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Menu Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 1269
  • Collection
  • 1877-

Collection consists of menus acquired individually by the library. Menus date back to 1877, but most of the menus are twentieth century. The bulk of menus are from Montreal-area restaurants and hotels, representing French, Quebecois, and other styles of cuisine such as Indian. Some menus are from specific dinners given at hotels, special events, or in honour of dignitaries, such as a dinner for Edward, Prince of Wales, 1919. A subset of menus relate specifically to travel and include train dining car menus and steamship menus.

David Rou Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 136
  • Fonds
  • 1797

Fonds contains manuscript of "Cours de réligion en vers," 1797.

Rou, David, active 1797

Athenaeum Club of Montreal Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 305
  • Fonds
  • 1888

The minutes of the Club are accompanied by a letter from the Secretary, George Murray, to Wilfrid Skaife. Skaife notes in the minute book that "no further meetings of the Society were held".

Athenaeum Club of Montreal

James St. Aubyn Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 38
  • Fonds
  • 1810-1858

This is a collection poems of Jaffier, 1810-1858. A signed note by Bertram Dobell on the covering leaf identifying Jaffier as James St.Aubyn.

St. Aubyn, James, active 1810-1858

Eileen B. Thompson Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 258
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1931

The collection consists of typescripts and proofs of stories, essays and reviews.

Thompson, Eileen B., active 1909-1931

Sir George Scharf Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 152
  • Fonds
  • 1851-1852

This collection consists of a holograph of Scharf's History of Greek Art, (1851-1852) and has pen and ink drawings

Scharf, George, 1820-1895

Christopher Sandford Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 800
  • Fonds
  • 1932-1970

This large collection documents Sandford's involvement with various private presses. Included is correspondence relating to the Boars Head Press, 1932-1939, with the Folio Society, Nonsuch Press and Golden Cockerel Press. There is also correspondence with various individuals relating to Sandford's writings about contemporary private presses. Included are original drawings by Dorothea Braby for the Labyrinth of the World as well as 18 boxes of electros and wood blocks from various Boars Head and Golden Cockerel Press Books.

Sandford, Christopher, 1902-1983

Henry Thomas Robinson Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 163
  • Collection
  • 1815-1821

This collection consists of lines on various subjects, 1815-1821.

Robinson, Henry Thomas, active 1815-1821

V. Pendred Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 174
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1821

There are translations from Ovid, Juvenal, Persius and Horace written in the years 1819, 1820, and 1821, verses on several subjects, and a translation of the "De arte poetica".

Pendred, V., approximately 1821

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