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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : January - June 1952.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : January - June 1952. 1952 Jan. 28 - July 15.

Letters, photographs, soundscriber tapes and telegrams about Roy Thompson, his papers, interest in The Gleaner and his advice; Jack Cooke buying a baseball team; information to be gathered by Francis Gammon for background on Beaverbrook's early life; cataloguing and preparing a catalogue of the UNB library holdings; renting the Waterloo Road house; obtaining housing for Gleaner employees; trust funds for Wardell's sons Timothy and Maxwell; Wardell as executor of Beaverbrook's Canadian will; the nature of the loan to Wardell; the pleasures of yachting on Saint John River and its tributaries; financial dealings with the financier Ben Smith; a Beaverbrook scholar's thanks; Amalgamated Press; and shipping of birthday fiddleheads rather than a birthday salmon.

ArchivalResource: Photographs.

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Wardell, Michael. Private correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1950-1956.

Title: Private correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1950-1956. 1950 Nov. 22 - 1956 Mar. 16.

In items {78325-78334} Wardell writes from Toronto about his impressions of Timothy Eaton and Eaton's store, as well as the W.H. Smith bookstore. He also writes concerning the Daily Gleaner and his purchase of it; and concerning the Canadian Press he lists the 19 directors and their newspapers. Item {79187} describes Lady Dunn's grief at Sir James' death. Items {79206-79208} discuss the memorial service for Sir James Dunn at Saint Andrews as well as plans for a lumber mill at Lepreau and Wardell's suggestion of considering a long-term contract with The Express. Items {79224-79224b} are concerning Lady Dunn, Paul Martin, C.D. Howe, Tom Driberg's biography of Beaverbrook; John David Eaton of Toronto; Wardell's attempt to interest O.D. Vaughan to invest in Fredericton; Anthony Eden's visit to Canada, pulp and paper unions, newsprint consumption and price increases.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 5 (17 leaves)

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Mackay, Colin B., 1920-. Correspondence with Colin B. Mackay : 1956.

Title: Correspondence with Colin B. Mackay : 1956. 1955 Dec. 4 - 1956 Dec. 26.

Letters, soundscribers, telegrams, news clippings and memos relating primarily to university affairs. Subjects discussed: death of Sir James Dunn, the memorial service held at UNB and a plaque to be placed in his honor; social activities--Red and Black Revue, Drama Society, first Winter Carnival; sports, etc; finances; federal, provincial and municipal grants; fund raising; administration; appointment of William Ryan as first full-time Dean of Law, Gerard LaForest as Professor of Law and A.F. Trythall as bandmaster and Director of Music; increases to faculty salaries; construction of residences, chemistry building and art gallery; list of names for proposed Board of Governors for the art gallery; Beaverbrook's concern regarding the location of the art gallery re: the flooding waters of the St. John River; transfer of Winslow papers from the N.B. Museum to UNB: progress or lack thereof of Beaverbrook and UNB scholars; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) consideration of W.G. Constable, Lt.-Gov. MacLaren of British Columbia, Jean Cocteau, Frank MacKenzie Ross for honorary degrees; transfer of Law School from Saint John to Fredericton approved; Lord Lambton's gift of the Durham papers; Encaenia (1956) and recognition bestowed on Robert B. Woodward; Beaverbrook's gift of 43 paintings to New Brunswick; forestry fellowship; historical note on William Brydone Jack; Mackay's views on the feasibility of a proposed medical school in Saint John; shipment of an Emily Carr and 2 Homer Watson paintings to Fredericton; UNB coat-of-arms; Joseph P. Kennedy establishing the Lord Beaverbrook professorship at University of Notre Dame; redecorating Lady Beaverbrook Building; acquisition of band instruments; possibility of Massachusetts Institute of Technology doing some of their field work in New Brunswick; Beaverbrook's suggestion that UNB obtain a "nuclear library" offered by the U.S. Government; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) Beaverbrook's refusal to exhibit Churchill's paintings at the Bonar Law Bennett Library and the transfer of St. Thomas College from Chatham to Fredericton. The file contains a copy of Beaverbrook's original statement launching the residence campaign and his "last round-up" statement.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 211 (236 leaves)

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence concerning Lady Dunn, Canada-Cement Company : 1956.

Title: Correspondence concerning Lady Dunn, Canada-Cement Company : 1956. 1956 May 14 - Aug. 31.

Private correspondence concerning: Lady Dunn's grief over Sir James Dunn's death; setbacks to her writing of his biography; Lord Beaverbrook's Montreal dealings with the Canada Cement Company considered by him to be blackmail.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence: 5 (7 leaves)

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1952.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1952. 1952 Mar. 13 - Dec. 17.

Letters and telegrams about: Beaverbrook's thoughts on the Daily Gleaner layout; London investment bankers' interest in Canadian businesses; Randolph Churchill's unfavorable comments on Lord Beaverbrook; Sir James Dunn's business dealings; Oromocto named as the site for an army camp; Wardell's business negotiations (University Press of New Brunswick); his visit with Roy Thomson and meeting with Rosen and the Canadian printing and publishing industry.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 24 (27 leaves)

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1953.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1953. 1953 Jan. 3 - Mar. 16.

Letters and memos discussing Wardell's visit with Audrey (Pleydell) Bouverie in Andros and her dispute with the Draytons; his attempts to obtain Lord Beaverbrook's order for a library catalogue and the ensuing dispute over it; his appointment as co-executor of Lord Beaverbrook's will; rumors that James Dunn will be made a senator; Lord Beaverbrook's comments on the contents and layout of the Daily Gleaner; Wardell's thoughts on the operation of the paper; his purchase of property on Bridge St. (Fredericton); destruction by fire of the Sir James Hamet Dunn Hospital (Bathurst) and the dispute between Wardell and Beaverbrook over Wardell's expending of the New Brunswick Holding Company loan. The file contains a copy of the draft and reused Directors' Report (1952) for the University Press of New Brunswick, Limited.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 48 (54 leaves)

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Bert Crowther (Syon Lodge) Limited. Memorial Fountain, Fredericton : 1960-1961.

Title: Memorial Fountain, Fredericton : 1960-1961. 1960 June 22 - 1961 Apr. 8.

Regarding the Memorial Fountain given to Fredericton, this file consists of: letters, a history of Stowe Palace, Buckinghamshire (where the fountain originated), telegram, soundscriber tapes, blueprint plan of fountain base with inscription in memory of James Hamet Dunn, 1874-1956.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 23 (28 leaves)Technical drawings : 2 : blueprints.

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1956. Case 129, File 1a.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : 1956. Case 129, File 1a. 1956 Mar. - June.

Correspondence concerning: Wardell's purchase of the Maritime Advocate, renamed the Atlantic Advocate and his preparations for launching the first issue with an autobiographical article by Lord Beaverbrook concerning details of his early life in New Brunswick. Also discussed are his relations with John F. Stairs in Halifax, a list of his main promotions, reconstruction and mergers, and his discussions with Alexander Gibson and attempts to purchase the cotton mill at Marysville {79262, 79288-9,79295-6, 79321}; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) Also correspondence concerning Mrs. Howe's opinion of Driberg's biography of Beaverbrook; the plans for a pulp and paper mill at Lepreau; fundraising by Major Wright in Fredericton for a statue of Lord Beaverbrook; Lady Dunn's work on a biography of Sir James Dunn; Neil Stewart to continue the plans for the art gallery after the other architect, Lynn Howell's death; the historic Northumberland Deal {79336-79346}; progress of the Daily Gleaner during election time in N.B. and its support of the Conservative candidate, Hugh John Flemming.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence.

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Richardson, B. T. (Burton Taylor), 1906-. General Correspondence R : 1950.

Title: General Correspondence R : 1950. 1950.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence.

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : September 1961 - February 1962.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : September 1961 - February 1962. 1961 Sept. 29 - 1962 Feb. 1.

Letters, memoranda, newspaper clippings, soundscribers and telegrams about the launch, sales and reviews of Courage; Wardell's meetings with John Diefenbaker concerning the Chignecto Canal; an application to the Canada Council for a grant in support of the Fredericton Civic Orchestra; Louis Robichaud's speech from the throne; purported errors in Courage; Lady Dunn's contribution of a poem to be published in the Atlantic Advocate and Robichaud's request that she become a University senator.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 94 (107 leaves)

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Taylor, Claude D. (Claude DeVere). General Correspondence E - F : 1954.

Title: General Correspondence E - F : 1954. 1954.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence.

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : August 1955 - March 1956.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : August 1955 - March 1956. 1955 Aug. 6 - 1956 Mar. 28.

Letters about Sir James Dunn's death, estate and memorial service; conversation with Philip Dunn after his father's death; Izaak Walton Killam's death and estate; Flemming's problems with the liberal opposition in the legislature; reprint of Wardell's review of Driberg's book; and plans for a gallery and proper use of the Fredericton rink.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence.

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Baird, Muriel F. (Muriel Farris). University of New Brunswick : 1951.

Title: University of New Brunswick : 1951. 1951 Jan. 18 - Dec. 28.

Letters, memos and tickets relating to: transfer of residence from Alumnae Society to UNB; early scholarship winner, forestry graduate W.W. Hierlihy; list of Beaverbrook entrance scholars who did not study at UNB and their achievements; UNB War Memorial Trust Fund and construction of a memorial student centre; possibility of setting up an alumni annual giving program; Brunswickan articles dealing with Beaverbrook's visit to the new library and his gift of a building to the law school (Nov. 21, 1951); Drama Society and their presentation of three one act plays (The Twelve-Pound Look, If Men Played Cards as Women Do, Overlaid); finances; revision of UNB Act; graduate school in arts and sciences and establishment of Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship Fund; Beaverbrook Graduate Scholarships in Chemistry; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) invitation to the first UNB graduate school dinner; extension of Richard W. Keirstead's overseas scholarship; possible honorary degree recipients; proposed school of music for Saint John; possible enlargement and extension of Hickey Scholarships; problems encountered by Parker Hickey over Quebec Succession Tax; reorganization of Beaverbrook Scholarship scheme and appointments to the selection committee.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 55 (61 leaves)

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Mackay, Colin B., 1920-. Correspondence with Colin B. Mackay : 1955.

Title: Correspondence with Colin B. Mackay : 1955. 1955 Jan. 4 - Dec. 31.

Letters, soundscribers, telegrams, notes and receipts discussing UNB and related affairs: construction of rink, chemistry building, memorial student centre, playing field and art gallery; expansion of Depts. of Engineering and Geology (the latter through a donation by Sir James Dunn); proposed nursing, social work and fine arts programs; possibility of a band being formed; combined arts and law program and possibility of extending this to Mount Allison University; provincial and federal grants, fund raising and scholarships including support from the Carnegie, Rockefeller and Bickell Foundations and the Ford Motor and General Motors Companies; transfer of Somerville House (Fredericton, N.B.) to Beaverbrook; redecoration of Lady Beaverbrook Building; faculty deaths, appointments, salaries, awards, visiting lecturers; art exhibition at Bonar Law Bennett Library; provisions made for storage of Beaverbrook's paintings; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) Mr. Justice Harrison's gift of law books and intended resignation as Dean of Law School; possible affiliation of Teachers' College with UNB; transfer of Winslow papers from the museum to UNB; I.W. Killam's proposed bequest; drama festival in Newcastle, N.B.; proposed scholarships for children of journalists and "Sons of the Manse"; post-graduate scholarships in Chemistry and F.J. Toole's attempts to build-up post-graduate studies; wording for the plaques to be placed in Lady Beaverbrook Building and Lady Beaverbrook Gymnasium; possibility of extending the chemical engineering program from three to five years; Professor A.G. Bailey offered Harold Innis Visiting Professorship at University of Toronto (1955-56); Encaenia and Convocation (1955) including an honorary degree for Lord Bracken and residence accommodation and space requirements for students and the cost of board and lodging at various residences. The file includes a copy of a report of the Committee of Fine Arts.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 176 (195 leaves)

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : Sept. 1960 - Mar. 1961.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : Sept. 1960 - Mar. 1961. 1960 Sept. 6 - 1961 Mar. 15.

Correspondence concerning: the Daily Express printing of a book of pictures from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery; preparations for Beaverbrook's biography of James Dunn, entitled Courage; North American newspaper printing innovations; a testimonial dinner to Flemming, at which Diefenbaker spoke; Wardell's discussions with Diefenbaker in Ottawa; Robichaud provides property for a theatre/concert hall; C.D. Howe's death; transcriptions of 1956 Canadian Press articles concerning C.D. Howe's executorship of the James Dunn estate; Beaverbrook's support of Irving as New Brunswick's greatest industrialist and employer; new standards for selection of Beaverbrook scholars; the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (upcoming exhibitions, Beaverbrook's sale of the painting the Synott Children, without informing the Governors; accounts; air conditioning).

ArchivalResource: Correspondence.

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : December 1954 - July 1955.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : December 1954 - July 1955. 1954 Dec. 2 - 1955 July 29.

Letters and clippings about Killam's health and decision to sell the Mersey mill, along with a statement of the mill's financial status; the inaccuracies in Driberg's biography recounting a conversation with Wardell; Lord Mountbatten's intended libel suit against the Sunday Express; Sir James Dunn funding a chair in minerology and geology for UNB along with reports on the steel mill and mine at Sault Saint Marie; sales of Don't Trust to Luck; the Boylen exhibition of Krieghoff paintings; Fredericton's need for recreational amenities and activities including a proposed art gallery, community centre and pony club; John McNair's appointment to the bench following Judge Harrison's death; and Fraser Winslow's fall and broken hip.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence.

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Mackay, Colin B., 1920-. Correspondence with Colin B. Mackay : 1953-1954.

Title: Correspondence with Colin B. Mackay : 1953-1954. 1953 Aug. 28 - 1954 Dec. 24.

Letters, soundscribers, telegrams, receipt, news clipping discussing: Colin B. Mackay's appointment as President of UNB; transfer of Starr property to Law School and its official opening in conjunction with fall convocation; construction of memorial students' centre, chemistry building and rink; redecorating Lady Beaverbrook Building including the repair of the chimes; fund raising, provincial grants, scholarships, law faculty salaries and Athlone fellowships and selection of winners; Beaverbrook graduate scholarships in chemistry and progress of recipients; appointment of Dept. of Business Administration head; establishment of Depts. of Agriculture, Architecture and Geology at UNB; visiting lecturers; proposed archives; art exhibition at Bonar Law Bennett Library; affiliation of UNB and Teachers' College; Beaverbrook named honorary Chancellor; centenary anniversary of engineering at UNB; plaque for the Bonar Law Bennett Library; entrance testing at universities; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) encaenia (1954); paving of roads on campus; Jim Boylen's gift of 7500 shares of Brunswick Mining & Smelting to provide a Chair in Geology; proposed changes to the Beaverbrook scholarship scheme including amalgamation of the selection committees; Mackay's wish to introduce a course of instruction in physical education; provision of instruments and a band master for training of a band at UNB; death of Beaverbook's sister, Laura Katherine Ramsay; sketch of proposed coat-of-arms for UNB: Dunn scholar, James Crockett; transfer of Somerville House (Fredericton, N.B.) to Beaverbrook and Annie Chestnut scholarships for female students. The file contains a report on Floyd B. MacMillan, holer of the Beaverbrook Scholarship (set up by Jesse H. Jones) for the study of New Brunswick - Maine relations and a list indicating geographical distribution of students (1953-54). Brief mention is made of Beaverbrook's wish to buy the strip of land connecting the rink site on University Ave. with the parking lot.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 157 (181 leaves)Photographs : 1 : b&w.

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Farris, W. B. (Wendell Burpee), 1886-. Social & general supplementary correspondence F : 1950.

Title: Social & general supplementary correspondence F : 1950. 1950 July 13 - Nov. 20.

Wendell B. Farris, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of B.C. and an alumnus of UNB, sends a gift of money to the university for library books. James Dunn's scholarship funds are discussed and his paintings which Lord Beaverbrook would like for the university. Lord Beaverbrook discusses his intention to buy the library of Howard Robinson upon his death in 1950. There is correspondence with L.W. Flett of Newcastle regarding Ford motor cars which were always placed at his disposal while in Canada. Henry Ford II thanks Lord Beaverbrook for entertaining him while in Fredericton. Ali Baba thanks Lord Beaverbrook for hospitality and dinner during an Atlantic crossing on the Queen Elizabeth ship.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 17 (21 leaves)

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Murray, J. C. (John Carey), 1894-. University of New Brunswick : 1950.

Title: University of New Brunswick : 1950. 1950 June 27 - Dec. 21.

Letters, memos and telegrams discussing various subjects: Alumni dinner held in honor of Beaverbrook (Oct. 28, 1950); purchase of library books; proposed amalgamation of university and provincial libraries and establishment of New Brunswick Library Service; departmental administrative matters; Algoma Ore Properties' Scholarship Fund set up by Sir James Dunn; debate over moving Saint John Law School to Fredericton and Beaverbrook's position on this issue; invitation to university functions; redecorating Waterloo Row property; ventilators for Sinclair Rink (Newcastle, N.B.); problems with Lady Beaverbrook Residence pool; Beaverbrook Graduate Scholarships in Chemistry; disposition of Bryan Priestman's war medals to his family; estate of the late Sir George E. Foster; James K. Chapman winner of scholarship established by Jesse H. Jones and Houston Endowment Inc.; finances; (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) proposed opening of library wing on May 15, 1951; appointment of J.W. Sears, first full professor of law and F.J. Toole, Dean of Graduate Studies; possible institution of the degree of Ph.D. in chemistry at UNB to begin in 1951; Lady Dunn's request for an honorary degree for Grace Helen Mowat; Lady Jean Campbell's project of putting together a Shakespearean play at UNB and Beaverbrook scholars. The file contains copies of published articles by chemistry professors (F.J. Toole, R.H. Wright, David L. Garmaise and D.J. Whittingham), a pamphlet entitled "The Power of Language" by A.W. Trueman and a memorandum on post-graduate study at the University of New Brunswick submitted by F.J. Toole.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 123 (158 leaves)

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Wardell, Michael. Correspondence with Michael Wardell : September 1953 - May 1954.

Title: Correspondence with Michael Wardell : September 1953 - May 1954. 1953 Sept. 21 - 1954 May 13.

Clipping, letters and memos about arrangements for Wardell's Christmas visit to Nassau; the purchase of a camera as a gift for Madame Escarra; the speech and visit of a paid propagandist, Darval of the English Speaking Union; trying to retrieve a biography of Murphy from Lord Beaverbrook; a condensed edition of Success prepared by Norman Hamilton; the Marysville mill closure; the Daily Gleaner's progress; Sir James Dunn steel mill and plant; Mackay's appointment as UNB president, and impending offer of an honorary chancellorship to Beaverbrook, and K.C. Irving's purchase of his first television station.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence.

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Bailey, Alfred Goldsworthy. U.N.B. : 1960.

Title: U.N.B. : 1960. 1960 June 8 - Oct. 30.

Letters, memos and news clippings relating to a variety of UNB matters. Subjects discussed include: proposed archives and new arts building; disposition of UNB lands including O'Dell Park; recognition of Bonar Law by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board; Dr. A.L. Rowse's visit to UNB; invitations extended to Beaverbrook to attend various university functions; Encaenia, 1960 (including citations honouring Sir Alec Martin, Herman Northrop Frye, William Goodridge Roberts and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.); housing of Beaverbrook's private papers at UNB; acquisition of library books; D. Coffin Smith's gift of 1807 "Saint John Gazette"; the acquisition of rare documents including the original deed (Saint John) granted to Benedict Arnold (1786), a Bennett letter, a certificate from the Campbellton Branch of the New Brunswick Teacher's Association and Beaverbrook's request for information regarding the (CONTINUES). (CONTINUED) preservation and repair of such documents; the need for a name index to the Winslow Papers; granting of Sir James Dunn Scholarships in law and Beaverbrook's search for Premier Mitchell Hepburn's wartime speech in which he praises Sir James Dunn. The file also contains F.J. Toole's favourable comments on Beaverbrook, and it notes the former's appointment as Vice-President Academic.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 77 (87 leaves)

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Mackay, Colin B., 1920-. Correspondence with Colin B. Mackay : 1957.

Title: Correspondence with Colin B. Mackay : 1957. 1956 Jan. 2 - 1957 Apr. 29; (Predominant 1957 Jan. 1 - Apr. 29)

Letters, memos, telegrams and receipt relating mainly to the UNB fund raising campaign for the construction of a men's residence. Subjects discussed: publicity, solicitation of monies from alumni, individuals and corporations; K.C. Irving and John W. McConnell's valuable assistance with the campaign; names of contributors and amount of their donations; Lady Dunn's finances; provincial grants; Band master Tryhall's progress and salary; Fredericton civic election results (1957); general administration of UNB and its routine activities; gift of a flag from UNB for Beaverbrook's yacht and the building of a display case in the Beaverbrook Reading Room of the Bonar Law Bennett Library. The file contains a typed copy of Beaverbrook's original statement launching the residence campaign as well as his "last round-up" statement.

ArchivalResource: Correspondence : 70 (78 leaves)

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