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R. Murray Schafer fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0184 · Fonds · 1956-2001

Fonds consists of manuscripts ranging from preliminary work and sketches to full scores. Includes orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal and operatic music. Composer's program notes for some compositions and photonegatives of some scores are present. Compositions represented include among others Lustro (a triptych comprising Divan i Shams i Tabriz, Music for the Morning of the World and Beyond the Great Gate of Light), Son of Heldenleben, Canzoni for Prisoners, Minnelieder, Sappho, Gita, Requiems for the Party Girl (from Patria II), television opera Loving, The darkly splendid earth, The falcon's trumpet, Gitanjali and Music for a Montreal solstice. Also includes programs, brochures, pamphlets, posters, publicity, reviews, articles and other newsclippings relating to R.M. Schafer and/or his work and lectures, workshops and symposia in which he participated.

Schafer, Raymond Murray
CA ACU SPC F0178 · Fonds · 1920-1928

Fonds consists of letter, notes and manuscripts of poems.

Richmond, Francis Edwin
Rachel Paulson Pride fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0176 · Fonds · [ca. 1937]-2005

Fonds consists of material collected by R.P. Pride. Includes correspondence between R.P. Pride and A. Nowlan, some not present in the Alden Nowlan fonds (MsC 40); photographs; manuscripts and photocopies of published poetry, short stories, articles and columns written by A. Nowlan; and works on A. Nowlan. MsC 359 consists of letters from Grace Reese, Alden Nowlan's mother, to her niece, Rachel Paulson Pride (Rachel Sherman as of 2010).

Pride, Rachel Paulson
George C. Gahan fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0169 · Fonds · [1950]-1998

Fonds consists of letters from Kingston, Ontario, Goose Bay, Labrador, Montreal, Quebec, Bread Loaf, Vermont, Heisler, Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Mexico, Oakland, California, Iowa City, Iowa, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Victoria, B.C., discussing R. Kroetsch's social life, work, writing and plans for his trips to New Zealand as well as critiquing G.C. Gahan's writing.

Gahan, George C.
Maxwell Bates fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0164 · Fonds · 193-?-198-?

Fonds consists of correspondence; scrapbook, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks and travel diary; manuscripts of poetry, short stories, articles and a play; photographs, including many of M. Bates's paintings; exhibition catalogues; architectural drawings; watercolours of St. Mary's Cathedral (Calgary); newsclippings of articles about M. Bates; and miscellaneous material. MsC 299 consists of a bronze wall plaque from M. Bates' architectural office in Calgary. Accession 786/05.7 consists of over 200 letters and postcards written by M. Bates, primarily to his parents, while he was a prisoner of war in Germany (May 1940-May 1945).

Genni Gunn fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0153 · Fonds · 1978-2020

Fonds consists of correspondence; manuscripts of novels, poems, poetry collections, short stories, screenplays, opera libretto, music scores, translations, speeches, essays and proposal for an unwritten biography; material relating to conferences, writers festivals and workshops; works about G. Gunn and published works.
An accrual received in 2016 (Acc 2016.016) with a date range of 1983-2014, includes the complete drafts of novel Solitaria (boxes 1-5), and some drafts of other works including Tracing Iris, several short stories, Tracing Iris film script, reviews, correspondence with writers and editors, including Carolyn Swayze, correspondence with translators for Tracing Iris and Solitaria into other languages including Italian and Dutch, interviews given in magazines, records of workshops and conferences attended and papers given, records on awards adjudications, reading lists and reference materials.

Gunn, Genni
Susan Rudy fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0152 · Fonds · 1978-2003

Fonds consists of material relating to Particular Arguments: a special issue on Bronwen Wallace, Open Letter, Seventh Series, No. 9, Winter 1991, guest edited by S. Rudy and Eric Savoy; material relating to "Les Femmes et Les Textes / Women and Texts: Langages, Technologies, Communautés, Languages, Technologies, Communities", an international conference co-organized by Susan Rudy at The University of Leeds, Leeds, England, July 2-5, 1997; and material relating to English Studies in Canada, Special Issue: Women and Texts: Part Two, v. 28, no. 2, June 2002, co-edited by S. Rudy and Mary Jane Edwards.

Fred Stenson fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0149 · Fonds · 197-?-2005

Fonds consists of correspondence; notebooks; manuscripts of novels, short stories, film, television and radio scripts, treatments and proposals, stage plays, articles, book reviews, columns, essays and speeches; published works; works about F. Stenson; miscellaneous material; and videocassettes scripted by F. Stenson.

Stenson, Fred
James M. Moir fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0147 · Fonds · 1931-1998

Fonds consists of correspondence; notebooks; manuscripts of poems and prose; published works including monographs and individual poems in journals and anthologies; works about J.M. Moir; material relating to conferences and workshops; scrapbook; miscellaneous; and works by other authors.

Moir, James M. "Mac"
Helen M. Buss fonds.
CA ACU SPC F0146 · Fonds · 1961-2003

Fonds consists of correspondence; daytimers, diaries and journals; manuscripts of fiction - novels, poetry, radio play, short stories, stage plays; and non-fiction - thesis and dissertation, prose monographs, autobiography, articles, book reviews and academic papers; published works; material relating to H.M. Buss's education and teaching and other professional activities including editing; works about H.M. Buss and miscellaneous. Fonds also includes 0.125 metres of manuscript material by H.J. Clarke (H.M. Buss's father) and his brother Leonard Clarke.

Buss, Helen M.