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Al Purdy Collection

  • MG 447
  • Fonds
  • 1930 - 1960

These papers include (handwritten and typed): manuscripts, drafts, journal publications, volumes and collections of his work, articles and reviews of his work; volumes of other poets work; personal correspondence and poems from the likes of Margaret Atwood, Milton Acorn, Earle Birney and Irving Layton; photos; vinyl cuts; audio recordings

Purdy, Alfred Wellington

Anne Szumigalski fonds

  • MG 460
  • Fonds
  • 1961-2008

This fonds contains materials related to Anne Szumigalski’s writing.

Szumigalski, Anne

Robin Maugham fonds

  • MG 464
  • Fonds
  • 1967-1981 (inclusive)

This fonds consists of a small portion of Maugham's manuscript and published items. The majority of the material relates to "The Deserters" and includes manuscripts, proofs, and a published copy of this work. The incident which forms the central theme of "The Deserters" is a meeting between an English and German soldier during World War Two. This incident is based on an event that happened to Maugham while he was fighting in the Western Desert during World War Two.

The fonds also includes heavily annotated manuscripts of "Winter in Ischia: A Novel" and "The Account: A Novel". "The Account: A Novel" was based on Maugham's play, "Enemy." There is also a manuscript of the play, "A Question of Retreat." The fonds also includes a first printing paperback copy of "The Wrong People," a monograph which was originally published by Maugham under the pseudonym David Griffin. The fonds includes a handwritten note and published tribute written by Peter Burton, who worked closely with Maugham for many years and was one of his literary executors. The fonds also contains two newspaper clippings.

Maugham, Robin

Peter Millard fonds

  • MG 47
  • Fonds
  • 1680, 1932-2002 (inclusive) ; 1970-1998 (predominant).

The fonds contains material pertaining to private papers, the careers of Patrick Hayman and Dmytro Stryjek, Inuit Art, human rights in Saskatchewan during the Devine years, sexual discrimination, homosexuality, the Visual Aids Campaign the Doug Wilson Case, artists, galleries, collectors, dealers in Canada and England and the Millard Gallery, Millard’s research into Roger North and the Notes of Me manuscript. The material consists of minutes, correspondence, records, notes, clippings, articles, photographs, slides and catalogues..

Millard, Peter T., 1932-2001 (Professor of English)

Conrad Potter Aiken fonds

  • MG 476
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1975 (inclusive); 1970-1975 (predominant)

This fonds contains articles about and reviews of Aiken's published works, as well as correspondence between Aiken and others.

Peter Stevens fonds

  • MG 477
  • Fonds
  • 1963-1969

This fonds contains various publications and some correspondence from Peter Stevens regarding his career as a poet and editor.

Stevens, Peter

Ida Janet Munro (Clarke) Thompson fonds

  • MG 484
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1953 (inclusive) ; 1905-1953 (predominant)

Correspondence, accounts books, and other textual material.

Thompson, Ida Janet Munro (Clarke)

Ralph Gustafson Literary Papers

  • MG 485
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1965

The Gustafson collection includes five boxes of correspondence, including many with some of Canada's leading literary figures from the 1930s to the 1960s. The collection also houses manuscripts, proofs, and published first editions of some of Gustafson's well-known publications. There are also newspaper clippings and reviews.

Gustafson, Ralph

R.J.G. Bateman fonds

  • MG 5
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1914

This fonds contains records relating to teaching, including notes for lectures, and student records and marks. Following Bateman’s death, the University published a memorial volume of his writing, including some poems, lectures, essays (among them, on war), and correspondence.

Bateman, Reginald John Godfrey

C.A. King fonds

  • MG 52
  • Fonds
  • 1938-1985 (inclusive) ; 1954-1979 (predominant)

This fonds consists of correspondence, research notes, drafts, and manuscripts relating to King's books: "A Book of Canadian Poems;" "A Book of Essays;" "Extending the Boundaries;" "The First Fifty;" "Saskatchewan: The Making of a University;" "Saskatchewan Harvest;" and "Three Stories by Joseph Conrad." Additionally, it includes King's articles, lectures, and addresses dealing primarily with Canadian literature. There is also material related to King's other interests: the career and works of G.B. Shaw and R.A. Wilson, provincial and national library associations, and pacifism.

King, Carlyle A.

John Robinson Jeffers fonds

  • MG 527
  • Fonds
  • 1929

Holograph letter, signed.
Una Jeffers to Mr. Forster. Dated December 18, 1929.
Telling him of their decision to return to California, and their time in Cornwall. Written on board S.S. Duchess of Bedford in mid-Atlantic. 2 p.

Jeffers, John Robinson

John Galsworthy collection

  • MG 531
  • Fonds
  • 1924

J. Galsworthy to Madam (?) March 20, 1924.
This letter pertains to Galsworthy's forward to Far Away and Long Ago and to Green Mansions, and to his postscript in A Little Boy Lost.

Galsworthy, John

John Butler Yeats fonds

  • MG 534
  • Fonds
  • 1912

Letter to Charles Fitzgerald July 15, 1912 ( ? ) Autograph letter signed and including caricature sketches of two heads. Extracted from library copy of his "J. B. Yeats letters to his son, W.B. Yeats and others. N. Y., 1946”

Yeats, John Butler

Shirley Serviss fonds

  • MG 617
  • Fonds
  • nd, 1975-1992 (inclusive)

This fonds contains correspondence from Reta Cowley, and John Hicks. The Cowley correspondence in part, discusses her painting process; and the Hicks correspondence discusses the Saskatchewan writing scene (particularly Prince Albert); his publications and awards, and his ideas about writing.

Serviss, Shirley

Elizabeth Philips fonds

  • MG 646
  • Fonds
  • 1978-2017 (inclusive) ; 1978-2000 (predominant)

This fonds contains mainly textual material relating to the writing of Elizabeth Philips. Much of it is notes, rough drafts, and copies of poems and some prose work. There is also correspondence which relates to the business side of writing and getting published as well as some personal correspondence that relates to every day life and also on writing, as she corresponded with other writers.

Philips, Elizabeth

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