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Libby Scheier fonds

  • F0130
  • Fonds
  • 1924, 1948-2001

Fonds consists of records documenting Libby Scheier's personal life, her work as a writer and as a teacher, her involvement with political organizations and with the Writers' Union of Canada. These records include correspondence, draft poems and other writing, draft manuscripts and proofs for her published works, teaching files, publications, newspaper clippings, personal ephemera and memorabilia, childhood diaries and high school notebooks, college papers and lecture notes from Sarah Lawrence College, copies of published articles and other writing by Scheier, pins, and graphic materials including posters, photographs and paintings.

Scheier, Libby

Correspondence

Series consists of correspondence received by Scheier and copies of her outgoing correspondence pertaining to personal and professional topics. Much of the correspondence is exchanged between Scheier and her family members.

Correspondence : personal

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence. Correspondents include Yossi Schwartz, Celia Scheier, Michael Scheier and Julie Frankel, Barbara Gowdy, Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, Beverly Daurio, Susan Swan, David Johnson, Phyllis Webb, and Jennifer Duncan.

Correspondence : business

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and memoranda and copies of some outgoing correspondence pertaining to the publication of her writing, her role as managing editor of "Tomorrow", and her work as an instructor at York University. Some poems submitted for publication are included in the file, as well as York University Department of English minutes and other mailouts. Correspondents include David Schanoes of Arsenal Magazine, K.K. Richardson, Dorothy Livesay, Joan Pierson, CARAL, and various York University faculty members, union representatives and department heads.

Correspondence

File consists of correspondence mostly received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her time as an exchange student in Paris. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, brother Michael, Lois Scheier, Tim Levenson, Arnie Katz, and Monique Bensaid.

Correspondence

File consists of correspondence received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her time as an exchange student in Paris. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, brother Michael, Lois Scheier, Tim Levenson, Arnie Katz, and Monique Bensaid.

Correspondence

File consists of correspondence received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, particularly her time as an exchange student in Paris. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, brother Michael and other relatives, and friends Danny Press and Sue Levering.

Correspondence

File consists of two letters sent to Scheier by her brother, Michael, and a letter from Tim Levenson.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming letters and cards from Scheier's friends and family.

Correspondence

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence, mostly exchanged with her parents and brother Michael and sister-in-law Julie. Included are letters and circulars pertaining to Scheier's socialist activism and involvement with the Trotskyist League's University of Toronto club and the League for Socialist Action.

Correspondence : Dec. 1975 - July 1976

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's parents and friends from her socialist activist groups.

Correspondence : Aug. 1976 - July 1977

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, on both personal and professional subjects. Correspondents are predominantly Scheier's parents, brother and sister-in-law.

Correspondence : Aug. 1976 - July 1977

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, on both personal and professional subjects. Correspondents are predominantly Scheier's parents, brother and sister-in-law.

Correspondence : Aug. 1977-Dec. '77

File consists of personal correspondence received by Scheier, as well as copies of some of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's brother, Michael, and her parents, Murray and Celia, as well as Susan Levering, Karen Heller and Tim Levenson.

Correspondence : poetry

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence pertaining to her efforts to get her poems published.

Correspondence : Jan. 78-Oct. 78

File consists of personal correspondence received by Scheier, as well as copies of some of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's brother and sister-in-law, Michael and Julie, and her parents, Murray and Celia, as well as Tim Levenson, Larry Seigle, and Karen Heller.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents are mainly Scheier's family members.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's mother and brother, Michael, Larry Seigle and Carol Auld.

Correspondence

File consists of copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence as well as incoming letters and cards. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, her brother, Michael, and sister-in-law Julie, Karen Heller and Les Baltimore.

Greeting cards

File consists of an assortment of greeting cards sent to Scheier, mostly by family members, and some sent to her son, Jacob, on his graduation from elementary school. Included is a photograph depicting Scheier with Stan Dragland in Dec. 1994, a photograph of Scheier's niece, Dara, in 1988, and a 1994 graduation photograph of Jacob.

Correspondence

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence, as well as diary-style notes by Scheier. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, her brother, Michael, and sister-in-law, Julie, and Yossi Schwartz.

Correspondence : responses to personal ad

File consists of letters received by Scheier in response to her Toronto Star personal ad, with her annotations on some letters' envelopes. Included in the file are copies of a few of Scheier's responses to other people's ads.

Correspondence

File consists of letters and cards received by Scheier, as well as copies of some outgoing correspondence by Scheier, both personal and professional in nature. Correspondents include Scheier's mother, Ann Ireland, Mendelson Joe, June Callwood, Erin Moure, Sarah Sheard and Janice Williamson.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, including personal family correspondence and correspondence pertaining to Scheier's writing. Included in the file is a draft story by Scheier entitled "The Grandson".

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents are Scheier's parents, brother and sister-in-law.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's parents and brother.

Draft letter

Item is a draft letter written by Scheier to her mother, Celia, in July 2000.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of personal letters received by Scheier while a student at Sarah Lawrence College, including her semester abroad in Paris, and while she lived in Berkeley, California. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, Murray and Celia, her brother, Michael, her Aunt Ethel, and various friends, including Tim Levenson, Jerry Engelbach, Danny Press, Karen Heller, and Alan Brownstein.

Correspondence

File consists of letters, postcards and cards received by Scheier. Correspondents include her parents and brother Michael, Sue Adams, Melinda Levine, Sue Levering, and Jon Brooks.

Correspondence

File consists of letters, postcards and cards received by Scheier. Correspondents include her parents and brother Michael, Sue Adams, Melinda Levine, Sue Levering, and Jon Brooks.

Notes and correspondence : 4/15/71 - 5/16/72

File consists of Scheier's incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence. Much of the correspondence pertains to Scheier's socialist activism and involvement with the Revolutionary Marxist Caucus (RMC), Revolutionary Communist Youth (RCY) and the Spartacus League. Correspondents include Sue Axelrod, Liz Gordon, and Richard Stomper.

Correspondence : 25.9.74 - mid-March 1975

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, received and sent while she was living in Jerusalem. Correspondents include her socialist friends and colleagues as well as her family.

Correspondence : mid-March 1975 - June 1975

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence, received and sent while she was living in Jerusalem. Correspondents include her socialist friends and colleagues as well as her family.

Correspondence

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents are mainly Scheier's parents, other relatives, and husband Yossi Schwartz.

Corr. - 1982

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, her brother and sister-in-law, Yossi Schwartz, Erin Moure, Sharon Berg, David Donnell, Les Baltimore, Paula Fischer, Gay Allison, and Bronwen Wallace. File includes letters from Alice Munro and Jane Rule with comments on Scheier's poetry book, "The Larger Life".

Corr. - 1982

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, her brother and sister-in-law, Yossi Schwartz, Erin Moure, Sharon Berg, David Donnell, Les Baltimore, Paula Fischer, Gay Allison, and Bronwen Wallace. File includes letters from Alice Munro and Jane Rule with comments on Scheier's poetry book, "The Larger Life".

Corr. - 1983

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, her brother and sister-in-law, Yossi Schwartz, Erin Moure, Tom Feenstra, Betsy Warland, Sue Levering and Les Baltimore.

Corr. - 1984

File consists of incoming correspondence and copies of Scheier's outgoing correspondence as well as some journal entries. Correspondents include Scheier's parents, her brother and sister-in-law, Yossi Schwartz, Erin Moure, and Tom Feenstra. Included is a photograph of Jacob Scheier.

Manuscripts and other writing

Series pertains to Scheier's poetry and prose writing and includes manuscripts for her books "Second Nature", "Sky", "Saints and Runners", "Language in Her Eye" (editor), "Kaddish for my Father : New and Selected Poems 1970-1999", draft poems, articles, notes and writing fragments, writing-related correspondence, and writing from workshops. Some manuscripts sent to Scheier by other writers are also part of this series.

Donna McFarlane

File consists of a pre-copyedit draft manuscript of McFarlane's novel, "Division of Surgery", accompanied by a letter from Ann Decter of Women's Press to Scheier requesting a blurb.

Barbara Novak

File consists of a short story manuscript by Novak entitled "Courtship" and a copy of published story by Novak entitled "If Gauthier Should Read This".

Second Nature: "Notes"

File consists of a draft manuscript as well as items pertaining to the promotion and launch of "Second Nature".

Sky : draft with notes

File consists of a draft manuscript and a handwritten letter from Susan Swan detailing her thoughts about the manuscript.

Sky : drafts with comments

File consists of two draft manuscripts annotated by two readers, Bev Daurio and Colette (?), and editorial comments by Di Brandt.

Sky : draft

File consists of a draft manuscript and correspondence exchanged with Bev Daurio.

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