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Correspondence - bound series [textual record]

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Series

Date:

1944-1972.

Reference:

R5637-5-X-E, MG31-D78

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

120592

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Peter Stursberg fonds

Correspondence - bound series
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Series includes:

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

1944-1972.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.2 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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This series consists of professional and business correspondence relating to Stursberg's career as a freelance journalist, writer, broadcaster, and public speaker. The first bound volume, 1944-1956, includes mainly correspondence concerning employment and publishing. Correspondents include Brooke Claxton, Paul Martin, and Jack McClelland. The second bound volume, 1948-1957, consists of correspondence relating to speaking tours and engagements. The third bound volume, 1945-1956, contains correspondence with CBC officials such as Daniel C. McArthur, William H. Hogg, Charles Jennings, Ernest L. Bushnell, and Ira Dilworth among others. The fourth bound volume, 1950-1957, consists of audience mail but includes letters from prominent figures such as Leslie Frost, Gordon Churchill, and Paul Martin.

Series also includes the miscellaneous correspondence files, 1958-1972, continue the series but were not bound and were arranged chronologically rather than by type of correspondence. They include professional correspondence, audience mail, and arrangements of speaking engagements. Prominent correspondents include Frank Underhill, Charlotte Whitton, Alan Macnaughton, and various Members of Parliament.

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See also Correspondence and Clippings - Chronological Series and Correspondence and Clippings - Alphabetical Series.

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Private

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MG31-D78
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Volume [MG31 D 78] 1--2

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