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Martineau, Dr James

File consists of folder of correspondence, typescripts, extracts and handwritten letters between Welby and Dr. James Martineau, including clippings "James Martineau" by E.M.H. , The Academy, 20 Janaury 1900, pp. 65-66. Topics include Martineau's "Study of Religion," Welby's "The Living Test," church reform, "Life of Father Suffield", significs, article submissions for "Mind"; Miss Hollins

Martineau writing from The Polchar, Ruthiemurrhus, Aniemore and 35 Gordon Square, London, W.C.

Aitken, (W. H.)

File consists of typed, handwritten, and transcribed excerpts of correspondence between W. Aitken and VW. Keywords include: fire, life, heat, light, Divinity, Christ, Horton, Akkadian Genesis, Dr. King of Cambridge. Also includes a scrap of handwritten notes by VW.

Ben Wicks fonds

  • F0533
  • Fonds
  • 1886-2008, predominant 1956-2000

The fonds consists of material documenting Ben Wicks’s work as a cartoonist, author, public speaker, television personality, humanitarian, and journalist. The records include material related to published books and booklets, original drawings and cartoons, research files, speeches, scrapbooks and clippings, diaries and day planners, published books, and audio recorded oral histories with members of the Jewish diaspora that immigrated to Israel during the 1920s – 1950s. Also included are records pertaining to Ben Wick’s investiture into the Order of Canada and episodes of “Ben Wicks,” an interview format television show that aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) channel in the late seventies, early eighties. 

Wicks, Ben

Paget, Violet

File consists of folder of correspondence. Several letters have been edited and published.

See: Mrs. Henry Cust, ed. Echoes of Larger Life: A Section from the Early Correspondenc of Victoria Lady Welby. London: Jonathan Cape, 1929, pp. 122-125.

Linton, Miss E. Lynn

File consists of handwritten and typed letters regarding Welby's correspondence with Mrs. E. Lynn Linton. The two correspondended regarding Linton's novel "Christopher Kirland". Linton wrote from Queen Anne's Mansions, St. James Park and Whittington Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale. File includes a letter from G. S. Lagard writing from Lorraine Cottage, Malvern requesting reflections from Welby as thay were writing a biography of Linton.

Varpu Lindstrom fonds

  • F0558
  • Fonds
  • 1887-2012

Fonds consists of Lindstrom's professorial and scholarly research files throughout her career, as well as records documenting her academic activities. Research files pertain to her publications and monographs such as "Defiant Sisters : A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada, 1890-1930" (both the English and Finnish editions), and "From Heroes to Enemies : Finns in Canada, 1937-1947," as well as book chapters, articles, papers, presentations and lectures, and her involvement with the National Film Board production "Letters from Karelia," and subsequent research. The research files span the activities of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian organizations across the political spectrum, such as the Finnish Organization of Canada (left wing), and Loyal Finns in Canada (right wing). Records include oral history interviews (audio cassettes and transcripts), research notes, clippings, a significant and extensive number of photograph and letter collections passed down through generations of Finnish Canadians, diaries, correspondence, publication drafts, academic and professorial notes, microfilm of Finnish language newspapers published in Canada and archival records, financial records of Finnish-Canadian organizations such as newspapers and post-World War II relief funding bodies, scrapbooks, photocopies of rare and unusual documents such as two volumes of a Soviet register of Finnish War Crimes, a list of persons found in the mass grave at Karhumaki, and Soviet lists of North American Finns who journeyed to Karelia to help build a socialist utopia there, academic and professorial files, publicity files, files pertaining to her work with the School of Women's Studies, and her own papers as a university student. The fonds also includes letters written by Lindstrom as a newly-arrived teenaged immigrant to Canada to her best friend in Finland; many of these letters were published in Finnish with English translation in 'Letters from an immigrant teenager' in 2012.

Lindstrom, Varpu, 1948-2012

Ward, Mrs (Mary A.) Humphrey

File consists of folder of handwritten and typed correspondence, as well as typed transcriptions, excerpts and letter drafts, between novelist Mrs. Humphrey Ward (Mary Arnold Ward) and Welby. Topics include: Welby's campaign to defend Ward's novel "Robert Elsmere" in the English press; types of Christianity; writings by Laurence Oliphant, Max Muller, Professor Clifford ; "Lux Mundi" ; Welby's "Mental Biology;" Ward's philanthropic work; letters that Welby forwarded from others regarding Ward's writing and Welby's cousin (The Warden of Keble? Not present in file); a letter from a Mr. Wickstead forwarded by Ward to Welby (not present in file). Includes Welby's extensive typed notes on religion and faith. It is clear that Welby and Ward met in 1887, July 1888, 1890. Ward writes from: 61 Russell Square; Fox Gyll, Ambleside; Lower Grayswood, Haslemere; 25 Grosvenor Place, S.W. and Villa Iqca, Pallermo. Some of Welby's letters are written from Strathpeffer Spa.

Toronto Musicians' Association fonds

  • F0495
  • Fonds
  • 1887-2002

Fonds consists of records of the Toronto Musicians' Association and records from Samuel Levine, President Emeritus of the association. Union records include minutes of meetings; photographs of conductors, singers, and dancers; promotional material for concerts; newspaper clippings; financial records; registers of members; bound copies of "Crescendo," the local's newsletter; tariff of fee booklets; member directories; and a "black ball" voting box. Levine's records include documents concerning the activities of the Toronto Musicians' Association, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Organization of Canadian Symphony Musicians, including daily diaries (1959-1967 and 1988), bargaining agreements, tariff of fees booklets, and conference material (programmes, buttons, and a sewing kit). Some records also pertain to Levine's membership in the American Federation of Musicians.

Toronto Musicians' Association

Arnold, Sir Edwin

File consists of folder of correspondence. According to Petrilli, the file consists of a “…consistent corpos of mostly handwritten letters [covering] the years between 9 September 1887 and March 1889… Some letters are typewritten and bear editorial comments, though only one, dated 30 September 1887, from Arnold to Welby, was included … [in]… Echoes of Larger Life.” The following letters have been transcribed and published in Petrilli’s Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement:
VW to EA 9 September 1887
EA to VW 30 September 1887
VW to EA 1 October 1887
EA to VW 3 January, 7 February 1888
VW to EA 6 March 1888
EA to VW 3 May 1888
VW to EA 3 July 1888
See: Susan Petrilli, Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. 2009, pp. 42-47.

Bradley, F. H. (Francis Herbert?)

File consists of folder of correspondence. Petrilli transcribed and published all but a "few brief notes." The following letters have been transcribed and published in Petrilli’s Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement:
VW to FHB 17 January 1887
FHB to VW 8 February 1887
VW to FHB 11 February 1887
FHB to VW 23 February 1887
FHB to VW 22 May 1887
VW to FHB 8 November 1894
VW to FHB [1894]
FHB to VW 11 November 1894
VW to FHB 15 November 1894
FHB to VW 16 November 1894
VW to FHB 26 May 1903.
See: Susan Petrilli, Signifying and Understanding: Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Signific Movement. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. 2009, pp. 48-55.

Lankester, E. Ray

File consists of handwritten, transcripts and extracts of correspondence between E. Ray Lankester and Welby. Topics include: visual judgment, geocentricism, Welby's hope that F. Galton will look at piece of writing, "Mental Biology" that she sends to Lankester; reading Pinet and Féré; discussion of a scientific controversy between Poulton and Romanes and Lankester and the Duke of Argyll (regarding Darwin's theory); Lady Scarborough's invitation to Lankester, Lankester's travels in Europe; invitation from Welby to visit her at Lumley; Welby's efforts to befriend Prof. Oliver Lodge, Mr. Muybridge's exhibition of cave paintings; connecting with A.P. Laurei a chemist and technical instructor at the People's Palace; a reoccuring interest in a local "water-finder" including a report from Sir William Welby-Gregory on water-finding at Denton; Welby's report to Lankester in 1889 that an article in the Spectator reported that "somebody nearby has been tested by so-called experiments, as supposed to have 'the Power'"; Welby responding to paper sent by Lankester; Mr. Wallace's views regarding the manifestations of spiritualists; Welby's concerns about the "morbid developments of "spiritism""; Mr. Galton's twins; Mr. Meyers and Dr. H.J. ; Dr. Benjamin Richardson's lectures on "mental contageon"; Lankester's visit to Denton in April 1892; introduction of Scott and Lady Cecilia Montagu to their circle; Montagu's photographs of visiting party at Denton; Welby's anonymous poem published in "Mind" around May 1902; Lankester's critique of Mr. Bernard; Mr. Galton's work on eugenics; the Sociological Society; gifts of books from Welby for Lankester to give away to students; Prof. Metchnikoff; "D.W. Geoffrey Smiths' crucially important research on sex in crustacea"; hermaphodism in nature; health, nervousness and being overworked. Lankester writes from 11 Wellington Mansions and the Savil Club at 107 Piccadilly, grand Hotel Royal in San Remo, Italy, 29 Thurloe Place, British Museum.

Robert Christie fonds

  • F0192
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1996, predominant 1913-1996

The fonds consists of material which documents both Christie's acting and pedagogical careers as well as material related to his family and personal life. Includes correspondence and subject files, photographs, playbills, scripts and production files, books, plays and reference materials, financial records, sound recordings, and scrapbooks containing reviews. The fond is arranged in the following series:

Christie, Robert, 1913-1996

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