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Nominal correspondence files [textual record]

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Series

Date:

1934-200.

Reference:

R4777-8-7-E, MG31-D54

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

119369

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Miriam Waddington fonds

Nominal correspondence files
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Date(s):

1934-200.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2.37 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of literary, academic and professional correspondence of Miriam Waddington.

Series includes correspondence with publishers, editors, academics, associations, and institutions, arranged by name or title of correspondent or corresponding body. There are, as well, general files arranged under Waddington's name in groupings: Academic; Archives; Correspondence re Poetry; Letters from Readers; Permissions; Poetry Readings; Professional Correspondence, etc.

Series also containts correspondence including letters to and from other Canadian writers, as well as artists, composers, critics, etc. Included among the correspondents are Dorothy Livesay, Marya Fiamengo, Helen Duffy, Vera Frenkel, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth, Betty Goodwin, Anne Kahane, Toby Steinhouse, Esther Birney, Earle Birney, Philip Surrey, Louis Applebaum, Jack Behrens, Chester Duncan, Hugh Garner, Rachel Korn, Joe Clark, Northrop Frye, Desmond Pacey, Malcolm Ross, Robert Weaver, Delores Baron, Alan Crawley, Sharon Drache, Sherilyn Fritz, Bruce Whiteman, Adele Wiseman, and others.

Series also includes correspondence with American writers and scholars, including Virginia Robinson, Jessie Taft, Anita Faatz, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Grace Paley, Salo Baron and Anais Nin, as well as correspondence from the British author Alan Sillitoe, the Hungarian author Judith Molnar and the Nepalese author Greta Rena.

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Arrangement note:

The series is arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent, following Waddington's own arrangement. This series mirrors the later Alphabetic Correspondence files series, which has been arranged in a rough alphabetic order. Both series should be consulted for correspondence regarding Waddington's literary, academic and professional activities., The Esther Birney file has been removed from vol. 30 and one untitled file has been removed from vol. 31; they bear special restrictions and have been placed in volume 42.

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MG31-D54
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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Volume [MG31 D 54]

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

30--40;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

42;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

45;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Volume [R4777]

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

58;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

63;

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Volume [R4777] 88

[Consultation 90 Open]

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