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IMC-087 · File · 1972-2012
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Materials pertaining to the Shakespeare Club of Peterborough, Ontario. Included are items which had originally been folded and loosely inserted in sleeves in a binder titled "Shakespeare Club Memorabilia." These items include photographs (ca. 15), newspaper clippings, cards and letters, etc., 1972-2012; they have been unfolded and maintained in their original order in a folder. Also included is a black binder of Shakespeare Club minutes dated 9 January 2006 - 7 June 2010.

Shakespeare Club
IMC-046 · File · 1901
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

This paper is comprised of the family reminiscences of Susan Greeley, focusing on stories of the settlement of the Rogers family in New Hampshire in the mid-1700s and later immigration to Canada. The concluding paragraph reads as follows: "The foregoing has been written by me and is a statement of facts within my recollection and from what my mother has told me, she having been a member of the first party of U.E. Loyalists that settled on the Bay of Quintie in June 1784. Dated at Haldimand this 27th day of Decr. 1901. [Signed] Susan B. Greeley."

Stephen Leacock items
IMC-135 · File · 1916-1943
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Includes a Christmas card "from Lill and Will Rudge, Christmas 1916."Inside the card is a photo card (NY Herald) of Stephen Leacock, signed by Leacock for Aphra Miller, 1934.

Also includes sheet music titled "The Junior League of Montreal Presents Aces High, the Musical Revue. By the Writers of Looping the Loop, 1922." Leacock's signature and address, dated May 31, 1938 affixed to the verso of front cover.

Also includes a photograph of Leacock addressing members of the New York City Cancer Committee at a luncheon at the Plaza Hotel, 15 May 1935 and a signed card, received by the recipient 8 March 1943: "Stephen Leacock / With best wishes / Miss Ethel Smith."

IMC-099 · File · 1869-1989
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

Original, photocopied, and transcribed materials pertaining to the family of Thomas Alexander Stewart and Frances Stewart. Included are correspondence (1869-1935; 1989); a family tree and genealogical material; paper titled “Selections from “Fragments That Remain”” by Alec Wilson; probate of the will of Thomas Alexander Stewart Brown (1937); conveyance Edward T. Brown to Thomas Alexander Stewart Brown (1880); a typescript list made from a 1789 sale notice of auction items belonging to James Frood; a colour copy of a sketch and map of the original Stewart home and early Douro Township; and typescripts of articles and diaries pertaining to Stewart family history and their settlement in Upper Canada.

IMC-014 · File · 1838-1846
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File includes 8 pencil sketches of people, flowers, & farm animals: 2 unsigned; 3 signed "M.E.R." 1 signed "Bessie"; 1 signed "S.E.R."; 1 signed "F.B." and titled "Kate & Pompey in the stable & the other Pompey mending the first Pompey's collar." "The other Pompey" according to Stewart Brown is his grandfather, T.A. Stewart Brown (1852-1936).

Also includes 1 ink sketch unsigned. 1 envelope addressed to Bessie Lydia Stewart.

Also included is a linen-backed map of Ireland "published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." Sir Francis Beaufort, relative of Frances Stewart, is known to have been involved in the preparation of such maps/atlases published by the above Society

IMC-131 · File · 2021
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

An essay on the influences of Professor T.H.B. Symons on the life of Denis Desjardins from his early francophone education in the 1960s to his reading of Tom Symons: A Canadian Life (2011). Denis Desjardins is a Trent University alumnus.

IMC-026 · File
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

The material includes correspondence, journals, notebooks, manuscripts, scrapbooks, and a deed to Polly Cow's Island. Correspondents include Catharine Parr Traill, Katharine Agnes Strickland Traill, Harriette McKay Traill, Mary Traill, James George Traill, Rev. Walter J.S. Traill, William Edward Traill, Harry Strickland, Thomas Strickland, Samual Strickland, Robert and Caroline Strickland, Jane Strickland, Agnes Catherine Vickers, Catherine Vickers, Mary Agnes FitzGibbon, Agnes Chamberlin, Sir Sandford Fleming, A. Llewelyn Roberts, Sarah Gwillym, Goldwin Smith, Annie Traill Fotheringhame Atwood, Florence Atwood, Kate Atwood, Mary Muchall, Hargrave Henry Muchall, Carrol Muchall, Eva Muchall, William Briggs, E.S. Caswell, James Caswell, John Lowe, Susanna Moodie, John W. Dunbar Moodie, John William Todd, Frances Stewart, Frank Stewart, Ellen Dunlop, Anna Hay, Bessie Brown, Katherine Brown, and others.

IMC-045 · File · 1834-1882
Part of Isolated manuscripts collection

File consists of the following letters:

  • "David Hooey of Port Hope to Robert Kelly of Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland: 26 April 1834, 6 March 1835, 24 January 1839 (3 letters - transcripts only).
  • Rainy Armstrong to brother of Grass [Gross], County Cavan: 12 April 1852 (photocopy of original plus transcript)
  • Robert Maxwell to his brother: 26 December 1878 (transcript only).
  • Henry Maxwell of Oshawa to his brother, Patrick Maxwell: 14 December 1881 (transcript only).
  • Robert Maxwell (b. 1806) to his brother Henry Maxwell: 7 July 1882 (transcript only).
  • Photocopies of the postmark and postal markings for miscellaneous letters (period 1841 to 1850)."