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Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds English
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Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

  • F0280
  • Fonds
  • [193-]-2012

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.

Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd.

Cohen, Mo-Film board "Wake + ABC and more

File consists of correspondence related to Mo Cohen, owner of Gingko Press. Topics include: W. Terrence Gordon and his editing of "The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of his Time"; documentary film "McLuhan's Wake" by the National Film Board of Canada and possible tie-ins with Gingko Press.

McLuhan material

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes publishing agreements, correspondence about permission to cite, and correspondence about a book project with Barbara Rowes.

Parker, H.

File consists of correspondence about the estate of Harley Parker and the payment of royalties to his heirs. Parker was the co-author with Marshall McLuhan of the book, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting (Harper & Row, New York, 1968).

Molinaro, Matie

File consists of biographical information about Matie Molinaro and CSWS Ltd., a reproduction of Beverley Slopen's column "Book World" from 22 August 1992 in which she discusses the 40th anniversary of CSWS Ltd.; offprint of her article "The Randel Venus: A Lost Corregio" Italian Canadiana 3, no. 1 (spring 1987); Spring 1973 issue of the Barnard University Alumni magazine.

McLuhan, Marshall: Club of Rome

File consist of an invitation by the Club of Rome to attend their upcoming conference in April in Montebello, Quebec. File also includes a letter from Carleton Smith, chairman of the International Awards Foundation, about the Pritzker Architecture Prize Presentation Ceremony from June 1979.

McLuhan, Marshall: Rights

File consists of records related to the estate of Marshall McLuhan: correspondence, rights requests, royalty statements, clippings. Also includes a proposal by Eric McLuhan to Ryerson University (Toronto, ON) for an 'International Network to Link Students and Researchers Concerned with the Effects of Media on Culture and Society and Focusing on the Work of Marshall McLuhan".

McLuhan, Marshall

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: correspondence, primarily about rights and reproductions of his work, royalty statements, draft agreement from 1969 regarding CSWS Ltd.'s representation of McLuhan.

McLuhan, Marshall

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: correspondence, primarily about rights and reproductions of his work; correspondence with American universities about the acquisition of McLuhan's personal papers; agreement of 26 June 1969 with Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Ltd. for the book "Voices of Literature (Volume 3): Hear the Voice of the Bard".

McLuhan, Marshall

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: correspondence, primarily about rights and reproductions of his work; postcards from Corinne McLuhan; course listings and events for the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, 1998-1999.

McLuhan, Marshall

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: correspondence, primarily about rights and reproductions of his work; royalty statements; reader's report by Derrick de Kerckhove on "Autre home autre Chr

McLuhan, Marshall

File consists of records related to the book project "The Global Village" (previously titled "The Resonating Interval") by Marshall McLuhan and Bruce R. Powers. Includes correspondence and fascimile of the book contract with Oxford University Press. File also includes assorted correspondence about rights and reproductions, including the Argentinian edition of "The Medium and the Light".

McLuhan, Marshall

File consists of correspondence related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate about rights and reproductions of his work and publication contracts; offprint of the Italian translation of McLuhan's article "Myth and Mass Media"; issue of Forces magazine, No. 22-1973 [tri-annual magazine published by Hydro-Qu

McLuhan and [George] Sanderson: Southam

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: records related to a lawsuit brought upon by the McLuhan estate against Nelson Thall and Time Again Productions Inc. for infringement of copyright; correspondence with Southam Electronic Publishing about the production of a 'McLuhan' CD-ROM.

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