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- 1994-2000 (Creation)
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0.5 cm of textual records
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John Beckwith (1991-2010)
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File consists of correspondence, draft papers, and newspaper clippings relating to Robertson Davies and John Beckwith's response to "Music in the Works of Robertson Davies: an Introduction" by Clayton Henderson at the Society for American Music (Toronto, November 2, 2000). File includes a copy of Beckwith's article "What I think about The Golden Ass" (Opera Canada, Spring 2000) and his unpublished response to a letter to the editor in the Globe and Mail by Robertson Davies regarding his novel The Cunning Man (October 14, 1995).
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- English
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"What I think about The Golden Ass," Opera Canada, vol. 41, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 46. Republished in Music Annals: Research and Critical Writings by a Canadian Composer 1973-2014 (Toronto: Institute of Canadian Music, 2022) along with Beckwith's previously unpublished letter-to-the-editor "On The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies" (submitted to The Globe and Mail, 15 October 1995) and Beckwith's "Response to 'Music in the works of Robertson Davies: An Introduction'" (unpublished remarks delivered at the Society for American Music, 2000).
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- Davies, Robertson (Subject)