Green cloth-bound notebook featuring preliminary sketches of farm animals--including sheep, cows, horses, a dog (defecating), and a chicken. Extensively illustrated, the sketchbook includes landscapes of farmland and topographical sketches with notes on colouring as well as landscapes in watercolour. It includes portraits of a child and of a man, and details of a gate and a branch. The visual content includes a folded sheet of paper featuring profile and frontal portraits of the same man.

Crane’s handwriting notes include excerpts, quotes, and marginalia. Excerpts come from the art section from the The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art and the Westminster Review. Located on the sketchbook’s endpapers, Crane’s quotes Ralph Waldo on the use of the artist’s tools. Crane’s notation includes music notes with laughter “ha, ha, ha.”

Used by Crane in the summer and fall of 1864, the sketchbook corresponds with the period when Crane was beginning to illustrate a number of book covers and toybooks in partnership with the printer Edmund Evans. There is a possible connection between the animals and music notice in these sketches with farm animals and songs that feature in Crane’s early toybooks.

The medium is pencil, ink, and watercolour on paper.

Consists of a copy of the Review of Branchline Train Service Studies, Western Lines.

The file contains one notebook of letters composed by Thomas Blackwood mostly relating to business operations in the North West Company. Information about pricing and inventory can be found.

File contains 4 letters. 2 documents are copies of letters written by Blackwood to Queen Victoria and Lord Glanely (principal secretary of state for the colonies). The other 2 letters are acknowledgements of receipt of letters from St. James's Palace in London and the Government House in Montreal.

Manuscript letter to McTavish signed Josp. Frobisher, dated Montreal 8th Novr. 1792.

Manuscript letter signed James Caldwell, dated Montreal 5th Decr. 1792. Letter mentions the Montreal private social club known as the Bachelors Club.

Manuscript letter to McTavish signed Wm Lindsay, dated Quebec 24th July 1795.

Manuscript letter to McTavish signed Isaac Todd, dated New York 16th Jany. 1799.

Manuscript letter to McTavish signed Rod. Mackenzie, dated Montreal 11th May 1800.

Unsigned manuscript letter. Docket title in R. Mackenzie's hand on verso reads, "The Governor in Chief's reply to the address presented by the inhabitants of Terrebonne at the Seignorial House."