File FL0019 - Immigrants need not apply : [speech].

27 items (121 p. on 105 leaves)

• File consists of research material for J. Metcalf's address, May 21, 1988, to 7th International Symposium of the Italian Association for Canadian Studies, held in Acireale (Catania), Italy. Includes form letter from J. Metcalf to Canadian authors who have immigrated to Canada, requesting comments on reaction of critics, reviewers and others to their literary works; list of authors contacted; letters from authors responding to J. Metcalf's letter; and essays on Italian-Canadian writing and authors. Letters from authors enclose essays, poetry, book reviews, interview and correspondence with others, all relating to J. Metcalf's topic.
• Holograph; typescript, signed (some photocopy); computer printout, signed; printed material (some photocopy).
• Includes references to the following: Immigrants need not apply; Roast beef and two veg; Kicking against the pricks : essays; The bumper book; Freedom from culture : essays.

• Title based on contents of file.
• Letters from authors, arranged alphabetically by correspondent, follow J. Metcalf's form letter. Photocopies of essays without letters of enclosure follow correspondence in file.

Other material relating to J. Metcalf's participation in Symposium, such as Symposium program, in Correspondence series, Italian Association for Canadian Studies International Symposium file, MsC 24.6.8.

Address revised and published as Roast beef and two veg in Freedom from culture (ECW Press, 1994). In a footnote to the essay in Freedom from culture, J. Metcalf states "A shorter version of this essay was delivered in the fall of 1992 at McGill University as the first Hugh MacLennan Memorial Lecture".