Letters relating personal news; discussing current literary projects, politics, religion and other topics; and recalling childhood memories of rural Nova Scotia. Carbon copies of most letters after 1965 present in Sylvia Pride correspondence file in MsC 40. (Sylvia Pride changed her name to Rachel Paulson Pride ca. 1981). Includes references to the following: The rose and the puritan : poetry collection; Under the ice; The things which are; The glass roses and other stories; Lyndon Johnson and Bismarck's ghost; Bread, wine and salt; For Jamil Baroody; Miracle at Indian River : short story collection; The mysterious naked man : poetry collection; Playing the Jesus game : poetry collection; Gardens of the wind; Various persons named Kevin O'Brien; Alden Nowlan reports; Between tears and laughter; Guide to the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly Building; Campobello : the outer island; Frankenstein : the man who became god; Election song; The first game of the finals; I'm a stranger here myself; Stage fright; Come blow our horn; It's hats off to the colors in New Brunswick; In PEI the Legion is not just an organization - it is the organization; The incredible murder of Cardinal Tosca : stage play; I might not tell everybody this; A gift to last; Passing the time with Gerry Regan; The wanton troopers; Hatfield country.

Typescript and holograph depiction of area where A. Nowlan and Rachel Paulson Pride resided as children, referred to by the author as Desolation Creek. Includes references to the following: Map of Desolation Creek and environs : native place of Alden and Sylvia.

Consists of letters, photographs, poetry manuscripts, published work, newsclippings, reviews and miscellaneous material. Most items sent to R. P. Pride by A. Nowlan. R. P. Pride, née Sylvia Reese, is A. Nowlan's cousin, daughter of Sylvester Reese, a brother of A. Nowlan's mother, Grace Reese Nowlan. Arranged alphabetically by title. (Material relating to R. P. Pride in MsC 40 is filed under her former name Sylvia Pride.)

Typescript and typescript (carbon copy) drafts of poetry sent by A. Nowlan to Rachel Paulson Pride. Included are For Jamil Baroody; Hunger; The last flight; On being temporarily blind; Poem to accompany a portrait of Sylvia; Sharon, Sharon; A stretchable world; and Various transformations. Poem to accompany a portrait of Sylvia and A stretchable world are about R. P. (Sylvia) Pride; the former poem includes photograph of R. P. Pride. Items 1 and 7 contain A. Nowlan's holograph annotations. Arranged alphabetically by title. Includes references to the following: For Jamil Baroody; Hunger; The last flight; On being temporarily blind; Poem to accompany a portrait of Sylvia; Sharon, Sharon; A stretchable world; Various transformations.

• Miscellaneous material relating to Alden Nowlan, 1974 July - 1984 June.
• Playbill for Theatre New Brunswick premiere of Frankenstein : the man who became god; and Art Centre (University of New Brunswick) catalogue Various faces named Alden Nowlan. Correspondence indicates R. P. Pride attended the TNB premiere in July 1974. Art Centre catalogue is for an Alden Nowlan exhibition, May-June 1984, featuring various paintings and drawings of A. Nowlan, awards won by the author and a display of A. Nowlan's books. Catalogue includes biography of the author. Includes references to the following: Frankenstein : the man who became god; Various faces named Alden Nowlan.

• Newsclippings relating to Alden Nowlan and his work, n.d., 1959 January 10 - 1983 August.
• Newsclippings and journal article collected by R. P. Pride. Newsclippings reporting awards and honours bestowed on A. Nowlan and premiere of Frankenstein : the man who became god; reviews of The rose and the puritan and Between tears and laughter; and Atlantic Insight obituary. Also includes copy of article The poet from Desolation Creek by Donald Cameron. Some early items in file not present in newsclippings files in Works on Nowlan Series in MsC 40. Arranged chronologically. Includes references to the following: The rose and the puritan : poetry collection; Between tears and laughter; Frankenstein : the man who became god
  .

• Photographs, ca. 1939-1979.
• Photographs of Alden Nowlan and his uncle Sylvester Reese (R. P. Pride's father), ca. 1939 or 1940; members of A. Nowlan's maternal family at wedding of A. Nowlan's cousin Dora Mae Hamilton, July 23, 1966; A. Nowlan at home on Windsor Street, Fredericton, N.B., during Frankenstein premiere, 1974; and A. Nowlan in Cuba, 1979.

• Correspondence (n.d., 1966 October 4 - 1983 June 1), between S. Pride and Alden Nowlan.
• Correspondence relating personal news; discussing current literary projects and careers, politics, religion, spiritualism and many other topics; and recalling childhood memories of rural Nova Scotia. Letter dated November 29, 1974, describes an event from A. Nowlan's childhood which was used as the basis for a chapter in The wanton troopers. Includes an issue of Supportive Lifestyles, v. 7, no. 5, November 1981, containing a feature article on S. Pride (Rachel Paulson Pride). (Archival note: MsC 61, described in Appendix B, consists of material relating to A. Nowlan collected by R. P. Pride. S. Pride, née Reese, changed her name to Rachel Paulson Pride in the early 1980s. R. P. Pride, A. Nowlan's cousin, is the daughter of Sylvester Reese, a brother of the author's mother, Grace Reese Nowlan.) Includes references to the following: Lyndon Johnson and Bismarck's ghost; Bread, wine and salt; For Jamil Baroody; Miracle at Indian River : short story collection; The mysterious naked man : poetry collection; Playing the Jesus game : poetry collection; A darkness in the earth; Gardens of the wind; Alden Nowlan reports; Alden Nowlan's notebook; Various persons named Kevin O'Brien; Hatfield country; Between tears and laughter; The rose and the puritan : poetry collection; Guide to the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly Building; Campobello : the outer island; Alden Nowlan's Maritimes; Husband and wife; Frankenstein : the man who became god; I'm a stranger here myself; The first game of the finals; Shaped by this land; Passing the time with Gerry Regan; Stage fright; In PEI the Legion is not just an organization - it is the organization; It's hats off to the colors in New Brunswick; Come blow our horn; The incredible murder of Cardinal Tosca : stage play; I might not tell everybody this; Atlantis; A gift to last; The wanton troopers; Speech, Saint Andrew's Society (Black's Harbour, N.B.) annual dinner.

Articles, short stories, poetry and columns by A. Nowlan in or detached from various periodicals and a newspaper, and collected by Rachel Paulson Pride. Includes articles Atlantic chippers say : potato chips aren't just for kids, Would you buy a used globe from this man?, Passing the time with Gerry Regan and Stage fright; short stories Hurt, Lonnie comes home and The last of her sons; poems The people who are gone, In an Irish village, The backbiters and The Mosherville Road; and Telegraph-Journal columns, January 11 and May 31, 1975. All published work with the exception of short story Hurt are also present in the Published Work Series of MsC 40. Arranged chronologically. Includes references to the following: Hurt; Lonnie comes home; The last of her sons; Alden Nowlan reports; Atlantic chippers say : potato chips aren't just for kids; Passing the time with Gerry Regan; Stage fright; Would you buy a used globe from this man?; The backbiters; The Mosherville Road; The people who are gone; In an Irish village.