Archival Collections Catalogue

Declaration of M. Albert F. Dawes

CA RBD MSG 1235-56
Item
29 December 1896

Part of Dawes-Leishman Family Fonds

Declaration of M. Albert F. Dawes regarding his mother's death and her last will and testament

1897 Sketchbook: Bases of Design

CA RBD MSG 1191-4
Item
1 May 1897-1 August 1897

Part of Walter Crane Sketchbook Collection

Dark blue leather notebook containing drawing techniques and sketching types. The sketchbook's date parallels Walter Crane's ideas on good design.

The sketchbook includes preliminary sketches, line drawings, perspective views drawings, and gesture drawing, as well as cartoons and portraiture. The subject matter varies from studies of flowers, such as the iris, to floral patterning. It includes preliminary sketches for his book design--roughly indicating how Crane saw double page spread as a basic design unit. The sketches also include a pram, a house exterior, and furniture.

One of the cartoon sketches shows a man at pulpit with flag (possibly William Morris: see illustration of Speech of William Morris Speaking from a Wagon in Hyde Park, Artist Remininance, p.440)

Some of the legible words in Crane’s rough writing refer to artistic media such as “gesso” and techniques “silverwork,” “relief,” “wood carving,” and “stencils.” One page in particular is dedicated to the scribbled letters which make the words Bases of Design. This sketchbook notably predates Crane’s publication titled The Bases of Design, by one year.

Medium: pencil on paper

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915

Meterological Service, Dominion of Canada Weather Map

CA RBD MSG BW001-9-01.11.22
File
January 1897

Part of Natural History Society of Montreal fonds

Weather maps showing average tempuratures and percipitation for the month, Southern Canada (1 map).

Notice of sale

CA RBD MSG 1235-13
Item
6 May 1897

Part of Dawes-Leishman Family Fonds

Notice of sale by Mr. Albert Frederick Dawes to the Montreal Park and Island Railway Company

Lease of house by Albert F. Dawes to William L. Maltby

CA RBD MSG 1235-65
Item
1 May 1897

Part of Dawes-Leishman Family Fonds

Lease from Mr. Dawes to W. L. Maltby for Lachine house, ST. Joseph St., 180$ payable monthly for the period of 1 May 1897 to 1 May 1898.

Correspondence, 1896-1897

CA RBD MSG 201-6
File
1896-1897

Part of Rudyard Kipling Fonds

File consists of three letters from Meta de Forest (Mrs. Lockwood de Forest) to her daughter Judith B. de Forest (1896), Rudyard Kipling to Lockwood de Forest (1896), and Carrie Kipling to Meta de Forest (1897).

Weather maps

CA RBD MSG BW001-9
Series
1895-1897

Part of Natural History Society of Montreal fonds

The series consists of 20 maps produced by Meteorological Service, Dominion of Canada, showing only southern Canada. Each map depicts the average temperatures and precipitation for the month across the country. For the year 1886, there are several duplicates of some months. The years of 1895 and 1897 are incomplete.

Notice of sale

CA RBD MSG 1235-15
Item
1897

Part of Dawes-Leishman Family Fonds

Notice of sale by Mr. Albert F. Dawes to The Montreal Park and Island Railway Company. Includes plans of the Montreal Park & Island Railway across lot No. 184 the property of Albert F. Dawes.