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McLuhan, Emily
2012-066/008(06) · File · Aug. 2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence between Emily McLuhan and CSWS Ltd. about the McLuhan Festival of the Future and a new anthology on the work of Marshall McLuhan, "The Legacy of McLuhan", edited by Lance Strate and Edward Wachtel (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005).

McLuhan, Elizabeth
2012-066/008(07) · File · 1972-1974
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of two draft agreements related to Elizabeth McLuhan: with Godfrey, MacSkimming & Bacque Ltd. for a book titled "Singing Wild"; with Griffin Press Ltd. for a book of poetry titled "Routes/Roots".

McLuhan, Marshall
2012-066/008(13) · File · 1977-2000
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of assorted records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: requests to cite and republish the work of Marshall McLuhan, correspondence about a CD-Rom project with Southam Inc., biographical highlights of Marshall McLuhan.

McLuhan re: Permissions
2010-040/078(05) · File · Feb. 1981
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence with the Variable Speech Control Company requesting permission to reproduce a Eva-tone soundsheet of McLuhan's voice which first appeared in 1974 to be included as an insert in Folio magazine. Also included is a transcript of a conversation between Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan and Ken Sherman about Variable Speech Control from 1974.

McLuhan: Letters et al.
2010-040/078(11) · File · [197-]-2005, predominant [197-]-[198]
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consist primarily of research and reproductions of correspondence related to the book project, "Letters of Marshall McLuhan". Also includes other correspondence about rights and requests for permission to re-publish the work of Marshall McLuhan.

Cohen, Mo
2010-040/078(16) · File · 1988, 2003-2009
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence with Mo Cohen, owner of Gingko Press; correspondence about the Argentinian rights to the book, The Medium and the Light; royalty statements for McLuhan for Managers. Also included is a 1988 letter from Corinne McLuhan to the Public Lending Rights Commission of Canada about registration.

McLuhan, Marshall
2010-040/080(14) · File · 1975-1976, 1989
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: correspondence with McGraw Hill over the rights for the book Understanding Media, royalty statements as well as a reproduction of the 1968 book agreement.

McLuhan, Marshall
2010-040/081(01) · File · 1977-1989
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: correspondence with publishers and about rights and requests to re-publish the work of Marshall McLuhan; copies of correspondence and reports by Marshall McLuhan as Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto; two headshot photographs of Maurice McLuhan; Marshall McLuhan tribute issue of The Canadian Forum , vol. LXI, no. 709 (May 1981).

McLuhan, Marshall
2010-040/081(02) · File · 1978, 1995-1996
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: correspondence with publishers and about rights and requests to re-publish the work of Marshall McLuhan; copy of a letter from March 1988 from Eric McLuhan to Bruce Powers, with attached note from Bruce Powers to Matie Molinaro, about the manuscripts for Laws of Media and The Resonating Interval.

McLuhan, Marshall
2010-040/081(03) · File · 1976, 1983, 1986
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to Marshall McLuhan and his estate as clients of CSWS Ltd. Includes: correspondence with publishers and about rights and requests to re-publish the work of Marshall McLuhan; clipping from the University of Toronto student newspaper The Varsity from 30 Nov. 1983 of an article about William Irwin Thompson, "U of T's new Marshall McLuhan"; reproductions of correspondence related to the Letters of Marshall McLuhan book project.

Gordon, Terrence
2010-040/076(09) · File · 1986, 2001-2004
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence between CSWS Ltd. and McLuhan scholar W. Terrence Gordon about McLuhan book projects. Topics include: the editing for publication of McLuhan's doctoral dissertation, "The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time"; publication of a new edition of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, edited by Gordon; book project on Ferdinand de Saussure. File also includes "McLuhan Project" proposal by George Sanderson and Frank Macdonald from 25 Oct. 1986.

Powers, Bruce
2010-040/076(22) · File · 1982-1993
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to communications scholar Bruce R. Powers, who co-authored with Marshall McLuhan the book, The Global Village. Includes correspondence from Powers; article manuscript by Powers, "The Grey Flannel Vamp: A Dialogue with Marshall McLuhan"; royalty statements; correspondence about reprints of The Global Village. File also includes a letter from May 1993 from attorneys McCarthy T

Cohen, Mo: documents
2010-040/077(11) · File · 1990, 2000-2004
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence with Mo Cohen, owner of Gingko Press, current publisher of Marshall McLuhan's books. File also includes the 1990 memorandum of agreement with Sugarco Edizioni for the Italian publication of Marshall McLuhan: The Man and His Message.

McLuhan: Assorted material
2010-040/078(02) · File · [198-], 1991-1996
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of research notes and reproductions of correspondence of Marshall McLuhan related to the book project, "Letters of Marshall McLuhan". Also included is draft agreement from 1996 between Prentice Hall Canada and McLuhan Associates Ltd. for the production of a CD-ROM for Understanding Media; clipping of article by Lewis Lapham, "Prime-Time McLuhan", Saturday Night, September 1994; request to reprint McLuhan article, "The Invisible Environment".

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.

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