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File consists of correspondence from Donna Bennett and Helen Hacksel on behalf of Descant regarding the journal's twentieth anniversary and Watson's donation of several books of poetry by Wilfred Watson.

File consists of a letter from Hal May, editor of Contemporary Authors, requesting biographical information from Watson.

File consists of correspondence from Stan Bevington, Sarah Evans, Carolyn Guertin, Clifford James, Margaret McClintock, Karen Mac Cormack, David McFadden, Sarah Sheard and Karen Shook on behalf of Coach House Press, regarding royalty statements and reprint premissions regarding her short story collections published by the press, as well as solications for her translations of Madeleine Ferron's stories and correspondence from HBJ-Holt, Heather Jones, Lester & Orpen Dennys, Gerald Lynch, regarding publishing rights forwarded to Watson by Coach House staff. Also includes a page of editorial corrections by Watson of the 1985 edition of "Five Stories".

File consists of a letter from R.R.W. Robertson, on behalf of Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, declining to publish "Deep Hollow Creek".

File consists of correspondence from Ian Boyd, C.S.B., editor of The Chesterton Review, of which Watson acted as an advisory editor.

File consists of a letter from C. Day Lewis, on behalf of Chatto and Windus Ltd., declining "The Double Hook" for publication.

File consists of correspondence from Isabel Duque on behalf of Casa Canada, the Canadian Centre for Development and Culture, based in Santiago, Chile, and Lake Sagaris, regarding the translation of Watson's "Antigone" into Spanish for a short story anthology.

File consists of two versions of a letter from Pierre Coupey, editor of The Capilano Review, thanking Watson for her permission to publish her work, and a letter from Daphne Marlatt, associate editor, regarding Watson's interview that was published in the periodical.

File consists of a letter from Barbara Freeze on behalf of The Canadian National Institute for the Blind, regarding Watson's agreement to allow "The Double Hook" to be freely transcribed into sound recordings and braille.

File consists of correspondence from George Woodcock, editor of the periodical Canadian Literature, soliciting articles and book reviews regarding Wyndham Lewis, and requesting Watson's opinions of potential contributors.

File consists of correspondence from Margaret V. Hill, editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography, on behalf of Bruccoli Clark Inc. (Columbia, S.C.), requesting biographical information from Watson.

File consists of a letter from Wayne Grady, managing editor of Books in Canada, requesting a book review from Watson.

File consists of a letter from Jerome Agel, on behalf of books/, a newspaper based in New York City, soliciting an article on Wyndham Lewis from Watson.

File consists of correspondence and royalty statements from Bokf

File consists of a letter from Janet M. Turnbull, editor of Authors' Marketing Services, based in Toronto, ON.

File consists of a letter from Dudley H. Cloud of The Atlantic Monthly Press (Boston, MA) regarding her submission of "The Double Hook" for publication.

File consists of copies of typed correspondence from Watson addressed to various book sellers, publishers, art galleries, art dealers and individuals, and their responses to Watson's requests for permission to publish images and obtain photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings by Wyndham Lewis which she hoped to use in her issue of artscanada dedicated to the painter. The file also includes a flexi disc featuring a reading by Wyndham Lewis and thoughts by Marshall McLuhan, which accompanied the magazine issue. Includes responses from: Agenda; The Art Gallery of Kelvingrove (Glasgow, Scotland); The Arts Council of Great Britain; The City Art Gallery (Leeds, England); David Higham Associates (London, England); Faber and Faber Publishing; George Eastman House (Rochester, NY); Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries; J. Howard Woolmer Books (New York, NY); Anne Wyndham Lewis; the Manchester City Art Gallery; Methuen & Co; Mr. Walter Michel; Naomi Mitchison; Pheonix Book Shop (New York, NY); Mrs. Douglas Stewart; The Tate Gallery (London, England); The Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England), and Barry Lord, editor of artscanda.

File consists of correspondence from Anne Brodsky, Shirley Gibson and Barry Lord, on behalf of the magazine artscanada (formerly Canadian Art magazine), regarding a special issue on Wyndham Lewis written by Watson. Also includes two advance copies of the issue, the publishing contract, and a letter from Lewis' widow, Anne Wyndham Lewis.

File consists of correspondence from Stan Dragland on behalf of Applegarth Follies, a journal based in London, Ontario, soliciting Watson for book reviews.

File consists of correspondence from George Sanderson, editor of The Antigonish Review.

File consists of three pages of annotated typescript regarding the impact of Marshall McLuhan and his use of transgression in his work. This piece may have been the script for a lecture which Watson was asked to give following the death of McLuhan in 1980.

File consists of three pages of typescript and handwritten prose regarding the 1979 publication of a collection of bilingual translations of Quebec literature. This may have been an academic article or the beginning of a book review.

File consists of a six page typescript regarding women writers and artists, annotated by Watson in pencil and ink.

File consists of one page of handwritten manuscript fragment regarding Stephen Spender, Ezra Pound, language and poetry. This may have been the beginning of a book review.

File consists of a 28 page annotated typescript of the article "Myth and Counter-myth" published in White Pelican 4:1 (Winter 1974): 7-19.

File consists of a four page typescript entitled "Some thoughts about the box-car, the grain elevator, the slaughterhouse, the maximum security penitentiary and the poetry of Michael Ondaatje". This piece is assumed to be by Watson, although it does not contain any attributive annotations. It appears to have been the early inspiration for her article, "Michael Ondaatje : The Mechanization of Death

File consists of two carbon copied typescripts of the article "Canada and Wyndham Lewis the Artist" that would be published in Canadian Literature 35 (Winter 1968): 44-61, including a 29 page heavily annotated typescript including two pages of handwritten notes, and a 25 page typescript without annotation.

File consists of a 42 page typescript of what would be published as "The Great War: Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press" in an issue of artscanada 24:11 (November 1967).

File consists of a three page typescript regarding St.Augustine and his conception of the city annotated "SW" on the first page. This article may have been intended to be an introductory piece in an anthology project on the city in literature begun by Watson while in Toronto working with Marshall McLuhan between 1968 and 1969.

File consists of a 13 page carbon copy typescript of Watson's article

File consists of a 6 page carbon copy of Watson's article "Artist Ape as Crowd-Master" published in Marshall McLuhan's special insert "Explorations" in the University of Toronto magazine The Varsity Graduate 11:2 (Summer 1964): 50-53.

File consists of 4 carbon copied typed pages of Watson's article "The Speaking Image: the engravings of Guillermo Silva Santamaria", published in the journal Obras y Autores in December 1961.

File consists of two typescripts of Watson's "Ipsofacts and sadcontras - Mr. Ellmann, Mr. Wagner, Miss Beach and Mr. Lewis", including a 13 page typescript of article with Watson's 21 Sussex Avenue address in Toronto, and a 9 page typescript of the article, numbered 5 to 13. Typescripts are annotated in pencil by Watson and another, most likely Marshall McLuhan, her thesis supervisor.

File consists of an original file folder containing several labels and notes containing 44 pages of typed and heavily annotated draft typescripts of Watson's "Ipsofacts and sadcontras - Mr. Ellmann, Mr. Wagner, Miss Beach and Mr. Lewis", including: 2 loose pages, (p.12) and (p.5), which are heavily annotated in ink; 6 pages of handwritten notes and typed paragraphs in blue ink; a 6 page typescript of the article typed in black and blue, annotated in ink and written on the first page "Promulgating ipsofacts and sadcontras (F.W. 156)" by Watson; 8 pages of typescript numbered 5 to 12 lightly annotated in ink; a 12 page typescript of the article annotated in pencil and black and green ink; and a 10 page typescript of the article annotated in ink.

File consists of four typescripts regarding Wyndham Lewis which may be versions of chapters of Watson's thesis or later articles and lectures which she developed out of her research. They include: a 19 page typescript which has been heavily annotated in pencil and ink by Watson; a 28 page typescript that has been annotated by Watson; a 30 page typescript annotated in ink by Watson, bound in a tan folder; and a 28 page typescript regarding Lewis' "The Childermass". This may be a script for a lecture or conference paper, as Watson occasionally uses the first person.

File consists of 6 typed and annotated pages of four drafts of a memorial for the French painter Maurice Utrillo, including a drawn map of the location of the memorial.

File consists of a 19 page typescript with handwritten additions of an essay regarding Ezra Pound and aesthetics. This may have been a conference paper, as Watson uses the first person.

File consists of a 2 page essay by Watson "Remedial Reading" from the journal "The B.C. Teacher", which has annotated and corrected by Watson.

File consists of a 12 page untitled typescript regarding Ezra Pound's "Cantos". This essay is assumed to be by Watson, although there are no attributing annotations or signatures.

File consists of an 11 page typescript entitled "The Historical Allegory in Eliot's The Waste Land" containing sparse handwritten annotations by Watson.

File consists of one page of handwritten prose regarding Watson's post-secondary school St. Ann's Academy which would be published in "St. Ann

File consists of one typed poem "Dark in my heart of darkness" presumed to be by Watson, containing a ink drawing on the reverse by Wilfred Watson titled "Annual Meet of the Vancouver Branch of the David Society."

File consists of a typescript of three poems, "Heuros has a nightmare", "Heuros makes a decision" and "If I were Resoun & not nature". These poems are presumed to be by Watson as they contain no annotations, nor are they signed.

• File consists of nine typed poems, including "The osprey", "Bird's words", "Sometimes between light and light", "The sacrifice", "O superbia initium sumpsit omnis perditio", "I have seen what Moses saw", and "In wyntter quan pe frost hym fres...", and two untitled poems begining "And he came
• out of the tomb..." and "He stood in the mountains
• saying :...". The typescript has been signed "S.M. Watson".

File consists of three handwritten drafts of a poem.

File consists of a 3 page annotated typescript of the short story "And the four animals...".

File consists of a 4 page typescript of the short story "The Black Dogs", which would later be published at "And the Four Animals...".

File consists of a 17 page annotated typescript of the short story "The Padded Pew", later published as "The Rumble Seat", containing two versions of pages 1 and 2.

File consists of an envelope annotated "The Padded Pew" containing several copies of a version of the short story that would be published as "The Rumble Seat", including an original and carbon copy of the fourteen page short story; an original and a carbon copy of the first nine pages of the story; and an original and a carbon copy of pages 2 and 3 of the story. This version of the short story has been typed with the dialogue between the characters Pierre and Oedipus in capitals.

File consists of an original file folder containing a 17 page typescript of the short story "The Padded Pew", later published as "The Rumble Seat". There are notes and annotations on the file folder.