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Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by the Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. over the course of over 50 years as a literary agency and management company for writers, public speakers, and actors.

The bulk of the records consist of client files which includes correspondence to and from clients; correspondence with publishers, media, sponsors of talks, radio and television producers; publicity material relating to clients including resumes, headshot photographs, schedules, travel arrangements; newspaper clippings; reader's reports; royalty statements; and contracts. There are also audio cassettes and video cassettes of interviews and recordings of the work of some CSWS clients. Notable clients include: Earle Birney, Arthur Black, Harry Boyle, Adrienne Clarkson, Sorel Etrog, Don Harron, Lynn Johnston, Paul Kligman, Mavor Moore, Lister Sinclair, Harry Somers, Ben Wicks, and Chris Wiggins.

There are also general correspondence files, business records (including office diaries for the period, 1951-1965), manuscripts (from clients and unsolicited), and print materials (publishers' catalogues, anthologies of plays, newsletters, copies of labour agreements between the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and ACTRA, and clippings). There is a series of records related to CSWS Ltd. founder, Matie Molinaro, documenting her early life in New York and her work as a war correspondent during the Second World War. Also included is a series devoted to records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate, long-time clients of CSWS Ltd, which includes correspondence, contracts, notes, drafts, clippings, offprints, photographs, and ephemera.

This series consists of files created and accumulated by CSWS Ltd. about agency clients and prospective clients enquiring about the agency’s services. The types of records found in this series include correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, clippings, manuscripts (and manuscript samples), headshot photographs, curriculum vitae and biographical highlights sheets. The more well-known people represented in this series include: Earle Birney, Arthur Black, Harry Boyle, Adrienne Clarkson, Sorel Etrog, Don Harron, Lynn Johnston, Paul Kligman, Mavor Moore, Lister Sinclair, Harry Somers, Ben Wicks, and Chris Wiggins.

Files 2012-066/001(05) to 2012-066/004(10) consists of research notes and drafts related to a research project by Matie Molinaro and Barbara Brescia about the painting Venus Disarming Cupid.

Files related to CSWS Ltd. client Marshall McLuhan and his estate can be found in Series S00667: Marshall McLuhan files.

Leonora Babcock 1962 Mrs. Andrge Bach 1961 Jean (Mrs. Glen) Bannerman 1960 John Barbour 1962 W.E. Barnes 1960 Ivor Barry 1958 Joseph J. Bauer 1963 Ronald Baynes 1963 Walter R. Bazley 1964 B. V. Bedore 1964 Nathaniel A. Benson 1963 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Best 1962 P. J. Blackwell 1961 William Blackwood & Sons Limited (F.D. Tredrey, Director) 1963 Gordon F. Blenkarn 1964 Joan Bloomfield 1958-1960, 1965-1966 Dr. Denis Bouchard 1961-1962 B. John M. Bowles 1961 Charles A. Bowman 1961 Jerry Boultbee 1964 Dr. Edmond Boyd 1963-1964 Grace M. Boynton 1951 Cyril Bracegirdle 1963 Vicki (Mrs. R) Branden 1959 Len Brandt 1961 Charles H. Brett 196,4 Stanley E. Brock 1962 Eugene Brook 1966 C. R. Brown 1962 Victor S. Brown 1963 Mrs. Simone Bruneau 1964 Luella M. Brush (Mrs. J.J. Olscamp) 1964 J.H. Buckland 1963 F.R. Budden 1961 Freda Bunner 1961 Stanley T. Burkoff 1962 Sidney Bushell 1962 Roger E. Buysse 1962 Mrs. Una Butler 1964 Margaret (Mrs.Duncan) Byers 1963

Mrs. Lela F. Common 1957-1961 Rod Coneybeare 1959-1960 Iva Margaret (Mrs. H. S.) Cook 1962 Dr. Beatrice Corrigan (and Dr. J. A. Molinaro) 1960-1965 John T. Coughlin 1960 Elizabeth K. (Mrs. E. B.) Cox (nee Campbell) 1961 Stanley Cox 1963 Joseph R. Cottom 1962 Ron Craig 1965-1966 W. 0. Crampton (and Brian R. Cilmmins) 1960 Peter Cunningham 1959, 1961 Mrs. W. M. Currie 1964-1965

Gerald T. Iles 1961 Don Inman 1963 Jim Irving 1964 Mrs. Charles Isard 1957

Louis Kaufman 1961 Alan King 1959,1961 Kathryn King (Martha C. Swan) 1964 Kligman & McNamgra 1961 Alexander Knox 1962 Christopher Kohban 1961 Albert M. Koniuk 1958-1960 Lill K.(Mrs. John) Kroker 1961 Walter Kunz 1962-1963

William Lytle 1964 Mrs. Ray Laakso 1958 Carlo Lamberti 1964 Gerald Lampert 1960-1961 Rita M. Lane 1965 Mrs. Dorothy E. Lee 1963-1964 Roger Lemelin (and Finch) 1950-1952, 1956 David Lewis 1962 Mrs. Carol Libman 1961 Lind & Boie 1962 Martha Litvay 1964 Mrs. Allan Lovering 1965 Mrs. Margaret Lodwick 1961-1962 Peter J. Lorden 1959 John G. Lucas Sr. 1963-1964

Thomas A. Nash 1964-1965 Gordon Nault 1963 Felicity Nelson 1961-1962 Peter C. Newman 1958 Norman Newton 1957-1960 Robert F. Nielsen 1963 Andre Nieki 1964 I. Nordberg 1961 Alma Norman 1963-1964 M. J. Nurenberger 1964

John Roy Carlson 1961 Rachel Cavalho 1958-1962 Charles Clay 1964 Stanley Clish Paul Conroy 1963 W.G. Coventry Leonard Crainford 1962 Miss A.J. Crane 1963 R.W. Christie 1964 Paul David, M.D. 1960 Hans A. de Boer 1961 Lotta Dempsey (Mrs. R.A. Fisher) 1962 Merrill Denison 1964 Laddie Dennis 1962 Frank Duckworth 1963

Dr. Pierre A. Padwanaki 1962 Dr. Albert Rappaport 1960 Arnold Rockman 1964 Michael Roth 1961 John Reid 1958, 1960-1961 Allan J. Roseborough 1962 Charles Scott 1964 Harvey Scott 1962 Fred Sgambati 1959 Martin Simpson 1959-1960 Reginald Stackhouse 1962 John Steegman 1960 Baxter S. Scruggs 1961-1962 Peter Stollary 1961-1962 John Stuart Anderson 1963-1964 Peter Sturgess 1963 Kurt R. Swinton 1959-1960

Paul Elsom 1960, 1962 Norman Ettlinger 1960-1961 Maria Luisa Faini 1960 Anne Fafoutakis 1960 Don Francks 1961 Bill Glover 1960 Robert Paine Grose 1960 Mrs. Merle Shain Grosman 1965

Paul Robin 1959-1960; Stephen Satory 1964; Bena Shuster 1959