Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1893 - 1977 (Production)
Niveau de description
Manuscript Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
104 boxes and items (14 metres)
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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).
Histoire archivistique
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Acquired from the estate, 1974
Gift of Lloyd C. Haynes, 1988, 1992
Gift of John Lennox, 1989
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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.