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McLuhan, Eric: miscellaneous
2010-040/074(28) · File · 1994-1995, 2006
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence related to Eric McLuhan and the estate of Marshall McLuhan as clients of CSWS Ltd. Subjects include: discussion of W. Terrence Gordon sale of McLuhan material to Batty Publishers (New Jersey); draft announcement of the founding of the Marshall McLuhan Institute for the Study of Culture and Communication (later known as McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology) at the University of Toronto; article by Eric McLuhan titled: "Virtual Reality: Theatre Without Walls" (1994).

McLuhan, Eric
2010-040/075(08) · File · 1995, 2003-2006
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence related to Eric McLuhan and the estate of Marshall McLuhan as clients of CSWS Ltd. Subjects include: rights management and permission requests of the work of Marshall McLuhan; Chinese editions of Marshall McLuhan's books; royalty statements; book project with Malcolm Waddell on Egypt. Also included is a list of review copies given out of The Essential McLuhan.

Gordon, Terrence
2010-040/076(04) · File · 1995-2006
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to McLuhan scholar W. Terrence Gordon. Includes: correspondence with CSWS Ltd.; excerpt of his manuscript, McLuhan for Beginners; draft memorandum of agreement from 2003 with Gingko Press Inc. for the book, Basic Linguistics.

Wiggins, Chris
2010-040/059(16) · File · 1968-2006
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to actor Chris Wiggins as a client of CSWS Ltd.: general correspondence about Wiggins' plays and between CSWS Ltd. and Wiggins; royalty statements; clippings; short story manuscripts: "Numbered Among My Friends", "Twists and Turns".

McLuhan, Marshall
2010-040/070(10) · File · 1974-2006
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, primarily about rights and reproductions of his work; royalty statements; reader's report by Derrick de Kerckhove on "Autre home autre Chr

McLuhan material
2012-066/008(24) · File · 1976-1979, 1982, 1996-2006
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 publishing agreements, correspondence about permission to cite, and correspondence about a book project with Barbara Rowes.

Gordon, Terrence
2010-040/076(10) · File · 2002-2006
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"; Gordon's agreement with Mark Batty Publishers; publication of a new edition of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, edited by Gordon.

McLuhan: Assorted matters
2010-040/077(17) · File · [197-], 2006
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 correspondence from November 2006 with attorney Ian Mang about the resolution of the dispute with Janine Marchessault.

Mang, Ian
2010-040/084(04) · File · 2000-2006
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence with attorney Ian Mang about the McLuhan family and rights to the estate of Marshall McLuhan; correspondence about the dispute over Janine Marchessault's book.

Sinclair, Lister
2010-040/047(04) · File · 1982-2006
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of assorted records related to Lister Sinclair as a client of CSWS Ltd., primarily correspondence and invoices about Sinclair's public speaking engagements. Also included are clippings of Sinclair's obituary from 2006.

McLuhan, Marshall
2010-040/069(07) · File · [197-], 1994-2006
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 primarily about rights and reproductions of his work; royalty statements; clippings of articles about Marshall McLuhan; reproduction of a essay of McLuhan's written while teaching at Assumption College in Windsor, Ontario (1944-1946): "Baroque vs. the Dissociation of Sensibility"; reproduction: Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt, "Cultures in the Electronic World: Can the Bottom Line Hold Quebec?", Perception (November/December 1977): 66-69.

McLuhan, Marshall
2010-040/070(06) · File · 1972-1984, 2001-2006
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, primarily about rights and reproductions of his work; 1972 contract with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for his appearance on the television programme "The Impact of Broadcasting"; 1981 report on the 'McLuhan papers': description of the records and preliminary inventories; translation into English from Italian of an article by Umberto Eco, "McLuhan? An Apocalyptic writer", L'Espresso, 25 March 1984; clipping of the death notice of Northrop Frye from the Toronto Star [28 January 1991]; notes by Matie Molinaro about McLuhan's correspondence, related to the "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" book project.

McLuhan, Marshall
2010-040/070(07) · File · 1979-2006
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, primarily about rights and reproductions of his work; royalty statements; proposal: "The McLuhan Initiative" - a project to create a resurgence of interest in the thoughts of Marshall McLuhan [17 Nov. 1986]; proposal by George Sanderson and Frank Macdonald for a book on the writings of Marshall McLuhan [25 Oct. 1986]; draft agreement with Gingko Press Inc. for the reprint of McLuhan's book, "Understanding Media"; galley proofs for the book by Mark Federman and Derrick De Kerckhove, "McLuhan for Managers: New Tools for New Thinking" (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2003.); clipping about the 2004 Toronto International McLuhan Festival of the Future.

2010-040/070(14) · File · 1966-2006
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, primarily about rights and reproductions of his work; clippings of articles about McLuhan; correspondence, invoices for McLuhan's public speaking engagements; notes and fascimile letters related to the "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" book project.

2010-040/067(01) · File · 2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence about assorted legal disputes involving the estate of Marshall McLuhan and the use of his work by others. The bulk of the file consists of email correspondence about a dispute between the McLuhan family/estate and York University Prof. Janine Marchessault, with regards to her book 'Marshall McLuhan: Cosmic Media' (Sage Publications, 2005) and the interpretation of fair use.

Moore, Mavor
2010-040/038(03) · File · 1971-2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of general correspondence related to Mavor Moore as a client of CSWS Ltd. Also includes the scores to two songs, 'To Ask You If You'll Marry Me' and 'How Can I Go To School, Dear Father?"

Gordon, Terry
2012-066/007(22) · File · 1996-2005
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, including a draft extract of his biography of McLuhan, "Marshall McLuhan: Escape Into Understanding". File also includes correspondence and proposal/outline for his book, "Linguistic for Dummies" (later "Linguistic for Idiots").

Robertson, Dewey
2010-040/042(21) · File · 1994-2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of consists of correspondence, contract and biographical information related to book project, "The Missing Link: The Dewey Robertson Story" (later titled "Bang Your Head: The Dewey Robertson Story"), an autobiography about professional wrestler Dewey Robertson.

Powers, Bruce
2010-040/069(08) · File · 1978-1985, 2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence with and about communications scholar Bruce Powers. Includes correspondence about his book project with Marshall McLuhan, "The Resonating Interval".

Sinclair, Lister
2010-040/047(01) · File · 1972-2005, predominant 1972-1974
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of assorted records related to Lister Sinclair as a client of CSWS Ltd. Primarily consists of correspondence, royalty statements, clippings, and promotional material related to Sinclair's play "The Blood Is Strong."

Rose, Michael
2010-040/044(03) · File · 2001-2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of general correspondence related to author Michael Rose as a client of CSWS Ltd. Also included is the spring 2003 McArthur & Company catalogue featuring Rose's book, "The Mazovia Legacy".

McLuhan, Eric
2010-040/075(14) · File · 1999-2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consist of general correspondence with and about Eric McLuhan with regards to speaking engagements and the management of the Marshall McLuhan estate. Includes correspondence about the publication of Marshall McLuhan's doctoral dissertation "The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time" and three portraits of Eric McLuhan.

Gordon, Terrence
2010-040/084(12) · File · 2002-2005
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, primarily the editing for publication of McLuhan's doctoral dissertation, "The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time".

Gordon, Terrence
2012-066/007(21) · File · 2004-2005
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, primarily the editing for publication of McLuhan's doctoral dissertation, "The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time".

McLuhan, Eric
2012-066/008(05) · File · 1994, 2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of general correspondence with Eric McLuhan; correspondence with University of Toronto Press about electronic rights to "Laws of Media" and "The Gutenberg Galaxy"; correspondence about the dispute with Janine Marchessault.

McLuhan, Marshall
2012-066/008(23) · File · 1968-2005
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 the dispute with Janine Marchessault; correspondence with Mo Cohen about the Book of Probes project; 1971 memorandum of agreement with Editions Hurtubise for the book "From Cliche to Archetype"; 1968 memorandum of agreement with Viking Press for the book "From Cliche to Archetype".

Gordon, Terrence
2010-040/076(07) · File · 1995, 2003-2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to McLuhan scholar W. Terrence Gordon. Includes: correspondence with CSWS Ltd. about McLuhan book projects including the editing for publication of McLuhan's doctoral dissertation, "The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time". File also includes a covering letter from Gordon and a draft of chapter 2 of his biography on McLuhan.

Sinclair, Lister
2010-040/046(14) · File · 2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of assorted records related to Lister Sinclair as a client of CSWS Ltd. Includes correspondence about a freelancer contract with the CBC and submission of Sinclair and Ted Harrison's book "North America in Picture, Poetry and Piano" for consideration for the Mark Lynton History Prize.

Scott, Desmond - re: Cyril
2010-040/045(08) · File · [ca. 1966]-2005, predominant 2003-2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of general correspondence primarily related to foreign rights and publishing negotiations for Cyril Scott's "The Initiate". File also includes an anotated copy of Desmond Scott resume, circa 1966, and CBC contract for a drama script "Don't Panic, It's Under Control" (1974).

McLuhan, Eric
2010-040/075(04) · File · 2002-2005
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of correspondence related to Eric McLuhan and the estate of Marshall McLuhan as clients of CSWS Ltd. Subjects include: rights management and permission requests of the work of Marshall McLuhan; documentary about McLuhan for Salt + Light TV; royalty statements.

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).

2010-040/066(11) · File · 1940-2004
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of original correspondence between Marshall and Corinne McLuhand and her mother, Mrs. C. W. Lewis. Includes typescript of these letters for the 'Letters of McLuhan' book project. File also includes other records unrelated to the book project : assorted clippings and correspondence about a silent auction for the McLuhan Festival.

McLuhan, Corinne
2012-066/008(03) · File · 1978, 2002-2004
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of notes and correspondence with Corinne McLuhan about royalties and royalty statements from publisher McGraw-Hill. File also includes the 1978 agreement between Italian publisher Armando Armando and Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan and Kathryn Hutchon for the book "The City as Classroom".

McLuhan, Emily
2010-040/076(18) · File · 1996, 2004
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of an email from Emily McLuhan to Matie Molinaro about the McLuhan Festival. File also includes correspondence about a permission to publish a Marshall McLuhan quote; correspondence about the Korean edition of Understanding Media.

McLuhan, Eric
2010-040/075(15) · File · 1995-2004
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consist of general correspondence with and about Eric McLuhan with regards to speaking engagements and the management of the Marshall McLuhan estate. Includes requests for permission to cite and correspondence about the planning of the Marshall McLuhan International Festival of the Future.

Wicks, Ben and Sue
2010-040/057(10) · File · 1999-2004
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to cartoonist and illustrator Ben Wicks and his daughter Susan Wicks, as a clients of CSWS Ltd.: records related to the lawsuit with Paragon Entertainment; correspondence; royalty statements; typed drafts of Katie & Orbie stories with notes by Susan Wicks.

Wiggins, Chris
2010-040/058(04) · File · 1966-2004
Part of Canadian Speakers' and Writers' Service Ltd. fonds

File consists of records related to actor Chris Wiggins as a client of CSWS Ltd.: correspondence about the musical "Please, Don't Sneeze" and various productions; poetry and haikus by Wiggins.