Handwritten notes on the origins & use of curare

• CA OSLER P090-2-5/43
• Folder
• undated

Part of Harold Griffith Fonds

Peregrine Falcon

• CA RBD MSG BW002-386
• Item
• 1739

Part of Taylor White Collection

Drawing of an immature Tundra Peregrine Falcon from a 18th century specimen [modern geographical distribution: worldwide; the tundra subspecies nests on the North American tundra and migrates South to Southern Canada and the United States in the w...

Collins, Charles

Letter to Richard Pennington

• CA RBD MSG 424-6
• File
• 29 November 1955

Part of Rainer Maria Rilke fonds

Manuscript letter to Richard Pennington from Ruth Fritzsche, the daughter of Rainer Maria Rilke and Clara Westhoff. Thanks him for copies of the Rilke letters and notes that the 9 July 1907 was written to a Mrs. Schurgast. Accompanied by typescrip...

Letter dated 8 November 1896

• CA RBD MSG 424-1
• File
• 8 November 1896

Part of Rainer Maria Rilke fonds

Manuscript letter written from Munich and signed Réne Maria Rilke to Gabriele Reuter, mentioning her book "Aus guter Familie." Included is a poem of Rilke's, with the title 'Agathe.' Accompanied by typescript English trans...

Letter to Elfriede Nicolaus

• CA RBD MSG 424-4
• File
• approximately 1922

Part of Rainer Maria Rilke fonds

Manuscript letter from Rilke in Switzerland to Elfriede Nicolaus in Sweden. Rilke refuses an offer to write a preface to the volume of poems by Indian poet Sri Ananda Acharya that she is translating into German and publishing. Accompanied by type...

Letter from Rilke to Anette Vedel

• CA RBD MSG 424-2
• File
• 15 October 1904

Part of Rainer Maria Rilke fonds

Manuscript letter sent to Anette Vedel in Copenhagen. Expresses regret that they did not meet in Copenhagen and sends greetings. Accompanied by envelope and typescript English translation.

Letter dated 9 July 1907

• CA RBD MSG 424-3
• File
• 9 July 1907

Part of Rainer Maria Rilke fonds

Manuscript letter from Rainer Maria Rilke written in Paris to an unidentified correspondent regarding the sale of a painting by Gaugin. Rilke is helping facilitate the sale. Accompanied by typescript English translation.

Letter from Hedvig Wahlgren

• CA RBD MSG 424-5
• File
• 13 December 1954

Part of Rainer Maria Rilke fonds

Typescript letter from Hedvig Heurlin-Wahlgren attesting to the supposed date of Item MSG 424-4, the letter from Rilke to Elfriede Nicolaus. Wahlgren translated the poems referenced in the letter with Elfriede. With accompanying English translation.

North West Company Ledger

• CA RBD MSG 1247-5
• File
• 1810-1825; 1861.

Part of North West Company Collection

From bookseller’s description: ledger contains business accounts and transactions relating to the partners of the North West company, their ships, and includes payments made to carpenters, bakers, and other small tradesmen who did work for the maj...

North West Company

Voyageur contract for Jean-Baptiste Chauvin

• CA RBD MSG 1108-53
• Item
• 1732

Part of Coppenrath Collection of Voyageur Contracts

Contract between Jean-Baptiste Chauvin and the Montreal outfitter Joseph Trottier Desruisseaux. The contract outlines Chauvin's agreement to travel to Illinois country and trade among the Tamarois people for the winter 1732-33 for the payment...