Correspondence with Miss Gandy, Librarian at the Old Manse : 1952-1954. 1952 Sept. - 1954 Jan.

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Correspondence with Miss Gandy, Librarian at the Old Manse : 1952-1954. 1952 Sept. - 1954 Jan.

Correspondence concerning the development of The Old Manse Library at Beaverbrook's boyhood home in Newcastle, N.B. Items include letters, soundscriber tapes, bills of lading, book lists, financial accounts, telegrams, lists of donations, circulation statistics.

Correspondence : 388 (446 leaves)Technical drawings : 1.

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Old Manse Library (Newcastle, N.B.)

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Tweedie, Robert A. (Robert Allison), 1908-

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R.A. Tweedie acted variously as Agent for Lord Beaverbrook, Secretary of the Beaverbrook Foundations, Secretary to the Board of Governors of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Director of the New Brunswick Travel Bureau. All letters are interfiled chronologically, regardless of the capacity in which Tweedie was corresponding. In late 1959, early 1960 Tweedie also became secretary of the Sir James Dunn Foundation. Letters written in this capacity are interfiled with other correspondence. ...

Gandy, Barbara J.

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Barbara J. Gandy was hired by Lord Beaverbrook to help set up the Old Manse Library in Newcastle, N.B. She moved from England to Newcastle to take up her post. Her correspondence includes the minutiae of book, periodical, furniture and supply purchases, along with the larger issues of building a valuable collection and offering good library service to a community. From the description of Correspondence with Miss Gandy, Librarian at the Old Manse : 1952-1954. 1952 Sept. - 1954 Jan. (U...

Gandy, Anthony

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Shaw, Dorothy, -1657

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