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CA ACU SPC F0005-S0002-SS0003-SSS0005 · Sub-subseries · 1888 - 1981
Part of Robert Kroetsch fonds.

Sub-subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts and manuscript copies of Field Notes. Files may include research materials, notes, galleys, dust jackets, printers' copies and correspondence. Some materials are undated.

Poetry
CA ACU SPC F0005-S0002-SS0003 · Subseries · 1888 - 2011
Part of Robert Kroetsch fonds.

Subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts, notes, and copies of poems and poetry fragments. Files may include research materials, excerpts, galley proofs, mock ups, photographs and correspondence. Some materials are undated.

Other Poetry
CA ACU SPC F0005-S0002-SS0003-SSS0009 · Sub-subseries · 1927 - 2011
Part of Robert Kroetsch fonds.

Sub-subseries consists of handwritten and typescript drafts and manuscript copies of other poetic works by Kroetsch. Files may include research materials, notes, galleys, dust jackets, printers' copies and correspondence. Some materials are undated.

Poetry
CA ACU SPC F0005-S0004-SS0002 · Subseries · 1927 - 2011
Part of Robert Kroetsch fonds.

Subseries consists of published copies of poetry; including poem excerpts and samples.

CA ACU SPC F0017-S0003-FL0002 · File · 1928 - 1938
Part of Christie Harris fonds.
  • File consists of scrapbook containing newspaper clippings of articles, book reviews, poems and short stories. Identified in Christie Harris's enclosure: "My very early bits mainly for Vancouver Daily Province, about 1928-1938."
  • Bylines are Christie Irwin, Christie L. Irwin and Christie Irwin Harris.
  • Includes 5 issues of The Buzzer, May 29, 1936 - August 14, 1936, with Jubilee Jingles by Christie Harris.
  • Also includes a review of L.M. Nesbitt's Desolation Marches by Thomas A. Harris.
  • Includes references to the following: Scrapbook of early newspaper work;
  • Why the Elephant Swings His Trunk When Asleep; Why The Giraffe Has a Long Neck; The Robin's May Day; What The Twins Gave Mummy; Jimpo's April Fool Fay; So That's Why We are Hanging Out the Flag; Make Daddy Happy, Too; Why the Holly Leaves Have Sharp Points; The Elves' Picnic; The Perky Young Turkey; Pirate Gold; The Old Tillicum's Tale; Potato Hits Back; Labor Day; Our Jolly Old Santa; The Treasure Box; Nursery Rhymes; Thunderbird; Nursery Rhymes for Tillicums; Redskin Rhymes for Tillicums; The Candy Valentine Man; Why Ducks Paddle on One Foot When Asleep; New Year Leaves; Jack-in-the-Pulpit Eats a Fly; The May Queen's Dream; A Christmas Story;
  • The Easter Parade; Legend of St. George; Sleepy Time; A Mother's Prayer; My Baby's Eyes; The Raid; North's First May Queen; Empire Day; Pitch In; Alabama George; How Snails Got Shells; So What's the Use of Fighting?; In Summertime; Dominion Day; What Faith You Have in Me; Indian Summer; Honk! Honk!; Baby Goes to the Beach; The Legend of St. Befana; The Legend of St. Valentine; That "Woman's Place" Question is Here Again; Short Rations; Easter; The Arrival of Spring; Jubilee Hingles; Mother Witch Plays a Trick; The First Christmas Tree.
  • Review of Anna Braune's Honey Chile; Review of Sam Mims' Us-all; Review of Lorna Lewis's Nansen; Review of Maud Morrison Stone's This Canada of Ours; Review of Muriel Denison's Susannah of the Yukon; Review of Jane Quigg's Jean and Jon Are Still Six; Review of Catherine Beebe's Do You Like To Open Packages; Review of Helen Shackleton's Saucy Again; Review of Marie Emilie Gilchrist's and Lucille Ogle's Rolling Along Through the Centuries; Review of Mary Elizabeth Thornhill's Between Friends;
  • Review of Jean de Brunhoff's The Story of Babar; Review of Jean de Brunhoff's The Travels of Babar; Review of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar the King; Review of Jean de Brunhoff's ABC of Babar; Review of Alison Uttley's and Margaret Tempest's The Knot Squirrel Tied; Review of Doreen Wallace's Going to the Sea; Review of Grace Moon's White Indian; Review of Ruth and Richard Holberg's Hester and Timothy, pioneers; Review of Constance Savery's Moonshine in Candle Street; Review of Ann Hark's Sugar mill house; Review of Geoffrey Holme's The Children's Art Book;
  • The Seven Ages of Dan Cupid's Victims; It's School Picnic Time in the Fraser Valley; May Day Fantasy.
CA ACU SPC F0017-S0002-SS0003-FL0001 · File · [before 1966-02-03]
Part of Christie Harris fonds.
  • File consists of draft and final version of poem. Item 1 has Christie Harris's holograph annotation on tile page "Use for Little Bro in Feeny Book?." Item 2 is in McIntosh and Otis cover and has Christie Harris's holograph annotation attached which reads "Rejected as book but all ideas used later for little brother in Secret in The Stlalakum Wild (1972). (Original Davey = son Gerald)."
  • File includes repository photocopy of letter (1966 February 3), from Jean E. Karl, Editor, Children's Books, Atheneum, to Christie Harris regarding the poem and its possibilities as a book.
Dominion Day [poem]
CA ACU SPC F0017-S0003-FL0003 · File · [1930s or 1940s]
Part of Christie Harris fonds.

File consists of poem detached from unidentified newspaper, probably Vancouver Daily Province. Byline is Christie Irwin Harris.

"Derelict"
CA ACU SPC F0037-FL0005 · File · 1931
Part of Agnes Aston Hill fonds.

Consists of published poem in an issue of "The Canadian Bookman" (July 1931) and an additional copy of the "The Canadian Bookman" (October 1931"

"To a Mail Plane"
CA ACU SPC F0037-FL0004 · File · 1931
Part of Agnes Aston Hill fonds.

Consists of published poem in an issue of "Winnipeg Free Press, Evening Bulletin, Story Section" (September 1931)

Poetry
CA ACU SPC F0017-S0002-SS0003 · Subseries · 1931 - 1969
Part of Christie Harris fonds.

Subseries consists of manuscripts of poems submitted for publication and poems written for special occasions for family and friends.