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Ephemera related to Alice Munro, William Laidlaw's sister. Includes stamps, coin, and program.

Correspondence either from or referencing William Laidlaw's sister, Alice Munro (nee Laidlaw).

• Letter (1974 November 26), London, Ont., from A. Munro to Clark Blaise.
• Autograph letter(s) signed by the hand of the author regarding similarities between Lives of girls and women by A. Munro and A North American education.

• Correspondence between John Metcalf, Membership Committee and Quebec Representative, Writers' Union of Canada, and various Canadian authors and publishers.
• File consists of letters relating to J. Metcalf's activities on the membership committee involved in establishing the Writers' Union of Canada and as Quebec representative of the Union. Membership committee correspondence includes letters relating to invitations to authors to join the Union and discussing criteria for membership in the Union; list of members originally contacted as potential members; and report of membership committee. Correspondence relating to J. Metcalf's acting as Quebec representative includes letters dealing with publishing problems encountered by members. Also includes letters relating to J. Metcalf's resignation from the Union. Includes duplicates of some outgoing letters.
• Typescript, signed; holograph, signed; typescript (carbon copy); typescript (mimeograph); typescript (photocopy).

• Correspondence between A. Munro and John Metcalf.
• File consists of letters and postcards discussing current literary endeavours, promotional tours, positions as writer-in-residence, travels in Australia, China and Italy, short story Travelling northward, Albania and various other topics; and relating personal news.
• Holograph, signed (some photocopy).
• Includes references to the following: General Ludd; Kicking against the pricks : essays; Selected stories; What happened to CanLit?; Travelling northward; Adult entertainment; The Macmillan anthology 1.

• File consists of partial manuscript of anthology. Original file folder contained J. Metcalf's holograph annotation "MS of 16 X 12 returned by McGraw-Hill - original typescripts with alterations etc. in author's hand.". Includes J. Metcalf's Introduction; Author's commentaries by Morley Callaghan, Hugh Garner, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Shirley Faessler, Alden Nowlan, George Bowering, David Helwig, John Metcalf and Ray Smith; Hugh Garner's Biography; and short stories A basket of apples by Shirley Faessler and A bag of cherries by J. Metcalf. M. Richler's Author's commentary was written to accompany story The summer my grandmother was supposed to die. This story was later withdrawn and replaced with story Bambinger. Also includes J. Metcalf's short promotional blurb published on half-title page and note of enclosure to David _____.
• Holograph; typescript (carbon copy) with holograph revisions; typescript (photocopy) with holograph revisions and cut and paste; typescript with holograph revisions. Most manuscripts contain printer's instructions.
• Includes references to the following: Sixteen by twelve; Sixteen by twelve : Introduction; A bag of cherries; Introduction to Sixteen by twelve; Author's commentary; Sixteen by twelve : Author's commentary.

• File consists of letters and telegram relating to submission of short stories and authors' commentaries for publication in anthology and to permissions to publish, discussing works submitted, mentioning J. Metcalf's introduction for Salutation, and expressing appreciation for unidentified book sent by J. Metcalf to authors, possibly New Canadian writing, 1969. Includes bio-bibliographical information for some authors; correspondence between Ryerson Press, J. Metcalf and Mordecai Richler relating to Ryerson Press's request and M. Richler's refusal to delete passage containing expletives from short story The summer my grandmother was supposed to die; and photocopy of Richler story segment under discussion.
• Typescript, signed (some photocopy); holograph, signed; printed material (photocopy).
• Includes references to the following: Sixteen by twelve; The children green and golden; Salutation; New Canadian writing, 1969.

• File consists of letters requesting submission of short stories, poetry and prose for publication consideration in anthology; discussing works submitted; relating to selection or rejection of works and permissions to publish; and relating personal news. Includes manuscript of poem A god in the earth by Al Purdy, permissions agreement for publication of Mavis Gallant's stories in The Macmillan anthology 1 and biographical material for some authors submitting work. Some overlap occurs between correspondence relating to The Macmillan anthology 1 and The second Macmillan anthology, and some work is submitted to Leon Rooke and J. Metcalf as former editors of The New Press anthology series.
• Holograph, signed (some photocopy); typescript, signed; typescript (photocopy); computer printout; printed material.
• Includes references to the following: The second Macmillan anthology; The Macmillan anthology 1; Carry on bumping; Going down slow; General Ludd; Writers in aspic; What is a Canadian literature? : essay.
• Anthology co-edited by J. Metcalf and Leon Rooke.

• File consists of letters relating to submission of short stories for publication consideration in anthology; discussing, accepting or rejecting works; regarding requests for subscriptions to periodicals publishing short fiction; and relating personal news. Letters enclose biographical information for some authors. Includes revised manuscript fragments of Keath Fraser's The Emerald City.
• Typescript (signed); typescript (photocopy); holograph, signed (some photocopy); printed material.
• Includes references to the following: The New Press anthology #1; Making it new; Kicking against the pricks : essays; Third impressions; Private parts : a memoir; General Ludd; The teeth of my father : short stories; First impressions; Adult entertainment; Streaking through the ivory tower; Kaleidoscope.
• Anthology co-edited by J. Metcalf and Leon Rooke.

• File consists of incomplete manuscript of anthology. Original file folder contained J. Metcalf's holograph annotation "original typescripts from authors with alterations etc. in their hands". Includes manuscripts of Clark Blaise's A North American education, Harry Bruce's Grub Street?, Shirley Faessler's The poor literatus, Hugh Hood's Sober coloring, Margaret Laurence's Time and the narrative voice, J. Metcalf's Soaping a meditative foot, Alice Munro's The colonel's hash resettled, Ray Smith's Dinosaur and Rudy Wiebe's Where is the voice coming from? and Passage by land.
• Printed material; typescript with holograph revisions.
• Includes references to the following: The narrative voice; Soaping a meditative foot.