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Letter 67 : John Kendrick Bangs

A letter to Miss Corcoran from John Kendrick Bangs offering his autograph.

John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American writer and editor of several publications including Harper’s Magazine in New York City.

Receipt 1

A receipt from an unknown recipient specifying that Gilman Carson [?] paid £5

Manuscript 2 : John Reade

Poem “Winter Sunshine” handwritten by John Reade.

John Reade (1837-11-13 – 1919-03-26) was an Irish born Canadian Journalist and poet who held the position of Literary Editor of the Montreal Gazette for 50 years. Reade was an original fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and founded the Canadian branch of the American Folklore Society. He wrote many poems and contributed to most existing Canadian journals.

Material found in The Story of the Painting of the Pictures on the Walls and the Decorations on the Ceilings of the Old Debating Hall by W. Holman Hunt

A 7 page hand-written letter dated June 1861 and addressed to "My dear [Alexander] Gilchrist" with details on the life of the architect Benjamin Woodward (1815-1861). Woodward designed the Debating Hall of the Oxford Union Society. It opened in 1857 and in the summer of 1857 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and others were commissioned to paint, in tempura on whitewash, ceiling murals of scenes from the Arthurian romance. The pages are numbered in pen and the signature "D.G. Rossetti" at the end of the letter is in pencil. It may be a transcription and not original. There is also a page of notes citing pages in the book.

Mount Saint Vincent University Library and Archives fonds

  • UR-024
  • Archief
  • 1862-2023, predominant 1951-2023

The Mount Saint Vincent University Library and Archives fonds consists of records pertaining to and accrued by MSVU’s Library and Archives. Fonds contains administrative records, including information on building management, written histories of the Library, newsletters and bulletins, annual reports, surveys produced by the Library, licence agreements, cataloguing information, circulation statistics, acquisitions, purchases, and budgets as well as collective agreements.

Fonds also consists of meeting minutes and notes from various internal and external committees and associations the Library has participated in, including the Novanet Management Committee, the Senate Library Committee, CanCopy, the Faculty Association, Internet Society, and College and University Systems Exchange (CAUSE). Records contain library associations as well, including the Association of Atlantic University Librarians’ Council (AAULC), the American Library Association (ALA), the Atlantic Provinces Library Association (APLA), and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) among others.

Fonds also consists of records pertaining to staff, including general information on positions and staffing as well as materials from previous University Librarians and Collections Librarians. Fonds also contains correspondence between various library staff with MSVU faculty members, administrators, and other staff.

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Staff

Series consists of records accrued by and pertaining to MSVU Library staff. Series includes general information on staffing and library positions, correspondence between Library staff and other MSVU staff and faculty members, as well as records donated by particular librarians from their tenure, often pertaining to specific projects.

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Autograph 63 : Nicholas Wiseman

Autograph of Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.

Nicholas Wiseman (1802-1865) was the a resident Cardinal in England and the first Archibishop of Westminster. He was known for his part in the nineteenth century revival of Catholicism in England.

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