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Writers' Union : general
1996-022/015(01) · File · 1982-1990
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of correspondence, meeting minutes, pamphlets and brochures, notes, a constitution, reports, and informational guides.

Correspondence
2017-032/012(06) · File · 1969-1974
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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
2017-032/001(07) · File · 1970-1971
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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

2017-032/013(01) · File · 1971-1972
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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
2017-032/013(04) · File · Jan.-Mar. 1981
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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

2017-032/013(03) · File · 1975
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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.

Corr. - 1982
2017-032/013(05) · File · 1981-1982, 1984
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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".

2017-032/003(03) · File · 1983-1984
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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.

Corr. - 1984
2017-032/013(08) · File · 1984
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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.

Correspondence
2017-032/004(04) · File · 1986-1987
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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

Correspondence : business
1996-022/001(12) · File · 1971-1996
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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
2017-032/001(01) · File · 1957, 1965-1968
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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
2017-032/012(01) · File · 1965-1969
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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
2017-032/012(04) · File · 1965-1969
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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.

Copies of drawing-poems
2017-032/004(11) · File · [ca. 1983]
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of typescript poems accompanied by abstract illustrations. Poems in this file are "Tight Space" and "Monkeys".

2017-032/004(12) · File · 1977-1978
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of Scheier's transcriptions of her teenage diaries, used for a writing project entitled "Culled (and Considered) Notebooks".

Old poetry notes
2017-032/014(03) · File · 1969-1971, 1974-1976
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File mainly consists of draft poems and notes by Scheier, as well as a letter written by Yossi Schwartz.

2017-032/007(10) · File · 1976-1977, 1979-1980, predominant 1980
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of draft poems and stories by Scheier, as well as incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents are Scheier's parents, her husband Yossi Schwartz, her brother, Michael, Sue Levering and others. Some correspondence belonging to Yossi Schwartz is also part of this file.

2017-032/007(11) · File · 1976-1977, 1979-1980, predominant 1980
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of draft poems and stories by Scheier, as well as incoming correspondence and copies of her outgoing correspondence. Correspondents are Scheier's parents, her husband Yossi Schwartz, her brother, Michael, Sue Levering, Les Baltimore and others. Some correspondence belonging to Yossi Schwartz is also part of this file.

Poems, notes and letters
2017-032/008(01) · File · 1964-1965, 1968
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of an assortment of notes and a draft poems by Scheier as well as letters sent and received.

Writing (in-class) : LS
2017-032/009(02) · File · 1983, 1993-1998
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File mostly consists of handwritten prose writing by Scheier created at writing workshops in the 1990s as well as poems by Scheier.

2017-032/014(07) · File · 1981-1985
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File mainly consists of poems written by participants in drop-in poetry workshops taught by Scheier between 1983 and 1985. Included are reading lists prepared by Scheier and participant lists.

Cecile Cloutier
1996-022/018(11) · File · 1975
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of an annotated draft poetry manuscript and and Cloutier's CV.

Second Nature: "Notes"
1996-022/022(01) · File · 1986
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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

1996-022/027(06) · File · 1990
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of annotated drafts of Scheier's essay, "Chopped Liver", for the anthology, as well as a letter and draft essay from Susan Swan, and feedback on Scheier's essay from Marlene Kadar.

York : academic calendars
1996-022/019(05) · File · 1989-1995
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File includes calendars for the Programme in Creative Writing, Vanier College, Stong College, the Department of English, the Humanities Division, and Women's Studies.

Stong College 1930 : Poetry
1996-022/020(05) · File · 1993
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of departmental correspondence and memoranda, Scheier's writing critiques, notes, handouts and completed course evaluations.

Parents
1996-022/001(01) · File · 1958-1959, 1964
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of a manuscript for an article by Celia Scheier about a trip to Cuba, a newspaper clipping featuring a photo of Celia Scheier, and a newspaper clipping about children of socialist parents.

Portfolio material
1996-022/014(07) · File · 18-Jun-84
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of samples of Scheier's published non-fiction and business writing and publications for which she worked as an editor.

1996-022/013(17) · Item · 1962-1965
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

Item is an instructional manual written by Scheier's father, Murray, who was an instructor of pattern drafting and design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Item is inscribed to Scheier.

Reflection
1996-022/012(09) · File · 6 Mar. 1982
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of four issues of "Reflection", the annual literary journal of Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, New York. She was a literary editor for the 1963 issue and a poetry contributor for the 1962, 1963 and 1964 issues.

1996-022/012(10) · Item · 1976, 1981-1982
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

Item is a notice for an International Women's Day event featuring a poetry reading by Scheier, as well as other performers and feminist-oriented workshops.

Diary
2017-032/010(06) · Item · 1981-1982
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

Item is a diary kept by Scheier mainly between 1962 and 1965, though it also includes notes made by Scheier in 1968, 1975, 1976 and 1978. Included with the diary is an envelope, dated 1960, containing Scheier's hair.

Divorce : correspondence
2017-032/010(07) · File · 1977
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of correspondence from Scheier's lawyer, Mary F. Dunbar, regarding her divorce from Joseph Schwartz, as well as related legal documents pertaining to the marriage and divorce.

Divorce : Decree Nisi
2017-032/010(08) · File · 1959
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of a letter from lawyer Charles Roach, accompanied by a copy of the Decree Nisi pertaining to Scheier's divorce from James F. McMillan.

Photographs of Libby Scheier
2017-032/011(05) · File · 1964
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of photographs of Scheier, including a series of posed, professional photographs taken when Scheier was about 13. Photographs of Scheier's cousin Maxine, a photograph of Scheier with her brother, Michael, and a photograph of a boy playing violin are also part of the file.

2017-032/011(06) · File · 1951-1968
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of a draft application letter written by Scheier for her application to Sarah Lawrence College, as well as a draft letter written about Scheier by her father, Murray.

Pipe
2017-032/015(02) · Item · [196-]
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

Item is a smoking pipe belonging to Scheier.

Spartacist essay
1996-022/012(05) · File · [ca. 1979]
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of drafts of Scheier's paper on her experience with the Spartacist League, as well as notes and correspondence sent to Larry Seigle about the paper.

Histadrut documents
1996-022/013(03) · File · [197-]
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File pertains to Scheier's research about the Histadrut and includes her handwritten notes and copies of related encyclopedia entries.

1996-022/013(10) · File · 1979-1980
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of research material pertaining to labour and socialist politics in Grenada and Jamaica, collected by Scheier, including issues of "Forward: Newspaper of the Revolutionary Marxist League, Jamaica", "West Indian Digest", "Socialist Affairs", "International Internal Information Bulletin", as well as the constitution of the Canada-Grenada Friendship Society and a document entitled "An Introduction to the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada".

Posters
1996-022/029(01) · File · 1971-1979
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of political posters accumulated by Scheier, including a Spartacist League Richard Nixon impeachment poster, a Spartacist League poster advertising a talk by James Robertson, a Nicaragua Solidarity Committee poster (July 1979), two posters pertaining to the Cruzada Nacional de Alfabetizacion [Nicaraguan Ministry of Education], a handmade "Bread, land, peace" poster inscribed to Scheier, a Spartacist Youth League black liberation poster, and a University of Winnipeg Students' Association "Quebec: the people and their aspirations: Exposure '79" conference poster.

Correspondence
S00852 · Series · 1957-2000
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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
2017-032/001(04) · File · 1966-1967
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

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.