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Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 13 (September 1992) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Ash, Mary Eileen. Goldwin Smith, the Grange and the Library
• Williamson, Mary F. Canadian Art Materials and Special Collections: Rescuing Rare Books from the Stacks. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lacombe, Michèle. William Arthur Deacon: The Life, Times and Letters of a Literary Journalist. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Dodge, Bernadine. Youth Camping: an Ontario Experience. Recorded by Cole, Alf
• Rahmel, Fern. Peterborough’s First Librarian. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1992-92
• Annual Financial Statement for 1991-92
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

This item is a 26-page photocopy of typescript of a letter of reminiscence written in 1910 by Margaret Bird, of Peterborough, Ontario, when she was an elderly woman. It tells of her abuse at the hands of her husband including one attempt to poison her. It describes her difficult life in late nineteenth-century Peterborough.

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 14 (Fall 1993) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Heiderman, Margaret Lowery. Good Reads Revisited
• Rodger, Andrew C. Photography and the Historian. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Tahiliani, Moti. A Library Embraces the Computer Age. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Johnston, Julie. Published and Approved Julie Johnston talks to the Friends. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern A.
• Anson-Cartwright, Hugh. The Booklover’s Bookseller. Cole, Jean Murray
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Acquisitions, 1992-1993
• Report on Membership
• Annual Financial Statement for 1992-93
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 15 (Fall 1994) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Brown, Quentin. I’m Monstrous Full Er Fleas Dis Mawnin’
• O’Brien, Brendan. Speedy Justice. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Peterman, Michael. The Life of the Pioneer Writer. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Scigliano, Marisa. Johann Gutenberg and the 42-Line Bible. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lennox, John. A Friendship in Letters. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Macrae, John. Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Acquisitions 1993-1994
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1993-April 1994)
• Report on Membership
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 16 (Fall 1995) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. Adventure – No Life Should be Without It
• Knight, Lorna. The National Library – Research Opportunities in Literary Manuscripts. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Conolly, Leonard. Censorship – It’s Alive and Well. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Wadland, John. Menage a Trois. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Black, John. Libraries: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Macrae, John. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1994-April 1995)
• Report on Membership
• Treadwell, Michael. Acquisitions 1994-1995
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members