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CA OTUTF MS COLL 00160-MS COLL 00160
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- 1893-1977 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
104 boxes and items (14 metres)
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Canadian writer & literary critic, William Arthur Deacon was born in Pembroke, Ontario in 1890 and grew up in Stanstead, Quebec. He received his early education in Stanstead and attended McGill & Victoria College, U of T. He was literary editor of Saturday Night,and the Globe& Mail from 1936 until his retirement in 1960. He was also author of a number of books including My Vision of Canada (1933) and th Four Jameses (1953).
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Acquired from the estate in 1974; additional gifts from Lloyd C. Haines in 1988, 1992 and John Lennox in 1989.
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Scope and content
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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Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/stack-retrieval-request
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- English
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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto