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Other research and writing projects for publication.

This subseries consists of many of Wood's major publications in various iterations such as manuscripts, typescripts, page proofs, and galley proofs. Additionally, this subseries contains other manuscripts, research notes, photographs, prints or illustrations, correspondence, book reviews, and other materials relating directly to Wood's research projects and publications. The material is dated from 1904-1942 but focuses predominantly from 1913- 1934. Much of the subseries is composed of bound volumes, some of which contain multiple record types, either bound or mounted within the volumes.
The research and writing projects focus on the following topics and geographic regions: ornithology, Fundus Oculi (1911-1934), Wood’s family history (1920-1940), South America (1920-1921), Fiji and Fiji Islands (1920-1931), fossil eggs (1923-1925), flowers and meadows in Switzerland (1924-1934), “An Introduction to the Literature of Vertebrate Zoology,” aviculture (1925-1928), New Zealand, medieval Persian manuscripts (1927-1934), Benevenutus Grassus’ de Oculis (1930), John III, Kashmir and North India (1921-1934), Ceylon (1925, 1928, 1934), "the Art of Falconry" (1938?-1942), and Ali ibn Isa (1935-1936).
Other contributors to some publications and manuscripts include Marjorie Fyfe, Alexander Wetmore, Wladimir Ivanow, Arthur William Head, Dr. Andreas Nell, W. J. Belcher, William C. Morgan, and Marion C. Tallmon.
This subseries also contains 145 incoming and outgoing pieces of correspondence including letters and notes. Some individuals addressed include Arthur William Head, Christopher Leggo, Lillian Bates, Elizabeth E. Abbott, Cora Raymond, Dr. Richmond, W. J. Belcher, C. S. Walis, Theodore Hamblin Ltd., James R. Slonaker, and R. R. Donnelley and Sons Co.. This subseries also includes photographs of Wood’s family, professional colleagues and friends, and research and publications.

Miscellaneous research, writing, and correspondence files.

This subseries consists of other research, writing, and correspondence files related to Wood's research and writing activities (1852-1925), writings of others assisting in Wood’s research projects or written about Wood (1936-1943), and volumes containing multiple publications by Casey Wood from 1852-1943, but predominantly 1920-1938. Some of these volumes include writings of other authors as well. The subseries is composed mostly of publications, manuscripts, and correspondence, along with photographs, clippings, book dust covers, feathers from John III, and printed materials pertaining largely to ornithology, falconry, and Wood's research.
Included in this subseries are 661 incoming and outgoing correspondence (1914, 1927, 1933-1940) including letters, postcards, and telegrams. Some of the individuals represented within the subseries include G. R. Lomer, Elizabeth E. Abbott, Margaret E. Hibbard, Dr. Maude Abbott, Dr. Cresswell Shearer, Marjorie Fyfe, Alan H. Wood, Samuel Casey Wood III, Arthur William Head, H. Gronvold, H. Kirke Swann, Alexander Wetmore, Dr. Andreas Nell, Elliott Coues, George Arliss, Duke of Wellington, Professor Arthur Willey, Dr. Witmer Stone, John Still, E. C. T. Holsinger, Dr. Burton Chance, Wladimir Ivanow, John M. McWilliam, Dr. Max Meyerhof, W. L. Sclater, Harry Harris, Dr. Arnold C. Klebs, Professor Alonzo Taylor, Dr. Harold Gifford, David Nutt, William Wrigley Jr., Professor W. P. C. Zeeman, Eileen Thompson, William Thornwall Davis, H. S. Swarth, E. Edward Newton, Joseph Pearson, R. T. Gunther, Dr. Jon Pearson, Sir George Perley, J. Wilkes, Edward Von S. Dingle, George Edwards, W. E. Powell, L. J. Griffin, Robert Moore, and Major Chester Davis. Book publishers and dealers represented include Wheldon and Wesley, G. E. Stechert and Co., Bernard Quaritch Ltd., R. Friedlander and Sohn, K. F. Koehler’s Antiqarium, Foliophiles, Sotheby and Co., Francis Edwards, Vitty and Seaborne Ltd., Sun Engraving Co., Dulau & Co., Ltd., Samuel N. Rhoads, and Franklin Bookshop.
Topics and research projects within the subseries include ornithology, aviculture, bird protection, fossil eggs, zoology and sea life, collection and financial records for McGill Libraries and other institutions, McGill Library exhibits, the Feather book, travel and research, professional and personal lives, Wood’s ancestry, events Wood attended, politics and crime, Dr. Joseph Grinnell, Sir Henry and Elizabeth Gwillim, James Graham Cooper, John III’s painting and life, Emma Shearer Wood library boo plate, bird and zoology prints and other artwork, the dodo bird and related art, Sinhalese Olas, coins, and Persian manuscripts, ayurvedic medicine, Dominion Parliament building, “Fundus Oculi of Birds,” “An Introduction to Literature of the Vertebrate Zoology,” “Coloured Plates of the Birds of Ceylon,” Benevenutus Grassus’ de Oculis, Tadhkirat of Ali ibn Isa translation, Frederick II’s de Arte Venandi cum Avibus and falconry, “Catalogue du Fonds de Paul Lechevalier,” “James Craw Portrait of Alexander Wilson,” “Monograph of the Birds of Prey,” and other manuscripts.
Places referenced in this subseries include the British Museum, McGill University, Emma Shearer Wood Library, San Francisco, England, Barbados, New Zealand, Fiji, Oceania, Switzerland, India, Sri Lanka, and others.

Framed early Valentines

Sub-series consists of seven eighteenth and nineteenth century Valentine's Day cards and prints. Most date sometime from the early to mid-nineteenth century Valentines cards or prints. One Valentine dates from approximately 1790. Prints and cards have been framed.

Victorian Valentines

The Valentines subseries consists of a variety of greeting card formats and styles from primarily the Victorian era but as late as the interwar period. These include a mix of cards that have been sent and kept by the receiver in addition to several cards that likely belonged to a stationer or printer. While some cards include handwritten messages, most cards are unsigned and seem to be unsold copies or samples belonging to a catalog. Sub-subseries include: comic valentines, foldout or pop-up valentines, ornate handmade valentines, printed manufactured valentines, puzzle or rebus valentines, and sentimental valentines. In addition, the subseries contains several examples of additional ephemera related to Valentine’s Day or the greeting card business, such as valentine writers or printer’s catalogs. There are is also a full scrapbook of card samples and additional scrapbook pages with affixed cards. Additionally, there are a few card making materials or scraps that highlight the various components and processes of card making. The subseries also includes some greetings cards not associated with Valentine's day, but originally found with Valentine's cards.

These materials are primarily useful in capturing the essence of Victorian sentimentality and communication culture. Spanning several decades, they represent the evolving printing culture and technology of the nineteenth century. The subseries equally illustrates the industrial age and the emerging consumerist and capitalist societies as several greeting card companies surfaced around the world to profit from the sudden craze. More subtly, the cards allow for an appreciated of craftsmanship and reflection on women’s role in manufacturing as their smaller hands were often required to do the finishing work on handmade cards.

Appointments

This subseries contains proof of appointments (specifically public addresses) Sharma had and can include promotional material or confirmation via official correspondence.

World Religions after September 11

This subseries documents the Global Congress World Religions after September 11 and contains promotional content, and recordings of the conferences (2006 and 2011).

1980s

This subseries consists of Sharma’s correspondence between 1980 and 1989 and contains personal, professional and ephemeral correspondence during this time. Notable names include Isabel and Ingeleier Kemp Asen, Susannah Heschel, Kathleen Dugan, Sheridan and Caroline Coombes, Laura Lopez, Betty Unterberger, Faye Sutherland, and Ratna Ghosh.

2000s

Subseries consists of Sharma’s correspondence between 2000 and 2015 and contains correspondence of a professional and ephemeral nature. Notable names include Caroline Coombes, Huston Smith, Jeffrey J. Kripal, and Anita and Arun Shourie.

Winslow-Spragge family

Sub-subseries consists of correspondence to and from Lois Winslow-Spragge, Anna Harrington, Eva Winslow, and Bernard J. Harrington, between 1898 and 1909; family history and genealogical notes accumulated by Lois Winslow-Spragge, between 1950 and 1969; typed copies of letters between Anna Dawson Harrington, B.J. Harrington, and their children: Eric, Edith, Clare, Ruth, Conrad, Bernard, Lois, Eva, and Will, dated between 1888 and 1912 and selected by Lois Winslow-Spragg; correspondence from Nora Burnwash, Letitia Wales, J.W. R. Meakin, Clare Harrington, Alice E. Johannsen, John Andreassen (archivist of McGill University, 1968-1977), Mrs. Eakins, Peter Eakins, Keith Crouch, Dr. Violet L. Coughlin, Edward E. Dawson, Crystall Dawson, the Executive Committee, Board of Governors, regarding Regulations governing the McGill University Archives, Susan Newton, between 1959 and 1977; essay about the Alaska Boundary Dispute, written by Alan Geldart, great-great-grandson of J.W. Dawson, March 1973; Eva Dawson family tree, 1973; newspaper clipping, March 1977; letters written to Edward Winslow-Spragge from Anna Harrington, 1915, and Mabel R. Wernecke, 1928; letters written to Alice Winslow from Anna Harrington, 1915, 1917; a copy of Lois Winslow-Spragge’s biographical text “My uncle, Dr. William Bell Dawson” (1959), along with handwritten notes about William Bell’s career, a ship named after him, and two poems that he wrote; several versions of a biographical sketch of Rankine Dawson written by Lois Winslow-Spragge, along with a letter to McGill University Archivist John Andreassen introducing the text, 1973; letters to Lois Winslow-Spragge from Anna Harrington, Conrad Harrington, Clare Harrington, between 1910 and 1917; fragment of a paper titled “Lois Sybil,” with a list of items, possibly in Margaret Mercer Dawson’s hand; notes, history and annual report of the Montreal Junior League Museum Program, recollections of the Redpath Museum by Anne V. Byers, pamphlets and other promotional material for Redpath Museum, 1933-1961; material on the founding and administration of the McGill University Museums Auxiliary, founded by Anne V. Byers for which she worked as a volunteer from 1960-1971. The file includes clippings of invitations to events, background informational document, typewritten reports, lists of Board members from 1963-1965, and a membership list dated 1965-1966; newspaper clippings and printed programs and other conference material for the Phoenix Festival in 1971, and the Phoenix Natural Science Association in 1981-1982; correspondence between Anne Byers and her children, 1968-1997, grandchildren, 1969-2001, sisters and friends, 1969-2000; correspondence and notes regarding Winslow family reunions, 1956, 1972, 1989; several typewritten reminiscences of Lois Winslow-Spragge of University Street, 1900; list of titles of 7 rock paintings by Lois Winslow-Spragge; one page from McGill Reporter of article with title, "Grand-daughter of former Principal -- Enjoys Art and Nature.", 1972; correspondence regarding Lois Winslow-Spragge's book on George Mercer Dawson, 1962-1977; correspondence between Geoffrey Leech and Lois Winslow-Spragge, 1961-1976; marriage certificate for Lois Sybil Harrington and Edward Winslow-Spragge, their birth certificates, as well as several other clippings and mementos from Lois’s life; obituaries of E. Winslow-Spragge as well as letters Anne received at the time of her father's death in 1953 and her mother, Lois's, death in 1978; correspondence regarding publication of Lois Winslow Spragge's book, 1963-1976; correspondence to Lois and Edward Winslow-Spragge from their children, 1902-1977 and grandchildren, 1962-1977; siblings, Clare Harrington, William Harrington and Bernard G. Harrington, 1909-1976; letters and newspaper clippings of Alice Winslow-Spragge Simons election campaign, 1961-1971; volunteer activities, Lois Winslow-Spragge, 1910-1965; family photos, 1889-1849; clippings and professional correspondence, Edward Winslow-Spragge, 1934-1950; correspondence, Edward Winslow-Spragge with McGill University, 1940-1941; letters and ephmera related to Edward Winslow-Spragge's work with the Canadian Manufacturing Association to England, 1939-1943; correspondence with colleagues and professional contacts related to Edward Winslow-Spragge's career with Canadian Ingersoll Rand, 1917-1924; maps of St. Lawrence River and Grenfell Mission, Labrador, 1907-1908; programmes and clippings from the rededication of St. Bride's Church in London, 1957; booklet for the memorial service for Sir William Dawson held at McGill, 1899; copy of Harrington family tree, recorded by Lois Winslow-Spragge, as well as correspondence, clippings, and photographs related to the Winslow-Spragge family and other Dawson descendents, 1894-1975; copy of letter from Lois Winslow-Sprague to Geoffrey Leech, 1964; letter and essay by Edward Winslow-Spragge, 1944, 1948; scrapbook about the life of Edward Winslow-Spragge, 1907-1943; a book of Lois and Edward Winslow-Spragged correspondence, published by their daughter, Anne Byers, in 2000; baby book of Lois Sybil Harrington, 1889-1900; diary of W. G. M. Byers' honeymoon trip abroad, 1911-1912; letters and postcards exchanged between Lois Harrington and Edward Winslow during their courtship, 1908-1912 and their marriage, 1913-1929, 1931-1932, and correspondence of Edward S. Winslow to his parents, 1915-1916.

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