consort of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, 1875-1938
Margaret Eliza Ashmun Collection
The collection consists of her manuscript of "David and the Bear Man," which was published by Macmillan in 1929. It also contains manuscript, typescript, and galley proof versions of "The Singing Swan: An Account of Ann Seward and Her Acquaintance with Dr. Johnson, Boswell, and Others of Their Time," published by Yale University Press in 1931. Additionally, the collection features six black-and-white photographs intended for reproduction in the biography, as well as three letters concerning its publication.
Ashmun, Margaret, 1875-1940
Marc Raboy Alternative Press Collection
The collection consists of books, periodicals, and published ephemera related to alternative media between roughly the 1960s and 1998. The collections has a special focus on Quebec alternative, grassroots, and political publications as well as journalism trade publications and ephemera, and union and labour movement publications. Some publications are from Cuba and China, including Cuban calendars and some documents, books, and newspapers on China.
Raboy, Marc, 1948-
Macdonald College, Agriculture class of 1911 Collection
This volume is a circulating letter of the first graduating class in Agriculture; a class member would write his personal and career news addressed to the class in general and forward the book to the next person to do the same.
Collection consists of a manuscript book containing numerous short handwritten excerpts, fragments of poems, reflections, and quotations from various authors, primarily focused on flowers, health, and wisdom. It also includes pages of handwritten poems by C.J.C. Briscoe, the uncle of J. Kerr. Includes a six-page typewritten fable titled "The butterfly and the ant: a fable," written in 1886. Includes a one-page typewritten article titled, "Observations of the Works of Modern Flower Painters, Miss Lawrence." This article is "a copy made from a book entitled "A Practical Essay on the Art of Flower Painting" by John Cart Burgess, Professor and Teacher of Drawing and Painting, and an Exhibitor at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1811" (from a note on the bottom of the page).
Lawrance, Mary, -1830
Lyman Ellwood Francis Collection
This collection, assembled by the Faculty of Dentistry, consists of curricula vitae, photocopied notices of papers Francis presented at conferences, and photocopies of his thesis and some of his published articles.
Francis, Lyman Ellwood, 1916-1975
Collection consists of an impartial 19th-century transcription of Franquet's "Voyages et mémoires sur le Canada" (https://mcgill.on.worldcat.org/oclc/49159386) by an unknown author, along with its English translation.
Louis Franquet
Leon Philippe Le Métayer-Masselin Collection
The collection consists of lecture notes from Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, dated around 1873. The lecture is divided into three parts. The first part discusses the origins of textiles, with a particular emphasis on cotton. The second part explores the ribbon, detailing its uses and origins in Normandy, France. The third part addresses industrial progress and modern ribbon manufacturing, and it presents the biography of Jean Baptiste Masselin, the founder of the ribbon industry in France.
Le Métayer-Masselin, Leon Philippe