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Libby Scheier fonds File
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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 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 incoming letters and cards from Scheier's friends and family.

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 : 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".

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.

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.

Correspondence

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

Second Nature: "Notes"

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

Language in Her Eye : Libby's essay

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.

Copies of drawing-poems

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

Old poetry notes

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

Poems and letters : Oct. '79-Dec. '80

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.

Poems and letters : Oct. '79-Dec. '80

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

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

Writing (in-class) : LS

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

Writing workshop : Free Times Cafe

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.

Parents

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

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

Reflection

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.

Divorce : correspondence

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

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

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.

Sarah Lawrence application, '64

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.

Writers' Union : general

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

Spartacist essay

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

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

Grenada and misc. Caribbean/Central America

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

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.

York : academic calendars

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

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

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

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. 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 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".

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