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Miles MacDonnell collection

  • CA RBD MSG 401
  • Collection
  • 1811-1813

The collection contains a letterbook with copies of instructions concerning wages and contracts and correspondence concerning the Red River Colony from Lord Thomas Douglas Selkirk to his agent, Miles MacDonnell, 1811-1813.

Thomas Douglas Selkirk Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 403
  • Collection
  • 1811-1816

The collection contains thirteen documents concerning Lord Selkirk's conflict with the North West Company at the Red River Colony and Fort William. There is also a letter to Colonel Benjamin Walker, 1816.

Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, Earl of, 1771-1820

Julius Schloss Collection

  • CA MDML 008
  • Collection
  • 1920-1973

The Julius Schloss Collection consists of Julius Schloss’s complete portfolio of published and unpublished compositions, sketches, studies and analyses. In addition, it contains documentary artefacts, including correspondence, newspaper, magazine and journal clippings, concert and competition programs, media reviews, and photographs, that chronicle both the early life of this German-Jewish composer in Europe and his later days in exile in Shanghai and the United States.
The content of the collection pertains to several lines of historical research: First, Schloss’s close relationship with Alban Berg as a personal assistant and chief copy editor, as well as his interaction with other contemporaries in Vienna during the 1920s, may offer new insight in studies of the Second Viennese School. The items of Bergiana, including a handwritten Baudelaire poem by Berg which served as a “secret program” to the Lyric Suite and a selection of correspondence surrounding Berg’s last wishes for the Lyric Suite score, are particularly valuable. Second, Schloss’s ten-year exile in Shanghai, documented in assorted correspondence, programs, reviews and miscellaneous artefacts, may provide a new account of the Shanghai generation. Finally, the continuation of Schloss’s life in the United States as a struggling composer and teacher bears witness to the difficult conditions for the American émigré population after World War II.

Schloss, Julius, 1902-1972

Gwillim Collection

  • CA RBD MSG BW003
  • Collection
  • [between 1801 and 1807]

The collection contains 164 botanical and zoological paintings created chiefly by Elizabeth Gwillim as well as possibly by her sister Mary Symonds while living in Chennai, India (then Madras). The collection includes 121 watercolours of birds with inscriptions, 31 watercolours of fish, and twelve of flowers, drawn from life rather than specimens. The paintings reflect the sisters' time in Madras during which, as artists and letter writers, they created a substantial visual record of the landscape and inhabitants of Madras and environs. The paintings also reflect Gwillim's scientific pursuits, including her study of botany.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

James Bissett Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 333
  • Fonds
  • 1854-1911

Correspondence, accounts, journals maps, etc., documenting Bissett’s career with the Hudson’s Bay Company. The Photostats (in C.1 and C.2) include Bissett’s journal and accounts at the Red River, 1854-1855, and a journal “Lachine to the Sandwich Islands” 1858-1859. There are also journals for 1859 and 1867. The original documents (in C.3) include correspondence with the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1858-1875, and accounts, 1860-1873. There are Bissett’s commissions as Chief Trader (1858) and as Chief Factor (1872), and a list of Chief Traders and Factors, 1855-1879. There are also some plans / maps, sketches, and photographs including a sketch of the Hudson’s Bay Post at Honolulu, ca. 1860.

Bissett, James

Drummond Family Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 378
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1900

This material comprises a copy of a family book and of a genealogy of Andrew Drummond, ca 1900.

Drummond Family, approximately 1900

Napoleon diplomatic papers

  • CA RBD MSG 833
  • Collection

The collection, previously held at McGill University, contains a significant amount of information concerning the latter years of Napoleon’s reign (between approximately 1810-1815), with documents relating to the Armistice at Pleswitz and the diplomatic negotiations surrounding the Treaty of Fontainebleau, including records of day-to-day negotiations concerning Pleswitz and Fontainebleau. Diplomatic dealings between Metternich and Caulaincourt are also heavily represented. Folder 17 contains an unpublished description of the post-Waterloo Hundred Days by Caulaincourt. Caulaincourt recounts a broad narrative from the defeat at Waterloo to the Bourbon Restoration, including important descriptions of the question of succession and of the final push made by the Allies to restore Louis XVIII to the throne.

Schulich School of Music Performance Archive

  • CA MDML 030
  • Collection
  • 2007-2024

The collection consists of programs and recordings of ensemble performances (including opera) by students, faculty members, and guest artists associated with the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and performed at one of the School's halls (Pollack Hall, Redpath Hall, Tanna Schulich Hall, and Clara Lichtenstein Hall), as well as some performances at venues outside McGill.

McGill University. Schulich School of Music

Blacker-Wood Correspondence Collection

  • CA RBD MSG BW006
  • Collection
  • 1800-1979

The collection consists primarily of correspondence on natural history topics between scientists and natural historians. Letters are sometimes accompanied by journal articles.

Figures with significant correspondence within the collection include: Casey Albert Wood, Henry Mousley, Robert Ridgway, and Bowdler Sharpe.

Athenaeum Club of Montreal Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 305
  • Fonds
  • 1888

The minutes of the Club are accompanied by a letter from the Secretary, George Murray, to Wilfred Skaife. Skaife notes in the minute book that "no further meetings of the Society were held".

Athenaeum Club of Montreal

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