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Samuel Mathewson Baylis Fonds
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CA RBD MSG 399
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1895, 1899, 1921-1941 (Creation)
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- Baylis, Samuel Mathewson, 1845-1941
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14 cm of textual records.
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(1845-1941)
Biographical history
Samuel Matthewson Baylis was born on September 3, 1854, in Montreal, and died in 1941. He was the son of James Baylis and Sarah Jane Matthewson. On October 2, 1882, Baylis married Hilda Emily Adams and they had one son and three daughters. Baylis attended the Montreal High School and worked as a merchant with his father in James Baylis & Son, Carpets, and Company. He was also an author, his most known work was a prose monograph titled Shake-Speare: An Enquiry, published in 1910.
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From Samuel Mathewson Baylis estate.
Scope and content
Correspondence 1921-1931 concerning Simon McTavish; official copies of legal documents including estate inventories, lawsuits over the McTavish estate, and Simon McTavish’s will; notes for Baylis’ study of McTavish; numerous petitions and newspaper clippings on the state of the McTavish monument and tomb (Peel St., Montreal), and a typescript of his text concerning Simon McTavish. Also two letters from Ignatius Donnelly, 1899, and a letter 1895, from J. Middleton to John Doyle about 19th century gardening in Montreal and the funeral of Judge James Reid.
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English
French
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63339847
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- McTavish, Simon, 1750-1804. (Subject)
- Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901 (Subject)
- St. James Literary Society (Subject)
- Gazette (Montréal, Québec) (Subject)
- McGillivray, Elizabeth, 1776-? (Subject)
- Reid, James, 1769-1848 (Subject)
- Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal (Subject)
- McGillivray, William, 1764-1825. (Subject)