File consists of manuscripts for a book on Anton T. Boisen.

Folder 1 consists of seven typed manuscripts by Nouwen on Boisen. They include:

• Boisen and Forestry
• Dr. William Lowe Bryan
• Boisen and Coe (George Albert Coe (1862-1951) important contributor to religious education in the US)
• The Symbolic Flower
• Anton Boisen’s Relationship with Alice Batchelder
• The Background of a Clinician
• Boisen and Freud

Folder 2 consists of eight typed manuscripts by Nouwen on Boisen. They include:

• The Symbolic Flower
• Dr. William Lowe Bryan (2 copies)
• Boisen and Freud
• Boisen and Forestry
• Boisen and Coe
• The Background of a Clinician
• Boisen (2 copies) [3-page document about Nouwen's visit with Boisen in the Elgin State hospital in August 1964]
• Anton Boisen’s Relationship with Alice Batchelder
  Folder 2 also contains sections of The Symbolic Flower and Anton Boisen’s Relationship with Alice Batchelder, as well as handwritten notes by Nouwen entitled, Richard Cabot and Anton Boisen.

File consists of an early draft of a text entitled, "Anton T. Boisen and the study of theology through ‘living human documents’," by Nouwen. There are pages missing.

File consists of a draft of a text entitled, "Anton T. Boisen and the study of theology through ‘living human documents’," by Nouwen. There are pages missing. This is a later draft using the corrections made to draft 1.

File consists of a hard bound draft of a text entitled, "Anton T. Boisen and the study of theology through ‘living human documents’," by Nouwen. This copy was bound after 1971, while Nouwen was at Yale University, as the cover page of the document lists Yale.

File consists of a soft bound copy a text entitled, "Anton T. Boisen and the study of theology through ‘living human documents’," by Nouwen.

File consists of a partial draft typescript of an unpublished book by Nouwen entitled, "Anton T. Boisen and the Study of Theology Through "Living Human Documents". Draft includes 'Preface', 'Part 1. The Case of Anton T. Boisen: General Introduction', and 'Chapter One: The Creative Experience'. This text was likely written during Nouwen's last year at the Menninger Clinic (Topeka, KS).

File consists of typescripts of three chapters (seven) of Nouwen's first book, "Intimacy". The chapters included are: 'From Magic to Faith' (originally a student lecture by Nouwen) (includes three copies in Dutch, one in English); 'The Priest and His Mental Health' (one copy; English); and 'The Challenge to Love' (two copies; based on lecture notes). File also includes a typescript of an article entitled, "On the Possibility and Desirability of Love", a precursor to the chapter, 'The Challenge to Love'.

File consists of a manuscript of the foreword to the re-issue of "Met open handen: Notities over het gebed" (Lannoo Publishers, 1988 ) (= "With Open Hands").

File consists of a manuscript of introduction of the Dutch edition of With Open Hands. It is titled "Met Open Handen : vingeroefeningen voor het gebed" [With Open Hands: Exercises for Prayer].

File consists of records relating to the Catholic New Times street box rentals, including the project proposal and a list of locations.

File consists of newsletters, press releases, newspapers (the Corpus Canada Journal) and clippings, and research papers related to calls for reform within the Roman Catholic Church. The records reflect the Catholic New Times' involvement with Corpus Canada and the Coalition of Concerned Canadian Catholics.
Box 6 file 6 includes text printouts of two newspaper articles retrieved from a library database on May 3, 1993:
“Catholic trustee fails to block conference” by Michael McAteer from the Toronto Star April 30, 1993 page B10
“Priests not taught to cope with celibacy, cleric says” by Michael McAteer from the Toronto Star May 2, 1993 page A16

File consists of correspondence from the Secretary of the Faith and Sharing Federation to members of the North American Committee regarding the organization of annual meetings, including agendas, expenses and minutes of meetings.

File consists of minutes of meetings of the North American Executive Committee.

File consists of histories of:

1 Vancouver Island, BC
2 Orange County, CA
3 Oregon
4 Timmins, ON
5 Ottawa-Gatineau-Hull
6 St Augustine, FL
7 Winnipeg, MB
8 Quebec, QC
9 Rimouski, QC
10 Chicoutimi, QC
11 Sherbrooke, QC
12 St. Jean – Longueuil, QC
13 Gaspésie, QC
14 Atlantic Canada

The file consists of material gathered by the secretary of the North American Committee. Included in the file:

1 Original list of the Faith and Sharing Federation fonds produced by Madeleine Seguin, August 15, 1994
2 Documents relating to the deposit of records to Archives Deschalets, Ottawa, in 1993-1994 and the donation of the records to University of St. Michael’s College in 2004
3 List of Faith and Sharing North American Committee contacts, addresses and phone numbers, 2002

File consists of one letter from B.J. Mitchell; one letter from a Mike (last name unknown), regarding an entry on Sheila Watson in the UBC yearbook "Totem" from 1931; one letter from Douglas M. Gibson, publisher at McClelland and Stewart.

Album 3 consists of photographs of Henri Nouwen alone and with friends, including Don McNeill, Bob Antonelli and Claude Pomerleau, between 1970 and 1974. Put together by Henri Nouwen the album predominantly contains photos of him socializing with friends at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut; posing for portraits along canals in Utrecht, Netherlands for photographer Ron van den Bosch; and working and socializing with friends at the Abbey of the Genesee in Piffard, New York. Also included are photos of retreats, as well as trips to Aspen, Colorado; Elora, Ontario; and Cochabamba, Bolivia.

6. A.l.s. from Émile Zola to Édouard Fournier (1819-1880), [Paris], 20 November 1865, 3 p. – on letterhead «Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, Boulevard Saint-Germain, 77», crossed out.
   Zola writes to Fournier, a journalist who wrote for a number of Paris newspapers, to request that Fournier read and comment on Zola’s new (and his first) novel, La Confession de Claude in Fourier’s upcoming literary column in La Patrie.
   In this letter, Zola’s keen sense of how to create publicity for his works is already evident, since he tells Fournier that he will not be upset if Fournier gives an honest opinion of his work. “It goes without saying, writes Zola, that I prefer a frank evaluation to a couple of indulgent lines.”
   Published in Correspondance, vol. 1, p. 422-423 (letter 129).
   This is a very significant letter, not only because of its content but also because letters from this period (the 1860’s) are relatively rare.

File consists of materials related to the 1918 general election and O'Neill's role as presiding officer at the Warrenpoint Townhall polling station.

File consists of correspondence from people with last name beginning with 'A' or subject beginning with 'A.'

File consists of correspondence with Professor M. Roberts (Department of Modern History, The Queen's University of Belfast) and with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland regarding the transfer of Patrick O'Neill's political papers to the Public Record Office, as well as correspondence with Eamon Phoenix concerning his research for a doctoral thesis at The Queen's University of Belfast about the nationalist movement in Northern Ireland.

File consists of process work and drafts created by Colette Potvin between 1965 and 1966. Records include typescripts and drafts of the essay “ce que je souhaite et ce que j'espère” as well as typescripts, drafts, handwritten notes and correspondence relating to other Potvin reports and essays.

File consists of indices and key file lists that outline the Papal Commission session groupings, presenters and participants. The indices also lists the reports presented at each session.

File consists of 12 letters to James Feeley from Marshall McLuhan. The letters are predominantly from 1962-1965, but there is on letter from 1977. The series also consists of five letters from Feeley to McLuhan between 1964 and 1965.

File consists of letters from Cardinal Alfrink, Archbishop of Utrecht. Alfrink was Nouwen's bishop. File includes a one-page, typed biographical sketch of Alfrink.

These files consist of records that document the various sources from which letters and documents were donated for the project. File #2 contains donation agreements for private French donors. The dates of these forms range from 1974 to 1988. File #3 contains an inventory of French libraries and journals that were visited throughout the course of the project. File #4 is a collection of references cards that outline the different public and private institutions that donated documents or letters to the project. These cards outline the name of the institution or figure, location, and a listing of the letters donated to the project.

File consists of a three pages of handwritten notes regarding a philosopher [Boleuphoke?] and his support of natural religion.

Typescript with corrections.

File consists of administrative material for the Nouwen Letter Project. Materials are separated into the following files:

File 1: 2007 Donation Campaign
File consists of initial project reports for the 2007 continuation of the letter project; a deed of gift agreement; an image usage agreement; a website notice; letters of requests; follow-up letters; brochures; flowcharts; progress and summary reports; personnel files; and examples of deeds of gifts, usage agreements, and letters of requests from other institutions.

File 2: Quotes
File consists of quotations and estimates for printing business cards, brochures, cards, envelopes, and letters.

File 3: 2007 Working Lists
File consists of working lists that are separated into high, mid, and low priorities. Some lists are annotated with additional notes by Sue Mosteller and Gabrielle Earnshaw.

File 4: Tokens of appreciation
File consists of planning and samples of hand-printed cards of Nouwen quotes that were used as tokens of appreciation.

File 5: 2010 Letter Project Coordinator personnel files
File consists of personnel files of the 2010 Henri Nouwen Letter Project coordinator. File includes letters of employment, a project grant approval, a summary report for September 2009 to June 2011, budget correspondence, and handwritten notes by Brynn Phillips Lawrence who was the project coordinator from 2009 to 2012.

File 6: Deeds of Gifts
File consists of four copies of the deed of gift agreement sent to donors to the Nouwen Letter Project. One copy has an accession number and date handwritten on it.

File 7: Letterheads
File consists of blank letterheads used for correspondence for the Letter Project and mailing labels. The letterhead margin lists the Nouwen Archive Letter Project Board and a Nouwen quote from The Genesee Diary.

File 8: Checklists
File consists of three copies of the checklist used when receiving and organizing donations to the Nouwen Letter Project.

File 9: Experiencing Henri
File consists of different versions of a questionnaire sent out for “Experiencing Henri” which asked for reflections on connections with Nouwen to provide context for materials donated to the Letter Project.

File 10: Letter Project Back-ups
File consists of 3 optical disks containing backups for the Letter Project files from 2012.

File 11: Audiovisual materials
File consists of administrative audiovisual materials from the Nouwen Project. One DVD is raw audio/video footage for an interview conducted by Brynn Phillips Lawrence with Gabriella Silano. The interview was conducted in order to prepare a 5 minute promotional video, to be posted on the Nouwen Archive Letter Project website. File also includes sound recordings from a memorial service for Michael Frederick Kennedy; an optical disc labelled “Gabriella Footage”; and a MiniDV cassette.

File 12: Correspondence files
File consists of correspondence for the letter project and are separated into folders by addressees and donors. List of all correspondents is kept in the first folder.

File consists of the official publication of the Henri Nouwen Society in Canada and the United States, providing information and updates regarding retreats, study groups, lecture series and other activities. Archives has up to: Fall 2008.

File consists of video recordings of Nouwen and L'Arche Daybreak that was used for an episode of Overal et Nergens called Salto Mortale. The episode aired on October 23, 1993.

File consists of blank letterhead for the Henri Nouwen Literary Centre and the Henri Nouwen Literary Centre’s newsletter Sprouting Seeds. Also in the file are several blank questionnaire postcards for individuals to indicate whether they had Nouwen related material they were willing to donate to the Henri Nouwen Literary Centre.

File consists of a transcript of a homily given by Nouwen on Mark 14: 32-42. The transcription was done by Gabrielle Earnshaw, Archivist for a researcher.

File consists of a photocopy of "Parting Words: A Conversation with Henri Nouwen", a reprint of Sacred Journey Classics in The Journal of Fellowship in Prayer.

File consists of 13 copies of a pamphlet entitled, “Henri Nouwen bij Lannoo” and a poster for the dutch edition of The Prodigal Son. One copy of the pamphlet is a later edition with a new photograph, a shorter preface, and 3 additional books listed.

File consists of 1 complete box set of 52 Pickup 76 and 26 display copies of broadsides featured in the series. The loose broadsides, likely part of an incomplete exhibition set, range in size and are unfolded.

The 52 Pickup 76 collection features 52 poems by 52 emerging poets, printed on flat or uniformly folded broadsides using a variety of typefaces and coloured paper. The box set includes a title page, colophon, specification sheet, and afterword by editor Greg Gatenby. The specification sheet notes that the paper for the box was made from blue jeans. The box set is #96 of an edition of 100 copies, and is signed and numbered by Gatenby.

A complete list of the poems and poets in numbered sequence appears below. Items in bold have a duplicate stand-alone broadside present in the collection.

1 Robert MacDonald: rhetorical lament
2 Edward Strickland: Worksheet
3 Jan Bartley: Magic
4 Terry Kelly: Madelaine and the Mysteries of the Flesh
5 Judith Fitzgerald: Octave
6 Timothy Shay: lament
7 Ed Jewinski: recurrence and an empty chair
8 Cecilie Jones: Rondania
9 Susan Musgrave: Between Friends
10 Greg Gatenby: Auburn Photograph
11 Pier Giorgio DiCicco: America
12 Karsten Kossman: The Carriers of Umbrellas and Pockets
13 Judi Hurst: Lovers and Linguists
14 Ludwig Zeller: Captain Cook's Last Refuge
15 Fraser Sutherland: Madwomen
16 Ian Young: Alamo
17 Tim Inkster: The Bestiary: Mule
18 Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Lion
19 George Bowering: Daniel Johnston Lying in State
20 David Berry: An Eclipse of the Moon
21 John Robert Columbo: What I Am
22 Tom Wayman: Transport
23 Hans Jewinski: Encyclopedia Salesman, March 16, 1971
24 John Oughton: Zero Aperture, Photographer
25 Joe Rosenblatt: Into the Soups of Rivers
26 Artie Gold: Old Road Poem Song
27 Margaret Atwood: Marsh, Hawk
28 Irving Layton: Catacombe Dei Cappucini
29 Dorothy Livesay: Collared
30 Robin Skelton: Hypothesis
31 Pat Lane: untitled
32 J.D. Carpenter: The Letting Go
33 Jan Kemp: Mystics Mild:Song
34 Victor Coleman: Disengagement Ritual
35 Alden Nowlan: The Departure
36 David Day: Night Passage
37 Ralph Gustafson: Of Beds and Manuscripts
38 Robert Finch: The Autumn Leaves
39 Andrew Suknaski: Almighty Voice
40 George Faludy: Death of a Chleuch Dancer
41 Eugene McNamara: what have you forgotten
42 C.H. Gervais: His Laughter
43 Gail Fox: The Creators
44 Fred Cogswell: Quality
45 Gwen Hauser: So What Else is Old
46 Len Gasparini: Toronto Nocturne
47 David Brooks: The Fields of Becoming
48 Lorraine Vernon: Spire
49 Albert Frank Moritz: On Farming
50 James Reaney: The Whistle
51 Jeni Couzyn: Spell to Cure Barreness
52 Steve McCaffery: Novel 7

File consists of 1 copy of Opposites attract, a limited edition series of original illustrations by Seth Scriver. The series consists of 7 broadsides on multi-coloured paper collected together in a paper enclosure. The illustrations were printed by Someone.ca using photopolymer plates and hand set type.

File consists of notification of meetings, agendas, minutes, reports, and other materials prepared for the annual meetings of the New Catholic Times and Board of Directors meetings, as well as Ontario Corporation forms, and registers of members, directors, and officers.

File consists of letters from Gwen McGrenere to Janet Somerville and Sr. Mary Jo Leddy (co-editors of the Catholic New Times) and copies of letters from Somerville and Leddy to McGrenere, all regarding the possibility of McGrenere writing for the newspaper on the topic of science and religion. File also includes copies of short reflections and articles written by McGrenere and a photocopy of an article by Amy Gross called “Thinking like a woman” published in the May 1982 issue of Vogue.

Files consists of correspondence and other documents related to first retreats
including:

Toronto, ON, August 1969
Ottawa, ON, November 1970
Lourdes, France, ‘Faith and Light’ Pilgrimage, April 1971
Montreal, QC, August 1971
Ottawa, ON, August 1971
Val Cartier, QC, August 1971
Edmundston, NB, 1972
Quebec, 1972
Cleveland, OH, 1972
Calgary, MB,1972
Val Morin, QC, 1972
Orleans, 1972
Marylake, ON, July – August 1972

File consists of the retreatant lists for the following retreats:

Ottawa, Toronto, 1969
Mount-Rolland, Quebec, 1970
Ottawa, Val Morin, Val Cartier, 1971
Ottawa, Beauport, Edmundston, 1972
Montreal, 1973

File consists of documents relating to a request from the Faith and Sharing Federation to the Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Canada to become officially incorporated as a registered charity.

File consists of correspondence and monographs written by Jean Vanier on his trips to L'Arche communities in India, Haiti, Honduras, Toronto and France. The letters are bundled by year and include correspondence written in or about the following locations:

1972: Calcutta, Quebec
1973: Canada, Bangalore
1974: United States, Canada
1975: Brasil, Bangalore, Haiti, Côte d’Ivoire, Honduras
1976: India, Côte d’Ivoire, Paris
1977: Calcutta, France, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso
1979: India

-Large photograph of Henry Bauer, literary critic.
-Framed front page of Le Petit Journal, Supplément illustré, 31 juillet 1898 – illustration of Zola going to Versailles for his trial.
-According to a hand-written note at the back of the frame (note by J.B. Sanders): watercolour by Jules Antoine (brother of André Antoine), figuring André Antoine in his role as Jacques Damour – adapted from Zola’s short story.

File consists of a draft of Teresa V. O'Neill's thesis entitled "The sixth parliament of George III. 1798-1800." O'Neill submitted this thesis for her MA in Modern Irish History at the University College of Dublin, for which she received First Class Honours when she graduated in 1943.

File consists of 3 audio cassettes featuring talks given by Jean Vanier at a retreat for l'Arche assistants in Erie, PA, in 1979.

File consists of 23 audio cassettes featuring talks given at a Covenant Retreat held from April 5-11, 1981. The talks are in French and English.

File consists of seventy-four slides of Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights march (attended by Nouwen), which began in Selma, AL, on March 21, 1965, and arrived in Montgomery, AL, on March 25, 1965. File also contains seven slides taken by or featuring Nouwen, including one slide featuring Nouwen in military uniform, one slide of the original Menninger Clinic, one slide taken by Nouwen during a trip, and four slides from a University of Notre Dame football game.

File consists of postcards addressed to Olive Plowman from 1903 to 1932. Most of the postcards are dated from 1908-1919.

These files consist of letters sent to Zola between the years of 1858 to 1870, which represent Zola youth, his
relocation to Paris and the beginning of his writing career. Most of the letters contained in these files are typed
transcriptions (both on typewriter and computer printout). The typewriter copies are generally rough drafts of
the letters, where the Zola Research Program is editing the letters and attempting to establish dates and facts,
whereas the computer printouts represent the clean, final copy of the letter (the two copies are stapled
together). The early years in these files are dominated with letters by Paul Cézanne, Octave Lacroix, and
Aurélieu Houchard - most of which discuss everyday activities of the correspondents (some poems included),
as well as more professional correspondence once Zola begins work at Hachette Publishing in 1862. In 1864
and 1865, the letters express both support and criticism for the early published works by Zola, Contes à Ninon
and La Confession de Claude. Édouard Manet, Marius Roux and Antoine Guillemet become regular
correspondents from 1866 onwards (the letters by Roux and Manet are generally photocopies of handwritten
texts). The first letter from Alexandrine Zola, Émile Zola’s wife, appears on December 14, 1870 (in File

212), which is accompanied by various letters by Zola’s mother Émilie Zola. As well, a highlight of these files

is the letters from Zola’s editor, Lacroix and Verboeckhoven, discussing the publishing and printing to Zola’s
first major novel, Thérèse Raquin, in 1867.