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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
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Douglas Fetherling Papers

The collection contains a variety of business, personal and family correspondence, photographs, drawings and paintings, printed appearances and materials, galleys, and notebooks as well as Fetherling’s correspondence files, 1959 to 1990.

Douglas Fetherling’s literary papers include drafts, galleys, notes, printed appearances and his art work, as well as significant information on literary works and on well-known and aspiring Canadian authors. Authors forwhom files exist (Atwood, Fulford), are listed in the Container List. There is also correspondence with well-known and alternate presses, such as Fifth House and Broadview Press.

The Fetherling family papers have family correspondence and photographs along with material about Fetherling’s father’s work for an American company that manufactured weapons in the early 1940’s.

[Collection of miscellaneous ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00020
  • Collection
  • 1880-1989

A collection containing ephemera on a number of topics, including dance steps, disarmament, the Dionne Quintuplets, domestic life, Denmark, and pharmaceuticals.

Westmacott Family Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS Coll 00291A OVS
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1880-[1930s]

Arrangement:

Contains series:
Series 1: Percy G.B. Westmacott
Series 2: Mabel Noble

Westmacott, Percy G.B.

John Charlton Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00110
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1881-1905

Diaries and autobiography containing commentary on political and economic affairs.

Charlton, John

Morton Shulman Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00285 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1882-[ca. 1982]

The collection consists of a bound typescript of Shulman's The Pfeffenhauser Clock, and a copy of Julia Jarvis' In Good Faith, with some of the graphic materials that she assembled in preparing it. Most of the material relates to Jarvis' parents, Arthur and Frances Annie Julia Roe.

Shulman, Morton

Henry Grattan Tyrrell Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00024
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [ca. 1882]-1929

The collection consists of notes and typescripts for Tyrrell's industrial engineering works and for his books on bridge design. It also includes family correspondence, personal diaries, scrapbooks and some family photographs. Papers of Tyrrell's youngest son, William Tyrrell, are also included.

Tyrrell, H. G. (Henry Grattan)

Chester Martin Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00080
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1882-1958

Bound volumes of archival reproductions, transcripts and other miscellaneous papers.

Martin, Chester

Douglas M. Duncan Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00044
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1882-1943

This collection contains sketches and notes executed by Duncan, along with related correspondence. The dates of this material are 1935-1943. The collection also includes files of correspondence, typescripts and proofs of English authors collected by Duncan. Among the writers collected include Richard Aldington, Max Beerbohm, Lord Alfred Douglas and D.H. Lawrence, among others. The date of this material is 1882-ca.1930.

Duncan, Douglas

J. O. P. Bland Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00081
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1883-1954

Correspondence with officials and British authors, journals kept while in China 1883-85 and 1906-1910, typescripts of chapters of his various published books, his unfinished autobiography, scrapbooks, photos and memorabilia.

Bland, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy)

Archibald Lang Fleming Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00149 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1883-1953

A collection of typescripts of two unpublished books: Beyond the Arctic Circle and Arctic Dawn, as well as related correspondence.

Fleming, Archibald Lang

George M. Miller and William J. Miller Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00194
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1883-1952

This collection consists of architectural drawings and other documentation for buildings designed by Toronto architect George M. Miller and his son William J. Miller. Additional documentation includes microfilms of G.M. Miller's ledger books (1894-1912), as well as correspondence, specifications and other materials for several of the buildings designed by Miller of his son. It also includes photographs of many of the buildings designed by Miller and a small amount of biographical material.

Miller, George M.

[Collection of travel guides.]

  • CA OTUTF guides pam 00013
  • Collection
  • 1884-2000

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, the United States, and Canada.

Charles Ryle Fay Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00087 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1884-1961

Collection includes correspondence, notes and documents relating to his work on Adam Smith titled Adam Smith and the Scotland of his Day (1956), and to his work on Charles Townshend and David Hume. It also includes an unpublished typescript, Grenfell and the Moravian Mission to the Labrador, his journal entitled Western Tour (June-June 1928), concerning farming in the Canadian west, and a typescript of his book Agriculture and the Agricultural Surplus (1928).

Fay, C. R. (Charles Ryle)

Miller, Scott and Dunlop Family Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00643
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1885-1980

Includes a large number of family photographs and 8mm film pertaining to the Miller, Scott and Dunlop families. Photograph collection includes two intact daguerreotype portraits. Collection of personal drawings and etchings by William J. Miller, including the original zinc and copper etching plates. Miscellaneous letters and ephemera relating to the families, including copies of George M. Miller's estate.

Miller Family

[Collection of British travel ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Fisher ephemera box 00010
  • Collection
  • 1885-1995
  1. International Molders' Union, Union card (Brockville) -- 2. International Church Society of Canada -- 3. Young Peoples' Societies (religious) -- 4. Antiquarian Society -- 5. Friends of Italy -- 6. Y.M.C.A. -- 7. Literary & Bibliographical Societies -- 8. Architectural Conservancy of Ontario -- 9. Associazione per la amicizia italo-canadese nella Biblioteca nazionale -- 10. Beta Sigma Phi -- 11. Boy Scouts -- 12. Boy Scouts' Semaphore Cards -- 13. British-American Associates -- 14. Dickens Fellowship -- 15. Dominion Board of Trade -- 16. Eaton Girls' Club (Toronto) -- 17. English-speaking Union -- 18. Federation of Ontario Naturalists -- 19. Federation of Student Nationalists (Scotland) -- 20. Girl Guides -- 21. The Grail -- 22. Hereford Choral Society -- 23. Heritage Canada -- 24. Imperial Federation League -- 25. Industrial Accident Prevention Associations -- 26. Industrial Management Clubs of Canada -- 27. International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto -- 28. Lambton County Rural Game Protective Association -- 29. Ligue antialcoolique de montreal -- 30. Ligue nationaliste canadienne -- 31. Metropolitan Toronto Association for Retarded Children -- 32. Midland Provident Loan & Building Society -- 33. Ontario Association of Architects -- 34. Ontario Club -- 35. Ontario Motor League -- 36. Ontario Craftsmen -- 37. Orange Lodge (Ireland) -- 38. Orange Lodge (Canada) -- 39. Physicians' Services Inc. -- 40. Port Hope Curling Club -- 41. Port Hope Golf Club -- 42. Red Cross Society -- 43. Société française des amis des arts -- 44. Stephen Leacock Associates -- 45. Sunderland Subscription Library and Literary Society (England) -- 46. Swiss Club (Toronto) -- 47. Toronto Heliconian Club -- 48. Toronto Humane Society -- 49. Toronto Ladies' Club -- 50. UNICEF -- 51. United Appeal for Metropolitan Toronto -- 52. University of Chicago Quadrangle Club -- 53. Winnipeg Coordinating Committee for Disarmament -- 54. Women's Advertising and Sales Club of Winnipeg -- 55. Women's Advertising Club of Toronto -- 56. Women's Canadian Club of Toronto -- 57. Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto -- 58. Y.W.C.A. -- 59. Yonge Bay Bloor Association (Toronto) -- 60. York Masonic Temple (Toronto) -- 61. Zonta Club (Toronto) -- 62. Zoological Society of London (England) -- 63. Murton Lodge of Perfection (Masons - Toronto, 1944) -- 64. The Ancient and accepted Scottish Rite in Canada (Masons - Hamilton, ON., 1945) -- 65. Certificate of Association (Ontario Curling Association, ON., [1970s]) -- 66. Metric Convertor (Canadian Library Exhibitors’ Association – Downsview, ON., 1974) -- 67. The Kipling Society -- 68. Monthly Letter (Limited Editions Club, 595 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y., Sept. 1953) -- 69. PLA Bulletin (Pennsylvania Library Association, 200 S. Craig St., Pittsburgh, PA., Nov. 1973 -- 70. Indian – Eskimo Association of Canada (21 Park Rd., Toronto, ON., N.D.) -- 71. Distinguished Academic Award 2007: Award Acceptance Addresss (Canadian Association of University teachers, Ottawa, ON., 2007) -- 72. Canadian Antique Dealers Association (Toronto, ON., N.D.).

Robert Laird Borden Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00184 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1886-1937

The collection consists of correspondence of a political and personal nature, diaries, and miscellaneous documents.

Borden, Robert Laird, Sir

Joseph de Brettes Collection

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 773A
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1886 - 1909

Contains archival materials pertaining to French explorer Joseph de Brettes’ (1861-1934) expeditions to South America including two to Gran Chaco. Collection includes a steel cranial measuring device; a steel archaeological specimen; two offprint accounts written and illustrated by De Brettes describing his expeditions and scientific work in South America; and an offprint bibliographical outline of De Brettes’ extensive explorations in South America and elsewhere as well as his naval and army service.
Also includes album of autographs collected while in South America; 3 photographic identification cards; his personal library bookplate; an offprint poem signed and dedicated by French poet Jehan Rictus; as well as correspondence connected with his efforts as Vice-President of a Portuguese railway company, in particular dealing with a meeting with the King, including 3 manuscript telegrams sent from Lisbon September 1905 and 2 manuscript letters dated 1905.

de Brettes, Joseph

William Kingsford Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00106
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1887-1895

The collection consists of letters from William Kingsford to James Bain, Librarian of the Toronto Public Library, discussing matters arising out of Kingsford's researches into Canadian history and early Canadian printing. It also includes two letters from Douglas Brymmer addressed to Bain.

Kingsford, William

[Collection of gaming ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00029
  • Collection
  • 1887-1983

A collection of various materials, including sports event tickets, dance cards, Bridge booklets, rule booklets, and more.

Douglas Family Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00188 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1888-1945

A small collection of letters, photos, commonplace books and memorabilia. The material chiefly relates to the Hughes family of St. Thomas, Ont.

Douglas Family

Patrick McGahern Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00697 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1888-2012

This collection demonstrates the scope and practice of operating an antiquarian bookseller’s establishment both before and during the use of computerized orders, payments, and catalogue creation. In particular, it deals with Patrick McGahern Books in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, also known as both The Book Boutique and Patrick and Liam McGahern Books. The collection contains business records,financial records, book orders, correspondence, memorabilia, a card catalogue, and bookseller’s catalogue proofs, masters, and prints related to the operation of Patrick McGahern Books.It also contains a moderate collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century bookseller’s catalogues either collected or used by Patrick and Liam McGahern.

Patrick McGahern Books

Dora Mavor Moore Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1888-1979

This collection consists of correspondence, scripts, photos, clippings, theatre programs and tapes covering the personal and professional career of Dora Mavor Moore. It excludes that part of Moore's career when she was director of the New Play Society and School. This material can be found in the New Play Society Papers (MS Coll. 228).

Moore, Dora Mavor

Lord's Day Alliance of Canada Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00129 (Downsview Offsite)
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1888-1994

This collection includes correspondence, minute books, administrative records, legal documents, photographs, scrapbooks and printed materials generated by the Alliance and many of its branches from 1888 to 1979. The second part of the collection includes records and artifacts from the renamed Alliance: the People for Sunday Association of Canada, from 1982 until its dissolution in 1994. There is also material from other organizations concerned with Sunday observance.

Lord's Day Alliance of Canada

Dora Mavor Moore Papers

This collection consists of correspondence, scripts, photos, clippings, theatre programs and tapes covering the personal and professional career of Dora Mavor Moore. It excludes that part of Moore's career when she was director of the New Play Society and School. This material can be found in the New Play Society Papers (MS Coll. 228).

Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Toronto Branch Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00102 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1889-1921

Minute books, business records (correspondence, minutes, reports, vouchers, mailing lists) and advance proofs of articles on engineering topics.

Canadian Society for Civil Engineering. Toronto Section.

Alfred Tennyson DeLury Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00071
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1890-1941

The DeLury collection contains correspondence with Anglo-Irish writers, with friends and with book dealers. It also contains card files and notebooks relating to his collection of Ango-Irish literature and a few diaries from the 1920s.

DeLury, Alfred Tennyson

Charles Mason Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00061
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1890-1891

Transcript and translation of Le Roman de Rou.

Mason, Charles

[Collection of miscellaneous greeting cards.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00031
  • Collection
  • 1890-2003

A collection of cards for birthdays, various holidays, and other sorts of greeting cards from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and France.

Eileen Clairmonte Collection

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00446
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1890-1997

Collection consists primarily of material relating to China from the late 19th century to early 20th century. The bulk is photographs taken by Robert John Davidson, a Quaker missionary in Western China for 35 years beginning in the 1890s, and include some rare and unique photos of life in China at the turn of the 20th century. It also includes various papers, including missionary travel itineraries, of the Davidson family.

Clairmonte, Eileen

[Collection of travel guides.]

  • CA OTUTF guides pam 00016
  • Collection
  • 1890-1994

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, the United States, and then-Czechoslovakia

James Elgin Wetherell Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00028
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1891-1921

The collection consists of correspondence from authors concerning Wetherell's anthologies of poetry.

Wetherell, J. E. (James Elgin)

Gilbert Parker Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS Coll. 00022
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1892 - 1937

Contains letters and notes written by Gilbert Parker to various recipients between 1892 and 1926. Collection also includes promotional pamphlet for Parker’s novel The World for Sale and a press photograph.

Parker, Gilbert

William Arthur Deacon Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00160
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1893 - 1977

Collection of personal & business correspondence with authors,publishers, organizations, readers; minutes of the Canadian Authors Assoc.; manuscripts and typescripts of his writings and lectures as well as galleys and publicity for his books; clippings and scrapbooks of his columns and articles in the Globe & Mail and Saturday Night; 976 photographs of Canadian and international authors.

Deacon, William Arthur

William Arthur Deacon Papers

Collection of personal & business correspondence with authors,publishers, organizations, readers; minutes of the Canadian Authors Assoc.; manuscripts and typescripts of his writings and lectures as well as galleys and publicity for his books; clippings and scrapbooks of his columns and articles in the Globe & Mail and Saturday Night; 976 photographs of Canadian and international authors.

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