Manuscripts and Publications

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
B2017-0007/014(04) Jack Batten and Michael Bliss, “Sherlock Holmes’ great Canadian adventure,” Weekend Magazine, 1977-05-28, 8-14 File 1977
B2017-0007/014(05) Banting: A biography. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart, 1984. Poster for “A Banting night”, University of Toronto Bookroom, 1984-03-29 File 1984
B2017-0007/023(12) “Another anti-trust tradition,” Canadian anti-combines policy, 1889-1910,” Business History Review, XLVII, 3 (Summer 1973) 177-188 File 1973
B2017-0007/023(13) Fiction: “A perfect crime”. Drafts File [197-]
B2017-0007/023(19) Memories: “It’s [illegible] Wilson in ‘52”, Draft, memories of the Wilson Trophy race at Taylor Statten Camps, 1980-12 File 1980
B2017-0007/023(22) Memories: “A bit of nostalgia”, letter to the Kingsville Reporter, with a response by M. Bliss File [198-]
B2017-0007/023(30) “Humour”. Includes “Interprovincial trade” and satirical reviews of books by Richard Rohmer (1982) and George Jonas (1984) File 1982-1984
B2017-0007/023(33) “The mountain and the valley,” Saturday Night, 98, 1 (January 1983) 26-37; With E. Cukerman, O.V. Sirek and A. Sirek, “The cost and other aspects of the discovery of insulin: what they were in 1921 and what they would be in 1981: an essay to commemorate the 60th anniversary,” Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology, 11 (1983) 156-160 File 1983
B2017-0007/024(02) Enterprise in a cold climate: Reflections on the history of Canadian business. University of Ottawa: J. J. Carlson Lecture Series, presented 1987-02-18 File 1987
B2017-0007/024(03) Plaque: A story of smallpox in Montreal. Excepts published by Harper Collins, 1991; “Privatizing the mind: The sundering of Canadian history, the sundering of Canada,” Journal of Canadian Studies, 26, 4 (Winter 1991-1992) 5-18 File 1991
B2017-0007/024(05) Columns in the Toronto Star File 1993-1998
B2017-0007/024(07) “Research methods and the discovery of insulin,” in Walter de Gruyter, Research methodologies in human diabetes, Part I. Berlin, 1994, 10 p. File 1994
B2017-0007/024(08) “Right honourable men: King: dividing us least,” Harper Collins Reader, Fall 1994, 3-8 File 1994
B2017-0007/024(13) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Correspondence with archival repository sources File 1994-1998
B2017-0007/024(17) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. “Misc. correspondence”: master file re the Osler biography File 1998-2003
B2017-0007/024(19) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Unpublished letters re book File 1999
B2017-0007/024(22) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Booksellers lists File 1999-2000
B2017-0007/026(07) “Identity Trilogy”, 3 part column in National Post, 13, 14, 15 January 2003, re the issues of Canadian identity & diversity with reaction, related columns, and supporting articles by Michael Bliss File 1968, 1992, 2003
B2017-0007/026(10) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Reviews and notices File 2005-2007
B2017-0007/026(11) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Letters of congratulation and comment File 2005-2010
B2017-0007/026(19) The Walrus Foundation. Freelance agreement, 2008-09-23 File 2008
B2017-0007/027(01) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Draft, 2004-10-12. Reader’s reports from Len Husband, U of T Press; chapters with annotations from Edward R. Laws. File 2004
B2017-0007/028(01)-(02) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Draft, 2004-10-12. “My copy of…this penultimate draft, MB.” File 2004
B2017-0007/030(03) The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning points in the treatment of disease. Toronto: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Printout of first draft, January 2009, “From Fatalism to Mastery …”, w. emailed comments by Karen Darling, Univ. of Chicago, Press File 2009
B2017-0007/030(05) The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning points in the treatment of disease. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Correspondence File 2010-2011
B2017-0007/030(06) “The last latchkeyer: The tragedy of John Fulton, in Jeremiah A. Barondess and Charles S. Bryan, ed. The Persisting Osler, IV: Selected transactions of the American Osler Society, 2001-2010. Sycamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, 2011, 151-160. Correspondence File 2011
B2017-0007/030(09) Writing history: A professor’s life. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011. “Believing: A professor’s life in our times”. 1st draft, begun Jan. 12, 2006 File 2006
B2017-0007/030(10) Writing history: A professor’s life. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011. Reader’s Reports: reports by Paul Rutherford and anonymous readers (for UTP) on manuscript of “Writing History” File [2011?]
B2017-0007/030(11)-(13) Writing history: A professor’s life. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011. Post-publication correspondence and reviews File 2011-2013
B2017-0007/030(14) “Sir Frederick Grant Banting,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XVII (1941-1950), online. French version File
B2017-0007/030(18) “Asphalting the University of Toronto campus” File 2013
B2017-0007/031(02) Writing history: A professor’s life. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2011. Liz Bliss’s copy with her suggested revisions File 2009
B2017-0007_df007 Manuscripts and Publications [digital files] File 1993-2017
B2017-0007/023(14) Fiction: “Home town boy”. Draft File [197-]
B2017-0007/023(34) Banting: A biography. Toronto, Ontario: McClelland and Stewart, 1984. Flyer File 1984
B2017-0007/024(14)-(15) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Correspondence re book and addresses about Osler, etc. File 1996-2000
B2017-0007/024(18) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Typescript, chapters 12 and 13 (parts), with notations by John Dirks File 1998
B2017-0007/024(20) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Book launch, press coverage, articles re File 1999-2000
B2017-0007/024(23) Sir William Osler: A life in medicine. Oxford University Press, 1999. Correspondence File 1996-2000
B2017-0007/026(02) “William Osler at 150,” Canadian Medical Association Journal, 161, 7 (5 October 1999), 831-834 File 1999
B2017-0007/026(09) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Correspondence with publishers (U of T Press and Oxford University Press) File 2005
B2017-0007/026(13) ‘Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle,’ Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XVI (2006). Correspondence, draft File 2005
B2017-0007/026(20) “After 1918: From chaos to Mackenzie King,” The Beaver, Oct.-Nov. 2008, 22-23. Correspondence File 2008
B2017-0007/026(21) “Ignoring our constitutional tradition,” National Post, 2008-12-06; “Spoiled children take it too far,” 2008-12-08 [both re constitutional crisis of 2008-2009] File 2008
B2017-0007/027(02) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Draft, 2004-10-12. “For Marty Edelstein. This is one of six copies…MB, Oct. 14/64”: most of the manuscript with annotations and covering correspondence from Edelstein. File 2004
B2017-0007/029(01) Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Draft, 2004-10-12 (page 400 on). Susan Ferber’s (OUP) copy with editorial suggestions and covering correspondence. File 2004
B2017-0007/030(01) “Stories for Grandkids”: manuscripts of three stories, “Kate, Michael, and the Acme Easter Egg Factory”, “Kate and the Gumdrop Tree”, “Kate Saves Christmas”, 2008 File 2008
B2017-0007/030(04) The Making of Modern Medicine: Turning points in the treatment of disease. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Revised draft, 2009-02-17 File 2009
B2017-0007/030(07) Chapter for Great Discoveries in Medicine, ed. William & Helen Bynum. London: Thames & Hudson, 2011. Correspondence File 2010
B2017-0007/030(16) “John James Rickard Macleod,” submitted to Dictionary of Canadian Biography. French version File