The fonds includes extensive correspondence dealing with Callaghan's personal and family relationships, as well as his active involvement with an international community of poets, writers, and artists. Teaching files include course outlines, essay topics, reading lists and bibliographies on North American and Russian literature, examination questions, and notes regarding his teaching methods at York University from 1970 to 2003. Journalism files include research materials and interview transcripts and deal with his travels with Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1968, the crisis involving the Front de liberation du Quebec and implementation of the War Measures Act in 1970, culture, politics and economics in Quebec, and Callaghan's works of political and social commentary for CTV and CBC. The records of Exile Editions make up a significant portion of the fonds, and include manuscripts for books, page proofs, and correspondence. These files show the creative process in considerable detail, and in particular Callaghan's work as an editor and translator. Administrative records for the publisher consist of catalogues, promotional material, writers' guidelines, grant applications, financial documents, and reviews of publications. Callaghan's endeavours as a travel journalist are documented through research notes, manuscripts for articles, correspondence, and promotional literature from various attractions at the locations he visited, including museums, theatres, and tracks for horse racing, 1978 to 1995. Manuscripts and annotated page proofs for Callaghan's Hogg poems, short stories, novels, memoir, and non-fiction trace the development of these works, and in particular his skill and attention to detail as a wordsmith. Callaghan's involvement with radio and television is represented by a variety of sound and moving image recordings, including audiotapes of his interviews with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, videotapes of his television shows for CTV's "W5" and CBC's "Weekend," and original film pertaining to the war in Palestine in 1970, his interview with Angela Davis in 1972, youth culture in California in 1974, John Updike, and "The blues." The fonds also includes considerable material created by or involving Morley Callaghan, including literary agreements, royalty statements, stories by and about Morley Callaghan, manuscripts for several books published by Exile Editions ("Joy in heaven," "The lost and found stories," "The man with the coat," and "A passion in Rome") that provide an understanding of the close working relationship between Morley and Barry Callaghan, letters of sympathy and funeral notices following Morley's death in 1990, and scripts for the CBC movie, "Hemingway vs. Callaghan," 2002-2003. Also included are subject files including literary memorabilia and honorary degrees received.
Callaghan, Barry, 1937-File includes Callaghan's essay on formal realism and "Pride and prejudice".
File includes Callaghan's essay on Miller's play, "After the fall".
File includes an school assignment and an essay written by Callaghan on "The scarlet letter" and "To the lighthouse".
File consists of a student guide, postcards from Windsor, examination questions for a philosophy course, the program for a basketball game against Bliss College, and letters from Barry Callaghan to his mother regarding course work and grades.
File consists of a manuscript originally entitled "Edgar Poe and metaphysics," and submitted under the title, "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym."
File consists of typescript and handwritten prose.
File consists of correspondence sent and received by Callaghan, including a great deal of printed e-mail correspondence, exchanged with fellow writers, friends and colleagues.
File pertains to Callaghan's trip to Winnipeg to attend the Winnipeg International Writers Festival in promotion of his book, Raise You Five.
File pertains to Callaghan's attendance at the 1987 Festival franco-anglais de poesie and includes a festival programme, a collection of participant poetry, and a photograph of Notre Dame Cathedral.
Includes material from Callaghan's 1986 play "Predicament"
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction.
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction. 5 draft copies
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction. 2 copies
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction.
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction. 2 copies
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction.
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction. 4 copies
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction.
File pertains to Hogg rewrite.
File pertains to The way the angel spread her wings aka Promise of Rain, Waters Sweet & Son.
File pertains to The way the angel spread her wings aka Promise of Rain, Waters Sweet & Son.
File pertains to The way the angel spread her wings aka Promise of Rain, Waters Sweet & Son.
File pertains to The way the angel spread her wings aka Promise of Rain, Waters Sweet & Son.
File pertains to The way the angel spread her wings aka Promise of Rain, Waters Sweet & Son.
File contains uncollected poetry and/or fiction.
Audio recordings featuring readings from Exile writers Sean Virgo, Diane Keating and Barry Callaghan.
In English, his works are published under the name S. Y. Agnon
Series consists of records pertaining to the writing of Morley Callaghan, particularly his short non-fiction writing, collected and re-published by Barry Callaghan in the Exile Editions monograph, A Literary Life : Reflections and Reminiscences 1928-1990 (2009). These records include newspaper clippings, short stories published in magazines and photocopies of radio scripts written by Morley from the 1930s to the 1980s, as well as word-processed copies of these materials, edited by Barry. Photocopies of the original typescripts for Morley's early unpublished novel, The Imposters, and for many of his short stories are part of the series, as are a manuscript for his novel, A Passion in Rome, and page proofs for an Exile Editions reprint of A Time for Judas.