Typescript (carbon copy). Probably message sent by A. and Claudine Nowlan on occasion of Mike and Connie Dickinson's wedding. Includes references to the following: A children's story.

Typescript (carbon copy) clean copy fragment(?); and typescript (carbon copy) clean copy with A. Nowlan's holograph annotation of date. Item 2 is published version; item 1 possibly may be draft first submitted to publisher and returned with request that the abstract be expanded. (See letter from Commcept Publishing Ltd., August 22, 1977.) A study in loneliness, a commentary on The girl who went to Mexico, was published with the short story in Transitions II : short fiction, edited by Edward Peck (Commcept, 1978). File includes repository photocopies of correspondence with Commcept Publishing Ltd. relating to the commentary. Includes references to the following: A study in loneliness; The girl who went to Mexico.

Scrapbook containing newsclippings of A. Nowlan's 1974 Telegraph-Journal weekly columns. Scrapbook title in Claudine Nowlan's handwriting. Column missing for August 10; no columns published July 13 or July 27. Columns contain book review of Brenton Stewart's Medicine in New Brunswick (December 21); seven brief book reviews (November 23); and reprint of A. Nowlan's Christmas guest column written for Aida Flemming's column Kindness Club notes (December 28). Also includes newsclippings of A. Nowlan's book review of Lena Newman's The John A. Macdonald album (Daily Gleaner, December 12), and author's letter to the editor of the Observer (Hartland, N.B.) with published title Alden Nowlan talks about "Work on Sunday" (Observer, December 12). Scrapbook also contains newsclippings of letters to the editor from readers in response to columns, review of Various persons named Kevin O'Brien, advertisement for Shaped by this land, and various articles about A. Nowlan and his work. Most newsclippings have only holograph annotations of dates of publication, which have not been verified. Includes references to the following: Review of Lena Newman's The John A. Macdonald album; Alden Nowlan reports; Review of Brenton Stewart's Medicine in New Brunswick; Various persons named Kevin O'Brien; Shaped by this land; Campobello : the outer island; Kindness Club notes : Christmas column; Alden Nowlan talks about "Work on Sunday".

Scrapbook containing newsclippings of A. Nowlan's 1980 Telegraph-Journal weekly columns. Scrapbook title in Claudine Nowlan's handwriting. Includes several extra columns, as well as newsclippings of author's article about Fred Cogswell, A mild- mannered professor by day, he becomes 'Captain Poetry' at night (August 2); and letter to the editor of Kings County Record (October 15). Columns contain book reviews of Clive Cocking's Following the leaders (March 1); John Sawatsky's Men in the shadows (May 3); and Ted Ferguson's Desperate siege (December 6). Scrapbook also contains newsclippings of several letters to the editor from readers in response to columns, as well as articles about A. Nowlan and his works. Some newsclippings have only holograph annotations of dates of publication, which have not been verified. Includes references to the following: Review of Clive Cocking's Following the leaders; Alden Nowlan reports; Review of John Sawatsky's Men in the shadows; Review of Ted Ferguson's Desperate siege; The incredible murder of Cardinal Tosca : stage play; Letter to the editor; A mild-mannered professor by day, he becomes 'Captain Poetry' at night; Speech, International Reading Association annual Atlantic regional conference; Speech, Richard Hatfield, New Brunswick Senior Citizens' Federation annual convention.

Scrapbook containing newsclippings of A. Nowlan's 1983 Telegraph-Journal weekly columns. Three columns are reprints of earlier columns. Includes newsclipping of A. Nowlan's letter to the editor of the Daily Gleaner responding to an article about opening of the New Brunswick legislature, published title Decidedly different (April 9). Column published January 29 contains book review of Judith Fingard's Jack in port. Scrapbook also contains newsclippings of letters to the editor from readers in response to columns and an editorial supporting A. Nowlan's stand on medicare. Includes references to the following: Review of Judith Fingard's Jack in port; Alden Nowlan reports; Letter to the editor : Decidedly different.

Typescript with holograph revisions, holograph and typescript (photocopy). Script for radio broadcast and sound recording Alden Nowlan's Maritimes. Includes introduction to the short story (with A. Nowlan's holograph note of enclosure to Robert Weaver), introduction to the work, text of prose introductions to each poem or series of poems and photocopies of all poems submitted by A. Nowlan for the project. Poems actually recorded precede in file those not used. Manuscript of short story The gun fighter, which follows poetry on the recording, is not included with script. Repository photocopies of A. Nowlan's letter to Robert Weaver submitting script and of information on the recording jacket are included in file. Alden Nowlan's Maritimes produced by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in its Halifax and Fredericton studios and broadcast on CBC Radio's Anthology in September 1971. Sound recording released in 1972. Poems were read by A. Nowlan, the short story by Bruce Armstrong. Includes references to the following: And he wept aloud, so that the Egyptians heard it; Blueberries, strawberries, wintergreen; The fresh-ploughed hill; The cinnamon bears; Verbal transcription; Small town small talk; Charlie; Aunt Jane; Husband and wife; Daughter of Zion; The last leper in Canada; In memoriam : Claude Orser (1894-1968); Ancestral memories evoked by attending the opening of The Playhouse in Fredericton, New Brunswick; Saint John River; Looking for Nancy; July 15; For Jean Vincent d'Abbadie, Baron St.-Castin; The people who are gone; On the nature of human compassion; The mysterious naked man : poem; Ypres : 1915; Chance encounter; I, Icarus; First impressions; Britain Street; Broad Street; Apology; Down shore; Summer; Poem (It's summer yet, but still the cold); A night hawk fell with a sound like a shudder; Patricia Grey; First lesson in theology; A poem about miracles; Day's end; A dog barking at night; The gunfighter; Alden Nowlan's Maritimes.

Typescript (carbon copy) clean copy of outlines for four possible Podium columns for Maclean's. First sketch developed to produce article Retiring age-old stereotypes, published in Maclean's. File includes repository photocopy of A. Nowlan's letter to Maclean's enclosing sketches. Item undated; assigned date based on date of covering letter. Includes references to the following: Retiring age-old stereotypes; Article sketches.

Typescript rough draft fragments, some with holograph revisions; typescript good copy with holograph corrections and annotations; and typescript (carbon copy) clean copy. Items undated. Author's commentary, together with the short story The girl who went to Mexico, published in Sixteen by twelve : short stories by Canadian writers, edited by John Metcalf (Toronto: Ryerson, 1970). Includes references to the following: Author's commentary; The girl who went to Mexico.

Typescript (carbon copy) clean copy of short biography with typescript annotation "For Grade IV textbook"; typescript rough draft fragment; and typescript (carbon copy) clean copy of A. Nowlan's commentary on poems The execution, The bull moose, On the nature of human compassion, Alpha and omega, Walking toward the bus station, and I, Icarus. Items received stapled together by the author; however, items 2-3 probably were written to accompany publication of the above listed poems in high school/college textbook Rhymes and reasons, edited by John Robert Colombo (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971). (See repository photocopies of correspondence with J. R. Colombo included in file, which discuss submission of the poems and commentary.) Includes references to the following: Author's commentary; The execution; I, Icarus; Walking toward the bus station; The bull moose; Alpha and omega; On the nature of human compassion.

Typescript fair copy; and repository photocopy of letter to John Metcalf, 1969 September 4, which contains final draft of item. A. Nowlan's commentary on poems Atlantis, Cousins, A boy in a red loincloth and In the Hainesville Cemetery was published with the poems in Salutation, edited by J. Metcalf and Gordon Callaghan (Toronto: Ryerson, 1970). Includes references to the following: Cousins; Author's commentary on poems published in Salutation; A boy in a red loin cloth; In the Hainesville Cemetery; Atlantis
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