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Florence Nightingale Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00229
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1873-1879

This collection consists of correspondence and papers written by Nightingale to Annie Machin, a friend and pupil. They describe her concerns about the new Montreal General Hospital, including the selection of trained nurses for it. The letters show Nightingale's attention to detail about the hospitals where the nurses would work, her concern for their well-being, their qualifications and suitability for the work.

Nightingale, Florence

[Collection of travel guides.]

  • CA OTUTF guides pam 00012
  • Collection
  • 1874-1984

Contains guidebooks for various areas across the United Kingdom, as well as Paris and Toronto.

William John Alexander Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00155
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1874-1944

The collection consists mainly of accounts written by Dr. Alexander of his own family and of his wife's family, the Morrows and Richeys of Halifax; a few letters; a large clipping file of events from W.J. Alexander's life; some family photos.

Alexander, W. J. (William John)

[Collection of book prospectuses.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00035
  • Collection
  • 1874-1990

A collection of book proposals from Canada, Germany, the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden.

Hunter, Rose & Co. Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00217
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [ca.1874]-1977

Collection contains letters patent, minute books, stock certificates, balance sheets, correspondence and miscellaneous material relating to the Hunter, Rose & Company and its associated companies.

Hunter, Rose & Co.

[Collection of taxation ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00072
  • Collection
  • 1875-1993

A collection of 13 folders of taxation ephemera. Material originates principally from Canada. Remaining material originates from London, UK, and Philadelphia, PN.

Goldwin Smith Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00016
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1875-1887

The collection consists of Smith's letters to George William Curtis, chiefly discussing Canadian-American relations.

Smith, Goldwin

Emily Warren Collection

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00167
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1876-1981

The collection consists of glass slides used by Emily Warren to illustrate her lectures in the 1920's and 1930's, as well as some lecture notes and other writings by Warren. It also contains a few items relating to John Ruskin, including five pieces of manuscript, a typescript of Constance McRae's book on Emily Warren, The Light must be Perfect (1981), and some of her research material. There are also two large volumes of coloured slides of Emily Warren's paintings.

Warren, Emily

Edward Gilpin-Brown Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00292
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1878-1880

The collection contains 2 volumes of photographic albums that document Gilpin-Brown's journey to and tour of duty in India. The first album has 49 photographs, beginning with photos of the ship Euphrates, Malta, and continues through to the second album of 49 photographs with photos of India. Each album has a raised gold monogram of Gilpin-Brown on the front cover.

Gilpin-Brown, Edward

Milton Alexander Buchanan Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00098 2B Annex
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1878-1952

Research notes on Bartolme Jose Gallardo, and northeastern North American place names; holograph, typescript and printed works; a typed bibliography.

Buchanan, Milton A. (Milton Alexander)

[Collection of miscellaneous ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00026
  • Collection
  • 1878-2010

A collection of Canadian election ephemera, including pamplets, advertisements, canvasser isntructions, lists of electors, and more.

William Smellie Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS Coll 00193B
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1879-1916

One-line-a-day farm diaries kept by William Smellie (1836-1919) of Glenelg Township, Ontario. Smellie’s handwritten diaries date from 1883 to 1916, with his earlier diaries dating from 1879-1882, here reproduced in photocopy. Through his daily entries, Smellie offers a glimpse into farm life in Ontario at the turn of the century. He not only documents livestock, crops, and weather on the farm, but also records important events in his family and community. The diaries also include numerous newspaper clippings and loose notes kept by Smellie.

Smellie, William

Douglas Fetherling Papers

  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1880 - ?

Notes, drafts and galleys of writings, notebooks, correspondence, art work, photographs, business records, family papers, printed appearances.

Fetherling, George

[Collection of miscellaneous ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00030
  • Collection
  • 1880-2012

A collection of materials relating to exercise and exhibitions. Box consists mostly of programs and booklets relating to exhibitions from Canada, the United States, and France.

[Collection of library ephemera.]

  • CA OTUTF Ephemera box 00043
  • Collection
  • 1880-1981

A collection of brochures, instructions, data sheets, and other materials printed for libraries from Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

Canadian Women Authors Collection of Photographs

  • CA OTUTF MS COLL 00450
  • Manuscript Collection
  • [ca. 1880-1890]

Collection of black and white photographs of prominent Canadian women, primarily authors, circa late 19th century, many signed.

William Robert (W.R) Patterson Papers

  • CA OTUTF MS Coll 00191B
  • Manuscript Collection
  • 1880-1930

This collection contains letters received by William Robert (W.R.) Patterson from his first wife, Fannie Harris, and brothers, Thomas Patterson and Nathaniel Oscar Patterson, primarily pertaining to personal matters and their careers as singers and vocalists in both Canada and the United States. The largest collection of letters, numbering 22, are from N.O. Patterson to W.R. Patterson which includes a description of his travels throughout the United States and Canada with both the Famous Canadian Jubilee Singers and his own group, the Patterson’s Jubilee Quartet and Concert Company. Ephemera from the Old Southland Sextette and the Patterson’s Jubilee Singers exist in the collection in the form of two programmes dated from 1907 and [191-]. The collection also contains a small amount of letters to W.R. Patterson from friends, as well as letters to him and his second wife, Mary, from their sons, Robert and Philip, while they are working as porters at the Hotel London in the late 1920s.

Patterson, William Robert (W.R)

[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

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