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CA ACU SPC F0017-S0001-FL0198
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Johnston, Moira
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- 1959-10-17 - 1978-09-09 (Creation)
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51 items
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(1907-2002)
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- Letters from M. Johnston to Christie and Thomas A. Harris.
- File consists of letters offering comments, suggestions, criticism and editorial advice on various Christie Harris works as well as relating personal and family news, particularly about Gerald Harris. Includes extensive commentary on You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere, Confessions of a Toe-hanger and Let X Be Excitement including ideas for illustrations, designs and covers for these and other books as well as preliminary research ideas and sources for Figleafing Through History. Many items have Christie Harris's explanatory holograph notes.
- File also includes letters to M. Johnston from various individuals extending or accepting invitations and confirming research details, and newspaper clippings relating to the publication of M. Johnston's book The Last Nine Minutes.
- Typescript, signed; holograph, signed; typescript (photocopy), signed; typescript (carbon copy).
- Includes references to the following: Cariboo Trail; Forbidden Frontier; You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere; Once Upon a Totem; Captain of Camps; West With the White Chiefs; Raven's Cry; Confessions of a Toe-hanger; Forbidden Frontier; Let X Be Excitement; Figleafing Through History; Once More Upon a Totem.
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Publication note
Figleafing Through History: The Dynamics of Dress (1971), written by Harris and Johnston, ill. Johnston; Atheneum (Jan. 1 1971)
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boxFile
05.32
barcode
00010241814
Accession number/Call number
MsC 16
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- Johnston, Moira (Subject)
- Bluechel, Arlene (Subject)
- Martell, Karla (Subject)
- Art Centre School (Subject)
- Janeway, Elizabeth (Subject)
- Trethewey, E. Alan (Subject)
- Fye, Cecelia (Subject)
- University of Manitoba (Subject)
- Marlow, Marilyn (Subject)
- Harris, Thomas A. (Subject)