Collection search - Stephen Butler Leacock collection [textual record (chiefly microform), cartographic material]

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Stephen Butler Leacock collection [textual record (chiefly microform), cartographic material]

Hierarchical level:

Collection

Date:

[ca. 1864-[198-], predominant 1875-1944].

Reference:

R10997-0-8-E, MG30-D40

Type of material:

Textual material, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

104795

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Stephen Butler Leacock collection
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Collection includes:

27 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

[ca. 1864-[198-], predominant 1875-1944].

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2.026 m of textual records.
33 microfilm reels negative and positive.
1 map

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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Stephen Leacock collection [graphic material]

Stephen Leacock Memorial Home collection [graphic material]

Orillia Public Library collection [graphic material]

Stephen Leacock collection [graphic material]

Stephen Leacock collection [graphic material]

Stephen Leacock collection [graphic material]

Stephen Leacock collection [graphic material]

Stephen B. Leacock collection [graphic material]

Stephen Leacock collection [textual record]
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The collection is composed of the following records: originals, including the Harry Rose Papers, 1936-1938; the Anthony Walker Papers, 1936, 18 pages; the Stephen Leacock Jr. Collection, 1875-1949; the Barbara Nimmo Collection, n.d., 1910-1940; the Barbara Nimmo Collection - Additional, n.d., 1901-1944; the Barbara Nimmo Collection - Additional, 1904-1980s; the Barbara Nimmo Collection - Additional, c. 1914-1970; and Other Material, n.d., 1916, 1931-1940. In addition, there are photocopies including manuscripts and posters, n.d., 1921, 26 pages. On microfilm is the Stephen Leacock Memorial Home Board Collection, including correspondence, 1864-1948, 9 reels; manuscripts, 11 reels; manuscripts fragments, 3 reels; journals, n.d., 1901-1944, 6 reels; printed articles, 1901-1944, 2 reels; reviews and newspaper clippings, 1907-1944, 2 reels; miscellaneous files, 1914-1944, 1 reel; exhibits, 1874-1943, 1960, 3 reels; lecture notes, 1 reel; card indexes, 3 reels; and Maclean's Magazine Files, 1919-1929, 1936, 1 reel. Orillia Public Library Collection, including correspondence, n.d., 1907-1951, manuscripts and newspaper clippings, n.d., 1907, and Stephen Leacock Associates Papers, 1947, 1951, 1 reel; Elizabeth Kimball Collection, 1943, 1 reel; and Allan Duffy Collection, n.d., 1 reel.

Microfilmed material is located on the following microfilm reels: M-1902a to M-1903, M-1911 to M-1934, M-1948 to M-1951, M-1966 to M-1967, M-1979.

Fonds also includes one map: Sketch of part E. 1/2 Lot 15. con. X. Tp. Oro

Provenance:

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Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944

Additional name(s):

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McGill University

Biography/Administrative history:

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Leacock, Stephen, 1869-1944 : Author, economist, humorist.

Born in England in 1869, Stephen Leacock came to Canada with his family in 1876. He began his studies at Upper Canada College, where he later taught, 1889-1898. After graduating from the University of Toronto, Leacock received his Ph.D. in political economy from the University of Chicago in 1903 and was appointed lecturer in the Dept. of Economics and Political Science at McGill University. He remained at McGill, where he was appointed head of his department in 1908, until 1936. He published his first book, Elements of Political Science, in 1906.

Although Leacock had a distinguished career as a teacher and writer of scholarly works, it is as a humorist that he became world famous. He published his first book of humour, Literary Lapses, in 1910, followed by Nonsense Novels in 1911 and the classic Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912. Leacock was a prolific writer, continuing to publish books virtually annually as well as numerous essays and sketches in journals and periodicals in North America and Britain. He was also a popular lecturer, and travelled across Canada and the United States on speaking tours.

Leacock was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1919, won a Governor-General's Award in 1937, and in that same year received the Lorne Pierce Medal.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a list of the material in vols. 1-12, a list of the material copied from the originals in the possession of the Orillia Public Library and a list of the posters copied from the originals in the Stephen Leacock Memorial Home. Finding aids to other portions of the collection appear on microfilm and are indicated in the inventory description. MSS0307 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000055.pdf

Cartographic material (No finding aid) Please consult lower level descriptions. Leacock, Stephen 923002. (Restrictions not set)

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General note:

Original scrapbooks in volume 4 relating to Stephen Leacock's lecture tours have been removed from circulation and replaced by photocopies.
Documents created in: Montréal, Qué.

Custodial history:

The Stephen Leacock Memorial Home Board Collection was copied in 1970 from originals in the possession of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Home Board. The Orillia Public Library Collection was copied in 1970 from originals in the possession of the Orillia Public Library. The Stephen Leacock Jr. Collection, originally in the possession of Stephen Leacock Jr. of Orillia, Ontario, was received in 1989. The Barbara Nimmo Collection was received from Stephen Leacock's niece Barbara Nimmo of Michigan, U.S.A., in 1991 and 1992 and from her estate in 1994. Remainder of the collection was received from various sources between 1948 and 1989.

Location of originals note:

The originals are with Orillia Public Library, Stephen Leacock Associates, and Stephen Leacock Memorial Home.
Subject heading:

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Orillia (Ont.)

Authors, Canadian, 1864-1944 What Price Victory, 1936

Economist - Canada, 1906-1944 The Lot of the Soldier, 1936

Humorist, Canadian - Canada, 1864-1944 Funny Pieces, [1936]

Humorist, 1864-1944 Charlie Chaplin, 1936

College teachers - Canada, 1888-1944 Harry Lawder, 1936

Stephen Butler Leacock - Manuscripts, 1875-1949 Gathering Financial Crisis in Canada, [1936]

Literature, Canadian, 1875-1960 Greatest Pages of American Humor, [1936]

Manuscripts - Canada, 1875-1949 Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, 1912

Leacock family, 1875-1949 Michael Morton, 1912

Stephen Butler Leacock - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., 1901-1944 Stephen Leacock Jr., n.d

Joseph Colby, n.d

H.S. Johnson, 1916

How We Kept Mother's Day, [1931-1940]

Gold Mines as Investment, [1931-1940]

Mr. Graham Towers, n.s., 1921

A Memory of the Old School on King Street: The Struggle to Make Us Gentlemen, n.d., 1921

Canada, [1935-1944]

Canada and the Sea, n.d

Stephen Leacock Memorial Home Board, 1864-1960

Mr. Leacock Interviews Himself, The Art of being Interviewed in England and America, n.d., 1907

The Book Agent or Why do People Buy Books, n.d., 1907

Stephen Leacock Associates, 1947, 1951

Elizabeth Kimball, 1943

Alan Duffy, n.d
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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117-020002-8
118-020142-6
119-020109-7
120-020057-8
120-020058-6
121-020015-5
1969-188 NPC
1970-003 NPC
1970-039 NPC
1970-046 NPC
1970-052 NPC
1970-073 NPC
1971-082 PIC
1989/0350 MSS
1990-254 DAP
1993/0119
2000-01755-X
90-190
MG30-D40

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D40
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000468.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 D 40] 1--26

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 307] 36

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Microfilm reel C-4599

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Microfilm reel

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-1902A;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-1934;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-1951;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Microfilm reel

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

M-1903;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

M-1911--M-1933;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

M-1948--M-1950;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

M-1966--M-1967;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

M-1979;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09