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Christopher Sandford Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 800
  • Fonds
  • 1932-1970

This large collection documents Sandford's involvement with various private presses. Included is correspondence relating to the Boars Head Press, 1932-1939, with the Folio Society, Nonsuch Press and Golden Cockerel Press. There is also correspondence with various individuals relating to Sandford's writings about contemporary private presses. Included are original drawings by Dorothea Braby for the Labyrinth of the World as well as 18 boxes of electros and wood blocks from various Boars Head and Golden Cockerel Press Books.

Sandford, Christopher, 1902-1983

Henry Thomas Robinson Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 163
  • Collection
  • 1815-1821

This collection consists of lines on various subjects, 1815-1821.

Robinson, Henry Thomas, active 1815-1821

V. Pendred Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 174
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1821

There are translations from Ovid, Juvenal, Persius and Horace written in the years 1819, 1820, and 1821, verses on several subjects, and a translation of the "De arte poetica".

Pendred, V., approximately 1821

Maria Neglet Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 95
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1820

"Laure", a novel in French, is ascribed to Maria Neglet by a pencilled note in another hand.

Neglet, Maria, active 1820

William Douw Lighthall Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 216
  • Fonds
  • 1875-1954

Most of Lighthall's varied interests and activities are represented in his papers which fall into a number of series. There is a general series of letters and papers 1875-1954 which includes much but not all of the correspondence. There are letters from many Canadian literary figures (before ca 1940) including Duncan Campbell Scott, Charles Sangster, Charles G.D. Roberts, W.W. Campbell and Stephen Leacock. Others represented in this series include Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Sir William Van Horne (about his and Lighthall's collections of pictures). Among the subjects covered are the McCord Museum, the Chateau de Ramezay, the McGill University Library, the Manitoba School question, conscription and imperial government. There are series for the Canadian Author's Association, the Canadian Union of Municipalities, the Metropolitain Parks Commission, the Great War Veterans Association and the Royal Society of Canada. The papers of the Montreal Armenian Relief Committee (1920s) are included, as are Captain MacKenzie Forbes' files from the Military Hospitals Commission, 1917. There is some material on various legal cases in which Lighthall was involved including some Indian land claims. There is a series of personal financial records and some material on Church Union (ca 1910). There is a large series of documents, both originals and copies dealing the region of Huntingdon, Chateauguay and Beauharnois. Most of Lighthall's literary works are represented in draft and/or annotated form including The False Chevalier (1898) and The Master of Life (1908). There is as well Lighthall's index of Canadian author's pseudonyms (ca 1880-ca 1900). In addition to this manuscript material, there is the Lighthall collection of books which contains some three hundred volumes of metaphysics, history and poetry many of which are either inscribed to W.D.L. or contain his annotations.

Lighthall, W. D. (William Douw), 1857-1954

Thomas King Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 167
  • Fonds
  • 1765

Sparks: or, small poems morally turned (1765). Printed versions have been included, with manuscript corrections "preparatory for a more correct edition".

King, Thomas, 1730-1805

Oswald Hughes Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 204
  • Fonds
  • between approximately 1840 and 1851

These fonds comprise 12 softbound manuscript volumes of lectures, plays, notes and ephemera by Oswald Hughes. The first manuscript is a lecture entitled: "Descriptive lecture on the Mail Route through Italy".

Hughes, Oswald, active 1850

Thorton Leigh Hunt Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 74
  • Fonds
  • undated

This manuscript is the final portion of a treatise on political economy. There are also prose stories and fragments.

Hunt, Thorton Leigh, 1810-1873

Richard Gough Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 62
  • Fonds
  • 1765

Anecdotes of Painting in England, annotated with manuscript.

Mary Corse Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 81
  • Fonds
  • between approximately 1820 and 1838

Fonds includes The Duel, a prose short story, December 1838, 68 pages. Also included are prose pieces by Susan Corse, dated March-August 1838, and Elements of the philosophy of the human mind [approimately 1860?].

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