Series 3 - Correspondence and Letters of Recommendation

1.4 m of textual records
378 digital files (433 MB)

This series consists of five categories of correspondence:

1. Chronological correspondence: correspondence re-arranged chronologically by Beattie prior to donation to the Archives. Includes letters from colleagues, students, publishers, family, friends, and professional contacts. The letters cover both personal and professional topics related to teaching (especially course materials and progression), conferences (invitations to participate and inquiries about subjects/colleagues), travels (particularly in England/Europe), research (archival information requests and the use of Beattie's books in classrooms), research leave (specifically in 1985-1986 while away from his family in London), and personal family life.

2. Professional correspondence files [not re-arranged chronologically]: correspondence files organized by book project or correspondent, including Tina Loo, Joanna Innes, Jim Phillips, Peter Linebaugh, Nick Rogers, and John Styles. The correspondence primarily covers legal and crime history, focusing on the research conducted by Beattie and his correspondents.

3. 132 digital word processing files of outgoing letters, from 2000-2016

4. 1610 emails, circa 2009-2017, from his j.beattie@sympatico.ca email address, which he shared with his wife Susan. Includes correspondence with his family, friends, and colleagues including Allyson May, Jim Phillips, Martin Friedland, Randall McGowen, Simon Devereau, and Joanna Innes.

5. 4 files and 1 digital folder of letters of recommendation written by Beattie for colleagues and students.

All files are open, with the exception of:

• B2022-0017/005(15)-(18): Letters of Recommendation, 1970-2001
• B2022-0017_df006: Recs [letters of recommendation], 1992-2016

These files are closed for 30 years until 2053-01-01. Please contact the University Archivist for additional information.

Letters to his wife Susan can be found in Series 1.

Additional email files from Outlook Express ca. 2008 were included with this accession, but as of 2023-12-06, remain unprocessed as they were unable to be imported into the ePADD email archiving tool.