Correspondence with Louise Manny : 1946 June-1951 Oct. 1946 June - 1951 Oct.

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Manny, Louise, 1890-1970. Correspondence with Louise Manny : 1946 June-1951 Oct.

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Correspondence with Louise Manny : 1946 June-1951 Oct. 1946 June - 1951 Oct.

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Abstract

Letters, newspaper clippings, telegrams, soundscriber tapes, cheque, bills of lading, Municipality of Northumberland Collector's Tax Receipts, drawings, maps, photographs. Historical notes concerning: The Enclosure (also known as Beaubair's or Wilson's Point); the Maugerville Rebels (1776); Ships built on the Miramichi. Selections from Northumberland County Memorials (Land Grant Petitions of early settlers). Reports of work in progress at The Enclosure as well as folk song collecting.

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Correspondence : 312 (411 leaves)Photographs : 6 : b&w.Drawings : 6.

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University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7183406

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

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Old Manse Library (Newcastle, N.B.)

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Manny, Louise

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Louise Manny, 1890-1970, provided Beaverbrook's ongoing contact with his native Newcastle. Their correspondence spans from 1946 to his death in 1964. Beaverbrook supported her in her historical research on the Miramichi, her folk song collecting, and her work in the development of the historic burial ground at Wilson's (Beaubair's) Point into a park named The Enclosure. In the early 1950s he appointed her in charge of the Old Manse Library, his boyhood home, where she continued until her death. ...