Accession MS COLL 00127M - Maureen Scott Harris Papers

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CA OTUTF MS COLL 00127M

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Maureen Scott Harris Papers

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  • 1967-2016 (predominately: 1990-2016) (Creation)

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14 boxes, 6 VHS tapes, 18 floppy disks, 1 CD, 43 cassette tapes (2.5 metres)

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(1943-)

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Papers were donated to the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library by Maureen Scott Harris in 2016.

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This accession of Maureen Scott Harris’ papers includes a significant amount of personal correspondence from the 1960s to the present, along with professional correspondence, mainly from 2015. It also contains materials relating to the Renga 10 collaborative poetry project, and to the Abundance chapbook and event, in addition to a number of periodicals in which Scott Harris’ poetry has been published. The collection also includes Scott Harris’ notes from a course taught by Northrup Frye at the University of Toronto in 1982-1983, along with promotional material from Brick Books, and a variety of audio/visual material.

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  1. Correspondence
  2. Literary Projects
  3. Published Works
  4. Early Writing & Education
  5. Brick Books Material
  6. Miscellaneous
  7. Audio / Visual Material
  8. Personal Journals (Restricted)

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Access to personal journals is restricted.

Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca.

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      Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

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