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Oliver Warner Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 105
  • Fonds
  • 1939

Fonds consists of an unpublished manuscript autobiography of Warner entitled "The Grey Mayor".

Warner, Oliver, 1903-1976

Frederick Griffin Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 224
  • Fonds
  • 1827-1876

The fonds consists of documents and letters accumulated during the course of Griffin's legal career, including: dockets of the firm Griffin & Sewell, 1833-1875; legal notes by Griffin concerning wills, sales, and mortgages 1850-1876; legal documents of property transfers and marriage contracts 1826-1860; and notes on marine insurance in the St Lawrence 1843-1848. There are as well two notebooks of legal definitions, dating from approximately 1860.

Griffin, Frederick, 1798-1879

Baron John Buchan Tweedsmuir Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 200
  • Fonds
  • 1937

Fonds contains the author's original manuscript of Augustus, begun in 1934 and finished in 1937.

Buchan, John, 1875-1940

Charles Sangster Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 231
  • Fonds
  • 1851-1852

Sangster's papers include two notebooks one containing subscriptions to Hesperus and Other Poems, 1860; and the other containing subscriptions to The St.Lawrence and the Saguenay, 1856; with newspaper reviews of his work, 1856-1887, as well as manuscript versions of Hesperus and other poems and Passing Thoughts. Also included are autograph notes concerning himself and his family; a phrenological character of Sangster, 1859, and a typescript made at McGill of his poems.

Sangster, Charles, 1822-1893

Bryan McCarthy Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 645
  • Fonds
  • 1950-1974

The collection includes correspondence, prose, poems, drafts and notes and "Booster and Blaster" records.

McCarthy, Bryan, 1930-

Hannah More Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 125
  • Fonds
  • 1772-1823

Interleaved in a copy of Florio and Bas Bleu are six letters from Hannah More, two from Martha More, and four from Sarah More, one giving an account of Garrick's death.

More, Hannah, 1745-1833

John Lawrence Longstaffe Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 190
  • Fonds
  • 1900

Longstaffe's papers consist of his typescript, with manuscript corrections, of a novel entitled The Twin Sisters: a Poem in Prose.

Longstaffe, John Lawrence, born 1834

Ann Hobbs Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 132
  • Fonds
  • 1866

This copy of Ann Hobbs' The Discarded Daughter, a Tragedy was made from Philipps MS.23881 in the British Museum by J. Smith.

Hobbs, Ann, active 1866

Edgar Jepson Fonds

  • CA RBD M258.Bd Box VII
  • Fonds
  • 1895-1908

"The Real Ernest Dowson", by Edgar Jepson (ca 1908; later recast as pp.245-248 of Memoirs of a Victorian) is accompanied by a few items of correspondence and some verses by Plarr on journalism.

Jepson, Edgar, 1863-1938

John Nichols Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 40
  • Fonds
  • between approximately 1798 and 1864

Fonds consists of an album of autograph letters and signatures, including letters both to and from Nichols. Correspondents include John Temple (26 November 1821) and Charles Burney Jr. (5 January 1809). Also represented in the fonds are Nichols's children John Bowyer Nichols (1779-1863) and John Gough Nichols (1806-1873), including a letter to John Gough Nichols from Sir Henry Ellis (2 December 1842).

Nichols, John, 1745-1826

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