Russell Brown - University of Toronto Libraries

MS
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Brown (Russell) Papers
Dates: 1972-1999.
Extent: 69 boxes and oversize folder, 10.5 metres
The 1991 accession (MS Coll. 286) is a collection of Russell Brown’s literary papers, and
his editorial and correspondence files from his tenure as editor at Lakehead University
Review (1972-75), Descant (1979-83), as joint editor of An Anthology of Canadian
Literature in English (1982-83), and poetry editor at McClelland and Stewart (1983-88).
The 1999 accession (MS Coll. 361) is a collection of literary papers that includes wordprocessed drafts by Brown and by other writers whose work he has edited, as well as
correspondence – both personal and business, related to duties as professor of English at
the University of Toronto and as a member of university committees, as well as
correspondence related to his editing for An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English.
Gift of Russell Brown, 1991 and 1999.
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SCOPE & CONTENT
Russell Brown's papers include his editorial
and correspondence files from his tenure as editor
of Lakehead University Review (1972-75); Descant
(1978-83); joint editor, An Anthology of Canadian
Literature in English (1982-83); and as poetry
editor at McClelland and stewart (1983-88). He
succeeded Dennis Lee in this position so that some
authors' files may contain correspondence from the
latter. Brown edited about thirty books of
poetry, including works by Roo Borson, Lorna
Crozier, Mary di Michele, Ralph Gustafson, Irving
Layton, Douglas LePan, Susan Musgrave and Al
Purdy. Some manuscripts are included with the
correspondence. Manuscripts for which the authors
sought Brown's editorial and critical suggestions
may contain lengthy comments which, in many cases,
resulted in the works being revised and later
pUblished.
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Editorial files, Lakehead University Review and
Descant
Box 1
Lakehead University Review, 1972-75, mainly
correspondence. 4 folders.
Descant, 1979-83. Correspondence, with
manuscripts, 1979-84 (except for Dennis Lee
issue, 1982)
1980
Hugh Hood, 1 TLSi Eli Mandel, 1 ALSi
David Watmough, 1 TLS
1981
P.K. Page 1 TLS with mSi Marilyn
Bowering 1 TLS with mSi Andrew Suknaski
2 ANSi David Watmough 2 TLSi Bill
Kinsella 1 TNSi Erin Moure
2 TLSi
Doug Barbour 1 TLS.
1982
Libby Scheier 1 TLSi Terry Rigelhof 2
TLS, 1 ALSi Ralph Gustafson 2 TLSi
David Watmough 1 TLS.
Correspondence with Smaro Kamboureli
and Dennis Cooley re Michael Ondatjee, special
issue 1982-83. 2 folders.
Box
2
Hugh Hood.
(1980)
None Genuine without This Signature
"Manuscript copies of new short stories written
November 1975 and September 1981 [sic 1980] for
the collection ... 'None Genuine without This
Signature.'" except for "February Mama" published
by Descant 1980. Typescript (carbon copy or
photocopy) initialed and dated by author.
Manuscripts by other writers: "The Colours of War"
by Chris Whynoti and "The Ketzer", "Sorrow, Sing
Sorrow". No author.
Correspondence 1983, mainly Brown's replies.
Boxes
3-4
"Dennis Lee Issue "
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Correspondence about readings at Harbourfront,
November 16, 1982, and Lee's issue of Descant.
Atwood, Margaret. TLS with holograph and
typescript manuscript, "Dennis Revisited."
Blodgett, Ted. "Authenticity and Absence."
Typescript draft with revisions.
Bowering, George.
3 TLS.
Bringhurst, Robert. 6 TLS, 1 ALS.
"At Home In
the Difficult World". Typescript-an~ photocopies
with revisions; galley (photocopy), and "The
stonecutter's Horses" Galley (photocopy) with
editorial revisions. 4 folders.
Cohen, Matt. 1 TLS and photocopies of others.
"Dennis Lee and Andy Warhol" Typescript
(photocopy) with editorial revisions.
Coles, Don. 1 TLS, with "The Sheer Extent of It".
Typescript (photocopy) with manuscript
revisions.
Dixon, Michael.
1 TLS.
Dragland, Stan. 1 TLS, 1 TNS, with "Dennis Lee's
Civil Eleaies". Typescript with editorial
revisions. 4 folders.
"On civil Elegies"
Typescript, and photocopies of typescript. 2
folders.
Egoff, Sheila. "Dennis Lee's Poetry for
Children". Typescript (photocopy)
Engel, Marian. "Working with Dennis Lee".
Typescript (photocopy) with editorial
revisions.
Gibson, Graeme.
(photocopy)
"Kind of Squash".
Typescript
Grant, George.
3 ALS, and 1 TL from Dennis Lee.
"Epilogue: Dennis Lee - Poetry and Philosophy".
Typescript (photocopy) with editorial changes.
Kane, Sean,"The Poet as Shepherd of Being".
Typescript (photocopy)
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Layton, Irving. 1 ALS.
"A Chess Master in
Control." Typescript (photocopy).
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Lee, Dennis.
9 TLS.
Leverton, Denise, 1 ALS.
"Dennis Lee & the Poem
as Score". Typescript (photocopy)
Munton, Ann.
"Simultaneity in the Writings of
Dennis Lee". Original and revision.
Typescript (photocopy) with manuscript
revisions.
2 folders.
Ondaatje, Michael. 1 ANS.
"Cut Down the
Middle." Typescript (photcopy).
Purdy, AI.
2 TNS.
(photocopy)
"Dennis the Ed."
Typescript
Symons, Scott.
"Generalissimo Lee". Typescript
and photocopy, and photocopy of final version.
Zieroth, Dale.
Box 4
1 TLS.
Brown's notes about contributors, his notes
for introduction, typescript of Dennis Lee
bibliography (phoptocopy).
6 folders.
"Poems in Progress" by Dennis Lee.
Typescript (photocopy)
1 folder.
"Poems in Progress" by Dennis Lee.
Another typescript (photcopy) 1 folder.
"Polyphony" by Dennis Lee.
Typescript (photocopy). with Brown's
manuscript notes.
2 folders.
Correspondence between Dennis Lee and George
Bowering. 1979-82. 3 folders.
1 TLS from Bowering, and photocopies of 13
TLS from Bowering and 8 TLS, 2 ALS from Lee
with photocopy of TLS from Lee to Brown about
correspondence.
Mapcase
Tasks of Passion. Dennis Lee at Mid-Career ...
Tuesday, Nov 16 ... Descant.
(Broadside for
Harbourfront readings).
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An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English.
1982-83.
Box 5
Correspondence 1979-81, mainly between the
editors, Russell Brown and Donna Bennett and
William Toye of Oxford University Press with
Memorandum of Agreement; includes 1 TLS from
Jack Hodgins, 1 TLS from Al Purdy with
typescript of poem, 1 ALS from Frank Scott,
1 TLS from Sherill Grace.
1 folder.
Correspondence, 1982-83 includes photocopies
of letters to William Toye and contract,
memorandum of agreement.
3 folders.
List of authors, List of contents, Table of
contents, Notes for Anthology and
Introduction, Introduction, drafts.
9
folders.
Box 6
Volume 1. Notes, drafts, manuscript, proofs
for "Frances Brooke to Susanna Moodie".
Box 7
Notes, drafts, proofs for "Charles Sangster
to Frederick Philip Grove".
Box 8
Notes, drafts, proofs for "E.J. Pratt to
Morley Callaghan".
Box 9
Notes, drafts, proofs for "Earle Birney to
A.M. Klein".
Box 10
Notes, drafts, proofs for "Dorothy Livesay to
George Woodcock".
Box 11
Notes, drafts, proofs for "Robertson Davies
to W.o. Mitchell".
Box 12
Page proofs, edited with instructions to
printer.
Box 13
Volume 2. Notes, drafts of biographies
and textual notes, photocopies, typescript,
and proofs of literary works for "P.K. Page
to James Reaney".
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Box 14
Notes, drafts of biographies and textual
notes, photocopies, typescript, and proofs of
literary works for "Robert Kroetsch to Erin
Moure" .
PUblicity, invitations, broadsides.
Box 15
writers not included in Anthology.
Arranged alphabetically with notes, drafts of
biographies, photocopies of work, and
proofs (occasionally):
Milton Acorn
Austin Clark
Matt Cohen
Christopher Dewdney
Pier Giorgio di cicco
Dave Godfrey
Kristiane Gunnars
David Helwig
Daryl Hine
Douglas Lochhead
Malcolm Lowry
Anne Marriott
John Metcalf
Joe Rosenblatt
Jane Rule
Lee Simpson
Kent Thompson
Bronwen Wallace
Tom Wayman
"Prince Edward Island Poets." 1983.
6 folders. Typescript and holograph.
Box 16
An Anthology of English Literature in Canada.
abridgement.
(1990).
Notes include draft Table of contents and
sample headnotes for "The Oxford Anthology of
Poetry". 1 folder.
"Authors to be thought about for inclusion".
1 folder.
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Questionnaires and results sent by
Oxford University Press to instructors re
abridgement of the two-volume anthology.
3
folders.
Notes and analysis of the responses.
2 folders.
Correspondence with Richard Teleky, OUP,
about publication. 1 folder.
Introduction. Wordprocessed drafts with
manuscript revisions.
3 folders.
Table of contents.
Drafts.
4 folders.
Memoranda, notes, wordprocessed drafts with
manuscript revisions. 7 folders.
Box 17
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Proofs with revisions, volume 1.
Proofs with revisions, volume 2.
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Boxes
19-43
McClelland and stewart. 1983 to 1988. In 1983
Brown succeeded Dennis Lee as poetry editor.
Correspondence 1983-1988. 4 Boxes.
Arranged chronologically. Other correspondence,
arranged alphabetically by author, is filed with
manuscripts that were pUblished, arranged
alphabetically by author.
Box 19
1983-84
Jan 1984
Box 20
1985
Box 21
1986-88
Letters, notes, letters of rejection
from Brown.
Anne Marriott, 1 TLSi Marilyn Bowering,
2 TLS.
Letters about poetry and notes of
rejection. John Newlove 1 TLSi Ken
Norris 3 TLSi Travis Lane 2 TLSi James
Deahl 1 TLSi Alexander Amprioz 1 ALSi
Doug Beardsley 2 TLS.
Letters, notes from Browni Ken Norris
1 TLSi Barry Dempster 1 TLSi Doug
Beardsley 1 TLSi Rita Joe 1 TLSi
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Box 21 (Cont/d)
Gary Geddes 2 TLSi Sharon Thesen 3 TLSi
Richard Outram 1 TLSi Ken Norris 1 TLSi
A.G. Bailey 1 ALS, 2 TLS.
Box 22
Letters of rejection from Brown to correspondents,
chronologically arranged, 1983-91, diskette and
paper copy.
Box 23
Corrigan, Matthew. "After This Our Exile".
Typescript, wordprocessed with editorial
revisions.
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Box 24
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General Files: inter-office memos about
promotions, pUblicity, contracts, marketing,
sales, job applications .
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Birney, Earle. Last Makingsi Poems.
Originally called " A Last Wave" and
"Just to Wave," 1984. 7 Folders.
(1991).
Correspondence, 1973-74. 3 ANS, 1 TNS.
[Poems, 1974?] Typescript.
Editorial correspondence re "A Last Wave"
1984, and "New Collected", 1986-88.
"Just to Wave".
folders.
Borson, Roo .
(1984).
Typescript, photocopy,
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11 Folders.
Typescript, photocopy. 4 folders.
Correspondence, 3 ALS, 2 TLS, 1984-88.
Intent, or The Weight of the World.
(1989) .
Wordprocessed typescript. 5 folders.
Correspondence, 3 TLS, 1986-88.
Brewster, Elizabeth [Poems] Typescript.
Bringhurst, Robert. Pieces of Map, Pieces of
Music.
(1986). 3 folders.
Typescript, photocopy with notes.
Correspondence, 5 TLS, 1984-86i and 2 TLS
from Dennis Lee.
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Cohen, Leonard.
Book of Mercy.
(1984) .
Selected Poems "abandoned".
Editorial Notes and memos, 1987-88.
Manuscript, typescript and photocopy.
folders.
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[Selected poems] photocopies of printed
text. 7 folders.
"The Shield; a Book of Psalms".
Typescript, photocopy. 2 folders.
Box 27
Coles, Don. Landslides. Selected Poems.
1975-85. 5 folders.
Correspondence, 1985-88. 5 TLS, 1 ALS.
Typescript of poems.
Front matter with notes and correspondence.
1985. 2 ALS, 3 TLS, 1 TNS.
"K in Love". Typescript with 1 TLS, 1986.
Crozier, Lorna. The Garden Going on without
Us.
(1985). 26 folders.
Poems, Selected ... "Extra copies, discards,
early drafts, old correspondence, Jan's
letter." Typescript drafts with editorial notes
revisions. 6 folders.
"Poems, Selected and New. Fall 1995".
Typescript, and galley excerpts with
revisions; some pages are photocopies.
folders.
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Correspondence includes letters to Donna
Bennett who edited the poems. 6 TLS, 3
ALS, 2 ANS.
4 folders.
Angels of Flesh. Angels of Silence.
(1988) .
Typescript drafts with manuscript notes,
revisions, and correspondence; 1 ALS and
2 TLS.
11 folders.
Box 28
Dewdney, Christopher. The Immaculate
Perception.
(Anansi, 1986).
"Partial manuscript June 1986". Typescript.
folder.
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(1988) .
Typescript, first draft. 1 folder.
Typescript. June 1986. with TLS.
2 folders.
Typescript with manuscript notes and
revisions, 1988. 5 folders.
Di Michele, Mary. Luminous Emergencies.
(1990)
Typescript (photocopy) with editorial revisions,
manuscript. 4 folders.
"Voiceprints". 1988. Wordprocessed text in
coil binding with editorial comments. 1
TLS.
Box 29
Di Cicco, Pier. Virgin science (1986)
Notes, correspondence, biographical note.
folders.
3
Drafts with manuscript revisions and notes, 10
folders.
Copy edited manuscript. Typescript, photocopy
with manuscript notes. 3 folders.
Draft, typescript (photocopy) with instructions to
typesetter. 2 copies. 1 copy lacks front matter.
4 folders.
Box 30
ReliiJ; ili'io _toed
Donnell, David. Water street Days; Poems and
stories (1988).
Originally entitled "Slow Dreams",
typescript (photocopy). 1 TLS. 4
folders.
"Family Singing". Typescript
(photocopy) with manuscript revisions.
3 folders.
[Poems] Typescript (photocopy) 1 ALS.
1 folder.
Boxes
31-32
Faludy, George.
(1985) .
Selected Poems.
1933-1980.
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Correspondence, 1983-86, with Robin Skelton 3 TLS,
1 ANS, Eric Johnson 2 TLS, George Faludy 1 TLS.
Editorial correspondence about co-publication of
Selected Poems, 1984-85, 4 folders.
Correspondence about Faludy from Jacqueline
D'Ambroise, 1985-86, 2 ALS.
Notes on Publication. Biographical notes and
text.
6 folders.
List of poems, Notes,
Introduction. Translation, Bibli9graphy. 9
folders.
Printed text in Hungarian and English
(photocopies)
4 folders.
Box 32
Proofs (photocopies) 4 folders.
Proofs, with editorial notes.
4 folders,
another set.
Printed materials, including broadside
from "George Faludy, a Celebration",
1986.
Ford, R.A.D. Coming from Afar; Selected
Poems 1940-1989.
(1990).
"Holding On; New Poems." 1988. 3 ALS,
4 TLS, 1988.
2 folders.
Fruitkin, Mark.
"The Alchemy of Clouds"
1982.
Typescript (copy)
2 folders.
"The Great Great Grandfather of Glass"
Typescript in binder.
1985.
Correspondence from Dennis Lee 1 TLS,
Fruitkin, 1 ANS, 1 TLS and Jonathan
Williams, Fruitkin's agent, 2 TLS 1984-86.
folder.
Box 33
Geddes, GarY,"The Acid Test".
( Photocopy) .
1
Typescript
Glickman, Susan.
"Camera Obscura".
(earlier
title: "cities and Men")
Typescript in coil
binder (photocopy)
2 ALS, 2 TLS, 1985.
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Gom, Leona, "Appropriate Behaviour" .
Typescript (photocopy)
1985.
2 folders
with 1 TLS.
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Grace, Sherrill.
4 ALS, 1 ANS.
Correspondence, 1984-85.
Gray, Martin, "Accelerating Into Light".
Typescript (photocopy) with 2 ALS, 1 TLS,
1984.
Gustafson, Ralph: Directives of Autumn
(1984)
Typescript draft (photocopy).
3 folders.
Winter Prophecies
2 folders.
(1987)
Typescript draft.
Correspondence. 1984-87, 9 TLS from Gustafson
with Brown's replies, office memos, and notes.
folder.
Box 34
Harris, Michael.
1985-86.
1
3 ALS.
Jiles, Paulette, Celestial Navigation (1984)
Earlier title; "Navigation". Typescript.
(photocopy) and editorial notes.
4 folders.
Koldofsky, Eleanor.
"Intimate Carnage".
Wordprocessed text in coil binder.
Box 35
1984.
Lee, Dennis, The New Canadian Poets (1985)
"Dennis Lee Anthology".
1984.
Front matter with editorial revisions,
notes, draft introductions with editorial
revisions, photocopies of title pages from printed
texts. 12 folders.
"Work in Progress" with 1 TLS, 1986.
Typescript.
"Nightwatch" with editorial revisions.
3 TLS, 1986-87. Typescript.
"Nightwatch".
1987. 1 TLS.
Typescript draft, April
"Nightwatch". Typescript draft.
March 1988. 1 TLS.
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Layton, Irving.
Dance with Desire (1986)
Front matter. Manuscript and typescript
drafts.
2 folders.
Correspondence, 6 TLS and memos.
Text, photocopies of printed text, with
manuscript notes. 1 folder.
"Layton on Love".
3 folders.
Photocopies of printed text".
Memos and notes re "Love Poems".
Fortunate Exile
(1987)
"In My Father's House", earlier title.
List of poems, poems (typescript and
photocopy of typescripts), notes about
poems. 1 folder.
Le~'!,~n, Douglas, Weathering It (1987).
Notes and correspondence. 1 ALS, 3 TLS, 1986-87.
Far Vovaqes (1990)
Typescript (photocopy)
McCarthy, Doris, "Autobiographical Sketches",
excerpts, manuscript, typescript with 1 ANS.
MacEwen, Gwendolyn, Afterworlds (1987).
Typescript draft, revised. 1 folder.
"Afterworlds". Typescript (photocopy)
and typescript with editorial revisions
(photocopy). 4 folders.
(1987)
Correspondence and editorial notes, 1 ANS, 2 TLS,
1985-86. 1 folder.
Box 37
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McFadden, David, The Art of Darkness (1984).
Typescript (photocopy). 2 folders.
"Gypsy Guitar", wordprocessed
manuscripts, 2 ALS, 1986. 2 folders .
(1983)
McKay, Don, Birding or Desire.
Typescript (photocopy). 2 folders.
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Box 37 (Cont'd)
Musgrave, Susan, Cocktails at the Mausoleum
(1985)
Typescript (photocopy) and wordprocessed
text of notes with editorial revisions,
1 TLS, 1984.
Memos and correspondence about John Newlove,
Alden Nowlan (1 TLS to Lee, 2 TLS from Robert
Gibbs), and Michael Ondaatje.
Purdy, AI. Piling Blood (1984).
Two typescript drafts (photocopy) with
revisions, May 17 and May 25, 1984. 4
folders.
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Purdy, AI. Collected Poems (1986)
"Introduction". TypesGript (2 photocopies one
with revisions), 1 folder.
Notes, front matter, table of contents,
5 folders.
"Poems". Photocopy of typescript and
printed text. with revisions.
14 folders.
"AI Purdy: Growth of a Poet" by Dennis
Lee; First and second typescript drafts.
1 ALS, 5 TLS, from Lee. 2 folder.
"The Poetry of Al Purdy" by Dennis Lee.
Three typescript drafts (photocopy) with
revisions, 1 TLS from Lee.
3 folders.
"Afterword" by Dennis Lee.
1 folder.
Correspondence, and Dennis Lee's notes,
1985-86. 2 ANS, 1 ALS,
14 TLS.
3 folders.
"Ms copies of new poems" in manuscript
and typescript, and correspondence, 1 ANS,
1 ALS, 1 TLS. 1988. 1 folder.
Box 39
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Randle, Doug,"If I Knew Then; a Novel."
1987.
Wordprocessed text. 7 folders .
Rooke, Leon, A Good Baby; a Novel
(1989)
"Bennett." Typescript (photocopy) with 3
pages of editorial notes. 4 folders.
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Box 39 (Cont/d)
Rosenblatt, Joe, Poetry Hotel
1985).
Poems selected for inclusion.
printed text).
5 folders.
(photocopy of
Notes and photocopy of printed text.
folders.
Drawings by Rosenblatt (photocopy).
2
1 folder.
Correspondence between Lee, Rosenblatt
and John Newlove re Selection of poems,
1982-83.
(photocopy)
2 folders.
Correspondence, 1984:
folder.
3 ALS, 2 TLS, 1 TL.
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Scheier, Libby, "Sky; a Poem in Four Pieces".
1989. Typescript (photocopy), 1 ANS, 1 TNS.
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Scott, Peter Dale, Coming to Jakarta; a Poem
about Terror."
(1986).
40A
Correspondence, (3 ALS) and copies, from
editors to Scott; notes about and excerpts
from his poems.
"Flight".
Typescript (photocopy).
"Coming to Jakarta; a Poem about Terror".
1986. Wordprocessed text in coil binder.
versions.
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Wordprocessed text, 1986 (excerpts)
1
folder.
Wordprocessed text,
1989. 2 folders.
Box 41
Steffler, John, The Grey Islands.
Typescript (photocopy).
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4 folders.
"Second version. Oct. 18, 1983."
Typescript (photocopy).
4 folders.
(1985) .
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"Third version. February 16, 1984."
Typescript, photocopy. 5 folders.
"Unrevised (final manuscript has some
small changes)". Typescript (photocopy).
4 folders.
"Old" various pages.
(photocopy) .
Typescript.
Correspondence and notes about the
manuscript, 1984. 4 TLS.
Box 42
steffler, John, The Wreckage of Play.
"Seeing stars"
(1987) Earlier title.
Typescript draft with 1 ALS.
Another draft.
(1988)
2 folders.
2 folders.
"The Wreckage of Play."
(1988)
Typescript (photocopy) with title changed in
manuscript from "Seeing Stars". 2 folders.
Correspondence with Dennis Lee concerning
Steffler's writing. 1983-84.
1 ALS, 6 TLS, and from Lee 3 TL (carbon
copy)
Correspondence with Brown, 1984-89.
18 TLS.
Box 43
1 ALS,
Van Toorn, Peter, Mountain Tea (1984)
Front matter, typescript; typescript and printed
text (photocopy). 3 folders.
Wallace, Bronwen, The Stubborn
Particulars of Grace (1984)
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Wordprocessed text with manuscript revisions and
notes.
2 folders.
Another draft of excerpts with editorial
revisions. 1 folder .
[Poems for Anthology] 1983.
Typescript (photocopy) with 1 TLS.
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"Bronwen Wallace's Last Poems" 1989.
Wordprocessed text with 1 TLS from Carolyn Smart
to Donna Bennett.
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People You'd Trust Your Life to.
(1990)
Wordprocessed text in coil binding.
Wordprocessed text. 2 folders.
Correspondence with Donna Bennett and notes,
1986-87.
4 TLS, 3 ALS, 1 ANS.
1 folder.
"Notes for Paper on Wallace". 1990.
Wordprocessed draft with manuscript revisions.·
1 folder.
Wayman, Tom. Correspondence with Dennis Lee
and Linda McKnight. 1982. 2 TLS (Wayman) 3 TLS
(Lee)
1 TL (McKnight) (photocopies)
Correspondence.
Boxes
1984-85.
4 TLS.
Articles, Essays, Reviews
44-46
Manuscripts for, and correspondence about his
writings; North Eastern Modern Language
Association Conference; 1972-74, correspondence.
2 folders.
Norton anthologies: correspondence with
John Benedict of Norton & Company, 1980-83.
4 folders.
An Interview with Robert Kroetsch, 1970-71.
(Published in Windsor Review, 1972)·~.
Correspondence, text of interview, holograph
and typescript, and edited typescript.
2 folders.
"Canadian Pasts; North American
Pastlessness". An Unpublished Oral Paper,
1972 [i.e. 1975].
Typescript. 1 folder.
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"Crossing Borders".
(Published in Essays on Canadian Writing,
no. 22, summer 1981.)
Holograph, typescript drafts with revisions .
5 folders.
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Boxes 44-46 (Cont'd)
"Seeds and Stones: Unhiding in Kroetsch's
Poetry" .
(Published in Open Letter, sere 6, no. 2-3,
summer-fall 1984).
Wordprocessed drafts with holograph
revisions and notes. 5 folders.
Box 45
"Rooke's Move". 1979-84.
Published in Essays on Canadian Writing, fall
1984.
Drafts and edited typescript.
2 folders.
Holograph, typescript and wordprocessed
texts with holograph revisions. 1 TLS.
folders.
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"Rooke's Voice" (What the Rooke Said).
ACLQ, June 6, 1984 .
Wordprocessed text.
2 drafts.
3 folders.
"Rooke's Voice" (Originally entitled "What
the Rooke Said")
Notes, and wordprocessed drafts.
3 folders.
"On Not Saying Uncle: Kroetsch and the Place
of Place in the Long Poem".
(Published in Open Letter, sere 6, no 2-3,
summer-fall 1985.
Wordprocessed drafts with holograph
revisions.
2 folders.
"Words, Place, Craft; Bowering's critical
voice". 1982-86.
Notes, correspondence and word processed
drafts with holograph revisions.
4 folders.
"Some Night Thoughts on Rejecting WellWritten Poetry Mss". 1987.
Draft, typescript.
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"Gwendolyn MacEwen, 1941-1987. Elegy".
Draft, typescripts with holograph revisions
"Perhaps He'll Fall; On Reading the Poetry of
Al Purdy". 1990-91.
Drafts, 9 folders.
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Box 46
"A Tenth Anniversary story: In Karen's
Kitchen" .
(Published in Descant, spring 1991). Drafts.
3 folders.
"The written Line" 1991.
Wordprocessed drafts with revisions,
8 folders.
"The Road Home". 1991.
Wordprocessed drafts with revisions.
2 folders.
"What's Wrong with Canadian Thematic
criticism". 1991
Wordprocessed draft. 1 folder.
Box 47
Manuscripts from Other writers.
Box 48
Print
McClelland and stewart catalogues and promotional
materials, 1983-88. Clippings about McClelland
and stewart.
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Box 49
Scarborough College
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"Teaching Plan for University of Connecticut".
Notes
Ad Hoc Committee on Faculty Loads, 1984-1985.
Cultural Affairs Corrunmittee.
"Notes re Extracting
Writers on Film from Scarborough College Archives"
1989.
School of Graduate Studies.
students.
Papers and notes from
Composition Committee, November 1988.
"Composition at the Computer"
Correspondence with, and about writers reading at
the College, 1989-1991.
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Notes, Articles, Essays
Early papers, 1961-1965.
Correspondence with Robert Kroetsch, 1970-1983.
43 TLS, 9 TNS, 9 ANS.
"Frances Brooke; (Really) Writing in a New
Country.
[1977?]
Word processed draft with
holograph revisions.
Notes and drafts for article on Arthur Hailey for
Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1980-1988.
Ontario Arts Council.
Literary Panel, 1989.
"The Magician Vanishing". Word processed drafts
with revisions, 5 drafts, 1989-1991.
"Perhaps He'll Fall; the Poetry of Al Purdy".
Word processed draft with holograph revisions.
[1990-1991]
Later drafts already in Brown Papers.
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"Theme", 1991.
4 drafts.
holograph revisions .
Word processed with
"The Founding of Tradition in English-Canadian
Writing", 22 April 1991. Word processed draft
with holograph revisions.
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Box 51
Descant
Folders
1-2
Editorial files of letter to subscribers, 19881989.
Folders
3-9
Manuscripts from contributors, 1982-1993.
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Folder 10 Correspondence with writers, 1984-1995.
Boxes
52-55
An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English.
(1982-1983) .
Notes and drafts for biographies of writers
represented in the Anthology, and copies of poems.
Includes galleys.
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Box 52
Volume 2: Sheila Watson, P.K. Page, Miriam
Waddington, Louis Dudek, Mavis Gallant, Henry
Kreisel, Eli Mandel, Margaret Laurence, Phyllis
Webb, Robert Kroetsch, Hugh Hood, D.G. Jones.
Box 53
Alice Munro, Jay Macpherson, Alden Nowlan, Leonard
Cohen, Leon Rooke, Rudy Wiebe, George Bowering,
William Kinsella, Audrey Thomas, Alistair MacLeod,
John Newlove.
Box 54
Margaret Atwood, Patrick Lane, Dennis Lee,
W.D. Valgardson, Clarke Blaise, Frank Davey,
Gwendolyn MacEwen, Michael Ondaatje, bp Nichol.
Box 55
Volume 1: Andrew Sukashi, Mary DiMichele, Charles
Sangster, Earle Birney, Hugh MacLennan, Douglas
Lepan, David Donnell, Gary Geddes, Robert
Bringhurst, Rob Borson, Erin Moure.
Volume 2:
galleys of last pages.
"Prospectus"
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"Original poetry selections for 'Further
reading'''. Writers not included: Matt Cohen,
Dave Godfrey, Jack Hodgins, Pat Lowther, Joyce
Marshall, Bronwen Wallace.
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Boxes
56-58
Correspondence with Writers about Their Writing.
Manuscripts with some correspondence.
Box 56
A-L. Correspondents include:
Douglas Barbour,
Robertson Davies, Barry Dempster, Mary di Michele,
Stan Dryland, Gary Geddes, Susan Glickman, Reshard
Gool, Matthew Hart, Hugh Hood, Joy Kagawa, Dennis
Lee.
Box 57
M-Scott.
Correspondents include:
Doris McCarthy,
'liS H 2'
LEB, Eli Mandel, John Metcalf, W.H.
New, Al Purdy, James Reaney, John Reibetanz,
Constance Rooke, Joe Rosenblatt, Libby Scheier,
Stephen Scobie, Peter Dale Scott.
Box 58
Folders
1-16
Sk-Z. Correspondents include: Robin Skelton
John Steffler, Peter Stevens, Sheila Watson,
George Woodcock .
Folders
17-18
E-Mail messages (print-outs)
Folders
19-33
Biographical information on various writers,
including New Canadian Poets questionnaire.
Boxes
59-61
Literary Manuscripts by Other Writers.
Holograph and word processed manuscripts, many
with introductory correspondence.
Box 59
Fawcett, Brian
Helm, Michael, "The Projectionist
Hine, Daryl, [poems], galleys
Jardine, Brenda, [poems]
Goldbarth, Albert, "The Numbering at Bethlehem"
Kilbourn, William, "Canada"
King, Lyn, [poems]
Box 60
Lee, Dennis, correspondence; [introduction to]
anthology; "Night watch"; "Riffs" (drafts and
galleys); various interviews.
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Box 61
24
McKay, Don, "Sanding Down"
Perly, Susan, "1956"
Ravel, Edeet, "Midrash"; "Teachings of Our Sages
of Blessed Memory"
Scobie, Stephen, "Surviving the Paraph-raise"
Wallace, Bronwen, "So Keep that Candle Burning
Bright"
Yanofsky, Eddy, [poems]
Ephemera.
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Boxes
62-64
Donna Bennett
Notes, literary manuscripts, and editing files
for authors whose books she edited, and Descant
files.
Box 62
Folders
1-11
Notes and word processed drafts for writings:
"Eighteenth century" and "canon theory"
Folders
12-14
Notes and text for article about Robert Kroetsch
[1983?]
Folder 15 Correspondence about proposed book of essays on
Eli Mandel, 1985-1986.
Includes letters from
Margaret Atwood, Henry Kreisel, Irving Layton,
Robert Lecker, Shirley Neuman, Andrew Suknaski.
Folders
16-19
"Bronwen Wallace and the Meditative Poem"
Draft (word processed); final draft; galleys for
Queen's Quarterly, 1991.
Item 20
"Mildred Dunsfield". Word processed text in coil
binding. With TLS, 8 May 1988, from Matthew.
Box 63
Editorial files, correspondence, and drafts of
short stories for Holley Rubinsky's Rapid Transits
and other Stories. Winlaw, B.C.:
Polestar Book
Publishers, 1990. Contains her prize-winning
short story "Rapid Transits" .
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BROWN (RUSSELL) PAPERS
CONTAINER LIST
Editing files for Lorna Crozier's Everything
Arrives at the Light.
Toronto: McClelland &
Stewart, 1995.
Includes various drafts with
revisions, 1990-1994.
Descant files, 1983-1986.
Includes
correspondence, covers for issues, and
manuscripts .
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Brown (Russell) Papers
1987-1999
This 1999 accession is a collection of literary papers that includes word-processed drafts
by Brown and by other writers whose work he has edited, as well as correspondence –
both personal and business, related to duties as professor of English at the University of
Toronto and as a member of university committees, as well as correspondence related to
his editing for An Anthology of Canadian Literature in English.
These papers complement the files already in the Russell Brown Papers at the Fisher
Library, MS Coll. 286.
Extent: 5 boxes and oversize folder. (1 metre).
Boxes 1-3 and
oversize folder
Russell Brown
Mainly correspondence and word-processed drafts by Frank
Davey, Mary Di Michele, Dennis Lee, and Edeet Ravel.
Includes works by RB and Donna Bennett. Items arranged
alphabetically.
Box 1
Folder I
An Anthology ofCanadian Literature in English. Revised and
abridged edition. Edited by Russell Brown, Donna Bennett and
Nathalie Cooke. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990.2 TLS.
(See also boxes 16-18 ofMS CoIl. 286).
Folder 2
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS)
conference, Seattle, Nov. 15-19, 1995. Frank Davey: 1 TLS and
word-processed draft ofFD's conference paper.
Folder 3
Donna A. Bennett and Russell M. Brown. "In Place of Job: The
Emergence of the Trickster in Canadian Fiction." Journal of
Commonwealth Literature, vol. 14, no. 1, 1979, pp. 28-33
(photocopy of article).
Folder 4
Corr~spondence from colleagues at the University of Toronto and
other universities, writers, and personal acquaintances. 1995-1999
Folders 5-8
Lorna Crozier
Folder 5
E-mail messages (print-outs) - 1995-1996. Also includes
correspondence from, and poems by, Patrick Lane.
Folders 6-7 and
oversize folder
Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Fellowship Application,
University of Victoria, British Columbia, 1996-1997.
Folder 8
Letter of reference by RB for LC's promotion to rank of professor
at the University of Victoria, 1997. (printed e-mail messages).
Folder 9
Mary Di Michele. "Jack's Sister" - word-processed draft.
(See also boxes 28, 55 and 56 ofMS ColI. 286).
Box 1
Folder 10
"Northrop Frye" - copy of word-processed draft which fonned
part of the 1982 working papers for An Anthology ofCanadian
Literature in English. Edited by Russell Brown and Donna
Bennett. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1982.
(See also boxes 5-18 ofMS ColI. 286).
Folder 11
Governor General's Award for Poetry, 1983-86 - word-processed
list of winners and nominated authors published by McClelland &
Stewart.
Folders 12-15
Robert Kroetsch
(See also boxes 44 and 50 ofMS ColI. 286).
Folder 12
1 TLS (with attached ANS), April 20, 1995.
Folder 13
A Likely Story: The Writing ofRobert Kroetsch (conference) 12-15
June, 1997, St. Jerome's College, University of Waterloo.
Correspondence and printed material: Call for Papers, Directory of
Participants.
Folder 14
Russell Brown. " 'Just Enough To Hope On': Kroetsch's Prophetic
Voice" - word-processed draft with editorial notes of oral
presentation June 13, 1997 (A Likely Story: The Writing ofRobert
Kroetsch conference).
Folder 15
Course syllabus on Robert Kroetsch in RB's second year at
Binghamton Harpur College, New York, 1966 (includes attached
AN);'
Dennis Cooley: 1 printed e-mail message.1998.re: RK
(annotated).
Folders 16-28
Dennis Lee
(See also boxes 3-4, 32, 35, 37-39, 42-43,56 and 60 ofMS ColI.
286).
Folder 16
"For and Against Pound: Polyphony and Ekstatic Fonn" - wordprocessed draft (photocopy); contains editorial notes.
Folder 17
"Roots and Play: Writing As a 35-Year-Old Children" [sic]photocopy. Includes 1 TL.
Folder 18
Citation for DL's degree of Doctor of Letters, awarded by Trent
Univ~rsity, Peterborough, Ontario, June 2, 1995. Includes 1 ANS
from Sean Kane.
Box 1
Folder 19
Dennis Lee and Canadian Literary Polyphony - an infonnal
colloquium at Trent University, September 26-27, 1996: invitation
from Sean Kane.
Folder 20
Correspondence: 1998
Folders 21-23
Donna Bennett and Russell Brown. "An interview with Dennis
Lee, "Excerpts from a conversation taped August 1993. Final
title: "The Luminous Tumult."
Folder 21
Word-processed draft, incomplete, pages 1-3 only, with editorial
notes.
Folder 22
Final word-processed draft, dated July 9, 1993.
Folder 23
"The Luminous Tumult" - word-processed draft. Includes 1 TLS
re payment for published interview.
Folders 24-25
"Cadence, Country, Silence" - word-processed drafts, with 1 TLS,
1 ANS. Sept. 29 - Oct. 28, 1996.
Folders 26-27
"Grant's Impasse" word-processed draft, April 21, 1998.
Folders 28-29
"Body Music: Notes on Rhythm in Poetry" word-processed draft,
with ~ TLS, May 20, 1998.
Folders 30-32
M - correspondence
Folder 30
Doris McCarthy: 1 ANS (See also boxes 36 and 57 ofMS ColI.
286); Jack McClelland: 1 TL.
Folder 31
Jack McClelland Chair in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature
- correspondence re: proposal for chair at the University of
Toronto.
Folder 32
MacLennan Poetry Series. McGill University Press. Invitation for
submissions. 1 ALS from Nathalie Cooke.
Box 2
Folder 1
Rohinton Mistry - ceremony for the conferring of honorary
degree, hooded by RB. Includes correspondence and ephemera.
Box 2
Folder 2 and
oversize folder
Ontario Arts Council Adjudication, Oct. 1998: correspondence and
clippings. (RB was juror). Includes Jack David, "Sound and Fury
at the Ontario Arts Council" The Canadian Forum, July 1999,
p.47.
Folder 3
The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. 2nd edition.
Edited by Eugene Benson and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford
Univ~rsity Press, 1997.
Correspondence and revised entries - including the revision of
George Woodcock's entry on Al Purdy. 1995-1997.
Folder 4
Oxford University Press - re: The Anthology ofCanadian
Literature in English. 1 TLS, May 26, 1995.
Folder 5
P - correspondence.
P.K. Page - 1 TLS (See also box 1 ofMS ColI. 286);
Al Purdy - 1 TLS (See also boxes 5, 37-38 and 57 ofMS ColI.
286).
Folders 6-12
Edeet Ravel
(See also box 61 ofMS ColI. 286).
Folder 6
2ANS, 2 TLS.
Folders 7-11
"Book of Maps," word-processed draft. 1 AN.
Folder 12
"Storytime," word-processed draft, coil binding.
Folder 13
Stephen Scobie. The Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship
application, 1995. (RB was asked for his assessment of
application).
(See also boxes 57 and 61 ofMS ColI. 286).
Folder 14
Susan Swan - 1 ALS, Nov. 25, 1995.
Folders 15-21
University of Toronto. Writer in Residence Fellowship
Applications,1995-1998. (RB was committee member)
Folder 15
bill bissett
Folder 16
Austin C. Clarke
Folders 17-18
Isabel Huggan - includes personal correspondence.
Box 2
Folder 19
Jane Urquhart
Folders 20-21
Printed material.
Folder 20
Havana Day and Night, vol. 1, issue 1, January 1999. Includes
attached AN indicating that this is Stan Fogel's publication
promoting his Study in Cuba program.
Folder 21
Theodore Sampson. Beyond Music: The Poetics a/Wallace
Stevens. Athens: Seagull Publications, 1995. Inscribed to Susan
Swan, and autographed. See Box 2, Folder 16, Susan Swan
correspondence.
Folders 22-24
Ephemera
Folder 22
The League of Canadian Poets. Catalogue of Members.
Folder 23
Porcupine's Quill Inc. Promotional Piece on the Taddle Creek
Reading Series, Toronto, Ontario, 199-. Annotated.
Folder 24
"A Short History of Canadian Poetry in English" (Chinese edition)
- proposal.
Box 3
Audio-visual material
1 aud.io cassette (unlabeled) of a poetry reading by two
unidentified women;
1 VHS videocassette labeled, " 'Purdy': Rough-cut ofNFB doc.
31105/88"
Boxes 4-5
Donna Bennett: writer and editor. These papers complement
the fIles in boxes 62-64 of MS Coll. 286.
DB's.editing includes:
Comedy and the Sporting Life. Descant, vol. 18, nos. 1/2,
Spring/Summer 1987
Lorna Crozier.
A Saving Grace: the Collected Poems ofMrs. Bentley. Toronto:
M&S, 1996.
What the Living Won't Let Go. Toronto: M&S, 1999.
Susan Musgrave. Things That Keep and Do Not Change.
Toronto: M&S, 1999.
Box 4
Lorna Crozier: mainly correspondence, including copies of
letters by DB, and copies of word-processed drafts.
(Additional editing and correspondence files on LC are contained
in boxes 27 and 64 ofMS ColI. 286).
Folders 1-17
"A Saving Grace: The Collected Poems of Mrs. Bentley" correspondence and word-processed drafts.
Folders 1-7
E-mail messages (print-outs) and facsimiles (copies). Contains
editorial notes of work submitted to DB. 1996-1998.
Folders 8-17
Word-processed drafts.
Folders 8-10
Dec. 6, 1994. Includes 1 ALS.
Folders 11-13
Undated draft. Contains editorial notes.
Folders 14-17
Undated draft. Includes 1 ALS and 1 computer diskette.
Folders 18-25
"What the Living Won't Let Go" - correspondence and wordprocessed draft copies.
Folders 18-21
Word-processed draft copies of poems with editorial notes, printouts of e-mail messages. Divided into four sections.
Folders 22-25
Word-processed draft. Contains editorial notes.
Folder 26
[Donna Bennett?]. "Lorna Crozier's Fleshly 'Deconstruction"'word-:-processed draft. Annotated.
Folder 27
Patrick Lane - e-mail messages (print-outs), 1995-1997
Folders 28-29
Printed material.
Folder 28
Geist, vol. 4, nos. 19/20, Winter 1995/96.
Contains: Lorna Crozier. "A Staving Grace" [sic], pp. 34-35.
Patric* Lane. "A World Without Water," pp. 46-53.
1 ANS, 1 AN attached.
Folder 29
Geist, vol. 7, no. 28, Spring 1998.
Contains: Patrick Lane. "The Neurotic Poet," pp. 28-30.
Box 5
Correspondence, including copies of letters from DB, editorial
notes and word-processed drafts re: Descant's baseball issue,
Comedy and the Sporting Life, and Susan Musgrave's Things
That Keep and Do Not Change. Includes personal
correspondence with other writers.
Folders 1-6
Comedy and the Sporting Life. Descant 56/57, vol. 18, nos. 1/2,
Spring/Summer 1987.
Correspondence and word-processed drafts of submissions from
George Bowering.
Folders 1-2
Hugh Hood, George Bowering: correspondence.
Folders 3-6
George Bowering. Word-processed drafts:
"I Would Even Wear One of Their Hats IfIt Wasn't So Dumb"
"The Elks Come to Town"
"Conversations about Caprice"
"A Rifle in Deep Centre"
Folder 7
Karen Mulhallen - 1 ANS,
Folders 8-14
Susan Musgrave
(See also box 37 ofMS ColI. 286)
Folders 8-10
E-mail messages (print-outs), 1998. Includes editor's note for
Susan Musgrave's Things That Keep and Do Not Change, and
Lorna Crozier's What the Living Won't Let Go.
Folders 11-13
"Things That Keep and Do Not Change," word processed draft.
Includes 1 TLS and editorial notes. Nov. 9, 1998.
Folder 14
Word-processed draft, coil binding; includes editorial notes.
Oversize folder
Includes clippings that mention RB: on Nancy-Gay and Maxwell
Rotstein; Michael Helm.
(Item on Michael Helm complements the files already in box 59 of
MS ColI. 286).