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Airlie, Lady Blanche

File consists of typed, handwritten and trascribed excerpts from correspondence between Lady Blanche Airlie with VW. Keywords include: "young married women" , religion, loss, grief, silence, comfort.

Sydney Eisen fonds

  • F0209
  • Fonds
  • 1881-1998

The fonds consists of records created by Sydney Eisen in his capacity as a professor and university administrator in the Department of History and Humanities at York University as well as is research pertaining to Victorian Studies and Frederic Harrison, and involvement with the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario and the Centre for Research of Latin America and the Caribbean. Types of records include subject files, academic and professional correspondence, course outlines, lecture notes, research notes, committee minutes, and student references.

Eisen, Sydney

Accession 2000-043

The accession consists of lecture notes, graduate files, student files, academic and professional correspondence, research notes, course outlines, subject files, and materials related to the Frederic Harrison Collection.

Barry Callaghan fonds

  • F0525
  • Fonds
  • 1884-2014, predominant 1946-2014

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-

Augusta Boulton fonds

  • F0269
  • Fonds
  • 1884-1885, [197-?]

The fonds consists of photocopies of a series of letters from Charles Arkoll Boulton to his wife Augusta, during the period of the Northwest Rebellion, 1884-1885.

Boulton, Augusta

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood from 1884. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: Wedgwood's reading as directed by Welby; their mutual friendship with Mrs. Mary Everest Boole (and conflict arrising from Boole's mental illness, "moral insanity', and charges leveled against a mutual friend); Wedgwood's article on Maurice in the British Quarterly Review; Wedgwood's thoughts of "Links and Clues"; Wedgwood writes from: Cilrhiw Narbert, South Wales and 56 George Street, Portman Square, W.

Welldon, J. C.

File consists of folder of a typed letter from Welby and a handwritten response from a Mr. Welldon, writing from Dulwich College, S.E., on the subject of Welby's writing and an invitation to visit Welby in London at 5 Upper Berkeley Street in Portman Square.

Walrond, T.

File consists of a handwritten letter and two typed transcripts from Mr. T. Walrond, writing from 65 Lancaster Gate West regarding extracts that Welby had prepared of her correspondence with Dean Stanley. It appears Walrond was writing about Stanley or editing a collection of his letters.

York University historical collection

York University historical collection

  • F0450
  • Collection
  • 1885-2006, predominant 1970-2006

The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, genealogical charts, family histories, newspaper clippings, publications and related material detailing the history of the site on which the Keele Street campus of York University now stands; correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the search for the grave site of Peter Erlin Kaiser and a photocopy of his Last Will and Testament; a genealogy and a history of the Kaiser family of Ontario (1933); copies of articles on the Palatine settlements in York County and Upper Canada; a publication, 'An account of the Boynton family and the family seat of Burton Agnes,' (1914); material on the Smith family (Hoover relations), correspondence seeking information from descendants of the Hoover family with responses, Hoover genealogies and material on the Troyer family genealogy (Hoover descendants); biographical material on York pioneers, correspondence, archaeological reports, copies of campus and survey maps and of architectural renderings of the Hart, Hoover, and Stong buildings on the University campus; obituary notices for the last surviving member of the Stong family who lived on the property, a copy of a genealogy of the family and a photocopy of a history of the church that was located on the property (by T.E. Kaiser);a newspaper article concerning Hart House, a building on the York campus which was relocated there in the 1930s from King Township, material related to the 40th anniversary celebrations of York University in 1999 and the York University Faculty Association strike of 1997, as well as other material details of which are available in the finding aid. Accession 2009-019 includes an album of presentation photographs taken by Panda Associates showing Founders College, Steacie Science Library, the Farquharson Life Sciences Building, Burton Auditorium and the Central Utilities Building likely during the 1960s, as well as photographs and textual material regarding the dedication of the Scott Library on 30 October 1971.

York University Archives and Special Collections

Wedgwood, Miss F. Julia

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed letters between Welby and Miss F. Julia Wedgwood. Also included typed excerpts and letter drafts. Topics include: Wedgwood's thoughts on Welby's articles and theories; nature of evil; writings of Thomas Erskine; their mutal friendship with Mary Everest Boole; gifts of flowers; Wedgewood's sister Hope; the death of Mrs. Oliphant; "moral insanity"; Wedgwood meeting Mrs.Hinton; the bigamy scandal of Howard Hinton, who was married to Mrs. Boole's daughter, Mary Ellen; and Wedgwood's advice to Welby about seeking out a leading scientific scholar, Huxley perhaps, to respond to her writing. Wedgwood writes from: 56 George Street, Portman Square, W.; Putney, and Abinger Hall, Dorking.

Henry Gilchrist family fonds

  • F0309
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1969

The fonds consists of business receipts of Henry Gilchrist and family members, correspondence from Manitoba College, a genealogy of Henry McCuaig and Janet Calder (Gilchrist ancestors), photographs of Mrs. Henry Gilchrist and of Reverend James Archibald Hume Pue-Gilchrist, and related material.

Gilchrist, Henry (family)

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